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"Mary Darling is a pretty wife whose boring husband is befuddled by her independent ways. But one fateful night, Mary becomes the distraught mother whose three children have gone missing from their beds. After her well-meaning uncle John Watson contacts the greatest detective of his era (but not that great), Mary is Sherlock Holmes's prime suspect in her children's disappearance. To save her family, Mary must escape an attempt to have her locked away...
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Mel relishes running the "Enchanted Jungle," a roadside attraction in the Everglades filled with live parrots, concrete dinosaurs, and other unexpected wonders.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Mel relishes running the "Enchanted Jungle," a roadside attraction in the Everglades filled with live parrots, concrete dinosaurs, and other unexpected wonders. Pat Murphy is the...
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2020
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"Angsty teenager Mary Shelley is not interested in carrying on her family's celebrated legacy of being a great writer, but she soon discovers that she has the not-so-celebrated and super-secret Shelley power to heal monsters, just like her famous ancestor, and those monsters are not going to let her ignore her true calling anytime soon. The Shelley family history is filled with great writers: the original Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, the...
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In the year 2020, Mary Nobleman is an average thirteen-year-old girl until one night she falls through the floor of her house and discovers a secret room in her family's basement that is filled with artifacts. In the room, she discovers a journal, the famous Excalibur, and an Egyptian Amulet. She also finds a hidden tunnel leading to a river. Mary travels with her friend Julie and a Celtic fairy in a submarine to Wales, which used to be called Camelot....
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[2018]
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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"The true story of Mary Fields, aka "Stagecoach Mary," a trailblazing African American woman who helped settle the American West. A former slave, Fields became the first African-American woman stagecoach driver in 1895."--Provided by the Publisher.
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The adventures of Mary Ellen is an introduction to a planned series of books linking the home and care center environments. My goal is to allow parents and children to get to know Mary Ellen books while drawing parallels with their own lives. I know from experience that children love to see themselves in book characters and are always ready to add their own comments and experiences. Primary care givers can learn a lot from this input and can often...
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The gripping story of Australia's first female crime writer and her career-criminal son
When Mary Fortune arrived in Melbourne with her infant son in 1855, she was determined to reinvent herself. The Victorian goldfields were just the place.
After a time selling sly grog and a bigamous marriage to a policeman, Mary became a pioneering journalist and author. The Detective's Album was the first book of detective stories to be published in Australia...
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Discover the fascinating life of 12-year-old Mary Anning, a fossil hunter who would grow up to be a famous paleontologist, in this historical fiction book for children interested in learning about dinosaurs, fossils, and women in STEM, like Grace Hopper, Marie Curie, and Jane Goodall. At age 12, Mary Anning found the skeleton of the first ichthyosaurus, a fish-like creature that lived during the Jurassic Period. It was more than 17 feet long! But...
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Come join best friends Marie and LeeLee on their childhood adventures! From jumping in the lake, to running in the snow, to staying up late talking and laughing, Marie and LeeLee have fun wherever they go! The beauty of their friendship turns every moment together into an unforgettable adventure!
Written by a pediatric speech-language pathologist, this book incorporates strategies for language development, early literacy and social-emotional learning....
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Mari Shu, a factory drudge in the year 4000-something, must choose how to protect her sisters, her purity, and her own conscience in a bleak futuristic society that's been polluted by smog, rampant commercialism, tacky jumpsuits, sexual perversions, unjust socioeconomics, interstellar travel, and inconsistent use of the Oxford comma.In this first of many planned interactive adventures, Mari Shu's decision to stick to Olde Earth opportunities, such...
