Eric Pollins
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Mysterious Benedict Society volume 1
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English
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After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.
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"Beginning with President Trump's first impeachment and ending with his second, [this book] chronicles the inside-the-room deliberations between Trump and his campaign team as they opened 2020 with a sleek political operation built to harness a surge of momentum from a bullish economy, a unified Republican Party, and a string of domestic and foreign policy successes--only to watch everything unravel when fortunes suddenly turned. With first-rate sourcing...
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Mysterious Benedict Society volume 4
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[2019].
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Unabridged.
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English
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Some time has passed since the inimitable quartet of Reynie, Sticky, Kate, and Constance have had a mission together. But with the arrival of a new Society member and a new threat, they must reunite to face dilemmas more dangerous than ever before, including the villainous Mr. Curtain and a telepathic enemy tracking their every move, not to mention a dramatically preteen Constance. In its triumphant return, the Society encounters all new challenges,...
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[2019]
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English
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Hannah McElroy is the star of a home makeover reality show and living her dream in the city. In need of a shakeup on her show, the network proposes an idea: Hannah will return to her small New England hometown of Lewisburg to renovate the historical Lewisburg manor, turning it into a community center. Everyone in Lewisburg is excited, but her old high school sweetheart Jeff Davis is not, who happens to be the city architect for working for the preservation...
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"Ever since this nation's founding, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, the frontier made possible the United States' belief in itself as an exceptional nation--democratic, individualistic, forward-looking. Today, though, the country has a new symbol: the border wall. In [this book], acclaimed historian Greg Grandin explores the effect that constant, relentless...
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2015.
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"In one way or another, Donald Trump has been a topic of conversation in America for almost forty years. No one in the world of business-not Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or Warren Buffett-has been as famous as Trump for as long. First associated with high-profile real estate development in 1970s Manhattan, his name has since become synonymous with success defined by wealth and luxury. What does one make of a grown man who, when he argues with women, stoops...
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Who is the man shaking up the GOP?
What does he really stand for?
How far will he go in his pursuit of power?
This is
THE TRUTH ABOUT TRUMP
He is one of the world's most successful businessmen-and a man who many Americans love to hate. So how did Donald Trump become a serious contender in the race for the country's highest office? His critics think his run for president is a marketing campaign for the Trump brand. His supporters believe that...
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Over 100 combat missions, 24 years as a Green Beret-Full Battle Rattle tells the legend of a soldier who served America in every war since Vietnam.
Master Sergeant Changiz Lahidji served on Special Forces A teams longer than anyone in history, completing over a hundred combat missions in Afghanistan. Changiz is a Special Forces legend. He also happens to be the first Muslim Green Beret.
Changiz served this country starting with Operation Eagle...
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In this memoir, one of the most successful investment bankers on Bay Street shares the lessons he learned about business and life in a long and successful career as president of Burns Fry and then as vice-chairman of BMO Nesbitt Burns. Lessons Learned on Bay Street tells the inside story of how Donald K. Johnson led financing transactions involving hundreds of millions of dollars for Canadian and international corporations, deals that involved some...
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In the same way that email changed the way we transfer information, the decentralized bitcoin network is about to revolutionize the business world, the legal profession, and even how we view the role of government. The Bitcoin Big Bang dives headfirst into this paradigm shift and goes beyond Bitcoin 101 to explain how this transformative technology is about to change the world. This book will: Explore the origins of digital currency Discuss the history...
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We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place compelled by the intertwining forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life on a much more local and regional scale. The Resilience Imperative argues for a major SEE (Social, Ecological, Economic) Change as a prerequisite for replacing the paradigm of limitless economic growth with a more decentralized, cooperative, steady-state economy.
The authors present a comprehensive series...
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