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Celebrate the season of costumes and candy with Glitterville's guide to creating a wondrously wacky and whimsical holiday!
Treat yourself to the kookiest compilation of crafts and decor assembled from Glitterville's creator, Stephen Brown, judge of Craft Wars on TLC. Glitterville's Handmade Halloween is full of bright, colorful photos, step-by-step holiday how-tos, and over-the-harvest-moon decorating ideas to make your home sparkle
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In 2013, the government abolished the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), which had been Canada's flagship foreign aid agency for decades, and transferred its functions to the newly renamed Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD). As the government is rethinking Canadian aid and its relationship with other foreign policy and commercial objectives, the time is ripe to rethink Canadian aid more broadly.
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A gripping police procedural that tracks the investigation of a serial killer with a grudge against society. Another great instalment in sj brown's TasNoir 'whydunnit' series.
Detective Inspector John Mahoney and his investigators in the Homicide Squad are faced with a murderer intent on squaring up with his victims in a highly idiosyncratic manner. Faced with theatrically staged crime scenes Mahoney must harness the insights of a renowned behavioural...
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A woman can have it all and it's faster to steal it. Elizabeth Moynihan is an internationally respected art appraiser, television personality, and a thief at heart. Masterpiece art stolen during WWII is her specialty. Her elaborate con is in play, but she hasn't accounted for Ben Abrams, an obsessive insurance investigator with a personal connection to the Renoir that Elizabeth has just stolen.
5) Dead Wood
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Detective Inspector John Mahoney is, faced with a mysterious case involving a macabre scheme to purify the Tasmanian business sector.
Right from the off the brutal murder of a prominent business leader instigates the homicide investigation. The scale of public interest is high and the Serious Crimes Squad must make headway fast. As the investigation proceeds, it becomes clear that whoever is, behind the barbarity is sending a message, to the whole,...
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Protestantism, Third Edition is an informative introduction that explores the origins, customs, and history of Protestantism, from its beginnings in the Middle Ages to its role in today's world. Current issues, such as the development of new religious denominations, its stance on abortion, the ordination of gays and women, and the relationship between religion and politics, are explored within the framework of the fundamental moral tenets of the faith....
8) The sea
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Max returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers in search of peace following the death of his wife.
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience!
Ride the bus through the city and take in the sights! Engaging text and vibrant illustrations will draw in emergent readers. Pairs with the nonfiction title Urban Places.
11) Pumpkin seeds
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"While Mom makes pumpkin soup, Ravi prepares the pumpkin seeds. Lively text and illustrations will draw in emergent readers. Pairs with the nonfiction title Let's Look at Pumpkins"--publisher's website.
13) The Sea
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Adapted from the novel by John Banville. After the death of his wife, Max returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers, provoking a cathartic reflection as the present draws out powerful memories of innocent joy, uplifting warmth, and profound tragedy from one fateful summer many years ago. Only an unforeseen revelation will provide a path to redemption and closure.
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Big History volume 8
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Behind that cup of coffee or tea is a global story that goes back to the collision that created the Moon and the evolution of plant and animal life.
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Big History volume 16
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At critical moments in history, our second place metal was the most important metal on Earth. Big History reveals how silver's place in our minds was determined by the heat of exploding stars, and how this one metal saved democracy.
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Big History volume 11
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Secret codes run the world. The code of life, DNA, is the operating system for all organisms, which spawned intelligent life like us who eventually created codes of our own--language that allows us to talk and the alphabet that lets us write.
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Big History volume 12
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Impacts from space have created our planet and just about everything in it. Like celestial supply ships, they brought in water, metal, and maybe even life.
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Big History volume 14
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Eating meat made us human...by giving us bigger brains, better tools, and spoken language. The human need for beef has driven history across the hemispheres, but how did we turn an ancient mega-beast into the cow we have today?
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Big History volume 1
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We all know that mankind can't live without air, food and water...the same is true of salt. The salt on your table is a key to unlocking the story of our planet and the cosmos. Big History reveals how this simple molecule underpins our civilization.