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What Degree Do I Need to Pursue a Career in Nursing?

Linda Bickerstaff · Rosen Young Adult
Format: Hardcover

80 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials: The Official Graphic Novel Prelude

Jackson Lanzing · Kaboom
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

Escaping the Maze was only the beginning.The world thought it had seen the worst after the Sun Flares struck the Earth's surface, and millions of people were killed. But then an unstoppable illness ravaged the bodies and minds of the remaining survivors. Simply known as the Flare, the disease...
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Dream Jobs in Sports Media

Daniel E. Harmon · Rosen Classroom
Format: Hardcover

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Magnificent Minds: 16 Pioneering Women in Science and Medicine

Pendred E. Noyce · Tumblehome Learning, Inc.
Format: Hardcover

Winner of: National Science Teachers Foundation/Children's Book Council, Outstanding Science Trade Book Award Full of the inspirational stories girls need for exploring a future in science Did you know that Florence Nightingale pioneered the use of statistics in public health? That...
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Coal Power

Diane Bailey · Creative Education
Format: Hardcover

Why has coal been such a prominent energy source? How can renewable energies be stored most effectively? Linking science to practical applications and social issues to realistic goals, this new series orients ecologically conscious readers toward the future of Harnessing Energy. With a special...
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Hurricane: Perspectives on Storm Disasters

Andrew Langley · Raintree
Pages: 56
Format: Print book

What is it like to witness a hurricane? This book looks at Hurricane Sandy and other major storms, using firsthand accounts to describe events and people's experiences, providing multiple perspectives from eyewitnesses, survivors, the emergency services, scientists, and the media.
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Clans

Darren Shan · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

B's first mission with the Angels --sentient, do-gooder zombies-- went horribly wrong when vicious members of the Ku Klux Klan attacked New Kirkham, a stronghold of precious human survivors. B is not about to let the racist thugs persecute innocent people, but while saving the town,...
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The Inconceivable Life of Quinn

Marianna Baer · Amulet Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Quinn Cutler is sixteen and the daughter of a high-profile Brooklyn politician. She's also pregnant, a crisis made infinitely more shocking by the fact that she has no memory of ever having sex. Before Quinn can solve this deeply troubling mystery, her story becomes public. Rumors spread,...
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Snake Bite

Andy Lane · Square Fish, 2015.
Pages: 294
Format: Print book

Kidnapped and taken to China, teenage Sherlock finds himself plunged into the heart of a deadly mystery. How can three men be bitten by the same poisonous snake in different parts of Shanghai? Who wants them dead, and why? The answers seem to lie in a message hidden in a diagram that looks...
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United: An Alienated Novel

Melissa Landers · EverAfter Romance
Pages: 317
Format: Print book

After thwarting a deadly coup and saving the alliance between their worlds, Cara and Aelyx have finally earned a break. Their tiny island colony is everything they dreamed it would be -- days spent gathering shells on the beach and nights in each other's arms. But the vacation is short-lived....
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Crystal Kingdom

Amanda Hocking · St. Martin's Griffin, 2015.
Pages: 414
Format: Print book

Cast out by her kingdom and far from home, she's the Kanin people's only hope.Bryn Aven-unjustly charged with murder and treason-is on the run. The one person who can help is her greatest enemy, the gorgeous and enigmatic Konstantin Black. Konstantin is her only ally against those who have...
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Playing By The Book

S. Chris Shirley · Riverdale Avenue Books
Format: Print book

When seventeen-year-old high school newspaper editor Jake Powell, fresh from Alabama, lands in New York City to attend Columbia University's prestigious summer journalism program, it's a dream come true. But his father, a fundamentalist Christian minister, smells trouble. And his father...
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Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne · Puffin Classics
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne's hero traverses the far reaches...
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Kenya

Michael Burgan · C. Press/F. Watts Trade; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Did you know that about 75 percent of Kenyans work in agriculture? Learn more with Enchantment of the World! In each title of this enchanting series, readers are transported to distant lands with the fascinating text and attention-grabbing photos. Each country's culture, history, and geography...
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Malala Yousafzai: Education Activist

Rebecca Rowell · ABDO
Pages: 112
Format: Library Binding

Book by Rowell, Rebecca
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