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Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed -- and what hasn't. Following a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis in the south to Cape Wrath in the north, by way of places...
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Mason Crest Publishers
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10.7 - AR Pts: 4
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Provides a look into the Islamic world, including the countries in which Muslims live, their beliefs, their laws, their government, and the history of the spread of Islam throughout the world.
68) Africa and Asia
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The legacy of the ancient world volume 4
Publisher
Macdonald Young Books
Pub. Date
1995, 1994
69) The Greeks
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Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
1997
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This book describes the daily life of ancient Greece, including such topics as schools, work, shopping, religion, drama, and sports.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
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Days after Oasis founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday's vault, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the Oasis a thousand times more wondrous, and addictive, than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle and a new quest. A last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize. And an...
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"In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems, chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise. Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug; more than half take two. In Canada, every fifth person has high blood pressure. In Europe, hypertension is diagnosed in more than 30 percent of the population. And everywhere,...
74) India
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Children's Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 4
75) Last light
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
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Birmingham, Alabama, has lost all power. Its streets are jammed with cars that won't start, its airport engulfed in flames from burning planes. All communications-cell phones, computers, even radios-are silent. Every home and business is dark. Is it a natural disaster . . . a terrorist attack . . . or something far worse? In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to a time before electricity, the Branning family faces a choice....
79) Pyramid
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Text and black-and-white illustrations follow the intricate step-by-step process of the building of an ancient Egyptian pyramid.
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Traditional areas of civic agreement are vanishing. We can't agree on what makes America special. We can't even agree that America is special. We're coming to the point that we can't even agree what the word America itself means. "Disintegrationists" say we're stronger together, but their assault on America's history, philosophy, and culture will only tear us apart. Who are the disintegrationists? From Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United...
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