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This is the first book in the Mary's Yard series which describes Mary's adventures in her backyard. Mary loves experiencing the many adventures she finds in her backyard with animals, insects, and nature, that change daily. In this first book in the Mary's Yard series, Mary plays in her backyard and has close attentive interactions with a grasshopper and a butterfly.
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Cable the Crow continues to fear almost everything, even his own shadow, and is well known for often being just one step away from danger. He is frightened by things that many birds could not care less about, such as scarecrows, golf balls, and Scotsmen's legs! He is also terrified of things that many birds are fearful of too.
Cable and his wife have always dreamt of going on holiday and now for the first time ever, they have decided to go camping.
Will...
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Nero: for thousands of years his name has stood synonymous with the Roman Empire. But why? What was it about this enigmatic personality that catapulted him into becoming Emperor as a 16-year-old? It was at a time when Rome not only ruled the world, but also managed to house 1 million inhabitants - a population achievement not reached for almost a further 2,000 years when Queen Victoria reigned in London. In his heyday, pagan priests proclaimed that...
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The She Team is back! Mags the dog and the four cats Smig, Ebi, Trig, and Roisín are once again using their superpowers to help others, beginning with Fran, the badger and her babies and later helping out the humans in their family when a very unusual event occurs.
A deadly virus has spread all over the world, causing serious disease and confining everybody to their homes for months at a time. The Mammy and Daddy have to work from home and mind...
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Dean is dispirited, unemployed and feels his life has no direction. Lacking ambition, depending upon others, he realizes that he must take charge of his life. Then a lost Labrador retriever comes into his life. Trying to find both work and the puppy's owner, Dean has now two goals. First, he finds part-time work, then the dog's owner. She rewards him by helping him find steady work and a sense of fulfillment. Together, they begin a relationship. All...
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What can be better than a pink flamingo to decorate your yard, a garden or to bring to a celebration? How about one that comes to life wherever she is placed.
Fiona is a beautiful, spirited flamingo that carries on the tradition of the plastic decorations with a twist. She is real!
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A wacky, wild, and weird look at animals through the eyes of Jungle Jack Hanna! Have you ever seen a naked mole rat? Do you know what a binturong is? Do you know what kind of bird has a deadly kick? Explore the world's wackiest, wildest, and weirdest animals with expert and host Jungle Jack Hanna. The book features thirty animals that are wacky, weird, or wild. Kids will learn amazing animal facts and stories of Jungle Jack's personal adventures with...
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Ever wonder what it's like to have a zoo in your backyard? The dream isn't as far-fetched as you think.Michael Holmes and his mother did it. And this book recounts every animal they saw in their zoo that had no cages, and could be visited by birds and animals at will.All it took was wild idea, and few hundred dollars of animal food. Welcome to the backyard zoo!
50) The Wolf Cub
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Lewis just loves living with his mother in a small cottage that backs directly onto a vast forest.
The shy four-year-old's favourite spot to relax is in a clearing by a watering hole, where all the woodland creatures come to get their daily measure of drink and forage nearby for food. He always enjoys chatting to the smaller animals (especially the squirrels and rabbits), making new friends nearly every day.
And that's exactly where the boy was...
51) All Together
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All Together is a beautifully rhymed story of a little girl, Petra, and the forest animals that help her chase after a speaking, singing frog. This fun adventure takes the little girl through a magical forest, where she meets a rabbit, a fox, and a bear in a chase after the frog. This melodic book teaches a valuable lesson about friendship and helping each other in need, no matter our differences. It spreads pure joy to the little ones through delightful...
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Winner, 2014 IP Rolling Picks Best First Book
Starkly unaware of herself and struggling to make the passage from child to adult, the narrator in this collection points the finger, repeatedly exposes her heart and wonders why things just never seem to work out. Join her flirtations with strangers, intoxicating relationships and explorations to the edge of the void. This is poetry of the imagination where madness grows, memory holds sway and the...
53) Working Trot
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James MacLiesh shocks his conventional parents when he chooses to work with horses instead of going to college - can he make it happen? Bucking his parents - and tradition - seventeen-year-old James MacLiesh decides he wants to be a horse trainer. When he arrives at his cousins' farm, James enters a world completely different from that of his privileged, boarding-school upbringing. Not quite prepared for the rambling, ramshackle old house, he knows...
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Clovis Crawfish takes young readers on a journey through the bayou, his first of many adventures. Curious, Clovis begins searching for the reason his bayou is named "Tail of the Frog" and encounters many friends along the way, including Gaston Grasshopper, Lizette Lizard, and Fernand Frog. But friends are not the only creatures Clovis meets on his adventure, for the bayou is also home to many predators. When Clovis meets the hungry M'sieu Blue Jay,...
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La colección de libros "Sistemas de acuaponía, peces" está pensado para divulgar las ciencias de la producción de alimentos sinérgicos como es la acuaponía. Este sistema de producción de alimentos es de acceso para todo el público y elimina muchos de los problemas actuales relacionados al control del contexto de un sistema acuapónico. En este sexto tomo se abordan temas específicos de mejoramiento y gestión de la unidad de producción acuapónica....
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The book collection "Aquaponics systems, fish" is intended to disseminate the sciences of synergistic food production such as aquaponics. This food production system is accessible to the general public and eliminates many of the current problems related to the control of the context of an aquaponic system. In this sixth volume, specific topics of improvement and management of the aquaponic production unit are addressed. Specific cases and monetization...
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This story is set in Animal World – a topsy-turvy world where all the characters are animals. It is an exciting tale of adventure set in the northern city of Dogchester, where the city police force is led by Detective Chief Superintendent Nellie Trump, a lady elephant. DCS Trump is in charge of a tough, grizzled Detective Inspector, a cat named Tom Grouse, who is pictured on the front cover of this book.
DI Tom joins with a friend, Dame Alice Gobble...
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Although life can be defined in many different ways, most approaches agree that it involves a number of common characteristics, such as the ability to grow and develop, to reproduce, to respond to stimuli in the environment, to maintain a metabolism itself and to evolve over time.Furthermore, life is of inestimable value to humans and other creatures who share the planet with us. It offers a wealth of experiences and emotions, from joy and love to...
60) Educating and Strengthening Fearful and Traumatized Dogs: - Dog Training Practice Book - How to Reco
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Many dogs, especially those from animal shelters, have not had good experiences in their previous lives and are traumatized or fearful. This often manifests itself in different behaviors in different situations. For example, a dog expresses its fear through aggression on the lead if another dog comes too close, if it encounters cyclists or joggers or a person who wants to stroke the fearful dog. Other dogs are afraid of stairs, being left alone or...
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