Jess Brallier
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Everyone has heard of Albert Einstein-but what exactly did he do? How much do kids really know about Albert Einstein besides the funny hair and genius label? For instance, do they know that he was expelled from school as a kid? Finally, here's the story of Albert Einstein's life, told in a fun, engaging way that clearly explores the world he lived in and changed.
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A collection of criminally funny quotations, anecdotes, and jokes about the legal profession, ranging in hostility from gentle teasing to fierce loathing.
People love to hate lawyers. You can't live with them, but you also can't live without them. So you may as well laugh at them, as we have for centuries.
In Lawyers and Other Reptiles, Jess Brallier compiles some of history's most humorous quips, quotations, anecdotes, and jokes about those...
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A collection of quotes on drinking from more than one hundred of the greatest thinkers (or drinkers) in history, sure to entertain, inspire, or enlighten.
US President Herbert Hoover called the cocktail hour "the pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night." It's a period for relaxation, reflection, and, of course, socializing. Some of our greatest minds have observed the cocktail hour, enjoying a good, stiff drink...
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Jack and his family are on a trip to Washington, D.C., and when they visit Arlington National Cemetery Jack watches the soldier guarding the Tomb of the Unknowns march twenty-one steps in each direction--and suddenly gains a new understanding and respect for those who serve the United States. Includes information about the Tomb and the soldiers who guard it.
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[2020]
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"By August 1945, World War II was over in Europe, but the fighting continued between American forces and the Japanese, who were losing but determined to fight till the bitter end. And so it fell to a new president--Harry S. Truman--to make the fateful decision to drop two atomic bombs--one on Hiroshima and one on Nagasaki--and bring the war to rapid close. Now, even seventy years later, can anyone know if this was the right choice? In a thoughtful...
7) Tess's tree
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[2009]
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First edition.
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When nine-year-old Tess invites her friends, family, and neighbors to celebrate her beloved maple tree's life before it must be cut down, she learns that it has meant a lot to other people, as well.
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Booker the library bat volume 1
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[2022]
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First edition.
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Booker the bat, new to his job as a security guard at the Joanine Library, foils the attempted theft of pages from one of the collection's rare books.
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