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Veterinarians (The Child's World)
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Veterinarians (The Child's World)Veterinarians (The Child's World)

Pets are an important part of the family. So when they get sick or hurt, we rely on the skill and compassion of veterinarians. This book features colorful pictures and easy-to-read text that allow young readers a glimpse at the demanding--but rewarding--world of animal doctors.
 
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Tags: rewarding-world, demanding-but, glimpse, readers, animal, Veterinarians, World, Child, young
Firefighters (The Child's World)
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Firefighters (The Child's World)Firefighters (The Child's World)

Lights flash, sirens sound, and a fire truck speeds down the street toward a burning building. This may sound thrilling, but fighting fires ultimately requires an extreme amount of dedication and courage. This book gives young readers a glimpse of the risks firefighters face, as well as the heroism that helps save lives.
 
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Tags: sound, readers, glimpse, young, gives, World, Firefighters, Child
After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets
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After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets

They are nine women with much in common–all German speaking, all poets, all personal witnesses to the horror and devastation that was World War II. Yet, in this deeply moving collection, each provides a singularly personal glimpse into the effects of war on language, place, poetry, and womanhood.
 
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Tags: personal, poetry, place, language, glimpse
More Fool Me [Audiobook] by Stephen Fry
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More Fool Me [Audiobook] by Stephen FryHe was - to all intents and purposes - a high functioning addict. Blazing brightly and partying wildly as the 80s turned to the 90s, AIDS became an epidemic and politics turned really nasty, he was so busy, so distracted by the high life, that he could hardly see the inevitable, headlong tumble that must surely follow . . . Containing raw, electric extracts from his diaries of the time, More Fool Me is a brilliant, eloquent account by a man driven to create and to entertain - revealing a side to him he has long kept hidden.

 
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Tags: Stephen, unputdownable, Audiobook, story, glimpse, thumb, turned, Containing, electric, extracts, diaries, brilliant
Beyond Area 51
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Beyond Area 51Beyond Area 51

Few have ventured into the many heavily guarded, top-secret locations scattered across the earth. Even fewer have emerged with stories to tell. Yet every now and then the common man is given an illicit glimpse of something extraordinary...
 
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Tags: given, common, every, illicit, glimpse, Beyond, stories