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1) To be a king
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Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 11
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Hoole uses the power of the Ember in the final, decisive battle and searches for the ideal place to establish an order of free owls.
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Jonathan, King Saul's oldest son overheard the argument between his father and Samuel, the Prophet. The argument was fierce and tense. He had never seen Samuel so distraught. Samuel had just finished telling his father that he was no longer to be king of the country when Jonathan reached them. It must be a mistake, Jonathan thought. Samuel turned from Saul and ordered the two soldiers, Bring King Agag before me. In minutes, King Agag stood before...
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This whimsical story takes place at the once beautiful land called the rat kingdom. One day, an evil, wicked, power hungry rat took over the kingdom. The horrible ruler only cared about himself and not the hard working struggling rat people. The Rat King did nothing to stop a deadly plague that fell upon their kingdom. He only wanted more money and more power at any cost. The hard working rats were becoming very ill and even dying. They were losing...
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A study guide for Rudyard Kipling's "the Man Who Would Be King", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
5) The men who would be king: an almost epic tale of moguls, movies, and a company called Dreamworks
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For sixty years, since the birth of United Artists, the studio landscape was unchanged. Then came Hollywood's Circus Maximus-created by director Steven Spielberg, billionaire David Geffen, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, who gave the world The Lion King-an entertainment empire called DreamWorks. Now Nicole LaPorte, who covered the company for Variety, goes behind the hype to reveal for the first time the delicious truth of what happened. Readers will feel...
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Your sense of style is not only the way you dress, but also your way of doing things and the way you process information. It is your very essence. God placed this sense of style in your spirit when He created you.
But many women suffer from anxiety and oppression regarding their unique style. Because we have difficulty accepting how precious we are, we all suffer. It's time to push back from the table of self-degradation, enter the royal banquet...
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In a page-turning tale brimming with adventure, author Richard Sanders tells of the remarkable exploits of Bartholomew Roberts (better known as Black Bart), the greatest of the Caribbean pirates. He drank tea instead of rum. He banned women and gambling on his ships. He never made his prisoners walk the plank, instead inviting them into his cabin for a friendly chat. And during the course of his extraordinary two-and-a-half-year career as a pirate...
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Britain's Royal families have possessed every human characteristic from kindness and perceptive visionary to the lesser traits like pinchpenny, lecherous wastrel (some even worse than Prince Andrew!) and even cold-blooded murderer.
The Man Who Would Be King Charles III summarises every Royal bottom that's sat on the throne from William the Conqueror in 1066 through to Charles III. It is a tongue in cheek journey, in rhyming couplets, through Britain's...
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Johnny Boo volume 9
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Johnny Boo has decided to be a king, but Squiggle wants to be a king too, so they both get themselves crowns and castles.
10) Queens and kings
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"Can you be a king or a queen? What do queens and kings wear? What do they eat? Let's see! Queens and Kings is part of Decodables by Jump!, a comprehensive library of decodable leveled readers that follow a sequenced approach to phonics instruction. Young readers will enjoy colorful, photo-packed nonfiction as they follow a prescribed format supported by the science of readers that encourages reading development"--
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Girls of paper and fire series volume 1
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"When Lei, seventeen, is stolen from her home to become one of nine Paper Girls, the Demon King's concubines, she proves to be more fire than paper." --
Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It's the highest honor they could hope for... and the most cruel. But this year, there's a ninth girl... and she's made of fire. Lei is a member of the lowest and most oppressed class in Ikhara. She's forced to go with...
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Barftastic life of Louie Burger volume 1
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With a school Talent Bonanza coming up, there is only one thing that can keep fifth-grader Louie Burger from taking a big step toward his dream of becoming a world-famous comedian--extreme stage fright.
14) The Un-Kings
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There are brothers, princes, sworn enemies and rulers of their own vast lands.But, prophecy and the sanctified scrolls of the king, their late father, state that there must be a king to rule over their entire northern realm, or face reprisals and destruction brought down by the dragons of the heavens.The eldest heir of the sons of their father must occupy the unified throne by the turn of the century, henceforth; sitting tall as the highest ruler...
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Stephen Tryon delivers a prescient parody of an American President who wants to be a king. A tired student falls asleep at his desk and finds himself bouncing between dream experiences in the Oval Office and the town of Green Valley. Socrates, Descartes, Jesus and a host of other interesting characters help Stephen survive adventures including a Black Lives Matter protest, a presidential rally, a day in the Senate and encounters with a sinister foreign...
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This story takes the reader into the ancient and mysterious city of Velzna in Etruria of the times of the reign of the Kings Tarcuins. Laris, the adopted son of the King Gordianus Tarcuin, trying to fulfill his fervent secret with to be a King, becomes a traitor and works with the Greek and Babylonian spies, being part of their conspiracy to overthrow the King Tarcuin. His undercover agent's nickname is "Honor of the Tarcuins". At that time Gordianus...
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"The Man Who Would be King and Other Stories" is a classic collection of some of the most loved short stories of Rudyard Kipling, one of the most important and accomplished English authors of the twentieth century. The youngest winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature at age 42 in 1907, Kipling, who was born in India in 1865, captured in his writing the British Empire in all of its glory and contradiction in unparalleled detail and nuance. Contained...
18) King David
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A Shepherd and A King, David lived an adventurous life. He protected his family's sheep from lions and bears. He fought a giant with just a sling and stone. He even spent years hiding from men who were trying to kill him. And eventually, David became a great king. But David was also a man of God. Learn more about this hero from the Bible and his exciting place in history. Discover what it was like to grow up in ancient Israel and then be a king of...
19) Little Star
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Tonight a king will be born, and all the stars in heaven are competing to see who can shine the brightest for him. But when the stars see the poor family huddling in the shabby stable, they begin to think that this baby couldn't be a king after all!
That is, all the stars except the smallest, loneliest star in the sky, Little Star. He recognizes the baby Jesus as the King of kings and understands His special message of love. Read on to discover the...
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After witnessing the betrayal and murder of his parents, a young prince finds himself on the run for his life. Barely escaping with the help of his uncle and the appearance of a being long thought to be myth, the boy embarks on a journey to reclaim his crown. With the help of allies found all across Eravon, from old friends in the coastal town of Xuhl Port to new and unexpected friends deep within the mysterious forest, the young prince faces dangers...
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