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Bloomsbury
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"You can be a King. Stamp out hatred. Put your foot down and walk tall. You can be a King. Beat the drum for justice. March to your own conscience. Featuring a dual narrative of the key moments of Dr. King's life alongside a modern class as the students learn about him, Carole Weatherford's poetic text encapsulates the moments that readers today can reenact in their own lives. See a class of young students as they begin a school project inspired by...
2) 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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With great power comes great destruction. Or something like that . . .
Titos has never been powerful, but as he continues to gain more keepers his power grows. It's almost too much. He finds out more of what it means to be a soul eater and why his kind has been practically wiped out. He has to stand tall, be a king, and defend his home.
But as his list of enemies continues to grow Titos isn't sure how much longer he can stand strong. His existence...
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Blessed by the gods and goddesses, edoli have lived alongside humans for thousands of years. While some hold such abilities as shape-shifting and controlling the elements, the rarest are the kings and queens who can bond through blood with keepers and amplify their power . . . and their own.
Titos has been seen as useless and weak his entire life. He's never been able to bond with another edoli and has nothing of value to offer his queen.
When a...
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To be King or not to be King.
There is no more hiding. Titos has accepted being king of his small territory but now he's being pushed to take on even more enlarging the target on his back.
His keepers are doing everything they can to keep him safe, but Titos is a walking danger zone.
Titos will fight for his home and his newfound family. His mates mean everything to him, and he refuses to give up, even if it means wearing a crown that he never...
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One day you're on the run, the next, you're king of your own territory. With lives on his shoulders, Titos must step up. With all the change, Titos struggles with being a ruler. Does he rule with compassion or without? He's been around humans too long, forgetting the edoli way. Showing weakness means no respect, but that is all Titos feels he is capable of.
With so much pressure building and his own expectations weighing him down, Titos makes some...
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Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. Norman Aragon, child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave from Jamaica, can fade from sight when the earth calls him. When the three meet in the settlement of Monrovia, their gifts...
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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.
11) 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...
14) Stop Trying So F**king Hard: Live Authentically, Design a Life You Love, and Be Happy (Finally!)
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You can't do the wrong thing with the right person. And you can't do the right thing with the wrong person." If you struggle with self-doubt, anxiety, discouragement, indecision, comparison – it is, exhaustion, promising too much, copious amounts of stress, worry, even profound sadness - or any other number of hard-as-f**k internal challenges, the time has come for you to stop. Forever. Always remember, you are enough. Right now. Just as you are....
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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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Little A
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[2017]
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"When young Josiah Penn Stockbridge accepts the position as aide-de-camp to George Washington at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, he thinks only of the glory and romance of battle. He is unprepared for the reality of America's bloody fight for independence. The Continental Army is starving, underpaid, and dangerously close to mutiny, and Washington fights not just to defeat the British but to maintain order and morale among his own men. As...
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Findaway World, LLC
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[2018]
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"In the West African village of Lai, red-haired Gbessa is cursed at birth and exiled on suspicion of being a witch. Bitten by a viper and left for dead, she miraculously survives. On a plantation in Virginia, June Dey hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. And in the blue mountains of Jamaica, Norman Aragon, the child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave, can fade from sight at will, just...
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