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Stories + Puzzles = Reading Success! Highlights Puzzle Readers offer an innovative approach to learning to read that integrates puzzles and stories to develop motivated, confident readers.Nick and his robot pal Nack love to build things. As they make a kite in this Level 1 Highlights Puzzle Reader, kids can find supplies in Hidden Pictures scenes that double as picture support for the simple story text, which is full of repeated words. With bonus craft directions, Nick and Nack Fly a Kite will appeal to junior makers who are just discovering reading.National Parenting Seal of ApprovalWinner, National Parenting Product Award (NAPPA)

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AT A GLANCE: WRITING PARAGRAPHS AND BEYOND, WITH INTEGRATED READINGS, 6e includes a handbook for help with fundamentals, forty integrated readings by student and professional writers, instruction in writing paragraphs and short essays, an introduction to reading-based writing, and practice with reading techniques, all in a concise, affordable book.

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Waiting for a baby is a painful reality for many. As long months pass the well-meaning optimism of friends starts to ring hollow. The emphasis on family at the weekly church service becomes an unwelcome reminder of what's missing. God seems reluctant to bless. Using a wealth of real life stories this deeply caring book offers practical resources to address the pain and encourages biblical thinking childlessness and infertility. 'We have learnt that we are not immune from problems and we grow as Christians as a result of them. Most importantly, no matter how awful and difficult it seems, God is in control of what is happening to us, even if we most definitely are not.'

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Pearl Jam: Song by Song offers a deep dive into the meaning and themes in Pearl Jam's music, exploring their evolution through the different eras of the band, while documenting definitive live performances and celebrating the transformative relationship between Pearl Jam and their audience.

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The reports keep coming in. Giant footprints are found in a remote national park. A hairy, smelly creature is spotted in Florida. A huge ape-like beast is seen in the Himalaya Mountains. Is this evidence of the legendary Bigfoot monster? It’s up to YOU to find out! With dozens of choices, follow the clues to the end. Which path will YOU CHOOSE to discover the truth?

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A pub with a deceased barmaid who simply refuses to leave, a Grey Lady in the Theatre Royal; a poltergeist in the Garrick's Head pub; a man in a black hat at the Assembly Rooms. Bath is one of the few British cities which may justifiably be called beautiful. It is also one of the most haunted of British cities. Bath is an ancient place and, at the height of its fashionable popularity in the eighteenth century, it was almost the country's alternative capital and the scene of social intrigues and skulduggery of the sort that its ghosts seem to reflect. Even the Circus, regarded as the epitome of the classical in domestic architecture, has a ghostly young lady who sings. This book combines a love and appreciation of Bath with the recounting of tales about its best-known ghosts. David has also researched local archives to find less familiar phantoms, spooks and spectres.

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The South Downs has throughout history been a focus of English popular culture. With chalkland, their river valleys and scarp-foot the Downs have been shaped for over millennia by successive generations of farmers, ranging from Europe’s oldest inhabitants right up until the 21st century. “... possibly the most important book to have been written on the South Downs in the last half-century ... The South Downs have found their perfect biographer.” Downs Country.

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