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Nations didn't just pop out of nowhere. They were forged through wars and a strong leadership. In this book collection, you will read about the beginnings of Israel, Peru, North and South Korea and Brazil. Can you identify similarities and differences in how they were formed? Start reading today.
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Loyola's astonishing run to the Final Four for the first time since 1963 captured the nation's attention and Chicago's heart in 2018. Coming from seemingly out of nowhere and cheered on by 98-year-old team chaplain Sister Jean, head coach Porter Moser's team strung together a historic run of NCAA Tournament upsets in one of the most thrilling Cinderella stories March Madness has ever seen. Packed with insight, analysis and vivid color photography...
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Francine is a small coral crab who lives in the reef and helps to protect it-or at least he will when he gets bigger. He is playing along the reef one day when he sees two eyes peeking at him from underneath a rock. As he gets slowly closer a small octopus creeps out from underneath the stone. Francine has never seen an octopus before so he screams and runs home to tell his mom he saw a monster. When he comes back with his mom the octopus is gone....
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It happens to us all: we think we've settled into an identity, a self, and then out of nowhere and with great force, the traces of our parents appear to us, in us-in mirrors, in gestures, in reaction and reactivity, at weddings and funerals, and in troubled thoughts that crouch in dark corners of our minds.
In this masterful collection of new essays, the apple looks at the tree. Twenty-five writers deftly explore a trait they've inherited from a...
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Amy Schumer, Samantha Bee, Mindy Kaling, Melissa McCarthy, Tig Notaro, Leslie Jones, and a host of hilarious peers are killing it nightly on American stages and screens, smashing the tired stereotype that women aren't funny. But today's funny women didn't come out of nowhere. Fay Tincher's daredevil stunts, Mae West's linebacker walk, Lucille Ball's manic slapstick, Carol Burnett's athletic pratfalls, Ellen DeGeneres's tomboy pranks, Whoopi Goldberg's...
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