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Mention the Galápagos Islands to almost anyone, and the first things that spring to mind are iguanas, tortoises, volcanic beaches, and, of course, Charles Darwin. But there are people living there, too -- nearly 20,000 of them. A wild stew of nomads and grifters, dreamers and hermits, wealthy tour operators and desperately poor South American refugees, these inhabitants have brought crime, crowding, poaching, and pollution to the once-idyllic islands....
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Christian Eco theology runs the risk of making God himself a resource for human exploitation as a means to species survival. The world of climate change, soil depletion, and mass species extinction reveals a frightening conclusion-humans act as cosmic parasites. The problem is not with the world-talk of climate change blames the symptoms displayed by the victim-but with human epistemology. Humans are systematically incapable of rightly perceiving...
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This book has the ability to port you into another time and world. It contains rich character that will fascinate your imagination and has cover to cover appeal with a fast moving storyline. Although rugged pirates, these sailors are men one would love spending hours dreaming about a pulse-pounding romance. The story contains steamy love scenes, a villain one loves to hate and laugh out loud moments that will titillate your reading pleasure. Although...
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Compelled to spend Christmas on a private island with her father's future bride and her family, Jeanine learns that Margo Banet is descended from a pirate queen. Relatives and friends all have their reasons for attending the festivities--including the legendary treasure. But when Margo's nephew winds up dead and a violent storm cuts them off from the mainland, Jeanine has to wonder if they will solve the mystery before someone else dies trying.
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Mourning, Noone, and Knight. These girls fight evil 24/7! Best friends Elly Mourning, Hea Jung Noone, and Saturday Knight are about to celebrate their thirteenth birthday. But just before the party starts, a small army of robots descends from the skies led by a mysterious and handsome boy, ruining their party and kidnapping their dads!
Now their fathers are missing and presumed dead. Nobody believes the girls about the robots, nobody believes them...
27) Divine Plunder
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Time is running out. Can Nar and Kale stop the worst pirate of all from seizing the gods' treasure?After an explosive secret threatens to rip Nar and Kale apart, Nar and her fellow pirate recruits must race to stop Vulgan from reaching the Divine Treasure first. Whoever obtains the treasure will achieve world domination.In fact, nothing looks good right now. The pirate king blames them for crimes they didn't commit, but to catch up to Vulgan, they're...
28) Drakon's Plunder
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Life is not going well for archaeologist Sam Bellamy. She's stuck in the middle of the ocean on a salvage boat with people who want her dead. It wasn't her gift for being able to sense objects of power that got her here, rather her need to make a secret society called the Knights of the Dragon pay for killing her mentor. Sam doesn't believe in dragons, but the Knights do, and if she can get one of the sacred artifacts they're searching for away from...
29) Sargasso Plunder
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The brutal struggle for power in post-nuclear America continues for the nine barons who rule the new world order. These emissaries of a long lost race are facing extinction from within their own ranks and from the rebel forces fighting to reclaim earth and expose the horrifying truth of mankind's heritage. Computer programs from the world before the Skydark are being salvaged and use to power the cities and villes of the twenty second century. An...
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The orphanage and kids are safe. They have food! And now, the only important question everyone is asking-most notably, Triton-is who's the fastest Runner? Entin's guild flourishes, eager to face the untamed dungeons of Eternal Fantasy Online. These dangerous places are worlds within worlds, each presenting unique themes that truly stretch the definition of what a dungeon should be. All seems well until Entin meets a young woman by the name of Aymie...
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Legal Plunder is practiced extensively in our governmental systems, more so today, than any other time in the history of the world. Legal Plunder is when illegal matters are made legal by our government leaders. It is practiced in all three branches of our federal system.
Frederick Bastiat was a French statesman and economist who lived in the mid 1800's. He was concerned that France was turning more and more into a socialistic nation, which he believed,...
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Anna Krantz and her mother Maria, relatives of a notorious SS General, flee for their lives in the final days of the war from a ruined Berlin to escape from danger. They are unwittingly heading into a rendezvous with terror. Following the defeat of Nazi Germany, a plundered legacy from a Parisian Jewish family lodged in a Swiss bank is the object of a deadly pursuit throughout war torn Europe. SS Captain, Alois Brunner, tracks his unsuspecting target...
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" All the sunken treasure in the ocean is worth nothing compared to a father's love for his daughter. Featuring a kraken, merpeople, King Neptune and a shark who loves to wrestle, this swashbuckling board book celebrates the fathoms-deep bond between a parent or guardian and their child."--Amazon.
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American insurance investigator Al Colby is hired to smuggle a package out of Havana and into Oaxaca, Mexico. When the man who hired him is murdered aboard ship, Colby decides to find out what he is carrying and why it is worth killing for.
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A fiercely ambitious Saudi prince. An international bounty hunter. Only one can get what he wants.
Someone's stealing art that's not supposed to exist. Items presumed lost to history when the Nazis fell.
When Alex Pope gets contracted by an ancient insurance company to bring in this thief, he never expects to get involved with one of the big power players in Saudi Arabian politics. A man with the loyalty of the National Guard at his fingertips....
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To whom does the past belong? Is the archeologist who discovers a lost tomb a sort of hero--or a villain? If someone steals a relic from a museum and returns it to the ruin it came from, is she a thief? Written in his trademark lyrical style, Craig Childs's riveting new book is a ghost story--an intense, impassioned investigation into the nature of the past and the things we leave behind. We visit lonesome desert canyons and fancy Fifth Avenue art...
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After the Normandy breakout, the Allies' headlong dash east came to a halt in the autumn with the ill-fated Market Garden operation and overextended supply lines short of the Rhineland. After repulsing the Nazis' daring Ardennes offensive, Montgomery's and Bradley's Army Groups cleared the Reichwald and Rhineland and closed on the Rhine.
With both sides aware of the strategic significance of this physical barrier, the stakes could not have been higher....
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In modern America, talk radio host Levin argues, the civil society is being steadily devoured by a ubiquitous federal government. But as the government grows into an increasingly authoritarian and centralized federal Leviathan, many parents continue to tolerate, if not enthusiastically champion, grievous public policies that threaten their children and successive generations with a grim future at the hands of a brazenly expanding and imploding entitlement...
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By late March 1945, Second British Army and Ninth US Army were poised to carry out an assault crossing of the Rhine. In the British part of the operations, Montgomerys best assault divisions were assembled to carry out the British and Canadian part of the attack between Emmerich and Wesel.
A commando brigade and two Scottish divisions carried out the initial assault under cover of darkness and a tremendous bombardment on the evening of 23rd March....
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