Timothy Andrès Pabon
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Best friends Isaac and Marco face various challenges in sixth grade, such as Isaac getting better grades, Marco winning a spot on the basketball team, and both seeing their efforts make a change in their respective family lives. They hope their friendship and support for one another will be enough to help them from falling short
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Hailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences: her childhood near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution, a devastating accident at age eighteen that left her crippled and unable to bear children, her tempestuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and intermittent...
4) Capitalist punishment: how Wall Street is using your money to create a country you didn't vote for
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A Wall Street cartel has quietly seized control of the American economy, and they are forcing governments and businesses to bow down to their political agenda--using your money to do it. Three Wall Street firms have quietly amassed more money than Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Andrew Carnegie, and John Rockefeller combined. But the money isn't even theirs. These asset managers have accumulated all their power through "passive funds," as most investors no...
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The left has corrupted the U.S. legal system. Wielding the law as a weapon, arrogant judges and lawless prosecutors are intimidating, silencing, and even imprisoning Americans who stand in the way of their radical agenda. Their "enemies list" even includes parents who dare to speak up for their children at school board meetings. In this shocking new book, Senator Ted Cruz takes readers inside the justice system, showing how the wrong hands on the...
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Ready to be your own boss? If cash flow forecasts, tax returns, and P&Ls sound horrifying, fear not: help is at hand. Journalist Tom Hogkinson has spent his career advocating for laid-back living, and in Business for Bohemians, he combines practical advice with hilarious anecdotes to create a refreshingly candid guidebook for all of us who aspire to a greater degree of freedom in our working lives. Whether you dream of launching your own graphic...
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The New York Times–bestselling author of Shattered Innocence reveals the story of a two-time widow leading a double life in this true crime exposé.
Miriam Giles ran away to Colorado to escape her violent past. But this seductively charismatic widow had a dark side that could never stay buried. After finding the "sugar daddy" she was looking for in Alan Helmick, her new marriage seemed happy. Then, two years
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"Elio Morillo's life is abruptly spun out of orbit when economic collapse and personal circumstances compel his mother to flee Ecuador for the United States in search of a better future for her son. His itinerant childhood sets into motion a migration that will ultimately carry Elio to the farthest expanse of human endeavor: space. Overcoming a history of systemic adversity and inequality in public education, Elio forged ahead on a journey as indebted...
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Tom Swift Inventors' Academy volume 1
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Tom Swift and his friends at the Swift Institute work together to retrieve a drone that was taken by the custodian, Mr. Conway, who they believe is a notorious hacker
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Tom Swift Inventors' Academy volume 3
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Something seems amiss when an overnight lock-in at Swift Enterprises turns into a quarantine lock-down, and Tom and his friends must find the real reason behind it all
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Tom Swift Inventors' Academy volume 4
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Someone is sabotaging student projects and all signs point to Tom's friend Sam as the culprit, so Tom and his friends set out to clear her name
12) The sonic breach
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Tom Swift Inventors' Academy volume 2
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When someone steals an "app" that Amy wrote and profits from it, Tom and his friends use a robot to help catch the thief
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"From an acclaimed, New York Times bestselling biographer, a timely reassessment of Abraham Lincoln's indispensable Secretary of the Treasury: a leading proponent for black rights both before and during his years in cabinet and later as Chief Justice of the United States. Salmon P. Chase is best remembered as a rival of Lincoln's for the Republican nomination in 1860-but there would not have been a national Republican Party, and Lincoln could not...
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Readers will be scared silly in this spooky and hilarious middle grade series starter about a town chock-full of monsters and the kids who must unravel centuries of secrets to save it.
Will Hunter thought his life couldn't get any worse:
• His parents just got divorced,
• His best (and only) friend now is his dog, Fitz,
• And his mom moved them from New York City to the middle-of-nowhere town called East Emerson.
But, Will was wrong, things...
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Of all the gods, gurus, and good people out there, why Jesus? Why follow some ancient carpenter-turned-philosopher from a podunk town in the Middle East? A man whose own people didn't believe in him for the most part. It just doesn't make any sense.
Or does it?
With his signature insight and contagious enthusiasm, Ray Comfort walks you through twelve persuasive reasons to believe that Jesus of Nazareth was who he said he was, did the things...
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Taking its title from the original spelling of the city's name, Alburquerque is the story of a Chicano boxer's quest for identity Abrán González always knew he was different. Called a coyote because of his fair skin, the kid from Barelas found escape through boxing and became one of the youngest Golden Gloves champions. But the arrival of a letter from a dying woman turns his entire life into a lie. The revelation that he was adopted makes him...
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Sebastian Edwards is the Henry Ford II Professor of International Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include Toxic Aid: Economic Collapse and Recovery in Tanzania and Left Behind: Latin America and the False Promise of Populism. He lives in Los Angeles.
The untold story of how FDR did the unthinkable to save the American economy
The American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes that America would...
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"Monsters have never been so much fun." -Stuart Gibbs, New York Times bestselling author of the Spy School series on The Supernatural Society
Welcome back to East Emerson, a town chock-full of monsters, in this spooky and hilarious middle grade series about three kids who must unravel centuries of secrets to save the day.
Will Hunter just wants a quiet day in East Emerson. But instead:
• A bully won't leave him alone at school
• His...
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How would you like to be able to read anyone instantly? Get people to trust you instinctively? Change minds easily? Convince anyone to give you almost anything? These "powers" are not unobtainable Jedi mind tricks but are actual skills that everyday people can discover and develop within themselves--today! The secret lies in the 12 Laws of Persuasion. Author and leading authority on persuasion, motivation, and influence Kurt Mortenson has studied...
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Every boy has dreams of the man he will become-exploring the world, fighting the enemy, and being dangerous for good. He imagines himself as the hero, the expert, the one others look up to. Then somewhere along the way, the lies of the enemy knock him down, his dreams are shattered, and he loses purpose as the enemy attempts to rob him of his true identity.
In this hard-hitting book, world-class hunter, adventurer, and popular speaker Brent Henderson...