David Stewart
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Book House
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2021.
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IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
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"As a polar bear, you're the largest land predator in the world. it's a very difficult life: You have to raise new cubs and hunt for your prey across the sea ice, and your hunting grounds are shrinking every year"--back cover
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Franklin Watts, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021
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IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"As a lion, you're magnificent: Beautiful, strong, brave, powerful, and resourceful. But a lion's life isn't as easy as it seems. you have to survive in a tough climate, compete with other predators for food, and protect your cubs"--back cover
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When you wake up on a hot July morning in the central Sacramento Valley of California, your first thought is normally, how long it will be before the temperature reaches one hundred degrees, and what am I going to do to deal with it? One of my favorite ways was to go see Mom and Dad. They always had the air-conditioning on at ten o'clock in the morning, so that seemed the best place to cool off for now. I had to pick up the papers they always saved...
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"In March 1900, as former Congressman John Bingham of Ohio lies dying, he begins to tell a strange tale to his physician, Dr. Jamie Fraser. Bingham famously prosecuted eight members of John Wilkes Booth's plot to kill Lincoln. But during the 1865 trial, conspirator Mary Surratt divulged a secret so explosive it could shatter the republic. Though Bingham takes the secret to his grave, Fraser cannot let go of the mystery. Bored with small-town medical...
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Unlikely Friends Unite to Save a Wrongly Accused American Soldier and a Fragile Treaty of Peace in The Historical Mystery, The Paris Deception, from Author David O. Stewart
-1919-1920, Paris and Berlin-
In the wake of The Great War, the city of Paris unites in jubilant celebration at the arrival of United States President, Woodrow Wilson. But amidst the prospect of peace, Parisians are dying as the Spanish influenza reaches epidemic proportions.
An...
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A Country Doctor and Ex-Ballplayer Save "The Bambino" from Thugs, the Baseball Commissioner, and Himself in the Historical Fiction Novel, The Babe Ruth Conspiracy, from Author David O. Stewart
-New York City, 1920-21-
In 1920, Babe Ruth-larger than life on the ball field and off-is enjoying a record-breaking season in his first year as a New York Yankee when his 1918 World Series win falls under suspicion of being "fixed."
Then rumors start that...
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In 1861, Henry and Katie have found love on the rugged Maine coast. He builds boats. She wants to teach school whenever her family duties relent. Their hearts are light and the future looks bright. Then America explodes in civil war. At first surprised by Katie's anti-slavery feelings, then persuaded, Henry enlists in the 20th Maine Infantry, fated to become a legendary regiment in the Union Army. Staggering through a dozen brutal battles, including...
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Salvation lies beyond dreams...Newlywed Helga wants nothing more than a life of peace and bliss; instead she finds herself with a husband dying of an unknown illness and no way to save him. When a mysterious old volva comes to town offering a cure, Helga is forced to travel beyond all she knows to the boundaries of the prim, the border of reality, to barter with fay beings for a substance known only as the water of awakening.Helga soon finds that...
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The high elven city of Pelanalda is under siege.On one side camps the dreaded army of the Draesenith empire, led by the fearsome leader of the giant Draesen people, Katach. On the other side lies the Fay Lands, the chaotic realm of creation that is both imminent danger to Pelanalda as well as the wellspring of its power and glory. Prince Darathel must find a means of survival, but his father the king has shut himself away, driven madder each day by...
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The King is slain, and Prince Michael must not only find the mysterious killers, but find out who is at the heart of the plot to sabotage peace between rival nations Ferralla and Artalland. Nothing adds up, except the knowledge that the assassins came from a realm beyond normal reality.Aided by friend and bodyguard Sharona, a powerful but enigmatic mage, Michael must find a way to reach the assassins, in a world of twilight hidden past normal sight,...
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Stuck inside? Quarantine got you feeling down... or even worse, BORED? Corona-Chan: Spreading the Love is here to rescue you from the existential horror of indoor life, by offering you a glimpse into other worlds.
Tales of high adventure, escapist fantasies, and thrilling stories of suspense await within, from some of the keenest and most rebellious minds in pulp fiction, with a forward by the infamous Daddy Warpig.! The complete catalogue of collected...
16) Shadows Rise
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Brother against brother!Michael Harthino, warrior-prince of Artalland, returns home to claim his birthright and save his kingdom... the only problem is, everyone thinks he is dead. Aided by his constant companion, the mage Sharona, Michael must unravel the plot that has turned his house against him, forced him into exile, and placed control of Artalland in the hands of Alanrae, the sorceress queen of enemy nation Ferralla.Childhood friend and former...
17) Needle Ash
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Warrior-prince Michael Harthino has been summarily discharged from his prominent position of high captain of the Artalland army. Seething from the injustice of his disgrace, he travels home with the unwelcome company of Sharona, a headstrong battlemage formerly under his command. Together, they begin to unravel the plot that has left him a powerless second-son of the kingdom – a plot which they find threatens the kingdom itself.At a loss for options,...
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Dr. Raisa Ilyushkin invents a device, the SANG, that creates xenoborgs; continent-sized organisms
that incorporate nanobots, artificial intelligence, and robotics into an efficient living machine.
Stepan Pavlovich, boss of the Apparat, an international crime syndicate, obtains a copy of the SANG
and uses it for his evil purposes, including mass murder, to reduce the world's population to those loyal to him.
Raisa must stop him before he...
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What does a woman in her fifties do when her husband walks off with a younger model? A valuable string of pearls provides the ready-made answer -she sets about stealing jewellery as a declaration of independence. Theft provides more adventure than profit until a golden retriever, a craftsman joiner and a young man threatened with violence provide unexpected interests of a different kind for Martha Plasky. A diversity of crime, chaotic river cruising,...
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Michael, warrior prince of the kingdom of Artalland, takes a daring chance on the battlefield, saving his men and winning the field for his army, but all he has worked for is swept away when he is suddenly discharged from the army by his father for his heroic actions. Reeling from his humiliation and with the unwelcome aid of a disgraced mage, Michael begins to find the threads of betrayal in his father's inner circle and sets about to cut them. But...