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1) Presto
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Presto chronicles the adventures of an employee for a temp agency as he goes out on what often seem like absurd assignments for which he occasionally has to make up the rules as he goes along, improvise. As the sequence deepens, we see this unidentified character in later work situations. His attitude seems unchanged as he deals with the absurdities life throws his way.
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"In the wake of World War II, the U.S. automobile industry was fully unprepared to meet the growing demands of the public, for whom they had not made any cars for years. In stepped Preston Tucker, a salesman extraordinaire who announced the building of a revolutionary new car: the Tucker '48, the first car in almost a decade to be built fresh from the ground up. Tucker's car, which would include ingenious advances in design and engineering that other...
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¡Usted puede marcar la diferencia!
¿Qué tal si las iglesias de EE.UU. pudieran alimentar cada persona hambrienta en sus ciudades? ¿Qué tal si tuviésemos los recursos para educar a cada niño en un ambiente donde se anima el respeto a Dios? ¿Qué tal si pudiéramos crear empleos que capacitan a las personas y le dan a todos la oportunidad de ser de bendición a otros de la misma manera en que ellos han sido bendecidos?
Como pastor, Matt Hagee...
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Few directors of the 1930s and 40s were as distinctive and popular as Preston Sturges, whose whipsmart comedies have entertained audiences for decades. This book offers a new critical appreciation of Sturges' whole oeuvre, incorporating a detailed study of the last ten years of his life from new primary sources. Preston Sturges details the many unfinished projects of Sturges' last decade, including films, plays, TV series and his autobiography. Drawing...
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Simon & Schuster
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2016
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An unconventional weight loss tale from an unconventional personality--magician Penn Jillette tells how he lost 100 pounds with his trademark outrageous sense of humor and biting social commentary that makes this success story anything but ordinary. Topping 330 pounds and saddled with a systolic blood pressure reading over 200, he found himself at a dangerous crossroads: approaching his sixtieth birthday, he needed a drastic lifestyle change if he...
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Following the money trail gets Tate and Brown into a lot of trouble. Detectives Ray Tate and Djuna Brown are back from a vacation in Paris - fraudulently funded by a stolen State Police credit card. While waiting to find out if they're going to be fired or jailed, the couple is assigned to the Green Squad, a dead-end job shuffling paper and counting contraband money. But while interrogating a money smuggler, Tate and Brown uncover a massive currency...
7) Presto Pizza
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Pizza has always been made in Italy. Now people in many countries like to eat pizza. It is easy to make if you have a pizza pan. You make dough for the base, then add tomato sauce, grated cheese, and other toppings. You can chop pieces of meat and vegetables. What things would you like to add?
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Neil Armstrong was a family man. His love of family took him from war-torn Bosnia to Western Australia. There in a land of peace and plenty with safety and security like no other he settled with his beloved wife, Helen and their children Tomo, Magda and Millie. In Perth he found a happiness he had not experienced for many years. That happiness ended when two monsters burst their way into his world and tore it asunder with a brutality beyond cruel....
9) Preston
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A curvy girl, brother's best friend, holiday cowboy instalove romance.TassyI've worked my tail off to create a magical holiday event on the town square. So, when my brother bails on playing Santa, I've got to find a solution and fast. Too bad he sent his wife's older brother to take his place. Preston Meyers might be the sexiest Santa I've ever seen, but not even the joy of Christmas could put a smile on the grumpy cowboy's face.PrestonWhen my best...
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Perth, Western Australia was in the grip of terror. An ice-cold hand clawed at its heart. Five teenage girls were missing. Three were from Kalamunda village in the Perth foothills. The police were completely baffled.
Was someone toying with the police? A police officer and a judge's daughter were among the disappeared. A police officer should be able to take care of herself. Was someone with a grudge seeking vengeance? Was there another thrill-kill...
11) Preston Brothers
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The Billionaire's Pretend Wife
Penelope Fox thought she was applying to be an assistant to billionaire Drew Preston. With her business savvy, she's hoping she can help Drew's successful shipping company reach new heights. Too bad the position she applied for isn't as his assistant: it's as his young son's nanny. With her bank account nearly dry, Penny's desperate enough to take the job. But when Drew is meeting with the owner of his next potential...
12) Preston
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Known first as Worm Creek because of a stream winding through dry bluffs, Preston, Idaho, blossomed as its first residents harnessed life-giving waters from surrounding mountains. The first homesteaders, who arrived in 1866, hauled lots of water, often wondering if their efforts to tame Mother Nature would ever pay off. On his way to Bear Lake, Brigham Young, colonizer of the West and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had...
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What if you were in a classroom where everything came to life, yet no one else seemed to notice? Something unique is happening to Preston, and it's posing a small problem. Peculiar events are causing him to see the world in an entirely new way. Escaping to enjoy the adventure is thrilling, but also a little distracting. Discovering where to find help will be his greatest solution to this challenge.
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Look! Up in the sky!
Preston loves taking care his family's farm animals, especially the little ones, like puppies and kittens.
But when all the animals suddenly disappear, he realizes there must be some serious skullduggery afoot!
Being turned into a superhero isn't what he was expecting today, but a dusting of strange, magical powder is just the beginning.
Can Preston save all the animals from a terrible fate before the thief disappears forever?...
15) Preston
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Nestled in a lush valley along the banks of the Root River, Preston, Minnesota, is ideally located at the geographic center of Fillmore County. The earliest settlers found the area rich with everything they needed to build a community: timber, building stone, water power, and fertile soils. By 1860, Preston was a bustling business and government center in the heart of the most populous county in Minnesota. With rare and vintage photographs culled...
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Preston the Preschooler as told by Marianna is a delightful book that will bring meaning and excitement to the preschool classroom. The story begins with Preston arriving to school with his mom, and he is crying because he wants to stay with his mother. He doesn't want to go to school. Even though he begins his day sad about his mother leaving him, Preston quickly gets involved in the day's routines and activities. His teacher, Senorita Garcia, is...
17) Preston's Attic
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¨He was a Cambridge man and, having no other living relatives and few friends outside of those whom he could also count as colleagues, he spent much of the ink from his pen not expended upon notes and essays, corresponding with his ever loving and miraculously ever patient sibling.
A sibling, who, for her part, had become somewhat accustomed to her brother's habit of sharing his thoughts and musings in these interminable scrawlings. She, to her...
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IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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An epic story of the greatest guitar player to ever live, and the six lives he changed with his magical blue strings
Mitch Albom creates his most unforgettable fictional character--Frankie Presto, the greatest guitarist to ever walk the earth--in this magical novel about the bands we join in life and the power of talent to change our lives. An epic story of the greatest guitar player to ever live, and the six lives he changed with his magical blue...
20) Hey, Presto!
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IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Friends Presto and Monty open a very successful magic show at the carnival, but Monty not only steals the spotlight, he starts to treat Presto very badly putting the show, and their friendship, at risk
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