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  Mermaids Don't Run Track

  Debbie Dadey, Marcia Thornton Jones

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  Mr. Jenkins, the director at Camp Lone Wolf, has decided to hold a track meet. He's even brought an expert running coach to help the Bailey School kids prepare. The new coach is strangely inspirational—when she sings, people feel like they can do anything. But when the kids notice the strange resemblance the coach bears to a mermaid, the fact that she refuses to get wet, and that she's planning to run off with Mr. Jenkins, they wonder if this coach is more than she appears to be. Can the kids solve this mystery before they lose Mr. Jenkins and Camp Lone Wolf forever?

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  Misbegotten Missionary AKA Green...

  Isaac Asimov

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  Misbegotten Missionary by Isaac Asimov - It was a lovable little creature, anxious to help solve the troubles of the world. Moreover, it had the answer! But what man ever takes free advice? The Creatures, and the Truth! 
  You may know this story as Green Patches but when it was first published on page 34 in Galaxy Science Fiction in November 1950 it was titled Misbegotten Missionary.

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  Hygiene in World History

  Peter N. Stearns

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  This book features a global, historical analysis of the changes and continuities in one of society's basic functions: seeking to protect itself from disease. 
   
  Hygiene offers an important lens for major aspects of world and comparative history. The volume explores the ways different regions and major religions approached hygiene both before modern times and through the present with the more recent uses of germ theory. Topics in "premodern" hygiene include toilet practices, remarkably varied views about bathing, and different levels of commitment to investments in hygiene infrastructure. The "sanitary revolution" of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries forms a major dividing line in the book, including the variations introduced by developments like colonialism or communism and various forms of resistance to "modern" hygiene. The book links current, often bitter, debates about hygiene, around practices such as masking, both to the larger history and to recent issues like COVID-19. 
   
  Hygiene in World History is an accessible overview aimed at undergraduate and non-specialist listeners interested in world history, public health, and the history of health and disease.

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  Wat Takes His Shot - The Life &...

  Cheryl Kim

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  Growing up, Wat Misaka wasn’t the tallest kid on the basketball court, but he was fast and he loved the game! In his Japanese American basketball league, Wat dribbled with speed and shared the ball as much as he scored. Encouraged by his father to always do his best, Wat applied this mindset to every challenge in his life. 
   
  As Wat spent more time on the court, his passion for the game grew. He played in college at the University of Utah during WWII, a time when many Japanese Americans were stripped of their freedoms and incarcerated by the US government. Wat fought against racism and brought his best to every game. His team-player mentality made him shine on and off the court, and he became an inspiration to his Japanese American community. After helping his team win the national championship, Wat was drafted by the New York Knicks, making him the first non-white athlete to play in the NBA. 
   
  Wat’s motivational story of rising to a challenge and bringing your best to everything you do is a reminder of the power we each have to inspire others—if we just take our shot! 
   
  A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

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  Thirty Things a Kangaroo Can Do...

  Sir Rhymesalot

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  Kevin, a curious but calm kangaroo in the Australian bush, becomes concerned when he realizes that his peers each have unique and remarkable talents, of which he has none. The book examines why comparing yourself to others can lead to missing the whole point about your own unique values—a coming-of-age kanga conundrum from Sir Rhymesalot.

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  Secrets of accident-free driving

  P. Elango

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  SECRETS OF ACCIDENT-FREE DRIVING - This book is a practical guide for new car driversto understand why and how accidents take place and how to avert accidents with advance knowledge of them.It is heart-rendering that many families die altogether in highly fatal accidents.New car drivers should not merely read but implement the lessons learnt by them from my experience by reading this book so as to save themselves by averting accidents with advance knowledge about accidents.In this book,I have described how I have escaped from jaws of death on more than ten occasions.I have driven my five own cars one after another covering a distance of more than six lakh kilo meters.The circumference of the Earth is forty thousand and seventy five kilo meters. If the total distance travelled by me is divided by the circumference of the Earth, it amounts to fifteen.It theoretically means,I have travelled around the the Earth fifteen times. Practically it is not possible to travel around the circumference of the Earth for, it is covered by the waters of Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. Such a vast experience of driving prompted me to write this book so that new drivers may avert accidents by reading my experiences from this book.key points like how micro-sleep cause accidents, how hired drivers cause accidents, how four-wheelers hit trees on the side of the road, how breakdown vehicles parked on the road cause accidents, how it is important to apply hand-brake on parking vehicles, how to drive carefully in hill stations, how to compromise centripetal force exerted while driving in curves, and how a car can be one's best friend by relieving one of one's tensions and stresses in life

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