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  Cars 2

  Disney Press

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  Lightning McQueen is back in action and ready to prove he is the world's fastest car. Along with best friend, Mater, Lightning sets off on a global adventure of a lifetime. This fast-paced, enlightening novel retells the entire story of the Disney/Pixar movie: Cars 2.

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  Just So Stories (version 4)

  Rudyard Kipling

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  The Just So Stories for Little Children are among Kipling's best known and loved works. This recording aims to be the first complete audio book of this title with nothing left out. 
  The Nobel prize-winning author's enjoyment in playing with the sounds and meanings of words is very evident throughout, and adds to adults' enjoyment of these stories for children. This playfulness is also dramatically present in the plotting. For both reasons these stories been loved by generations of children and adults alike. Because the writing plays with sound and meaning the Just So Stories are best enjoyed when read aloud. 
  As we all are, Kipling was a child of his time and social setting, so for example in "How the Leopard Got his Spots" he uses what one recent reviewer called "the N word" to refer to the Ethiopian. Each listener will need to examine critically both Kipling's attitudes and their own. 
  This recording of the Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling includes Kipling's descriptions of the pictures he drew for the book.

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  Historic Triangle of Virginia...

  Editors Charles River

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  Jamestown is fondly remembered today for being the first permanent English settlement in the colonies, but it was not fondly remembered by those who lived and died there. The English quickly learned it would be difficult to establish a permanent settlement because of the poor weather, the swampy terrain, the hostile natives living nearby, and the general inexperience and ineptitude of the English settlers. During their first winter, everyone nearly starved, and more than half of the settlers died. By the end of the winter of 1609-1610, known as the “starving time”, barely 10% of the settlers were still alive. Nevertheless, Jamestown is remembered today because the settlement did survive through the hardships and go on to serve as the capital of the English colony for much of the 17th century. At the same time, one of the biggest reasons for its survival and fame today can be attributed to the local Native Americans, particularly Pocahontas, who has added both a human and romanticized, mythological element to Jamestown.  
  	Along with Jamestown and Yorktown, Colonial Williamsburg is known today as part of the Historic Triangle of Virginia, but all three of these old Virginian sites are known for vastly different reasons. While Yorktown was the scene of the final climactic battle of the American Revolution and Jamestown is remembered for being the first English settlement to survive in Virginia, Colonial Williamsburg is now best known as a bridge to the past.  
   Williamsburg got its start as a fortified site, which was vitally necessary for English settlers to heavily outnumbered by nearby Native Americans, many of which were at times hostile. Known originally as Middle Plantation, the site served as the capital of the colony for much of the 18th century, and it bore witness to seminal events in the history of Revolutionary era America.

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  Fire Trucks - A First Look

  Percy Leed

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  Fire trucks carry tools that help firefighters save people and put out fires. Leveled text and exciting photographs let readers experience firefighting up close.

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  Lost Sci-Fi Books 61 thru 80

  Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick,...

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  Lost Sci-Fi Books 61 thru 80 - Twenty Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1940s, 50s and 60sA Little Journey by Ray BradburyTony and The Beetles by Philip K. DickPiper In The Woods by Philip K. DickThe Monster That Threatened The Universe by Russ WinterbothamMadmen of Mars by Erik FennelJonah of the Jove-Run by Ray BradburyRescue Mission by Robert SilverbergRat Race by George O. SmithSpace-Lane of No-Return by George WhittingtonAnd the Gods Laughed Fredric BrownThe Skull by Philip K. DickAlien Equivalent by Richard R. SmithThe Flight Of The Eagle by Alfred CoppelPrison Of A Billion Years by C.H. ThamesDay Of Wrath by Bjarne KirchhoffThe Golden Man by Philip K. DickThe Inquisitor by Robert SilverbergInvader From Infinity by George WhittingtonGlow Worm by Harlan EllisonRocket Summer by Ray Bradbury

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  The Boy The Witch and The Queen...

  Barbara Henderson

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  No.
  Not the Palace.
  Anywhere but the Palace.
  12-year-old Alexander Buchan was once content, training as a falconer at Strathbogie Castle in Huntly. But when his Earl sends him to Edinburgh to the court of the newly arrived Mary, Queen of Scots, the boy finds himself lured into a world of intrigue, terror and treachery. Alexander knows right from wrong, but how can he hope to outwit the Earl's murderous messenger? Surely no one can defy such a powerful master whose wife is rumoured to be a witch!
  Soon, more than the boy's own life is at stake: his friend Lizzie is arrested and the the angry clouds of Reformation Scotland gather around the young Queen. 
  It seems that Alexander must spy – or die.

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