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Taking Out The Trash is a collection of stories that will guide you through the tenderness of loss, the silver linings of tragedy, the welcome relief of humor, and the insight of a very curious imagination. It will inspire and enlighten you, and provoke surprising thoughts. All because Ros Hill not only knows how to weave a good story, but has the not-so-common gift of unveiling the beauty of the human element.Taking Out The Trash. You'll cry. You'll laugh. You'll wonder.- A dying research scientist wants to know, "What is today's date?" When asked why, his answer is profoundly simple, and a quintessential example of always gathering facts: "I just want to know the date that I'll die."- Perhaps it's time to fix Monday. To take a wrench to it, and turn it into a day we can actually look forward to. What if we gave 36 hours to Sunday, and only 12 hours to Monday?- A dog named Bucket enters a basketball arena. Everyone's eyes lift up from their cell phones. It's the perfect example of the unpredictability of nature stealing the attention from technology. Funny how we never grow old of nature's fi rst version.Taking Out The Trash. You'll cry. You'll laugh. You'll wonder.

IT IS THE YEAR 1272.You have traveled back to the empire of Kublai Khan.You are in the middle of a desert sandstorm when your caravan is attacked by savage bandits. Suddenly, a masked figure reaches down and scoops you up onto the back of his camel.Do you trust this unknown rider or do you break free and jump from the galloping animal? Your decision can lead you to safety or leave you stranded in time!ARE YOU READY TO FACE THE DANGER?The Time Machine series challenges young readers to use their imagination and decision-making skills to write their own story. Options in the text allow readers to choose any path they like within the plot. Readers must draw on background information about the period to make the right choices. This makes the series a great educational device for youngsters to learn about history and all the different cultures, events, and periods that shaped it.

IT IS THE YEAR 1862. You have traveled back in time to the Wild West. You are on the first transcontinental railroad when a gang of outlaws shoot their way in to rob the train. The leader of the gang mistakes you for a famous bandit and asks you to join them. You can accept his offer and ride with outlaws or stay on the train. Your decision can lead you to safety or leave you stranded in time! ARE YOU READY TO FACE THE DANGER?The Time Machine series challenges young readers to use their imagination and decision-making skills to write their own story. Options in the text allow readers to choose any path they like within the plot. Readers must draw on background information about the period to make the right choices. This makes the series a great educational device for youngsters to learn about history and all the different cultures, events, and periods that shaped it.

Are you ready for the Ice Age? Travel back in time to the days of early man and identify a mysterious animal that our ancestors painted on a cave wall long before the dawn of recorded history!The Time Machine series challenges young readers to use their imagination and decision-making skills to write their own story. Options in the text allow readers to choose any path they like within the plot. Readers must draw on background information about the period to make the right choices. This makes the series a great educational device for youngsters to learn about history and all the different cultures, events, and periods that shaped it.Dougal Dixon has been a full-time writer and editor since 1980, and has more than forty books and encyclopedias (for adults as well as children) to his credit. Some of his better known works are Dougal Dixon's Dinosaurs, Hugo Award-nominated After Man: A Zoology of the Future, and The New Dinosaurs. He is widely recognized for his novel perspectives on the fundamental concepts of evolution.

When you read this Choose Your Own Adventure-type book, you'll get more than an adventure. More than 10 years later, I still remember most of the storyline. But most importantly, this book introduces you to one of the many unsung Civil War heroes: Harriet Tubman. She was perhaps the best known member of the Underground Railroad and the fiction-based-on-fact adventures that you go through with her are really amazing. Every time I hear her name in history class my ear perk up because I know who they're talking about. Very educational, very fun to read. If you find a copy, buy it and like the scorpion--don't-let-go! -A ReviewerIt is the year 1860.You have traveled back to America in the days before the Civil War. A black woman named Harriet Tubman is running a secret network called the Underground Railroad to help slaves in the South escape to freedom in the North.You can search for Harriet and help her underground freedom fighters, or you can stay in the North and wait for her. Your decsion can lead you to safety or leave you stranded in time!Are you ready to face the danger?

Sail ahoy! Travel back to the 17th century and become a swashbuckling pirate! Your mission is to find the wreck of the richest silver ship ever to sink in the Caribbean Sea, and bring back some of the treasure.The Time Machine series challenges young readers to use their imagination and decision-making skills to write their own story. Options in the text allow readers to choose any path they like within the plot. Readers must draw on background information about the period to make the right choices. This makes the series a great educational device for youngsters to learn about history and all the different cultures, events, and periods that shaped it. James Gasperini has written several books in the Time Machine series.

The oceans of the Jurassic world were filled with nightmarish creatures. Plesiosaurs, long-necked reptiles measuring up to twenty-five feet long, ate fish--and each other. The 40-foot-long Kronosaurus and the 45-foot-long Liopleurodon were ferocious predators with razor-sharp teeth. They ate anything they could catch.Alongside these megapredators swam Hybodus, whose descendants include the great white sharks of today. Hybodus was not the largest hunter in the Jurassic seas, but it was fearless. Hybodus would attack anything.This is the story of a female Hybodus and her struggle to survive. She must find a way to keep from being eaten, even as she hunts for food herself. She must fight off a Liopleurodon that attempts to take over her hunting grounds. And she must find a way to keep herself, and her unborn baby, safe in a place where even the deadliest of hunters can become meals for other predators.Discover how she responds to the challenges--and survives.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR WINNING SCIENCE FAIR PROJECTSLearn Experiments that help you to:Build Electric CircuitsCreate an Object that Has Only One SideBreak Light into its Component partsCreate Static ElectricityDiscover How Light WorksFind Out Why Earth Rotates and What Keeps Us on the GroundExamine How Waves WorkDiscover Your “Green Thumb” Featuring Experiments in:ElectricityElectromagnetismGravityPlant GrowthLight and OpticsSurfacesReaction TimeCentrifugal ForceSound Waves Grades 5- 7

The Rosenstein Haggadah will enable participants to engage in a lively and meaningful Seder experience, where both text and paintings facilitate a spiritual journey.Dr. Shoshana Silberman holds a B.S. degree from Columbia University, a B.H.L. from Gratz College, and an M.S.T. from the University of Chicago and an Ed.D from Temple University.Mordechai Rosenstein grew up in Philadelphia, where he would study the form of the Hebrew letters and the spaces between them, within the DAILY FORWARD newspaper sitting open on the kitchen table. That fascination only grew stronger as he attended and graduated in the first class of Akiba Hebrew Academy, as well as through formal training at the Philadelphia College of Art and nine years working as a textile designer in New York City. It was during his time in art school that he studied with leading Abstract Expressionist Franz Kline, whose mastery of black and white, echoed the Kabbalah's recognition that every area of the artist's canvas is important to the whole: one defines and explains the other.

ΓÇ£BAD APPLE bursts out of the gate with a what-did-I-just-read opening sceneand doesnΓÇÖt let go until the last riveting page. Barry Ozeroff knows his stuff, andit shows.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöAlafair Burke, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of THE EXΓÇ£A plot thriller that keeps unfolding with continued non-stop action from beginning to end. BAD APPLE makes for good entertainment! This book is a solid piece of literary creative gold!ΓÇ¥ΓÇöBill McDonald, Author, Award-Winning Poet, Founder ofAmerican Authors Association & of Military Writers Society of America.Cr Too often, cops are accused of operating outside the law, as seen recently in places like Ferguson, Missouri, Cleveland, Ohio, and New York City. Most such accusations are false, but sometimes there is a bad apple in the bushel... Meet Officer DJ Appleby, one of Portland''s finest. Winner of the Medal of Valor, lead crisis negotiator, ex-SERT team member. But what a difference a day can make. On patrol one day and ruthlessly hunted down the next, DJ, has become Oregon''s most notorious bad apple. Surrounded by his own SWAT team and on the phone with fellow negotiators, DJ still has a trick or two up his sleeve. But when justice is finally served, and he''s forced to survive in the last place any cop wants to be, DJ rises to the occasion. When he reaches the top of the food chain, he doles out his own form of justice, and in so doing, finds a chance at a new life few of his peers could ever hope for.

In 1492 Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World with three ships: the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. Only two returned to Spain with him. The Santa Maria was missing! What happened to the Santa Maria? Join Columbus on his Voyage and solve the mystery of the missing ship! BE PART OF AMERICAN HISTORY!

Two hundred years ago, the new American states were struggling to unite. They needed to find a way to settle their differences and become a strong nation. A small group of statesmen held a Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia with George Washington as their leader. How did he bring the states together? Join George Washington and be there for the signing of the Constitution!BE PART OF AMERICAN HISTORY!