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2) Push
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Nick is a 'mover' - someone who can move things with his mind. He meets up with Cassie who is a 'watcher' - someone who can predict the future. She is trying to rescue her mother from the government. As they try to piece things together, Kira enters their lives. Kira is a 'pusher' - someone who can influence the thoughts of others. She has had a relationship with Nick and is the only person to survive a powerful 'enhancement' drug that was administered...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Dropped Internet connections are common in the mobile web. In this video, Max Firtman covers advanced technologies that keep a web site running when the network disappears. You'll learn a range of useful offline techniques, such as how to install a web site as an app into a device, how to store the data locally, how to sync the data at a later time, and how to push messages to a user when the browser is closed. Developers with an understanding of...
5) Precious
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones lives in Harlem with her dysfunctional family. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl. She suffers constant physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. After getting pregnant for the second time, Precious is suspended from her school. Her principal arranges to have her attend an alternative school where her new teacher, Ms. Rain,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Laura Gassner Otting explains how one can be limitless by freeing yourself from other people’s expectations.
Whether or not we’re consciously aware of it, we are all walking around with a scorecard of other people’s expectations— the right place to go to college, the right person to marry, the right career to pursue. These expectations, definitions of success, and anxieties come from parents, teachers, friends, and so on. These scorecards...
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Series
Departures volume 13
Language
English
Description
A year out, Scott and Justin return to Canada and decide they need one more challenge. An epic adventure which takes them from Vancouver and up North to the end of the road.
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Series
Wildfire volume 7
Language
English
Description
Kris worries about her status at Raintree after Gillian moves into the bunkhouse with Matt and begins offering unsolicited advice about Wildfire's training.
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Edgemont volume 12
Language
English
Description
Anika and Chris plot how to use Shannon's poem against her; Jennifer and Shannon cope with the growing mystery of Anika's campaign focus.
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Series
Ark volume 3
Language
English
Description
All hope seems lost when the crew learns an asteroid is hours away from impact.
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Jade Fever volume 14
Language
English
Description
Claudia pushes her crew to keep mining despite freezing temperatures and deteriorating road conditions, but her biggest obstacle could be Robin who wants to pack up before it's too late.
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Series
Challenge of Flight volume 8
Language
English
Description
Nothing is more deadly than engaging an enemy that outperforms you. Discover the dangers of testing the limits on airspeed, G-forces, turn rates, and more as pilots push their aircraft to find the point that exceeds its limits.
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Series
Teen Mom 2 volume 8
Language
English
Description
Jenelle and Kieffer ask Barbara if they can move in with her. Chelsea's dad strains her to have Adam to find a job. Kailyn starts dating her ex without telling Jo. Leah and Corey put the wedding on hold to bring Ali in for an MRI
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Series
American Hoggers volume 2
Language
English
Description
Still smoking after being overlooked to run the family business, Krystal tries to prove she s more qualified than her brother but Robert doesn t take well to having his newfound authority challenged.
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Series
Ice Pilots NWT volume 9
Language
English
Description
Trying to make his mark at Buffalo, Duane lands two more Electra contracts. But his over- zealous efforts result in a clash with the crew and with Joe, and a down-to-the-wire midnight departure to meet a deadline.
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Series
60 Days In volume 15
Language
English
Description
While Donovan and Tony push well outside their comfort zone, the women witness things that bring them both to tears.
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Series
Great Courses volume 8
Language
English
Description
"If there is something in life you want, then just make it happen!" Following this advice, learn to solve polynomial division problems that have negative terms. Use your new strategy to explore infinite series and Mersenne primes. Then compute infinite sums with the visual approach.
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Series
Great Courses volume 10
Language
English
Description
Delve into irrational numbers--those that can't be expressed as the ratio of two whole numbers (i.e., as fractions) and therefore don't repeat. But how can we be sure they don't repeat? Prove that a famous irrational number, the square root of two, can't possibly be a fraction.
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Series
Great Courses volume 7
Language
English
Description
Put your dots-and-boxes machine to work solving long-division problems, making them easy while shedding light on the rationale behind the confusing long-division algorithm taught in school. Then watch how the machine quickly handles scary-looking division problems in polynomial algebra.
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Series
Working It Out Together volume 6
Language
English
Description
Alexa has her first workout with Derek and it proves to be too much for her to handle. We meet Sophie-Claude who is reeling from the recent passing of her parents. Marie Celine's nephew joins in on her cooking lesson with Tiffany.
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