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1) Too Much Mud
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Pub. Date
2011
Description
What do you end up with when snow begins to melt each spring? Explore the hassles of having mud everywhere!
2) Big Storms
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Pub. Date
2017
Description
Are you a weather watcher? This book helps name and describe different kinds of storms that come our way.
3) The Beach
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Pub. Date
2009
Description
Learn the names of all the things that make a day at the beach so much fun!
6) I Wish
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Pub. Date
2016
Description
If it is hot where you live, this book will offer a playful reminder of cooler days to come.
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Winchester brings his storytelling abilities, as well as his understanding of geology, to the extraordinary San Francisco Earthquake, exploring not only what happened in northern California in 1906 that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion, but what we have learned since about the geological underpinnings that caused the earthquake. He also positions the quake's significance along the earth's geological timeline and shows...
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Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science--the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains--with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. As climate change upends rai nfall patterns and unleashes...
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The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. Beyond the purely physical horrors of an event that has only very recently been properly understood, the eruption changed the world in more ways than could possibly be imagined. Winchester's long experience in the world wandering as well as his knowledge of history and geology give an entirely new perspective...
12) Platypuses
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to platypuses. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
The #1 bestselling trivia collection with bizarre facts to entertain you for hours, from the creator of YouTube's RealLifeLore.
Where can I move to so that I'm never tempted by McDonald's again?
How far into the Pacific does Trump's wall stretch?
If Plato came back to life, what would he think of modern democracy?
Why do all empires fail?
Who decides what countries are allowed to participate in the Olympics?
What makes Finland so great?
When...
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Pub. Date
2019
Description
In the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. When the Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls, they immediately dispatched a patrol rescue boat. But within an hour, the Coast Guard rescue boat was in as much trouble as the tanker—both paralyzed in unrelenting seas. Enter Captain Frank Quirk who was compelled to act. Gathering his crew of four, Quirk plunged his forty-nine-foot...
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