Mandie and the Fiery Rescue


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Traveling on to Ireland, Mandie and her friends visit a Belfest linen mill where a fire breaks out. Learning that a little girl is trapped in the mill, Mandie ignores her grandmother's protests and rushes in to rescue the child. After the fire, a strange woman delivers an urgent message that causes the group to plan a trip home.




Mandie and the Angel's Secret


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Mandie tries to solve the mystery of strangers from her past.




Mandie and the Mysterious Fisherman


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Mandie and her friends have a new mystery to investigate when strange sounds come from a seemingly abandoned fishing boat.




Isle of Swords


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A young man awakens on an island, alone and seriously injured, with no memory, and as he searches for his identity he finds himself caught between two notorious pirates battling for a legendary treasure reportedly hidden by monks.




Software Studies


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This collection of short expository, critical and speculative texts offers a field guide to the cultural, political, social and aesthetic impact of software. Experts from a range of disciplines each take a key topic in software and the understanding of software, such as algorithms and logical structures.




A Pirate's Ransom


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Lady Catherine is in despair as she boards the ship that will take her to England and a marriage with the Duke of Devonshire, but en route her capture by pirates places her in the middle of a dangerous rivalry between the handsome Captain Edmund Drake and his notorious opponent, Blackbeard.




A Genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre Family


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"This work 26 is a genealogy and history of the related families of John Van Meter, Thomas Shepherd and John Duke: settlers between 1730 and 1750 of the Northern Neck in the Valley of Virginia; conspicuous figures in the formative period, as their descendants have been in later developments, of Frederick and Berkeley Counties in what is now western Virginia."--Foreward.




The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS


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The companion to the hit CBS crime series Numb3rs presents the fascinating way mathematics is used to fight real-life crime Using the popular CBS prime-time TV crime series Numb3rs as a springboard, Keith Devlin (known to millions of NPR listeners as the Math Guy on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon) and Gary Lorden (the principal math advisor to Numb3rs) explain real-life mathematical techniques used by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to catch and convict criminals. From forensics to counterterrorism, the Riemann hypothesis to image enhancement, solving murders to beating casinos, Devlin and Lorden present compelling cases that illustrate how advanced mathematics can be used in state-of-the-art criminal investigations.







Please to the Table


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More than 350 recipes from all fifteen republics of the Soviet Union offer samples of the country's vast diversity--from the robust foods of the Baltic states, to the delicate pilafs of Azerbaijan




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