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Lipstick Jungle

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Genre: Drama, Comedy, chick-lit, romance, contemporary.  Author: Candace Bushnell In this book, Victory Ford is the darling of the fashion world. Single, attractive, and iconoclastic, she has worked for years to create her own signature line. As Victory struggles to keep her company afloat, she learns crucial lessons about what she really wants in a relationship….

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The Star Zoo

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Genre: Cientific fiction, Futuristic In our world today a hummingbird is a small, brilliantly coloured bird that lives in the tall trees of tropical forests. In the far distant future, Hummingbird (Hummy for short) is a girl of sixteen who lives somewhere in the Galaxy, on a planet called Just Like Home. She has the…

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Little Lord Fauntleroy

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Genre: children’s novel, Little Lord Fauntleroy is a novel by the English-American writer Frances Hodgson Burnett, her first children’s novel. It was published as a serial in St. Nicholas Magazine from November 1885 to October 1886, then as a book by Scribner’s (the publisher of St. Nicholas) in 1886. Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett Lord Dorincourt…

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The League of Regrettable Superheroes: Half-baked Heroes from Comic Book History!

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Genre: Comics, superheroes, graphic novels, humor. Author: “Calamity” Jon Morris You know about Batman, Superman, and Spiderman, but have you heard of Doll Man, Doctor Hormone, or Spider Queen? In The League of Regrettable Superheroes, you’ll meet one hundred of the strangest superheroes ever to see print, complete with backstories, vintage art, and colorful commentary. So prepare yourself…

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Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life

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Genre: sports Since the 1950s, when Pelé first started playing, soccer has been how the world sees Brazil, but it is also how Brazilians see themselves. The essence of their game is one in which prodigious individual skills outshine team tactics, where dribbles and delicate flicks are preferred over physical challenges or long-distance passes, where…

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Global Issues: Religious Freedom

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Are we free to believe in what we want? It is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance without government influence or intervention. It also includes the freedom to change one’s religion or belief.   Freedom…

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Global Issues: Prejudice

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Prejudice Did you know? ▪ The word “prejudice” comes from the Latin roots “prae” (in advance) and “judicum” (judgment), which essentially means to judge before. When we “pre-judge” someone, we make up our minds about who they are before we actually get to know them. Prejudices or “pre-judgments” are not based upon actual real-life interaction with…

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Game Library: Prey (2017)

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Prey (2017) System Requirements Minimum: Operating system: Windows 7/8.1/10 (64-bit OS required) Processor: AMD FX-8320/AMD Ryzen or Intel Core i5-2500 Memory: 8 GB RAM Hard disk space: 25 GB free HDD space Video: AMD Radeon 7870 2 GB or NVIDIA GTX 660 2 GB Recommended: Operating system: Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required) Processor: AMD FX-8350/AMD Ryzen…

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Game Library: Black Mesa

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Black Mesa Minimum: Processor: 2.4 Dual Core Processor Memory: 4 GB RAM Video: 1 GB Dedicated Video Card DirectX: 9.0c System: Windows® 7 (32/64-bit)/Vista HardDisk Space: 15 GB Network: Broadband Internet connection Recommended: Processor: 3.0 Quad Core Processor or Greater Memory: 6 GB RAM Video: 2.5 GB Dedicated Video Card or Greater DirectX: 9.0c System:…