Robert Lawson
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The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar-crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world. Free market economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and Sweden to investigate the dangers and idiocies of socialism—while drinking a lot of beer.
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The master illustrator of Mr. Popper's Penguins and The Story of Ferdinand brings new life to a bevy of traditional tales. More than 40 of the artist's enchanting pen-and-ink drawings grace 13 fairy tales and poems of wizards, dragons, and princes in disguise by Padraic Colum, Beatrice Curtis Brown, Eunice Tietjens, and other distinguished authors.
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"VEGAS HOCKEY, VEGAS STRONG"
This complete narrative of "VEGAS HOCKEY, VEGAS STRONG" is informative and emotive with stories never told, providing readers with a thorough understanding of the history of hockey in Las Vegas. The evolution of hockey led to the NHL granting Las Vegas its first Big Four sports franchise. The sport grew from a few avid players forming a team in the mob-built International Ice Palace, to the first time pro players suited...
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From television shows to the manosphere, and from alt-right communities to fatherhood forums, debates about masculinity have come to dominate the media landscape. This growing cultural tension around masculinities has been discussed and analyzed both for general audiences and in burgeoning academic scholarship. What has been typically overlooked, however, is the role that language plays in these mediated performances of masculinity.
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9) Rabbit Hill
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English
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New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers.
10) Adam of the road
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Puffin Books, Penguin Putnam Inc
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1987.
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English
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"The adventures of eleven-year-old Adam as he travels the open roads of thirteenth-century England searching for his father, a minstrel, and his stolen red spaniel, Nick.
13) The great wheel
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The Viking Press
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1957.
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English
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Eighteen-year-old Conn leaves Ireland and sails to America, where he helps build the first Ferris wheel for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.
16) What goes up
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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When a group of teenage social misfits befriend a jaded journalist on assignment in their small New Hampshire town, they all find themselves searching for meaning and truth in their crazy, mixed-up lives.
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