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The Wizard of Oz series volume 1
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After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas.
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When the Marines decided to buy a helicopter-airplane hybrid "tiltrotor" called the V-22 Osprey, they saw it as their dream machine. The tiltrotor was the aviation equivalent of finding the Northwest Passage: an aircraft able to take off, land, and hover with the agility of a helicopter yet fly as fast and as far as an airplane. Many predicted it would reshape civilian aviation. The Marines saw it as key to their very survival. By 2000, the Osprey...
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 7
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English
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The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie on a mission to the Ice Age where they encounter Cro-Magnons, cave bears, sabertooth tigers, and woolly mammoths.
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 2
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English
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In their magic treehouse, Jack and Annie are again transported to King Arthur's realm, where invisible beings, giant ravens, and mistaken magic spells have a duke's castle in an uproar on Halloween night.
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Read-alikes for On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Read-Alikes for Red at the Bone
Read-Alikes for The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
Read-Alikes for Red at the Bone
Read-Alikes for The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
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For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories and transports her to a time and a place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything. August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi shared confidences as they ambled their neighborhood streets, a place where the girls believed that they were amazingly beautiful, brilliantly talented, with a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful promise there...
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Castle Glower volume 3
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English
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"Castle Glower's towers have transported Princess Celie, her siblings, and her pet griffin, Rufus, to an unknown land. As they set out on a dangerous adventure to discover their whereabouts, they find an entire lost people, divided by the wishes of two wizards in a centuries-old quarrel over their beloved home--Castle Glower"--
11) Burn baby burn
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Candlewick Press
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Nora Lopez is seventeen during the summer of 1977, when New York is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam. Meg Medina transports us to a time when tempers and temperatures ran high to share the story of a young woman who discovers that the greatest dangers are often closer than we like to admit.
12) Proof of forever
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"Four former friends are transported back in time to a pivotal summer in all of their lives during a camp reunion"--
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Federal Railroad Administration
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2017.
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English
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The Project corridor is part of the larger Southeast High Speed Rail (SEHSR) Corridor which extends from Washington, D.C. to Charlotte, North Carolina; a Tier I evaluation of the larger SEHSR Corridor was completed in 2002. The DC2RVA project area extends 123 miles along an existing rail corridor owned by CSX transportation (CSXT) from south of the Long Bridge across the Potomac River in Arlington, Virginia, to Central Virginia in Chesterfield County,...
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"An award-winning international sensation-with a second-act dystopian twist-Time Shelter is a tour de force set in a world clamoring for the past before it forgets. "At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created," begins Time Shelter's enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. "In the mid-seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not only the exact year, but also a starting date: October...
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