Michael Johnston
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Create suncatchers, picture frames, and more with this "nice collection of small stained-glass projects that would make fine gifts" (Library Journal).
Stained glass artist and teacher Michael Johnston provides patterns and detailed instructions for forty projects-along with one thousand step-by-step photos-in this informative guide.
With his pro tips on soldering, working with lead and foil, building 3-D projects, and more, even a beginner...
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Amber throne volume 2
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Silence of the Soleri is the action-packed sequel to the epic fantasy novel Lev Grossman calls "bloody and utterly epic."
Solus celebrates the Opening of the Mundus, a two-day holiday for the dead, but the city of the Soleri is hardly in need of diversion. A legion of traitors, led by a former captain of the Soleri military, rallies at the capital's ancient walls. And inside those fortifications, trapped by circumstance, a second army fights for...
3) Soleri
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Amber throne volume 1
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The ruling family of the Soleri Empire has been in power longer than even the calendars that stretch back 2,826 years. Those records tell a history of conquest and domination by a people descended from gods, older than anything in the known world. No living person has seen them for centuries, yet their grip on their four subjugate kingdoms remains tighter than ever. On the day of the annual eclipse, the Harkan king, Arko-Hark Wadi, sets off on a hunt...
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Illustrated step-by-step instruction on techniques to make a variety of beautiful and practical stained glass boxes. Photos show exactly how to assemble corners, attach hinges and lids, work with mirrored glass, create shelves and compartments, and add feet and lips. Detailed information for the beginner or more experienced glass artist.
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The volume teaches us how to use the critical and practical tools for reading the Bible described by Ferlo to interpret the Hebrew and Christian scriptures: what did they mean for their original audience and what do they mean for us today?
Johnston introduces us to the key terms and concepts of biblical criticism that show us how to read Scripture on three key levels: the literal, historical, and prophetic. He explores with us passages that touch...
8) Slash
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Neil is a questioning teen who secretly writes erotic fan fiction about a popular Sci-Fi hero. When his classmate Julia discovers this, she leads him on an adventure of self discovery.
11) Stolen
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Heart of dread volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Nat risked her life to reunite with her drakon in the defense of the Blue, but Wes, seeking his sister Eliza, is forced to rejoin the military, placing him and Nat on opposite sides of a war that could destroy what is left of the world.
12) Golden
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Heart of dread volume 3
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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Nat's bond to her drakon is fraying quickly, and Wes is at death's door after trying to save his sister, Eliza. Desperate to escape New Kandy, Wes accepts help from a strange voice out of the Blue, leading Nat and the crew into even more dangerous surroundings, where their only chance lies with Nat and her quest to replace the old world with a new one.
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Heart of dread volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
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“As fearless as a futuristic -- New York Times Welcome to New Vegas, a city once covered in bling, now blanketed in ice. Like much of the destroyed planet, the place knows only one temperature—freezing. But some things never change. The diamond in the ice desert is still a 24-hour hedonistic playground and nothing keeps the crowds away from the casino floors, never mind the rumors about sinister sorcery in its shadows. At the heart of this...
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Confessions of a dork lord volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
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Twelve-year-old Wick, a warlock-in-training with allergies, sets out to prove that he is ready for his great and terrible destiny--to fill the shoes of his late father, the Dark Lord.
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[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
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Short stories, journal entries, family records, and letters maintained by the Repository of History, the center of the Blue Blood's power, reveal secrets of Manhattan's vampire elite dating to the dawn of history.
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Heart of dread volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Desperate to escape the dangers of the ruins of New Kandy, Nat and Wes must put their love to the ultimate test by chancing even more perilous surroundings in hopes of seeing their world reborn by saving the source of magic.
Pub. Date
2021
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Jack Halsey takes his wife, their adult kids, and a friend for a dream vacation in Kenya. But as they venture off alone into a wilderness park, their safari van is flipped over by an angry rhino, leaving them injured and desperate. Then, as two of them go in search of rescue, a bloody, vicious encounter with a leopard and a clan of hyenas incites a desperate fight for survival.
19) Frozen
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Series
Heart of dread volume 1
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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More than a century after a catastrophic disaster wiped out most of humanity and covered much of the earth with ice, sixteen-year-old Nat yields to the voice in her head urging her to embark on a dangerous journey across a poisoned sea to the mythical land, the Blue.
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Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Short stories, journal entries, family records, and letters maintained by the Repository of History, the center of the Blue Blood's power, reveal secrets of Manhattan's vampire elite dating to the dawn of history.