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David Ball

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Shadow Wheels

The story follows native american teen Kai as her attends Ironpoint Highschool. Kai is a loner who for the most part keeps to himself. When a chance run in with Lena Firecloud who is trying to stop poisonous material into the the Readfeather Line a spot where their community gets its drinking water. Kai is about to learn sometimes the spirits are in us all.

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David Ball, Jean Guéhenno

Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Nonfiction Jean Guéhenno's Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1945 is the most oft-quoted piece of testimony on life in occupied France. A sharply observed record of day-to-day life under Nazi rule in Paris and a bitter commentary on literary life in those years, it has also been called "a remarkable essay on courage and cowardice" (Caroline Moorehead, Wall Street Journal). Here, David Ball provid...

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Rachel Perkins, Stephen Gapps, Henry Reynolds, Mina Murray

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Gregory Fryer, Sandy Greenwood, David Ball

The truth about the bloody battles fought to establish a nationFor the first time, The Australian Wars brings what for too long has been considered the historical past into connection with its reverberations in the present.It is estimated up to 100,000 people died in the frontier wars that raged across Australia for more than 150 years. This is equivalent to the combined total of all Australians killed in foreign battles to date. But there are few memorials marking these fi...

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David Ball

From the acclaimed author of Empires of Sand comes a mesmerizing new adventure that Jean Auel cites as “crowded with events that both forecast and mirror the conflicts of today.” Sweeping from the drawing rooms of Paris to the palace of Suleiman the Magnificent to the dark hold of a slave ship racing across the sea, here is a dazzling story of love and valor, innocence and identity, an epic novel of the clash of civilizations on a barren island where the future was forged....

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David Ball

Is God a tyrant? No - not at all! Does he uphold truth, love and human freedom? Yes, absolutely! ‘God and the Crisis of Power’ shows us, from the Bible, how God always deploys his power for our good, in ways that are motivated by love and that offer us liberation rather than oppression. It also examines how these principles should apply to Christian participation in the public square. ‘God and the Crisis of Power’ explores the moral ambiguity of the concept of power, and the potentially pr...

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David Ball

Book 2 -

Shadow Wheels

Kai Redfeather once saved his land from the shadows of Blackstone Industries. The story became legend, whispered in the wind and painted on the walls of Iron point. But peace is never permanent.

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David Ball, Michael Ball

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Bloodlines & Backroads

The last time Nate Flynn saw his brother, Luke was standing on a collapsing porch with fire at his back and the dead closing in. Luke ordered the others to run. Nate obeyed, and now he has to live with it.With their truck gone and their supplies dwindling, Nate leads Hannah, Autumn, and Summer across the backroads of Kentucky. The infected hunt by sound, and every abandoned house could hold the food they need or a threat they cannot escape. The living are dangerous, too. Armed surv...

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David Ball

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George Guidall

From the acclaimed author of Empires of Sand comes a mesmerizing new adventure that Jean Auel cites as “crowded with events that both forecast and mirror the conflicts of today.” Here is a dazzling story of love and valor, innocence and identity, an epic novel of the clash of civilizations on a barren island where the future was forged.The Mediterranean, the sixteenth century: Lying squarely in the midst of the vital sea lanes between the Christian West and the Ottoman Emp...

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David Ball

The Rule-Out method of criminal defense, easily learned, gets most jurors to want to decide verdicts based solely on reasonable doubts -- which, perhaps unexpectedly, few jurors normally do on their own no matter how you explain it. Instead, most convictions result from burden shifting, the usual demand by jurors that the defense attorney prove innocence. Rule Out prevents this, teaches how to find plentiful reasonable doubts, and shows how to avoid the common practices that cause most con...

The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars about the comics of Chicago-based cartoonist Chris Ware (b. 1967). Both inside and outside academic circles, Ware's work is rapidly being distinguished as essential to the developing canon of the graphic novel. Winner of the 2001 Guardian First Book Prize for the genre-defining Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Ware has received num...

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David W Ball

Gen Z is Slipping Away - Right Now.Pastors, youth leaders, parents: Your kids and teens are spending hours online, trolling social media sites, looking for something of value in this world. Are they finding it? Or are they bombarded by lies about identity, purpose, and morality that are pulling them straight into darkness. Churches are hemorrhaging young people - not because they're rebels without a cause, but because we've failed to arm them with Christ's uncompro...

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David Ball

Science literacy is becoming more and more important as our society progresses. Even everyday issues have science components: What we eat, how we communicate, how we entertain ourselves, how we educate ourselves all have scientific or technological influences. Yet the US typically lags behind other nations in general surveys of science literacy.One basic component of any literacy is its vocabulary, and science is no different. In this book, David W. Ball presents the definitions of...