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Abbot Yuri Patrick

This is the e-Horologion. Intended for readability in modern English as well as portability. Now you can load this book into any e-reader and take it with you and pray anywhere, anytime. This book is the Book of the Hours from which Orthodox Christian Monastic, Priests and even Orthodox Families pray from multiple times a day.

Darwin famously described special difficulties in explaining social evolution in insects. More than a century later, the evolution of sociality - defined broadly as cooperative group living - remains one of the most intriguing problems in biology. Providing a unique perspective on the study of social evolution, this volume synthesizes the features of animal social life across the principle taxonomic groups in which sociality has evolved. The chapters explore sociality in a range of species...

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Maria Maria, Arnaud Arnaud, Stephen Stephen, Michael Michael, Filippo Arfini, Michele Michele, César Revoredo-Giha, Cathal Cathal, Pavel Pavel, Bruce Bruce, Wei Wei Wei Wei, Thomas Thomas, Roberto Solazzo, Mario Veneziani, Paul Wilson, Patrick Gillespie, Fiona Thorne, Thia Hennessy, Stephen Hynes, Vera Eory, Jinxiu Ding, Dr Weiwei Wang, Eleonore Guillem, Dave Murray-Rust, Joana Guimarães Ferreira, Patrick Abbot, Alexander Gocht, Maria Espinosa, Sergio Gomez y Paloma, David A. Hennessy

Agriculture is the product of a complex mixture of behavioural, biophysical and market drivers. Understanding how these factors interact to produce crops and livestock for food has been the focus of economic investigation for many years. The advent of optimisation algorithms and the exponential growth in computing technology has allowed significant growth in mathematical modelling of the dynamics of agricultural systems. The complexity of approaches has grown in parallel with the availabil...

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Denise Lewis Patrick

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Joniece Abbott-Pratt

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Get ready to sing for justice with Mahalia Jackson in this excitingmiddle grade nonfiction biography. Perfect for fans of the Who Was andLittle Leaders series, the books in the VIP series tell the true—andamazing—stories of some of history's greatest trailblazers. Meet the VERYIMPORTANT PEOPLE who changed the world!Mahalia Jackson was known as the queen of gospel music. A closefriend of D...

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Patrick Ness

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Joniece Abbott-Pratt

How does the world end? It ends in fire. On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he’d hired to help on the farm. This dragon, Kazimir, has more to him than meets the eye. Sarah can’t help but be curious about him, an animal who supposedly doesn’t have a soul but is seemingly intent on keeping her safe from the brutal attentions of Deputy Sheriff Emmett Kelby. Kazimir knows something she doesn...

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Patrick Ness

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Joniece Abbott-Pratt

On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he’d hired to help on the farm…Sarah Dewhurst and her father, outcasts in their little town of Frome, Washington, are forced to hire a dragon to work their farm, something only the poorest of the poor ever have to resort to.The dragon, Kazimir, has more to him than meets the eye, though. Sarah can’t help but be curious a...

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Edwin Abbott

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Patrick Frederic

Flatland, like our own world, is on the verge of the millenium. On the last day of the year 1999, a Square—hitherto undistinguished from the other shapes of his two-dimensional world—receives the Gospel of Three Dimensions, revealed to that world's flat inhabitants only once every a thousand years. Transformed by a truth he is unable to conceal, he is promptly condemned as a heretic. His poignant tale is itself a multi-dimensional creation, for it is not only a challenge to our most basic ...

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Cynthia Leitich Smith

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Kyla Garcia

**Winner of an American Indian Youth Literature AwardNew York Times bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith turns to realistic fiction with the thoughtful story of a Native teen navigating the complicated, confusing waters of high school — and first love.**When Louise Wolfe’s first real boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. It’s her senior year, anyway, and she’d rather spend her ti...

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Andrea Tang

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Emily Woo Zeller

"Mixing everything that's best about dragons, dystopia, and generational conflict, Tang delivers a high flying debut that pulls no punches." --E.K. Johnston, #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorThings just got weird for Prudence Wu.One minute, she's cashing in on a routine smuggling deal. The next, she's escaping enforcers on the wings of what very much appears to be a sentient cybernetic dragon.Pru is used to life throwing her some unpleas...

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Patrick Ness

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Michael Crouch

Inspired by Judy Blume’s Forever and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, this novel that Andrew Smith calls “beautiful, enchanting, [and] exquisitely written” is a new classic about teenage relationships, self-acceptance—and what happens when the walls we build start coming down. A Kirkus Best Book of 2017!Adam Thorn doesn’t know it yet, but today will change his life.Between his religious family, a deeply unp...

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Eric Smith

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Richa Shukla Moorjani, Sunil Malhotra

"Wonderfully geeky and deeply compassionate." —Marieke Nijkamp, #1 New York Times bestselling authorIn this charming novel by Eric Smith, two teen gamers find their virtual worlds—and blossoming romance—invaded by the real-world issues of trolling and doxing in the gaming community.We all need a place to escape the real world. For Divya and Aaron, it’s the world of online gaming. While Divya trades her rising-star status for sponso...

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Alina Boyden

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Deepti Gupta, Alina Boyden

Protecting her identity means life or death in this immersive epic fantasy inspired by the Mughal Empire.In a different life, under a different name, Razia Khan was raised to be the Crown Prince of Nizam, the most powerful kingdom in Daryastan. Born with the soul of a woman, she ran away at a young age to escape her father’s hatred and live life true to herself.Amongst the hijras of Bikampur, Razia finds sisterhood and discovers a new purpose in life. By da...