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While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.

This inspiring nonfiction picture book profiles real-life emergency service heroes, showing the amazing work they do, the incredible skills they have, and the important equipment they need to save lives. Spend a day with real-life emergency service heroes . . . and be inspired to make a difference! Have you ever wondered what equipment a firefighter takes into a blazing fire? Or what tools a surgeon uses to perform a life-saving operation? Or what...

A little boy does everything the doctor tells him to do when he goes for his check-up. Cuando va a su chequeo medico, un nino hace todo lo que le dice el medico.

After surviving eight near-death accidents throughout his unlucky life, Louis Drax plunges off a steep cliff on his ninth birthday. While police investigate the cause of Louis2s near-fatal fall and the whereabouts of his violent father, Peter, acclaimed neurologist Dr. Allan Pascal uses unorthodox techniques to try to tap into the boy2s unconscious mind and reveal the truth about the events that led to his condition.

It's the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he singlehandedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a...