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These are no ordinary princesses . . . they're Rescue Princesses! Princesses to the rescue! Another animal is in trouble and the Rescue Princesses must save the day. Princess Lulu loves visiting the lion cubs that roam the plains of her kingdom. But when all of the lion cubs disappear, Lulu must spring into action. She and the other princesses have to discover what happened to the missing lions -- and fast!

Princess Emily is excited about her first Grand Ball, but she’d rather be on the zip wire in the castle grounds than trying on dresses. Her three friends feel the same, so they slip out after dinner. A zip wire in the dark is excellent fun! But things take a serious turn when the girls find a trapped deer in the forest. Who would do such an awful thing, and why?

The Rescue Princesses are having such fun staying with Jaminta! The Kingdom of Onica is amazing, with its Cloud Mountain and the tiny baby panda who lives there... The mountain is also home to the lost Onica Crystals. But someone is out to steal them - someone who won't let a baby panda stand in their way. Can the Rescue Princesses find the crystals first and keep the baby panda safe from the thieves?

The second book in the fabulous Rescue Princesses series finds the Princesses staying on the tropical island of Ampali for the summer. They are to attend the Royal Regatta in a few days’ time and are busy getting ready for all the festivities. Clarabel is sent out to collect shells to decorate the palace and discovers a badly wounded dolphin. He guides her to a beautiful pearl, and seems to be able to talk to her through the jewel. In staging a daring rescue, the Princesses need all their strength and bravery, and discover ancient treasure along the way!

In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities—and also the faults and biases—of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. The impact of loss aversion and overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the challenges of properly framing risks at work and at home, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning the next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions.

If you are looking for a story about cheerful youngsters spending a jolly time at boarding school, look elsewhere. Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent and resourceful children, and you might expect that they would do very well at school.

Using rhythmic text to help build reading skills, combined with original illustrations, the books in this series offer quirky, humorous retellings of traditional children''s tales.'

It's been six months since Kate, Michael, and Emma confronted the Dire Magnus, but the trail to their long-missing parents remains cold. Then Michael and Emma find a man who saw them ten years ago—three days after they disappeared. He knows about a map of a distant land, a place shrouded in mystery that may lead them to their parents. Meanwhile, Kate's connection to the Book of Time is growing stronger and stronger, until a dangerous trick gets her stuck in the past, searching for a friend to help her.

When Horace travels to the exotic land of Nihon- Ja, it isn't long before he finds himself pulled into a battle that is not his - but one he knows in his heart he must wage. A kingdom teeters on the edge of chaos when the Nihon-Ja emperor, a defender of the common man, is forcibly overthrown, and only Horace, Will, and his Araluen companions can restore the emperor to the throne. Victory lies in the hands of an inexperienced group of fighters, and it's anybody's guess who will make the journey home to Araluen.

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