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Ball Don't Lie

By: Matt de la Peña

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Newbery Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Matt de la Peña's Ball Don't Lie "is a must-read." [The Bulletin] Sticky is a beat-around-the-head foster kid with nowhere to call home but the street, and an outer shell so tough that no one will take him in. He started out life so far behind the pack that the finish line seems nearly unreachable. He’s a white boy living and playing in a world where he doesn’t seem to belong. But Sticky can ball. And basketball might just be his ticket out . . . if he can only realize that he doesn’t have to be the person everyone else expects him to be. Matt de la Peña's breakout urban masterpiece, Ball Don’t Lie takes place where the street and the court meet and where a boy can be anything if he puts his mind to it. ★ "[An] inspiring story. Sticky is a true original, and de la Peña has skillfully brought him to life." --School Library Journal, Starred "Riveting.... Teens will be strongly affected by the unforgettable...basketball action; and the questions about race, love, self-worth, and what it means to build a life without advantages." --Booklist "Stunningly realistic." --VOYA "Gritty and mesmerizing." --Kirkus Reviews "I have never before seen blacktop ball depicted so well. In this novel, you will find its flash, its power, and its elegance without chains. This is powerful stuff." --Antawn Jamison, forward for the Los Angeles Clippers "Truly authentic in its examination of both the game I love and the invariable missteps toward manhood. You cannot fail to be moved by the eloquence and truth of this story." --Rick Fox, former forward for the Los Angeles Lakers An ALA Best Book for Young Adults An ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers

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Ember

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0385734255

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9780385734257

Books That Drive Kids CRAZY!: This Is a Ball

By: Beck Stanton,Matt Stanton

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Books That Drive Kids CRAZY!: This Is a Ball

By: Beck Stanton,Matt Stanton

For the giggling masses who love Hervé Tullet's Press Here, BJ Novak's The Book With No Pictures, and Bill Cotter's Don't Push the Button comes an interactive new series! The Books That Drive Kids CRAZY! series offers parents, teachers, and storytellers a hilarious script for fun reading time together. Book 2, This Is a Ball, is a boldly absurd spin-off of concept books, and an audaciously contrarian invitation for readers to practice deadpan delivery: after all, the picture on the cover clearly shows a cube, not a ball. The page that declares a princess is flying a kite at the beach shows an alien holding a balloon in a city...and on and on. What is WRONG with this silly book? Kids will demand to know--and all readers will be howling with laughter all along the way. With strikingly simple text and art, Books That Drive Kids CRAZY! are ideal picks for emergent readers.

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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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031643440X

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9780316434409

Play Ball!

By: Matt Christopher

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Play Ball!

By: Matt Christopher

The first book in an epic series about family, friendship, and baseball Eleven-year-old cousins catcher Liam McGrath and pitcher Carter Jones grew up playing baseball together. Now, their team is on the verge of winning the greatest championship of all: the Little League Baseball World Series. To reach the title match, however, they must first beat their number one rivals from Southern California. Little do they know that the game will prove to be just the first challenge they'll face on their road to the championships.

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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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0316203211

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9780316203210

Mirror Ball

Living Boldly and Shining Brightly for the Glory of God

By: Matt Redman

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Mirror Ball

Living Boldly and Shining Brightly for the Glory of God

By: Matt Redman

Internationally known worship leader and songwriter Matt Redman invites readers to a deeper understanding of what it means to reflect God’s dazzling radiance. In Mirror Ball, Redman eloquently illustrates why passion is more than a song or a feeling. It’s a story of guts and glory, pain, and purpose. For anyone ready to follow Jesus, passion is a way of life. Through story, Scripture, and practical inspiration, Redman encourages readers to remember that, however inadequate they may feel to live out this passion, God will work in and through them, just as light radiates through the smallest prism. After all, the same God who said “let there be light” has made His light to shine in their hearts, illuminating their lives and the lives of those around them.

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David C Cook

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0781407222

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9780781407229

Zachary's Ball

By: Matt Tavares

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Zachary's Ball

By: Matt Tavares

Dad takes Zachary to his first Boston Red Sox game, where they catch a ball and something magical happens.

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Candlewick Press

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0763659770

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9780763659776

Boy Kills Man

By: Matt Whyman

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Boy Kills Man

By: Matt Whyman

Two thirteen-year-old boys, blood brothers and best friends, get drawn into a dangerous, violent world on the streets of a troubled Columbian city.

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Harper Collins

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0060746653

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9780060746650

Funny Kid Peeking Duck (Funny Kid, #7)

The hilarious, laugh-out-loud children's series for 2023 from million-copy mega-bestselling author Matt Stanton

By: Matt Stanton

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Funny Kid Peeking Duck (Funny Kid, #7)

The hilarious, laugh-out-loud children's series for 2023 from million-copy mega-bestselling author Matt Stanton

By: Matt Stanton

Don't play hide-and-seek with a duck ... Laugh your head off with the super-popular Funny Kid series! Every kid wants to laugh, but Max is the boy who can make it happen. When his friends start questioning his bravery, Max and his pet duck must come up with a plan to prove them wrong. There's only one problem: Duck has disappeared. Max is the funny kid and now he's lost his duck! The family road trip from hell, a dares competition, the Tower of Dying Deathly Doom and a dancing motorcycle gang called the Fat Skulls are just some of the things in store for Max and his friends in this Funny Kid adventure. FUNNY KID is the mega-bestselling series from author-illustrator Matt Stanton that has everyone laughing! PRAISE FOR FUNNY KID 'my favourite thing in the book was everything' -- Elliott 'better than Wimpy Kid, Big Nate and Tom Gates combined' -- Ally 'humour is injected into every page' -- Children's Book Council of Australia's Reading Time 'absolutely hilarious' -- Tim Harris, author of the Exploding Endings series

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HarperCollins Australia

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1460712072

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9781460712078

Certified Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Developer Study Guide

By: Matt Voerman

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Certified Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Developer Study Guide

By: Matt Voerman

With an organization that mimics that of the Flash MX developer certification test itself, this study guide offers comprehensive coverage of the features of Flash, including those new to MX 2004: CSS support, predefined Behaviors, Timeline effects, and more. Candidates will learn how to identify requirements, design and code ActionScript, and test, deploy, implement, and troubleshoot Flash MX 2004 applications.

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0321256026

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9780321256027

Appleseed

A Novel

By: Matt Bell

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Appleseed

A Novel

By: Matt Bell

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK · A PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER BEST OF THE YEAR “Woven together out of the strands of myth, science fiction, and ecological warning, Matt Bell’s Appleseed is as urgent as it is audacious.” —Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestselling author of Get in Trouble A “breathtaking novel of ideas unlike anything you’ve ever read” (Esquire) from Young Lions Fiction Award–finalist Matt Bell, a breakout book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity’s unchecked exploitation of natural resources, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple. In eighteenth-century Ohio, two brothers travel into the wooded frontier, planting apple orchards from which they plan to profit in the years to come. As they remake the wilderness in their own image, planning for a future of settlement and civilization, the long-held bonds and secrets between the two will be tested, fractured and broken—and possibly healed. Fifty years from now, in the second half of the twenty-first century, climate change has ravaged the Earth. Having invested early in genetic engineering and food science, one company now owns all the world’s resources. But a growing resistance is working to redistribute both land and power—and in a pivotal moment for the future of humanity, one of the company’s original founders will return to headquarters, intending to destroy what he helped build. A thousand years in the future, North America is covered by a massive sheet of ice. One lonely sentient being inhabits a tech station on top of the glacier—and in a daring and seemingly impossible quest, sets out to follow a homing beacon across the continent in the hopes of discovering the last remnant of civilization. Hugely ambitious in scope and theme, Appleseed is the breakout novel from a writer “as self-assured as he is audacious” (NPR) who “may well have invented the pulse-pounding novel of ideas” (Jess Walter). Part speculative epic, part tech thriller, part reinvented fairy tale, Appleseed is an unforgettable meditation on climate change; corporate, civic, and familial responsibility; manifest destiny; and the myths and legends that sustain us all.

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HarperCollins

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0063040166

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9780063040168

ABC of Getting the MBA Admissions Edge

By: Alan Mendonca,Matt Symonds

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ABC of Getting the MBA Admissions Edge

By: Alan Mendonca,Matt Symonds

Getting into MBA programs is more and more competitive. This over 600 page book will improve your chances of admission to the schools of your choice. This version of The Edge, aimed at US applicants, features an in-depth analysis of applying to each schoo

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MBA site

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0971482209

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9780971482203

Matt Groening's The Simpsons Fun in the Sun Book

By: Matt Groening

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Matt Groening's The Simpsons Fun in the Sun Book

By: Matt Groening

Games, art activities, and trivia for children to do and playoutdoors.

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Harper Entertainment

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0060968737

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9780060968731

Imposter

On booze, crippling self-doubt and coming out the other side

By: Matt Chisholm

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Imposter

On booze, crippling self-doubt and coming out the other side

By: Matt Chisholm

A raw memoir from television host Matt Chisholm on battling booze and depression and finding a way through. 'A book of great openness and courage' - Sir John Kirwan Country boy and television host Matt Chisholm seemed to have it all. With a plum job on TV and a great family, his future looked bright. But behind the happy facade, Matt was barely coping, driving himself into the ground with work and withdrawing from everyone but his family. One day something snapped. After admitting in a social media post that he was struggling with depression, Matt was shocked at the outpouring of public support. It would be the catalyst for him to face up to his unhappiness and change his life. Growing up in Otago, Matt was the sensitive youngest child in a family of four boys, with a difficult home life in which high standards were paramount. After trying his first drink at fourteen, Matt found himself in a decades-long spiral of aimlessness and heavy drinking - despite the physical and mental toll the booze took on him. It would take Matt until his thirties to find success as a journalist, always doubting himself and his abilities. After finally giving up drinking at 34, his career went from strength to strength, but the unrelenting pressure of having to perform and his own perfectionist tendencies came at a high cost and he was diagnosed with depression. Something had to give. Matt and his wife made a choice to leave Auckland and his job, moving to Central Otago with their two young boys to build their own home and enjoy a simpler life. Imposter reveals the hard-won wisdom Matt has learnt along the way. Poignant and inspiring, this is a helpful book for anyone who is battling their demons.

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Allen & Unwin

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1761062425

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9781761062421

Can You Spell Revolution

By: Matt Beam

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Can You Spell Revolution

By: Matt Beam

Clouds McFadden is definitely different. With his shock of red hair, his disarming manner and an opening greeting of “Good day, fellow proletariats,” this transfer student to Laverton Junior High looks ready to shake the boredom from his adopted Grade 8 class. Which is fine with Chris, who, quite frankly, is tired of tyrannicalteachers, cool-girl cliques and boring work. When Clouds proposes to Chris and a select group of classmates that they can change their school world for the better with a little revolutionary zeal, everyone gets into the act. Inspired by historical figures, the group manages to humiliate a nitpicking teacher through the use of a secret tape recorder (known as Operation “Code: Nixon”), infiltrate the cool-girls’ club (“Code: Queen Elizabeth”) and stage a passive resistance to tedious note-taking (“Code: Gandhi”). But then Clouds goes too far in his desire for revenge on Principal Dorfman—and the revolution takes a frighteningly real turn. In the same way that he comically connected the rules of baseball to the rules of adolescent love in Getting to First Base with Danalda Chase, Matt Beam makes another inspired yet never over-the-top link between the lessons of history and the lessons of life that every teen must master.

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Harper Collins

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1443423882

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9781443423885

An Elegant Defense

The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives

By: Matt Richtel

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An Elegant Defense

The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives

By: Matt Richtel

National Bestseller "Gives you all the context you need to understand the science of immunity. ... An Elegant Defense left me with [a] sense of awe.” —Bill Gates, Gates Notes Summer Reading List The Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times journalist "explicates for the lay reader the intricate biology of our immune system" (Jerome Groopman, MD, New York Review of Books) From New York Times science journalist Matt Richtel, An Elegant Defense is an acclaimed and definitive exploration of the immune system and the secrets of health. Interweaving cutting-edge science with the intimate stories of four individual patients, this epic, first-of-its-kind book “give[s] lay readers a means of understanding what’s known so far about the intricate biology of our immune systems” (The Week). The immune system is our body’s essential defense network, a guardian vigilantly fighting illness, healing wounds, maintaining order and balance, and keeping us alive. It has been honed by evolution over millennia to face an almost infinite array of threats. For all its astonishing complexity, however, the immune system can be easily compromised by fatigue, stress, toxins, advanced age, and poor nutrition—hallmarks of modern life—and even by excessive hygiene. Paradoxically, it is a fragile wonder weapon that can turn on our own bodies with startling results, leading today to epidemic levels of autoimmune disorders. An Elegant Defense effortlessly guides readers on a scientific detective tale winding from the Black Plague to twentieth-century breakthroughs in vaccination and antibiotics, to today’s laboratories that are revolutionizing immunology—perhaps the most extraordinary and consequential medical story of our time. Drawing on extensive new interviews with dozens of world-renowned scientists, Richtel has produced a landmark book, equally an investigation into the deepest riddles of survival and a profoundly human tale that is movingly brought to life through the eyes of his four main characters, each of whom illuminates an essential facet of our “elegant defense.”

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HarperCollins

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0062698508

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9780062698506

Six-pack Abs

By: Matt Roberts

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Six-pack Abs

By: Matt Roberts

In these four pocket-sized guides, fitness celebrity Matt Roberts helps target the body parts that men and women most want to sculpt, tone, and shape. Each book contains structured workouts that combine special resistance exercises, cardio workouts, and stretching techniques that are guaranteed to help readers increase energy, self-confidence, and become more physically fit.

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DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)

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0789493489

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9780789493484

Sports Crosswords

50 All-New All-Star Puzzles

By: Matt Gaffney

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Sports Crosswords

50 All-New All-Star Puzzles

By: Matt Gaffney

Matt Gaffney, who pleased word-loving fans of the links with his Golf Crosswords, now takes on the entire sports world. He's edited 50 all-new puzzles, so basketball, baseball, football, hockey, soccer, tennis, skating, and even the Olympic Games come in for their share of crossword glory. Each puzzle has a clever heading, including Team Statistics, The Game of Love, Cooperstown Zoo, Poolside, Gridiron Grouping, A Pro's Conclusion, and You Make the Call. The clues will have collectors of sports trivia searching their memories for the answer to such questions as "Long-haired NBA guard Steve," "Melissa of Monday Night Football," and "Home to the USHL's Lancers." Answers: Nash, Stark, and Omaha.

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Sterling Publishing (NY)

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1402714475

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9781402714474

The Book of Moe

Simpsons Library of Wisdom

By: Matt Groening

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The Book of Moe

Simpsons Library of Wisdom

By: Matt Groening

Moe Szyslak, pug-ugly purveyor at the local waterin' hole, has done it all—from takin' his licks in the boxing ring to performin' backroom surgery. Get to know the man behind the apron strings, the misunderstood mixologist with the gold-plated heart, as he dispenses advice to drunks like it was Duff on draft, recommends some of his signature (and watered-down) drinks like the Moe-jito, tries out a pick-up line or two, dreams of actually gettin' a date, dishes a little on his acting career, and counts his blessings (like babysittin' Maggie Simpson) that make life worth livin' for at least one more day.

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104

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Harper Design

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0061284327

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9780061284328

The Hit-away Kid

By: Matt Christopher

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The Hit-away Kid

By: Matt Christopher

Barry McGee, hit-away batter for the Peach Street Mudders, enjoys winning so much that he has a tendency to bend the rules; then the dirty tactics of the pitcher on a rival team give him a new perspective on sports ethics.

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0590480642

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9780590480642

Earth to Nathan Blue

By: Matt Beam

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Earth to Nathan Blue

By: Matt Beam

Since his father left home, Nathan Blue has lived in a world of his own imagination. Inspired by an old TV show, he spends his time meeting Plutonians, hunting babylions and trying to deal with the humanoids at the Boredom Academy. But his home life becomes increasingly difficult when his worried mother demands an end to "this imagination business,"and his new friend, Sheron, starts to wonder if Nathan even really understands the difference between his fantasy world and real life. Complex, illusory, real and funny, this is the story of an earthbound but all-too-human Plutonian--Nathan Blue.

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228

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Puffin

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014305256X

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9780143052562

Make Your Own Fun Frames

By: Matt Phillips

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Make Your Own Fun Frames

By: Matt Phillips

For ages 9 to 12 years. Looking for a frame that is perfect for that special photograph? Make it yourself -- at a fraction of the cost of shop-bought. Features: Learn the tricks and tips of professional framing; Follow your muse; Learn the newest techniques; Hang it up, let is stand, or make it stick. Ages: 8 to adult.

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WorthyKids

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1885593643

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9781885593641

MCAT Physics

By: Brooks,Matt Cole

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MCAT Physics

By: Brooks,Matt Cole

The MCAT supplement is available for bundling with any version of the text at no extra charge. This 50 page booklet contains practice questions, answers, and explanations for the Physical Sciences section of the MCAT exam. Not sold separately.

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Thomson

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0534423795

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9780534423797

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