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The Dangerous Book for Boys

For Every Boy From Eight To Eighty, Covers Essential Boyhood Skills Such As Building Tree Houses, Learning How To Fish, Finding True North, And Even Answering The Age-old Question Of What The Big Deal... With Girls Is. In This Digital Age There Is Still A Place For Knots, Skimming Stones And Stories Of Incredible Courage. This Book Recaptures Sunday Afternoons, Stimulates Curiosity, And Makes For Great Father-son Activities. The Brothers Conn And Hal Have Put Together A Collection Of All Things That Make Being Young, Or Young At Heart, Fun--building Go-carts And Electromagnets, Identifying Insects And Spiders, And Flying The World's Best Paper Airplanes.--from Publisher Description. I Didn't Have This Book When I Was A Boy -- Essential Gear -- The Greatest Paper Airplane In The World -- Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World -- The Five Knots Every Boy Should Know -- Questions About The World: Why Is A Summer Day Longer Than A Winter Day? Why Is It Hotter At The Equator? What Is A Vacuum? What Is Latitude And Longitude? How Do You Tell The Age Of A Tree? [tree Rings] How Do We Measure The Earth's Circumference? Why Does A Day Have 24 Hours? How Far Away Are The Stars? Why Is The Sky Blue? Why Can't We See The Other Side Of The Moon? What Causes Tides? How Do Ships Sail Against The Wind? Where Does Cork Come From? What Causes The Wind? What Is Chalk? -- Making A Battery -- How To Play Stickball -- Fossils -- Building A Treehouse -- The Rules Of Soccer -- Dinosaurs -- Making A Bow And Arrow -- Understanding Grammar: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Pronouns, Conjunctions, Articles, Prepositions, Interjections, Sentences, Subject And Object, Nominative And Accusative, Who And Whom, Clauses And Phrases, Tenses -- Table Football -- Fishing -- Timers And Tripwires -- Baseballs Most Valuable Players -- Famous Battles: Thermopylae, Cannae, Caesar's Invasions Of Britain, Hastings, Crecy, Waterloo, Balaclava, Rorke's Drift, The Somme, Lexington And Concord, The Alamo, Gettysburg. The Rules Of Rugby Union And Rugby League -- Spies: Codes And Ciphers -- U.s. Naval Flag Codes -- Making Crystals -- Extraordinary Stories: Scott And The Antarctic ; The Wright Brothers ; Touching The Void ; Douglas Bader ; Robert The Bruce -- Making A Go-cart -- Insects And Spiders -- Juggling -- Astronomy -- Making A Paper Hat, Boat, And Water Bomb -- Navajo Code Talker's Dictionary -- Girls -- Marbling Paper [marbled Paper] -- Cloud Formations -- First Aid -- The 50 States -- Map Of The United States -- Mountains Of The United States -- Making Cloth Fireproof -- Building A Workbench -- Pocket Light -- Five Pen-and-paper Games -- The Golden Age Of Piracy [pirates] -- A Simple Electromagnet -- Secret Inks -- Sampling Shakespeare -- Grinding An Italic Nib -- Navigation -- The Declaration Of Independence -- The Moon -- Skipping Stones -- Pinhole Projector -- Charting The Universe -- Dog Tricks -- Wrapping A Package In Brown Paper And String -- Star Maps: What You See When You Look Up -- Making A Periscope -- Seven Poems Every Boy Should Know -- Coin Tricks -- Light -- Latin Phrases Every Boy Should Know -- How To Play Poker -- Marbles -- A Brief History Of Artillery -- The Origin Of Words -- The Solar System -- The Ten Commandments -- Common Trees -- Chess -- Hunting And Cooking A Rabbit -- Tanning A Skin -- Timeline Of Early American History -- Growing Sunflowers -- Role-playing Games -- Seven Modern Wonders Of The World -- Books Every Boy Should Read -- Standard And Metric Measurements -- Dangerous Book For Boys Badges. Conn Iggulden, Hal Iggulden.

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Conn Iggulden

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Danger Down The Nile (Treasure Hunters, #2)

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Author:

James Patterson

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The Adventurous Four Again!

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Enid Blyton

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Dangerous Ladies (Fortune Hunter #1-2)

two Sexy, Suspenseful Bestsellers- Together In One Volume!two Stories Of Dangerous Women Entangled In The Arms Of Deliciously Treacherous Men...trouble In High Heelswhen Brandi Michaels Discovers Her ...Fiancé Hopping A Flight To Vegas To Marry His Other Girlfriend, She Pawns Her Ring, Buys Herself A Fabulous Outfit, And Spends One Sultry Night In The Arms Of A Gorgeous Italian Stranger Named Roberto Bartolini. And When Brandi Becomes The Mark For A Killer, She Has No Choice But To Turn To Roberto-a Man Who's Destined To Be Either Her Savior Or Her Downfall...tongue In Chicdevlin Fitzwilliam Catches Meadow Szarvas Breaking Into His Mansion To Steal A Priceless Painting. In Sheer Desperation She Tells Him She Has Amnesia. But Then He Claims She's His Wife-and Meadow Finds Herself Locked In A Match Of High-stakes Deception. She Doesn't Dare Take Her Eyes Off Him-and Doesn't Want To-yet The Danger Is Just Beginning...

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Christina Dodd

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Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women

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Jayne Ann Krentz

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Dangerous Waters: An Adventure on Titanic

A stowaway, a stolen book, a murderous villain: an adventure on the most famous shipwreck in history.  The great ocean liner Titanic is preparing to cross the Atlantic. On board is a sinister thi...ef bent on stealing a rare book that may be the key to unlocking infinite treasure, a wealthy academic traveling home to America with his rare book collection, and Patrick Waters, a twelve-year-old Irish boy who is certain that his job as a steward on the unsinkable ship will be the adventure of a lifetime. In Dangerous Waters, disguises, capers, and danger abound as the ship makes its way toward that fateful iceberg where Patrick will have to summon all his wits in order to survive.

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Gregory Mone

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Adventure Series Set (Books 1-8)

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Enid Blyton

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Danger in the Palace

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Debra Doyle

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The Adventurist: My Life in Dangerous Places

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Robert Young Pelton

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Living Dangerously: American Women Who Risked Their Lives for Adventure

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Doreen Rappaport

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