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Oases (plural form of oasis) are created when the water table rises up from the ground. The water might collect in mountain hollows or springs. People who use the oases are mostly nomadic tribes.
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- The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
- Inferno (Dante) - Cantos I-V
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- A Christmas Carol
- The Story of My Life - Helen Keller
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- Amazing DNA
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- Ein Haus voll Musik
- Being a Plant
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- Call It Courage
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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- The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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- Ancient Egypt: Tales of Gods and Pharoahs
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- Epic of Gilgamesh
- The Angel and the Donkey
- Angels Sweep the Desert Floor
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- The Israelites
- Moses in Egypt
- The Ten Commandments
- Eyewitness Books: Bible Lands
- Miriam in the Desert
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- The Technology of Mesopotamia (The Technology of the Ancient World)
- Life in Ancient Mesopotamia (Peoples of the Ancient World)
- Eyewitness Books; Mesopotamia
- He Who Saw Everything: The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Art and Literature in Ancient Mesopotamia
- How'd They Do That? Ancient Mesopotamia
- Atoms and Chemical Reactions
- The Nature of the Atom
- The Structure of Atoms
- Who Came First? New Clues to Prehistoric Americans
- Dreamtime: Aboriginal Stories
- Painters of the Caves
- The Last Neanderthal (excerpts)
- Dragon Bone Hill (excerpts)
- The Stick and Stone Age
- Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story
- The Wisdom of the Bones
- Archaeology (DK Eyewitness)
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- From Lucy to Language
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- Anne of Ingleside
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