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"A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves. An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant...
2) The affair
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English
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"Heads always turned when Rose McCarthy walked into a room. Nearly six foot tall, she was ramrod straight, and impeccably put together with faultless style, long graceful legs, her snow-white hair cut in a chin-length rounded cap. Her piercing blue eyes missed nothing. She could terrify anyone with a few, well chosen, soft-spoken, eloquent words, or comfort and delight a young employee with generous praise. For twenty-five years, she had been the...
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English
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Bestselling author Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls 'wildly undisciplined.' She casts an insightful and critical eye over her childhood, teens, and twenties, with the bracing candor, vulnerability, and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation.
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Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
205 p. : col. ill. ; 16 cm.
Language
English
Description
Through firsthand research and personal relationships, Suzanne Woods Fisher has collected more than 400 proverbs that uncover the rich heritage, folklore, faith, values, history, and essence of the Plain People. These proverbs serve as teaching tools and maxims for practical living--but they're not just for the Amish. They're for anyone who seeks God's wisdom and truth for everyday circumstances. Ranging from the simple to the profound, from the serious...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn't true? Talking to Strangers is a classic Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. In it, Malcolm...
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English
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"'I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen,' Anne Lamott admits at the beginning of Almost Everything. Despair and uncertainty surround us: in the news, in our families, and in ourselves. But even when life is at its bleakest--when we are, as she puts it, 'doomed, stunned, exhausted, and over-caffeinated'--the seeds of rejuvenation are at hand. 'All truth is paradox,'...
8) Red
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Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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Laughing along with other kids at a blushing classmate's bright red cheeks, a little girl is torn between sympathy and fear when a mean-spirited bully takes the teasing too far.
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English
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A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay. Bad Feminist is a sharp, funny, and spot-on look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are, and an inspiring call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Zack Dylan has a dream. He wants to sing on the biggest stages, for the biggest crowds, and he'll do whatever it takes to make it come true. But Zack also made a promise to his college sweetheart when he left Kentucky to compete on the popular TV show Fifteen Minutes: If he made it, nothing would change him or his faith in God. Overnight, Zack becomes the nation's most popular contestant, a country singer comparable to a young Tim McGraw. As his star...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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To the world, George and Barbara Bush were America's powerful president and influential first lady. To Jenna Bush Hager, they were her beloved Gampy and Ganny, who taught her about respect, humility, kindness, and living a life of passion and meaning - timeless lessons that continue to guide her. In Midland, Texas, Jenna's maternal grandparents, Harold and Jenna Welch - Pa and Grammee - a home builder and homemaker, lived a quieter life outside the...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Touchstone paperback edition.
Physical Desc
x, 369 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Collects autobiographical, illustrated essays and cartoons from the author's popular blog and related new material that humorously and candidly deals with her own idiosyncrasies and battles with depression.
14) Pollyanna
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
Description
When orphaned eleven-year-old Pollyanna comes to live with austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, her philosophy of gladness brings happiness to her aunt and other unhappy members of the community.
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English
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"Miranda Meadowe decides a lonely widowhood is not for her and invites five of her oldest friends to come and join her to live and stave off old age. To begin with, the omens are good. They laugh, dance, drink and behave badly. But as old attractions resurface alongside new tensions, they discover that the clock can't be put back"--From the publisher's web site.
16) Socialsklz:-) for success: how to give children the skills they need to thrive in the modern world
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
An etiquette guide for the 21st century helps parents teach social skills in the Digital Age, in a book that not only covers email, social networking, cyberbullying and smartphones, but also breathes life into the basics: how to speak, shake hands, make conversation and behave in all social settings.
Author
Publisher
Crossway Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Punchinello learns that it can be difficult, foolish, and even dangerous to try to keep up with the latest fads and that Eli, his maker, gave each Wemmick different characteristics on purpose.
19) The prodigy
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old golf prodigy Frank seems ready to blaze his way into Masters Tournament history, but his college plans are jeopardized by his father's sponsorship plans that threatens to ruin Frank's amateur status.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First Howard Books hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Shares the author's colorful and heartfelt views on life based on the love of God and love of one's neighbor, as well as how adopting those beliefs radically changed his way of life.