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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
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A pet rescue volunteer and literacy outreach coordinator describes her relationship with a three-pound blind cat whose daredevil character and affectionate personality saw the author through six moves, a burglary, and the healing of her broken heart.
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Gary Soto writes that when he was five "what I knew best was at ground level." In this lively collection of short essays, Soto takes his reader to a ground-level perspective, resreating in vivid detail the sights, sounds, smells, and textures he knew growing up in his Fresno, California, neighborhood. The "things" of his boyhood tie it all together: his Buddha "splotched with gold," the taps of his shoes and the "engines of sparks that lived beneath...
4) Rick Riordan
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Publisher
Rosen Pub
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life of author Rick Riordan, creator of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.
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English
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For over thirty years, generations of readers have thrilled to James Herriot's marvelous tales, deep love of life, and extraordinary storytelling abilities. In All Creatures Great and Small, we meet the young Herriot as he takes up his calling and discovers that the realities of being a vet in rural Yorkshire are very different than the sterile setting of veterinary school. Herriot recounts the wondrous variety and never-ending challenges of veterinary...
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"At the height of the Great Depression, Sam Babb, the charismatic basketball coach of tiny Oklahoma Presbyterian College, began dreaming. Like so many others, he wanted a reason to have hope. Traveling from farm to farm, he recruited talented, hardworking young women and offered them a chance at a better life: a free college education if they would come play for his basketball team, the Cardinals. Despite their fears of leaving home and the sacrifices...
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Godwin Books / Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"The true story of the relationship between brothers Theo and Vincent van Gogh"--
The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh shaped both brothers' lives. They shared everything, swapping stories of lovers and friends, successes and disappointments, dreams and ambitions. Heiligman draws on the letters Vincent wrote to Theo during his lifetime to weave a tale of two lives intertwined as Theo supported Vincent's struggles to...
11) You have a brain
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Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Throughout his life, renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson has needed to overcome many obstacles: his father leaving the family, being considered stupid by his classmates in grade school, growing up in inner-city Detroit, and having a violent temper. But Dr. Carson didn't let his circumstances control him and instead discovered eight principles that helped shape his future ... Dr. Carson unpacks the eight important parts of Thinking Big: Talent,...
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Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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After exploring the world of Jane Austen, Reef now turns her attention to the tragically short but utterly fascinating lives of the Bront sistersNCharlotte (author of "Jane Eyre"), Emily ("Wuthering Heights"), and Anne ("Agnes Grey"). Illustrations.
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Picture a ballerina in a tutu and toe shoes. What does she look like?'As the only African-American soloist dancing with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre, Misty Copeland has made history. But when she first placed her hands on the barre at an after-school community center, no one expected the undersized, anxious thirteen-year-old to become a groundbreaking ballerina. When she discovered ballet, Misty was living in a shabby motel room, struggling...
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Keeping It Real and Staying True to Your Values, Sadie Robertson, Star of A&R's Duck Dynasty®, speaks out about faith, family, and friends, as she talks to teens about living life on God's terms, through her own original personality. In this honest and fun book, Sadie talks about all the key topics that affect the lives of teens: friends, social media, peer pressure, self-confidence, stress, dreams for the future, sibling relationships, and the courage...
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When war erupts between the States in 1861, President Lincoln makes an impassioned plea for volunteers. Determined not to remain on the sidelines, young Emma Edmonds poses as a man and enlists in the Union Army, becoming a cunning master of disguise, risking discovery and death behind Confederate lines. Illustrations. In 1861, when war erupted between the States, President Lincoln made an impassioned plea for volunteers. Determined not to remain...
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English
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Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. Thousands of fans flocked to multi-day events, and cities vied with one another to host them. The pilots themselves were hailed as dashing heroes who cheerfully stared death in the face. Well, the men were hailed. Female pilots were more often ridiculed than praised for what the press portrayed as silly efforts to horn in on a manly, and deadly, pursuit. Keith...
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English
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What does the outspoken and unfiltered Phil Robertson think? Duck Dynasty's controversial patriarch will let you know as he shares his Philosophy on life, which can be summed up in five short words: love God, love your neighbor. Phil pulls no punches and leaves little for interpretation as he candidly reveals his views on faith, family, forgiveness, social media, and of course the hot-button topics of gun control, government, and everything in between....
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.
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