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Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A middle grade graphic memoir based on bestselling author and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat's awkward middle school years and the trip to Europe that changed his life. Dan's always been a good kid. The kind of kid who listens to his teachers, helps his mom with grocery shopping, and stays out of trouble. But being a good kid doesn't stop him from being bullied and feeling like he's invisible, which is why Dan has low expectations when his parents...
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Native young people and elders pray in sweat lodges at the Ocťi Sakw̤in camp, the North Dakota landscape outside blanketed in snow. In Oregon, white men and women in army surplus and western gear, some draped in the American flag, gather in the buildings of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. The world witnessed two standoffs in 2016: the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's protest against an oil pipeline in North Dakota and the armed takeover of Oregon's Malheur...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For years Glennon Doyle Melton built a wall between herself and others, hiding inside a bunker of secrets and shame. But one day everything changed: Glennon woke up to life, committing herself to living out loud and giving language to our universal (yet often secret) experiences. She became a sensation when her personal essays started going viral. Her ... observations have been read by millions, shared among friends, discussed at water coolers, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harmony/Rodale
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The definitive guide to understanding the connection between what you eat and how you feel, offering a 21-day plan to reset your relationship with your body and heal the gut inflammation caused by stress, shame, and trauma-from the New York Times bestselling author of Intuitive Fasting and Ketotarian"--
15906) The Lewis & Clark Expedition
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Explores the Lewis and Clark Expedition and how that event has sculpted societies, the sciences, and politics.
15907) Strength in what remains
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder returns with the extraordinary true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. After surviving a civil war and genocide, he ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he begins to meet the strangers who will change his life, pointing him eventually in the direction...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through a mixture of cartoons, family photos, documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial,...
15909) Zelda: a biography
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zelda traces the inner disintegration of a gifted, despairing woman, torn by the clash between her husband's career and her own talent.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the New York Times bestseller The Immortal Irishman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan illuminates the dawn of the great Irish American story, with all its twists and triumphs, through the life of one heroic man.
A dashing young orator during the Great Hunger of the 1840s, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony for life. But two years...
A dashing young orator during the Great Hunger of the 1840s, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony for life. But two years...
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1889, New York reporter Nellie Bly, inspired by Jules Verne's book Around the World in 80 Days, began an around-the-world journey that she hoped to complete in less time. Her trip was sponsored by her employer, the newspaper The World. Just hours afterher ship set out across the Atlantic, the publisher of The Cosmopolitan magazine put writer Elizabeth Bisland on a westbound train. Bisland was headed around the world in the opposite direction, thinking...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Mississippi. 1966. On a hot June afternoon an African-American man named James Meredith set out to walk through his home state, intending to fight racism and fear with his feet. A seemingly simple plan, but one teeming with risk. Just one day later Meredith was shot and wounded in a roadside ambush. Within twenty-four hours, Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and other civil rights leaders had taken up Meredith's cause, determined to overcome...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. He won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, was an All-American football player at the Carlisle Indian School, in the first class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and played major league baseball for the New York Giants. But despite his colossal skills, Thorpe's life was a struggle against the odds. As a member of the Sac and Fox...
15914) Beatrix Potter, scientist
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone knows Beatrix Potter as the creator of the Peter Rabbit stories. But before that, she was a girl of science. As a child, Beatrix collected nature specimens; as a young adult, she was an amateur mycologist presenting her research on mushrooms andother fungi to England's foremost experts. Like many women of her time, she remained unacknowledged by the scientific community, but her keen eye for observation led her to an acclaimed career as...
15915) If I can't have you: Susan Powell, her mysterious disappearance, and the murder of her children
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Every once in a great while a genuine murder mystery unfolds before the eyes of the American public. The tragic story of Susan Powell and her murdered boys, Charlie and Braden, is the only case that rivals the Jon Benet Ramsey saga in the annals of truecrime. When the pretty, blonde Utah mother went missing in December of 2009 the media was swept up in the story - with lenses and microphones trained on Susan's husband, Josh. He said he had no idea...
Author
Publisher
Harmony/Rodale
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Women's health pioneer and beloved bestselling phenomenon Suzanne Somers aims to provide readers with an arsenal of solutions for thriving, not just surviving in an increasingly toxic world. Suzanne interviews cutting-edge doctors in the fields of environmental medicine and integrative health, providing a clear identification of the core reasons we're so 'tox-sick' as well as a whole-life plan for detoxifying your body, home, and life for optimal...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction...
15918) Trail of the lost: the relentless search to bring home the missing hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **
** AN AMAZON "BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH" FOR AUGUST 2023 (Biographies & Memoirs) **
From an award-winning former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure follows the author’s quest to find missing hikers along the Pacific Crest Trail by pairing up with an eclectic group of unlikely allies.
15919) American mother
Author
Publisher
Etruscan Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In late 2021, Diane Foley sat at a table across from her son's killer, Alexanda Kotey, a member of the ISIS group known as "The Beatles" who plead guilty to the kidnapping, torture, and murder of her son seven years before. Kotey was about to go serve life imprisonment and this was Diane's chance to talk to the man who had been involved with brutally taking her son's last breath. What would she say to his killer? What would he reveal to her? Might...
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