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From the New York Times best selling author of The Impossible First, a compelling blend of riveting adventure stories and hard-won wisdom that reveals how listeners can harness their inner strength, overcome their limiting beliefs, and embark on a transformative one-day journey that will unlock their best life.

2) The house of Kennedy

Author

Patterson, James

Language

English

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Now with an all-new bonus chapter—in the bestselling The House of Kennedy, "James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history . . . re-telling the political clan's rise and fall and rise again (and fall again) with novelistic style" (People).

The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, living by the dual family mottos: "To whom much is given,...

3) A people's history of the United States

Author

Zinn, Howard

Language

English

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THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"A wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." –Howard Fast

Historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative taught in

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4) Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Author

Rosenthal, Amy Krouse

Pub. Date

2016

Language

English

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Description

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

The bestselling author of Encyclopedia an Ordinary Life returns with a literary experience that is unprecedented, unforgettable, and explosively human.

Ten years after her beloved, groundbreaking Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, #1 New York Times bestselling author Amy Krouse Rosenthal delivers a book full of her distinct blend of nonlinear narrative, wistful reflections, and...

5) Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance

Author

Obama, Barack

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 26

Language

English

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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father, a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man, has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey, first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of...

6) The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

Author

Strobel, Lee

Publisher

Zondervan

Pub. Date

2015

Edition

Unabridged

Language

English

Description

Join investigative journalist and bestselling author Lee Strobel as he embarks on his life-changing quest to solve the riddle of grace. Along the way, you'll find the undeniable evidence of grace in the true stories of racists, addicts, and even murderers who have found new hope and purpose—all through the redemptive power of God's amazing grace.

In The Case for Grace, Lee offers an accessible explanation of the theology

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7) Fierce, free, and full of fire: the guide to being glorious you

Author

Hatmaker, Jen

Language

English

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This audiobook includes bonus tracks with interviews from Shauna Niequist (Present Over Perfect), Hillary McBride (Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image), Pete Enns (How the Bible Actually Works), and more from Jen's podcast, For the Love!

No more hiding or people-pleasing up in here, sisters. No more being sidelined in your own life. It is time for us to be brave, to claim our gifts and quirks and emotions. You are set free and set

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8) Mixed plate: chronicles of an all-American combo

Author

Koy, Jo

Language

English

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A fearlessly honest memoir by the award-winning Filipino-American comedian uncovers the true family experiences behind his popular routines, discussing his mixed heritage, struggles with family mental illness, and eventual embrace of his identity.

9) Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers

Author

Roach, Mary

Series

Mary Roach's Curiosities

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 16

Language

English

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Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. In this fascinating account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries and tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them.

10) The greatest generation

Author

Brokaw, Tom

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 19

Language

English

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Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Sound Disc

In this book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation, America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America. This generation was united not only by a common purpose, but also by common values - duty, honor, economy, courage, service, love of family and country, and, above all, responsibility...

11) Friday night lights: a town, a team, and a dream

Author

Bissinger, H. G

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 19

Language

English

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Follows the 1988 season of the Permian Panthers, a high school football team in Odessa, Texas, exploring the lives of the players and the impact of the championship team on the small town.

12) The social animal: the hidden sources of love, character, and achievement

Author

Brooks, David

Language

English

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Description

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Looks at current research from a variety of disciplines by following the lives and unconscious motivations of a hypothetical American couple as they grow, meet, and change throughout their lives.

13) The disappearing spoon: and other true tales of madness, love, and the history of the world from the periodic table of the elements

Author

Kean, Sam

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 19

Language

English

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The periodic table of the elements is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of passion, adventure, obsession, and betrayal. These tales follow carbon, neon, silicon, gold, and all the elements in the table as they play out their parts in human history. The usual suspects are here, like Marie Curie (and her radioactive journey to the discovery of polonium and radium) and William Shockley (who is credited, not exactly justly,...

14) Moneyball: the art of winning an unfair game

Author

Lewis, Michael

Language

English

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Description

eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Sound Disc

Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the giant offices of major league teams and the dugouts. But the real jackpot is a cache of numbers collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers, and physics professors.
In...

15) How to change your mind: what the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence

Author

Pollan, Michael

Language

English

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"A brilliant and brave investigation by Michael Pollan, author of five New York Times best sellers, into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions...

16) So here's the thing: notes on growing up, getting older, and trusting your gut

Author

Mastromonaco, Alyssa

Pub. Date

2019

Language

English

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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? comes a fun, frank book of reflections, essays, and interviews on topics important to young women, ranging from politics and career to motherhood, sisterhood, and making and sustaining relationships of all kinds in the age of social media. Alyssa Mastromonaco is back with a bold, no-nonsense, and no-holds-barred twenty-first-century girl's guide to life, tackling the...

17) It's not me, it's you: break the blame cycle. Relationship better

Author

Kim, John

Language

English

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Description

"Two therapists dissect their own relationship in a refreshing and helpful book teaching us not only how to be better partners, but also how to better accept and heal ourselves to receive and give love"--

18) You could make this place beautiful: a memoir

Author

Smith, Maggie

Pub. Date

2023

Language

English

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Description

"Life, like a poem, is a series of choices." In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. The book begins with one woman's personal, particular heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist...

19) Harry Potter: A History of Magic: The eBook of the Exhibition

Author

British Library, British

Series

Pottermore Presents

Publisher

Pottermore Publishing

Pub. Date

2018

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

Description

As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the US, readers everywhere are invited to explore the extraordinary subjects of the Hogwarts curriculum - Potions & Alchemy, Divination, Care of Magical Creatures, and more - and examine incredible historical artifacts, items from J.K. Rowling's personal archive, and stunning original artwork from Harry Potter series artists Mary GrandPré, Jim Kay, and Brian

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20) All-girl crafts

Author

Ross, Kathy

Series

Girl crafts

Publisher

Millbrook Press

Pub. Date

c2006

Language

English

Description