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For as long as she can remember, Lady Adriana Sutton has adored Colton Wyndham, to whom she has been promised by an agreement of courtship and betrothal since childhood. As a young girl, she was wounded by Colton's stubborn refusal to comply with his father's wishes and by his angry departure. He was too proud and too stubborn to accept a future not of his own choosing. Rather than submit, he fled from his ancestral home for a life of adventure and...
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English
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"As the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. From August 1969 to August 1970, the nation witnessed nine thousand protests and eighty-four acts of arson or bombings at schools across the country. It was the year of the My Lai massacre investigation, the Cambodia invasion, Woodstock, and the Moratorium to End the War. The American death toll in Vietnam was approaching fifty thousand, and the ascendant counterculture...
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Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
©2004
Edition
1st ed.
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xi, 289 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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What's it like to have the legal sanction to shoot and kill? This book answers this, and many other questions about the oft-times violent world inhabited by our nation's police officers. Written by a cop-turned university professor who interviewed scores of officers who have shot people in the course of their duties, the book presents firsthand accounts of the role that deadly force plays in American police work. It tells how novice officers are trained...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An extraordinary book that reveals how the themes and symbols of ancient narratives continue to bring meaning to birth, death, love, and war.
The Power of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people—including Star Wars creator George Lucas....
The Power of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people—including Star Wars creator George Lucas....
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2022.
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English
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"Several years before he died in 2008, Paul Newman commissioned his best friend to interview actors and directors he worked with, his friends, his children, his first wife, his psychiatrist, and Joanne Woodward, to create an oral history of his life. After hearing and reading what others said about him, Newman then dictated his own version of his life. Now this long-lost memoir--90% Newman's own narrative, interspersed with wonderful stories and recollections...
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Vampire chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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The spellbinding classic that started it all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author—the inspiration for the hit television series
“A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire.”—Chicago Tribune
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“A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire.”—Chicago Tribune
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2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
Part how-to, part girl-empowerment, and all fun, from the leader of the movement championed by Sheryl Sandberg, Malala Yousafzai, and John Legend.
Since 2012, the organization Girls Who Code has taught computing skills to and inspired over 40,000 girls across America. Now its founder, and author Brave Not Perfect, Reshma Saujani, wants to inspire you to be a girl who codes!...
Part how-to, part girl-empowerment, and all fun, from the leader of the movement championed by Sheryl Sandberg, Malala Yousafzai, and John Legend.
Since 2012, the organization Girls Who Code has taught computing skills to and inspired over 40,000 girls across America. Now its founder, and author Brave Not Perfect, Reshma Saujani, wants to inspire you to be a girl who codes!...
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2019.
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English
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"The audiobook version includes recorded conversations between the two from the 1990s to the present, delivering a compelling informal profile. As a permanent record of Ginsburg's voice and fighting spirit, it's an inspiring listen." — Paste
This program includes recorded conversations between Jeffrey Rosen and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
In this audiobook, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers an intimate look at her life and career,
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Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
English ed.
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215 p. : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
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English
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A reference guide to the "Death Note" manga series that provides information on the series' characters, storylines, weapons, and production, as well as interviews with the series' creators and bonus materials.
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Este volumen reúne, por primera vez, más de setenta entrevistas a cincuenta y siete figuras del pensamiento, las artes y las letras españoles, realizadas por un elenco de dieciocho entrevistadores. Hasta ahora inéditas en España, fueron publicadas en la prensa argentina entre 1907 y 1958. Leídas en conjunto, forman una suerte de mural de la cultura española de la primera mitad del siglo XX.
Filósofos y novelistas, bailaoras y pintores,...
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English
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What makes Dave Barry funny? Stephen King scary? Tami Hoag heartbreaking?
All readily admit that where they live greatly influences what they write.
Indeed, for both writers and readers, geography may well be destiny when it comes to fiction. Novelists often borrow from their surroundings, consciously or subconsciously, to create their imaginative worlds, just as we readers are drawn to those works that transport us to more exciting and inspiring...
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Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Fitness, money, and wisdom -- here are the tools. Over the last two years, Tim Ferriss has collected the routines and tools of world-class performers around the globe while interviewing them for his self-titled podcast. Now the distilled notebook of tipsand tricks that helped him double his income, flexibility, happiness, and more is available as Tools of Titans.
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Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The show takes audiences inside the hearts and minds of the Sesame Street creators, artists, and educators who established one of the most influential and enduring children's programs in television history. With exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and over 20 original interviews, it introduces audiences to the people who entertained and educated children like never before.
19) Obama's wars
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Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Shows Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret war in Pakistan, and the worldwide fight against terrorism.
20) Knockout
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Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
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p. cm.
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English
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