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Author
Series
Austenland novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Enjoying a vacation at a theme resort where employees and guests dress like characters from Jane Austen's novels, Charlotte wonders if she has stumbled on a murder scene when her hosts behave suspiciously.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In 1946, as London emerges from the shadow of World War II, author Juliet Ashton is having a terrible time finding inspiration for her next book. Then she receives a letter from Guernsey Island, and learns of a unique book club formed on the spur of the moment as an alibi to protect its members from arrest by the occupying Germans during the war. Captivated, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds there will change her life forever.
Author
Series
Austenland novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
For readers of Waiting for Tom Hanks and Well Met, a "gloriously satisfying" (Glamour) romantic comedy set at a Jane Austen fantasy resort from New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale. Now a major motion picture starring Keri Russell and produced by Stephenie Meyer.
Jane Hayes is a young New Yorker with a real romantic problem: no man she meets can compare to her one true love-Mr. Darcy from...
Jane Hayes is a young New Yorker with a real romantic problem: no man she meets can compare to her one true love-Mr. Darcy from...
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Description
Combines insights of behavioral scientists and business leaders with stories of high-powered influencers from all walks of life. This title helps you learn how to identify high-leverage behaviors that lead to rapid and profound change.
6) Enna burning
Author
Series
Books of Bayern volume 2
Language
English
Description
Enna hopes that her new knowledge of how to wield fire will help protect her good friend Isi--the Princess Anidori--and all of Bayern against their enemies, but the need to burn is uncontrollable and puts Enna and her loved ones in grave danger.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It's a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best to encourage after the war. But as historian Holger Hoock shows in this ... account of America's founding, the Revolution was not only a high-minded battle over principles, but also a profoundly violent civil war--one that shaped...
9) Hua Mulan
Publisher
Ruthless Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Over the years the name Hua Mulan has become synonymous with the Walt Disney animated film Mulan and more recently with the 2020 American action drama film by the same name. But Mulan's roots go a lot deeper than that. Take a journey to ancient China and discover.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
From David Cay Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the bestselling The Making of Donald Trump, comes his New York Times bestseller about how the Trump Administration's policies will affect our jobs, savings, taxes, and safety—completed revised and updated.
New York Times bestselling author and longtime Trump observer David Cay Johnston shines a light on the political termites who...
New York Times bestselling author and longtime Trump observer David Cay Johnston shines a light on the political termites who...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Guy Kawasaki's acclaimed books have established him as the entrepreneur's entrepreneur. Now he turns to the mystery of influence, and offers a new take on this key force that drives any successful business or personal interaction. This book's fundamental message is that in any transaction the goal is not to get your own way, but to bring about a voluntary, enduring, and delightful change of heart in other people, by working with and through them and...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
An analysis of the 20th-century author's significant impact on American culture and politics explores the people and institutions that continue to be influenced by her work, providing coverage of such topics as her famed 1950s "Collective," her permeation of the Tea Party and her inspiration to such figures as Rush Limbaugh and Alan Greenspan.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2012], p2012
Language
English
Description
Professor Peter Kreeft takes us on journey through Western philosophical history to show how Plato's theory of forms has either been built upon or reacted to by philosophers since his time. In addition, Kreeft explores the works of Aristotle, Plotinus, and Augustine, while examining both Christian Platonists and philosophical movements such as Positivism and Nihilism.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018].
Language
English
Description
In these five episodes, Mister Rogers helps children know that there are many different kinds of families. He visits penguin families at Sea World, and goes to a pediatrician's office to show children what to expect at a routine checkup. In Make-Believe there's a puppet family that has adopted a baby, and Mister Rogers talks about his own sister who was adopted.
"Through his daily television visits, generations of kids have grown up with Mister Rogers...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country's most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist outrage. In the previous decade, Jim Crow laws had legalized discrimination in the South, eroding social and economic gains for former slaves. Lynching was on the rise, and Black Americans faced new barriers to voting. Slavery had been abolished, but...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
Harry Houdini. Say his name and a number of things come to mind. Escapes. Illusions. Magic. Chains. Safes. Live burials. Close to a century after his death, nearly every person in America knows his name from a young age, capturing their imaginations with his death-defying stunts and daring acts. He inspired countless people, from all walks of life, to find something magical within themselves. This is a book about a man and his extraordinary life,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In 1971 Jay Parini was an aspiring poet and graduate student of literature at University of St Andrews in Scotland ; he was also in flight from being drafted into service in the Vietnam War. One day his friend and mentor, Alastair Reid, asked Jay if he could play host for a "visiting Latin American writer" while he attended to business in London. He agreed - and that "writer" turned out to be the blind and aged and eccentric master of literary compression...
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