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Caroline O'Neal's memoir aims to explore how we view education and learning differences. Readers will go on a journey that starts with Caroline's birth and the complications that came with it. Next, she divulges her own personal desire to find somewhere that she belonged and shares her family's search for a school that could accommodate their child's needs. Finally, Caroline tells us the story of how her mother opened Sophia Academy for Caroline and...
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Come one, come all!
Real talk: When's the last time you had an orgasm? If you're in the vagina owner's club, you may well answer: way too damn long! Studies show that only 65 percent of straight women climax during sex (versus 95 percent of men). And regardless of orientation, the unfortunate truth is: For those of us with vaginas, climaxing isn't guaranteed. No more! Are You Coming? invites everyone with a vagina to take their sex life to the next...
4) Sisters
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IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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Although two sisters are different in many ways, they are alike too--most importantly, in their love for each other.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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"From twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called "the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year" (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine), comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley....
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"'When they said all happy families are alike, I don't think this is what they meant...' Evelyn Caldwell's husband Nathan has been having an affair - with Evelyn Caldwell. Or, to be exact, with a genetically cloned replica. After a morning that begins with a confrontation and ends with Nathan's body bleeding out on the kitchen floor, the two Caldwell wives will have to think fast-before sharing everything includes sharing a jail cell. The Echo Wife...
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The jumbies (Tracey Baptiste) volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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After two out-of-season hurricanes nearly destroy her island home, Corinne discovers that the god Huracan is angry and she, aided by friends and enemies alike, races to calm him.
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They're definitely not two of a kind Have you seen this man? Ten-year-old Alex Harper is putting up posters everywhere. He wants to find his dad, but only so the judge can force the "deadbeat" to pay the support he owes. Maybe then his mother can stop working all the time, and she and Alex, his twin sister and little brother can finally take a real vacation together. To everyone's surprise, Alex actually finds his dad or does he? The man calling himself...
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IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! A dinosaur with an armored back chomps on plants. It swings its tail at a hungry meat eater. Was that a Stegosaurus? Or was it an Ankylosaurus? These dinosaurs looked similar, but they were very different. Read this book to become an expert at telling these look-alikes apart!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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"Chloe gets to pick a special outfit for school! Should she wear her karate uniform? Her firefighter's helmet? Her bunny slippers? To decide, she talks with family and friends about clothes. Which clothes show a person's interests? Which clothes show someone belongs to a certain religion or culture? Which clothes tell about a person's job? See what Chloe comes up with for her special outfit!,"--page [4] of cover.
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IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"Flutter, flutter! What did you just see? Was it a butterfly or a moth? Butterflies and moths are similar, but they have some important differences. Find out how their colors, antennae, bodies, and behaviors can all help you tell these two animal look-alikes apart. Filled with stunning photos and playful text, early learners will be delighted as each page turns"--
14) Two
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Award-winning photographer Melissa Ann Pinney's visual invetigation presents the often complex, enigmatic bond between two beings. This collection of ninety images is complemented by an introduction by novelist Ann Patchett. Together, the photographs and writing form a dynamic pairing that will engage lovers of art and literature alike.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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"National Geographic Kids Chapter books pick up where the best-selling National Geographic Readers series leaves off, offering young animal lovers who are ready for short chapters lively, true stories just right to carry in your backpack, share with your friends, and read under the covers at night. Follow along as National Geographic Kids Chapters' presents a trio of true stories about incredible acts of animal heroism. Courageous Canine features...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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"An animal that looks like a turtle munches on some grass. It has scales and a hard shell. But is it a turtle or a tortoise? Turtles and tortoises are similar, but they have some important differences. Find out how their legs, feet, shells, and behaviors can all help you tell these two animal look-alikes apart. Filled with stunning photos and playful text, early learners will be delighted as each page turns"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! A huge dinosaur stomps around on two legs. It hunts with sharp teeth and claws. Its head is large, but its arms are tiny. Was that a Tyrannosaurus? Or was it an Allosaurus? These dinosaurs looked similar, but they were very different. Read this book to become an expert at telling these look-alikes apart!
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Moonglow Cove volume 2
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"It was a story that couldn't possibly be true: identical twins, separated at birth. Anna Drury wouldn't have believed it, but the woman standing before her was physically alike her in every way, and held in her hands a keepsake baby bracelet, the same as Anna had. How could it be? Anna, with her tall, strong husband and two adorable children, grew up loved and secure, and she freely opens her heart to others, so she embraces the idea of her new-found...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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"You see a fin poke out of the water. It's a big gray animal with a friendly face. It looks like a dolphin, but is it a porpoise? Dolphins and porpoises are similar, but they have some important differences. Find out how their fins, mouths, teeth, and behaviors can all help you tell these two animal look-alikes apart. Filled with stunning photos and playful text, early learners will be delighted as each page turns"--
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"Rainer Maria Rilke's fifty-five Sonnets to Orpheus were written over a few days in an astonishing burst of inspiration. Described by Rilke himself as "a spontaneous inner dictation," the sequence is among the most famous works of modernist literature, and Christiane Marks's fresh new translations succeed in evoking Rilke's music-often sacrificed in translation-opening a new window on these poems, for old and new Rilke lovers alike. The result of...