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Author
Publisher
Cantata Learning
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A modern song retells the fable of the tiny mouse that helps a mighty lion, who had once showed him mercy, escape from a trap. Includes a brief introduction to Aesop, sheet music, glossary, discussion questions, and further reading.
82) Keturah
Author
Series
Sugar baron's daughters volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1773 England, Lady Keturah Banning Tomlinson and her sisters find themselves the heiresses of their father's estates and know they have one option: Go to the West Indies to save what is left of their heritage. Although it flies against all the conventions for women of the time, they're determined to make their own way in the world. But once they arrive in the Caribbean, proper gender roles are the least of their concerns. On the infamous island...
83) At the fork
Publisher
United States of Animals, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Filmmaker and omnivore John Papola, together with his vegetarian wife Lisa, offer up a timely and refreshingly unbiased look at how farm animals are raised for our consumption. With unprecedented access to large-scale conventional farms, Papola asks the tough questions behind every hamburger, glass of milk and baby-back rib. What he discovers are not heartless industrialists, but America's farmers - real people who, along with him, are grappling...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Death is a sensitive subject for most people. Whether due to fear or superstition, many individuals avoid the topic of mortality. For teens, the subject is taboo as well. Most young adults believe that death won't affect them, so they'd rather not talk about it. But death is a natural course of life, and everyone-- including teens-- will encounter it at some time in their lives, some sooner than later, and some unexpectedly. In [this book], Kathlyn...
Author
Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her family alongside contemplative reflections to discover the "necessary rituals" that connect us with our belonging, dignity, and liberation. "From the womb, we must repeat with regularity that to love ourselves is to survive. I believe that is what my father wanted for me and knew I would so desperately need: a tool for survival, the truth of my dignity...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In the late 1960s, Cea Sunrise Person's subversive family fled to the Canadian wilderness to grow pot, embrace free love, and live off the land. A riveting memoir of growing up off the grid amid multiple generations of dysfunction, North of Normal chronicles one woman's journey to reclaim her life on her own terms. Determined to abandon civilization for a hand-to-mouth existence in the wild, Cea Sunrise Person's charismatic grandfather Papa Dick uproots...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Kemi Alabi's transcendent debut reimagines the poetic and cultural traditions from which it is born, troubling the waters of some of our country's central and ordained fictions--those mythic politics of respectability, resilience, and redemption. Instead of turning to a salvation that has been forced upon them, Alabi turns to the body and the earth as sites of paradise defined by the pleasure and possibility of Black, queer fugitivity. Through tender...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Night Gallery was debuted on the 1st of December 1970 and ended on the 1st of August 1973. It has three (3) seasons with ninety-nine (99) episodes. The series was set in an old shadowy museum. It was created and hosted by Rod Serling. The series presents adaptations of classic fantasy tales represented by each painting seen in an old museum. Those tales were usually done by Serling himself and other known authors like H.P. Lovecraft. All the gallery...