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Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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A collection of eleven stories follows characters at the crossroads of geography and faith who are all trying to find someone to believe in as they struggle with love, violence, faith, and the challenges of balancing traditions with modern times.
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Over eight bloody months in the mid-1970s, a serial rapist and murderer terrorized Columbus, Georgia, killing seven affluent, elderly white women by strangling them in their beds. In 1986, eight years after the last murder, an African American, Carlton Gary, was convicted for these crimes and sentenced to death. Though to this day many in the city doubt his guilt, he remains on death row. Award-winning reporter David Rose has followed this case for...
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"Iceland is the best place on earth to be a woman-but why? For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. What is it about Iceland that makes many women's experience there so positive? Why has their society made such meaningful progress in this ongoing battle, from electing the world's first female president to...
6) Grand Canyon
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English
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Grand Canyon National Park An inspiring landscape, The Grand Canyon in Arizona overwhelms our senses through its enormity! Unique combinations of geologic color and erosional forms decorate a canyon that is 277 river miles long, up to 18 miles wide, and a mile deep. California Condors Reintroduction Grand Canyon National Park has become an important refuge for California condors and one of the best places on Earth to see them in the wild. One of the...
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English
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21st-Century Performance appraisa.l
Kyra
Position Title Muse of Good Fortune
Evaluated by
Mighty Zeus, President, CEO, Top God Performance Assessment Kyra's performance has, quite frankly, been a disappointment over these past one hundred years. Our Muse of Good Fortune, despite her exceptional charm and unearthly beauty, has been slacking off, getting by on her looks, wiles, and considerable sex appeal not to mention her privileged position as...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"When Winnie is crowned Summer Queen in the small town of Misty Haven, she has to balance her new responsibilities with her friendships, a new romance, and her job at her granny's diner..." --
Winnie is all set to attend college in the fall, but first she's spending her summer days working at her granny's diner and spending her midnights with Dallas, the boy she loves to hate and hates that she likes. In a small town like Misty Haven, secrets are...
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In British Columbia, like most of the world, the wealth of the richest one percent has grown exponentially in recent decades, while the majority have found their incomes stagnant or even declining. The top 10 percent in BC now hold 56.2 percent of the wealth, a greater share than anywhere else in Canada. Our richest have wealth counted in the billions while the poorest sleep in downtown doorways, or have to choose between medicine and food. Those...
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Has anyone ever told you that you have great potential?
Michael Alexander had heard that for most of his life. At first, like most people, he took it as a compliment. But as the years went by, and he kept getting the same "compliment," something became very clear: If he still had so much potential - that meant he hadn't reached it.
In his first book, Improve Your Position, Michael Alexander - Color Commentator on UFC's Fight Pass, and...
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Has anyone ever told you that you have great potential?
Michael Alexander had heard that for most of his life. At first, like most people, he took it as a compliment. But as the years went by, and he kept getting the same "compliment," something became very clear: If he still had so much potential – that meant he hadn't reached it.
In his first book, Improve Your Position, Michael Alexander – Color Commentator on UFC's Fight Pass, and a very...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Translated into over 50 languages, The Purpose Driven Life is far more than just a book; it is a guide to a spiritual journey that has transformed millions of lives. Once you take this journey, you'll never be the same again. This new, expanded edition of The Purpose Driven Life, created for a new generation of reader, includes: Video introductions by Rick Warren to chapters 1-42 and an audio Bible study at the end of each chapter, with over 30 additional...
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"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at...
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Gold seer trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Lee Westfall has a strong, loving family. She has a home she loves and a loyal steed. She has a best friend -- who might want to be something more. She also has a secret. Lee can sense gold in the world around her. Veins deep in the earth. Small nuggets in a stream. Even gold dust caught underneath a fingernail. She has kept her family safe and able to buy provisions, even through the harshest winters. But what would someone do to control a girl with...
18) The royal trials
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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While speaking at the opening of the Royal Trials, a competition of the best exo pilots in the Sol System, Yared is attacked and led into the depths of Old Earth--and the jaws of a cruel betrayal.
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"The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist. What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly,...
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Best American poetry volume 36
Publisher
Collier/Simon & Schuster/Scribner Poetry
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
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Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a choice of the year's most memorable poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work.