Dylan Baker
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
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"We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps; a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars or test our spouses for genetic maladies. We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes."
2) Steve Jobs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 40
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English
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Based on more than 40 interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years - - as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors and colleagues - - the author offers a fascinating look at the co-founder and leading creative force behind the Apple computer company.
Featuring a new epilogue read by the author. From the author of the best-selling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, this is the...
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The author presents a collection of animal-themed stories. In The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck, a group of complete strangers bitterly discuss the order of things within the animal kingdom. In Hello Kitty, a miserable alcoholic cat attends AA. In The Squirrel and the Chipmunk, two lovers are torn apart by their quarrelling families.