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Artemis Fowl series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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An army of fairy space probes have returned to Earth reprogrammed to destroy Atlantis and only Artemis Fowl can stop them. As he races to save the subaquatic city, he must also combat an onslaught of obsessive compulsive and delusional disorders, both byproducts of prodigious intellect and immense stress.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great DepressionOver seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbecks tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of Americas most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. They hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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In an attempt to understand the lives of Americans earning near-minimum wages, Ehrenreich works as a waitress in Florida, a cleaning woman in Maine, and a sales clerk in Minnesota.
"The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich...
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Publisher
Vida Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Offers information and advice to mental health practitioners, law enforcement professionals, family members, and others on how to help people with mental illness accept treatment through a program of listening, empathizing, agreeing, and partnering, or LEAP.
"'This book fills a tremendous void...' wrote E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., about the first edition of I AM NOT SICK, I Don't Need Help! Twenty years later, it still does. Dr. Amador's research on...
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Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A memoir about a daughter trying to understand her father's genius, mental illness, violence, and past. Touches on Japanese culture, immigration, racism, WWII, and the Asian American experience"--
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Lars is a sweet but shy guy who has a hard time talking with his family, coworkers, and neighbors. Although his family fears the worst when Lars brings home a life-sized companion doll who he thinks is a real girlfriend, named Bianca, a doctor encourages them to play along with him so that he can work through his delusions. The whole community rallies to his support, and Lars begins to deal with all of his emotions. He even begins to develop feelings...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Griffi
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Finally, a housekeeping and organizational system developed for those of us who'd describe our current living situation as a “f*cking mess” that we “really need to get around to fixing one day.” Unf*ck Your Habitat is for anyone who has been left behind by traditional aspirational systems. The ones that ignore single people with full-time jobs; people without kids but living with roommates; and people with mental illnesses or physical limitations....
8) Moby Dick
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Melville's classic story of whaling, romance of unusual adventure and eccentric characters, and a drama of heroic conflict. In New Bedford, Connecticut in the 1800s, a group of seamen board the whaling ship Pequod, captained by Ahab. They know they're out to harpoon whales; what they don't realize is that Ahab once lost a leg to the magnificent white whale Moby Dick, and that he'll risk anything, including himself and every member of his crew, to...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"On April 18th, 1941, twenty-two days after Virginia Woolf went for a walk near her weekend house and never returned, her body was reclaimed from the River Ouse. For more than half a century, Woolf's suicide has been attributed to alleged depression; bipolar disorder; her impaired mental state after two of her London apartments had been bombed during the Second World War's brutal Blitz. With Adeline--a stunning and provocative reimagining of the events...
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Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of "The Sweet Potato Queens' Guide to Life," as well as inspirational guides like "The Power of Now," this work provides women over 40 with the tools they need to survive, thrive, and be happy in the second half of life.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"By the early 1970s, President John F. Kennedy has survived several assassination attempts and--martyred, heroic--is now in his third term. Twenty-two-year-old Eugene Allen returns home from his tour of duty in Vietnam and begins to write a war novel--a book echoing Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five--about veterans who have their battlefield experiences "enfolded," wiped from their memories through drugs and therapy. In Eugene's fictive universe, veterans...
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Publisher
Citadel Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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A powerful, profoundly moving Holocaust memoir from a rarely told perspective, this is the story of a family coming to terms with its long-hidden wartime secrets— and a son discovering the Faustian bargain his Jewish father made with the Nazis in order to survive. Growing up, Tony Bernard knew that his father, Henry, had been in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. He was familiar with the tattoo bearing his Auschwitz number-B1224-and...
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Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"If you want to live an extraordinary life, one in which your heart, mind, and spirit are in sync, you have to make space for your soul. You have to leave, in order to come back to yourself. It is time to go on retreat. Written as if by a wise and cherished friend, You Should Leave Now is a gentle, practical guide to drawing rich benefits— mental, emotional, and spiritual— from a personal retreat. Life coach, meditation teacher, and founder of...
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
An anthology of the best motorcycle literature from top authors including Hunter S. Thompson, Thomas McGuane, Robert Pirsig, Roald Dahl, Alberto Granado, and T. E. Lawrence Sons of Thunder is a high-octane anthology that brings together the best in motorcycle writing. This unique collection includes seminal pieces from Hunter S. Thompson and Robert Pirsig. Melissa Holbrook Pierson and Thomas McGuane offer probing reflections on the relationship...
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Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Jane Alison Sherwin's account provides insight into the challenges of bringing up a child with pathological demand avoidance syndrome (PDA). She describes her daughter's behaviour and the impact it has had on her family, reveals the strategies that have worked, and provides essential advice and information on obtaining a diagnosis and raising awareness of PDA.
16) Laura
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Language
English
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Detective Mark McPherson investigates the killing of Laura, found dead on her apartment floor before the movie starts. McPherson builds a mental picture of the dead girl from the suspects whom he interviews. He is helped by the striking painting of the late lamented Laura hanging on her apartment wall. But who would have wanted to kill a girl with whom every man she met seemed to fall in love? To make matters worse, McPherson finds himself falling...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A memoir of news reporter Matt Gutman's experience with panic attacks and his quest to seek out treatment"--
"By ABC News’s chief national correspondent, an unflinching look at panic attacks by a reporter whose career was nearly derailed by them, offering readers a guide to making a truce with their warring minds "Brave, reassuring, and practical...A balm for anyone who has ever suffered panic attacks and who longs to be released from their grip."...
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2002, 1998.
Language
English
Description
"... Dr. Hallowell discusses all types of worry, explores their underlying causes, and considers the best strategies for coping. Case histories and anecdotes illuminate such issues as worry in relationships; the correlation between worry and conditions like , depression, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder; worry at work; and the worried child. In an effective section titled "Remedies That Work," Dr. Hallowell...
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