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Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shawn Achor, a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, presents a seven-step guide to achieving true happiness and gratification in the workplace. Here, listeners will discover that happiness is one of the biggest factors in becoming successful and that with Achor's advice, they will easily be able to find that happiness.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
For years, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his colleagues at the Campus have waged an unofficial and highly effective campaign against the terrorists who threaten Western civilization. The most dangerous of these is the Emir. This sadistic killer has masterminded the most vicious attacks on the West and has eluded capture by the world's law enforcement agencies. Now the Campus is on his trail.
6) Big music
Author
Publisher
Caroline
Pub. Date
p2014.
Language
English
Description
Simple Minds are back with their first album of new material since 2009. Their sixteenth album is a staggering collection that reiterates their world-class credentials while featuring an array of old and new collaborators.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
He believed the dog was immortal. So begins Susan Orlean’s sweeping, powerfully moving account of Rin Tin Tin’s journey from abandoned puppy to international movie-star dog who appeared in twenty-seven films throughout the 1920s. Spanning almost one hundred years of history, from the dog’s improbable discovery on a battlefield in 1918 by an American soldier to his tumultuous rise through Hollywood and beyond, Rin Tin Tin is a love story and...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
One of the longtime masters of stand-up comedy, Bill Cosby treats his fans to this funny, satirical and heartwarming live concert from Canada. His material ranges from the trials of marriage and parenthood, to the side-splitting antics of the very young, to a hilarious encounter at a dentist's office. Filled with spontaneity and electricity that only a live performance can provide.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In this brand new stand-up performance, Bill takes aim at the stuff that drives us crazy, political correctness gone haywire, and girlfriends, or, as he calls them, 'relentless psycho robots.' One of the funniest voices in comedy today.
10) Fame
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Passions will be tested and young hearts will be broken. Ultimately, talent, dedication and hard work will triumph. Centers around a group of dancers, singers, musicians and actors at the New York City High School of Performing Arts, and their spirited drive to live out their dreams of stardom. In an incredibly competitive atmosphere, each student must shine amidst the tumult of school work, deep friendships, budding romance and self-discovery.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Charlie Bucket has a golden ticket to tour Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. No ladies in hairnets here! This factory is the ultimate candy land with singing Oompa-Loompas and a chocolate river. But along the way, the other ticket-holders meet bizarre fates. Will Charlie make it to the secret prize waiting at the tour's end?
13) Fantastic voyage
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An elite team of medical and scientific specialists race to save a top government scientist who is suffering from blood clot on the brain. Their mission is to be reduced along with their submarine-like craft to microscope size, enter the bloodstream of the ailing scientist, and journey to the brain to perform an emergency procedure. With only sixty minutes to complete their mission, the scientists find themselves fighting off an attack by white corpuscles,...
14) A brand-new me!
Author
Series
Hank Zipzer volume 17
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
As he is preparing to attend middle school, Hank, who has learning differences and academic difficulties, gets an unexpected opportunity to audition for a performing arts school where his creativity and humor will be appreciated and nurtured.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Experience these masterpieces of storytelling. With revolutionary animation, unforgettable music and characters you love, these dazzling short films have changed the face of animation and entertainment and are sure to delight people of all ages.
Publisher
Decca
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
None
Description
Sensational violinist Nicola Benedetti returns with a riveting recording of Shostakovich's monumental Violin Concerto No. One and the Glazunov Violin Concerto. Together with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and conductor Kirill Karabits, the dark, introspective Shostakovich Violin Concerto is brought to life in a compelling performance packed full of energy, powerful torment, and breath-taking passion.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In this lively memoir, art critic and writer Cooper retraces his youth, up to and including the period of his intellectual awakening during the heyday of conceptual art, and vividly recalls his experiences as a son, brother, student, and closeted young gay man. Alternately funny and touching, the book chronicles Cooper's adolescence in 1960s Los Angeles, including the moment he fell in love with pop art in his middle school library, and his young...
20) Epilogue II
Author
Series
Shaman king volume 21
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
"Lady Jeanne prepares to perform the ritual that will finally revive Ren. But will the rest of the X-LAWS let Ren live once he's revived? Meanwhile, Horohoro, depressed over how weak he is, wanders off...right into a cluster of Hao's thugs, who are using their might to overpower the Ice Men! Horohoro tries to stop them, but will he have what it takes?"--p. [4] of cover.
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