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Noting that concentration camps were not where most of the victims of Nazism and Stalinism died, Snyder (history, Yale U.) investigates the murder of 14 million people by Nazi and Soviet regimes at killing sites in the "bloodlands," the geographic region between Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union, encompassing the Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, the Baltics, and western Russia between 1933 and 1945. These killings were part of political mass murder...
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"Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who's always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male. But Charlie's been lucky. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a secondhand store with...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2010
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IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In 1930s Liverpool, England, Bronwen and Dylan live with their widowed mother, who works long hours doing other people's washing, and even though she sometimes must leave the children alone in the house, she cautions them not to speak to the O'Rileys next door, who go to a different church.
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Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2007
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IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Josie, who lives with her mother and grandmother and has cerebral palsy, befriends a boy who moves into one of the rich houses behind her old farmhouse.
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St. Martin's Griffi
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[2017]
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English
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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....
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Discovery Channel
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Ties together fascinating stories about the world's iconic regions like the Great Rift Valley, Hawaii, and The Mediterranean region into one grand narratives. Each of these areas is revealed through a set of enthralling stories about its people and its geology. Individual chapters are joined together by a striking CGI-enhanced god's eye view, linking them in both space and time. Woven together, the stories become an inspiring single narrative from...
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Universal
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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Odessa is an oil town in the western part of Texas that is home to the Permian High School Panthers, the football team with the best winning record. The city's economy is in a tailspin, but football is the one thing that brings all the people of Odessa together, and on Friday nights, as many as 20,000 people fill Permian's football stadium to watch Coach Gary Gaines lead the team to victory. And in Odessa, a football victory is prized above all else....
9) Hiroshima
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IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 9
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Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast.
Hiroshima is the story of six human beings who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. John Hersey tells what these six -- a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest -- were doing at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever...
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Viking
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2018.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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A story about the fight for equal rights in America's favorite arena: the baseball field! Every boy in the neighborhood knows Katy Gordon is their best pitcher, even though she's a girl. But when she tries out for Little League, it's a whole different story. Girls are not eligible, period. It is a boy's game and always has been. It's not fair, and Katy's going to fight back. Inspired by what she's learning about civil rights in school, she sets out...
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Harvard Business Review Press
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[2015]
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English
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"In the years since publication of First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, millions have had the simple but powerful realization that to get the most out of people you must build on their strengths. And yet…as Marcus Buckingham astutely points out, even though the strengths-based approach is now conventional wisdom, the tools and systems inside organizations-performance appraisals, training programs, and succession planning...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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[2006]
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English
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Jack Stiles is an American spy in the East Indies. Partnered with Emilia, Jack uses the guise of the Daring Dragoon to foil Napoleon's plots to rule that region of the world. Features all 22 episodes.
American spy/adventurer Jack Stiles is sent by Thomas Jefferson to the tiny South Pacific island of Polau Polau to work with British agent and inventor Emilia Rothschild to stop the advances of the French Emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte in his bid for world...
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Princeton University Press
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[2001]
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English
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One summer day in 1941, half of the Polish town of Jedwabne murdered the other half, 1,600 men, women, and children, all but seven of the town's Jews. Neighbors tells their story. Jan Gross pieces together eyewitness accounts and other evidence into a reconstruction of the horrific July day remembered well by locals but forgotten by history. His investigation reads like a detective story, and its unfolding yields wider truths about Jewish-Polish relations,...
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Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Showing how a single community's terrible tragedy instead became the catalyst for radical change, this first book to examine the Waverly Train Disaster of 1978, penned by a medical writer and Waverly native, examines how this disaster laid the groundworkfor the future of emergency management and disaster relief.
The first book to examine the rarely-acknowledged Waverly Train Disaster of 1978 – the catastrophic accident that changed America forever...
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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Television series about a mother and a daughter living in Stars Hollow, Connecticut. After 20-plus years of single motherhood, after a series of Mr. Not-Quite-Rights, after buying that perfect wedding dress and watching it hang in the closet, Lorelai finally gets married. This season also includes Lane's baby shower and Rory's graduation.
After twenty-plus years of single motherhood, after a series of Mr. Not-Quite-Rights, after buying that perfect...
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University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"We had finally found the magic land at the end of the road and we never dreamed the extent of the magic." Mexico, an escape route, inspiration, and ecstatic terminus of the celebrated novel On the Road, was crucial to Jack Kerouac's creative development. In this dramatic and highly compelling account, Jorge García-Robles, leading authority on the Beats in Mexico, re-creates both the actual events and the literary imaginings of Kerouac in what became...
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©2004
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English
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A compendium of all the short fiction of Truman Capote includes such pieces as "Children on Their Birthdays" and "A Christmas Memory," as well as such lesser-known tales as "Master Misery" and "Jug of Silver."
Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood; or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant...
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Omnigraphics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Provides basic consumer health information about Alzheimer disease and other dementias, with information on recognizing, diagnosing, and treating symptoms of AD and Dementias. Tips on living with AD and Dementias and advice for caregivers is also provided. Includes index, glossary of related terms and directory of resources"--
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Restless Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A gorgeously produced, bilingual edition of Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer's canonical story―one of the most influential of the 20th century―about a hapless yet charmingly resilient baker named Gimpl, who resists taking revenge on the town that makes him the butt of every joke. Singer's original Yiddish appears alongside his own partial translation, now completed and edited by writer and scholar David Stromberg, and the 1953 translation...
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Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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“Literary Legend” (New York) Gay Talese retraces his pioneering career, marked by his fascination with the world's hidden characters. In the concluding act of this "incomparable" (Air Mail) capstone book, Talese introduces readers to one final unforgettable story: the strange and riveting all new tale of Dr. Nicholas Bartha, who blew up his Manhattan brownstone—and himself—rather than relinquish his claim to the American dream. “New York...
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