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Author
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Learning to say "no" to cigarettes, drugs, and other dangers is one of the most important tools a child can have. In this new book by Slim Goodbody, children are taught to understand when and why they need to say "no", and how to refuse and still keep their friends.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In this revised, updated, and expanded edition of his New York Times bestseller, Nobel Prize–winning economist Robert Shiller, who warned of both the tech and housing bubbles, now cautions that signs of irrational exuberance among investors have only increased since the 2008–9 financial crisis. With high stock and bond prices in the United States, and rising housing prices in many countries, the post-subprime boom may well turn out to...
65) Jumper
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Blair Scott is in her second season as a wildland firefighter when the Forest Service puts out a call for an additional class of smokejumpers. She and her best friend Jason both apply, though neither expects to get in since they’re only nineteen. But it’s been a devastating fire season, and they are both accepted. But going to training camp is only the first step—everyone expects the teenage rookies will wash out in the first week. Blair has...
Author
Publisher
Clear River Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Druker discusses how the massive enterprise to restructure the genetic core of the world's food supply came into being, how it advanced by consistently violating the protocols of science, and how for more than three decades, hundreds of eminent biologists and esteemed institutions have systematically contorted the truth in order to conceal the unique risks of its products--and get them onto our dinner plates.
Author
Publisher
Apollo Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A dive into the world of extreme behavior uncovers what drives those who push the limits of endurance. What do extreme eaters, ultramarathon runners, and BDSM practitioners have in common? What drives some people to push their bodies and minds to the brink, putting everything on the line to test the bounds of their capacity? When Jenny Valentish worked through her own addictions, she became fascinated by extremes in their myriad and unexpected manifestations....
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In this book, a political powerhouse and mother of two thriving entrepreneurs interviews the moms of over fifty of today's most successful innovators and based on her findings provides ten rules for raising confident, fearless, self-made individuals whose ideas and drive will change the world,"--NoveList.
69) Bubbles
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While trying to cheer up her depressed mother, twelve-year-old Sophie gets roped into doing a triathlon, as part of a school project on risk-taking, and discovers she can see people's thoughts in bubbles above their heads.
70) Indian Point
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant looms just 35 miles from Times Square. With over 50 million people living in close proximity to the aging facility, its continued operation has the support of the plant's operators and the NRC--Nuclear Regulatory Commission--yet has stoked a great deal of controversy in the surrounding community, including a vocal anti-nuclear contingent concerned that what happened at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant could happen...
71) The hunter
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Documents the 2014 poisoning of the residents of Flint, Michigan, by contaminated water, and the ensuing 18-month activism case that only got the state to admit its complicity after 12 people died and many others suffered permanent injuries.
Author
Publisher
Prospecta Press, an imprint of Easton Studio Press
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
Closer to the North Pole than to the Arctic Circle, on an island in a remote Norwegian archipelago, lies a vast global seed bank buried within a frozen mountain. At the end of a 130-meter long tunnel chiseled out of solid stone is a room filled with humanity's precious treasure, the largest and most diverse seed collection ever assembled: more than a half billion seeds containing the world's most prized crops, a safeguard against catastrophic starvation....
76) Best practices
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A tense and claustrophobic mystery set in the Montana wilderness starring Nora Best. Nora Best is starting her life over . . . again. Spotting a 'team leader' job with a therapy program for troubled girls at Serendipity Ranch, Nora thinks it's the perfect role. She'll be surrounded by the beautiful Montana wilderness and be able to make a difference in the kids' lives. All is going well until it's revealed a girl recently died at the ranch. The...
77) The holdovers
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
It follows a curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
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Description
"In this unflinching and inspiring memoir, Jesus Leon tells an extraordinary story of resilience and survival, shining a light on a childhood spent devastated by sex trafficking, gang life, and substance abuse. Born to indigenous working-class Mexican immigrants in San Diego in the 1970s, Jesus Leon's childhood was violently ruptured. A dangerous and harrowing encounter at a local gift shop when he was eleven years old left Leon with a deadly secret....
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