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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
viii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
" Expertise can explain the science of what's happening to a fetus or a baby throughout development, but all the science in the world can't tell you what it feels like to have a baby: the pang of morning sickness, the pain of labor, the excitement of birth, and the joy that comes from seeing your baby's first smile. 9 Months In, 9Months Out explores what we actually experience in the nine months of pregnancy and the nine months that follow. As a...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont. Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, IwoJima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and educational opportunities on their return home. Without...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A leading voice for social justice reveals how he stopped arguing with white people who deny the ongoing legacy of racism-and offers a proven path forward for Black people and people of color based on the history of nonviolent struggle. When the rallying cry "Black Lives Matter" was heard across the world in 2013, Andre Henry was one of the millions for whom the movement caused a political awakening and a rupture in some of his closest relationships...
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxxii, 229 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What did the American people and the US government know about the threats posed by Nazi Germany? What could have been done to stop the rise of Nazism in Germany and its assault on Europe's Jews? Americans and the Holocaust explores these enduring questions by gathering together more than one hundred primary sources that reveal how Americans debated their responsibility to respond to Nazism. Drawing on groundbreaking research conducted for the United...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xix, 315 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Today the achievement gap is hotly debated among pundits, politicians, and educators. In particular this conversation often focuses on the two fastest-growing demographic groups in the United States: Asian Americans and Latinos. In Academic Profiling, Gilda L. Ochoa addresses this so-called gap by going directly to the source. At one California public high school where the controversy is lived every day, Ochoa turns to the students, teachers, and...
Author
Publisher
Publicaciones y Ediciones Salamandra, S.A
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
1a edición ; Edición en español ; Spanish language edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Ser Harry Potter nunca ha sido tarea facil, menos aun desde que se ha convertido en un atareadisimo empleado del Ministerio de Magia, un hombre casado y padre de tres hijos. Y si Harry planta cara a un pasado que se resiste a quedar atras, su hijo menor, Albus Severus, ha de luchar contra el peso de una herencia familiar de la que el nunca ha querido saber nada. Cuando el destino conecte el pasado con el presente, padre e hijo deberan afrontar una...
Author
Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 185 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The youngest American to ever orbit the earth-cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux-shows us all that when we face our fears with hope and faith, extraordinary things can happen. "It may be hard to believe while I'm gravity-bound on my bedroom floor, but if there's one thing I've learned in my time on Earth, it's that as long as you keep saying yes, everything is possible," says author Hayley Arceneaux. Arceneaux's power comes from her faith and her ability...
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Series
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xii, 263 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The actress Teresa Wright (1918-2005) lived a rich, complex, magnificent life against the backdrop of golden age Hollywood, Broadway and television. There was no indication, from her astonishingly difficult--indeed, horrifying--childhood, of the success that would follow, nor of the universal acclaim and admiration that accompanied her everywhere. Her two marriages--to the writers Niven Busch (The Postman Always Rings Twice; Duel in the Sun) and Robert...
5649) What the Taliban told me
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
288 pages : illustration (black and white) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Ian Fritz joined the Air Force at eighteen, he did so out of necessity. He hadn't been accepted into college thanks to an indifferent high school career. He'd too often slept through his classes as he worked long hours at a Chinese restaurant to help pay the bills for his trailer-dwelling family in Lake City, Florida. But the Air Force recognizes his potential and sends him to the elite Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, to learn...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 337 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Adapted for young adults from the New York Times bestseller, the true story of a young World War II American tank gunner who meets his destiny in an iconic duel and forges an enduring bond with his enemy."--page 2 of cover.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Two pink lines on a pregnancy test. The primal scream of a woman pushing through her thirty-fifth hour of labor. The moment a still-wet newborn is placed in his mother's open arms after an unexpected c-section. The bottomless love reflected in the eyes of a father seeing his daughter for the first time. The moment a baby latches to her mother's breast. Or the moment that mother decides to switch to formula. Each of these, and so many more, are stories...
Author
Publisher
W Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
x, 208 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kathie Lee Gifford has for decades had deep conversations about her faith with anyone who is interested in talking about it. What she discovered early on is most people want to talk about Jesus: atheists, agnostics, Scientologists, broken-hearted Catholics, confused Baptists, Pentecostals, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Hindus alike. While some do not share her belief that Jesus is the Messiah, they nonetheless have a universal fascination with Him. This...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2017].
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
x, 381 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Follow in the footsteps of much loved authors, discover the landscapes that sparked their imaginations, and learn behind-the-scenes stories in this expanded and completely updated second edition of Novel Destinations. Across more than 500 literary locales in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere, experience famous authors' homes, book festivals, literary walking tours, lodgings, restaurants, bars for bibliophiles, and much more."--page 4 of cover....
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 941 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
HARD TIMES. BIGGER CRIMES. For the elite OSP team, protecting our nation is a personal mission in the explosive Season Thirteen of NCIS: Los Angeles. Facing high-stakes threats from deadly adversaries including Chinese intelligence, white nationalist militias, the Mob, and an online army of murderous internet trolls, the team "G" Callen, Sam Hanna, Hetty Lang, Kensi Blye, Marty Deeks, Fatima Namazi, Devin Rountree, and Hollace Kilbride never fails...
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
"In 1996 everything changed Maggie Dawes. Living with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina's Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind. She meets Bryce Trickett, handsome, genuine, and newly admitted to West Point, Bryce gradually shows her how much there is to love about the wind-swept beach town, and introduces her to photography, a passion that will define the rest of her life....
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
990L
Physical Desc
xiv, 218 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, (some color), photographs, portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Glimmer of Hope" is the official, definitive book from The March for Our Lives founders. "Glimmer of Hope" tells the story of how a group of teenagers raced to channel their rage and sorrow into action, and went on to create one of the largest youth-led movements in global history. In keeping up with their ongoing fight to end gun-violence in all communities, the student leaders of March for Our Lives have decided not to be paid as authors of the...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"If you have ever taken a test to identify your "personality type", like the Myers-Briggs or Enneagram, you might be surprised to learn that such tests are not only unscientific, but are holding you back. The truth is, there's no such thing as a personality "type", or a "real you" that can only be unearthed through some process of self-discovery. Instead, your personality is something you can intentionally choose and create. Rather than being defined...
Author
Publisher
Legacy Lit, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
viii, 226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"At nine-years-old, D. Watkins has three concerns in life: picking his dad's lotto numbers, keeping his Nikes free of creases, and being a man. Directly in his periphery is east Baltimore, a poverty-stricken city battling the height of a crack epidemic just hours from the nation's capital. Watkins, like many boys around him, is thrust out of childhood and into a world where manhood means surviving by slinging crack on street corners and finding himself...
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First Atria Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lane Moore is a fool for love. From her addiction to romantic comedies to her tendency to form instant soulmate connections with strangers, Lane has a way of romanticizing everything and everyone. It's no wonder the New York Times, in a review of her comedy show, 'Tinder Live! with Lane Moore,' called her 'a flirt par excellence.' But her romantic nature belies a decidedly unromantic childhood, one that sent her down a long and difficult road. Lane...
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