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"Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder, Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The ... result is [this book], a memorial for Mailhot's mother, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners; a story of reconciliation with her father--an abusive drunk and a brilliant...
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Chronicling General Lafayette’s years in Washington’s army, Vowell reflects on the ideals of the American Revolution versus the reality of the Revolutionary War. Riding shotgun with Lafayette, Vowell swerves from the high-minded debates of Independence Hall to the frozen wasteland of Valley Forge, from bloody battlefields to the Palace of Versailles, bumping into John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Lord Cornwallis, Benjamin Franklin, Marie Antoinette...
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2018.
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English
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The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud. In 1761, a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son. Together,...
6) Matrix
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English
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, The Financial Times, Good Housekeeping, Esquire, Vulture, Marie Claire, Vox, The Los Angeles Times,...
WINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, The Financial Times, Good Housekeeping, Esquire, Vulture, Marie Claire, Vox, The Los Angeles Times,...
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2021.
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English
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"1774. Gently bred noblewoman Adrienne Lafayette must renounce the complicated man she loves, or risk her life for a legacy that will inspire generations to come. 1914. Glittering New York socialite Beatrice Chanler witnesses the devastation of the war in France firsthand, and must convince America to fight for what's right. 1940. French schoolteacher and aspiring artist Marthe Simone makes a discovery that calls into question who she is, and more...
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Rose Harbor novels volume 2
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Hailed as “the reigning queen of women’s fiction” (The Sacramento Bee), Debbie Macomber is renowned for her novels of love, friendship, and the promise of fresh starts. Now Macomber returns to the charming Rose Harbor Inn, where each guest finds a second chance and every room comes with an inspiring new view.
Since moving to Cedar Cove, Jo Marie Rose has...
Hailed as “the reigning queen of women’s fiction” (The Sacramento Bee), Debbie Macomber is renowned for her novels of love, friendship, and the promise of fresh starts. Now Macomber returns to the charming Rose Harbor Inn, where each guest finds a second chance and every room comes with an inspiring new view.
Since moving to Cedar Cove, Jo Marie Rose has...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. (Marie later won another Nobel for chemistry in 1911.)...
11) Underground in Berlin: a young woman's extraordinary tale of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
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xi, 366 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
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English
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In 1941, Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Berliner, made an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews were being rounded up for deportation, forced labor, and extermination. Marie took off her yellow star, turned her back on the Jewish community, and vanished into the city. In the years that followed, Marie lived under an assumed identity, forced to accept shelter wherever she found it. Always on the run, never certain whom she could trust,...
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2000
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IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
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236 p. : ill., geneal. table ; 20 cm.
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English
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In 1769, thirteen-year-old Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, begins a journal chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her future role as queen of France.
13) Concussion
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Pittsburgh doctor Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage that football players suffer over the course of their careers.
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, photograph ; 30 cm.
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English
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Presents the life of the scientist responsible for the first map of the ocean floor, describing her experiences with sexism and her pioneering work which led to the confirmation of the theory of continental drift.
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Rose Harbor novels volume 1
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English
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber comes the first book in a series set in the beloved Pacific Northwest town of Cedar Cove.
Jo Marie Rose first arrives in Cedar Cove seeking a fresh start. A young widow coping with the death of her husband, she purchases a local bed-and-breakfast—the newly christened Rose Harbor Inn—ready to begin her life anew. Her first guest is Joshua Weaver, who has come...
Jo Marie Rose first arrives in Cedar Cove seeking a fresh start. A young widow coping with the death of her husband, she purchases a local bed-and-breakfast—the newly christened Rose Harbor Inn—ready to begin her life anew. Her first guest is Joshua Weaver, who has come...
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Legend the graphic novel volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
2010
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1 videodisc (70 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
The orchid world is full of eccentric characters, petty rivalries, competitive judging, hunters, smugglers and thieves. It’s also a world undergoing tremendous change. Orchids were once only accessible to the very rich. Now they’re as common as a dozen roses. Large nurseries are producing cheaper, cloned orchids for the mass market and Orchid hybridizers are a dying breed in the face of this competition. One small orchid grower is standing up...
18) Legend : the
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Series
Legend the graphic novel volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Teens June, a military prodigy born into wealth, and Day, a criminal from the slums, are brought together and face plague, war, and a powerful, common enemy.
19) I am Marie Curie
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Marie Curie, the physicist and chemist who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize."--
20) Richard Jewell
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Security guard Richard Jewell saves thousands of lives from a bomb at the1996 Atlanta Olympics, but soon becomes the FBI's number one suspect after false reports in the news.
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