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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her “head-for-the-hills” bag. In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged metal in her father’s junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor...
Series
Arthouse films volume 014
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores graffiti-based visual art as a global artistic and cultural movement with footage of representative artists and interviews with associated persons from the U.S., Canada, France, Holland, Germany, England, Spain, Japan, and Brazil.
Author
Language
English
Description
On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley's life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive, cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova -- a man who hasn't been seen...
4) Jedi junkies
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the world's most dedicated Star Wars fans.
Author
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The book collects dozens of Hurley's essays on feminism, geek culture, and her experiences and insights as a genre writer, including "We Have Always Fought," which won the 2013 Hugo for Best Related Work. The Geek Feminist Revolution will also feature several entirely new essays written specifically for this volume.
Author
Series
Dexter volume 5
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
350 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dexter Morgan has always lived a happy homicidal life. He keeps his dark urges in check by adhering to one steadfast rule . . . he only kills very bad people. But now Dexter is experiencing some major life changes -- don't we all? -- and they're mostly wrapped up in the eight-pound curiosity that is his newborn daughter. Family bliss is cut short, however, when Dexter is summoned to investigate the disappearance of a seventeen-year-old girl who has...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A revealing look into the lives of ordinary Russians. More than twenty years ago, the longtime NPR correspondent Anne Garrels began to visit the region of Chelyabinsk, an aging military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow that is home to the Russian nuclear program. Her goal was to chart the social and political aftershocks of the USSR's collapse. Garrels crafts a necessary portrait of the nation's heartland and explains why Vladimir...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
318 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Five hundred feet underground, Jeanne Marie Laskas asked a coal miner named Smitty, “Do you think it’s weird that people know so little about you?” He replied, “I don’t think people know too much about the way the whole damn country works.” Hidden America intends to fix that. Like John McPhee and Susan Orlean, Laskas dives deep into her subjects and emerges with character-driven narratives that are gripping, funny, and revelatory. In Hidden...
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