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Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
496 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Aspen Kid is the story of growing up in an old mining town, long since gone bust. It is a collection of vignettes which gives the reader a peek into life in the '50's in the Rocky Mountain West as told through the eyes of a boy who lived it. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and sometimes just plain outrageous, the book recalls the author's early years and what it was like being a boy in a town in the Rockies while "skiing" was becoming a household...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xii, 302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hurston and Hughes, two giants of the Harlem Renaissance and American literature, were best friends--until they weren't. Zora Neale Hurston ... and Langston Hughes ... were collaborators, literary gadflies, and close companions. They traveled together in Hurston's dilapidated car through the rural South collecting folklore, worked on the play Mule Bone, and wrote scores of loving letters to each other. They even had the same patron: Charlotte Osgood...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
vii, 295 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Around the clock, across the country, ... highly skilled and compassionate men and women sacrifice and struggle for us and our families. You have never heard their true stories. Not like this. From big-city and small-town hospitals. From behind the scenes. From the heart. This book will make you laugh, make you cry, make you understand. When we're at our worst, E.R. nurses are at their best"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Florian Gadsby tells the story of his artistic awakening, his education in England, Ireland and Japan. Arguing for the value in dedicating yourself to a craft, Florian weaves anecdotes about particular pots and processes into the narrative of his life, exploring what he has learnt from specific pieces he was taught to throw during his apprenticeships and how they have informed his philosophy and approach to his work
Author
Publisher
Audioworks, imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (approximately 12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Robert Hilburn offers an intimate and inspiring narrative that helps listeners finally understand Paul Simon the person and the artist, including new and absorbing insights into his most enduring songs. Exploring his successes and failures onstage and off, the book combines the scholarship, passion, and storytelling grace of biography at its best.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in Port Au Prince. With no children of their own, the forty-plus children who live, play, and go to school at the orphanage have become family to Mitch and his wife, Janine....
Publisher
Annick Press Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
109 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. #Not Your Princess presents an eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being a Native woman. Stories of abuse, humiliation, and stereotyping are countered by the voices of passionate women making themselves heard and demanding change. Sometimes...
Author
Publisher
Random House Trade
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
628 pages 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the spring of 1934, Virginia Woolf sketched an affectionate three-page "biographical fantasy" of her great friend, John Maynard Keynes, attempting to encompass no less than 25 themes, which she jotted down at its opening: "Politics. Art. Dancing. Letters. Economics. Youth. The Future. Glands. Genealogies. Atlantis. Mortality. Religion. Cambridge. Eton. The Drama. Society. Truth. Pigs. Sussex. The History of England. America. Optimism. Stammer....
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
As one of our most inspirational and determined presidents, Franklin Roosevelt overcame his disability to lead the country out of the Great Depression.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author and American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Misty Copeland comes a nonfiction picture book celebrating dancers of color who have influenced her on and off the stage."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A veteran Washington journalist recounts his long friendship with Charlie White, the centenarian next door who, sharing his good and meaningful life, mastered survival strategies that reflect thousands of years of human wisdom as his sense of adventure guided him through a century of upheaval."--
Author
Publisher
Neal Porter Books/Holiday House
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"The inspiring true story of the Giacometti brothers, one an artist, the other a daredevil, both devoted to their craft, but even more devoted to each other"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xliv, 528 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of 24 plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The nearly eight years of Harry Truman's presidency--among the most turbulent in American history--were marked by victory in the wars against Germany and Japan; the first use of an atomic weapon; the beginning of the Cold War; creation of the NATO alliance; the founding of the United Nations; the Marshall Plan to rebuild the wreckage of postwar Europe; the Red Scare; and the fateful decision to commit troops to fight in Korea."--Amazon.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
For all the literature about Adolf Hitler there have been just four seminal biographies; this is the fifth, a landmark work that sheds important new light on Hitler himself. Drawing on previously unseen papers and a wealth of recent scholarly research, Volker Ullrich reveals the man behind the public persona, from Hitler's childhood to his failures as a young man in Vienna to his experiences during the First World War to his rise as a far-right party...
Author
Publisher
Benighted Publications
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
129 pages ; 1 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of short stories, poetry, and vignettes, from the leading voice of the dirtbag climber. In this book is Mehall's most raw writing to date, a reflection on the times, our country, and of course, climbing in the great Southwest American desert.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
We can all be heroes. That's the inspiring message of this "New York Times" Bestselling picture book biography series from historian and author Brad Meltzer. Learn all about George Washington, America's first president.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
By the end of nineteenth century, food was dangerous. Lethal, even. "Milk" might contain formaldehyde, most often used to embalm corpses. Decaying meat was preserved with both salicylic acid, a pharmaceutical chemical, and borax, a compound first identified as a cleaning product. This was not by accident; food manufacturers had rushed to embrace the rise of industrial chemistry, and were knowingly selling harmful products. Unchecked by government...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups -- Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography about activism, this is the story of Velma Johnston, a trailblazing woman who mobilized children in her crusade to save wild mustangs"--
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