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1) Unsheltered
Author
Language
English
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Description
Willa Knox has always prided herself on being the embodiment of responsibility for her family. Which is why it's so unnerving that she's arrived at middle age with nothing to show for her hard work and dedication but a stack of unpaid bills and an inherited brick home in Vineland, New Jersey, that is literally falling apart. The magazine where she worked has folded, and the college where her husband had tenure has closed. The dilapidated house is...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.
Author
Series
Last Hundred Years A Family Saga volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"An epic novel that spans thirty years in the lives of a farm family in Iowa, telling a parallel story of the changes taking place in America from 1920 through the early 1950s"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Brothers
Pub. Date
c1948
Edition
1st. ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 311 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A major work about man's relation to society, Chase discusses whether the scientific method can be applied to human relations. He summarizes knowledge accumulated by anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, economists, political scientists, and other social scientists in this volume.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
150 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Putting Peace First provides stories of young peacemakers who have addressed problems ranging from hunger to gun violence. Explains strategies young people can use to improve their communities.
Author
Publisher
Ember
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First Ember Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Craig and Harry are hoping to set the record for longest kiss.They are not a couple, but used to be. Avery and Ryan have only just met and are trying to figure out what happens next. Both of them worry that something will go wrong. These boys along with their friends and families, form a tapestry that will reveal love of all kinds: open and eager, tentative and cautious, pained and scared. Levithan has sewn together their lives into a redemptive whole....
Author
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
ix, 254 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming human society in fundamental and profound ways. Not since the Age of Reason have we changed how we approach security, economics, order, and even knowledge itself. In the Age of AI, three deep and accomplished thinkers come together to consider what AI will mean for us all" --
Author
Series
Last hundred years trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
475 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 502 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Diamond compares how six countries have survived recent upheavals--ranging from the forced opening of Japan by U.S. Commodore Perry's fleet, to the Soviet Union's attack on Finland, to a murderous coup or countercoup in Chile and Indonesia, to the transformations of Germany and Austria after World War Two. These nations coped, to varying degrees, through mechanisms such as acknowledgment of responsibility, painfully honest self-appraisal, and learning...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
x, 219 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
McPherson draws upon his work over the past fifty years to illuminate the war's continuing resonance across many dimensions of American life. Touching upon themes that include the war's causes and consequences, the naval war, slavery and its abolition, and Lincoln as commander in chief, McPherson ultimately proves the impossibility of understanding the issues of our own time unless we first understand their roots in the era of the Civil War.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
xvii, 296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An unforgettable and stirring memoir in the vein of Free Cyntoia, Just Mercy, and The Sum of Us that both inspires and upends our understanding about the future of policing in the United States. In 2012, nineteen-year-old Leon Ford was shot five times by a Pittsburgh police officer as he was racially profiled during a case of mistaken identity. When he woke up in the hospital, he was faced with two life-changing realities: he was a new father, and...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"A product of Anglo-American capitalism, built by a generation that had never known trauma and was bored by its own prosperity and success, the Titanic set sail into a world that was about to change forever. Modernity was shaking the class system, the Industrial Revolution was creating new kinds of wealth, and revolutionary fervor would lead to The Great War. Exploring the infamous disaster from the perspectives of six of her first-class passengers--a...
