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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Publisher's description: During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. By telling the story of her life and the lives of the people she loves, Smarsh challenges us to examine the class divide in our country and the myths about people thought to be less because they earn less. Her personal history affirms the corrosive impact...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"In 1876, Lakota chief Crazy Horse helped lead his people's resistance against the white man's invasion of the northern Great Plains. One of the leaders of the US military forces was Army Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. The men had long been enemies. Atthe height of the war, when tribalism had reached its peak, they crossed paths for the last time. In this action-packed double biography, S. D. Nelson draws fascinating parallels between Crazy Horse...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When Sharon Langley was born, amusement parks were segregated, and African American families were not allowed in. This picture book tells how a community came together--both black and white--to make a change. In the summer of 1963, because of demonstrations and public protests the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in Maryland became desegregated and opened to all for the first time. Sharon and her parents were the first African American family to walk into...
Author
Publisher
Amber-Allen Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Don Miguel Ruiz joins his son don Don Jose Ruiz to offer a fresh perspective on the Four Agreements. The Fifth Agreement takes listeners to a deeper level of awareness of the power of the Self, and returns them to the authenticity they were born with. In this compelling sequel to the book that has changed the lives of millions of people around the world, listeners are reminded of the greatest gift one can give themselves: the freedom to be who we...
67) Who Built That
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Michelle Malkin takes listeners on an eclectic journey of American capitalism, from the colonial period to the Industrial Age to the present, spotlighting awe-inspiring and little-known 'tinkerpreneurs' who achieved their dreams of doing well by doing good. Learn how Paul Revere became America's first tech titan; how famous patent holders Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain championed the nation's unique system of intellectual property rights; and more....
Author
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot chronicles another thrilling chapter in American aviation history: the race to break the sound barrier.
In the aftermath of World War II, the United States accelerated the development of technologies that would give it an advantage over the Soviet Union. Airpower, combined with nuclear weapons, offered a formidable check on Soviet aggression. In 1947, the United States Air Force was established.
...Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Julia Cameron finally reveals the vital fourth Artist's Way tool that she relies upon daily to find creative inspiration: writing for guidance. Over the course of six weeks, listeners learn the radical new skill needed to take their creativity and their creative work to the next level: how to connect with the intuitive power within themselves and trust the answers they receive. For followers of the Artist's Way program and newcomers alike, this exciting...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Emotions are like a rainbow-there is a color for every one we feel. And when the nervous feeling starts to take over the rainbow, it's time for The Purple Book! Simple activities, tips, and tricks help young readers whose nervous purple shines brightest in the rainbows of their colorful minds. They can turn the pages from front to back or back to front. They can use every single page or open the book to just one random page. Soon, the other colors...
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discover how a young girl who was the star of her school's debate team became a federal jurist and the first Black woman to sit on the United States Supreme Court. Presenting Who HQ Now: an exciting addition to the #1 New York Times Best-Selling Who Was? series! Born in Washington, DC, in 1970, and raised in Miami, Florida, Ketanji Brown Jackson developed an interest in law and politics at an early age. As a preschooler, she sat with her father and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
Recounts lessons the author learned through taking on challenging and unique opportunities, offering commentary on the inherent compatibility of adventure and the Christian life as well as love's ability to encourage and inspire action.
Author
Language
English
Description
Alex Blum was a good kid, a popular high school hockey star from a tight-knit Colorado family. He had one goal in life: endure a brutally difficult selection program, become a U.S. Army Ranger, and fight terrorists for his country. He poured everything into achieving his dream. In the first hours of his final leave before deployment to Iraq, Alex was supposed to fly home to see his family and beloved girlfriend. Instead, he got into his car with two...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"America is the greatest democracy in the world ... isn't it? Author Elizabeth Rusch examines some of the more problematic aspects of our government but, more importantly, offers ways for young people to fix them"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
For fans of David Sedaris and Nora Ephron, here is a humorous, irreverent, and poignant look at the gifts, stereotypes, and inevitable challenges of aging, based on the wildly popular New York Times essay from award-winning journalist Steven Petrow.
Soon after his 50th birthday, Steven Petrow began assembling a list of "things I won't do when I get old"—mostly a catalog of all the things he thought his then...
Soon after his 50th birthday, Steven Petrow began assembling a list of "things I won't do when I get old"—mostly a catalog of all the things he thought his then...
79) 2000 Mules
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, Llc
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
The 2020 presidential election was rife with fraud orchestrated by the Democratic Party. That's not just an accusation; it's now, thanks to bestselling author and investigative journalist Dinesh D'Souza, an established fact. With eyewitness testimony and the pinpoint precision and analytic sophistication of the forensic technique of geotracking, D'Souza demonstrates how an already corrupt system put in place by Democratic Party hacks and "community...
Author
Publisher
Harpercollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo spearheaded the Trump Administration's most significant foreign policy breakthroughs. Now, he reveals how he did it, and how it could happen again. It is a raw account of what it took to deliver winning outcomes in the face of a progressive activist media, partisan conspiracies, two impeachments and endless investigations, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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