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Author
Publisher
Zondervan Reflective
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In Person of Interest, cold-case homicide detective, former atheist, and bestselling author J. Warner Wallace employs a unique 'no-body, missing person' detective strategy to investigate Jesus and demonstrate why He still matters today, even in a world that is skeptical of the Bible.
Author
Series
Dare Valley volume 1
Language
English
Description
Journalist Meredith Hale's ex-husband claimed her Nora Roberts addiction gave her unrealistic expectations about marriage and she believed him. All dreams of Nora Roberts Land (as her mother called it) went up in smoke. But when her family asks her to temporarily help their Dare Valley, Colorado, newspaper, she decides it's time to change her life and prove her ex wrong. She's determined to find her own small-town Nora Roberts hero, prove that true...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
An international best seller embraced and endorsed by policy makers, scientists, writers and energy industry executives from around the world, Tim Flannery's The Weather Makers contributed in bringing the topic of global warming to national prominence. For the first time, a scientist provided an accessible and comprehensive account of the history, current status, and future impact of climate change, writing what has been acclaimed by reviewers everywhere...
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
World-renowned behavioral scientists Jane Goodall and Marc Bekoff have set forth ten trusts that we must honor as custodians of the planet. They argue passionately and persuasively that if we put these trusts to work in our lives, the earth and all its inhabitants will be able to live together harmoniously. The Ten Trusts expands the concept of our obligation to live in close relationship with animals -- for, of course, we humans are part of the animal...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"What paths did true believers take to Nazism? Why did they join what was initially a small, extremist, and often violent movement on the fringes of German politics? When the party began its election campaigning after 1925, why did people vote for it only grudgingly, though in the Great Depression years, make it the largest in the country? Even then, many millions withheld their support, as they would, if covertly, in the Third Reich. Were the recruits...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"There is a ship, a navy ship. It is called the USS New York. It is big like other navy ships, and it sails like other navy ships, but there is something special about the USS New York. Following the events of September 11, 2001, the governor of New York gave the Navy a steel beam that was once inside one of the World Trade Towers. The beam was driven from New York to a foundry in Louisiana. Metal workers heated the beam to a high, high temperature....
Author
Publisher
Service Press
Pub. Date
2001, 2002
Language
English
Description
Benny Hochman was 21 when he was liberated by American troops from Hitler's hellish concentration camps. Only flesh and bones at 78 pounds on his six-foot frame after five years of imprisonment, his indomitable fighting spirit survived the horrors that saw millions of his fellow Polish countrymen perish, including all family members.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their ineradicable legacy for America. In December 1862, the Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and threatened to break apart Abraham Lincoln's government. Five extraordinary individuals experienced Fredericksburg's cataclysmic repercussions - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, John Pelham, and Arthur Fuller. Guided...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson's "Battle Cry of Freedom." Where past scholars have limned the war as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatest failure: the result of a breakdown caused by the infusion of evangelical religion into the public sphere. As the Second Great Awakening surged through America, political questions became...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Robert F. Kennedy staunchly advocated for civil rights, education, justice, and peace; his message transcended race, class, and creed, resonating deeply within and across America. He was the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency and was expected to run against Republican Richard Nixon in the 1968 presidential election, following in the footsteps of his late brother John. After winning the California presidential primary...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An urgent warning about the growing threat to our democracy from a twenty-year police veteran and former diehard Trump supporter who nearly lost his life during the insurrection of January 6th. When Michael Fanone self-deployed to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, he had no idea his life was about to change. When he got to the front of the line, he urged his fellow officers to hold it against the growing crowd of insurrectionists-until he found himself...
13) Kennedy through the lens: how photography and television revealed and shaped an extraordinary leader
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Provides insight into how JFK used the new medium of television and the advances in color photography to further his ambitious agenda.
Author
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy, said F. Scott Fitzgerald. Perhaps no event in American history better illustrates this view than the Civil War and its principal players in the years after the conflict. The value of military glory and ties to greatness would turn toward the tragic even among the victors-like earthquake survivors stumbling into another world, simply trying to make a new life. Their struggle would be a constant tug back...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Portrait of the mid-size city of Chelyabinsk and how it is faring in the new Russia"--
"A revealing look into the lives of ordinary Russians. More than twenty years ago, the longtime NPR correspondent Anne GMore 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...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the 1942 Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Duke University out of fear of further Japanese attacks on the West Coast. Shortly after this unforgettable game, many of the players and coaches left their respective colleges, entered the military, and went on to serve around the world in famous battlegrounds, from Iwo Jima and Okinawa to Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge, where fate and destiny would bring...
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