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Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxi, 201 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 'Nice Racism', Robin DiAngelo asserts that it is white progressives who are responsible for inflicting the most daily harm on people of colour, and challenges white readers to rethink their ideas about racism and to confront their role in maintaining it.
Author
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
2 v. (xxxv, 782 p.) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This revised edition of the original reference standard for urban legends provides an updated anthology of common myths and stories, and presents expanded coverage of international legends and tales shared and popularized online"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 422 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the true story of America's first women astronauts--six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA's Space Shuttle.
"When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots--a group then made up exclusively of men--had the right stuff. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed unqualified for space...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 343 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work chronicled the civil rights movement and so much of what has transpired since then. My People is the definitive collection of her reportage and commentary. Spanning datelines in the American South, South Africa and points scattered in between, her work constitutes a history of our time as rendered by the pen of a singular and indispensable black woman journalist....
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The dwarf known as Seven explains how Snow White's terrible memory was the cause of many problems, including her long sleep, and exactly how she was rescued by a prince.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Born at the turn of a new century, Dasani is named for the bottled water that comes to symbolize Brooklyn's gentrification and the shared aspirations of a divided city. As Dasani grows up, moving with her tight knit family from shelter to shelter, her story reaches back to trace the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Beast relates the true story of how he was unintentionally rude to a fairy while preparing for an audition, then won the heart of a beautiful girl despite his appearance and odor.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Conservative columnist David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments. Brooks looks at a range of people who have lived joyous, committed lives, and who have embraced the necessity and beauty of dependence. He gathers their wisdom on how to choose...
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
192 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated tableau of Egyptian myths, combines narrative accounts of the stories of the Sun God Ra, the Sphinx, and numerous pharaohs and queens along with historical, cultural, and geographic facts.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
191 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Classic stories and dazzling illustrations of gods, goddesses, heroes and monsters come to life in a stunning tableau of Norse myths, including those of the thunder god Thor, the one-eyed god and Allfather Odin, and the trickster god Loki. The lyrical storytelling of award-winning author Donna Jo Napoli dramatizes the timeless tales of ancient Scandinavia. This book is the third in the trilogy that includes the popular National Geographic Treasury...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Describes the science behind the armor, weapons, training, and tactics used by Samurai warriors in combat"--
20) Military Robots
Author
Series
Publisher
Searchlight Books, Lerner Publications Company, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color photographs ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Robots are used in all branches of the military. They help service members with all sorts of jobs on land, in the air, and underwater, and help keep everyone safe. Discover the history of military robots and how robots such as the Fly Eye, Global Hawk, and robot dogs make a difference in the military.