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2) Steve Jobs
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 40
Language
English
Description
Draws on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs, as well as interviews with family members, friends, competitors, and colleagues to offer a look at the co-founder and leading creative force behind the Apple computer company.
3) Grant
Author
Language
English
Description
"Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most complicated generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Navy SEAL Team Six sniper reveals how he became an elite soldier while recounting the dramatic mission that nearly cost him his life, offering insider perspectives on his team's extensive training process at the Marine's Scout Sniper School.
Author
Language
English
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Description
A beautiful, heartrending literary memoir about the tragic death of the author's beloved older sister and a tribute to their bond. When Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister Maxine, only two years older, was killed when her husband drove them off a deserted road in Johannesburg. Stunned by the news, she immediately flew back to the country where she was born, determined to find answers and forced to reckon...
8) That's not in my American history book: a compilation of little-known events and forgotten heroes
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
c2000, 2004
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (8 hrs.)
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
4 CDs (5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Columnist and historical analyst Paul Johnson chronicles the life of Jesus of Nazareth, explaining how His life story remains as relevant as ever in today's society.
Author
Language
English
Description
Raised by unconventional Irish Catholics who knew "how to drink, how to dance, how to talk, and how to stir up the devil," Kate Mulgrew grew up with poetry and drama in her bones. But in her mother, a would-be artist burdened by the endless arrival of new babies, young Kate saw the consequences of a dream deferred. Determined to pursue her own no matter the cost, at 18 she left her small Midwestern town for New York, where, studying with the legendary...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the life story of an exuberant Labrador retriever who gets into perpetual trouble and experiences a range of inspiring adventures, from shutting down an entire beach to guarding a seventeen-year-old neighbor after a stabbing attack.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
14 CDs (17 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Robin Olds, one of America's most prolific fighter pilots in World War II and the Vietnam War, presents a poignant memoir. A triple ace with a combined total of sixteen combat victories, Olds draws from lessons learned from his time in the sky and applies them to everyday living.
13) My dog Tulip
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
4 CDs (4 1/2 hrs.)
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Adventurer's Son is Roman Dial's extraordinary account of his two-year quest to unravel the mystery of his son's fate. In the predawn hours of July 10, 2014, the twenty-seven-year-old son of preeminent Alaskan scientist and National Geographic Explorer Roman Dial, walked alone into Corcovado National Park, an untracked rainforest along Costa Rica's remote Pacific Coast that shelters miners, poachers, and drug smugglers. He carried a light backpack...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Appears on list
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Description
The author retraces the journey of Seabiscuit, a horse with crooked legs and a pathetic tail that made racing history in 1938, thanks to the efforts of a trainer, owner, and jockey who transformed a bottom-level racehorse into a legend.
17) The outsider
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (10 1/2 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever: his own. He was the RAF's youngest pilot at the age of nineteen, barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, got strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian civil war, landed during a bloody coup in Guinea-Bissau, and was accused of helping fund a 1973 coup in Equatorial Guinea. The Stasi arrested him, the Israelis feted him, the IRA threatened...
18) His excellency
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
13 CDs (14.75 hr.)
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ron Chernow vividly re-creates the whole sweep of Alexander Hamilton's life - his exotic, brutal upbringing; his titanic feuds with celebrated rivals; his pivotal role in defining the shape of the federal government; his shocking illicit romances; and his famous death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July 1804.