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English
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"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
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives.
Celebrated...
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Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
26 sound discs (32 hours.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The novel "Little Dorrit", published originally between 1855 and 1857, is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens' ire is focused upon the institutions of debtor's prisons-in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they have repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea where the author's own father had been imprisoned. Most of Dickens'...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and shines a piercing light on our own perceptions of women in power today.
Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt, women reigned supreme. Regularly, repeatedly, and with impunity, queens like Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, and Cleopatra controlled the totalitarian state as...
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Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 Wonderbook (24 pages) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Boom! You race to investigate the terrible noise you just heard in the woods. What you find amazes you--a gigantic glowing green disc that's crash-landed near your home! Suddenly, a door on the object slowly opens...Is there an alien inside? Get ready to read four spooky stories about alien landing sites. This 24-page book features controlled, narrative nonfiction text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The colorful...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
C. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight. During the 1960s, as the country struggled with the explosive issue of race, Ellis and Atwater met on opposite sides of the public school integration issue. Their encounters were charged with hatred and...
