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The Truth about Truman SchoolWhen Zebby and Amr create the website thetruthabouttruman.com, they want it to be honest. They want it to be about the real Truman Middle School, to say things that the school newspaper would never say, and to give everyone a chance to say what...
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What Presidents Are Made ofThis sophisticated and playful nonfiction picture book looks at US presidents! See America's presidents as never before--made of objects! Using everything from blue jeans to boxing gloves, Hanoch Piven "builds" the characters of eighteen of our nation's leaders. Revealing anecdotes accompany the creative collages...
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Mississippi BridgeAnother powerful story in the Logan Family Saga and companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. A day of conflict and tragedy. Jeremy Simms watches from the porch of the general store as the weekly bus from Jackson...
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Mister and MeJolene's family was just Momma and Grandpa until big, loud Leroy Redfield started taking Momma dancing. Jolene refuses to call him anything but "Mister." Without a name, he isn't a real person to her. But then Jolene learns that Mister wants to marry Momma....
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We'll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down: Memoir of a Gravedigger's DaughterRachael Hanel's name was inscribed on a gravestone when she was eleven years old. Yet this wasn't at all unusual in her world: her father was a gravedigger in the small Minnesota town of Waseca, and death was her family's business. Her parents were...
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Perceval: The Story of the GrailOne of the most influential storytellers in Western literature, French poet Chr tien de Troyes helped to shape the ever-fascinating legend of King Arthur and the Round Table. Of Chr tien's five surviving romantic Arthurian poems, the last and longest is Perceval, an unfinished...
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Persian Locks: 1500 Years of Iranian PadlocksA smaller version of this updated and expanded book was published by The Smithsonian Institution in 1976 with the title, "Locks from Iran: Pre-Islamic to Twentieth Century." In 2019 and 2020 the author edited his original book adding new text and a great number...
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Oaxaca Stories in Cloth: A Book about People, Identity, and AdornmentWinner: 2017 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, Gold, Multicultural 2017 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, Silver, Art & Photography Oaxaca Stories in Cloth includes more than 175 sensitive, intimate, full-color portraits of traditional people of the Oaxacan hinterlands who continue to wrap themselves in the clothing...
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The Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups: The Second FileUrgent It's happened again David Wisniewski has completed another daring raid into the vault of parent rules. Within these forbidden pages lurk the real reasons why grown-ups want you to brush your teeth, eat your breakfast, and clean under your bed. The truth has...
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Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum WorldNow in paperback: The epic story of how, amid two World Wars, history's greatest physicists redefined reality--and ignited the atomic age "A new, exciting approach to the literature about this momentous era."--The Wall Street Journal There may never be another era of science like...
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When Clouds Touch UsInspired by the author's own childhood, this stunning novel in verse, sequel to the award-winning #1 bestseller Inside Out and Back Again, picks up two years after Hà and her family arrive in Alabama as refugees from the Viêt Nam War.Hà and her family...
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Saving Power: Theories of Atonement and Forms of the ChurchJesus' death and resurrection are undeniably central to the Christian faith. But how, precisely, is their significance to be understood? Concerned to reinvigorate the church's teaching on the cross, the resurrection, and salvation - the atonement - Peter Schmiechen here invites readers to rediscover...
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Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of RevolutionFrom the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, the life and thought of Rav Kook, a forceful figure in Israel's religious and political life "Moving, invaluable, and indispensable . . . As a biography, Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution is literature in its...
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The RegistrationYou can't outrun the RegistrationImagine it's legal to commit one murder in your lifetime?if you Register the victim and accomplish the kill within fourteen days. So when Lynell Mize stands in line to Register the man who abused her as a child, she's shocked...
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Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks LikeEveryone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like is Jay Williams' book about a dragon's mission to save a believer. Because of the road sweeper's belief in him, a dragon saves the city of Wu from the Wild Horsemen of the north. With vibrant illustrations...
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Whispers from the DeadFor fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes Whispers from the Dead from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon. Only Sarah senses the horror. The minute she steps through the doorway of her family's new...
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The San Francisco Giants: 50 Years [With CD]Author: Brian MurphyPublisher: Insight EditionsPublished: 06/17/2008Pages: 234Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 5.40lbsSize: 13.08h x 9.80w x 1.45dISBN: 9781933784526Award: IndieFab awards - WinnerAward: Benjamin Franklin Award - WinnerAbout the AuthorBrian Murphy is the co-host of the popular Murph and Mac morning radio show on KNBR 680 in...
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The Rivers of Zadaa, 6The battle continues. The struggle of good versus evil continues as Bobby Pendragon follows Saint Dane to the territory of Zadaa. Saint Dane's influence has fueled the fire of discontent between two warring tribes: the Rokador and the Batu. This is also the territory...
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The Floor of the SkyIn the Nebraska Sandhills, nothing is more sacred than the bond of family and land-and nothing is more capable of causing deep wounds. In Pamela Carter Joern's riveting novel The Floor of the Sky, Toby Jenkins, an aging widow, is on the verge of...
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The End of Drum-TimeAn epic love story in the vein of Cold Mountain and The Great Circle, about a young reindeer herder and a minister's daughter in the nineteenth century Arctic Circle In 1851, at a remote village in the Scandinavian tundra, a Lutheran minister known as...
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