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81) Eugene returns!
Series
Adventures in Odyssey audio volume 44
Publisher
Focus on the Family
Pub. Date
p2005.
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (ca. 6 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A special 4-CD compilation featuring all 12 adventures including "A most surprising return" and "A most amazing event."
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a razor-sharp and deeply felt novel that illuminates the role of work in our lives, This Could Hurt captures the emotional complexities of five colleagues trying to balance ambition, hope, and fear as their small company is buffeted by economic forces that threaten to upend them. Rosa Guerrero, the longtime chief of human resources, is the sun around whom Leo, Rob, Lucy, and Kenny orbit. When her world begins to crumble, they find themselves changed...
83) The natural
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the effects of the Clinton presidency on the American military, economy, and people, and discusses the inner workings of the Clinton White House.
84) Pet Camp
Author
Series
Publisher
Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
112 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a horse stable opens near Maddy's house, Maddy sets her sights on horseback riding lessons. But lessons are expensive, so she comes up with a brilliant plan to earn the money to pay for them: Pet Camp! Maddy will host a summer camp for one week. The twist? Each camper gets to bring their pet. Unfortunately, the practical details turn out to be trickier than Maddy imagined. The rabbit gets lost, the dog eats all the snacks, and Maddy's brother...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (557 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the personal and professional exploits of a group of attorneys working at the law firm of Crane, Poole & Schmidt. They tackle some of today's most inflammatory, and sometimes irreverent, social and moral issues, from teen pregnancy and the death penalty to sex surrogates and Alzheimer's. Now, the firm faces financial ruin and its brilliant attorneys face chaotic caseloads filled with malpractice, murder, love and lust.
86) Blowout
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
An extremely confused and frightened butterfly turns to a whale for guidance on how to reach the flowers--and encouragement as the whale advises him to never give up on his migration.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xi, 274 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A man who escaped the devastating famine in North Korea tells the story of his survival inside the oppressive country, his escape and subsequent rescue by activists and Christian missionaries, and his success in the United States.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 244 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A sportswriter's indictment of how Trump's golf habits reflect his off-the-course ethics draws on personal experience and witness interviews to reveal how Trump lies, intimidates, and files lawsuits to get away with rampant cheating.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When pirate cats threaten Mouse Island, Professor von Volt sends Geronimo Stilton and his friends back through time to ancient Greece, Atlantis, and Stonehenge to try and find out how ancient civilizations were able to find peace and avoid war--only to find that the key to peace was under their whiskers the whole time.
Author
Publisher
Regnery Pub
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
A revelation of Bill and Hillary Clinton's last days as the First Family discusses President Clinton's controversial pardons and his relationship with fugitive Marc Rich, and Hillary's solicitation of gifts and partaking of the White House china.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
ZUCKED is McNamee's intimate reckoning with the catastrophic failure of the head of one of the world's most powerful companies to face up to the damage he is doing. It's a story that begins with a series of rude awakenings. First there is the author's dawning realization that the platform is being manipulated by some very bad actors. Then there is the even more unsettling realization that Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are unable or unwilling to share...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
496 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography published on the fiftieth anniversary of Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, that reveals a shy yet passionate woman more at home in the natural world than in the literary one that embraced her.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 330 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this riveting feat of reporting, Kashmir Hill illuminates the improbable rise of Clearview AI and how Hoan Ton-That, a computer engineer and Richard Schwartz, a Giuliani associate, launched a terrifying facial recognition app with society-altering potential. They were assisted by a cast of controversial characters, including conservative provocateur Charles Johnson and billionaire Trump backer Peter Thiel. The app can scan a blurry portrait, and,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by...