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1) Unsheltered
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Willa Knox has always prided herself on being the embodiment of responsibility for her family. Which is why it's so unnerving that she's arrived at middle age with nothing to show for her hard work and dedication but a stack of unpaid bills and an inherited brick home in Vineland, New Jersey, that is literally falling apart. The magazine where she worked has folded, and the college where her husband had tenure has closed. The dilapidated house is...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.
Author
Series
Last Hundred Years A Family Saga volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"An epic novel that spans thirty years in the lives of a farm family in Iowa, telling a parallel story of the changes taking place in America from 1920 through the early 1950s"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 10 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"Most of what we know about how ideas spread comes from bestselling authors who give us a compelling picture of a world in which 'influencers' are king, 'sticky' ideas 'go viral,' and good behavior is 'nudged' forward. The problem is that the world they describe is one in which information spreads but beliefs and behaviors stay the same. When it comes to lasting change in what we think or the way we live, the dynamics are different: beliefs and behaviors...
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. Now crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called "the breaks" is ravaging the population. When a strange new visitor arrives--a woman riding an orca, with a polar bear...
Author
Publisher
Harper & Brothers
Pub. Date
c1948
Edition
1st. ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 311 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A major work about man's relation to society, Chase discusses whether the scientific method can be applied to human relations. He summarizes knowledge accumulated by anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, economists, political scientists, and other social scientists in this volume.
Author
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"From helping the planet through recycling and saving water, to promoting important causes with awesome art exhibitions, and partying to raise money for charity, there are many little and large ways that you can help to make a difference in the neighborhood, the country, and the world! So, get your voice heard, get active, and start to make a difference"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
150 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Putting Peace First provides stories of young peacemakers who have addressed problems ranging from hunger to gun violence. Explains strategies young people can use to improve their communities.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2005
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (ca. 9.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture of Easter Island to the formerly flourishing Native American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya, the doomed medieval Viking colony on Greenland, and finally to the modern world,...
12) Two boys kissing
Author
Publisher
Ember
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First Ember Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Craig and Harry are hoping to set the record for longest kiss.They are not a couple, but used to be. Avery and Ryan have only just met and are trying to figure out what happens next. Both of them worry that something will go wrong. These boys along with their friends and families, form a tapestry that will reveal love of all kinds: open and eager, tentative and cautious, pained and scared. Levithan has sewn together their lives into a redemptive whole....
Author
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
ix, 254 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming human society in fundamental and profound ways. Not since the Age of Reason have we changed how we approach security, economics, order, and even knowledge itself. In the Age of AI, three deep and accomplished thinkers come together to consider what AI will mean for us all" --
16) Early warning
Author
Series
Last hundred years trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
475 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
viii, 227 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Social justice work, we often assume, is raised voices and raised fists. It requires leading, advocating, fighting, and organizing wherever it takes place--in the streets, slums, villages, inner cities, halls of political power, and more. But what does social justice work look like for those of us who don't feel comfortable battling in the trenches? Sensitive souls--including those who consider themselves highly emotional, empathic, or introverted--have...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 502 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Diamond compares how six countries have survived recent upheavals--ranging from the forced opening of Japan by U.S. Commodore Perry's fleet, to the Soviet Union's attack on Finland, to a murderous coup or countercoup in Chile and Indonesia, to the transformations of Germany and Austria after World War Two. These nations coped, to varying degrees, through mechanisms such as acknowledgment of responsibility, painfully honest self-appraisal, and learning...
Author
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 254 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming human society fundamentally and profoundly. Three of our most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore how A.I. could affect our relationship with knowledge, impact our worldviews, and change society and politics as profoundly as the ideas of the Enlightenment.