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"A late-in-life coming-of-age escapade told with humor and heart, Don't Think Twice is a moving and irreverent account of grief, growing up, and the healing power of adventure. Within six months, Barbara Schoichet lost everything: her job, her girlfriend of six years, and her mother to pancreatic cancer. Her life stripped bare, and armed with nothing but a death wish and a ton of attitude, Barbara pursues an unlikely method of coping. At the age of...
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"How does the US Army mold a video-game generation with its thumbs on the joystick into a proud fighting force with its fingers on the trigger--and lives on the line--in America's War on Terror? Michael J. MacLeod, already an accomplished professional photographer and journalist, decided to find out the hard way: by enlisting in the armed forces at age forty-one. What he observed and experienced as an embedded reporter and a serving soldier makes...
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"'Generations of men and women have stood on these beaches, listened to water rushing over these basalt rocks, and picked wild blueberries here well before I sailed into the Bayfield harbor. The families of those men and women are still here, tethered to a place where they can slip behind their ancestor's eyes and take in essentially the same view'--From the introduction. In 2007, Mary Dougherty and her family moved from St. Paul to the tiny Bayfield...
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"Edith Eger, conocida como la bailarina de Auschwitz, nos describe cuáles son las 12 prisiones mentales en las que nos recluimos tras un episodio traumático, como el victimismo, la evasión, el abandono, la culpa o la vergüenza. A lo largo de 12 breves capítulos, nos revela la sabiduría y los consejos prácticos fruto de su larga experiencia atendiendo pacientes en su consulta. A partir del sufrimiento ajeno y con el ejemplo siempre presente...
17130) Go home!
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Asian diasporic writers imagine "home" in the twenty-first century through an array of fiction, memoir, and poetry.
17131) Soy Zlatan Ibrahimović
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"Esta autobiografía es una espectacular visión de la vida de un genio desde las entrañas de una gran estrella mundial. Temerario, ostentoso, desequilibrado, no importa cómo le llamen, Ibra es una de las grandes estrellas mundiales del fútbol que ha jugado en la mayoría de los grandes equipos de elite internacional. Soy Zlatan Ibrahimović es la historia del futbolista conocido en el mundo entero como Ibra. La historia desde dentro de su conflictiva...
17132) Chewing the cud
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Dick King-Smith recounts his life from soldier to farmer to salesman to factory worker to teacher to, finally, author.
17134) ¿Quién fue Nelson Mandela?
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Aprende más acerca de Nelson Mandela con esta entretenida y fascinante biografía ilustrada.
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"Black Woman in Green tells the story of a young widow who left the urban East for the forested West seeking a better life for her children. It highlights Gloria Brown's determination and grit in working her way up in a primarily white, male organization to become the first female African American forest supervisor in the US Forest Service. From raising children alone to conducting civil rights trainings to breaking glass ceilings, Gloria Brown's...
17137) Hostage to war: a true story
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The author relates her experiences from 1941-1953 as she struggles to survive as a Russian teenager caught up in all the horrors of World War II and its aftermath.
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"At fourteen, Liliana Velásquez walked out of her village in Guatemala and headed for the U.S. border, alone. On her two-thousand-mile voyage she was robbed by narcos, rode the boxcars of La Bestia, and encountered death in the Sonoran Desert. When she was caught by Immigration in Arizona, she thought her journey was over."--Provided by publisher.
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"Danés, pelirrojo y de metro ochenta y cinco de altura, pasó su adolescencia metiéndose en líos con su pandilla de motociclistas y entrando y saliendo de la cárcel. Hasta que un día leyó un libro sobre Mahoma que lo cautivó y se embarcó en una metamorfosis que lo llevaría a una escuela de yihadistas en Yemen, a llamar a su hijo Osama y a convertirse en amigo personal de Anuar al-Aulaki, el rostro más conocido de Al Qaeda en la península...
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"Social Issues in Literature meets the need for materials supporting curriculum integration. Each title in this distinctive new series examines an important literary work or body of work through the lens of a major social issue. Each volume presents biographical and critical information on the author, viewpoints on the social issue portrayed in the book, and contemporary assessments of the social issue as well as a chronology of important dates in...
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