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"A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves. An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant...
2) The affair
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English
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"Heads always turned when Rose McCarthy walked into a room. Nearly six foot tall, she was ramrod straight, and impeccably put together with faultless style, long graceful legs, her snow-white hair cut in a chin-length rounded cap. Her piercing blue eyes missed nothing. She could terrify anyone with a few, well chosen, soft-spoken, eloquent words, or comfort and delight a young employee with generous praise. For twenty-five years, she had been the...
5) The archer
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"This is an inspiring fable about the importance of taking risks and overcoming difficulty. It is told from the perspective of Tetsuya, a famous former archer, and his apprentice"--
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English
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Bestselling author Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls 'wildly undisciplined.' She casts an insightful and critical eye over her childhood, teens, and twenties, with the bracing candor, vulnerability, and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation.
8) Greenlights
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English
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"I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. This book is an album, a record, a story of his life and the graces, truths, and...
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English
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"Saint Ambrose Prep is a place where the wealthy send their children for the best possible education, with teachers and administrators from the Ivy League, and graduates who become future lawyers, politicians, filmmakers, and CEOs. Traditionally a boys-only school, Saint Ambrose has just enrolled one hundred and forty female students for the first time. Even though most of the kids on the campus have all the privilege in the world, some are struggling,...
10) Only one you
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Publisher
Rising Moon
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 19 x 21 cm.
Language
English
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Adri promises to remember his parents' words of wisdom about how to live his life, such as "Find your own way. You don't have to follow the crowd" and "Make wishes on the stars in the nighttime sky."
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Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
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xxxii, 316 pages ; 19 cm
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English
Description
Elaborating on his famous commencement speech, the author takes the pressure off of students to be extraordinary achievers and encourages them to do something useful with their advantages.
14) First love
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.
15) Be strong
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
Description
No strong enough to ascend the climbing wall at school, a discouraged child returns home and learns that there are other ways to be strong, from not giving up when working for a good cause or learning a new skill to making sure that no one sits alone in the lunchroom.
16) I am love
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Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Explores many aspects of love that can help one weather any storm, including that love is comfort, effort, connection, and taking care of oneself.
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English
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"'I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen,' Anne Lamott admits at the beginning of Almost Everything. Despair and uncertainty surround us: in the news, in our families, and in ourselves. But even when life is at its bleakest--when we are, as she puts it, 'doomed, stunned, exhausted, and over-caffeinated'--the seeds of rejuvenation are at hand. 'All truth is paradox,'...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 33 cm
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English
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A humorous send-up of daily life features illustrations that show penguins formally dressed and satirizing routine human activities, from a relaxing day at the beach to a stressful morning commute.
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Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of the best-selling author's favorite sayings, quotes, and words of wisdom gathered to provide inspiration, comfort, laughter, and joy, including selections by such notables as Mother Teresa, George Bernard Shaw, and Anne Frank.
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1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Minna does a lot of thinking about her project to do something kind, make a picture about what she did, and share it with her classmates, but finally comes up with an idea that spreads to the whole school.