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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The collection includes writings from an impressive array of girls and women who are trailblazers in their fields, including bestselling authors Victoria Aveyard, Libba Bray, and Margaret Stohl; Hollywood heavy-hitters such as Quvenzhane Wallis; renowned chef Katie Button; aerospace and mechanical engineer Emily Calandrelli; and many more.
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In 2013, food blogger and classical musician Molly Yeh left Brooklyn to live on a farm on the North Dakota-Minnesota border, where her fiancé was a fifth-generation Norwegian-American sugar beet farmer. Like her award-winning blog My Name is Yeh, Molly on the Range chronicles her life through photos, more than 120 new recipes, and hilarious stories from life in the city and on the farm. Molly's story begins in the suburbs of Chicago in the 90s,...
Author
Publisher
KiCam Projects
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Inside each seemingly ordinary person is an extraordinary story waiting to be told. That's what author Keith Maginn discovered when he dug deeper to learn more about many of the people in his everyday life. One friend had overcome an addiction to crack cocaine. Another had lost a son in a tragic accident and started a foundation in his honor. Yet another was a survivor of the worst plane crash in Central American history. Each of the stories featured...
6) Chicken soup for the soul: think positive, live happy : 101 stories about creating your best life
Author
Publisher
Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Drawing on more than 20 years of interviews, anecdotes and personal experiences, Uninvited: Confessions of a Hollywood Party Crasher recounts the unique journey of a former Los Angeles Times reporter who, struggling with the collapse of his industry and personal tragedies, falls in with a group of intrepid gatecrashers who routinely pierce Tinseltown's celebrity party circuit. Author Adrian Maher is the first to chronicle this unique subterranean...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A highly personal, honest, funny and well-informed account of China's
hyperactive effort to forget its past and reinvent its future."-The New York Times Book Review
As one the first American students admitted to China after the communist revolution, John Pomfret was exposed to a country still emerging from the twin tragedies of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Crammed into a dorm room with seven Chinese men, Pomfret contended...
9) On animals
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
'How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,' writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book called Herbert the Near-Sighted Pigeon, she's been drawn to stories about how we live with animals, and how they abide by us. Now, in On Animals, she examines animal-human relationships through the compelling tales she has written over the course of her celebrated career....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once upon a simpler time, a child's fun included an intense interaction within its environment, whether on a bus to a beach, swimming lessons in a city pool, or working tobacco fields. Interaction was also between machinery and the processes that made things function such as an icebox, iron furnace, clothesline, or oil jug. She writes of a time before technology took over and computers did all the work. The author recreates with her narrative and...
13) Lab girl
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"What happens when the Zusak family opens their home to three big, wild, street-hardened dogs--Reuben, more wolf than hound; Archer, blond, beautiful, destructive; and the rancorously smiling Frosty, who walks like a rolling thunderstorm? The answer can only be chaos: there are street fights, park fights, public shamings, property damages, injuries, hospital visits, wellness checks, pure comedy, shocking tragedy, and carnage that must be read to be...
17) Happy-go-lucky
Author
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The best-selling author offers a new collection of satirical and humorous essays that chronicle his own life and ordinary moments that turn beautifully absurd, including how he coped with the pandemic, his thoughts on becoming an orphan in his seventh decade, and the battle-scared America he discovered when he resumed touring.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it, showing us just how uncommon common sense can be! Meet the absentminded terrorist who opens a mail bomb returned to him for insufficient postage. Marvel at the thief who steals electrical wires before shutting off the current. Gape at the would-be pilot who flies his lawn chair suspended from helium balloons into air-traffic lanes. These tales of trial...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Contains 100 short stories about real people and events in American history, arranged chronologically from 1565 to 2000, including the lost colony of Roanoke, Pocahontas, the Chicago fire, and the 2000 presidential election.
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