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21) Dear Martin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
After completing graduate school, Lizzie moves in with her boyfriend in his mother's Fifth Avenue apartment and has a difficult time managing her career at a law firm, nonpaying job as a wedding dress restorer, relationship with Luke, and her big mouth.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"The first fifty or so years of Otto's journey were pretty good. He felt he had it all until one day he didn't. Looking for answers, he calls on his enlightened brother-in-law, Volya Rinpoche, a wise man with Russian roots, a Tibetan heritage, and an international reputation as a spiritual teacher ... Otto needs his brother-in-law's wisdom, ... and ... it turns out that Rinpoche himself is also looking for guidance. They embark on a road trip over...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Rome's golden age comes to life through writings of the time, revealing surprising parallels between their concerns and ours. We learn of Roman urban problems from Juvenal, of patriotism from Cincinnatus, and of the Justinian Code reaffirming their great legacy of laws...equal justice for all citizens. An LCA release.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
You explore the intriguing capabilities of quantum computers, which don't yet exist but are theoretically possible. Using the laws of quantum mechanics, such devices could factor huge numbers, allowing them to easily decipher unbreakable conventional codes.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co.,Inc
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Robert Carter recounts the experiences he had while working as chief legal assistant to Thurgood Marshall and as general counsel to the NAACP, revealing his role in crafting the legal strategy for the key cases of the civil rights era.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
How do police use motive to track down kidnappers? What happens when kidnappings go wrong? Get the answers with historical examples including the Black September kidnapping of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics and recent cases that illustrate how today's technology is helping thwart infant abductions.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Examines the efforts on behalf of the United States and Great Britain to establish a new world order based on international rules prior to World War Two, and describes what the author refers to as a "radical policy shift" in recent years and its effect on twenty-first-century politics.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
UCLA film archivist Valentino discovers priceless reels of film, as well as a dead body, in the basement of his newly acquired movie palace, and must help the police solve the murder if he has any hoping of saving the reels from being destroyed.
35) The wedding
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Wilson Lewis, forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his marriage after thirty years, and realizing his responsibility for that loss, embarks on a mission to make his wife fall in love with him all over again.
Author
Publisher
HarperChristian Resources
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Don't settle for half of the story! Discover the Jewish roots to the Christian faith. This study guide has everything you need for a full Bible study experience, including: The study guide itself--with discussion and reflection questions, Bible exploration, video notes, and a leader's guide. An individual access code to stream all six video sessions online (you don't need to buy a DVD!). Every page of the Old Testament reveals divine mysteries about...
37) The last lawmen
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Wes Barnes and Jake Kenton join the Arizona Rangers, a group of frontier lawmen that protect the Arizona Territory from outlaws. Barnes becomes an upright lawman, but Kenton takes the law into his own hands.
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Series
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"A rumor that Blackbeard's buried treasure is somewhere near Tupelo Landing causes pirate fever to sweep through town just as clues about Mo's Upstream Mother surface and the Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friends Dale and Harm--take on the most important case of Mo's life"--
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Examines the influence of language in shaping individual identities, describing myths and rules, and discussing how communities and nations are formed around standardized languages and the consequences of political involvement in language development.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It's been described as a travesty of justice. A circus. An important battle for the American people. A monumental non-event. Whatever conclusion you come to by the end of this lecture, few events better exemplify the conflict of values in the late 1960s than the trial of these eight radicals.
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