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Author
Publisher
Homebound Publications
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Ann Nyberg is WTNH-TV's longest-serving anchor/reporter in station history. Ann anchors the 6 and 10 o'clock nightly newscasts. Ann has been a storyteller her entire life, it all started with a diary her Mother gave her for Christmas when she was just 8 years old, and the rest is history. In her debut book, Slices of Life, Ann pulls pages from that diary to share with you; reflecting on her childhood, life lessons, and the importance of living each...
142) Toys in space
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A group of toys, left out at night for the first time, begins to be afraid but the WonderDoll distracts them by weaving a story of lost toys, space travel, and a strange alien.
Author
Language
English
Description
In the world of education, innovation often arises from unconventional blends. "Drawing Data with Kids" is a testament to this fact, offering a refreshing approach to teaching data literacy. This unique initiative ingeniously marries data visualization with artistic exploration, creating an engaging learning experience that captivates young minds.
"Drawing Data with Kids" isn't merely a book; it's an adventure. With its enchanting narratives...
Author
Language
English
Description
Pretty much everyone has an opinion about what might be "true"...and what in the world "love" is. According to spiritual healers of yore, maintaining one's health & well-being spiritually is only possible when one has a right understanding of both Truth and Love. This commemorative installment of the SPIRITUAL HEALTH & WELLNESS collection takes a look at real love in human as well as divine terms. It also explores the unreality of death; another topic...
146) Let Me Down Easy
Author
Language
English
Description
Compiled from dozens of interviews conducted by the author, Anna Deavere Smith's Let Me Down Easy is a bracing, tender, melancholy, and triumphant exploration of death and dying. The speakers Smith inhabits include healthcare professionals, theologians, artists, athletes, and activists. They speak of the body as a battleground, a tool, a weapon, a joy, a burden. Smith's great gift has always been her ability to break down her subjects' defenses and...
147) An eagle in the snow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1940 England, stuck in a train tunnel while German fighter jets fly overhead, Barney hears an unlikely story of a highly decorated World War I soldier who once had a chance to kill young Adolf Hitler.
148) Bedtime stories
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Marty Bronson raises his son and daughter on his own. He has to sell his homey motel to Barry Nottingham who promises to make Marty's son manager. But, Nottingham pulls down the motel and builds a pricey hotel. Now grown up, Marty's son, Skeeter, works as a janitor and general servant. He still dreams of becoming the manager. When Nottingham announces a brand-new hotel, built on an existing school's property, he makes his future son-in-law, Kendall,...
149) First-Person America
Author
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Between 1938 and 1942 the Federal Writers' Project set out to create a first-person portrait of America by sending young writers-many of whom later became famous-around the country to interview people from all occupations and backgrounds. This book presents 80 of these diverse life histories, including the stories of a North Carolina patent-medicine pitchman, a retired Oregon prospector, a Bahamian midwife from Florida, a Key West smuggler, recent...
150) The Hero
Author
Language
English
Description
WHAT MAKES A HERO? WHO BETTER TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION THAN LEE CHILD...
In his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion-selling Jack Reacher series explores the endurance of heroes from Achilles to Bond, showing us how this age-old myth is a fundamental part of what makes us human. He demonstrates how hero stories continue to shape our world - arguing that we need them now more than ever.
From the Stone Age to the Greek Tragedies,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Due to the abundance of information and stimuli in today's society, customers are becoming less attentive. Marketing and communication experts have emphasized storytelling, or rather, the creation of stories around companies or products, in an effort to draw customers in, foster engagement, and increase sales.Apple, Disney, Coca-Cola, Ford, Havaianas and Nike are excellent storytellers and that is the fundamental similarity that unites them as influential...
152) The Endless Creative
Author
Language
English
Description
Let's face it: we love a good story-the twists and turns, the surprise endings, the unforgettable characters-but have you ever paused to think about your own story?
Who's telling it? Where's it heading? And why doesn't it feel as exciting as the ones you read or watch? No dragons, no spaceships, no time travel-seriously!
Have you ever felt like your own story lost its plot? Maybe you've taken a wrong turn and wandered too far off the map. Or perhaps...
Author
Publisher
Chalice Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
What if we could actually change the world by telling better stories? What if the world we have-with its racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, religious hatred, ecological disregard-is exactly the world we have spun into existence through the stories we have told? In his new book, Melvin Bray insists that a better world is possible if the stories around which we organize our lives begin to match the beauty we imagine is possible. Bray puts forth...
154) Life of Pi
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.
155) Lovely War
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Greek goddess Aphrodite recounts two tales of tragic love during WWI to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, in a luxe Manhattan hotel room at the height of World War II. She seeks to answer the age-old question: "Why are Love and War eternally drawn to one another?" but her quest for a conclusion that will satisfy her jealous husband uncovers a multi-threaded tale of prejudice, trauma, and music revealing that War is no match for the...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Irish Author and Poet, Greg McVicker, brings us on three, true-life adventures from his childhood while growing up in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
These hilarious, heartwarming stories will have readers laughing continuously, all the while reflecting on their own memories of yesterday. This book is suitable for all ages!
Every character within The Adventures of Silly Billy are Greg's family, friends, and people that he knew within his community...
Author
Language
English
Description
Getting a good home video is hit-or-miss. Plenty of times, they're dark and fuzzy and Aunt Myrna is washed out and Junior . . . do his eyes always look like that? This unique, accessible guide for living room and classroom provides step-by-step instructions with ten "assignments," plus ideas and information on everything from basic concepts to planning, shooting, and editing, Making Real-Life Videos frees the talents of anyone who has ever wanted...
Author
Language
English
Description
Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater is the first systematic exploration of how sung forms of drama tell stories. Through examples from opera's origins to contemporary musicals, Nina Penner examines the roles of character-narrators and how they differ from those in literary and cinematic works, how music can orient spectators to characters' points of view, how being privy to characters' inner thoughts and feelings may evoke feelings of sympathy...
Author
Language
Français
Description
Le récit sensible d'une redécouverte sonore du monde...
Que comprend-on quand on n'entend pas ? Comment vit-on et vous écoute-t-on ? Et que ressent-on quand toutes sortes de bruits, de l'eau sur la vaisselle à la sonnerie de porte, reviennent dans le quotidien ?
Isabelle Fruchart, comédienne, a consigné avec finesse et humour l'histoire de ses oreilles, de la perte quasi-totale de l'ouïe à 14 ans à l'appareillage, à 37 ans. On se laisse...
160) Tango: M+J2+J7
Author
Language
English
Description
Hailed as "the greatest cabaret artist of [V's] generation" in the New Yorker, Mx. Justin Vivian Bond makes a brilliant literary debut with this candid and hilarious coming-of-age tale. Bond recalls in vivid detail how it looked and felt to first discover Mom's lipstick (Iced Watermelon by Revlon), and how dreary it could be for a trans/queer kid to join the Cub Scouts. Always haunted by the knowledge of being "different," Bond began to create intimate...
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