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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
"For three decades after Mao's death in 1976, China's leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy. They determined that any threat to their power, and that of the Chinese Communist Party, came not from abroad but from within--a conclusion cemented by the 1989 Tiananmen crisis. To facilitate the country's inexorable economic ascendence, and to prevent a backlash, they reassured the outside world of China's peaceful intentions. Then, as...
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
Long before Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly became a fixture in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, he was a young M.B. with plans to marry midwife Dierdre Mawhinney. Those plans were complicated by the outbreak of World War II and the call of duty. Assigned to the HMS "Warspite," a formidable 30,000-ton battleship, Surgeon Lieutenant O'Reilly soon found himself face-to-face with the hardships of war, tending to the dreadnought's crew of...
Author
Series
Walking Dead graphic novels volume 32
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Commonwealth and Alexandria have joined forces but at what cost to Rick?
44) Ukulele moon
Author
Publisher
Kindle Studios
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Award-winning children's musician Emily Arrow has a collection of moon-themed songs for calm and rest (for ages zero-seven). Each of the eight phases of the moon has a song! Children can listen nightly to Ukulele Moon's playful melodies, with familiar tunes such as, Fly Me To The Moon and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and all-new Emily Arrow originals.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Six-year-old Sachiko and her family suffered greatly after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and in the years that followed, the miraculous survival of a ceramic bowl became a key part of Sachiko's journey toward peace"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An intimate and revealing memoir of a lifelong struggle to speak"--
In the fall of 2019, John Hendrickson wrote a groundbreaking story for The Atlantic about Joe Biden's decades-long journey with stuttering, as well as his own. The article went viral, reaching readers around the world and altering the course of Hendrickson's life. Overnight, he was forced to publicly confront an element of himself that still caused him great pain. He soon learned...
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Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai, a female scientist who made a stand in the face of opposition to women's rights and her own Greenbelt Movement, an effort to restore Kenya's ecosystem by planting millions of trees"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Dresden files volume 16
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When the Supernatural nations of the world meet up to negotiate an end to ongoing hostilities, Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, joins the White Council's security team to make sure the talks stay civil. But can he succeed, when dark political manipulations threaten the very existence of Chicago--and all he holds dear?
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 20
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
Richard Sharpe, after winning the battle for the city of Toulouse, France, must find the person who has accused him of stealing a consignment of Napoleon's treasure.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Ellie Sokoloff is attending Ventana Ranch School in Big Sur, because she hopes that the wide-open setting will cure her claustrophobia and she was delighted to find Eliza Hart her childhood friend also in attendance; but Eliza has changed and for no apparent reason starts spreading rumors about Ellie, until one day she is found dead--now Ellie must find out what happened to her one-time best friend, and who killed her, not least because she herself...
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Publisher
A TarcherPerigee Book
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Healthy boundaries. We all know we should have them--in order to achieve work/life balance, cope with toxic people, and enjoy rewarding relationships with partners, friends, and family. But what do "healthy boundaries" really mean--and how can we successfully express our needs, say "no," and be assertive without offending others?"--
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The Wild West has gone to Hell, literally, and the world's best hope of being saved lies in the gun-slinging hands of Sheriff Roy Pulsipher as he becomes the newest officer for the Rest In Peace Department (R.I.P.D.) enforcing the afterlife's laws. If the Old West was wild while he was alive, wait until Roy sees how weird it gets once he dies. Roy thought joining the R.I.P.D. would give him a chance to revisit his daughter and solve the mystery of...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mention the Civil Rights era in Alabama, and most people recall images of terrible violence. But something different was happening in Huntsville. For the citizens of that city, creativity, courage, and cooperation were the keys to working together to integrate their city and schools in peace. In an engaging celebration of this lesser-known chapter in American and African-American history, author Hester Bass and illustrator E. B. Lewis show children...
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An experienced meditation teacher dispels popular misconceptions about the Buddhist practice of mindfulness and shows readers how practicing mindfulness can allow them to live with awareness, wisdom, and a genuine freedom amid all the challenging conditions of life"--
Author
Publisher
David C Cook
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Kara Tippetts knows the ordinary days of mothering four kids, the joy of watching her children grow . . . and the devastating reality of stage IV cancer. In The Hardest Peace, Kara doesn't offer answers for when living is hard, but rather she asks us to join her in moving away from fear and control and toward peace and grace. Most of all, she draws us back to the God who is with us in the mundane and the suffering, and who shapes even our unmet expectations...
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