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Pub. Date
2008
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English
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During the Civil War, 620,000 soldiers lost their lives—equivalent to six million in today's population. This Republic of Suffering explores the impact of the enormous death toll from material, political, intellectual, and spiritual angles.
Drew Gilpin Faust delineates the ways death changed not only individual lives, but the life of the nation, and describes how a deeply religious culture reconciled the slaughter with its belief in
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Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
Two Colorado authors, one on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, the other on the western, begin writing letters to one another at the beginning of Colorado's shelter-in-place orders. Their friendship forms and blooms amidst discussions of COVID-19, nature, politics, and daily life.
88) Digital madness: how social media is driving our mental health crisis--and how to restore our sanity
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"From the author of the provocative and influential Glow Kids: Revolutionary research that reveals technology's damaging effect on mental illness and suicide rates--and offers a way out. Dr. Nicholas Kardaras is at the forefront of researchers sounding the alarm about the impact of excessive technology on younger brains. In Glow Kids, he described what screen time does to children, calling it "digital heroin". Now, in Digital Madness, Dr. Kardaras...
Publisher
Film Ideas, Inc
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A film documentary about the lives of inner city youths. It is s story of an inner city baseball team with a dedicated coach, and players who use their talents and drive to survive a neighborhood formerly known as the "crack capital" of the world.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Readers learn about Mattel Toys and the background behind Barbie's concept and development, how it was a solution for girls who wanted to imagine adult roles rather than just play mother, and details about inventor Ruth Handler."--Amazon.com.
95) The Surrendered
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Read an essay by Chang-rae Lee here.
The bestselling, award-winning writer of Native Speaker, Aloft, and My Year Abroad returns with his biggest, most ambitious novel yet: a spellbinding story of how love and war echo through an entire lifetime.
With his three critically acclaimed novels, Chang-rae Lee has established himself as one of the most talented writers of contemporary literary...
Author
Publisher
White Lion Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Instagram is the fastest growing of all social media platforms, with 400 million monthly active users worldwide half of whom are under the age of twenty-five. While some use the app as a personal networking tool, many also use it to build their creative business endeavours; whether in food and drink or fashion and lifestyle. Sara Tasker has done just that, and since setting up her account whilst on maternity leave in 2013, has become an Instagram...
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English
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"The most up-to-date science on the genetics of who we are and where we come from, showing us a more scientifically enlightened way to talk colloquially about race"--
Racist pseudoscience can be hard to spot, but its toxic effects on society are plain to see: feeding nationalism, fueling hatred, endangering lives, and corroding our discourse on everything from sports to intelligence. Cutting-edge genetics are hard to grasp-- and all too easy to distort....
98) The richer sex: how the new majority of female breadwinners is transforming sex, love, and family
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
A revolution is under way. Within a generation, more households will be supported by women than by men. Journalist Liza Mundy takes us to the frontier of this new economic order: she shows us why this flip is inevitable, what painful adjustments will have to be made along the way, and how both men and women will feel surprisingly liberated in the end. Couples today are debating who must assume the responsibility of primary earner and who gets the...
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Series
Publisher
Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In this title, readers learn common symptoms and behaviors of dyslexia and how it affects kids at school and in relationships. Text includes suggestions on how to be a kind and respectful friend to someone who has dyslexia and appropriate activities kids can enjoy together. A famous person who has overcome the challenges of dyslexia is highlighted."--Amazon.com.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred. This is her story.
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