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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn't true? Talking to Strangers is a classic Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. In it, Malcolm...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When eight-year-old Keeker gets a pony, she is faced with the challenge of winning the animal's trust and friendship, and they both come to understand the phrase "You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours."
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
148 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The new novel by Natalie Babbitt, author of Tuck Everlasting
Joe Casimir needed help with the choice he had to make. But how do you choose the person who will help you choose? Mr. Boulderwall, the millionaire, knew exactly what he wanted Joe to choose. And millionaires are experts at making choices. Well, aren't they? But Vinnie, the number-two man down at Sope Electric, didn't much approve of millionaires. He said to Joe, "Listen, kid, all of 'em...
Author
Series
In death volume 33
Language
English
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Description
When a monster named Isaac McQueen, taken down by homicide cop Eve Dallas back in her uniform days, escapes from Rikers Island, he has two things in mind. One is to pick up where he left off, abducting young victims and leaving them scarred in both mind and body. The other is to get revenge on the woman who stopped him all those years ago.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
394 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Struggling in his role as a newly single father, former Army medic Kevin O'Brien moves home to Chesapeake Shores. He wants a haven for himself and his toddler son, surrounded by the family he knows he can count on, and a future that's nothing like his past. But Kevin is suddenly facing a risk he hadn't anticipated, in the form of Main Street bookseller Shanna Carlyle. Shanna immediately recognizes Kevin as a wounded soul--she's had way too much...
Author
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nancy Drew and Ned Nickerson, having traveled to Nevershare to return a lost dog, start to investigate when they realize the town's citizens have disappeared. Presented in graphic novel form.