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441) The Journey
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The Journey features one of the world's master storytellers at work as he skillfully recounts two weeks of travel around the Soviet Union in 1986. From the first paragraph, Sergio Pitol dislocates the sense of reality, masterfully and playfully blurring the lines between fiction and fact.
This adventurous story, based on the author's own travel journals, parades through some of the territories that the author lived in and traveled through (Prague,...
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Fifteen-year-old Eleanor Fromme just chopped off all of her hair. How else should she cope after hearing that her bully, James, just took his own life? When Eleanor's English teacher suggests students write a letter to a person who would never receive it to get their feelings out, Eleanor chooses James.
With each letter she writes, Eleanor discovers more about herself, even while trying to make sense of his death. And, with the help of a unique cast...
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I want to share these devotions with believers, who need encouragement to strengthen their faith, trust, belief and hope in You, Lord. My hope is these devotions will provide blessed assurance when believers encounter difficult storms along their walk and that they will be encouraged to stay committed to do Your will.
444) Sacred Self Care
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Sacred Self Care shares ideas on helping oneself so that one can learn and live one's Unique Divine Destiny to benefit oneself and others while honoring God.
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Imagine being 20 years old, leaving your home to go to another country-alone and unable to communicate!
This is the story of a young man leaving his home in Sweden to find the "streets of gold" in America. There are seven journals that are rich in information about his journey. It includes the cost of living during the early 1900's, both monetary and personal. It is a story of hardship, disappointment, struggle, and limitless tenacity all done with...
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This book is filled with poetry and words from a U.S. Air Force Veteran that documents his military service and the after-effects of war including depression, PTSD, and stress. The rise from the darkest parts of our minds are explored in the pursuit of happiness, hope, and family. See the world through his eyes. Let this be a step in the right direction to shedding light on the mental health of our active duty and veteran military members.
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These personal diaries by the author of Pippi Longstocking chronicle her experiences in Europe during WWII and her astute observations of the conflict.
Before she became internationally known for her Pippi Longstocking books, Astrid Lindgren was an aspiring author living in Stockholm with her family at the outbreak of the Second World War. The diaries she kept throughout the hostilities offer her unique perspective, as a civilian, a mother, and an...
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This invaluable record presents newly translated, firsthand accounts of Waterloo from French soldiers who fought on the frontline.
With this volume, Andrew Field completes his pioneering work on the French experience in this decisive battle. Readers can now engage with these vivid, ground-level accounts and compare them to the narratives based largely on the British perspective. They will also gain new insight into the trauma that the French experienced...
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A treasure trove of personal writings by the great post-punk singer-songwriter-with a foreword by his wife Deborah and an introduction by Jon Savage.
So ,This Is Permanence presents the lyrics and personal notebooks of one of the most enigmatic and influential music artists of the late twentieth century, Joy Division's Ian Curtis.
The fact of the band's relatively few releases belies the power and enduring fascination its music holds, especially...
450) Ophelia
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The kids at school call her rag girl because she hides under layers of oversized clothing, but she calls herself Ophelia. She hardly speaks to anyone - until one day a visiting author comes to give a talk in the school library. The writer speaks about what it means to create art, and at the end of her talk, she thanks Ophelia for asking the first question by giving her a blue notebook with her address on it. Ophelia starts to write to the author in...
451) Permanent Exhibit
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Matthew Volmer fuses the insight of extended meditation with the immediacy of social media in his new collection Permanent Exhibit. These collage-style essays experiment with stream-of-conscious musings as Vollmer opens a browser window into his own mind: letting his thoughts wander through a fast-forward montage of flying snakes, mass shootings, emoji's, pop stars, stargazing, ghosts, circuses, and a hundred other things. Full of keen observations...
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Extrait: "Chère Fifille, Je viens de passer devant le Conseil de révision qui m'a examiné et jugé bon pour le service. Aussi n'ai-je rien de plus pressé, en sortant de cette cérémonie - je suis resté trois heures debout à attendre! - que de m'installer au café, place de l'Alma, et à la lueur d'un Dubonnet à l'eau, de mettre la main à la plume pour vous faire assavoir la chose."
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The military historian and expert on the Waterloo campaign presents a fascinating selection of firsthand accounts never before published in English.
Andrew Field has written several important volumes on the Battle of Waterloo from the French perspective. Now he takes his pioneering work a step further by publishing these accounts, with all their vivid and personal detail, in full. This volume features Napoleons own description of the battle, as well...
454) Love & gelato
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Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"After her mother dies, Lina travels to Italy where she discovers her mothers's journal and sets off on an adventure to unearth her mother's secrets"--
455) The Wildwood Bakery
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Owl diaries volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Macy's little sister has wings that are too small, so Eva's class decides to raise money to buy her a flying chair, and half the class opens a bakery, and the other half opens a candy store--but soon competition between the two stores becomes more important than their goal, and Eva needs to convince the other owls that they will collect more money if everyone works as a team.
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Descendants of angels are going missing. The evil that has been waiting in the shadows has grown strong enough to step into the light. But not everyone knows about the lurking danger, not even those who stand closest to it. Treadon Nelson, captain of the football team, has enemies on his own side determined to destroy his senior year, but when he meets a mysterious girl, Ellie, who can influence the minds of others, he discovers the threat extends...
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Don't miss the laugh-out-loud novel of the year!
Online, you can choose who you want to be. If only real life were so easy…
Emma Nash may be down, but after months of wallowing, stalking her ex online and avoiding showering-because, really, who's going to care?-Emma's ready to own her newly single status, get out with her friends and chronicle her dating adventures on her private blog.
But life online doesn't always run smoothly. Stumbling upon...
458) Eva at the beach
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
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First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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72 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
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English
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Eva is very excited about a beach vacation with her family and best friend Lucy, but her secret fear of swimming where there might be hungry sharks could keep her from finding the legendary mermowls.
459) The how & the why
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"Cassandra McMurtrey has the best parents a girl could ask for; they've given Cass a life she wouldn't trade for the world. She has everything she needs--but she has questions, too. Like, to know who she is. Where she came from. Questions her adoptive parents can't answer, no matter how much they love her. But eighteen years ago, someone wrote Cass a series of letters. And they may just hold the answers Cass has been searching for. Alternating between...
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Edited and Introduced by WEK Anderson. I have all my life regretted that I did not keep a regular {journal}. I have myself lost recollection of much that was interesting and I have deprived my family and the public of some curious information by not carrying this resolution into effect. Sunday, 20 November 1825 With these words Scott began what many regard as his greatest work, a diary which was to turn into an extraordinary day-to-day account of...
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