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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon. On May 25, 1961, JFK made an astonishing announcement: his goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In this engrossing, fast-paced epic, Douglas Brinkley returns to the...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In the unique landscape of the Camargue in the South of France during WW2, a young autistic boy lives on his parents' farm among the salt flats and the flamingos that live there. There are lots of things he doesn't understand, but he does know how to heal animals. He loves routine and music too; every week he goes to market with his mother, to ride his special horse on the town carousel. But then the Germans come, with their guns, and take the town....
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then celebrated as one of America's most prosperous. Thirty-four square blocks of Tulsa's Greenwood community, then known as the "Negro Wall Street of America", were reduced to smoldering rubble. And now, decades later, the death toll of what was known as the Tulsa Race...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1469
Publisher
New Directions Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's A Treatise on Stars extends the intensely phenomenological poetics of 'The Star Field' in Empathy, which appeared over thirty years ago. The book is structured as a continuous enfolding of poems, each made up of numbered serial parts, their presiding poetic consciousness moving from the desert arroyo of New Mexico to the white-tailed deer of Maine and between conversations with daughter, husband, friends, pets (corn snake...
Author
Publisher
Dey Street Books, an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Tap into your "Soul GPS" with this essential guide to the healing power of crystals, from their ancient origins to their modern-day applications. Since the dawn of time, people have been drawn to gemstones, using them in burial rites, divination practices, healing rituals, spiritual attunement, and as adornment reflecting wealth, power, beliefs or societal roles. For millennia, crystals have been believed to restore and enhance physical, mental,...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A posthumous collection of more than 100 Ginsberg poems is largely comprised of spontaneously penned or forgotten works included in letters or sent to obscure publications and is arranged in chronological order and complemented by extensive author notes. --Publisher's description.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Facing dangerous overcrowding on their home planets, the Galaxy Alliance sends an expedition to discover new habitable worlds. When the exploratory force encounters the threat of the Drule Empire on their journey, the brave pilots of the Turbo Terrain Fighter Team, Aqua Fighter Team, and Strato Fighter Team must combine to form the unstoppable robot Voltron, the defender of the universe! Join Jeff, Cliff, Krik and their teams of brave pilots on 52...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"By the power of Grayskull, I have the power!" With those magical words, Prince Adam of Eternia is transformed into the valiant defender of his realm, and a television icon was born! Inspired by the wildly popular toys, the original He-Man series became a cultural phenomenon starring He-Man, Orko, Skeletor, Man-at-Arms, and more unforgettable characters.
10) Dead silence
Author
Publisher
Nightfire/Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed--made obsolete--when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate. What they find at the other end of the signal is a shock: the Aurora, a famous luxury space-liner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. A salvage claim like this could set Claire and...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The internationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her eighties. In a series of vignettes full of affection, irony, and good humor, Donna Leon narrates a remarkable life she feels has rather more happened to her than been planned. From a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to her grandfather's farm and its beloved animals, and summers spent...
Author
Publisher
Office of Location and Environment, Iowa Dept. of Transportation
Pub. Date
2007]
Language
English
Description
Indianola Avenue is located in the southeast portion of the City of Des Moines in Polk County, Iowa. The study corridor begins at US Highway 69 (S.E. 14th Street) on the north and continues south along Indianola Avenue to East Army Post Road (formerly Iowa Highway 5). The corridor is approximately 3 miles west of U.S. Highway 65 and 1.5 miles north of Iowa Highway 5. The project location can be viewed in Exhibit 1-1. Indianola Avenue follows a route...
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