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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A "courageous and singular book" (Andrew Solomon), Memory's Last Breath is an unsparing, beautifully written memoir — "an intimate, revealing account of living with dementia" (Shelf Awareness).
Based on the "field notes" she keeps in her journal, Memory's Last Breath is Gerda Saunders' astonishing window into a life distorted by dementia. She writes about shopping trips cut short by unintentional shoplifting, car...
Based on the "field notes" she keeps in her journal, Memory's Last Breath is Gerda Saunders' astonishing window into a life distorted by dementia. She writes about shopping trips cut short by unintentional shoplifting, car...
Author
Series
Solvers volume 2
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The Solvers accidentally drink a shrinking potion, and need to learn all about fractions and decimals in order to mix an antidote to stop the evil Null Void from taking over the city in their absence.
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Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Reeling from recent events, even Hawkeye wants to know what his new status quo is. Who's with him? Who's against him? Who's trying to kill him and why? So many dang questions! And just when Clint's rock bottom couldn't arrive fast enough...his brother shows up. After a lifetime of decisions both good and bad, Clint and Barney Barton have to realize that they are brothers and ultimately, they're the only ones who can save one another. I mean, if they...
Series
Language
English
Description
When Star Wars: A New Hope was first released in 1977, part of its appeal was that the world it presented felt alive. Landspeeders and starships were dirty. Droids broke down. And it was filled with cool, weird, and really weird background characters. (Really, just take a look around the Mos Eisley cantina.) Never mind Han, Luke, Leia, Darth Vader, and Obi-Wan. Who were these other guys? What was their story? Just seeing them brought up questions...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In "The Killer in Him," Ross McNaul works for the Circle Dot Ranch. Knowledge of a terrible secret concerning his nine-year-old son has been used by Ernest Pfarr, foreman of the ranch, to secure Ross's help in rustling the ranch stock. Now the owner of the ranch is coming West and Pfarr wants the rest of the cattle to be abandoned to the fury of a blizzard so that he can acquire the ranch himself for a fraction of what it is worth. Ross doesn't want...
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Offers an overview of how Common Core mathematics is taught, grade by grade, for parents who may not be familiar with this method of teaching mathematics who still want to help their children succeed in the subject.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The author focuses on how mathematics is created rather than on mathematical facts and teaches the subject without requiring memorization or any mathematical knowledge beyond basic computation.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The author explores 250 of the most significant and interesting chemistry milestones from c. 500,000 BCE to 2030. Chronologically organized, the entries each consist of a short summary and an image. The book presents an array of discoveries, theories, and technological applications as it traces the evolution of the "central science"--Publisher's description.
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Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Antiques dealer Kate Hamilton is spending the month of May in the Suffolk village of Long Barston, enjoying time with Detective Inspector Tom Mallory. While attending the May Fair, the annual pageant based on a well-known Anglo-Saxon folktale, a body turns up in the middle of the festivities. Kate learns the murder took place in antiquity shop owner Ivor Tweedy's stockroom-- and a valuable Chinese pottery jar that she had been tasked with finding...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking account of the power of our thoughts to improve our health-by the "mother of mindfulness" and first female tenured professor of psychology at Harvard When it comes to our health, too many of us think that a medical diagnosis describes a static or worsening condition. We then live our lives as though our ailments-our stiff knees or frayed nerves or failing eyesight-can only change in one direction: for the worse. Ellen J. Langer's...
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