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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A refreshingly honest, deeply researched, and frequently hilarious deep-dive into the cultural crisis of bad sex, as one brave sex columnist recruits the counsel of coaches, psychologists, pro-dommes, and peers in the pursuit of pleasure. Far more alarming than the millennial "sex recession"-the phenomenon of young people having less sex than previous generations-is that we're in the middle of a bad sex epidemic that all generations are suffering...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In this groundbreaking book, Selina O'Grady examines how and why the post-Christian and the Islamic worlds came to be as tolerant or intolerant as they are. She asks whether tolerance can be expected to heal today's festering wound between these two worlds, or whether something deeper than tolerance is needed. Told through contemporary chronicles, stories and poems, Selina O'Grady takes the reader through the intertwined histories of the Muslim, Christian...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
...Senior fellow at the Cato Institute and opinion writer for The New York Times, both diagnoses "the crisis of Islam" in the modern world, and offers a way forward. Diving deeply into Islamic theology, and also sharing lessons from his own life story, he reveals how Muslims lost the universalism that made them a great civilization in their earlier centuries. He especially demonstrates how values often associated with Western Enlightenment -- freedom,...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When nineteen-year-old Gem of the Desert People, called Monstrous by the Smooth Skins, becomes the prisoner of the seventeen-year-old Smooth Skin queen, Isra, age-old prejudices begins to fall aside as the two begin to understand each other.
8) Half bad
Author
Series
Half bad trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In modern-day England, where witches live alongside humans, Nathan, son of a White witch and the most powerful Black witch, must escape captivity before his seventeenth birthday and receive the gifts that will determine his future.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For 2,000 years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Outlines a system of secular ethics that both transcends religion and incorporates religious tolerance for the overall improvement of human life on individual, community and global levels, offering an accompanying guided meditation practice for cultivating key human values.
12) Deadly virtues
Author
Series
Gabriel Ash and Hazel Best mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
When an inmate who knew he was about to be killed gives him a cryptic message before being beaten to death, Ash, a man from an English town where the low crime rate is linked to a chief's zero-tolerance policy, shares his knowledge with police recruit Hazel Best, who risks her career to uncover the truth.
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From Tripoli in 1220, Elaine, a sixteen-year-old Christian princess, and Prince Conrad, her eighteen-year-old fiance, join Rashid, a seventeen-year-old Muslim assassin, on a quest to the court of Genghis Khan. Includes historical note.
15) His right hand
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Series
Language
English
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Description
In Draper, Utah, a tight-knit Mormon community is thrown into upheaval when their ward's second counselor -- one of the bishop's right-hand men -- is found dead in an elaborately staged murder on church property. Carl Ashby was known as a devout Mormon, a pillar of the community, and a loving husband and father. Who would want him dead? Linda Wallheim, the wife of the ward's bishop, can't rest as long as the ward is suffering. She is particularly...
16) A church for all
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Celebrates a diverse community on a Sunday morning at an inclusive church that welcomes all people regardless of age, class, race, gender identity, and sexual orientation. Come to the church for all!"--
Author
Language
English
Description
L.A. is no place for widows. This is what Hannah Bernal quickly discovers after the tragic death of her loving husband, John. Misery and red-rimmed eyes are little tolerated in the land of the beautiful. But life stumbles on: Hannah{u2019}s sweet three-year-old daughter, Ellie, needs to be dropped off at her overpriced preschool, while Hannah herself must get back to work in order to pay the bills on "Casa Sugar," the charming Spanish-styled bungalow...
Author
Publisher
Future Horizons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Presenting a positive image of persons with disabilities, "Special People, Special Ways" shares the message that even though being different is painful at times, it can also be glorious. Maguire explains that although people may have something different about them, they share many similarities.
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