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One Lord, One God, Same Lord, Same God
by C. KeechAn introduction to the similarities of the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the Holy Koran
The Grave Marker
by Don LacroixAn intriguing tale about the ivory trade, and two brothers who overcome the adversity of slavery, leaping through history from Zanzibar and Victorian London to the thriving ivory factories of the Connecticut coast. They remain separate but free, bonded together forever in the spirit of a carved ivory serpent cane.
How Katie Got a Voice (and a Cool New Nickname)
by Patricia L. MervineThe students and teachers of Cherry Street School all have nicknames that celebrate their differences. But the new girl, Katie, is really different. She can't walk. She can't talk. It seems like she can't do anything. So how can the other students involve her in their activities? And how can they give her a nickname?
Paddleduck! #2: Julie, Living in Texas
by Aunt JulieJust when you thought you read all about Julie, A Little Girl From Texas, there is more. Julie went swimming and her Grandfather said she looked like a duck paddling in the water. He called her, "Paddleduck." Paddleduck Julie also loved to jump off the diving board. Her friend Tama did belly busters. Paddleduck talks about Ashley and Kendall's mom, when she cooked her roast it looked like a log and when she fried her chicken, it looked boiled. Paddleduck tells about her summer in San Antonio, Uncle Albert's smelly feet, the family picnic and she remembers the, "Alamo." Her cousin Allison and Jean visit from New York and Ginnye, their driver, gets a speeding ticket on the way to the beach. Paddleduck sees Ms. Kandy with two men in white space suits. Honey Bees? A bird named, Ronnie, knocked on the window and said, "yee-ha". At Vicki's birthday party, someone hid onions in Kelly's hot dog and Paddleducks cupcake had a bite taken out, Rhonda had chocolate on her face. The Girl Scouts went on a trip to Busch Gardens and they rode a sweet elephant named, Alma. At the YMCA, Peggy told Darlene not to go near the alligators. See what happens when she does. Aron and Andie feed the goats they named, Dougy and Holdy. Did they see a ghost? Jessica and her dog, Baby, eating hamburgers, a snoopy cat named Little Debbie, and more. Enjoy as Paddleduck Julie shares her lively childhood stories.
The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life
by Robin SharmaFor more than fifteen years, Robin Sharma has been quietly sharing with Fortune 500 companies and many of the super-rich a success formula that has made him one of the most sought-after leadership advisers in the world. Now, for the first time, Sharma makes his proprietary process available to you, so that you can get to your absolute best while helping your organization break through to a dramatically new level of winning in these wildly uncertain times. In The Leader Who Had No Title, you will learn: • How to work with and influence people like a superstar, regardless of your position • A method to recognize and then seize opportunities in times of deep change • The real secrets of intense innovation • An instant strategy to build a great team and become a "merchant of wow" with your customers • Hard-hitting tactics to become mentally strong and physically tough enough to lead your field • Real-world ways to defeat stress, build an unbeatable mind-set, unleash energy, and balance your personal life. Regardless of what you do within your organization and the current circumstances of your life, the single most important fact is that you have the power to show leadership. Wherever you are in your career or life, you should always play to your peak abilities. This book shows you how to claim that staggering power, as well as transform your life—-and the world around you-—in the process.
No Limits: The Will to Succeed
by Michael Phelps Alan AbrahamsonMichael Phelps, winner of 8 gold medals in the 2008 olympics for swimming lives his life with three rules for success. Set goals, take responsibility, and practice discipline. This is the in depth story of how he came to win those eight gold medals.
Dr. Vermeij's Conch Quest
by Laura E. Marshak Fran Pollock PrezantThis book focuses on the fascinating study of molluscs by a world renowned scientist who has been blind since childhood. Young readers learn how Dr. Vermeij also became interested in fossils, and how he traveled the world to exotic places to study them.
Satu Country: Coming Tides
by Rebecca ChanceA fire at a boarding school sparks a journey for seven teens that changes their lives. Coming Tides is the first of the Satu Country tales.
The Final Leg: A Sports Tale for Every Generation
by Stephen SandsThe Final Leg is an Iowa sports tale for every generation. Coach Ken Lincoln is on the cusp of his first team title at the state track meet until his own daughter runs a disappointing third leg of a pivotal relay for the Durant Wildcats. As father and daughter watch the final leg, Ken consoles her by telling the inspirational story of Jack Swanson, a star wide receiver for the Durant football team. In his senior season, Jack takes the blame for a team prank he did not commit. The thin-skinned football coach banishes Jack to the cross country team for a week where he bonds with Ken, who is trying to instill pride in a small group of runners often overlooked in the football-crazy school. Impressed with the new running coach, Jack decides to compete in both football and cross country that fall, a grueling combination for even the best athlete. Ken recalls that special season and the lesson he learned from Jack Swanson to restore the broken pride of his own daughter 25 years later. But don't count Durant out just yet because Jack's daughter is running the final leg!
Life Rolls On (2nd Edition)
by Rich Ochoa Duane HaleWhen he was four years old, doctors told Duane Hale's parents that their son had Spinal Muscular Atrophy and that he wouldn't live past his teens. That was forty-two years ago and he has now outlived some of those doctors. What happens to a rambunctious little boy whose disease turns him into a man who can't move? How does such a man graduate high school as Student of the Year, work twenty years for the police department, buy a house, get married, father and raise a son?This is the story of a man and the strength he derives from his family and his community. Even as the disease paralyzes more of his body every day his spirit stays strong and Life Rolls On.
Wool
by Hugh HoweyIn a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the silo's rules for years, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: He asks to go outside. <P><P> His fateful decision unleashes a drastic series of events. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace him: Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, whose special knack is fixing machines. Now Juliette is about to be entrusted with fixing her silo, and she will soon learn just how badly her world is broken. The silo is about to confront what its history has only hinted about and its inhabitants have never dared to whisper. Uprising.
To Dance with Fireflies
by Kathie HarringtonThe ghosts of Stephen Grant's Vietnam experience awaken through a rekindled twenty-six-year-old romance in the middle of Iowa that transforms him forever. Forty-five-year-old Steven lives alone in the world he has built around himself, a labyrinth of artifacts and history, memories and ghosts until July 4, 1993. When Audrey Benway reenters his life, secrets unravel and shadows of the past quarter of a century struggle against each other with passion, love, and grief. Nothing can stop Stephen and his Audie as they encounter life, as we all want to discover, how "To Dance with Fireflies. "
The Dark Garden
by Margaret BuffieThea, a 16-year-old suffering from traumatic amnesia, struggles to discover who she is - and who she is not. She hears voices no one can hear, and sees people in the garden no one can see.
Living in Harmony: Nature Writing by Women in Canada
by Andrea Pinto Lebowitz20 Canadian women write about Origins, Explorations, Home, Encounters, Place, Gardens, For the Future, and On the Form.
The Outsider
by Barbara DelinskyOn a tiny island, Summer is a living her life the way her mother and grandmother did, as a healer, alone, independent, and self-sufficient, until Cameron rescues her from the churning sea...
Enemy Within
by Christiane Heggan30 years ago, a woman accused of killing her husband placed her newborn daughter on a convent's steps and staged her own death. She leaves behind a mystery that will rock a family 3 decades later...
The Trade
by Shirley PalmerAs a wildfire rages in the canyons around Malibu, Matt Lowell stumbles upon a newborn baby who dies in his arms.
Deadly Grace
by Taylor SmithOn a cold winter night in a small Minnesota town in 1979, Grace Meade is killed and her house is set ablaze. Incredibly, the prime suspect is her own daughter Jillian.
My Name Is Parvana
by Deborah EllisOn a military base in post-Taliban Afghanistan, American authorities have just imprisoned a teenaged girl found in a bombed-out school. The army major thinks she may be a terrorist working with the Taliban. The girl does not respond to questions in any language and remains silent, even when she is threatened, harassed and mistreated over several days. The only clue to her identity is a tattered shoulder bag containing papers that refer to people named Shauzia, Nooria, Leila, Asif, Hassan — and Parvana. In this long-awaited sequel to The Breadwinner Trilogy, Parvana is now fifteen years old. As she waits for foreign military forces to determine her fate, she remembers the past four years of her life. Reunited with her mother and sisters, she has been living in a village where her mother has finally managed to open a school for girls. But even though the Taliban has been driven from the government, the country is still at war, and many continue to view the education and freedom of girls and women with suspicion and fear. As her family settles into the routine of running the school, Parvana, a bit to her surprise, finds herself restless and bored. She even thinks of running away. But when local men threaten the school and her family, she must draw on every ounce of bravery and resilience she possesses to survive the disaster that kills her mother, destroys the school, and puts her own life in jeopardy. A riveting page-turner, Deborah Ellis's new novel is at once harrowing, inspiring and thought-provoking. And, yes, in the end, Parvana is reunited with her childhood friend, Shauzia.
The Craft of Teaching
by Kenneth E. EbleThis classic on college teaching offers fresh insights on how students learn and how to make the best use of the classroom for assignments, tests, grades and textbooks.
Cross-Functional Teams: Working with Allies, Enemies, and Other Strangers
by Glenn M. ParkerA practical guide to fluid and productive collaborations, with concrete advice to team members, team leaders, and senior management.
Tracy and Hepburn: An Intimate Memoir
by Garson KaninA biography of Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, and their lives.
The Poor Sore Paw
by Joy CowleyDog gets his paw stuck in the wooden bridge and no one can get past him. Can Sam and Jessie help him to get free?
The Ultimate Egoist: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume 1
by Theodore SturgeonVolume 1 of the complete stories of Theodore Sturgeon, one of sci fi's greatest masters