Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
The host of the Fox News shows Watters World and The Five lays out the only path forward for our nation-listening to him-in this funny, offbeat book which echoes his irreverent voice--
At one of the most chaotic periods in American history, in a time of national distrust and despair, one tanned TV host holds the key to the future.
In How I Saved the World, Jesse Watters takes readers on a tour of his life from basement-dwelling Fox minion to pampered...
4) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health-and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
'In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.' So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which beloved poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When thirty-eight jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land in Gander, Newfoundland, on September 11, 2001, due to the closing of U.S. airspace, the citizens of this small community and surround towns were called upon to care for the thousands of distraught travelers. Their response to this challenge was truly extraordinary. Oz Fudge, the town constable searched all over Gander for a flight-crew member so that he could give her a...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The hidden history of Wall Street and the White House comes down to a single, powerful, quintessentially American concept: confidence. Both centers of power, tapping brazen innovations over the past three decades, learned how to manufacture it. Until August 2007, when that confidence finally began to crumble. In this gripping and brilliantly reported book, Ron Suskind tells the story of what happened next, as Wall Street struggled to save itself while...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Finnish journalist and naturalized American citizen compares and contrasts life in the U.S. with life in the Nordic region to encourage Americans to draw on practices from the Nordic way of life to create a fairer, happier, more secure, and less stressful society.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The church in America is being shaken like never before, from rampant deception and lawlessness to intense cultural pressures to conform and compromise. Pastor Allen Jackson reveals a biblical perspective on the events unfolding in our nation, and shows readers how they can hold onto hope and flourish, even in the midst of the shaking--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and provocative collection of poems that cut to the heart of the entrenched racism and oppression in America and eloquently explores ongoing events. A book in the tradition of James Baldwin's A Report from Occupied Territory, Light for the World to See is a rap session on race. A lyrical response to the struggles of Black lives in our world . . . to America's...
Author
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed -- and what hasn't. Following a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis in the south to Cape Wrath in the north, by way of places...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Cheryl Strayed recounts the impact of her mother's death on her life at age twenty-two and chronicles her experiences after she made the impulsive decision to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert all the way into Washington State.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request