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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...
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IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 11
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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...
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2016.
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"'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....
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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...
7) Ground Zero
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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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.
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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.
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W. W. Norton & Company
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English
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The journalist and former U.S. State Department official explores the decline of American diplomacy and traditional statecraft, the abdication of global leadership, and how the work of peacemaking has been taken over by the military-industrial complex.
15) Caribou
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English
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A collection of poems that meditates on life and nature while exploring the author's restless pursuit of a divine reality.
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Moving seamlessly between private lyric ad public documents such as the Declaration of Independence, accounts for near-death experiences, letters and testimonies of African Americans enlisted in the Civil War, and the survivors' reports of recent immigrants and refugees, these are poems on a variety of scales and in a diverse chorus of voices. No matter the approach, Smith's signature voice-inquisitive and wry-turns over what it means to be a citizen,...
17) What if Latin America ruled the world?: how the South will take the North through the 21st century
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Bloomsbury Press
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c2010
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English
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English
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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...
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An exuberant, opinionated, stereotype-busting view of contemporary Africa in all its splendid diversity by one of its leading new writers. A lively and diverse continent of fifty-four countries, over two thousand languages, and 1.4 billion people, Africahas long been painted with a broad brush in Western literature, media, and culture, flattening it into a monolith. In Africa is Not a Country, the acclaimed journalist Dipo Faloyin boldly counters...
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