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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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New York Times bestselling Sisters of Suspense join forces for a gripping standalone novel about a clique of popular girls whose high school friendship is marked by a tragedy that continues to haunt them decades later. Jackson and Bush take the reader's hand and twist them through this shocking tale of suspense.
"An increasingly tense race to find who's doing the killing—and who's going to survive."...
"An increasingly tense race to find who's doing the killing—and who's going to survive."...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Amy Flowers is starting seventh grade at a new school, the exclusive Allington Academy, but in order to fit in, she has to get on the right side of the League, the clique that controls the school, and its mean leader, Fiona.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After Amy Flowers' participation in a local fashion show everyone in Allington Academy wants her fashion advice, but she is worried what effect her popularity will have on her teamates on the Academic Challenge team.
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Collects personal essays and reflections that have transformed the national conversation around disability. Since its 2016 debut, the popular New York Times' "Disability" column has transformed the national dialogue around disability. Now, echoing the refrain of the disability rights movement, "Nothing about us without us," this landmark collection gathers the most powerful essays from the series that speak to the fullness of human experience-stories...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller
The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History
Now includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee's new book Song of the Cell!
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and "a magisterial account of how human minds have...
The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History
Now includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee's new book Song of the Cell!
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and "a magisterial account of how human minds have...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An essential overview of the science behind stereotypes explains why brains form them, why applying stereotypes to people can cause great harm, how stereotypes influence the sense of self, and how to recognize and overcome personal biases to promote a fairer world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
From the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia: discover Malcolm Gladwell's breakthrough debut and explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior. The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NOW A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE
“A shocking whodunit…What...
“A shocking whodunit…What...
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Language
English
Description
Describes the author's experiences as a young widow and the pivotal relationships she forged with five other widows, recounting the stories of their losses and bravery as exchanged throughout a year of monthly Saturday night meetings, during which the author met and fell in love with her current husband.
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on three years of research and reporting as well as 850 interviews with sources, many of whom have never before spoken for publication, Oprah is the first comprehensive biography of one of the most influential, powerful, and admired public figures of our time. Anyone who is a fan of Oprah Winfrey or who has followed her extraordinary life and career will be fascinated and newly informed by the closely observed, detailed, and well-rounded portrait...
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Language
English
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A history of the class system in America from the colonial era to the present illuminates the crucial legacy of the underprivileged white demographic, citing the pivotal contributions of lower-class white workers in wartime, social policy, and the rise of the Republican Party.
Author
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
The story of a kind of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't even think exists—from a leading national poverty expert who "defies convention." (The New York Times)
Jessica Compton's family of four would have no income if she didn't donate plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter,...
The story of a kind of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't even think exists—from a leading national poverty expert who "defies convention." (The New York Times)
Jessica Compton's family of four would have no income if she didn't donate plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An assessment of the human condition in the twenty-first century presents data demonstrating that life quality, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise throughout the world because of the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science.
Author
Language
English
Description
An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea—a closed world of increasing global importance—hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporting” (The New York Review of Books), with a new afterword that revisits these stories—and North Korea more broadly—in 2022, in the wake of the pandemic
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
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