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41) WORD Bird's hats
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IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Over the course of a week, Word Bird tries on hats representing different occupations and assembles the tools he would need for each job.
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Why do otherwise intelligent individuals form seething masses of idiocy when they engage in collective action? Why do financially sensible people jump lemming-like into hare-brained speculative frenzies--only to jump broker-like out of windows when their fantasies dissolve? We may think that the Great Crash of 1929, junk bonds of the '80s, and over-valued high-tech stocks of the '90s are peculiarly 20th century aberrations, but Mackay's classic--first...
44) The loners
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Quarantine volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
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When a virus deadly to adults infects their high school, brothers David and Will and the other students soon break into gangs that fight each other for survival and the hope of escaping their quarantine.
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At a time when most communities' resources are stretched past the breaking point, how is it possible to deal with the enormous challenges that families, neighborhoods, cities, regions, and nations face today? This inspiring book takes readers to seven communities around the world where the people have walked out of limiting beliefs and practices that precluded solutions to major social problems, and walked on to discover bold new ways to meet their...
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The most popularly read, adapted, anthologized, and incorporated primer on sociology ever written for modern readers Acclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger lays the groundwork for a clear understanding of sociology in his straightforward introduction to the field, much loved by students, professors, and general readers. Berger aligns sociology in the humanist tradition-revealing its relationship to the humanities and philosophy-and establishes...
47) The awakening
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Unsatisfied with the expectations of Creole society and unhappy with her family life, Edna Pontellier begins to fall in love with the dapper Robert Lebrun. Lebrun's flirtations, along with the lifestyle of renowned musician Mademoiselle Reisz, rejuvenates Edna's sense of freedom and independence. However, an affair with the womanizer Alcee Arobin provides Edna with a taste of the danger that comes with living outside of social convention. Trapped...
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Learn to solve problems together with this nonfiction book. Ideal for young readers, the book includes a fiction story related to the topic, a connected project, glossary, useful text features, and engaging sidebars. This 28-page full-color book explores real-world problems and how individuals have come together to find solutions. It also covers key topics like creative problem-solving and brainstorming, and includes an extension activity for grade...
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In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and instincts of animals the origins of the mental abilities of humans, of language, of our social structures and our moral capacities, he attempts to show that there is no clear dividing line between animals and humans. Most importantly, he accounts for what Victorians called the 'races' of mankind by means of what he calls sexual...
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When he wrote this book, Chesterton stood virtually alone against the intellectual world of his day. Yet to his eternal credit, he showed no sign of being intimidated by the prestige of his foes. On the contrary, he thunders against eugenics, ranking it one of the great evils of modern society. And, in perhaps one of the most chillingly accurate prophecies of the century, he warns that the ideas that eugenics had unleashed were likely to bear bitter...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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In post-World War II Mississippi, two families, one white and one black, struggle to survive in the Jim Crow south.
"In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm--a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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There has been a lot of talk about "fake news" in the news lately. Being able to spot the difference between credible and non-credible sources is a vital 21st century skill to have. Learn the tricks and traps of deception and the skills required to achieve information literacy--and always get to the truth of the matter! Packed with fun facts and detailed sidebars, this informational text explores contemporary issues and high-interest, relevant subjects....
53) Ann Veronica
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Ann Veronica is a New Woman novel by H.G. Wells. Ann Veronica describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley, "a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty," against her middle-class father's stern patriarchal rule. The novel dramatizes the contemporary problem of the New Woman. It is set in Victorian era London and environs, except for an Alpine excursion. Ann Veronica offers vignettes of the Women's suffrage movement in Great Britain and features a chapter...
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#1 Steve Bannon, the Trump campaign manager, was watching the news when he saw CNN's Jim Acosta report that Trump would need a miracle to win. He couldn't believe how much Kellyanne Conway cared about appearances.
#2 Steve Bannon, Trump's new campaign chief, was despised by both Republicans and Democrats. He had a personal motto: Honey badger don't give a shit.
#3...
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#1 Research shows that 20 million American couples are in sexless marriages and relationships. Many other couples decide to stay together even though they are not happy in their monogamous marriage, because of financial reasons, family unity, or religious values.
#2 Consensual nonmonogamy is a relationship between two people who agree to have sexual or romantic relationships...
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#1 By the time Wayne and Kelly held their newborn sons in their arms, the couple had been married for five years. Kelly had suffered through multiple miscarriages and months of tedious and painful fertility treatments. Everything changed in 1997, when she got a phone call from her cousin Sarah, who was in trouble and didn't want to have an abortion.
#2 Kelly's...
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#1 The maternal subject is a figure that disrupts or interrupts our notions of subjectivity. Motherhood is an undiscovered country in the literary sense, and we must venture into it lest our experience go unrecorded.
#2 The division between mothering and creative work once seemed absolute. But in 1962, the careers of women with children were beginning to flourish....
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Get the Summary of Anne Case and Angus Deaton's Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
Deaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism are rising dramatically in the United States, claiming hundreds of thousands of American lives. Anne Case and Angus Deaton explain the overwhelming surge in these deaths and shed light on the social and economic forces that...
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Vous êtes toujours la personne à qui on demande d'organiser les rassemblements familiaux ou entre amis, car «vous avez ça dans le sang»? Votre patron vous demande de mettre sur pied deux journées de conférences et de formations en ligne, mais vous ne savez pas par o commencer? L'organisation d'événements semble une avenue intéressante pour votre deuxième carrière ? Vous planifiez les événements de votre entreprise par instinct, sans...