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Author
Publisher
S&S/Simon Element
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Let go of perfect and become a transformative, positive influence in a child's life while creating your own definition of success from developmental psychologist and podcaster Dr. Aliza Pressman.
"My go-to for how we all raise good humans, including ourselves!" —Drew Barrymore
In the age of high-pressure parenting, when so many of us feel like we've got to get everything...
Let go of perfect and become a transformative, positive influence in a child's life while creating your own definition of success from developmental psychologist and podcaster Dr. Aliza Pressman.
"My go-to for how we all raise good humans, including ourselves!" —Drew Barrymore
In the age of high-pressure parenting, when so many of us feel like we've got to get everything...
2) World War I
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"World War I reshaped the world as we know it and laid the groundwork for the second world war. But how did the fighting start? And what brought about its end? Explore the war that redrew the world map with easy-to-understand content tied to the curriculum of upper-elementary and middle school students and text written at a 2nd to 3rd grade reading level. Dyslexia-friendly font and design make learning accessible, and a recap at the end promotes checking...
Author
Series
Publisher
SportsZone, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Each week, football coaches and players spend hours planning what they think is the perfect game plan. On the weekend, players take to the field and hope all of that planning and practice leads to victory. This title introduces readers to the tactics of America's most popular sport, including the coaches who make decisions that affect every play of the game and the talented players who can make the difference between winning and losing. The title...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Based on real accounts of Britain's Land Girls and the Forgotten Blitz, The British Booksellers highlights the courageous choices we must make to live, love, and--in the face of all that tests us--fight for what matters most"--
Author
Publisher
John F. Blair, Publisher
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In 1950s New Orleans, a young woman steps into her white tulle gown and glides down the long hallway of her parents' house into the front garden. Her father, a respected surgeon, drives her downtown, where she will make her debut into Negro society. Though mesmerized by the rituals, Sybil Haydel, 17, cannot help but note their irony in a world where she daily faces the barriers and insults of Jim Crow. Thirteen years later, Sybil lies sleepless in...
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Combining authoritative, exciting text and bold images, The World War I Book explores the historical background of the war, its causes, all of the key events across the major theatres of conflict, and its aftermath. Using the original, graphic-led approach of the series, entries profile more than 90 of the key events during and surrounding the conflict – from the growing tensions between Europe’s major powers to the assassination of Archduke Franz...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"His epic narrative begins with Rupert Brooke, "the handsomest young man in England" and perhaps its most famous young poet in the halcyon days of the Edwardian Age, and ends five years later with Wilfred Owen, killed in action at twenty-five, only one week before the armistice. With bitter irony, Owen's mother received the telegram informing her of his death on November 11, just as church bells tolled to celebrate the war's end. Korda's dramatic...
8) War game
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Three English boys leave their idyllic country lives to fight in the trenches of World War One. On Christmas Day, as if by miracle, a soccer match is started between the German and English soldiers.
9) In ascension
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, traveling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic Ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of Earth's first life forms--what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our...
Author
Publisher
Advantage Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Early in his career, Gwizdak spent decades in the corporate trenches and saw the dangers of environments where everyone takes, takes, takes - instead of giving. A life-threatening car accident spurred him to escape the toxicity and start his own consulting firm, which adheres to a strict "no assholes" policy. With clarity and honesty, Stan shares the successes and failures that helped him grow his business - and shows that when we do good, even more...