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Tuesdays with Morrie : an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
Mitch Albom
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Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly ...
1997; 192 p.; isbn:0385484518 More Information |
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Fast food nation : the dark side of the all-American meal
Eric Schlosser
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Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning.Schlosser's myth-shattering ...
2001; 356 p.; isbn:0395977894 More Information |
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In these girls, hope is a muscle
Madeleine Blais
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A look at the trials and triumphs of high school girls' basketball chronicles one season of the Lady Hurricanes of Amherst, Massachusetts, as they learn loyalty and self-confidence on their way to a championship game
266 p.; isbn:0446672106 More Information |
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Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster
Jon Krakauer
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Journalist Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless more in guilt-ridden disarray, would also provide the impetus for this epic account of the May 1996 disaster. Unabridged. 7 CDs.
1998; 407 p.; isbn:0375502807 More Information |
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In the heart of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick
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The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the Titanic disaster was in the twentieth. Nathaniel Philbrick now restores this epic story -- which inspired the climactic scene in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick -- to its rightful place in American history.In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine ...
2000; 302 p.; isbn:0670891576 More Information |
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A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
by Ishmael Beah
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"In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them." "In a Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a story: at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable ...
2007; 229 p.; isbn:0374105235 More Information |
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The Endurance : Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition
Caroline Alexander ; in association with the American Museum of Natural History
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1998; 211 p.; isbn:0375404031 More Information |
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My Lord, what a morning : an autobiography
by Marian Anderson ; with an introduction by Nellie Y. McKay
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1992; 314 p.; isbn:0299133907 More Information |
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Manchild in the promised land
Brown, Claude, 1937-
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Black boy; a record of childhood and youth
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
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Things fall apart
Chinua Achebe ; with an introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah
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THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first of these stories traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of line and economical beauty it provides us with a powerful fable about the ...
1992; 181 p.; isbn:0679446230 More Information |
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Watership Down
Richard Adams
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An allegorical tale of survival about a band of wild rabbits who leave their ancestral home to build a more humane society chronicles their adventures as they search for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace
1972; 429 p.; isbn:068483605X More Information |
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