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Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
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CSL - Adapted for Film or Television
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Shorter book club reads
CSL - Woman Authors
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Shorter book club reads
CSL - Woman Authors
Description
An intelligent and outspoken only child, Satrapi--the daughter of radical Marxists and the great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor--bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution....
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"London, November 1966. John Lennon can't speak, he can't take his eyes off a photo of a car in flames with the body of Paul McCartney inside. His friend is no longer there, and that means the Beatles are no longer there, either. But John wants to know the truth, and with George and Ringo, he starts to re-examine the final hours in Paul's life. Set in the magical atmosphere of Abbey Road Studios during the writing sessions for Sgt. Pepper, the definitive...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
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Description
Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents -- artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs -- Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in her, ushering her into a new world of mansions, vacations, and private schools. His attention was thrilling, but he could also be cold,...
7145) For One More Day
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Chick Benetto, a former baseball player who has fallen into alcoholism and depression, returns to his home town to commit suicide, and when he is magically given a day with his departed mother Posey, she reveals secrets about both of their lives that may save him.
7146) The sea in you
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
In a dark fantasy retelling of “The Little Mermaid,” a young girl barely escapes an encounter with a deadly mermaid, and the two quickly form a romantic bond that threatens all of their social ties on land and beneath the sea.--Publisher.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Like most teenagers in the 90s, Jet is obsessed with Kurt Cobain, which helps them get through boarding at the international school their parents have sent them to in the Netherlands. Jet is very shy, and fitting in poses enough challenges as is. New feelings are starting to emerge as Jet and best friend Sasha turn their attention away from their beloved grunge idols to real guys, and the pressures of being in a lawless, chaotic school start to take...
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
One in three women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with cancer, a situation that can throw even the most self-assured person into a crisis of body, mind, and spirit. To survive and thrive we must rally all of our inner resources. Nine bestselling authors and healers (many of whom are thriving after cancer diagnoses) reframe the healing process in a positive, creative, spiritual light. Taken from the Healing Journeys conferences, this set collects for...
7149) Of mice and men
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Best friends Lennie and George find themselves unemployed in Depression-era California, unable to maintain a stable working pattern for long because of Lennie's infantile mental capacity. They get hired at the Tyler Ranch but soon their work is ripped apart by tragedy when Curly's beautiful but unhappy wife becomes the innocent victim of Lennie's compassion.
7150) Resurrection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A woman's carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forcing her to confront the monster she's evaded for two decades.
7151) My digital life
Pub. Date
2012
Description
"My Digital Life explores the perils and possibilities of the brave new digital world. This thought-provoking video addresses issues of privacy and the digital footprint; misguided notions about multitasking and learning; as well as the value of being wired vs. unplugged. Are we really more connected or are we losing intrapersonal skills? Is this technology robbing us of our sleep, our free time? Is it controlling our lives? And, what should we be...
7152) The son
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
A cautionary tale that follows a family as it struggles to reunite after falling apart. Centers on Peter, whose hectic life with his infant and new partner Beth is upended when his ex-wife Kate appears at his door to discuss their son Nicholas, who is now a teenager. The young man has been missing school for months and is deeply troubled. Peter strives to take care of Nicholas as he would have wanted his father to have taken care of him while juggling...
7153) The humans
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter's apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group's deepest fears are laid bare. The piercingly funny and haunting debut film from writer-director Stephen Karam, adapted from his Tony Awardʼ-winning play, THE HUMANS explores the hidden dread of a family and the love that binds...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Wartime heroics of a British woman who captures a Nazi pilot, cares for her children, and endures the loss of her home and family; ex-G.I. painter Jerry Mulligan resides in post-war Paris and falls in love with a young dancer who is engaged to another man; a rebellious patient battles the mental institution he has been sent to; story of a friendship between a headstrong refined Southern woman and her patient chauffeur; a rookie cop infiltrates the...
7155) The Sad Ghost Club
Author
Series
Sad ghost club volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Ever felt anxious or alone? Like you don't belong anywhere? Like you're almost... invisible? Find your kindred spirits at The Sad Ghost Club. This is the story of one of those days - a day so bad you can barely get out of bed, when it's a struggle to leave the house, and when you do, you wish you hadn't. But even the worst of days can surprise you. When one sad ghost, lost and alone at a crowded party, spies another sad ghost across the room, they...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
"Stacie Shannon Denetsosie confronts long-reaching effects of settler-colonialism on Native lives in a series of gritty, wildly imaginative stories. A young Navajo man catches a ride home alongside a casket he's sure contains his dead grandfather. A gas station clerk witnesses the kidnapping of the newly crowned Miss Northwestern Arizona. A young couple's search for a sperm donor raises questions of blood quantum. This debut collection grapples with...
7157) GMO trilogy
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Three discs on genetically modified foods. Disc 1: Unnatural Selection, talks about the threats of breeding genetically modified foods to the natural environment and farmers; Disc 2: Hidden Dangers in Kids Meals contains a movie explaining why genetically engineered foods are dangerous and should be removed from children's meals, a taped lecture given by Jeffrey M. Smith to a live audience alleging that biotech companies rig research, cover up health...
7158) Spencer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana Spencer, struggling with mental health problems, decides to end her decade-long marriage to Prince Charles.
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