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Malhar Ramcharran & Dr. Ram Ramcharran decided to write these short life lessons as a way to help share similar experiences they had while growing up; since Malhar was encountered some bullying from classmates in middle school at the time so Dr. Ram wanted him to write his experiences as way to help him better understand what was happening at school because Dr. Ram also encountered some similar events growing up in New York City. He didn't want Malhar...
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One hundred years ago, in September 1918, three things came to Boston: war, plague, and the World Series.
This is the unimaginable story of that late summer month, in which a division of Massachusetts militia volunteers led the first unified American fighting force into battle in France, turning the tide of World War I. Meanwhile the world's deadliest pandemic-the Spanish Flu-erupted in Boston and its suburbs, bringing death on a terrifying scale...
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New York Times bestselling author Andrea Beaty and neuroscientist Theanne Griffith's Rockin' Robots is the fifth book in a nonfiction early-reader series about the science of robots starring Ada Twist, Scientist!
What exactly is a robot? How do they talk and move? And what does it take to build one?
Ada Twist, Scientist: The Why Files is the perfect nonfiction resource for all these questions and more. Based on the bestselling Questioneers...
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Stupid is the new smart-but it wasn't always so
Popular culture has divorced itself from the life of the mind. Who has time for great books or deep thought when there is Jersey Shore to watch, a txt 2 respond 2, and World of Warcraft to play?
At the same time, those who pursue the life of the mind have insulated themselves from popular culture. Speaking in insider jargon and writing unread books, intellectuals have locked themselves away in...
1505) An Ordinary Man
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While German bombs were falling on London people didn't worry too much when hearing Hitler's doodlebugs, the dreaded V1 flying bomb. But when the noise stopped then they were worried because they knew that the rocket was about to drop – on them!David, hanging in a basket inside an air raid shelter, was oblivious to all of this for he was just a baby.Growing up in West London he spoke with a cockney accent even though he wasn't a true cockney. He...
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WITH WIT AND PIERCING INSIGHT, JOY-ANN REID CALCULATES THE TRUE PRICE OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY
Is Donald Trump running the "longest con" in U.S. history? What will be left of America when he leaves office?
Candidate Trump sold Americans a vision that was seemingly at odds with their country's founding principles. Now in office, he's put up a for sale sign-on the prestige of the presidency, on America's global stature, and on our national identity....
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Men and women used to cheer: vive la différence!
But now, contrary to all science and common sense, we're supposed to believe that there is no difference. (And if you insist there is, you just might be accused of a hate crime!)
Our culture-and our laws-are endorsing a worldview rooted in craziness.
For instance, we're told that:
• Boys who think they're girls (and who could change their minds tomorrow) should be allowed to participate in girls'...
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There aren't many novels that address the Second World War and its influence on Asian Countries as well as Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World. Neither are there many criticism of this novel. This book, therefore, intends to highlight the importance of this novel by critiquing the story and looking at its effect on Japan. In the novel, Kazuo Ishiguro highlights the conflict that results from the varying attitudes towards the Second World...
1509) Rebel Reinvented
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Jesse Ziegfeld lives in a world of pain. The piece of shrapnel lodged against his spine put an end to his career as a Navy SEAL, and left him with no idea how to move on. For now he manages his brother's fitness center until he can find a 'real' job. Life throws him a curve ball when a young teenager tries to rob him as he's leaving the gym. Remembering his own adolescence as the black sheep of his family, he decides not to call the cops but instead...
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Winner, 2018 Donald W. Light Award for Applied Medical Sociology, American Sociological Association Medical Sociology Section
Winner, 2018 Distinguished Scholarship Award presented by the Pacific Sociology Association
Honorable Mention, 2017 ESS Mirra Komarovsky Book Award presented by the Eastern Sociological Society
Outstanding Book Award for the Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity presented by the American Sociological Association
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1511) An Unsolved Proof
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Hidden cameras, secret operations, and new math concepts await in the Math Kids' ninth adventure!
Justin has been accused of stealing from the comic book shop! To earn back the trust of his parents and the store manager, he'll have to work at the shop for four whole weekends. And that puts a damper on his plans to play video games and hang out with fellow Math Kids, Jordan, Catherine, and Stephanie.
With the end of summer approaching, the four...
1512) Fallen Into Austen
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Emma Woods is a community college adjunct who floats wherever the current of her life takes her. The only real fire in Emma's life is her yearly trek to the Jane Austen Festival in Bath, the matchstick being Mark Landen, a British bookseller and academic with whom Emma has had a long-standing flirtation neither have pursued due to distance and being in and out of other relationships. However, Mark has written to Emma prior to the upcoming festival...
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Your Ultimate Guide On How To Quickly Analyze People Do you ever wish you could guess what the person next to you is thinking? Perhaps read people's minds?
Are you tired of people lying, deceiving and manipulating you? What if you could learn how to spot and identify these threats? This book will teach how to analyze people quickly and accurately!
Sounds like something out of a science fiction movie right? Now this book will not make you a "mind...
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One of "The 17 Best Summer Reads of 2019" by Harper's Bazaar!
Set in the summer of 1968, a provocative and devastating novel of individual lives caught in the grips of violent history-a timely and poignant story that reverberates with the power of Alice Walker's Meridian and Ntozake Shange's Betsey Browne.
At the end of a sweltering summer shaped by the tragic assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy, race riots, political...
1515) Belva Lockwood
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Foreword by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A legal historian recounts the influential life of women's rights activist Belva Lockwood, the first woman to practice at the bar of the Supreme Court
In Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be President, prize-winning legal historian Jill Norgren recounts, for the first time, the life story of one of the nineteenth century's most surprising and accomplished advocates for women's rights....
1516) Rating the Hockey Player
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What if you could go back in time...for a one night do-over with the one that got away? Would history repeat itself, or be forever changed?When sleeping with these high-profile men had already blown Jada's world apart, would she risk losing it all to up the score? We went to preschool school together.To the same elite elementary and high schools.Even the same exclusive college.As the girls with the least powerful families, (and the smallest bank...
1517) Braving the Blaze
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He's a wildfire volunteer. She's petrified of fires. Will the flames consume them or will they find a burning love? Single-minded Dean Harward is going to become a veterinarian if it kills him. He's worked summers as a volunteer wildfire fighter to earn big cash for college. Just his luck, a pyrophobic woman gets assigned to his team. He's certain she'll get him killed before he can graduate. Terrified Ginger Warby never dreamed she...
1518) New Old World
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Ticonderoga Fox had three wishes as a child: to live on an Indian reservation, to publish a book, and to see Paris. Now almost forty, the restless photojournalist has bagged the first two and is on her way to fulfilling the third. Beyond that, Ti's future is out of focus.NEW OLD WORLD is a late bloomer's coming-of-age story that pits one headstrong woman against two continents. Motherless almost since birth and independent to a fault, Ti Fox has become...
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2023 Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women's and/or Gender History Winner
The first biography of trailblazing legislator Patsy Takemoto Mink, best known as the legislative champion of Title IX
"Every girl in Little League, every woman playing college sports, and every parent-including Michelle and myself-who watches their daughter on a field or in the classroom is forever grateful to the late Patsy Takemoto Mink."-President Barack Obama, on posthumously...
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Echoes of Tomorrow: Awakening of the Extraordinary - A Mystery of Superpowers and Secrets in an Urban University Town by S.B. Fates OverviewIn "Echoes of Tomorrow: Awakening of the Extraordinary," S.B. Fates crafts a gripping tale of mystery and wonder set against the vibrant backdrop of a bustling university town. This first book in a thrilling series weaves a complex narrative where modern architecture meets hidden powers, and the ordinary intersects...
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