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The riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best nonfiction titles of the year by Time and Entertainment Weekly.
In the mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the story of "why I did stand-up and why I walked...
In the mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the story of "why I did stand-up and why I walked...
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A timely and important new book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture. Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives--experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. In Braving the Wilderness, Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of...
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Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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Little Bighorn and Custer are names synonymous in the American imagination with unmatched bravery and spectacular defeat. Mythologized as Custer's Last Stand, the June 1876 battle was also, even in victory, the last stand for the Sioux and Cheyenne Indian nations. The author sketches in details about the two larger-than-life antagonists: Sitting Bull, and George Armstrong Custer.
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Flynn Picture Co. ; Claudeismydog ; Demarest Films
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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A no-strings-attached, online hook-up turns into a morning after disaster for twenty-something New Yorkers Alec and Megan. When a paralyzing blizzard hits the city, trapping them in Alec's cramped Brooklyn apartment, they are forced to get to know each other far beyond the confines of a typical one-night stand.
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Monarch Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Carl's plan to reinvigorate his marriage to the lovely and intelligent Sue is compromised when he discovers the lodge where they're vacationing is now managed by his still beautiful and enigmatic ex-girlfriend Robyn. He must face the greatest temptation of his life-the one that got away.
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Sony Pictures Home Enteratinment
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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High school football coach Bob Ladouceur coached the De La Salle High School football team for a record-setting 151-game winning streak, but when the team loses for the first time in twelve years, he and his team are tested.
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Dotdash Meredith
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English
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It’s the season for produce at its peak of freshness — and we’re all scooping it up from farm stands, farmers markets, and even our own gardens. Now that we’re swimming in all that freshness, we all need some creative new ideas to get it on the table. Farm Stand Recipes delivers more than 85 delightful ideas to do just that. Inside you’ll find fruit-and-veggie smoothies, frozen fruit pops, pickled veggies, melon drinks, root veggie favorites,
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Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the village of St. Mary, England, until his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But will their relationship survive in a society that considers...
10) Stand proud
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"Elmer Kelton writes of early Texas with unerring authority. His knowledge of the state's history is complete, too-drawn from the lives of real people ... The fate of Texas is at hand, and Kelton will have readers eager to find out what happens."-
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"One of the most viewed paintings in American history, Custer's Last Fight, copied and distributed by Anheuser-Busch at a rate of over two million copies a year, was destroyed in a fire at the 7th Cavalry Headquarters in Fort Bliss, Texas, in 1946. Or was it? When Charley Lee Stillwater dies of an apparent heart attack at the Wyoming Home for Soldiers & Sailors, Walt Longmire is called in to try and make sense of a piece of a painting and a Florsheim...
12) The stand
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 72
Lexile measure
840L
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English
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After a virus kills most of the people in the world, a handful of survivors choose sides-- a world of good led by 108-year-old Mother Abigail-- or evil led by a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.
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Beyond Distribution [distributor]
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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"Flow through a dynamic new yoga series with acclaimed instructor Nicki Doane, with the choice of a 20, 30, or 45 minute practice. What makes Maya Yoga's series different from other Asana sequences is the balanced approach to standing strength, the attention to detail and alignment, and the broader focus of finding adeep inner strength that supports everything we do. This standing flow practice balances traditional fitness notions of leg strength...
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R2 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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Hear some of the funniest punchlines, jokes, insults, and zingers from some of the biggest and best comedians to grace Johnny Carson's stage. Includes comedians Jerry Seinfeld, George Carlin, Rodney Dangerfield, and Garry Shandling.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1040L
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English
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"From Cecile Richards--the president of Planned Parenthood, daughter of the late Governor Ann Richards, featured speaker at the Women's March on Washington, and "the heroine of the resistance" (Vogue)--comes a story about learning to lead and make change, based on a lifetime of fighting for women's rights and social justice. Cecile Richards has been an activist since she was taken to the principal's office in seventh grade for wearing an armband...
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"A magnificent collection of short fiction--including two never-before-published novellas--featuring Jamie Fraser, Lord John Grey, Master Raymond, and many more, all extending the story of Outlander in thrilling new directions "The Custom of the Army" begins with Lord John Grey being shocked by an electric eel and ends at the Battle of Quebec. Then comes "The Space Between," where it is revealed that the Comte St. Germain is not dead, Master Raymond...
20) Stand down
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J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 21.5
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Life has shifted for J.P. Beaumont. After a tragic accident that devastated and ultimately disbanded his Special Homicide Investigation Team, he accepts that he has left homicide detection behind at this point, but he has a lot of unanticipated free time on his hands. He's keeping busy with renovations on the new house that he and his wife, Mel Soames, the newly appointed chief of police in Bellingham, Washington, have bought. But new fixtures and...
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