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Gene Stratton-Porter was a farm girl who fell in love with birds, from the chickens whose eggs she collected to the hawks that preyed on them. When she grew up, Gene wanted nothing more than to share her love of birds with the world. She wrote stories about birds, but when a magazine wanted to publish them next to awkward photos of stuffed birds, she knew she had to take matters into her own hands. Teaching herself photography, Gene began to take...
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With emotions like fear, guilt and empathy eluding her, the author, trying to replace the nothingness with something, realizes, after connecting with an old flame, if she's capable of love, it must mean she isn't a monster and sets out to prove the millions of Americans who share her diagnosis aren't all monsters either.
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Before she was a famous New York City fashion designer, Ann Lowe was a young Black girl growing up in Alabama, surrounded by flowers and the fabric inside her mother's dress shop. Ann learned sewing skills from her mother and soon was helping her create gowns for the city's wealthy White establishment. Tragedy befalls her when she is just sixteen years old: her mother falls ill and later dies, leaving Ann to compartmentalize her grief and work around...
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Winner of the 2018 Green Earth Book Award. This picture book biography examines the life and career of naturalist and artist Anna Comstock (1854-1930), who defied social conventions and pursued the study of science. From the time she was a young girl, Anna Comstock was fascinated by the natural world. She loved exploring outdoors, examining wildlife and learning nature's secrets. From watching the teamwork of marching ants to following the constellations...
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Begin the journey into the lives of important people in history with Beginner Biographies. These simple, illustrated biographies provide a perfect entry point for learning about history. The childhood, education, and career of the President George Washington are presented with short, simple text for the elementary school audience. Special thanks to content consultant Richard Jensen, Ph.D. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division...
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Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, born February 2, 1977, in Barranquilla, Colombia, showed early signs of the charisma that would later define her career. Raised in a multicultural household with a Lebanese father and Colombian mother, Shakira grew up immersed in diverse influences that would shape her unique musical style. Discovered when she was 13, her rise to worldwide fame wasn't easy, but Shakira's ability to reinvent herself has allowed her to...
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TidalWave Productions presents an enthralling graphic novel capturing the remarkable journey of Taylor Swift. From her early days to the groundbreaking ERAS tour that left records shattered, this captivating retrospective delves into the career of America's adored singer/songwriter. Taylor Swift emerges as a formidable female force in this remarkable 50-page portrayal.
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Begin the journey into the lives of important people in history with Beginner Biographies. These simple, illustrated biographies provide a perfect entry point for learning about history. The childhood, education, and election of President Barack Obama are presented with short, simple text for the elementary school audience. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Elie Wiesel's Night.
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1) Author and narrator Eliezer Wiesel, who was twelve when the story begins in 1941, was a Jewish boy living with his family in a small town named Sighet, in what we now know as Romania.
2) In 1942, during World War II, the local authorities decided to kick out all Jews who were foreign from Sighet. They were packed into trains and sent off. The other inhabitants of...
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"El Caso de Diane Downs" es un relato absorbente que arroja luz sobre uno de los crímenes más inquietantes y debatidos de la historia criminal estadounidense. Desde su impactante inicio en una oscura carretera rural hasta el dramático veredicto en la sala del tribunal, esta obra cautiva al lector con cada giro y vuelta de una historia que desafía la comprensión humana. A través de una meticulosa investigación y una narrativa envolvente, el...
15) Inspirational Story of Ethan A. Poetic: Chronicles of Adversities, Education, Sports, Relationships
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Ethan grew up in a single-parent household as a former 3 sport student-athleteDown the road, he experiences the death of his older brother to gun violence and with a future seeming very uncertain.A man enters his life to convince him pursuing higher education will improve his quality of life.He faces death in the eye from a near-fatal head-on collision car accident with an 18-wheeler.The survival rate is 99% death vs 1% of life.The long road ahead...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Amanda and Anna Kloots's Live Your Life
In Live Your Life (2021), Amanda Kloots, with the help of her sister Anna Kloots, narrates the story of how she loved her husband, actor-singer Nick Cordero, and tragically lost him to COVID. Amanda wants to preserve Nick's legacy and share it with the world. She wants her son to read it and know his father when he grows up. The book takes the reader beyond the journey...
17) A Bar in Toledo
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When Duane Abbajay took over his brother's bankrupt nightclub in Toledo, Ohio in 1962, he promised his wife it would be a quick turnaround to bail his brother out and clear the family name. Instead, he became the face of a bar that transformed the city's entertainment scene and inspired a Grammy-winning country song-all under the thumb of a trigger-happy mafia boss.
Informed by interviews with crime historians, employees, and patrons and corroborated...
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Heiner Lauterbach zählt zu Deutschlands beliebtesten und meistbeschäftigten Film- und Fernsehstars. In den letzten Jahren vollzog der einstige Macho vom Dienst eine rigorose Wandlung. Er hat sich im besten Sinne neu erfunden: Als
Schauspieler, als Mann und Familienvater, als Mensch und Partner. Der Mann, der lange im Leben nichts ausgelassen und dafür manche Quittung verpasst bekommen hat, blickt zu seinem 60 Geburtstag gelassener und selbstkritischer...
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Ever wondered what it's like to be a supply teacher? This is the book for you! Artist and illustrator Guy Newmountain, a time-served teacher at the chalk-face for 25 years and a familiar sight to thousands of pupils across the spectrum from nursery to sixth form, tells a succession of school-related anecdotes with a healthy dose of self-deprecating humour. Some are hysterically funny and a few sad; others heart-stopping and deadly serious…
Guy...
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For fans of Really Good Actually and I'm Glad My Mom Died
'A deftness that catches your breath' - Fern Brady
'An incredible piece of writing' - Brett Goldstein
'Interrogates moments of trauma with insight, kindness and humanity' - John Robins
This is a book about mistakes. And why we should de-flower shame in all its messy, complicated glory...
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I've poured my heart and guts on to the page and shared my soul in this...