The Newbery Honor-winning author of Hatchet and Dogsong shares surprising true stories about his relationship with animals, highlighting their compassion, intellect, intuition, and sense of...
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Author: Paulsen, GarySummary: -
Author: Sudo, Philip ToshioSummary:Unleash the song of your soul with Zen Guitar, a contemplative handbook that draws on ancient Eastern wisdom and applies it to music and performance. Each of us carries a song inside us, the song...
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Author: Sedgwick, JohnSummary:An astonishing untold story from America's past-a sweeping, powerful, and necessary work of history that reads like Gone with the Wind for the Cherokee. Blood Moon is the story of the century-long...
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Author: Francis, PopeSummary:"[A] beautiful book of hope and inspiration...'ope Francis speaks frankly about problems facing the young and the elderly, Catholic and non-Catholic."'Publishers Weekly (starred review) Pope...
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Author: Mukherjee, SiddharthaSummary:A "biography" of cancer from its origins to the epic battle to cure, control, and conquer it. A combination of medical history, cutting-edge science, and narrative journalism that...
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Author: Kuusisto, StephenSummary:In a lyrical love letter to guide dogs everywhere, a blind poet shares his delightful story of how a guide dog changed his life and helped him discover a newfound appreciation for travel and...
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Author: Owen, DavidSummary:The surprising science of hearing and the remarkable technologies that can help us hear better Our sense of hearing makes it easy to connect with the world and the people around us. The human...
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Author: Walker, Rob.Summary:An imaginative, thought-provoking gift book to awaken your senses and attune them to the things that matter in your life. Welcome to the era of white noise. Our lives are in constant tether to...
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Author: Brown, TomSummary:As a child he was taught to respect nature by an Apache elder he called Grandfather, now as a bestselling author and master tracker Tom Brown, Jr., shares his secrets for nurturing and saving our...
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Author: Vance, AshleeSummary:Adapted for middle grade readers, this edition of New York Times bestseller Elon Musk provides an in-depth look at the engineer, inventor, explorer, and entrepreneur who seeks to revolutionize...
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Author: Piore, AdamSummary:Adam Piore introduces the field of bioengineering--which can be used to reverse engineer, rebuild, and augment human beings--and paints a vivid portrait of the people at its center to explore how...
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Author: Richtel, MattSummary:A cancer patient risen from the grave, an HIV patient considered a medical marvel, two "invisible" women suffering the frustration and pain of autoimmunity. Matt Richtel uses the stories...
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Author: Lam, VincentSummary:An essential survival guide – both to pandemic influenza, and to the hype surrounding it.
Written by an emergency physician and a public health physician, The Flu Pandemic and You is a... -
Author: Pearce, SheldonSummary:
A New Yorker writer's intimate, revealing account of Tupac Shakur's life and legacy, timed to the fiftieth anniversary of his birth and twenty-fifth anniversary of his death. In the summer of 2020...
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Author: Penzler, Otto, King, Stephen, Lee, Tanith, Simmons, Dan, Stoker, Bram, Gaiman, NeilSummary:
The Vampire Archives is the scariest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once you're in its clutches there's no escape. From the...
Genre: Horror fiction, Short stories