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"William Golding's unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral island...
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Penguin Young Readers Group
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2017
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English
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There are no shortcuts to surviving your first day at a new school--you can't fix it with duct tape like you would your Chuck Taylors. On Day One, twelve-year-old Malú (María Luisa, if you want to annoy her) inadvertently upsets Posada Middle School's queen bee, violates the school's dress code with her punk rock look, and disappoints her college-professor mom in the process. Her dad, who now lives a thousand miles away, says things will get better...
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EllRay Jakes series volume 1
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Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
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Unabridged
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English
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Eight-year-old EllRay's father has promised a family trip to Disneyland if EllRay can stay out of trouble for a week, but not defending himself against Jared, the class bully, proves to be a real challenge.
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Viking
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[2020]
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244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"In this memoir, celebrated author, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit relates how she found her voice as a writer and as a feminist during the 1980s in San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. Then in her early twenties, Solnit tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city, which became her great teacher; of the small apartment she found, which became a home in which...
5) Take my hand
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Genevieve's Summer Reading Gems
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Genevieve's Summer Reading Gems
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"Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench. Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help...
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Books on Tape
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2014
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Unabridged
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English
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In San Francisco Bay there was a United States Navy base called Port Chicago. During World War II, it was a busy port where young sailors loaded bombs and ammunition into ships bound for American troops in the Pacific. Like the entire Navy, Port Chicago was strictly segregated. All the officers giving orders were white; all the men loading bombs were black. On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked Port Chicago, killing 320 servicemen and injuring...
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Palm Pictures [distributor]
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©2001
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2 videodiscs (210 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The story of American roots music in the 20th century. Features historic and documentary footage of pioneering artists. Covers blues, country, gospel, folk, Cajun, zydeco, bluegrass, tejano and Native American music.
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The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden. In this frightening vision of a totalitarian future, a fireman's job is to burn books. Fireman Guy Montag loves his job - until he learns of the ideas that books contain and just what it might mean to think for himself. A classic from one of the greats.
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