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Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp

by Jerry Stanley

Published: 1992

Paperback: 85 pages

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Illus. with photographs from the Dust Bowl era. This true story took place at the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Ostracized as "dumb Okies," the children of Dust Bowl migrant laborers went without school--until Superintendent Leo Hart and 50 Okie...

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Wings of Refuge

by Lynn Austin

Published: 2000-06-01

Paperback: 398 pages

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A Powerful Story Set Against the Backdrop of Today's IsraelNothing in Abigail MacLeod's life as a wife, a mother, and a teacher has prepared her for what she will experience during her summer in Israel. At forty-two, her life is in chaos, even before she leaves home--her marriage is dissol...

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My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla

by Nikola Tesla

Published: 2018-04-10

Paperback: 72 pages

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2018 Reprint of 1919 Edition.  Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) was a prophet of the electronic age.  His research laid much of the groundwork for modern electrical and communication systems, and his impressive accomplishments include development of the alternating-current electrical system, r...

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Crampton Hodnet

by Barbara Pym

Published: 2013-04-17

Paperback: 226 pages

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Life has a certain reassuring if not terribly exciting rhythm for the residents of North Oxford. Miss Morrow is content in her position as spinster companion to Miss Doggett, even if her employer and the woman’s social circle regard her as a piece of furniture. Stephen Latimer, the new cleric and Miss...

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The Red-Headed Hawaiian: The Inspiring Story About a Local Boy from Rural Hawaii Who Makes Good

by Chris McKinney, Rudy Puana

Published: 2014-05-01

Paperback: 185 pages

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In a departure from his typical fictional portrayal of a Hawaii in turmoil, Chris McKinney has collaborated with his childhood friend, Dr. Rudy Puana, to write a local-boy-does-good story for younger readers. It's a move that may have die-hard McKinney fans a little perplexed, as he turns ...

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People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil

by M. Scott Peck

Published: 1998-01-02

Paperback: 272 pages

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In this absorbing and equally inspiring companion volume to his classic trilogy—The Road Less Traveled, Further Along the Road Less Traveled, and The Road Less Traveled and Beyond—Dr. M. Scott Peck brilliantly probes into the essence of human evil.People who are evil attack others inst...

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In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope

by Rana Awdish

Published: 2018-10-16

Paperback: 272 pages

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Now a Los Angeles Times BestsellerThe New York Times Book Review: "Awdish's book is the one I wished we were given as assigned reading our first year of medical school, alongside our white coats and stethoscopes...dramatic, engaging and instructive."A riveting first-hand account of a physi...

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The Exes' Revenge

by Jo Jakeman

Published: 2018-09-11

Hardcover: 352 pages

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A wickedly dark debut thriller about three women who've all been involved with the same man and realize the one thing they have in common is that they all want revenge against him...Divorces are often messy, and Imogen's is no exception. Phillip Rochester is controlling, abusive, and deter...

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The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of Kindness

by Kelli Harding M.D. M.P.H

Published: 2019-08-27

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Discover an eye-opening and provocative new way to look at our health based on the latest groundbreaking discoveries in the science of compassion, kindness, and human connection. For all of its rigor and science, medicine is full of stories—mysteries—that doctors and research cannot ex...

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Topics of Conversation: A novel

by Miranda Popkey

Published: 2020-01-07

Hardcover: 224 pages

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For readers of Rachel Cusk, Lydia Davis, and Jenny Offill--a compact tour de force about sex, violence, and self-loathing from a ferociously talented new voice in fictionMiranda Popkey's first novel is about desire, disgust, motherhood, loneliness, art, pain, feminism, anger, envy, guilt--...