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Author
Publisher
Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
The classic #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, celebrating the life and legacy of First Lady Barbara Bush-now updated with new forewords from her five children, including reflections from George W. and Jeb, as featured on A&E's Biography. Barbara Bush endures as one of America's most popular First Ladies. She has won worldwide acclaim for her wit, compassion, and candor as both a presidential wife and mother. In this fascinating memoir, Mrs. Bush...
Author
Language
English
Description
"I never thought I would live to be this old." In this moving narrative, Billy Graham once again takes up the pen not only to share his personal experience of growing older but also teach us some important lessons on how to view our time here on Earth. He says that the Bible makes it clear that God has a specific reason for keeping us here. So what is His purpose for these years, and how can we align our lives with it? How can we not only learn to...
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Language
English
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The Girl of Sugar Beach is the most watched documentary in television history--a riveting, true-life mystery that unfolds over twelve weeks and centers on a fascinating question: Did Grace Sebold murder her boyfriend, Julian, while on a Spring Break vacation, or is she a victim of circumstance and poor police work? Grace has spent the last ten years in a St. Lucian prison, and reaches out to filmmaker Sidney Ryan in a last, desperate attempt to prove...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts--always adroit, often acerbic--on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation. Ursula K. Le Guin has taken readers to imaginary worlds for decades. Now she's in the last great frontier of life, old age, and exploring new literary territory: the blog, a forum where her voice -- sharp, witty, as compassionate as it...
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Language
English
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George W. Bush covers the entire scope of the elder President Bush's life and career, including his service in the Pacific during World War II, his pioneering work in the Texas oil business, and his political rise as a Congressman, U.S. Representative to China and the United Nations, CIA Director, Vice President, and 41st President of the United States.
8) Iron Man
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A wealthy industrialist is held captive in enemy territory and escapes by building a high-tech suit made of armor, which he uses upon returning home to fight injustice and save the world.
Author
Language
English
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Description
America's preeminent columnist presents his penetrating and surprising reflections on everything from embryo research to entitlement reform, from Halley's Comet to border collies, from Christopher Columbus to Martin Luther King, from drone warfare to American decline. Features a special, highly autobiographical introduction.
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Language
English
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Description
Ruth Graham-third child and youngest daughter of Billy and Ruth Bell Graham-offers a rare, inside look at the twentieth century's most influential evangelist. In this substantive portrait, Ruth reflects on several different subjects, including her father's love for the world, his humility, grace, and loyalty. She concludes the book with a chapter on authenticity, written just after Dr. Graham's final crusade, which was held in New York in June 2005....
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
No one man or woman has ever been in a position to see the presidents, and the presidency, so intimately, over so many years. They called him in for photo opportunities. They called for comfort. They asked about death and salvation; about sin and forgiveness. At a time when the nation is increasingly split over the place of religion in public life, THE PREACHER AND THE PRESIDENTS reveals how the world's most powerful men and world's most famous evangelist,...
15) Iron Man 2
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
With the world aware of his identity as Iron Man, Tony Stark must battle to keep his technology out of the hands of the United States government as well as the villains seeking to take him down.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this brilliant biography, Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush. Drawing on President Bush's personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the forty-first president and his family, Meacham paints an intimate and surprising portrait of an intensely private man who led the nation through tumultuous times. From the Oval Office to Camp David, from his...
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
From heading the CIA amid high tensions with the Soviets to overseeing the end of the Cold War as president of the United States, former President George H. W. Bush played a major role in the second half of the 20th century. In this book, his only daughter, Doro Bush Koch, examines the many roles her father has played: statesman, political leader, businessman, family man, sportsman, comedian, and, of course, father. Using events from his life, Doro...
18) The avengers
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When an unexpected enemy threatens Earth, the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. gathers together several superheroes to protect the world.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The renowned cat conservationist reflects on his early childhood struggles with a speech disorder, describing how he only spoke fluently when he was communicating with animals and how he resolved at a young age to find his voice to be their advocate.
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