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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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Book inspired by a real garden, located at the Manuel Herrera Jr. Park in Tucson, Arizona, begun by the author for the children in her neighborhood. Presented as an alphabet book, with each page about an aspect of the garden.
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24 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 x 20 cm.
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English
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Provides information about Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, observed in January on the birthday of the civil rights leader, looks at King's life and his nonviolent approach to winning equal rights for African-Americans, and examines ways in which the holiday is celebrated.
7) Count me in
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 27 cm
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English
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An autobiography of the superstar shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles baseball team.
9) Credo
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English
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William Sloane Coffin challenged the nation with his passionate calls for social justice. In this best-seller, Coffin gives a powerful record of his remarkable public life, offering his inspiring words on issues ranging from charity and justice to politics and the meaning of faith.
10) Hope never dies
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"Vice President Joe Biden is fresh out of the Obama White House and feeling adrift when his favorite railroad conductor dies in a suspicious accident, leaving behind an ailing wife and a trail of clues. To unravel the mystery, "Amtrak Joe" re-teams with the only man he's ever fully trusted: the 44th president of the United States. Together they'll plumb the darkest corners of Delaware, traveling from cheap motels to biker bars and beyond, as they...
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Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 9
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English
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When the leader of North Korea is catastrophically injured, his incapacitation inadvertently triggers a "dead-man's switch," activating an army of sleeper agents in South Korea and precipitating a struggle for succession. Jack Ryan, Jr. is in Seoul to interview a potential addition to the Campus. When a wave of violence perpetrated by North Korean operatives grips South Korea's capital, Jack races to discover the meaning behind an ominous one-word...
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The presidential inaugural poet, and unforgettable new voice in American poetry, presents a collection of poems that includes the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States.
Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, her poems shine a light on a moment of reckoning and reveal that Gorman has become...
15) A beautiful mind: a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
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459 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
16) The radical King
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xvi, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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Every year, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is celebrated as one of the greatest orators in US history, an ambassador for nonviolence who became perhaps the most recognizable leader of the civil rights movement. But after more than forty years, few people appreciate how truly radical he was. Arranged thematically in four parts, The Radical King includes twenty-three selections, curated and introduced by Dr. Cornel West, that illustrate King's revolutionary...
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"James Earl Ray and Martin Luther King, Jr. had two very different life journeys -- but their paths fatally collide when Ray assassinates the world-renown civil rights leader. This book provides an inside look into both of their lives, the history of the time, and a blow-by-blow examination of the assassination and its aftermath."--Provided by publisher.
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xii, 279 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"The author of Alphabet Juice presents a wry exploration of the complicated consequences of food choices in today's world, sharing meditative poems, limericks and satirical articles on subjects ranging from bacon froth and kobe beef to the global climate and personal health"--NoveList.
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