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Becoming a Media Mentor: A Guide for Working with Children and Families
Cen Campbell · Ala Editions
Pages: 144
Format: Print book
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In a time of rapidly changing technologies, the role of the youth services librarian has expanded to include the realm of digital media. Supporting children's literacy now means serving as a media mentor. This book empowers youth services staff to confidently assist families and caregivers... |
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America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great
Ben Carson M.D. · Zondervan; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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What is America becoming? Or, more importantly, what can she be if we reclaim a vision for the things that made her great in the first place? In America the Beautiful, Dr. Ben Carson helps us learn from our past in order to chart a better course for our future. From his personal ascent... |
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The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family
Laurence Leamer · Villard Books
Pages: 933
Format: Print book
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Based on five years of research, and with unprecedented cooperation from Kennedy family and associates, Laurence Leamer paints startling, in-depth portraits of the mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters who struggled to build and maintain the Kennedy dynasty--from steerage on an immigrant... |
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Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
Seymour M Hersh · HarperCollins
Pages: 394
Format: Print book
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Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers -- and outraged the Bush Administration -- with his stories in The New Yorker, including his breakthrough pieces on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Now, in Chain of Command, he brings together this reporting, along with new revelations,... |
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A Short History of the United States
Robert V Remini · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 373
Format: Hardcover
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Offering an abbreviated, accessible, and lively narrative history of the United States, this erudite volume contains the essential facts about the discovery, settlement, growth, and development of the American nation and its institutions. Robert V. Remini explores the arrival and migration... |
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40 New Revenue Sources for Libraries and Nonprofits
Edmund A Rossman III · ALA Editions
Pages: 231
Format: Print book
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In recent years, levies, grants, and other traditional sources of library funding have stagnated or even been scaled back. But as they've already done in other areas, libraries can take an innovative, proactive approach to funding. Change creates opportunities, and the ability to see and exploit... |
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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
Paul Tough · Houghton Mifflin Co.
Pages: 296
Format: Print book
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What would it take?That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children - not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question... |
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
David Von Drehle · Atlantic Monthly Press; First Edition edition
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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On March 25, 1911, as workers were getting ready to leave for the day, a fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village. Within minutes it spread to consume the building's upper three stories. Firemen at the scene were unable to rescue those trapped... |
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Decline and Fall: The End of Empire and the Future of Democracy in 21st Century America
John Michael Greer · New Society Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.Although he was writing nearly a century ago, William Butler Yeats could just as easily be describing the United States today. The decline and fall of America's global empire is the central feature of today's... |
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Rogues and Redeemers: When Politics Was King in Irish Boston
Gerard O'Neill · Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling coauthor of Black Mass, a behind-the-scenes portrait of the Irish power brokers who forged and fractured twentieth-century Boston. Rogues and Redeemers tells the hidden story of Boston politics--the cold-blooded ward bosses, the smoke-filled rooms, the larger-than-life... |
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