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2) The possibility dogs: what a handful of "unadoptables" taught me about service, hope, and healing
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A tour of the psychiatric service dog industry traces the author's work as an evaluator who identifies and trains unwanted shelter dogs before matching them with people in need, documenting her own partnership with a search canine while sharing a range of uplifting success stories.
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"Inside the Star Wars Empire is the funny and insightful tell-all about the two decades Kimberlin spent as a department director at Lucas Film's Industrial Light &Magic (ILM), the specialeffects studio founded by the legendary filmmaker George Lucas." (from back of book)
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[2021]
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"In times more uncertain than ever before, Dear William answers the call for increased attention to individual and family substance use and mental health. His is a message that students and parents throughout the world need to hear. And as a creator of the national William Magee Institute for Student Wellbeing at the University of Mississippi, David Magee is on a mission to find and share solutions to one of America's biggest problems that touches...
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2019.
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When E. Jean Carroll--possibly the liveliest woman in the world and author of the "Ask E. Jean" advice column in Elle Magazine, realized that her eight million readers and question-writers all seemed to have one thing in common--problems caused by men--she hit the road. Crisscrossing the country with her blue-haired poodle, Lewis Carroll, E. Jean stopped in every town named after a woman between Eden, Vermont and Tallulah, Louisiana to ask women the...
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So often we fall into the trap of confusing what we do with who we are, and our faith calling takes a back seat, which can wreak havoc on our bodies, souls, and relationships. Writing with passion and conviction, television host Paula Faris uses personal stories to reflect on what it truly means to be called and how to walk in God's path for you.
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"From award-winning journalist Jane Ferguson, an unflinching memoir of ambition and war from the Troubles to the fall of Kabul. In Northern Ireland in the 1980s and '90s, war was a secret, and young Jane Ferguson wanted to know the truth. For her, war was called the Troubles, bomb threats and military checkpoints on the way to school were commonplace, and an uncle's gunshot wound in IRA crossfire was disguised as a cow kick. Jane developed a penchant...
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2021.
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English
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"A riveting and candid account of a young journalist's awakening to a life of chronic illness, weaving together her personal story with reporting to shed light on how Americans live with long-term diagnoses today"--
"Tessa Miller was an ambitious twentysomething writer in New York City when, on a random fall day, her stomach began to seize up. At first, she toughed it out through searing pain, taking sick days from work, unable to leave the bathroom...
9) Call me Anne
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Call Me Anne is the sequel to Heche's first book, Call Me Crazy. It is a memoir consisting of personal anecdotes of her rise to fame: how Harrison Ford became her on-set mentor, her relationship with Ellen Degeneres, her encounter with Harvey Weinstein, her history of childhood sexual abuse, her relationship with God, her journey to love herself, and more. Part memoir and part self-acceptance workbook, Anne's personal stories are interwoven with poems,...
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2020.
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English
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"In this inspiring memoir, David Egan tells his own story, authentically describing a life of maximizing his abilities, as he advocates for himself and for all other people with disabilities. This book is yet another first in a life that has seen many firsts, a life buoyed by an optimistic perspective that refuses to be limited by stereotypes and the low expectations of others"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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860L
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English
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The New York Times bestselling memoir of the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village is now perfect for young readers When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he came up with the idea that would change...
16) Managing Bubbie
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She escaped the almost certain death of a concentration camp, so breaking out of a nursing home is small potatoes. She beat it out of a Polish ghetto by refusing to take orders, so she won't likely take that medication. Just how is one Jewish family in Miami Beach going to make sure their matriarch, Bubbie, gets something she would have never dreamed of needing...help surviving? MANAGING BUBBIE is the family memoir by grandson Russel Lazega that recounts...
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"The heartbreaking, never-before-told story of Hollywood icon Natalie Wood's glamorous life, sudden death, and lasting legacy, written by her daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner"--
Wagner's mother, Natalie Wood, was a child actress who became a legendary movie star. She and Natasha's stepfather, actor Robert Wagner, were a Hollywood it-couple. But Natalie's sudden death by drowning off Catalina Island at the age of forty-three devastated her family,...
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"By the founder of the first organization in the US committed to freeing the wrongly imprisoned, a riveting story of devotion, sacrifice, and vindication. Jim McCloskey was at a midlife crossroads when he met the man who would transform his life. A former management consultant, McCloskey had grown disenchanted with the business world; he enrolled at Princeton Theological Seminary at the age of 37. His first assignment found him as a chaplain at Trenton...
19) The hiding place
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
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900L
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English
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The amazing story of Corrie ten Boom, a heroine of the Dutch Resistance who helped Jews escape from the Nazis and became one of the most remarkable evangelists of the 20th century, is told in her classic memoir, now retold for a new generation.
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