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Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Do you think mainstream America needs to find its voice? If so, you’re not alone. The country is under attack by extremists at the fringes who put ideology before sanity and stoke division for their own gain. They are trying to rob America of its common sense and deny empirical truths, and we’re all suffering the consequences.
In We’ve Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America’s Soul and Sanity, Dr. Phil employs his signature no-nonsense...
23) Liberal fascism: the secret history of the American left, from Mussolini to the politics of meaning
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
487 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Draws parallels between the fascism of the 1930s and the liberalism of the present, arguing that liberal politicians from Woodrow Wilson to Hillary Clinton have espoused policies and principles similar to those of Hitler's National Socialism.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Author Joanna Gaines follows up her #1 New York Times bestselling We Are the Gardeners with The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be. This children's book, beautifully illustrated by Julianna Swaney, celebrates how creativity and acceptance can come together in a bright and beautiful adventure."--
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A rural physician learns that a former doctor at his clinic committed a shocking crime, leading him to uncover an undiagnosed mental health crisis in our broken prison system--a powerful true story expanding on one of the most popular This American Life episodes of all time. When family physician Dr. Benjamin Gilmer began working at the Cane Creek clinic in rural North Carolina, he was following in the footsteps of a man with the same last name....
Author
Publisher
Oliver Nelson
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
247 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Raising positive, drug-free kids in a negative world is not easy, but in the long run it's easier than raising negative ones. Now, the bestselling motivational author reveals his simple prescription for success with children, step by positive step.
Drawing on the most comprehensive measurable results ever made available to an author-his "I CAN" course, taught in more than five thousand schools with more than three million participants-and his own...
Author
Publisher
Regnery Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
260 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offers a no-holds-barred assessment of American culture and shows how Americans can get involved and change the nation's course for the better, discussing such issues as national debt, national security, and family values.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Lifelong Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
ix, 259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An educator's guide based on the "I Wish My Teacher Knew" viral exercise shares strategies for understanding children better, building trust in the classroom, and learning about the private challenges that complicate education.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes how as a young artist, Claude Monet rejected a traditional life path while embracing initially unpopular new approaches to painting and seeing, launching the French Impressionism movement.
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by National Book Network
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
273 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The latest and most bitterly contested battle in the culture war is the controversy over Darwin and intelligent design. But much of what you've heard about it is wrong. Jonathan Wells, a battle-hardened veteran with doctorates in biology and theology, sets the record straight. In clear, non-technical language, he explains who is fighting whom, the root of the conflict, and the evidence for and against Darwinism and intelligent design. He also explains...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
With her fledgling horse ranch, Hope Reins, in dire financial trouble, the last thing Kim Tschirret needed was one more problem. But when she met Joey, who had been abandoned, neglected and malnourished to the point of blindness, she saw in him the same God-given potential she saw in every abused and abandoned child her ministry was created to save.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Respected conservative journalist and commentator Timothy P. Carney continues the conversation begun with Hillbilly Elegy and the classic Bowling Alone in this hard-hitting analysis that identifies the true factor behind the decline of the American dream: it is not purely the result of economics as the left claims, but the collapse of the institutions that made us successful, including marriage, church, and civic life.
"Should you be more worried...
Author
Series
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 227 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Donalyn Miller says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. No matter how far behind Miller's students might be when they reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an average of 40 to 50 books a year. Miller's unconventional approach dispenses with drills and worksheets that make reading a chore. Instead, she helps students navigate the world of literature and gives them time to read books they pick...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
269 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the experiences of John Miller, one of the foremost migratory beekeepers, who, despite mysterious epidemics that threaten American honey populations--and the nation's agribusiness--forges on and moves ahead in a new natural world.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In The Doomsday Mother, bestselling true crime author John Glatt tells the twisted tale of Lori Vallow, accused of having her two children murdered to start a new life with her new husband, doomsday prepper Chad Daybell. At first, the residents of Kauai Beach Resort took little notice of their new neighbors. The glamorous blonde and her tall husband fit the image of the ritzy gated community. The couple seemed to keep to themselves-until the police...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xxi, 297 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Never Enough, reporter Jennifer Breheny Wallace investigates the deep roots of toxic achievement culture. Drawing on interviews with families, educators, and psychologists, she offers a humane view of the crisis plaguing today's teens and a practical framework for how to help"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks; those that are honest about the past and those that are not&;that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history, and ourselves.
It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for...