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Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
2007, 2006
Description
Chronicles a female preacher's personal odyssey of faith and the tensions of her religious life, a conflict that leads her to leave the church in order to maintain her relationship with God.
After nine years serving on the staff of a big urban church in Atlanta, Barbara Brown Taylor arrives in rural Clarkesville, Georgia (population 1,500), following her dream to become the pastor of her own small congregation. The adjustment from city life to country...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Where do human societies come from? The drive to answer this question took on a new urgency in the nineteenth century, when a generation of archaeologists began to look beyond the bible for the origins of different cultures and civilizations. A child of the San Francisco Gold Rush whose mother was born in Mexico City, Zelia Nuttall threw herself into the study of Aztec customs and cosmology, eager to use the tools of the emerging science of anthropology...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America's most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures, baseball immortal Pete Rose; and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century Pete Rose is a legend. A baseball god. He had compiled more hits than anyone in the history of baseball, a record he set decades ago, which still stands. At the same...
Author
Publisher
St Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024
Description
On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was considering the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court; this is the true behind-the-scenes story of that testimony.
On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was considering the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court. She described...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Mammoth Cave, a National Park in Brownsville, Kentucky, is the world's largest cavern with more than 400 miles of cavern space. The first to explore the cave was an enslaved Black man, Stephen Bishop. With bravery and a curious mind, Bishop became a popular tour guide and mapped out the extensive caverns, all while remaining enslaved. Learn about this respected explorer's work in this inspiring graphic novel"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"The U.S. Civil War's Battle of Fredericksburg is known for its brutal fighting, but another story from this battle deserves to be told. At age 19, Confederate soldier Richard Rowland Kirkland was moved to show compassion for suffering Union soldiers. Putting his own life at risk, Kirkland took water to the weakened men on the battlefield. Learn about his selfless act in this inspiring graphic novel"--
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