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The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe
by Loree Griffin Burns (Goodreads Author)
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| After the huge success of his inspirational movie, Coach Carter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1wAem...), Ken Carter wrote this book which details strategies for a successful life. These strategies should maximize an individual's opportunity to rea...more | |
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How to Be a Hepburn in a Hilton World: The Art of Living with Style, Class, and Grace
by Jordan Christy
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recommended for: teenage girls and their moms
read in April, 2013
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| This is the book you want your teenage daughter to read! You don't have to read the tabloids or watch Hollywood themed TV shows to know there are too many starlets wasting their talents with alcohol, drugs, and/or trashy behavior. Cable news can't re...more | |
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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
by James McBride
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| Writer James McBride tells his story of being raised by his white mother in New York City. McBride's mother, Ruth Shilsky McBride Jordan, tells her story of being a Polish Jew who immigrated to Virginia as a baby with her parents and her siblings. Ru...more | |
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The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe
by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (Goodreads Author)
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This book was fascinating in a weird tabloid sort of way. I was only 4 when JFK was elected, but at a young age I was happy to know that a Catholic like me was president of the United States. I knew that it was controversial that Kennedy was a Catholi...more |
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“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
― Albert Einstein
― Albert Einstein
“Rise to the occassion which is life!”
― Virginia Euwer Wolff
― Virginia Euwer Wolff
“He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
“He then asked he president to stop funding wells and toilets and use the money to buy grain. (Because really, how can you use a toilet if you never eat?)”
― William Kamkwamba
― William Kamkwamba
“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
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