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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, a professor shares the lessons he's learned—about living in the present, building a legacy, and taking full advantage of the time you have—in this life-changing classic.
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." —Randy Pausch
A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider
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Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Robin Waterfield presents Socrates as a deeply moral thinker whose convictions stood in stark relief to those of his former disciple, Alcibiades, the hawkish and self-serving military leader. Refusing to surrender his beliefs even in the face of death, Socrates was determined to save his native Athens even as the city-state was tearing itself apart and falling into moral decline.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Told through the eyes of a young boy, the sober mood of the country after the Lincoln assassination is presented as he and many other mourners await to pay their respects to their fallen president as Lincoln's funeral train travels from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, IL in 1865.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century": what happened to British explorer Percy Fawcett. In 1925 Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization. For centuries Europeans believed the world's largest jungle concealed the glittering El Dorado. Thousands had died looking for it, leaving many convinced that the Amazon was...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Answers the lingering questions surrounding Hitler's death in his bunker using unprecedented access to secret Russian archives that also detail the layout of the bunker and offer eyewitness accounts of the dictator's final days.
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 1978, three months after the death of comedy icon Charlie Chaplin, his body disappeared from its grave in Corsier-Sur-Vevefy, Switzerland. Examining Magistrate Jean-Daniel Tenthorey and the Swiss Police had no clues to follow, only ridiculous rumors. It would be quite some time before the robbers would eventually contact the family asking for a half million Swiss Francs. After being denied by the family, the robbers would lower the amount a number...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Two-Headed Whale vividly brings to life the spectacular scenery and wildlife of the vast Southern Oceans, set alongside the true-life story of Anthony Ford, the boy in the grave, as he sailed the same seas and toiled in an industry where profits outranked human life. Drawing together threads of nature and travel writing with an unflinching narrative of life aboard a whaling factory ship and the legacy it left behind, The Two-Headed Whale leaves...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When the Moon Turns to Blood examines the culture of end times paranoia and a trail of mysterious deaths surrounding former beauty queen Lori Vallow and her husband, grave digger turned doomsday novelist, Chad Daybell. When police in Rexburg, Idaho perform a wellness check on seven-year-old J.J. Vallow and his sister, sixteen-year-old Tylee Ryan, both children are nowhere to be found. Their mother, Lori Vallow, gives a phony explanation, and when...
15) Diana: 7 days
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This landmark documentary features in-depth interviews with her sons, the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry, speaking in detail about that week's events from the moment they heard the news of their mother's death to the day of the funeral itself, as well as reflecting more broadly on her life and what she meant to them both then and now. The film includes other family members, close friends, political figures and journalists, many of them speaking...
Author
Series
Publisher
Seagull Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
It was on April 30, 1945 that the Red Army occupied Berlin, Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker and the United Nations was being founded in San Francisco. Alexander Kluge covers this single historic day and unravels its passing hours across the different theatres of the Second World War, including the life of a small German town occupied by American forces and the story of two SS officers stranded on the forsaken Kerguelen Islands....
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
A miraculous healing serum, kept secret by an ancient puzzle and buried with the mummified remains of Alexander the Great--in a tomb lost to the ages for more than 1,500 years--is the coveted prize for a cunning despot unless Cotton Malone, former U.S. Justice Department agent turned rare-book dealer, can beat her to it.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Investigates the enigmatic Native American figure, assessing critical battles attributed to his leadership within the context of the Great Sioux Wars, exploring the relationships between the Lakota Sioux and other tribes, and analyzing the subjugation of North Plains Native Americans.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this startling and intimate memoir of life before death and love after grief, the internationally best-selling author tells the story of his wife's battle with Lou Gehrig's disease and her death, while celebrating her life, in all its color, humor, and brightness.
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