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Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
As Betsy, Tacy and Tib turn ten in the town of Deep Valley, they are ready for an exciting summer which includes falling in love with the King of Spain, performing in the School Entertainment, and going over the Big Hill to Little Syria.
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"It may be taboo to say, but some groups in America do better than others.Why do some groups rise? Drawing on groundbreaking original research and startling statistics, The Triple Package uncovers the secret to their success. A superiority complex, insecurity, impulse control--these are the elements of the Triple Package, the rare and potent cultural constellation that drives disproportionate group success.Americans are taught that everyone is equal,...
Author
Publisher
Times-mirror Press
Pub. Date
1927
Language
English
Description
Jackson Alpheus Graves (1852-1933) and his family left Iowa in 1857 for a life as ranchers and farmers in Marysville and San Mateo, California. After graduation from St. Mary's College and a clerkship in a San Francisco law office, Graves moved to Los Angeles in 1875 and became one of the city's leading attorneys and bankers. My seventy years in California (1927) describes Graves's boyhood and education in northern california and Los Angeles as he...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Just a stone’s throw from downtown Montreal is the largest social housing complex in Quebec. Built in 1959 where the red-light district used to be, Les Habitations Jeanne-Mance have retained something of the area’s seedy reputation for poverty, prostitution, drugs and violence. But who really knows the projects and the people who live there? Delving beneath the prejudices and stereotypes, director Isabelle Longtin ventured inside the buildings...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Over 1,000 years ago, the islands of Polynesia were explored and settled by navigators who used only the waves, the stars, and the flights of birds for guidance. In hand-built, double-hulled canoes sixty feet long, the ancestors of today's Polynesians sailed across a vast ocean area, larger than Europe and North America combined.
Author
Publisher
Privately Printed
Pub. Date
1929.
Language
English
Description
Benjamin Ignatius Hayes (1815-1877) was a Maryland lawyer living in Missouri in 1849 when he decided to make the overland journey to California. There he became a leader of the Los Angeles bar. Pioneer notes (1929) is based on Hayes's diaries. The entries chronicle his trip west and his career as an attorney and judge in Los Angeles 1850-1877, including his experiences riding circuit to San Diego and San Bernardino. The volume also includes entries...
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