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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Publisher's description: Why were no bankers put in prison after the financial crisis of 2008? Why do CEOs seem to commit wrongdoing with impunity? The problem goes beyond banks deemed "too big to fail" to almost every large corporation in America-- to pharmaceutical companies and auto manufacturers and beyond. The Chickenshit Club--an inside reference to prosecutors too scared of failure and too daunted by legal impediments to do their jobs--explains...
362) Brave mouse
Author
Pub. Date
2010, c2004
Description
After showing courage by trying many new things, Little Mouse becomes Brave Mouse when he realizes that it is sometimes good to say no to things he is not ready to try.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
In this illustrated choose-your-own-ending book, Yusra must choose between asking for help rebuilding her neighborhood park or ignoring the problem. Readers make choices for Yusra and read what happens next, with each story path leading to different consequences. Includes four different endings and discussion questions.
367) Farewell, Dawn
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 88
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Dawn has decided she wants to return to California permanently. How can she break the news to the Baby-sitters Club and especially to her stepsister Mary Anne?
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Does this sound familiar? You walk away from an argument and suddenly think of all the brilliant things you wish you'd said? You avoid family members and colleagues because of bitter, festering tension that you can't figure out how to address? Now, finally, there's a solution: a secret that frees you from the trap of unproductive conflict and pointless arguing forever. If the threat of raised voices, emotional outbursts, and public discord makes...
369) DupliKate: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When she wakes up one morning to find her double in her room, seventeen-year-old Kate, already at wit's end with college applications, finals, and extracurricular activities, decides to put her to work.
370) From this day on
Author
Series
Heartland volume 19
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
As Amy helps a lost horse, she makes the difficult decision of whether to leave Heartland in order to go to college.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Amber Tamblyn, Jessica Valenti, Lidia Yuknavitch, Jia Tolentino, Samantha Irby, Meredith Talusan, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Amy Poehler, America Ferrera, Ada Limón, and Huma Abedin are among the impressive list of authors contributing to this powerful collection of essays that takes a fresh and powerful look at our relationship to intuition and how we can harness it to change our everyday lives and the world. For generations, women have been...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
With one side of the political aisle proposing increasingly more socialistic and anti-capitalistic ideas, the other side has been quick to defend our country's great economic model, with good reason. Capitalism--spanning a spectrum from laissez faire to authoritarian--shapes the market economies of all the wealthiest and fastest-growing nations. But does that mean it is perfect as is, and that we would not all benefit from an honest evaluation and...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"The Patient's Playbook will change the way you manage your health and the health of your family, from finding the right doctor to coordinating the best medical care. An expertly informed guide to the steps that everyone should take--even before illness strikes. The Patient's Playbook is a compelling narrative of personal stories that imparts lessons and illuminates strategies for better, and even life-saving, medical decision-making. With clarity...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Even now, after more than fifteen years, it is hard to see the invasion of Iraq through the cool, considered gaze of history. For too many people, the damage is still too palpable, and still unfolding. Most of the major players in that decision are still with us, and few are not haunted by it, in one way or another. Perhaps that combination, the passage of the years and the still unresolved trauma, explains why so many protagonists opened up so fully...
375) Dreamland
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A teenage caring for her sick, widowed father has second thoughts after setting her best friend up with a new neighbor.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Award-winning Wharton Professor and Choiceology podcast host Katy Milkman has devoted her career to the study of behavior change. In this ground-breaking book, Milkman reveals a proven path that can take you from where you are to where you want to be, with a foreword from psychologist Angela Duckworth, the best-selling author of Grit. Set audacious goals. Foster good habits. Create social support. You've surely heard this advice before. If you've...
380) Qué prefieres
Author
Pub. Date
[between 1990-1999?]
Description
Presents choices for the reader such as living with a gerbil in a cage or with a rabbit in a hutch and being chased by a crab, by a bull, by a lion, or by wolves.
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