Author: N. R. Hairston Publisher: N. R. Hairston ISBN: Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 118
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They want me dead. The local drug dealers think I stole their money and they put a hit out on me. I’m not a trap girl, but I make money runs for two local drug dealers. The money came up short this time and now they want my head. I’m on the run when I meet Ridge. My heart sizzles into overdrive when our eyes meet. He’s sexy, seductive. He’s also a powerful empath. I can manipulate any object. With our combined powers we escape the crime bosses. That’s not the end, though. Someone else wants me dead. This person is more powerful than any I’ve met before. He fears the ancient magic lying dormant inside of me and wants to eliminate me. I’ve still got the crime bosses after me too. With this new guy also trying to kill me, I’m ducking bullets and magic everywhere I go. I grew up on the streets. I’m used to a good fight. I won’t back down. This new man is the very definition of evil. One of us won’t be left standing when this is over. I just hope that person isn’t me.
Author: Angela Duckworth Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1501111124 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 350
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In this instant New York Times bestseller, Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent, but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls “grit.” “Inspiration for non-geniuses everywhere” (People). The daughter of a scientist who frequently noted her lack of “genius,” Angela Duckworth is now a celebrated researcher and professor. It was her early eye-opening stints in teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience that led to her hypothesis about what really drives success: not genius, but a unique combination of passion and long-term perseverance. In Grit, she takes us into the field to visit cadets struggling through their first days at West Point, teachers working in some of the toughest schools, and young finalists in the National Spelling Bee. She also mines fascinating insights from history and shows what can be gleaned from modern experiments in peak performance. Finally, she shares what she’s learned from interviewing dozens of high achievers—from JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon to New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff to Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll. “Duckworth’s ideas about the cultivation of tenacity have clearly changed some lives for the better” (The New York Times Book Review). Among Grit’s most valuable insights: any effort you make ultimately counts twice toward your goal; grit can be learned, regardless of IQ or circumstances; when it comes to child-rearing, neither a warm embrace nor high standards will work by themselves; how to trigger lifelong interest; the magic of the Hard Thing Rule; and so much more. Winningly personal, insightful, and even life-changing, Grit is a book about what goes through your head when you fall down, and how that—not talent or luck—makes all the difference. This is “a fascinating tour of the psychological research on success” (The Wall Street Journal).
Author: N. R. Hairston Publisher: N. R. Hairston ISBN: Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 124
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A few of the local drug dealers want me dead. I’m ducking knives everywhere I go. They’re on the verge of a turf war with me caught in the middle. I left that life a long time ago, but for some reason, it won’t let me go. Then I get a phone call. Someone’s collecting witches. They’re collecting them for their own evil purposes. My digging makes me a target. Now I have a group of deadly witches after me on top of the local drug runners.I gather a few friends. We go on the offense. Only, the leader of the witches is someone I love. It’s someone I could never hurt. If I don’t fight, I die. If I hurt this person, I’ll never forgive myself.The local drug dealers aim to snatch my heart from my chest. A group of powerful witches want my head on their mantel. Is there any way for me to survive, or will this be my last dance?
Author: Ben Bowlin Publisher: Flatiron Books ISBN: 1250268575 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 311
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“Interesting...Bowlin's calmly rational approach to the subject of conspiracy theories shows the importance of logic and evidence.”—Booklist "A page-turning book to give to someone who believes in pizza pedophilia or that the Illuminati rule the world."—Kirkus Reviews The co-hosts of the hit podcast Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know, Ben Bowlin, Matthew Frederick, & Noel Brown, discern conspiracy fact from fiction in this sharp, humorous, compulsively readable, and gorgeously illustrated book. In times of chaos and uncertainty, when trust is low and economic disparity is high, when political institutions are crumbling and cultural animosities are building, conspiracy theories find fertile ground. Many are wild, most are untrue, a few are hard to ignore, but all of them share one vital trait: there’s a seed of truth at their center. That seed carries the sordid, conspiracy-riddled history of our institutions and corporations woven into its DNA. Ben Bowlin, Matt Frederick, and Noel Brown host the popular iHeart Media podcast, Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know. They are experts at exploring, explaining, and interrogating today’s emergent conspiracies—from chem trails and biological testing to the secrets of lobbying and the indisputable evidence of UFOs. Written in a smart, witty, and conversational style, elevated with amazing illustrations, Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know is a vital book in understanding the nature of conspiracy and using truth as a powerful weapon against ignorance, misinformation, and lies.
Author: Randy Pausch Publisher: ISBN: 9780340978504 Category : Cancer Languages : en Pages : 0
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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Author: Richard Powers Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393635538 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 420
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Over One Year on the New York Times Bestseller List A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year "The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." —Ann Patchett The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
Author: Jordan Schwartz Publisher: Bazillion Points LLC ISBN: 9781935950073 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 0
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As teenagers in 1981, David Markey and his best friend Jordan Schwartz founded We Got Power, a fanzine dedicated to the hardcore punk music community in their native Los Angeles. Their text and cameras captured the early punk spirit of Black Flag, the Minutemen, Social Distortion, Youth Brigade and many others at the height of their precocious punk powers. In the process, the duo's amazing photographs also captured the dilapidated suburbs, abandoned storefronts and dereliction of the era - a rubble strewn social apocalypse that demanded a youth uprising!
Author: Stephen Adly Guirgis Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc ISBN: 9780822218005 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 68
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THE STORY: Lenny is a recently released ex-convict. Despite his imposing size, he was gang raped repeatedly while incarcerated and struggles to find his manhood on the outside. Daisy, his alcoholic girlfriend, craves a real life with a real man
Author: United States. Congress Publisher: ISBN: Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 1320
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The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Care and Control of Feeble-Minded Publisher: ISBN: Category : Juvenile delinquents Languages : en Pages : 1042
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Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Care and Control of Feeble-Minded