Jason Harris
Author
Publisher
Currency
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The Soulful Art of Persuasion is a revolutionary guide to becoming a master influencer in the age of distrust through the cultivation of character-building habits that are essential to personal growth and sustained business success. Jason Harris, CEO and President of one of the nation's fastest growing and most successful creative agencies, Mekanism, argues that genuine persuasion in the 21st century is about developing character rather than relying...
Author
Publisher
Crystal Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Jealous of the attention lavished upon the puppetry talents of his dear sister-and tormented by visions of her torture at the hands of his mysterious Uncle Pavan, who recruited her for his arcane school-Elias is determined to learn the true nature of occult puppetry, no matter the hideous costs, in order to exact vengeance.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Darwin Awards II commemorates those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it, showing us just how uncommon common sense can be! Meet the absentminded terrorist who opens a mail bomb returned to him for insufficient postage. Marvel at the thief who steals electrical wires before shutting off the current. Gape at the would-be pilot who flies his lawn chair suspended from helium balloons into air-traffic lanes. These tales of trial...
Publisher
The Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An anthology celebrating the biodiversity and staggering beauty of Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Light Enters the Grove collects 81 poems, each of which reflects its author's unique connection to a living organism found within the park-ranging from white-tailed deer to brown bats and from Japanese honeysuckle to bloodroot. Additionally, each poem is paired with an artistic depiction of the poem's subject that reinforces the rich relationship between...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
10-year-old baseball fan Yankee Irving is always the last one picked for sandlot baseball games. But when Babe Ruth's prized bat is stolen during the 1932 World Series, Yankee steps up to the plate to help retrieve it for his beloved idol. He embarks on a wild cross-country journey that teaches him the stuff of real heroes, and along the way, Yankee learns that importance of perseverance and the true meaning of friendship.
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
Encyclopedia Brown looks like the usual ten-year-old boy. Actually, he is very unusual. Encyclopedia is a boy who really uses his eyes, his ears, and his head-- and his head is full of facts. As for Idaville, where he lives, no grownup, boy, or girl ever gets away with breaking a single law there. That is because Chief of Police Brown's most difficult cases are solved by his son at the dinner table.
Author
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
p2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
t's the last day of first grade and Gilbert isn't sure what he's feeling. He's excited about summer vacation, but he will miss his teacher and his friends. He's also uncertain about the awards to be presented--what can he possibly be best at? As the normal class routine is replaced by end of school activities, Gilbert deals with this typical rite of passage in a memorable and reassuring manner.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After a year in exile on an Alaskan island as punishment for severely beating a fellow student, Cole Matthews returns to school in Minneapolis having made peace with himself and his victim--but he finds that surviving the violence and hatred of high school is even harder than surviving in the wilderness.
14) Breaking point
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Paul enters an exclusive private school and falls under the spell of a charismatic boy who may be using him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Matthew McGough was a fairly typical teenager, obsessed with getting through high school, girls, and baseball, not necessarily in that order. His passion for the New York Yankees was absolute, complete with a poster of his hero, Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly, hanging on his bedroom wall. Despite having no connections whatsoever with the ballclub, Matt dreamed of sitting in the dugout with the fabled Bronx Bombers. So, in the...
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Series
Publisher
Listen & Live Audio, Inc
Language
English
Description
The Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it, showing us just how uncommon common sense can be! Meet the absentminded terrorist who opens a mail bomb returned to him for insufficient postage. Marvel at the thief who steals electrical wires before shutting off the current. Gape at the would-be pilot who flies his lawn chair suspended from helium balloons into air-traffic lanes. These tales of trial...
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
This volume includes:
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective and The Case of the Secret Pitch – two collections of mysteries that Encyclopedia Brown must solve by using his famous computerlike brain.
A cross-eyed baseball pitch...
A kid-lover tumed kidnapper...
A watermelon stabbing...
A trapeze artist's inheritance...
These are just some of the brain-twisters included. Try to crack the cases along with him—the...
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective and The Case of the Secret Pitch – two collections of mysteries that Encyclopedia Brown must solve by using his famous computerlike brain.
A cross-eyed baseball pitch...
A kid-lover tumed kidnapper...
A watermelon stabbing...
A trapeze artist's inheritance...
These are just some of the brain-twisters included. Try to crack the cases along with him—the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Whether it's the adventures of Greek gods and goddesses or Norse trickster tales, we all love to hear a good story. Kenneth C. Davis gives readers a taste of the diverse myths that live on in the cultures and religions around the world today. In his trademark question-and-answer style, peppered with entertaining sidebars and quotes, he also shows how almost every civilization's mythology shares common themes. A wealth of photographs and art...
Author
Series
Publisher
Listen & Live Audio, Inc
Language
English
Description
An incredible runaway bestseller and cult phenomenon, The Darwin Awards returns with all new tales of trial and awe-inspiring error. More Award Winners, Honorable Mentions, and Urban Legends, together with personal accounts never before heard. Appealing to Darwin fans old and new, The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection audiobook proves that we aren't done yet - with the ongoing saga of survival of the fittest Homo Sapiens.
Author
Series
Horace and Morris and Dolores volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three mice friends learn that the best clubs include everyone.