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1062) Tomas Young's war
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The tragic yet life affirming story of a paralyzed Iraq War veteran who spent his last ten years battling heroically with his injuries, while courageously speaking against America's wars. Wilkerson puts the reader alongside Young as he suffers frustration and humiliation, attempting to reenter society and resume as normal an existence as possible. Balancing his precarious health with his drive to speak out for veterans care and against the war, Young's...
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Me...Jane: In the characteristic heartwarming style, Patrick McDonnell tells the story of the young Jane Goodall and her special childhood toy chimpanzee named Jubilee. Who says women can't be doctors: This inspiring story of the first female doctor in America shows how one strong-willed woman opened the doors for all the female doctors to come; I Could Do That! Ester Morris Gets Women the Vote: This is the true story of Esther Morris, who started...
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"Aristophanes is inconsolable--his rival playwrights are hogging all the local attention, a pesky young wannabe poet won't leave him alone, his actors can't remember their lines, and his own festival sponsor seems to be conspiring against him, withholding direly needed funds for set design and, most importantly, giant phallus props. O woe, how can his latest comedy convince Athenian citizens to vote down another ten years of war against Sparta if...
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"Fifty years after living in a remote Pakistan village as a Peace Corps volunteer, Leslie Noyes Mass returns to discover a much-changed Pakistan-and a village that still remembers her. She deftly interweaves her experiences from 50 years ago with her current day story as a volunteer training female teachers. Leslie Mass captures the heart and the attention of the reader with her story of Pakistanis in 1962 and those of a new generation who are engaged...
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"The memoir of the life of William Bernard Robertson, telling of his early years in Roanoke, Virginia, and college in Bluefield, West Virginia, during segregation; his years as a public school educator and principal; his time as aide to Linwood Holton, Republican governor of Virginia; and the years that followed, including his work for the Peace Corps in Kenya and the state department, assuming duties under five presidential administrations, as well...
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In 1849, Henry David Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience" was published. The ideas he set forth in the essay and in his other writings were so groundbreaking that they influenced towering figures such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. Thoreau's ideas continue to influence peaceful activists today. This book explores the life of Thoreau, his beliefs, his strategies for protest, and the legacy he left behind.
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Sonia Luna, en este su primer libro, comparte sus profundos conocimientos sobre la mujer y el ser humano, no solo a nivel espiritual, sino sicológico y emocional. Empieza por presentarse a sí misma desde niña y luego adolescente, para explicarnos el desarrollo del ser y cómo quiénes somos es un viaje que se va desarrollando porque está moldeado por nuestras experiencias desde que nacemos, las influencias de nuestras familias, los momentos que...
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