Catalog Search Results
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
The dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities. In this fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human. Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul,...
Author
Publisher
Writer's Digest Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Newspaper, magazine, and web editors are desperate for new voices, and anyone, in any field, can break in ... Over the last two decades, writing professor Susan Shapiro has taught more than 25,000 students of all ages and backgrounds at NYU, Columbia, Temple, the New School, and Harvard University. Now in the BYLINE BIBLE she reveals the wildly popular 'Instant Gratification Takes Too Long" technique she's perfected, sharing how to land impressive...
Publisher
Woodhall Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The seventy-one flash essays collected here are hilarious proof that you don't need more than 750 words to laugh out loud. Featuring both established and up-and-coming writers, these essays are no flashes in the pan--they demonstrate careful attention to craft and exploration: everything you want in a thoughtful essay, only shorter. This collection is perfect for students of writing and comedy--and for anybody who appreciates a good laugh!"--Amazon.com....
5) Cat
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs present the anatomy, behavior, habitats, and other aspects of wild and domestic cats.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The celebrated Secret Life series continues with a determined mother skunk and her five kits. Young readers will learn about their hidden lives as the skunk kits grow and explore their world, escape predators, and hunt for food. Renowned science author Laurence Pringle provides a story of family and survival packed with science terminology, depictions of skunk behavior, and information about skunks' habitats, diets, and sounds. And Kate Garchinsky's...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the acclaimed fiction writer...comes Still No Word from You, a unique chain of essays and intimate stories that meld the lived life and the reading life. Covering such well-known writers as Lorraine Hansberry, Primo Levi, and Marilynne Robinson, as well as other greats like Maeve Brennan and James Alan McPherson, Orner's highly personal take on literature alternates with his own true stories of loss and love, hope and despair"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people-morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners-who work in it and what led them there. We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we're so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look? Fueled by...
9) A most remarkable creature: the hidden life and epic journey of the world's smartest birds of prey
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet a rare and mysterious bird of prey--the caracara--that puzzled Darwin, fascinates modern-day falconers, and carries secrets of our planet's deep past in its family history. In 1833, Charles Darwin was astonished by an animal he met in the Falkland Islands: handsome, social, and oddly crow-like falcons that were "tame and inquisitive ... quarrelsome and passionate," and so insatiably...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Crawl, cling, climb! You may have seen a raccoon scurry up a tree or across the road just before dark. Did you know that raccoons stay up at night playing, hunting, and eating when you go to sleep? From birth to first stripes and beyond, discover all that goes into being a raccoon in this charming nonfiction picture book, the second in the Meet Your World series"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Dive into the facts behind the most well-known footage of the cryptid and learn about actual scientific studies conducted to learn whether or not Bigfoot actually exists. Filled with accounts of over a century of potential sightings, this book will have every reader looking for footprints on their next hike. Bigfoot has been the star subject of movies, TV shows, books, and more . . . but is he really out there?"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows one young man from his impoverished childhood with a crack-addicted mother, through his discovery of the sport of football, to his rise to become one of the most successful, highly-paid players in the NFL.
13) Nursery earth: the wondrous lives of baby animals and the extraordinary ways they shape our world
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An astonishing safari of infant animals, from baby kangaroos to flamingos to squid, and the essential role they play in Earth's ecosystems"--
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Discover who's living in your own backyard. More than half of all humans now live in cities, with a mixture of plants, animals, and fungi that have never been together before. Yet not only do few of us see and appreciate these creatures, we often try to eradicate them. What if understanding urban species could help preserve our connection to nature? Secret Life of the City introduces us to corvids, songbirds, ants, pigeons, bats, sparrows, lichens,...
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The stories I have chosen reflect where I feel the field of science and nature writing has landed, and where it could go," Ed Yong writes in his introduction. "They are often full of tragedy, sometimes laced with wonder, but always deeply aware that science does not exist in a social vacuum. They are beautiful, whether in their clarity of ideas, the elegance of their prose, or often both." The essays in this year's Best American Science and Nature...
Author
Publisher
Handprint Books is an imprint of Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Intriguing, informative, and endlessly fascinating, a book which makes visible that which we otherwise only hear and feel as vibrations: SOUND. Award-winning authors and artists Romana Romanyshyn and Andriy Lesiv achieve a remarkable fusion of the scientific exploration of the phenomenon of sound with a philosophic reflection on its nature. A stunning sequence of rich infographics provoke the reader to listen ... learn ... and think. Whether it's...
20) Hey, water!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Splashy illustrations and simple text explore water in its many shapes and forms"--
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request