Brian Hall
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Told in short chapters, each of which presents an emblematic incident with intensity and immediacy, this novel deftly weaves together the earlier parts of the poet Robert Frost's life with his final year. In 1962, at age eighty-eight, and under the looming threat of the Cuban Missile Crisis, he made a visit to Russia and met with Khrushchev in a quixotic attempt to save the world from nuclear war.
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Learn more about the women who helped put women's sports on the map. The title also features informative sidebars, a glossary, and further resources. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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This title introduces readers to the Detroit Lions, providing exciting details about today's stars and going deep inside the key moments of the team's history. The title also features informative 'fast facts,' a timeline, and a glossary. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing Company.
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This title introduces readers to Russell Westbrook, providing exciting details about his life and going deep inside the key moments of his NBA career. The title also features informative "fast facts," a timeline, and a glossary. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing Company.
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The true story of the author's battle with Parkinson's disease, and how he refused to back away from his goals! Brian Hall's tenacity, self-examination, and acceptance will drive home the message: Parkinson's disease is not the end - it's a new beginning.
When he began showing symptoms at the age of 14, he worried that Parkinson's disease would define his life, but instead it's reaffirmed the person he's become and what he's most proud of. Whether...
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Long before Sidney Crosby even stepped into the NHL spotlight, he was touted as the next great player. Despite the tremendous amount of pressure placed on Crosby's young shoulders and throughout all the attention and media scrutiny, he has proven that he could indeed be the next Great One. Find out: -Stories from Sidney Crosby's first steps on the ice to his first goal -Buzz around Crosby's quick rise to hockey fame -Frantic excitement leading up...
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Through the seventies and into the mid-eighties a cohort of young climbers challenged the siege mentality of their seniors on high mountains in the Greater Ranges with fast moving, lightweight expeditions run on a shoestring. Brian Hall was one of them and, in High Risk, he describes their daring adventures and the counterculture they lived within, their rivalries and relationships, and the terrible price many of them paid. When all was done, they...
11) The Empty Spaces
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Love in the Time of Caller ID Jackie Paper is a hot shot developer who hopes to strike it rich when he creates a wildly popular music sharing app. What his investors don't know, and what our hero can't confess, is that his program is also a means of contacting extraterrestrials. Jackie is sure they are out there. Waiting for our call. The Empty Spaces may be considered "start-up fiction." It is a novel that connects the business of chocolate with...
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Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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[2021]
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"A wise, inventive, and multilayered novel about two families - one made up largely of scientists, and the other of artists and mystics - whose worlds collide in pursuit of a lost daughter Mette, a twenty-year old programmer of visual effects for video games, lives with her mother, Saskia, an aspiring playwright, in Brooklyn. Mette is a private young woman, a savant who finds something calming in repetitive mathematical calculations. But she has been...
16) The saskiad
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The story of a girl with a highly developed sense of fantasy. She is Saskia, 12, who lives on a farm in New York State. She has built around her a world in which such historic figures as Odysseus and Marco Polo actually exist. Yet she is still capable of performing the day-to-day chores on the farm.