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Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Follows animal rights lawyer Steven Wise in his unprecedented challenge to break down the legal wall that separates animals from humans. After thirty years of struggling with ineffective animal welfare laws, Steve and his legal team, the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), are making history by filing the first lawsuits that seek to transform an animal from a thing with no rights to a person with legal protections. Supported by affidavits from primatologists...
4942) The bone people: a novel
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
This unusual novel, set in New Zealand, concentrates on three people: Kerewin Holmes, a part-Maori painter who has chosen to isolate herself in a tower she built from lottery winnings; Simon, a troubled and mysterious little boy; and Joe Gillayley, the Maori factory worker who is Simon's foster father. Elements of Maori myth and culture are woven into the novel's exploration of the passions and needs that bind these three people together, for good...
Author
Series
Publisher
Instant Help Books, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"More than ever, teens need tools to manage stress and increase resilience. Based on the latest research in psychology and neuroscience, The Resilient Teen offers ten key skills to help readers bounce back from difficult situations, deal with difficult emotions, and cultivate a sense of joy, even in the face of modern-day stressors"--
4947) The puma years: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of the author's journey in the Amazon jungle, where she fell in love with a magnificent cat who changed her life.
4948) After you lose someone you love: advice and insight from the diaries of three kids who've been there
Author
Publisher
Free Spirit Pub
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A journal that was kept for two years by three children whose father died one night in his sleep
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
For more than twenty years, John Gray's Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus has helped couples deepen their intimacy and rejuvenate their love lives. Men and women, it revealed, communicate so differently, we might as well be from different planets. By learning to speak each other's language, millions of people dramatically improved, even saved, their relationships.But the world has changed.Today, what it means to be a man or a woman is more nuanced...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids have learned that "fat" is bad. As they get older, kids learn to pursue thinness in order to survive in a world that ties our body size to our value. Multibillion-dollar industries thrive on consumers believing that we don't want to be fat. Our weight-centric medical system pushes "weight loss" as a prescription, while ignoring social determinants of health and reinforcing negative stereotypes about...
4955) Indivisible
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
New York City high school student Mateo dreams of becoming a Broadway star, but his life is transformed after his parents are deported to Mexico.
Mateo Garcia and his younger sister, Sophie, have been taught to fear one word for as long as they can remember: deportation. Ma and Pa have been in the United States for so long, they have American-born children, and they're hard workers and good neighbors. When Mateo returns from school one day to find...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
From an international expert on infant-parent communication, a rich and accessible gift book on baby "language," gorgeously illustrated with forty black-and-white photographs.
Through intimate access to babies and their families, Dr. Kevin Nugent and acclaimed photographer Abelardo Morell capture the amazingly precocious communications strategies babies demonstrate from the moment they are born.
Your Baby Is Speaking to You illustrates the full...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"All too many kids of color get 'the talk.' The talk about where to keep their hands, how to wear their clothes, how to speak, how to act around police-an honest talk, a talk about survival in a racist world. The get "the talk" because they must. But white kids don't get this talk. Instead, they're barely spoken to about race at all-and that needs to change. The Other Talk begins this much-needed conversation for white kids. In an accessible, anecdotal,...
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Angelique, a young student, is in love with a married doctor. She tries to convince him to leave his pregnant wife. Is the love affair the one-sided obsession of a desperate woman clinging to a hopeless dream, and turning it into a nightmare when she realizes it may not come true?
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Unconscious bias affects everyone. It can look like the disappointment of an HR professional when a candidate for a new position asks about maternity leave. It can look like preferring the application of an Ivy League graduate over one from a state school. It can look like assuming a man is more entitled to speak in a meeting than his female junior colleague. Meant for every manager who wants to understand and move past their own preconceived ideas,...
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