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Growing up in the diverse and bustling California Bay Area, renowned wildlife ecologist Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant always felt worlds away from the white male adventurers she watched explore the wilderness on TV. She dreamed of a future where she could spend sleepless nights under the crowded canopies of the Amazon and the starry skies of the savanna. But as Rae set off on her own expeditions in the wild, she saw nature's delicate balance in a new light....
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With emotions like fear, guilt and empathy eluding her, the author, trying to replace the nothingness with something, realizes, after connecting with an old flame, if she's capable of love, it must mean she isn't a monster and sets out to prove the millions of Americans who share her diagnosis aren't all monsters either.
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Winner of the 2018 Green Earth Book Award.
This picture book biography examines the life and career of naturalist and artist Anna Comstock (1854-1930), who defied social conventions and pursued the study of science. From the time she was a young girl, Anna Comstock was fascinated by the natural world. She loved exploring outdoors, examining wildlife and learning nature's secrets. From watching the teamwork of marching ants to following the constellations...
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In 1932, Hazel Ying Lee, a nineteen-year-old American daughter of Chinese immigrants, sat in on a friend's flight lesson. It changed her life. In less than a year, a girl with a wicked sense of humor, a newfound love of flying, and a tough can-do attitude earned her pilot's license and headed for China to help against invading Japanese forces. In time, Hazel would become the first Asian American to fly with the Women Airforce Service Pilots. As thrilling...
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Begin the journey into the lives of important people in history with Beginner Biographies. These simple, illustrated biographies provide a perfect entry point for learning about history. The childhood, education, and writings of Helen Keller are presented with short, simple text for the elementary school audience. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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2024
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Cuando Carlos tena 19 aos, su mam decidi dejar su vida en El Salvador y buscar un nuevo comienzo en Estados Unidos. Para el viaje al norte, contrat los servicios de un coyote. Carlos se resista a ir, pero no quiso dejar que su mam partiera sin l y decidi unirse. En su recorrido a travs de Mxico, vivieron los riesgos y miedos que incontables personas de pases centroamericanos enfrentan al emigrar a otras tierras. Diez aos despus, Carlos comparte estos...
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"A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom, and the difficulty of adoring what we destroy. Acclaimed novelist Lydia Millet's first work of nonfiction, We Loved It All, is a genre-defying tour de force that makes an impassioned argument for people to see their emotional and spiritual lives as infinitely dependent on the lives of nonhuman beings. Drawing on a quarter-century of experience as an advocate for...
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Marcel Proust (1871-1922) ist der Schöpfer des monumentalen Romans "Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit", eines der bedeutendsten erzählenden Werke des 20. Jahrhunderts. Proust schrieb auch Gesellschaftskolumnen und gewann als Salonlöwe Einblicke in das mondäne Leben, das er später in seinem Meisterwerk so treffend beschrieb. Engagiert, originell und höchst persönlich führt C. Bernd Sucher, der bekannte Kritiker und Journalist, zusammen...
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Heiner Lauterbach zählt zu Deutschlands beliebtesten und meistbeschäftigten Film- und Fernsehstars. In den letzten Jahren vollzog der einstige Macho vom Dienst eine rigorose Wandlung. Er hat sich im besten Sinne neu erfunden: Als
Schauspieler, als Mann und Familienvater, als Mensch und Partner. Der Mann, der lange im Leben nichts ausgelassen und dafür manche Quittung verpasst bekommen hat, blickt zu seinem 60 Geburtstag gelassener und selbstkritischer...
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From her start playing paddle tennis on the streets of Harlem as a young teenager to her eleven Grand Slam tennis wins to her professional golf career, Althea Gibson became the most famous Black sportswoman of the mid-twentieth century. In her unprecedented athletic career, she was the first
African American to win titles at the French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open.
In this first full-scale biography, Ashley Brown narrates the public career...
11) Campeonas
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Solo en el transcurso de este siglo, el Perú ha visto a 16 mujeres en lo más alto del podio del deporte nacional. De a pocos, la presencia de las mujeres se ha vuelto constante en diversas competencias, incluso en aquellas que en el pasado eran consideradas "solo para hombres".
Campeonas. Peruanas que están cambiando las reglas del juego cuenta las historias de 12 mujeres que han marcado para siempre al deporte peruano, cuyos éxitos fueron reconocidos...
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Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) ist die wohl größte Filmdiva des 20.Jahrhunderts und der erste deutsche Weltstar. Mit "Der blaue Engel" gelang ihr 1930 der Durchbruch; und bis heute fasziniert die legendäre Schauspielerin und Sängerin mit der unverwechselbaren Stimme ihre zahllosen Fans. Ein spannendes Feature auf den Spuren ihres schillernden Lebens, inszeniert mit Musik, O-Tönen der Dietrich und mehreren Sprechern - in dieser Hörbiografie kommen...
13) Strong
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Heartbreaking and powerful - Ashley is an inspiration', Fearne Cotton
'Ashley's psychological and emotional resilience is unparalleled, truly in the 0.1 percent', Ant Middleton
STRENGTH, RESILIENCE, POWER
Strong is the moving and heartbreaking memoir from celebrity campaigner, endurance athlete, and father of an angel, Ashley Cain. Charting his daughter's birth and the fight for her life when she was diagnosed with leukaemia at 7 weeks old, Ashley...
14) Late Light
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Late Light brings the refreshing perspective of someone who goes from seeing England as a foreign place to someone who deeply studies its secret wonders. An astonishing read.' - Amy Liptrot, The Outrun
This is a book about falling in love with vanishing things
Late Light is the story of Michael Malay's own journey, an Indonesian Australian making a home for himself in England and finding strange parallels between his life and the lives of the animals...
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Else Lasker-Schüler (1869 - 1945) ist vor allem als Lyrikerin bekannt. Aber neben ihren Gedichten sind es die Theaterstücke, die sie berühmt gemacht haben, allen voran das Drama "Die Wupper". Sie schrieb zunächst schwärmerisch und visionär, wurde aber zunehmend schwermütig. Nicht nur in ihren Dichtungen, auch in ihrem Leben. Aus einer unziemlich verrückten Bohemienne wurde eine depressive, einsame Frau, die aber eine Hoffnung nie aufgab: gerettet...
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The fascinating, memoir of Richard Williams, a businessman, tennis coach, subject of the major motion picture King Richard, and father to two of the greatest athletes and professional tennis champions of all time-Venus and Serena Williams.
Born into poverty in Shreveport, Louisiana in the 1940s, Richard Williams was blessed by a strong, caring mother who remained his lifelong hero, just as he became a hero to Venus and Serena. From the beginning...
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Daniela Katzenberger
Sei schlau, stell dich dumm
gelesen von Daniela Katzenberger
Isch bin wie isch bin - ganz normal bekloppt!
DER SPIEGEL spricht von der "blondesten Medienkarriere des Jahres", für DIE BUNTE ist sie "Deutschlands neues Phänomen". Wer ist diese Frau, die rundum für Aufsehen sorgt? Wasserstoffblondierte Kunsthaarmähne, cappuccinofarbene Studiobräune und Doppel-D-Silikon-Busen. An "der Katze" scheint wenig echt zu sein, trotzdem...
18) Jimmy Two Guns
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James 'Jimmy Two Guns' McIntyre was Glasgow's go-to gangland lawyer and consigliere to one of Scotland's foremost crime families. His maverick approach to the law and a client list that included some of the most feared gangland figures of the time - including the McGoverns and Paul Ferris - ensured that he was always in demand but under the constant scrutiny of the authorities.
Now Jimmy Two Guns recounts the cases he handled, the strokes he pulled,...
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Coco Chanel (1883-1971) prägte wie niemand sonst die Mode des 20. Jahrhunderts und machte Paris zum Mode-Mekka der Welt. Sie verwirrte und entzückte die Welt durch die Abschaffung des Korsetts und der langen Röcke, schuf das unentbehrliche "kleine Schwarze" und das Chanel-Kostüm und erfand den Modeschmuck. Als sie mit 87 Jahren in ihrer Suite im Pariser Hotel Ritz starb, war die uneheliche Tochter des Hausierers Albert Chanel längst zur erfolgreichsten...
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Family is not always a place of safety. Kathleen was just eight years old when her mother was tragically killed in a car accident. And when her father remarries it is to the bitter and resentful Irene who has two children of her own and no space in her heart for another. Irene goes out of her way to make Kathleen's life as miserable as possible and will stop at nothing to get her out of their lives… When Kathleen is sixteen, a shocking incident...
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