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Book cover for "Raise your voice".
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Publisher:
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2005]
Language:
English
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A girl with an extraordinary voice is accepted to a music school in Los Angeles. There is one scholarship offered for the coming year - a seemingly impossible dream. With the help of an inspirational teacher, she finds the will to meet the challenge.
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Publisher:
Warner Bros
Pub. Date:
2004
Language:
English
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Hilary Duff stars as Terri, a small town girl with the voice of a big-time singer. Following her dreams, she heads to L.A. for the summer at a famous music school. Life in the big city is full of surprises, but with the help of some cool friends, an encouraging teacher, and a super cute boy, this All-American girl will have the time of her life.
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Publisher:
christianaudio.com
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
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You have a voice. And you have God's permission to use it. In some communities, certain voices are amplified and elevated while others are erased and suppressed. It can be hard to speak up, especially in the ugliness of social media. Power dynamics keep us silent and marginalized, especially when race, ethnicity, and gender are factors. What can we do about it? Activist Kathy Khang roots our voice and identity in the image of God. Because God created...
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Publisher:
Philomel
Pub. Date:
©2020
Lexile measure:
1220L
Language:
English
Description:
"A recounting of protests throughout American history that have shaped our nation"--
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Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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The Lord is calling His people to break their silence and proclaim the Gospel to everyone-right now. The Spirit of God is moving in people's hearts, prompting them to speak out against the sins and atrocities in our world. Speaking out comes with a cost. It can be challenging, unpopular, and downright lonely. You will be misunderstood. But those who speak in God's voice find peace for being faithful to his call. God has always looked for people who...
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Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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"Fourteen years before Kirsten Gillibrand succeeded Hillary Rodham Clinton as senator from New York, she heard her future mentor say these life-changing words: 'Decisions are being made every day in Washington, and if you are not part of those decisions, you might not like what they decide, and you'll have no one to blame but yourself.' A young corporate lawyer at the time, Gillibrand felt as if she'd been struck by lightning. She instantly knew that...
Book cover for "A Woman's Guide to Claiming Space".
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Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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For too long, women have been told to confine themselves—physically, socially, and emotionally. Eliza VanCort says now is the time for women to stand tall, raise their voices, and claim their space. Women fight the pressure to make themselves small in private, professional, and public spaces. Eliza VanCort, a teacher, consultant, and speaker, provides the necessary tools for women to rewrite the rules and create the stories of their choosing...
Book cover for "The adventures of Huckleberry Finn".
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Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.2 stars
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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of...
Book cover for "Angela's ashes".
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Lexile measure:
1110L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland....
Book cover for "The adventures of Tom Sawyer".
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Lexile measure:
930L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a "rich boy." Yet through the novel's humorous escapades-from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe-Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge,...
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Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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If you had to pick five people to sum up your life, who would they be? If you were to raise a glass to each of them, what would you say? And what would you learn about yourself, when all is said? At the bar of a grand hotel in a small Irish town sits 84-year-old Maurice Hannigan. He's alone, as usual, though tonight is anything but. Pull up a stool and charge your glass, because Maurice is finally ready to tell his story. Over the course of this evening,...
Book cover for "A Christmas carol and other stories".
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Lexile measure:
900L
Language:
English
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"This perennial Dickensian favorite about a miser's startling change of heart is illustrated by Italian artist Roberto Innocenti and reissued for the readers of all the Christmases Yet To Come"--
Book cover for "The life and adventures of Santa Claus".
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Lexile measure:
1170L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Relates Santa's life, from childhood to old age and immortality, mentioning such adventures as those with the friendly wood nymphs and the wicked Awgwas.
Book cover for "Drive your plow over the bones of the dead".
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount,...

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Lexile measure:
1000L
Language:
English
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A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city. "A hardcover edition of the classic Swiss novel, in Helen B. Dole's English translation and with illustrations by William Sharp from the 1945 edition"--
Book cover for "Wuthering Heights".
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Lexile measure:
880L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
"Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child when Catherine's father finds him wandering alone through...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
Book cover for "The queen of Dirt Island".
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Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"You'll never truly understand love until you've read Donal Ryan: a searing, jubilant story about four generations of women and the fierce devotion that binds them together The Aylward women of Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland, are mad about each other, but you wouldn't always think it. You'd have to know them to know that-in spite of what the neighbors might say about raised voices and dramatic scenes-their house is a place of peace, filled with...
Book cover for "The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other stories".
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Lexile measure:
970L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Dr. Jekyll is a kind and generous professional of the highest rank, and yet within him is a malevolent soul who desires the freedom to pursue his most barbarous conceits without consequence. This is not only the story of good and evil but of the hypocrisy through which one denies the other. Dr. Jekyll has developed a chemical potion which allows a separation to occur between the two natures present in everyone. By isolating the dichotomous qualities...
Book cover for "All you can ever know".
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Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
"What does it mean to lose your roots-within your culture, within your family-and what happens when you find them? Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better...