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Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date:
©2025
Lexile measure:
GN: Graphic Novel 550L
Language:
English
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After his brother's death, Robert reluctantly joins the soccer team where he unexpectedly finds joy and purpose as he channels his brother's love for music into his role as a goalie.
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Publisher:
Capstone
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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It's been a year since Robert's brother died, and Robert is miserable. He no longer cares about school or friends, and he's angry all the time. When Robert is forced to join the soccer team, he wants to hate it. But the team's energy is contagious. Robert channels his brother's love of music into his game and starts rocking his time as goalie.
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Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
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With his trademark Rock 'N Roll hair and snakeskin spandex pants, plus a hot rod and a Harley, Lüc Carl fit the part as a bar manager based in New York City's gritty Lower East Side. And life was good for this Omaha, Nebraska, transplant-a talented drummer who originally moved to the big city to pursue his Rock 'N Roll dreams-until, suddenly, it wasn't. Fast forward through seven years of working long hours, bingeing on late-night Chinese food, and...
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Stone Soup
Language:
English
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"like being taken on a rock n roll road trip by Holden Caulfield with a head injury in the best of ways." - Dave Hill, comedian, rocker, awesome dude Two music obsessives embark on a hilarious quest to track down Buttery Cake Ass' Live In Hungaria, an album as legendary as it is obscure. Their pursuit of one of the greatest bands ever unknown takes them down many a bizarre path teeming with grand ideas and grander egos in this ode to record shopping...
5. Pinball
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Publisher:
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date:
2007
Language:
English
Description:
Jerzy Kosinski's bestselling novel Pinball, which he wrote for George Harrison, is a rock 'n' roll mystery centered on a superstar named Goddard who has, despite his success, managed to keep his identity a secret, even from his closest friends. But a beautiful young woman, obsessed with finding Goddard, stalks him relentlessly, driven by a secret goal that justifies all means. Ricocheting with humor and bursting with erotic intensity, Pinball is a...
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Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
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Few stories in the annals of American counterculture are as intriguing or dramatic as that of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. Dubbed the "Hippie Mafia," the Brotherhood began in the mid-1960s as a small band of peace-loving, adventure-seeking surfers in Southern California. After discovering LSD, they took to Timothy Leary's mantra of "Turn on, tune in, and drop out" and resolved to make that vision a reality by becoming the biggest group of acid...
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Publisher:
Dorrance Publishing Company
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
About the Book This book is a compilation of song lyrics Owings has written over the past fifty years. Without the music, the words and meaning stand on their own for the reader to judge as a work of art. The goal in presenting the lyrics as poetry is to evoke a response from the reader, good or bad, in agreement or disagreement, etc., without the music or melody line interfering. About the Author A native of Indianapolis, Indiana, Frank N. Owings,...
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Publisher:
Randall Blair
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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Curse of the Nice GuyIn the fall of 1966, London, England, was the epicenter of the new youth-culture as defined by drugs, rock-n-roll, free love, and liberal political activism. Clark Westfield arrived there to spend his junior year of college at the University of London. He had two simple goals: have exciting international adventures and finally lose his virginity. But he never imagined what it would cost him - emotionally and physically.Swinging...
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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Jonathan Visbal was born ambitious, eager to live the American dream and find success. A graduate of the prestigious Stanford Business School, Visbal joined a successful startup company and rose to the pinnacle of his career as a leadership advisor and executive recruiter at Spencer Stuart, where his clients included top Silicon Valley technology companies. And throughout his successful career, he never lost sight of his ultimate goal: living a life...
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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In The Cloud Idol Speaks, you'll meet an internet billionaire who has assembled a crew of like-minded individuals for a clandestine mission. Peter Booth amassed his wealth by inventing a highly intelligent and entertaining search engine from his bayou home. Now Peter's goals are to elevate the quality of life for all humans while preserving the natural world and returning it to a pristine state. Ambitious doesn't even begin to describe this undertaking....
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Publisher:
Lettra Press LLC
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
What are the odds of a marriage lasting 60 years? Experts calculate that only 1 in 600,000 marriages will last 60 years. And.001 per 1,000 will last 70 years. It is our goal to break the world's record of 90 years or die happy trying. That's another 30 in our world can you live that long? We believe we are our reality, due to our lifestyle, and everyone we meet wants to know "what's your secret for being married 60 years looking as good as you two...
13. Fabulosity
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Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
Description:
Fabulosity (n): 1: a state of everything that is fabulous 2: a quality ascribed to that which expresses glamour, style, charisma, power, and heart. Kimora Lee Simmons knows what it means to have fabulosity and she wants to tell you how to get it. In this empowering new book, Kimora a top model, wife of hip-hop legend Russell Simmons, mother to two daughters, a national media presence, and president and creative director of the multimillion-dollar...
14. In Your Dreams
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Series:
Falling volume 4
Publisher:
Little Miss Write, LLC
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
Casey Coffield has a growing list of personal flaws he keeps locked away in his head: He's never on time. His list of IOUs to his best friend is endless. Money is always short. Goals are never in reach. Oh, and he's decided to add college drop-out to that list, too. He doesn't really think that last one's such a bad thing, but his family insists it is, so it stays on the list. On paper, he's a zero. But in person, when he's mixing tracks for a sea...
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Publisher:
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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Three-time New York Times bestselling author and six-time WWE champion Chris Jericho shares 20 of his most valuable lessons for achieving your goals and living the life you want, jam-packed with fantastic stories and the classic off-the-wall, laugh-out-loud Jericho references he's famous for. Chris Jericho has known what he wanted out of life since he was a teenager: to be a pro wrestler and to be in a rock 'n' roll band. Most of his high school friends...
18. Siddhartha
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Lexile measure:
1010L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
2.5 stars
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This classic of twentieth-century literature chronicles the spiritual evolution of a man living in India at the time of the Buddha- a spiritual journey that has inspired generations of readers. Here is a fresh translation from Sherab Chö dzin Kohn, a gifted translator and longtime student of Buddhism and Eastern philosophy. Kohn's flowing, poetic translation conveys the philosophical and spiritual nuances of Hesse's text, paying special attention...
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Publisher:
Anthony Ordille
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
A guide to strengthening your life!Want to read the Bible but don't know how? Would you like to read it within a year, every year?It only takes 20 to 30 minutes a day to do it.My Daily Scriptures was created to help believers achieve the goal of reading the whole Bible in a year. It will take you completely through the Bible, cover to cover and book by book. Each daily reading will include a scripture reference for you to read from your Bible, covering...