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"When Beverly Hills High School welcomed a skinny boy from the other side of the tracks, no one knew just how life-changing the decision would be, not just for Carter Paysinger but for all of Beverly Hills. Carter grew up hearing his parents say, 'Don't just strive to be good. Always strive to be great.' He dreamed of finding greatness in playing professional baseball or becoming a Black Donald Trump, but fate had different plans and, ultimately,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
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Laura Schroff was a successful ad sales rep living and working in Manhattan. Maurice was a homeless, eleven-year-old panhandler on the street. He asked for spare change; she kept walking. But then something stopped her in her tracks, and she turned around and went back. And she continued to go back, again and again. They met nearly every week for years and built an unexpected friendship that has today spanned almost three decades, bringing life to...
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Don Malarkey grew up in Oregon and fought in the Battle of the Bulge in Europe. He was scarred by his long tour of duty in WWII and his experiences as a paratrooper behind enemy lines. Fritz Engelbert grew up in Germany and became indoctrinated by the Hitler Youth. After the war, he was wracked with guilt over his participation in the Nazi regime. On the sixtieth anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the two men met and ended up saving each other's...
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Thomas Nelson
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Read the critically acclaimed #1 New York Times best-seller with more than one million copies in print. Same Kind of Different as Me was a major motion picture release by Paramount in fall 2017.Gritty with pain and betrayal and brutality, this true story also shines with an unexpected, life-changing love. Meet Denver, raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana until he escaped the "Man" – in the 1960's – by hopping a train. Non-trusting,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
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Meet Denver, a man raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana in the 1960s; a man who escaped, hopping a train to wander, homeless, for eighteen years on the streets of Dallas, Texas. No longer a slave, Denver's life was still hopeless, until God moved. First came a godly woman who prayed, listened, and obeyed. And then came her husband, Ron, an international arts dealer at home in a world of Armani-suited millionaires. And then they all came...
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Cecelia was a fifteen-year-old slave when she accompanied her mistress, Frances "Fanny" Thruston Ballard, on a holiday trip to Niagara Falls. During their stay, Cecelia crossed the Niagara River and joined the free black population of Canada. Although documented relationships between freed or escaped slaves and their former owners are rare, the discovery of a cache of letters from the former slave owner to her escaped slave confirms this extraordinary...
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Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of the Greatest Generation. Theirs was a crucial friendship, and a unique one -- a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together (113 days during the war) and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. Amid cocktails, cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran, talking to each...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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Eleven-year-old Maurice must beg for change in order to eat, but when Laura stops to help, they begin a years-long friendship that gives each a new perspective and hope. Includes a list of agencies that help children in need and suggested acts of kindness.
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"Written by leading royal historian Will Swift, The Roosevelts and the Royals is based on original source materials, including letters and diary entries - many of which are reproduced here - as well as interviews with numerous family members and original comments from the Queen Mother. Telling the story of the Roosevelt and Windsor dynasties from the 1880s all the way up to a royal visit to Hyde Park in 2002, the book traces in detail the early years...
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Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2000
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English
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"Little looks at the history of friendship from the ancient Greeks to Freud and beyond. He links some of the oldest ideas about friendship with some of the newest, and shows how friendship is a way of knowing people, rather than just a summary of the feelings we have about them."--BOOK JACKET.
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Dutton
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c2008
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If we are lucky, we each have one special friend in our lives--the person who's there to cheer every minor accomplishment, who can lift spirits in even the darkest crisis, who knows every secret and will never tell. Not surprisingly, celebrities have close friendships, too. Here, author Hellstern illuminates these iconic pairings with photographs and quotes.--From publisher description.
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Simon & Schuster
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c1996
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English
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Representing a fascinating spectrum of feelings and opinions about lesbianism, the friendships women share - or fear - and the rich diversity of personal choices women make today, this collection of brash and thoughtful essays, stories, and interviews offers Dorothy Allison on what it means to be a lesbian, Carla Trujillo on the impact of "sexual betrayal" by an ex-lover, Elizabeth Wurtzel on the creative freedom experienced only by lesbians, Susie...
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[2021]
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Amy Butcher was an accomplished college professor mentor and writer but in her own home she was embarrassed and emotionally burdened by an increasingly abusive relationship. Exhausted and terrified Amy reached out to Instagram celebrity Joy "Mothertrucker" Wiebe--the nations only female ice road trucker. Invited by Joy to ride shotgun Amy found her escape on a road that was treacherous beautiful and exhilarating--an adventurous ride through the Alaskan...
20) As good as anybody: Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's amazing march toward freedom
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Overview: MARTIN LUTHER KING, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel. Their names stand for the quest for justice and equality. Martin grew up in a loving family in the American South, at a time when this country was plagued by racial discrimination. He aimed to put a stop to it. He became a minister like his daddy, and he preached and marched for his cause. Abraham grew up in a loving family many years earlier, in a Europe that did not welcome Jews. He found...