Chris Jones
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As an entrepreneur and football player, Chris Jones has tackled hard-hitting challenges, suffered devastating blows, and experienced some amazing wins along the way. But when the company he had built from the ground up lost 70 percent of its revenue overnight, Chris found himself facing epic disaster. Still, he fought his way back one tough play at a time, learning what it takes to propel a business into monumental growth. Relentless AF is a raw and...
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Have you ever met someone who claims to be great at everything? A huge boaster of their own talents? You surely have. Well in the town of Hoppity Thicket, meet Bessie: a lady so confident in herself, she'll volunteer for anything and everything. This loveable rogue just wants to help. The only problem is … she doesn't help. In fact, she only manages to make things worse. A whole lot worse! Follow Bessie on a day like no other, which sees her tackle...
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The first known Chicago Tribune theater review appeared on March 25, 1853. An anonymous notice, it shared the page with two other announcements-one about a pair of thousand-pound hogs set to be slaughtered and another trumpeting the largest load of lumber ever to leave Chicago. "And thus Chicago's priorities were starkly laid out right there on that page," begins Chris Jones in the introduction to this eyewitness cultural history. "Hog butcher for...
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Cameron Jack returns in his third greatest adventure, Cameron Jack and the Three Kings. He discovers three new worlds, more enemies and gains amazing new powers than ever before. With the continuing help from his sister Jess and best mate Barry, they face their worst dangers yet including battles with mud monsters, snow beasts and futuristic robots. One of Cameron's old enemies reappears and hinders his mission to find and save three very important...
5) Secret Life Of Twickenham: The Story of Rugby Union's Iconic Fortress, The Players, Staff and Fans
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Twickenham Stadium is rightly venerated as the home of the Rugby Football Union (RFU). While it may bask in this fame, the stadium's beginnings were very humble. The land it was built upon was purchased in 1907 and would subsequently become the home to the Harlequins who would play the first ever match against Richmond. The first England test match didn't take place until 1910 and a home win ensured things got off on the right footing but cows, sheep...
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Neoliberalism and austerity have led to a growing inequality gap and increasing levels of poverty and social harm. In this short form book, part of the Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work series, Chris Jones and Tony Novak look at consequences of poverty and inequality and the challenge they pose to the engaged social work academic and practitioner. There are many studies of poverty that look at competing definitions (and some of the consequences)...
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Did you know there are only around 700 hawksbill turtles left on the planet? Myrtle is one such turtle.
This beautiful children's picture book tells her story and introduces us to the challenges climate change poses for these beautiful creatures. Narrated through perfect rhyme, Myrtle's story blends positivity with a dose of realism.
Climate change is something none of us can ignore. Yet the story of Myrtle does not seek to scare or intimidate young...
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Mankind had spent decades trying to overcome an impending ecological global disaster. By the late 23rd century the disaster that they were attempting to prevent was at hand, and there was no reversing the damage. Now two scientists, both more than a 150 years apart are brought together to find a way to change the mistakes of the past and try to save a future that can only be done through the destiny of these two individuals. The love they will find...
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Every book has a story of its own, a path leading from the initial idea that sparked it to its emergence into the world in published form. No two books follow quite the same path, but all are shaped by a similar array of market forces and writing craft concerns as well as by a cast of characters stretching beyond the author.
“Behind the Book” explores how eleven contemporary first-time authors, in genres ranging from post-apocalyptic fiction...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Fourth-grader Jim Nasium is trying out his hand at basketball, and he knows he is really good at one trick shot--but when he and his equally unskilled friends take on the school's more athletic kids he will have to do some quick thinking, or they will be completely embarrassed.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Jim Nasium has tried lots of sports, but the trouble is that he has always been a klutz--but this year he is determined to make a new start on the football field, so he volunteers to be the backup quarterback on his elementary school team.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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It is hockey season at Bennett Elementary School, and Jim's grandfather has bought all the equipment he needs, so if he can practice hard and ignore the taunts of the school bully, the team should be ready for the game with the rival Gators.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Ten-year-old Jim Nasium is actually fairly good at table tennis, so when the new girl, tennis whiz Olivia Hartford, compliments him on his backhand he decides to join the school tennis team--but his desire to impress his new tennis partner is making him even more uncoordinated than usual.
16) The Owl Keeper
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Eleven-year-old Max partners with an unusual girl, Rose, who shares his appreciation of the silver owls that the High Echelon wants to destroy, and together they make a perilous journey seeking to fulfill a prophecy.
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Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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Chronicles the rescue efforts to bring U.S. astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox and Russian flight engineer Nikolai Burdarin back to Earth after their space shuttle "Columbia" disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere in 2003.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Deep in the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources sits a nondescript bureaucrat named Konstantin Malin. From his shabby office Malin controls half the nation's oil industry, making him one of the most feared and wealthy men in Russia. His public face is Richard Lock, a diffident English lawyer bound to Malin by marriage, complacency, greed, and by a complex lie that neither can escape. But the lie cannot hold forever, and someone has hired Benjamin...