Jack Kelly
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Band of Giants brings to life the founders who fought for our independence in the Revolutionary War. Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin are known to all; men like Morgan, Greene, and Wayne are less familiar. Yet the dreams of the politicians and theorists only became real because fighting men were willing to take on the grim, risky, brutal work of war. We know Fort Knox, but what about Henry Knox, the burly Boston bookseller who took over the American...
2) You Will Get That Great New Job: Interviewing Tips From A Top Recruiter That Will Help You Succeed
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Jack Kelly will help you get that great new job!
Jack provides insightful interviewing and job search advice learned from his 22-plus years of hands-on recruiting experience placing thousands of people in great jobs with top-tier companies. He brings a refreshing and real world, behind-the-scenes understanding of how the hiring process actually works.
The book's goal is to effectively communicate, motivate, coach and provide the tools and knowledge...
3) Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive that Changed the World
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English
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When Chinese alchemists fashioned the first manmade explosion sometime during the tenth century, no one could have foreseen its full revolutionary potential. Invented to frighten evil spirits rather than fuel guns or bombs-neither of which had been thought of yet-their simple mixture of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal went on to make the modern world possible. As word of its explosive properties spread from Asia to Europe, from pyrotechnics to battleships,...
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This essay, the second in Jack Kelly's series of modern treatments of Hawaiian history, frames a historic alliance that would shape the future of Hawaii – between the famed British explorer Captain George Vancouver, and King Kamehameha of the Big Island. Arriving in Kealakekua Bay 15 years after Captain Cook's bloody death, Vancouver was intent on the mission of the British Empire, to foster order and trade. But in dismissing the Hawaiians as uneducated...
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Native Hawaiians have long been confused by the history they learn at school, which doesn't match up with the family stories they have heard so often from their elders. Drawing on oral histories and personal interviews with elderly Hawaiians, author Jack Kelly presents this first essay in a series of modern treatments of Hawaiian history, reflecting the truth as it was lived, told and retold by the people of the Islands. This grassroots history of...
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"A Great American Love Story" tells the tale of how the young enterprising poor American Boy became a man through hard work, ingenuity, perseverance and luck. How a boy with no capital from a small Western New York town joined the military, went to Cornell on scholarships, survived a marine calamity, came to Wall Street, starting as a "board boy", started a company, survived 6 mergers, married a beautiful German immigrant girl and built a beautiful...
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Baronet Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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An elephant hunter's chronicle of his safari into the interior of South Africa to search for a fabled diamond mine and to rescue the brother of the English gentleman who accompanies him across the deserts and mountains.
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Baronet Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Adaptations of two famous stories by Irving: The first of Ichabod Crane and his encounter with the headless horseman, and the second about Rip Van Winkle, who fell asleep and awakened twenty years later.
10) Dracula
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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Nosferatu, vrolok, demon. For centuries he has ruled armies of wolves, hordes of rats, legions of walking undead. He becomes a bat, a shadow, a moonbeam. He corrupts the pure and destroys the innocent. he enters dreams and torments minds. Now he means to take our world and feast forever on our blood. But six people have faced his horror-and lived. Six mortals desperate enough to hunt him, to dare his evil.
11) The edge of anarchy: the railroad barons, the Gilded Age, and the greatest labor uprising in America
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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"A vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history. At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by hundreds of thousands of railroad employees brought commerce to a standstill across much of the country. Famine threatened, riots broke out along the rail lines. Soon the U.S. Army was on the march and gunfire rang from the streets of major cities. This epochal tale offers fascinating portraits...
14) The Letter
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English
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One of the ladies gets a mysterious letter from a fan that captures her interest...and then her heart. This movie version originally aired as a 4 part episode entitled "The Letter" from Season Two in the series 7TH STREET THEATER. It presents a most important principle regarding relationships and God's will.
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Wisecracking ladies' man Bret Maverick and his more serious brother Bart are two handsome bachelors on the loose in the wild west. They have more success at the game of poker than the game of love. Yet they keep trying their luck in one frontier outpost after another.
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7th Street Theater volume 7
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English
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The cast learns a lesson about purity before marriage.
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7th Street Theater volume 10
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English
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The conclusion of the love story between Jamie and Shelley.
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7th Street Theater volume 8
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English
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Gates has an idea that the cast finds quite unbelievable
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7th Street Theater volume 6
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English
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A college student takes acting lessons from Kelly.