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"Paul Laudicina, Chairman Emeritus of one of the world's four largest strategy consulting firms and a former legislative director to then-Senator Joe Biden, draws on a wealth of sources to show why optimism is warranted and what 10 steps America needs to take to rebuild the American Dream for all"--
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"The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only withstand shocks, they benefit from them. In a modern world dominated by chaos and uncertainty, Antifragile is a revolutionary vision from one of the most subversive...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 17
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With his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daring artistry, and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with an emotional roller coaster of a tale filled with enough twists, turns, shocks, and surprises for ten ordinary novels. Here is the story of five days in the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacy--a story that will challenge the way you look at good and evil, life and death, and everything in between ... From cover....
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"Sisters Matilde, Pastora, Camila, and Flor thought they knew each other well, until Flor--inspired by a documentary her daughter Ona made her watch--decides she wants a living wake, a party to bring her family and community together and celebrate the long life she's led, while she's still around to enjoy it. She's not ill, as far as anybody knows, but Flor does have a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. Has she foreseen her...
8) The kids' book of weather forecasting: build a weather station, "read" the sky & make predictions!
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Williamson Pub
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c2008
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English
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A hands-on introduction to the science of meteorology, explaining how to make equipment to measure rainfall, wind direction, and humidity, record measurements and observations in a weather log, make weather predictions, and perform other related activities.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2015.
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In 1865 Admiral Robert FitzRoy locked himself in his dressing room and cut his throat. His grand meteorological project had failed. Yet only a decade later, FitzRoy's storm warning system and "forecasts" would return, the model for what we use today.
In an age when a storm at sea was evidence of God's wrath, nineteenth-century meteorologists had to fight against convention and religious dogma. Buoyed by the achievements of the Enlightenment, a generation...
12) Twister
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
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[2009]
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English
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A scientist is determined to discover a better way of predicting tornadoes with a device that shoots thousands of little trackers into the eye of the storm. Trouble is, getting it there is very dangerous.
13) Baseball genius
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Baseball genius volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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"An average kid with an above average talent for predicting baseball pitches tries to help his favorite player out of a slump"--
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