William Smith
21) Lenny
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Language
English
Description
Lenny is the story of the meeting of two different cultures, two different social classes, and two different generations in one improbable friendship. It takes the reader through time and distance from a present-day cemetery burial back to the forties when a young black man joined the Red Tail fighter squadron that protected American Bombers through to the sixties when a young white man started his railroad career and how their two lives intertwined....
24) V.I.C.T.O.R.S
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Language
English
Description
This is a story of technology and its relationship with today's combat situations. The acronym VICTORS stands for Validation, Infiltration, and Capture/Terrorize Objective Resolution. The main part of this program is a group of artificial intelligence driven/satellite controlled land drones. They have exceptional combat and surveillance capabilities and utilize the eight-legged propulsion of large 200-pound tarantula spiders.
My name is William Lynn...
32) Ho for a hat!
Author
Publisher
Joy Street Books
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
A young boy and his dog observe and try on a variety of hats throughout history.
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Formats
Description
This masterful novel is a religious fable of sorts, written by the gifted Russian author Leo Tolstoy as a means of shedding light on the hypocrisy inherent in many aspects of organized religion in the nineteenth century. The book follows the plight of Russian aristocrat Dmitri Ivanovich Nekhlyudov as he seeks absolution—both in the church and in his own psyche—for a sin he committed years earlier.
34) Wind song
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Language
English
Description
A collection of poems for children and young people chosen from the poet's published works plus sixteen new poems. The poems are grouped under the following headings: New poems; Little people; Little album; Corn belt; Night; Blossom themes; Wind, sea, and sky.
36) Kid Candidate
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Language
English
Description
In a time when young Americans increasingly feel cut off from politics and traditional institutions, Hayden Pedigo, a 24 year-old artist and musician in Amarillo, TX makes an unorthodox run for city council.
37) Victorian CSI
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Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The first edition of William A. Guy's "Principles of Forensic Medicine" was published at the start of Victoria's reign; the final edition, from which these selections derive, was published towards the end, just a few years after the Whitechapel horrors had pushed the emerging science to the forefront of the public's consciousness. With this guide in hand, a detective could tell whether the victim had suffocated, drowned, been shot, stabbed, or struck...
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Language
English
Description
Shawn Stone is having a bad day. The funding for his film project is not there, his personal life is in shambles, he's out of time and money. He sees only one way to solve his problems - he must turn to the dark side. While he escaped his previous trip with his morality (and his life) intact, this time could be different. The further he goes, the more his eyes are opened to just what awaits him there. The road to hell is paved with good intentions...