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Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Everyone else knows the truth about you, now you can know it, too. That's the slogan. The product: a junky contraption that tattoos personalized revelations on its users' forearms. It's an old con, playing on the fear that we are obvious to everybody except ourselves. This particular one's been circulating New York since the 1960s. The ad works. And, oddly enough, so might the device... A small stream of city dwellers buy into this cult of the epiphany...
82) Dawnland
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"For decades, child welfare authorities have been forcibly removing Native American children from their homes to 'save' them from being Indian. [As of 1974, at least 1 in 4 Native American children nationwide had been separated from their families]. In Maine, the first official 'truth and reconciliation commission' in the United States begins an unprecedented investigation. Dawnland goes behind-the-scenes as this historic body deals with difficult...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Embracing the Life of Growth and Transformation "Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience, and everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom," teaches Mark Nepo. Flames That Light the Heart brings you into the company of the beloved poet and author for a rich conversation on the life of transformation and the heartwork that is required to be a spirit in the world. Teachings and...
88) Sojourner Truth
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography of the former slave who dedicated her life to achieving equal rights for women and blacks.
89) Radical honesty
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Description
Publisher's description: At once shocking, entertaining, and profound - Radical Honesty is a revolutionary book that takes a fresh look at how we live, love, and attempt to heal ourselves in modern society. Radical Honesty is not a kinder, gentler self-help book. In it Dr. Brad Blanton, a psychotherapist and expert on stress management, explodes the myths, superstitions, and lies by which we live. He shows us how stress comes not from the environment,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Digging For the Truth: A Real-Life Adventurer Explores the World's Greatest Ancient MysteriesJosh Bernstein, host of The History Channel's hit series Digging for The Truth, takes readers beyond the cameras for an even closer look at his adventures through some of the most intriguing, remote, and physically challenging locations on the planet as he explores the world's greatest ancient mysteries. No location is too dangerous, no terrain too rough,...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club (Graphic novels) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Claudia and Mean Janine: Something unexpected happens to the most beloved person in their family, will the sisters be able to put aside their differences?
Dawn and the Impossible Three: Dawn Schafer is the newest member of The Baby-sitters Club.But taking care of the three Barrett kids would be too much for any baby-sitter.
Kristy's Big Day: Kristy's mom is getting married, and Kristy is going to be a bridesmaid!
92) In My Country
Pub. Date
2005
Description
A Washington Post journalist and an Afrikaans poet strike up a friendship and become romantically involved as they try to come to terms with their feelings about what they've learned at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Part coming-of-age story, part psychological thriller, part philosophical investigation, this book, based in part on a viral New York Times essay, follows the author's quest to prove her wife's innocence in a sexual misconduct case, exploring the line between truth and deception, fact and fiction, and reality and conspiracy.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Jim Button and Luke the engine driver: Jim Knopf and Luke the Engine Driver embark on an adventurous journey through fantastic worlds to free the kidnapped Princess Li Si from the impenetrable Dragon City and solve the secret of Jim's mysterious origins.
Jim Button and the Wild 13: Can you make an old locomotive fly? You bet! To protect Morrowland from the notorious pirate gang "The Wild 13", Jim Button and his best friend, the engine driver Luke,...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
As a project for her "creative non-fiction module" at a school for the arts, Normandy Pale chronicles the work of the Truth Commission, through which she and her two best friends ask classmates and faculty about various open secrets, while Norm's famous sister reveals some very unsettling truths of her own.
Author
Series
Death and life of Zebulon Finch volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"The story follows Zebulon Finch, a teenager murdered in 1896 Chicago who inexplicably returns from the dead and searches for redemption through the ages" --
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
"The establishment of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a pioneering international event. At the center of this attempt at healing a nation has been Archbishop Desmond Tutu, whom President Nelson Mandela named as Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. With the final report of the Commission just published, Archbishop Tutu offers his reflections on South Africa." "In No Future Without Forgiveness, Tutu argues that...
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