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"Wes Moore's remarkable bestseller The Other Wes Moore ends when Wes completes his journey from a fatherless delinquent to college graduate and heads off to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. But what happens next? Next, he had to figure out the answer to the question: What is your ...
"Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman--all are powerless to stop the Necrostar from ending all life on Earth. The only hero who can save the world is ... Beast Boy?! With Nightwing, Raven, Cyborg, and the Titans beside him, can Garfield Logan rise to battle an ancient evil? What will A...
Two sisters labor to keep up their family farm following the death of their father, and find their lives transformed by a kindly stranger they hire as a farmhand. When Ellen (Julie Mond) and Cassie Barlow lost their father, it seemed as if their world might simply fall apart. The...
After angering a number of hostile spirits in England, thirteen-year-old magician John Constantine is sent to the Junior Success Boarding School in Salem, Massachusetts where he and fellow misfit Anna try to find out if their teacher Ms. Kayla is a witch.
Elijah, seventeen, has always been sure of just one thing--basketball--and believes it will be his way out of West Baltimore, but when gang violence knocks him down, helping a veteran repair his rickety home helps Elijah see what really matters.
"After the events of Dark Crisis, Superman has a talk with Nightwing, letting him know that now is Dick's time to lead ... so Nightwing gathers a group of friends to be the premier league in the DC Universe and moves their base of operations to Blüdhaven. Meet the new Titans! Af...
Using standardized testing formats, math skills are kept sharp with focused practice in computation, word problems, graphing, measurement and numbers. Includes scope and sequence charts and answer keys.
For fans of The Wire and Unbroken comes a story of two fatherless boys from Baltimore, both named Wes Moore. One is in prison, serving a life sentence for murder. The other is a Rhodes Scholar, an army veteran, and an author whose book is being turned into a movie produced by Opr...
"When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an 'illegal knife' in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that video evidence later confirmed, treated 'roughly' as police loaded him into a vehicle. By the end of his trip in the police van, Gray was in a coma he would never ...
In Uncropped, legendary Village Voice photojournalist James Hamilton recounts the stories behind iconic images taken over the course of a forty-year career. This is a visual chronicle of New York City and a window into the heyday of alternative print media. Alfred Hitchcock. Muha...
"Born into extreme poverty and emotional deprivation, James Edward Plummer was blessed with a genius I.Q. and a love of science. But in his community, a young bookworm quickly becomes a target for violence and abuse. As he struggles to survive his childhood in some of the toughes...
For fans of The Wire and Unbroken comes a story of two fatherless boys from Baltimore, both named Wes Moore. One is in prison, serving a life sentence for murder. The other is a Rhodes Scholar, an army veteran, and an author whose book is being turned into a movie produced by Opr...
"An illuminating portrait of Baltimore in the aftermath of the April 2015 death of Freddie Gray . . . Readers will be enthralled by this propulsive account."- Publishers Weekly From the New York Times bestselling author of The Other Wes Moore , a kaleidoscopic account of ...
"An inspiring memoir of defying the odds from Kareem Rosser, captain of the first all-black squad to win the National Interscholastic Polo championship. "Crossing the Line will not just leave you with hope, but also ideas on how to make that hope transferable" (New York Times bes...
"An illuminating portrait of Baltimore in the aftermath of the April 2015 death of Freddie Gray . . . Readers will be enthralled by this propulsive account."- Publishers Weekly From the New York Times bestselling author of The Other Wes Moore , a kaleidoscopic account of ...