Kathleene Synnott's Library
West Creek High
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9781598951974 | The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook / Survival Handbook: Travel: Library Edition | Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht | How to: Escape from quicksand. Wrestle an alligator. Break down a door. Land a plane. The indispensable, indestructible guide for surviving life's sudden turns for the worse. Survival experts provide step-by-step instructions on everything you need to know fast: How to fend off a shark How to Deliver a Baby in a Taxicab How to Survive a Poisonous Snake Attack How to Jump from a Moving Car How to Identify a Bomb. . . and dozens of other dire situations, because you just never know. Always be ready for the worst -- you're at risk from the moment you step outside your front door! Here are step-by-step instructions on what you need to know NOW: How to Cross a Piranha-Infested River How to Stop a Runaway Train How to Build a Shelter in the Snow How to Treat a Scorpion Sting How to Survive an Airplane Crash How to Escape from the Trunk of a Car How to Pass a Bribe. . . plus an appendix of essential travel strategies, phrases, and gestures to use -- and avoid. Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht are both residents of Philadelphia. They have appeared on 20/20, Today, National Enquirer TV People. | Listen & Live Audio |
| 9781428168367 | Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | Playaway Digital Audio | |
| 9781428704848 | Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | A Novel About Black Americans In Florida That Centers On The Life Of Janie And Her Three Marriages. | |
| 9780735214224 | There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir | Casey Gerald | NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR AND THE NEW YORK TIMESA PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB PICK"Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most urgently political, most deeply personal, and most engagingly spiritual statement of our time by just looking outside his window and inside himself. Extraordinary." —Marlon James"Staccato prose and peripatetic storytelling combine the cadences of the Bible with an urgency reminiscent of James Baldwin in this powerfully emotional memoir." —BookPageThe testament of a boy and a generation who came of age as the world came apart—a generation searching for a new way to live.Casey Gerald comes to our fractured times as a uniquely visionary witness whose life has spanned seemingly unbridgeable divides. His story begins at the end of the world: Dallas, New Year's Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church to see which of them will be carried off. His beautiful, fragile mother disappears frequently and mysteriously; for a brief idyll, he and his sister live like Boxcar Children on her disability checks. When Casey--following in the footsteps of his father, a gridiron legend who literally broke his back for the team--is recruited to play football at Yale, he enters a world he's never dreamed of, the anteroom to secret societies and success on Wall Street, in Washington, and beyond. But even as he attains the inner sanctums of power, Casey sees how the world crushes those who live at its margins. He sees how the elite perpetuate the salvation stories that keep others from rising. And he sees, most painfully, how his own ascension is part of the scheme.There Will Be No Miracles Here has the arc of a classic rags-to-riches tale, but it stands the American Dream narrative on its head. If to live as we are is destroying us, it asks, what would it mean to truly live? Intense, incantatory, shot through with sly humor and quiet fury, There Will Be No Miracles Hereinspires us to question--even shatter--and reimagine our most cherished myths. | Riverhead Books |
| 9780375814730 | Trickster's Queen (Trickster Series) | Tamora Pierce | NO LONGER A slave, Alianne is now spying as part of an underground rebellion against the colonial rulers of the Copper Isles. The people in the rebellion believe that a prophecy in which a new queen will rise up to take the throne is about to be realized. Aly is busy keeping the potential teenaged queen and her younger siblings safe, while also keeping her in the dark about her future. | Laurel Leaf |
| 9780062107701 | Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art Of Persuasion, Updated Edition | George J. Thompson, Jerry B. Jenkins | Verbal Judo is the martial art of the mind and mouth that can show you how to be better prepared in every verbal encounter. Listen and speak more effectively, engage people through empathy (the most powerful word in the English language), avoid the most common conversational disasters, and use proven strategies that allow you to successfully communicate your point of view and take the upper hand in most disputes.Verbal Judo offers a creative look at conflict that will help you defuse confrontations and generate cooperation from your spouse, your boss, and even your teenager. As the author says, "when you react, the event controls you. When you respond, you’re in control."This new edition features a fresh new cover and a foreword demonstrating the legacy of Verbal Judo founder and author George Thompson, as well as a never-before-published final chapter presenting Thompson’s "Five Universal Truths" of human interaction. | William Morrow Paperbacks |
| 9781598958065 | White Fang | Jack London | âThe months went by, binding stronger and stronger the covenant between dog and man. This was the ancient covenant that the first wolf that came in from the Wild entered into with man. And, like all succeeding wolves and wild dogs that had done likewise, White Fang worked the covenant out for himself. The terms were simple. For the possession of a flesh-and-blood god, he exchanged his own liberty. Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him.â -- White Fang Part wolf, part dog, White Fang survives assaults by nature, circumstance, and men. Jack London's tale of adversity and perseverance in the northern wilderness continues to enthrall the young and old alike. | Tantor Media Inc |
| 9781598951936 | Wuthering Heights: Library Edition | Emily Bronte | Published a year before her death at the age of thirty, Emily Bronte's only novel is set in the wild, bleak Yorkshire Moors. Depicting the relationship of Cathy and Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights creates a world of its own, conceived with an instinct for poetry and for the dark depths of human psychology. Emily Jane Bronte was born July 30, 1818 at Thornton in Yorkshire. Her father was a minister in the Anglican Church. Emily's mother died in 1821 and her two eldest sisters died in 1825, leaving Emily, her brother and two sisters to be raised by their aunt. In childhood, the daughters were introspective and, having read extensively for entertainment, they began composing a series of stories set in imaginary lands. Later all three daughters were to publish poems and stories. Wuthering Heights, Emily's only novel and one of the most passionately original novels in the English language, was published a year before her death of tuberculosis, December 19, 1847. Brit, Wanda McCaddon, the narrator of A Room With a View, Wuthering Heights, and Aesop's Fables, has been a newspaper report, university professor and stage, film and TV actress, before beginning to narrate. She has narrated over six hundred titles, won thirteen Earphone Awards, and been featured six years running as one of AudioFile's Golden Voices. | In Audio |