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"National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation's poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in the most personal book of his career, he tells the story of his father's life and work as a nationally noted specialist in disorders of the brain and his astonishing ability, at the onset of Alzheimer's disease, to explain the causes of his sickness and then to narrate, step-by-step, his slow descent...
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"In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into the morgue book. Of thirty-four Neumann family members, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazis. One of the survivors was Hans Neumann, who, to escape the German death net, traveled to Berlin and hid...
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Bedtime stories aren't just for kids, they're for everyone! Welcome to Sleep Stories -- fairy tales and folk stories specifically engineered to help you fall asleep faster and sleep through the night. Perfect for listeners of any age, this audiobook of The Capture of Father Time will help you fall sleep in no time.
In this adaption of The Capture of Father Time, young Jim finds unlimited opportunities for mischief when he accidentally captures Father...
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What do bald men in skirts, ancient geeks, pompous popes, and bickering bishops have in common? They all took part in shaping the calendar that hangs on your wall. Together with a host of famous and not-so-famous others, they adjusted, fine-tuned, and tinkered around with what would eventually become the western world's most popular tool for keeping track of time. Follow Lindsie and Evan as they accompany Father Time on a wild ride through five thousand...
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Refreshingly entertaining and inspiring! This is a compelling true story about the self-taught Bahamian-American visionary, Hensil T. Braynen, Sr. It details the inspirational journey Hensil traveled to achieve the American dream, entrepreneurial successes, and the transcendent influence he had on his daughter and author of the book. C Braynen-Thomas is now a successful engineer, entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist all because of the wonderful...
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The best-selling author offers a new collection of satirical and humorous essays that chronicle his own life and ordinary moments that turn beautifully absurd, including how he coped with the pandemic, his thoughts on becoming an orphan in his seventh decade, and the battle-scarred America he discovered when he resumed touring.
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