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2) East of Eden
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English
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Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
1994
Language
Español
Description
When Sierva Marâia, the only child of a decaying noble family, is bitten by a rabid dog on her twelfth birthday, she is believed to be possessed and is sent to a convent where Father Cayetano Delaura oversees her exorcism.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
The author presents her story and life philosophy, describing how she wished for a magic pencil that she would use to fix the world's problems, and how she realized that even if she never found the pencil, she could still have a positive impact.
6) Solar
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement, this “totally gripping and entirely hilarious” novel (The Wall Street Journal) traces the arc of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist’s ambitions and self-deception.
Dr. Michael Beard’s best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned...
Dr. Michael Beard’s best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned...
10) Mother Teresa
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English
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A biography of the nun who founded the Missionary Sisters and Brothers of Charity and gained wide recognition for her work with the destitute and dying in Calcutta and other places. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai, a female scientist who made a stand in the face of opposition to women's rights and her own Greenbelt Movement, an effort to restore Kenya's ecosystem by planting millions of trees"--Provided by publisher.
14) Mother Teresa
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English
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A biography of the founder of the Missionary Sisters and Brothers of Charity, known for her work with the destitute and dying in Calcutta and other places and who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Alfred Nobel was the man who founded what became known as The Nobel Prizes. Nobel also invented dynamite, becoming very wealthy from his invention. Saddened by its use for harmful destruction, Nobel left his fortune to create yearly prizes for those who have rendered the greatest services to mankind"--Provided by publisher.
17) Mother Teresa
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Rockbottom Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of the nun who has heightened the consciousness of the world to helping the poor.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of Wangari Maathai who left Kenya to go to college in America. When she returned home she was struck by how the clearing of land had harmed both the land and the people of Kenya. She started a movement to reforest the nation.
19) The Last Trial
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Series
Kindle County novels volume 11
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English
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"At 85 years old, Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer with his health failing but spirit intact, is on the brink of retirement. But when his old friend Dr. Kiril Pafko, a former Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, is faced with charges of insider trading, fraud, and murder, his entire life's work is put in jeopardy, and Stern decides to take on one last trial. In a case that will provide the defining coda to both men's accomplished lives,...
20) Jane Addams
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the pioneer social worker in Chicago who established Hull House.
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