Roger Wayne
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 300 pages : forms ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2015, Harvard researchers found that every child who does well in the face of adversity has had at least one stable and committed relationship with a supportive adult. But Josh Shipp didn't need Harvard to know that. Once an at-risk foster kid, he was headed straight for trouble until he met the man who changed his life: Rodney, the foster parent who refused to quit on Shipp and got him to believe in himself. Now, in The Grown-Up's Guide to Teenage...
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
318 pages : photographs, portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1935, nine-year-old George Weyerhaeuser, heir to one of the wealthiest families in America, is snatched off the streets two blocks from his home. The boy is kept manacled in a pit, chained to a tree, and locked in a closet. The perps--a career bank robber, a petty thief, and his nineteen-year-old never-been-in-trouble Mormon wife--quickly become the targets of the biggest manhunt in Northwest history. The caper plays out like a Hollywood thriller...
Author
Publisher
Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 394 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Tony Fadell led the teams that created the iPod, iPhone and Nest Learning Thermostat and learned enough in thirty plus years in Silicon Valley about leadership, design, startups, Apple, Google, decision-making, mentorship, devastating failure and unbelievable success to fill an encyclopedia. So that's what this book is. An advice encyclopedia. A mentor in a box. Tony uses examples that are instantly captivating, like the process of building the very...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xxvi, 374 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Apache is the incredible true story of Ed Macy, a decorated Apache helicopter pilot, that takes you inside the cockpit of the world's most dangerous war machine. A firsthand account of the exhilaration and ferocity of war, Apache chronicles a rescue mission involving a stranded soldier in Afghanistan in 2007. Ed Macy had always dreamed of a career in the army, so when the British Army Air Corps launched its attack helicopter program, Ed bent every...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiii, 189 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tom Rademacher wishes someone had handed him this sort of book along with his teaching degree: a clear-eyed, frank, boots-on-the ground account of what he was getting into. But first he had to write it. And as 2014's Minnesota Teacher of the Year, Rademacher knows what he's talking about. Less a how-to manual than a tribute to an impossible and impossibly rewarding profession, It Won't Be Easy captures the experience of teaching in all its messy glory....
46) On cats
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
118 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Felines touched a vulnerable spot in the unfathomable soul of Charles Bukowski, the Dirty Old Man of American letters. For the writer, there was something majestic and elemental about these inscrutable creatures, whose searing gaze could penetrate deep into our beings. Bukowski considered cats to be unique forces of nature, elusive emissaries of beauty and love. 'On Cats' offers Bukowski's musings on these beloved animals and their toughness and...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Shortly after she returns to her hometown, Nadine Raines' former therapist is found dead in his office, and the detective on the case suspects she's involved.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 359 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The powerful and affirming story of a father's journey with his teenage daughter to the far reaches of Alaska. Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, home to only a handful of people, is a harsh and lonely place. So when James Campbell's cousin Heimo Korth asked him to spend a summer building a cabin in the rugged Interior, Campbell hesitated about inviting his fifteen-year-old daughter, Aidan, to join him: Would she be able to withstand clouds...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
By sharing his own story, the author, a third-generation military flyer who served two tours of duty in Iraq, helps his readers understand what military men and women experience on the front lines of war - and what they bring home.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Washington City, 1862: The United States lies in tatters, and there seems no end to the war. Abraham Lincoln, the legitimate President of the United States, is using all his will to keep his beloved land together. But Lincoln's will and soul are tested when tragedy strikes the White House as Willie Lincoln, the love and shining light in the president's heart, is taken by typhoid fever. But was this really the cause of his death? A message arrives,...
Author
Publisher
Doomsday Press, a division of Beyond The Fray, LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the guns went silent and the last bombs were dropped, billions were lost and the world had become unrecognizable. Nine years later, Reid Flynn and his eight-year-old daughter, Hannah, live a protected life behind the walls and rules of their small hamlet, Deliverance. Life is hard there but safe... or so Reid thought until Hannah showed the first symptoms of the plague. Once someone was symptomatic with the plague, they'd die in a week's time....
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Michael and Wendy Mixner are a Brooklyn-based couple whose marriage is failing in the wake of their daughter's stillbirth. Michael, a Wall Street trader, has secretly lost the couple's life savings. Wendy, a digital marketing strategist, has been hired onto a data-mining project of epic scale, whose mysterious creator has ambitions to reshape America's social and political landscapes. When Michael's best friend is murdered, the evidence leads back...
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Bantam books Trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1996, depressed physician Beck Weathers and a climbing team pushed toward the summit of Mount Everest. Then a storm exploded on the mountain, ripping the team to shreds, forcing brave men to scratch and crawl for their lives. Rescuers who reached Weathers saw that he was dying, and left him. Twelve hours later, the inexplicable occurred. Weathers appeared, blinded, gloveless, and caked with ice -- walking down the mountain. In this memoir, Weathers...
55) Wind River
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.