Christopher Myers
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English
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Through his collection of essays, originally published in Forbes magazine, entrepreneur Christopher Myers shares an honest account of building his company-BodeTree, an online financial management tool for small businesses. He provides invaluable insights and tips for others looking to start a small business. But this is no ordinary how-to book. Instead of proclaiming that he is a know-it-all dispensing the secrets to success, Christopher provides...
3) H.O.R.S.E
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English
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A slam dunk from award-winning author and illustrator Christopher Myers, H.O.R.S.E. is a celebration of the sport of basketball, the art of trash-talking, and the idea that what's possible is bounded only by what you can dream.
5) Monster
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English
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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
6) Black cat
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1999.
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English
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A black cat wanders through the streets of a city.
7) Pet
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English
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In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam's mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster.
There are no monsters anymore. In the city of Lucille, Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. Then Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's...
8) Jabberwocky
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English
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The classic nonsense poem taken from "Alice in Wonderland" is illustrated with a father and son in modern dress.
10) Jazz
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English
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Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the roots of jazz music.
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English
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What is it to be an American? In lyrical, soul-searching free verse and seamless, evocative paintings, the father-son team who presented Jazz, delivers a heartfelt and thought-provoking homage to this country. Reflective and non-judgmental, stretching across a tumultuous history, following dreams of and struggles for freedom, this is a masterful and stunning presentation of patriotism through poetry, quotations and depictions of myriad Americans-from...
12) Harlem: a poem
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Pub. Date
1997.
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English
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A poem celebrating the people, sights, and sounds of Harlem.
14) My pen
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
An artist celebrates the many things he can do with a simple pen, and encourages the reader to do the same.
15) Turnip soup
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Pub. Date
1994.
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English
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George faces a troublesome Komodo dragon that has slithered into his family's root cellar and is eating all their vegetables.
16) Wings
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Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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Ikarus Jackson, the new boy in school, is outcast because he has wings. But his resilient spirit inspires one girl to speak up for him in this thought provoking story about celebrating individuality.
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American Ballet Theater soloist Misty Copeland encourages a young ballet student, with brown skin like her own, by telling her that she, too, had to learn basic steps and how to be graceful when she was starting out, and that some day, with practice and dedication, the little girl will become a firebird, too. Includes author's note about dancers who led her to find her voice.
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