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1) Champion
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
"June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic--and each other--and now their country is on the brink of a new existence. Just when a peace treaty is imminent, a plague outbreak causes panic in the Colonies, and war threatens the Republic's border cities"--
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Thich Nhat Hanh has been writing and talking about mindfulness for nearly fifty years. In the bestselling classic, Peace Is Every Step, the Zen Master introduced us to the peace that is available to us in each moment. This past year Thay, as his students call him, sat down to pen this book because he believes that the busyness of our lives has gotten out of control and led to unnecessary unhappiness. In Peace Is Every Breath, he does not argue that...
Author
Publisher
Llewellyn Publications
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This book helps to create space for internal time-outs, which lead to better choices, resulting in the joy and peace you seek in life. It is a guide to the process of Awareness, Action, and Change in order to make the most out of your meditation and mindfulness practice. By sustaining the "meditative feeling" we can learn to "find the gap" in our intense negative emotions and change how we react to stressful situations"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO--the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation that made him a marked man to every gunslinger in the Wild West. James Butler Hickock was known across the frontier as a soldier, Union spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman, and actor. Wild Bill became a legend, crossing paths with General Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody, as well as Ben Thompson...
5) Peace making
Author
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Buddhist priest and Nobel Peace Prize-nominee Thich Nh^at H anh looks at anger--its roots, causes and control. He illuminates the philosophy of non-dualism to show that we are not separate, but one with our world. Presents meditations and exercises to become aware of anger and then transform it, thus achieving a state that he calls "being peace".
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before long, Dodge City's streets were lined with saloons and brothels and its populace was thick with gunmen, horse thieves, and desperadoes of every sort. By the 1870s, Dodge City was known as the most violent...
9) Drum beat
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Indian fighter Johnny McKay is appointed peace commissioner by President Grant, he has to deal with a renegade Indian Chief, who is determined to drive out the settlers. Inspired by the Modoc War of 1872-1873, and based off true events.
Publisher
Warner Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Desperate trail: A relentless marshal obsessed with serving justice trails an outlaw couple who are just as bent on freedom.
Rough riders: An epic saga of the American-Spanish conflict that shaped the nation's destiny and a future President's soul.
You know my name: Bill Tilghman, a lawman and former partner of Wyatt Earp, confronts a new era when outlaws run whiskey instead of cattle and are as likely to tote a tommy gun as a six-gun.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Albuquerque: When Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his successful uncle John, he soon learns that family business is out to eliminate any local competition. Tiring of his uncle's underhanded tactics, Cole switches to rival operation run by Ted Wallace and his sister, Celia. But Cole soon learns John Armin is to a man to be crossed as the trio must fight for their business, and their lives, against his uncle's ruthless henchman, Juke Murkil.
Whispering...
Publisher
Top Craft Productions
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Nausicaa is the princess of a rural valley that lives at peace on the edge of a deadly fungal wasteland, until a ship carrying a weapon from a bygone industrial age crashes nearby. When warriors from a far country come to retrieve the artifact, their invasion draws Nausicaa and her people into a sprawling political conflict. Set 1,000 years after a global war that nearly destroyed all life on Earth.