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1) Buy and Hold is Still Dead (Again): The Case for Active Portfolio Management in Dangerous Markets
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Status quo investing is dead, and a growing number of investors want to take advantage of the risk-reduction features of active management. In this second, expanded edition of his prophetic 2009 classic, Ken Solow reveals the secrets of the successful active manager as he walks you through the proprietary methods of his own firm. A provocative and thoughtful critique of the current state of the money management industry, "Buy and Hold is Dead (AGAIN)"...
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Beloved Robert Munsch stories with text adapted for beginner readers, including a note from the author, reading tips, and reading activities.
Tyya is grocery shopping with her dad, but he's not letting her pick any of the good stuff like cookies, ice cream, or candies. When she holds still and is mistaken for the best, most lifelike doll in the supermarket, an argument at the till leads her dad to buy something good after all.
This high -interest...
3) I, Gracie
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A young woman must find her way in the world again after years of nursing her ailing mother in this novel by the bestselling author of Once in a Blue Moon
I, Gracie, survived . . .
When Mama announced to our family that she had dementia, my brother and sisters insisted they couldn't help. They had their own lives elsewhere, after all. So, I gave up my dreams and spent the next nine years caring for Mama alone, losing her bit by bit, and nearly...
4) Flyway
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This Meditation on the impact of human and ecological trauma explores the cost of survival for three generations of women living between empires. Writing from within the disappearing tallgrass prairie, Sarah Ens follows connections between the Russian Mennonite diaspora and the disrupted migratory patterns of grassland birds. Drawing on family history, eco-poetics, and the rich tradition of the Canadian long poem, Flyway migrates along pathways of...
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"This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously explored and valued as it's still being created." -Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir
The South has produced some of America's most celebrated authors, and no state more so than Mississippi. Names as diverse as Faulkner, Welty, and Ward...
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2024.
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When 22-year-old Kat Bird wakes up from a coma, she sees her mirror image: Jude, her twin sister. Jude's face and name are the only memories Kat has from before her accident. As Kat tries to relearn her history and identity, she trusts Jude will provide all the answers. But as the months progress, Kat begins to fear that, maybe, Jude has been lying to her. Recruit. Hunt. Perform or Perish. Growing up in a sophisticated New Age cult, isolated from...
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Celebrity cooking show host Marni McGuire has seen it all. She's been married--twice--and widowed and divorced. Now in her midfifties, she's single. Happily so. She just needs to convince her pregnant daughter, Bella, of this fact. And maybe convince herself, too. Especially after Marni's efforts to humor her determined daughter result in a series of disastrous dates that somehow prompt Marni to wonder if maybe the right man for her is still out there...
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2023.
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"Knowledge is power, and Tarot is the key to unlocking it. This ancient practice isn't about predicting the future--it's about creating it. With captivating profiles of each of Tarot's seventy-eight cards, simple explanations of the most useful spreads, and easy-to-follow instructions for performing accurate readings, Tarot A to Z holds the keys to being the master of your destiny"--
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Quick! If you don't move fast, you're going to miss him -- there he goes-- Randolph Caldecott, future famous illustrator. His sketchbook is full of hurly-burly; wild weather, frisky animals and people so sprightly they can barely hold on to the pages. But in the 1850s, there are no children's books like that. Not yet. Many are published, but their pictures look still, full of pretty poses and cluttered scenery. No one has imagined how much fun an...
11) The favorites
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"Most students would kill to be accepted into the prestigious Law and Literature cohort at Franklin University. But for Jessie Mooney, enrollment in the course is about more than elite campus status, rigorous thought, and professional connections. It's her chance to get close to charismatic professor Jay Crane -- and take him down. From the moment she discovered their secret relationship, Jessie's been convinced Crane is to blame for the events leading...
12) Cape
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Roaring Brook Press
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2023.
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After losing the person in his life he loves more than anything, a young child holds onto a cape as a source of comfort and strength as he navigates the sadness and joy of his memories.
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"Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she needed-but now Hosea is gone, lost at sea. Evangeline is only able to hold on to his inn, and her place on the island, by employing a curious gift...
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"Your body can do all sorts of amazing things. Have you ever wondered how you can move, or what holds everying in your body together? Get to know your muscles, bones, skin and much more in this fantastic introduction to the human body"--Publisher's description.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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"When Gotham City's biggest baddies gather to plan a heist, they tell Harley to go wait with the goons! But the joke is on them after Batman busts in and she sneaks out holding blueprints that show the way to the crooked payday."--
17) Do you remember?
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Holiday House
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"Tucked in bed at a new apartment, a boy and his mother trade favorite memories. Some are idyllic, like a picnic with Dad, but others are more surprising: a fall from a bike into soft piled hay, the smell of an old oil lamp when a rainstorm blew the power out. Now it's just the two of them, and the house where all those memories happened is far away. But maybe someday, this will be a favorite memory, too: happy and sad, an end and a beginning intertwined....
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"Growing up at the Shelter Inn hotel, Natalie Shepherd envied guests who could come and go as they pleased. So when it was time to finally leave for college and put the lush green mountains around Shelter Springs -- along with the cloud of loss that seemed to follow her family -- behind her, she swore she'd never come back. But now her sister McKenna needs a favor. On pregnancy bed rest at doctor's orders, McKenna needs a helping hand with her two...
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"Looking to learn the art of origami? Think mini! Fold a pretty, bitty butterfly. Create a super-small box to hold tiny trinkets. Then display your mini masterpieces for everyone to see. Easy instructions and step-by-step photos will help you become a miniature master. Tiny origami is tons of fun!"--
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"Tomorrow is moving day and one little girl worries about moving so far, far away from her Aaji and Ajoba. But Aaji gifts her with a handmade kurta. A kurta with two big pockets for holding all the small things that will remind the girl of her grandparents--from the mogra flowers in Aaji's hair to Ajoba's diya. Then the girl has an even better idea and helps Aaji make two more kurtas with pockets she can fill to remind her grandparents of her too....