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The last black unicorn

2017
The memoir of stand-up comedian and actress Tiffany Haddish.
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Inventors of Minecraft

Markus "Notch" Persson and his coding team
2018
Readers will learn about the game's creator, programmer Markus ""Notch ""Persson; Mojang, the company he founded to help make it a reality; and the team of people who've helped it reach its current popularity.
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Ginger kid

mostly true tales from a former nerd
"Comedian Steve Hofstetter grapples with life after seventh grade... when his world fell apart. Formatted as a series of personal essays, Steve walks his readers through awkward early dating, family turbulence, and the revenge of the bullied nerds"--OCLC.
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The inventors of Minecraft

Markus "Notch" Persson and his coding team
2018
Presents the biography of Markus "Notch" Persson, a computer programmer from Sweden, who invented the Minecraft video game. Also includes information on the game development company Mogjang AB and other programmers who were involved in the creation of Minecraft.

Great Americans in sports, Drew Brees

2015
Looks at to the life and football career of Drew Brees.

The keeper

the unguarded story of Tim Howard
Soccer player Tim Howard recounts his life and career, discussing his poverty stricken childhood and more.

Sergeant Rex

the unbreakable bond between a Marine and his military working dog
2012
Tells the inspiring story of Sergeant Mike Dowling and his bomb-snifing dog, Rex, as they navigated the always-dangerous Triangle of Death region in Iraq in 2004.

Drew Brees

2015
A portrait of beloved quarterback Drew Bees incorporates photos and infographics into an account of how he rose from being a flag football player to becoming a Super Bowl MVP and modern legend.

One of us

the story of a massacre in Norway--and its aftermath
On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the wooded island of Ut?ya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of the country's governing Labour Party. In One of Us, the journalist ?sne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day and its reverberations. How did Breivik, a gifted child from an affluent neighborhood in Oslo, become Europe's most reviled terrorist? How did he accomplish an astonishing one-man murder spree? And how did a famously peaceful and prosperous country cope with the slaughter of so many of its young?.

One of us

the story of Anders Breivik and the massacre in Norway
On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the wooded island of Ut?ya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of the country's governing Labour Party. How did Breivik, a gifted child from an affluent neighborhood in Oslo, become Europe's most reviled terrorist? How did he accomplish an astonishing one-man murder spree? And how did a famously peaceful and prosperous country cope with the slaughter of so many of its young?.

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