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Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is tempted into doing a job for billionaire computer magnate John Logan by the promise of a huge donation to a charitable organization that helps locate missing children, but she did not realize that identifying the skull he wants her to reconstruct could get them all killed.

As features editor of her school newspaper, thirteen-year-old Jameela Mirza wants to impress her father by writing a spectacular story about the new student, but a misunderstanding and family illness complicate matters.

An account of the first baby gorilla born at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, her various social encounters, and her move to the Busch Gardens Myombe Reserve.

Excerpts from the diary of Carrie Berry, describing her family's life in the Confederate south in 1864. Supplemented by sidebars, activities, and a timeline of the era.

Gucci Mane began writing his memoir in a maximum-security federal prison. Released in 2016, he emerged radically transformed. He was sober, smiling, focused, and positive -- a far cry from the Gucci Mane of years past. Born in rural Bessemer, Alabama, Radric Delantic Davis became Gucci Mane in East Atlanta, where the rap scene is as vibrant as the dope game. His name was made as a drug dealer first, rapper second. His mixtapes and street anthems helped pioneer the sound of trap music. He inspired and mentored a new generation of artists and producers: Migos, Young Thug, Nicki Minaj, Zaytoven, Mike Will Made-It, Metro Boomin. Yet every success was followed by setback. Too often, his erratic behavior threatened to end it all. Incarceration, violence, rap beefs, drug addiction. But Gucci Mane has changed, and he's decided to tell his story. He reflects on his career and in the process confronts his dark past -- years behind bars, the murder charge, and drug addiction.

Recounts how public school teacher Amir Abo-Shaeer inspired his robotics team to strive for glory as they competed in the FIRST Robotics competition.

Presents an account of the case of Leo Frank, a Jewish man who moved to Georgia in the early 1900s to run a pencil factory, discussing his trial for the 1913 murder of a young teenage worker, the controversy over his conviction, the governor's commutation of his death sentence, and his lynching by a mob in 1915.

Chronicles the experiences of African-American female workers in the urban South, looking at the strategies they devised to achieve self-sufficiency and overcome the conditions of poverty and servitude in the years between the end of slavery and the Great Migration of the World War I era.

In Building Atlanta, Russell shares his inspiring life story and reveals how he overcame racism, poverty, and a debilitating speech impediment to become one of the most successful African American entrepreneurs, Atlanta civic leaders, and unsung heroes of the civil rights movement. Not just a typical rags-to-riches story, Russell achieved his success through focus, planning, and humility, and he shares his winning advice throughout.

Official souvenir booklet for the largest, most comprehensive arts festival ever presented in conjunction with the Modern Olympic Games Over 100 equisite photographs of some of the world's finest artists, playwrights and performers.