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Author
Pub. Date
2011.
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CSL - AAPI Books
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Shorter book club reads
CSL - Woman Authors
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Shorter book club reads
CSL - Woman Authors
Description
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of a safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and...
Author
Pub. Date
2022, 2021.
Description
"In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother,...
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve children. James McBridge, journalist, musician and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful memoir.
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
It is the intent of this guide help purchased water systems determine their responsibilities and those of their suppliers. To determine the responsibilities of a purchased water system, the system must understand its relationship with the supply system from which it purchases water. A purchased water system is a type of consecutive system, but it may also be an integrated system, depending on its established agreement with the supply system.
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
Colorado Public Water Systems (serve 25 or more persons for 60 or more days per year), Non-Community Systems (consumers, NOT residents), Non-Transient (same non-resident users daily) Ground water source. Consumers expect, and Colorado law requires, that all public water systems provide consistently safe drinking. Systems must ensure that their water supply is safe for all consumers.