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  • Flying Free

    My Victory over Fear to Become the First Latina Pilot on the US Aerobatic Team

    by Cecilia Aragon ...
    The daughter of a Chilean father and a Filipina mother, Cecilia Rodriguez Aragon grew up as a shy, timid child in a small midwestern town during the 1960s. Targeted by school bullies and dismissed by many of her teachers, she worried that people would find out the truth: that she was INTF. Incompetent. Nerd. Terrified. Failure. This feeling stayed with her well into her twenties when she was told ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Human-Centered Data Science

    An Introduction

    by Cecilia Aragon, Shion Guha, Marina Kogan, Michael Muller, Gina Neff ...
    Best practices for addressing the bias and inequality that may result from the automated collection, analysis, and distribution of large datasets.Human-centered data science is a new interdisciplinary field that draws from human-computer interaction, social science, statistics, and computational techniques. This book, written by founders of the field, introduces best practices for addressing the ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Writers in the Secret Garden

    Fanfiction, Youth, and New Forms of Mentoring

    by Cecilia Aragon, Katie Davis ...
    Series series Learning in Large-Scale Environments
    An in-depth examination of the novel ways young people support and learn from each other though participation in online fanfiction communities.Over the past twenty years, amateur fanfiction writers have published an astonishing amount of fiction in online repositories. More than 1.5 million enthusiastic fanfiction writers—primarily young people in their teens and twenties—have contributed nearly ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Borderlands Children’s Theatre

    Historical Developments and Emergence of Chicana/o/Mexican-American Youth Theatre

    by Cecilia Josephine Aragón ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book chronicles the child performer as part of the Chicana/o/Mexican-American theatre experience.Borderlands Children’s Theatre explores the phenomenon of the Chicana/o/Mexican-American child performer at the center of Chicana/o and Latina/o theatre culture. Drawing from historical and contemporary theatrical traditions to finally the emergence of Latina/o Youth Theatre and Latina/o Theatre ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

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    Flying Free

    My Victory over Fear to Become the First Latina Pilot on the US Aerobatic Team

    by Cecilia Aragon ...
    Narrated by Roxanne Hernandez ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 7 min

    The daughter of a Chilean father and a Filipina mother, Cecilia Rodriguez Aragon grew up as a shy, timid child in a small midwestern town during the 1960s. Targeted by school bullies and dismissed by many of her teachers, she worried that people would find out the truth: that she was INTF. Incompetent. Nerd. Terrified. Failure. This feeling stayed with her well into her twenties when she was told ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Expedition, The

    Two Parents Risk Life and Family in an Extraordinary Quest to the South Pole

    by Chris Fagan ...
    Narrated by Chris Fagan ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 15 min

    Meet married couple Chris and Marty.At midlife, they unexpectedly find themselves weighing the responsibility of parenthood against the possibility of one more grand adventure. After securing care for their twelve-year-old son, they set off to undertake one of the hardest challenges on the planet: Ski 570 miles from the edge of Antarctica to the South Pole. With no guide or resupply.Experience a ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Boy Who Talked to Dogs

    A Memoir

    by Martin McKenna ...
    When Martin McKenna was growing up in Garryowen, Ireland, in the 1970s, he felt the whole world knew him as just that stupid boy.” Badly misunderstood by his family and teachers, Martin escaped from endless bullying by running away from home and eventually adopting-or being adopted by-six street dogs. Camping out in barns, escaping from farmers, and learning to fend for himself by caring for his ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Horses Don't Fly

    The Memoir of the Cowboy Who Became a World War I Ace

    by Frederick Libby ...
    From breaking wild horses in Colorado to fighting the Red Baron's squadrons in the skies over France, here in his own words is the true story of a forgotten American hero: the cowboy who became our first ace and the first pilot to fly the American colors over enemy lines.Growing up on a ranch in Sterling, Colorado, Frederick Libby mastered the cowboy arts of roping, punching cattle, and taming ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Moon Shot

    The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings

    by Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, Howard Benedict ...
    New York Times bestseller for fans of First Man: A "breathtaking" insider history of NASA's space program—from astronauts Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton ( Entertainment Weekly).On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space race was born. Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Day Shelley Woodhouse Woke Up

    The uplifting, emotional read from the author of BESTSELLER The Last List of Mabel Beaumont

    by Laura Pearson ...
    BRAND NEW from the NUMBER ONE bestselling author of The Last List of Mabel Beaumont comes a powerful story of memory, loss, love, and new beginnings. Perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult, Colleen Hoover and Jojo Moyes.When Shelley Woodhouse wakes up in hospital from a coma, the first thing she says is that her husband must be arrested.He’s the reason she’s in here. She knows it. She remembers what he ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Sam and Indie Series: Books 1-3

    A Sam and Indie Box Set, #1

    by David Archer ...
    Series Book 1 - A Sam and Indie Box Set
    BOOKS 1-3 IN THE USA TODAY BESTSELLING SAM AND INDIE SERIESBooks Included:Aces and Eights (Book 1)Fact or Fiction (Book 2)Close to Home (Book 3)Thirty years ago, Harry Winslow's wife and children died in a tragic house fire while he was out of the country on a mission for Uncle Sam — or did they? Someone has left Harry an envelope containing photos o... ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • One Grand Summer

    The achingly beautiful, profound and uplifting new novel by the author of Tasting Sunlight

    by Ewald Arenz ...
    Translated by Rachel Ward ...
    When he fails his exams, 16-year-old Frieder is forced to stay with his grandparents for the summer, leading to an unforgettable and profound series of experiences that will change him forever.`Ewald Arenz writes with gentle joy´ Iona Gray`A tender and profound coming-of-age story that's also a gripping page-turner. Gorgeously written … an absolute tour de force´ Louisa Treger`A summer of joys and ... Read more

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