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Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension

by Sara K. Ahmed

Published: 2018-03-22

Paperback: 176 pages

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Topics such as race, gender, politics, religion, and sexuality are part of our students' lives, yet when these subjects are brought up at school teachers often struggle with how to respond. How do we create learning conditions where kids can ask the questions they want to ask, muddle throu...

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Lost You: A Novel

by Haylen Beck

Published: 2019-08-06

Kindle Edition: 320 pages

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A provocative and unputdownable psychological suspense about two women locked in a desperate fight over a child each believes is rightfully hersLibby needs a break. Three years ago her husband split, leaving her to raise their infant son Ethan alone as she struggled to launch her writing c...

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Good Morning, Midnight

by Jean Rhys

Published: 1999-12-17

Paperback: 192 pages

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"No one who reads Good Morning, Midnight will ever forget it." ?New York TimesSasha Jensen has returned to Paris, the city of both her happiest moments and her most desperate. Her past lies in wait for her in cafes, bars, and dress shops, blurring all distinctions between nightmare and rea...

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Soundings

by Anita Brookner

Published: 1998-10-01

Hardcover: 214 pages

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A compilation of essays written during the last twenty-five years covers such topics as nineteenth-century French painting, the literary works of Rousseau and Doris Lessing, and the Bible

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The South: A Novel

by Colm Toibin

Published: 2012-10-30

Kindle Edition: 242 pages

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In 1950, Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland for Barcelona, determined to escape her family and become a painter. There she meets Miguel, an anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and begins to build a life with him. But Katherine cannot escape her past, as Michael Graves, a fellow Irish...

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The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition

by Jonathan Tepper

Published: 2018-11-29

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The Myth of Capitalism tells the story of how America has gone from an open, competitive marketplace to an economy where a few very powerful companies dominate key industries that affect our daily lives. Digital monopolies like Google, Facebook and Amazon act as gatekeepers to the digital ...

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Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities

by John Warner

Published: 2018-12-03

Hardcover: 288 pages

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There seems to be widespread agreement that?when it comes to the writing skills of college students?we are in the midst of a crisis. In Why They Can’t Write, John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for two decades, argues that the problem isn’t caused by a lack of rigor, o...

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Writers ARE Readers: Flipping Reading Instruction into Writing Opportunities

by Lester L. Laminack, Reba M. Wadsworth

Published: 2015-08-24

Paperback: 176 pages

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In Writers Are Readers, the mutually supportive roles of reading and writing are made visible through the idea of "flipsides;" how a reader's insights can be turned around to provide insights into his own writing, and vice versa. Lester and Reba's trademark engaging style is woven througho...

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Funny Boy: A Novel

by Shyam Selvadurai

Published: 2015-07-14

Paperback: 320 pages

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An evocative coming-of-age novel about growing up gay in Sri Lanka during the Tamil-Sinhalese conflict—one of the country’s most turbulent and deadly periods.Arjie is “funny.”The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with h...

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The Franchise Affair

by Josephine Tey

Published: 1998-08-18

Paperback: 304 pages

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Robert Blair was about to knock off from a slow day at his law firm when the phone rang. It was Marion Sharpe on the line, a local woman of quiet disposition who lived with her mother at their decrepit country house, The Franchise. It appeared that she was in some serious trouble: Miss Sharpe and her...