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4) Stoner
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English
Description
"Born the child of a poor farmer in Missouri, William Stoner is urged by his parents to study new agriculture techniques at the state university. Digging instead into the texts of Milton and Shakespeare, Stoner falls under the spell of the unexpected pleasures of English literature, and decides to make it his life. Stoner is the story of that life"--Publisher description (January 2007).
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English
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Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi's living room risked removing their veils and immersed...
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Bob books volume set 4
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English
Description
A bound set of eight readers which teach children more complex words with new blends, more sight words, and longer compound words to advance readers' skills, while sound repetition keeps reading easy.
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English
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Hoping to revitalize a dead-end career, Latin teacher Aidan Dunne is forming an evening Italian class. But the prospect of attracting students to his small secondary school on the seamy side of Dublin is daunting --until the appearance of Signora. This mysterious Irish woman, who speaks fluent Italian, has a contagious passion for Italy and for life. When she agrees to teach the class to a motley group of Dubliners, the consequences are life-altering...
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My weirder school volume 8
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A local college professor comes to Ella Mentry School to help students learn basic history and improve their scores on a standardized test, using some very unusual techniques.
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Using a full-color illustrated approach, a guide to parental math tutoring looks at every aspect of the challenging subject, from simple sums to simultaneous equations, in a book with simple explanations and clear illustrations that parents can share with their children.
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Pub. Date
2008.
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English
Description
Change your child's future starting today: Learn how to use Stephen R. Covey's proven 7 Habits to create a leadership program for kids of all ages, so they can be more effective, more goal oriented, and more successful. In today's world, we are inundated with information about who to be, what to do, and how to live. But what if there was a way to learn not just what to think about but how to think? A program that taught how to manage priorities, focus...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"A guide to teaching basic programming skills for parents and teachers, with step-by-step explanations, visual examples, and exercises. Covers programming concepts including loops, lists, functions, and variables, and how to build games and applications"--
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English
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Linus Owen is a young professor of conspiracy theory at a small college just outside San Francisco. His marriage is foundering and his wife, Claudia, has gone to Chicago to visit her mother. But if Claudia is in Chicago, how is it that two FBI agents show up at Linus' office and inform him that Claudia has been killed in a plane crash on her way from New York to Brazil? And why did a man named Jeffrey Holden, the vice president of a major pharmaceutical...
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Bob books volume set 5
Language
English
Description
A set of eight readers which teach children the long vowels.
Shares eight humorous stories that illustrate how to use long vowels and the silent "e."
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