Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427076685
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427077029
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Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427076987
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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Author: Rosalind Wiseman
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1506344178
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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Empower students to stand up for what matters Created in collaboration with children and teens, Owning Up helps young people identify and be critical of social issues in their lives—from bullying and harassment in the classroom to systems of power and oppression in the world around them. While there is no one-size-fits-all curriculum, Owning Up takes us leaps forward by: Designing sessions to be easily facilitated by a school counselor, teacher, leader, or other professional in small group settings Combining discussions, games, and role-playing to engage adolescents in the complexities of social culture Exploring critical topics such as media analysis, gender, sexual harassment, racism, gossip, and self-image

Author: Lewis Nordan
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 9781565122208
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Leroy Dearman is twelve, and he lives on a llama farm in Mississippi. Life is perfect. It's true that his grandfather just died in the attic and that wild dogs kill a baby llama now and then, and it's true that one little sister curses him and the other one wets her pants. But up to the day Uncle Harris moves in, life looks like it's right out of a Walt Disney movie. No wonder the llamas greet each morning with a song. Uncle Harris arrives in a sports car, full of funny stories and new ideas. He manages to persuade Leroy's straitlaced parents to join him for cocktails in the evening. He sets up a pretty grand bachelor pad in the Dearman attic, with a telephone, a TV set, and a stack of Playboy magazines. He is, you might say, Romance itself. Once Uncle Harris moves in, life on the llama farm takes on an entirely different flavor. Leroy discovers those magazines. Electricity fills the Dearman house. Equilibrium tilts, conversation trails off, the atmospheric pressure twists--and lightning strikes. Leroy starts seeing things he's never seen before, like the very gifted baton-twirling teacher, and his world changes forever. Not since PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT has a novel looked so directly, hilariously, and bittersweetly at the heartbreak of puberty.

Author: Lewis Nordan
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565120167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Sugar, a little boy growing up in the 1950s, encounters death in its many forms as he discovers a dead man in the swamp, digs up a dead woman from under the house, and sits on a dead druggist in the drugstore

Author: Lewis Nordan
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 9781565121829
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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The identity of the Sharpshooter becomes a central theme in a story that introduces such prospective characters as the owner of the local funeral parlor, an avid comic-book reader, a man who shoots refrigerators, and a boy who never grew up

Author: Michael Chabon
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312254385
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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The author of "Wonder Boys" (soon to be a major motion picture from Paramount) returns with a powerful and wonderfully written collection of stories about people caught at moments of change.

Author: Lewis Nordan
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 156512913X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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ALA Notable Book; 1994 Mississippi Writers Award for Fiction; 1994 Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. In WOLF WHISTLE, Lewis Nordan unleashes the hellhounds of his prodigious imagination on one of the most notorious racial killings of the century, the Emmett Till murder. Soon we're on a magical mystery tour of the Southern psyche of the mid-1950s and the dawning of guilt and recognition in a whole generation of white Southerners. "An immense and wall-shattering display of talent. WOLF WHISTLE will help usher Lewis Nordan into the Hall of Fame of American Letters."--Randall Kenan, The Nation.

Author: Aekta Kapoor
Publisher: Embassy Books
ISBN: 9389995531
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 139

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And the Wind Blew in a New Direction... A chance meeting on a road trip that invites you to rethink your upcoming wedding. A moment of vulnerability betrayed and made viral on the internet. A shared cab ride that gives you a chance at sweet revenge. Gatecrashing a grand feast and falling headlong into an unexpected new friendship. An opportunity to make quick bucks under the table that is fraught with risk. This anthology of twenty-five winning stories from eShe magazine’s short story contest for women writers will leave you enthralled to the last page. The contest was judged by India’s highest selling female author Preeti Shenoy, eShe’s founder and editor Aekta Kapoor, and author and editor-in-chief of Embassy Books, Aruna Joshi. Written by twenty-five women of varied backgrounds from all corners of India – from homemakers to teachers to engineers – the stories give you a glimpse into the preoccupations of modern Indian womanhood. There’s only one thing they have in common – a life-changing twist in the tale. Featuring Stories from : Anushree Bose, Arti Jain, Arva Bhavnagarwala, A.V. Sridevi, Bhargavi Chatterjea Bhattacharya, Chandrika R. Krishnan, Divya Vartika, Manisha Sahoo, Nasreen Khan, Natasha Sharma, Nina Krishna Warrier, Noopur Joshi Bapat, Preetha Vasan, Priyadarshini Sharma, Priyamvada Singh, Raina Lopes, Rajitha Menon, Ruchika Verma, Salini Vineeth, Sangeeta Das, Sangeetha Vallat, Sapna D. Singh, Shalini Mullick, Sulekha Bajpai, Urvashi Tandon.