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Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who ever lived, and that the Confederates were underdogs who lost the Civil War with honor. Now, as a retired brigadier general and Professor Emeritus of History at West Point, his view has radically changed. From a soldier, a scholar, and a southerner, Ty Seidule...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Ivan is a tightly wound philosophy professor whose reverence for logic and order governs not only his academic interests, but also his closest relationships. His wife, Prue, is quite the opposite: a pioneer in the emerging field of biolinguistics, she is young and beautiful, full of life and feeling. Thus far, they have managed to weather their differences. But lately, an odd distance has settled in between them. Might it have something to do with...
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Kids will build confidence and avoid summer slide as they master literacy skills with interactive games, challenges, and storybooks. Summer Reading helps kids stay motivated, maintain reading skills, and learn all summer long!"
Children can create fun, 3D animations and bring them to life just like the movies! Make a character or use a pre-built one and by using simple controls bring it to life to jump, walk, run, talk and more!
Jesse Owens faced...
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Launchpad Pre-K Academy gives preschool-aged children 5 different paths to explore on their way to kindergarten. Using the Academy can help little learners develop the skills needed to enter their first year of school and inspire them to try new things with confidence. Explore imagination and pretend play. Interpret music through movement. Learn to draw lines & shapes. Sing and express emotion creatively."--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rafe Khatchadorian's new year at middle school is starting to look depressingly like the old one, except that art class is going well--and when he joins the flag-football team and demonstrates some talent as a running-back, he discovers a way of dealing with his bullying nemesis and teammate, Miller the Killer.
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. They were unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began to open up and to speak more freely, not only about...
30) Julie & Julia
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman with her life's purpose, to her very pleasant surprise....
Publisher
Distributed by LEGO Systems, Inc
Pub. Date
c2019
Language
English
Description
The LEGO® Education BricQ Motion Essential set engages grade K-5 students in the exploration of physical science within a sports context. BricQ Motion helps foster an understanding of forces, motion, and interactions by providing easy hands-on learning experiences without the need for technology.
Publisher
Distributed by LEGO Systems, Inc
Pub. Date
c2019
Language
English
Description
LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Essential is the cross-curricular STEAM solution for primary education. SPIKE Essential engages students in hands-on investigation of STEAM concepts while contributing to literacy, math, and social-emotional development. Standards-aligned learning units use everyday themes, relatable Minifigures with different personalities and familiar LEGO® building elements to solve problems through storytelling.
33) Syllabus
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Offers selected pages from the author's illustrated notebooks kept during a three year period when she was figuring out how to teach a course on keeping creative notebooks.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For those who have despaired of ever learning a foreign language, here, finally, is a book that will make the words stick. At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He did not learn them in school -- who does? -- rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources. In Fluent Forever Wyner reveals what he has discovered.
35) Think Up!
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Kids will learn to sharpen their minds and develop their critical thinking skills as they complete math exercises, word games, music challenges, puzzles, and more. This SuperPack contains 2X as many apps as the standard Launchpad. Increase problem-solving speed. Improve understanding of patterns, sequencing, and physics. Develop math skills."--
36) Top story
Author
Series
Front desk volume 5
Language
English
Description
In this fifth book in the series, "Mia Tang is at the top of her game. She's spending winter break with Mom, Lupe, Jason, and Hank in San Francisco's Chinatown. Rich with history and hilarious aunties and uncles, it's the place to find a great story--one she hopes to publish while attending journalism camp at the Tribune. But this trip has as many bumps as the hills of San Francisco"--Provided by publisher.
37) Saved by smarts!
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Kids learn about the world through a scientific lens with these award-winning stories, challenges, and games that encourage them to explore science, technology, engineering, art, and math. This pack includes apps that have won industry awards including Academic's Choice Award, Best Mobile App Award; Children and Toddlers, Digital Ehon Award, Parents' Choice Award, and more! Improve critical thinking skills; Learn about extinction and ecology; Build...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"P.R. Chandrasekhar, the celebrated professor of economics at Cambridge, is at a turning point. He has sacrificed his family for his career, but his conservative brand of economics is no longer in fashion, and yet again he has lost the Nobel Prize to a rival. His wife has left him for a free spirited West Coast psychiatrist and relocated to Boulder, Colorado. His son, a capitalist guru with a cult following, mocks his father's life work; his middle...
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Kids will build, create, and be amazed with puzzles and games that strengthen critical thinking, math, engineering, and creativity. Perfect for keeping kids learning all summer long! Learn math and early algebra skills. Practice reflexes and critical thinking. Encourage creative thinking. Reinforce spatial reasoning skills."--
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Arrested? For teaching? John Scopes's crime riveted the world, and crowds flocked to the trial of the man who dared to tell students about a forbidden topic--evolution. The year was 1925, and discussing Darwin's theory of evolution was illegal in Tennessee classrooms. Lawyers wanted to challenge the law, and businessmen smelled opportunity. But no one imagined the firestorm the Scopes Trial would ignite--or the media circus that would follow. As...