Author: Linsenbach, Sherri, author.
Published: 2015
Call Number: 371.04 LINSENBA
Format: Books
Summary: "A parents' guide to homeschooling"-- When you homeschool your children, you can shape their education according to your own standards, values, and ideas. In this book, homeschooler Sherri Linsenbach provides you with all the information, inspiration, and encouragement you need to easily and successfully homeschool your children from grades K-12. This complete guide contains information on: the Common Core standards and how they impact families; creating plans for typical homeschool days, including schedules and activities; utilizing curriculum resources, strategies, and methods; managing specific learning styles and special needs. This guide is packed full of ideas to make homeschooling your child easy, affordable, and, most of all, fun. With ideas for tackling social issues and motivating your child, this is the only reference you'll need to keep home education exciting and ensure your child's success!--Adapted from back cover.
Author: Foster, Thomas C., author.
Published: 2014
Call Number: 808 FOSTER
Format: Books
Summary: What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey? Shares a meal? Get drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface -- a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character - and there's that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you. In this practical and amusing guide to literature, Thomas C. Foster shows how easy and gratifying it is to unlock those hidden truths, and to discover a world where a road leads to a quest a shared meal may signify a communion and rain, whether cleansing or destructive, is never just rain. Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices, and form, How to Read Literature Like a Professor is the perfect companion for making your reading experience more enriching, satisfying, and fun.
Author: Scott, Elizabeth, 1972-
Published: 2012
Call Number: Y SCOTT
Format: Books
Summary: Rising senior and star soccer player Megan Hathaway, unable to remember the plane crash of which she was the sole survivor, feels like an empty shell and loses all interest in her life and her friends, but unlikely friends help her face life as a "miracle."
Author: Moore, Charles, 1947- Phillips, Cassandra.
Published: 2011
Call Number: 363.738
Format: Books
Summary: In the summer of 1997, Charles Moore set sail from Honolulu for California after competing in a trans-Pacific race. When he and his crew took a shortcut through the seldom-traversed North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a vast oceanic "desert" where winds are slack, Moore realized his ship was skimming through a plastic soup. He had stumbled upon the largest garbage dump on the planet, soon to be dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch--where plastic outweighs zooplankton, the ocean's food base, by six to one. Here, Moore recounts his ominous findings and unveils the secret life and hidden properties of plastics. Moore includes us in his maritime exploits as he collects samples throughout the oceans, and in his struggle to get the world's attention about the oceans' plight. He describes how plastics gradually emerged as a planetary menace--not just litter, but a potent threat to the ocean environment, and thus to life on earth.--From publisher description.
Author: Cline, Ernest.
Published: 2011
Call Number: F CLINE
Format: Books
Summary: "An exuberantly realized, exciting, and sweet-natured cyber-quest. Cline's imaginative and rollicking coming-of-age geek saga has a smash-hit vibe."--Booklist, starred review "Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life. Along with millions of other world-wide citizens, Wade dreams of finding three keys left behind by James Halliday, the now-deceased creator of OASIS and the richest man to have ever lived. The keys are rumored to be hidden inside OASIS, and whoever finds them will inherit Halliday's fortune. But Halliday has not made it easy. And there are real dangers in this virtual world. Stuffed to the gills with action, puzzles, nerdy romance, and 80s nostalgia, this high energy cyber-quest will make geeks everywhere feel like they were separated at birth from author Ernest Cline."--Chris Schluep, Amazon Best Book of the Month
Author: Coyle, Cleo, author.
Published: 2008
Call Number: PB COYLE
Format: Books
Summary: When her daughter, Joy, interning at one of New York's hottest French restaurants, is accused of murdering the competition, coffeehouse owner Claire Cosi must prove Joy's innocence, which lands her in hot water.
Author: Morrison, Terri. Conaway, Wayne A.
Published: 2006
Call Number: 395.5
Format: Books
Author: Spiegel, Fred, 1932- McLoughlin-O'Donnell, Maryann.
Published: 2004
Call Number: 940.5318
Format: Books
Author: Vizzini, Ned, 1981-2013, author.
Published: 2000
Call Number: Y B VIZZINI
Format: Books
Summary: A collection of essays written by the author from age fifteen to seventeen in which he shares impressions of school, sports, cool people, boring people, friends, family, money, music, and obsessions.
Author: Riggs, Thomas, 1963- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Published: 1997
Call Number: 709.2396
Format: Books
Author: Lynch, Donald, 1957- Marschall, Ken.
Published: 1992
Call Number: 910.9163 LYNCH
Format: Books
Author: McPherson, James M., author. Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
Published: 1988
Call Number: 973.73 MCPHERSON
Format: Manuscript
Summary: Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, this fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War: the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. It then moves into a chronicle of the war itself, the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities. Particularly notable are new views on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory. The book's title refers to the sentiments that informed both the Northern and Southern views of the conflict: the South seceded in the name of that freedom of self-determination and self-government for which their fathers had fought in 1776, while the North stood fast in defense of the Union founded by those fathers as the bulwark of American liberty. Eventually, the North had to grapple with the underlying cause of the war, slavery, and adopt a policy of emancipation as a second war aim. This "new birth of freedom," as Lincoln called it, constitutes the proudest legacy of America's bloodiest conflict. This volume makes sense of that vast and confusing "second American Revolution" we call the Civil War, a war that transformed a nation and expanded our heritage of liberty.
Author: Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970, author.
Published: 1945
Call Number: 109
Format: Books
Summary: This book offers the remarkable opportunity to examine the great traditions that have shaped western civilization from the point of view of one of the greatest of modern philosophers.
Author: Clark, Mary Higgins
Call Number: PB CLARK
Format: Books
Author: Morgan, Sarah
Call Number: PB MORGAN
Format: Books
Author: Moffett, Julie
Call Number: PB MOFFETT
Format: Books
Author: Weitzenhof, Arnold
Call Number: B WEIT
Format: Books
Author: Robinson, Peter
Call Number: F ROBINSON
Format: Books
Author: Roberts, Wayne (Filmmaker), film director, screenwriter. Shapiro, Greg, film producer. Aftergood, Braden, film producer. Kavanaugh-Jones, Brian, film producer. Depp, Johnny, actor.
Published: 2019
Call Number: PROFESSO
Format: Video disc
Summary: Richard, a buttoned-down college lecturer, who after learning he has six months to live, transforms into a rebellious party animal. To the shock of his wife and school chancellor, and the delight of his students, Richard leads a hilarious crusade against authority and hypocrisy in this dark comedy.
Author: Addison, Chris, 1971- film director. Shapiro, Stanley, screenwriter. Henning, Paul, 1911-2005, screenwriter. Launer, Dale, screenwriter. Schaeffer, Jac, screenwriter.
Published: 2019
Call Number: HUSTLE
Format: Video disc
Summary: Josephine Chesterfield is a glamorous, seductive Brit who defrauds gullible wealthy men. Penny amasses wads of cash by ripping off her marks in neighborhood bars. Despite their different methods, both are masters of the art of the fleece, so they combine talents for their next mark: a naive tech billionaire.
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