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21) Anne of Avonlea
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to Anne of Green Gables, Anne Shirley, the engaging orphan, just "half-past sixteen," becomes a schoolma'am in a small village on Prince Edward Island.
23) Cliffsnotes RICA
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Get subject reviews by domain, analyses of question types, a vocabulary list, and two full-length practice tests"--
"CliffsNotes RICA 2e includes subject reviews by domain, anaylses of question types, a vocabulary list, and two full-length practice tests with complete answers and explanations"--
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
History professor Natasha is researching the life of Imam Shamil, a 19th-century Muslim leader who led a resistance against Russia during the Caucasian War. She discovers that Oz, one of her students, is descended from the historical figure and also possesses his legendary sword. As their relationship intensifies, Natasha is forced to confront issues of her own Muslim heritage in the post-9/11 world.
25) Decline and fall
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Decline and Fall is a novel by the English author Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1928. It was Waugh's first published novel; an earlier attempt, titled The Temple at Thatch, was destroyed by Waugh while still in manuscript form. Decline and Fall is based, in part, on Waugh's schooldays at Lancing College, undergraduate years at Hertford College, Oxford, and his experience as a teacher at Arnold House in north Wales. It is a social satire that employs...
26) Spark
Author
Publisher
The Guilford Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Professor Peyton Wilde has an enviable life teaching sociology at an idyllic liberal arts college -- yet she is troubled by a sense of fading inspiration. One day an invitation arrives. Peyton has been selected to attend a luxurious all-expense-pad seminar in Iceland, where participants, billed as some of the greatest thinkers in the world, will be charged with answering one perplexing question. Meeting her diverse teammates -- two neuroscientists,...
27) Straight man
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A comedy on university downsizing. To make sure the English department's budget is not cut, William Devereaux, its chairman, goes on TV threatening to kill a goose a day if that happens. Unfortunately a goose is beheaded soon after and Devereaux finds himself in hot water. The setting is Pennsylvania. By the author of Nobody's Fool.
Author
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A novel to cure your Downton Abbey withdrawal . . . a delightful story about nontraditional romantic relationships, class snobbery and the everybody-knows-everybody complications of living in a small community.”—The Washington Post
The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love on the eve of World...
The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love on the eve of World...
Author
Series
Nikki and Deja volume 6
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
While Ms. Shelby-Ortiz is recovering from an injury, substitute Mr. Willow takes over Nikki and Deja's third-grade class with disastrous results.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The students of Diffendoofer School celebrate their unusual teachers and curriculum, including Miss Fribble who teaches laughing, Miss Bonkers who teaches frogs to dance, and Mr. Katz who builds robotic rats.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster--a 60-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala--in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and...
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