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Book cover for "B.F.F".
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English
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Reflects on the author's lifelong struggles to sustain female friendship and how the return of an old friend helped her explore the reasons she has avoided attachment.
Book cover for "Charlotte's web".
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Lexile measure:
680L
Language:
English
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4.5 stars
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Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
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Lexile measure:
720L
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English
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5 stars
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The Big Friendly Giant is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and it's lucky for Sophie that he is. If she had been carried off by any of the other giants she would have been breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are headed to England to steal some little children, she and the BFG decide they must stop them once and for all.
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English
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The original play by Shakespeare's drama telling how Demetrius and Lysander love Hermia, Hermia loves Lysander but is betrothed to Demetrius, much to her dismay. And no one loves Helena, though her heart belongs to Demetrius. When Hermia and Lysander escape escape through the forest to elope, Demetrius chases them, and Helena chases Demetrius. With the magic of the forest bewitching the hand of fate, perhaps their dream of love will come true.
Book cover for "About behaviorism".
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English
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The basic book about the controversial philosophy known as behaviorism, written by its leading exponent.
Book cover for "The importance of being earnest".
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English
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Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" is a timeless comedic masterpiece that combines witty satire, social commentary, and farcical humor in a delightful theatrical concoction. Set in the elegant drawing rooms of Victorian-era London, the play revolves around the hilarious deceptions of its characters, particularly Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing. These dashing young men each maintain a fictitious persona-Algernon has invented a friend...
Book cover for "The souls of Black folk".
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Lexile measure:
1280L
Language:
English
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"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. In this eloquent collection of essays, first published in 1903, Du Bois dares as no one has before to describe the magnitude of American racism and demand an end to it. He draws on his own life for illustration, from his early experiences teaching in...
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Lexile measure:
1150L
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English
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3.7 stars
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Narrated by the crew member Ishmael, this epic whaling adventure follows the crew of the Pequod as its captain, Ahab, descends deeper and deeper into madness on his quest to find and kill the white whale that maimed him. Beyond the surface of ship life, whaling, and the hunt for the elusive Moby Dick are allegorical references to life - and even the universe - in this masterpiece by Herman Melville. Regarded as the Great American Novel, Moby Dick...
Book cover for "Samuel F.B. Morse".
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Publisher:
The Child's World
Pub. Date:
2003
Language:
English
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A biography of the artist and inventor who devised the world's first practical telegraph system.
Book cover for "The Secret of Guidance".
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Many children of God are so deeply exercised on the matter of guidance that it may be helpful to give a few suggestions as to knowing the way, in which our Father would have us walk, and the work He would have us do. The importance of the subject cannot be, exaggerated; so much of our power and peace consists in knowing, where God would have us be, and in being just there.
Book cover for "The republic".
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1370L
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English
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The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning the definition of justice and the order and character of the just city-state and the just man. It is Plato's best-known work and has proven to be one of the most intellectually and historically influential works of philosophy and political theory. In it, Socrates along with various Athenians and foreigners discuss the meaning of justice and examine whether or not the just...
Book cover for "W.B. Yeats".
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date:
1997-2003
Language:
English
Book cover for "The homes of the pilgrim fathers in England and America (1620-1685)".
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Publisher:
Oxford university press
Pub. Date:
1932
Language:
English
Book cover for "Trooper".
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English
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"One summer day in 1987, middle-aged desert tour guide Johnson went on his daily walk into the Mojave. Finding a small bobcat kitten, injured, orphaned, and desperately in need of help, he took it home for the night. For the next nineteen years Trooper became a part of the Johnson family and their community"--
Book cover for "Phineas redux".
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Just when Phineas Finn has come to terms with his wife's death and the end of his political career, he receives an unexpected invitation to return to Parliament, where he soon becomes the prime suspect in a murder.
Book cover for "The shaping of a behaviorist".
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Book cover for "Beyond freedom and dignity".
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English
Book cover for "Walden Two".
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Publisher:
Macmillan
Pub. Date:
[1976]
Language:
English
Book cover for "The great Gatsby".
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Lexile measure:
1010L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of literature’s most beloved stories and the inspiration for numerous film adaptations, is now available in a fine exclusive collector’s edition featuring beautiful cover and interior treatments, making it ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike. Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to...
Book cover for "The stressed years of their lives".
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Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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"From two leading child and adolescent mental health experts comes a guide for the parents of every college and college-bound student who want to know what's normal mental health and behavior, what's not, and how to intervene before it's too late. "I canthink of no better guide than The Stressed Years of Their Lives for overwhelmed parents and stressed-out kids for navigating these turbulent times. This is required reading for the college set." --Brigid...