 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Release Date: September 2, 2008| Age Level: 18 and up | Grade Level: 12 and up Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens ...
 |  | Kaplan New GRE Vocabulary Flashcards Release Date: August 2, 2011| ISBN-10: 1607148536 | ISBN-13: 978-1607148531| Edition: 3 New content for the August 2011 GRE Revised General Test! In August of 2011, the GRE will undergo some big changes. New sections and question types will be in place to test a student’s ability to analyze data in a new multi-stage format that allows test takers to move back and forth within a specific section of the exam. These test changes will be used to better predict a student’s success in a graduate program and provide meaningful data to educational institutions when selecting candidat...
 |  | Understanding and Using English Grammar (with Answer Key and Audio CDs) (4th Edition) Publication Date: February 23, 2009| ISBN-10: 0132333317 | ISBN-13: 978-0132333313| Edition: 4 A classic developmental skills text for intermediate to advanced students of English, Understanding and Using English Grammar is a comprehensive reference grammar as well as a stimulating and teachable classroom text. While keeping the same basic approach and material as in earlier editions, the Fourth Edition more fully develops communicative and interactive language-learning activities. Some of the new features are: Innovative warm-up exercises that precede the grammar char...
 |  | The Giver Release Date: September 10, 2002| Series: Readers Circle (Laurel-Leaf) Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns 12 he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now, it is time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back. ...
 |  | Bones Are Forever: A Novel (Temperance Brennan) Release Date: August 28, 2012| Series: Temperance Brennan Kathy Reichs, #1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the FOX televison hit Bones, is at her brilliant best in a riveting novel featuring forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan—a story of infanticide, murder, and corruption, set in the high-stakes, high-danger world of diamond mining. A woman calling herself Amy Roberts checks into a Montreal hospital complaining of uncontrolled bleeding. Doctors see evidence of a recent birth, but before they can act, Roberts disappears. Dispatched to the address she gave at the hos...
 |  | Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Release Date: August 10, 2004In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family...
 |  | Garment of Shadows: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Release Date: September 4, 2012Laurie R. King’s New York Times bestselling novels of suspense featuring Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, comprise one of today’s most acclaimed mystery series. Now, in their newest and most thrilling adventure, the couple is separated by a shocking circumstance in a perilous part of the world, each racing against time to prevent an explosive catastrophe that could clothe them both in shrouds. In a strange room in Morocco, Mary Russell is trying to solve a pressing mystery: Who am I? She has awakened with shadows in her mind, bl...
 |  | Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materialsand Methods Publication Date: December 10, 2008| ISBN-10: 047007468X | ISBN-13: 978-0470074688| Edition: 5 Now in its Fifth Edition, this essential textbook has been used by thousands of students annually in schools of architecture, engineering, and construction technology. The bestselling reference focuses on the basic materials and methods used in building construction, emphasizing common construction systems such as light wood frames, masonry bearing walls, steel frames, and reinforced concrete. New introductory material on the processes, organization, constraints, and choices in construction off...
 |  | Give Me Liberty!: An American History (Seagull Third Edition)(Vol. 2) Publication Date: August 9, 2011| ISBN-10: 0393911918 | ISBN-13: 978-0393911916| Edition: Seagull Third Edition The leading United States History survey text is now available in a value edition.Give Me Liberty! is the leading textbook in the market because it works in the classroom. A single-author book, Give Me Liberty! offers students a consistent approach, a single narrative voice, and a coherent perspective throughout the text. Threaded through the chronological narrative is the theme of freedom in American history and the significant conflicts over its changing meanings, its limits,...
 |  | The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates Release Date: January 11, 2011Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year of each other. Both grew up fatherless in similar Baltimore neighborhoods and had difficult childhoods; both hung out on street corners with their crews; both ran into trouble with the police. How, then, did one grow up to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader, while the other ended up a convicted murderer serving a life sentence? Wes Moore, the author of this fascinating book, sets out to answer this profound question. In alternating narratives that take read...
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