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Marcie Lewis is devastated when her beloved teacher, Ms. Finney, is fired for refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance. This classic YA novel, about to celebrate its 30th birthday, is just as fresh and relevant as the day it was published.
Featuring a personal afterword from Paula Danziger describing how and why Cat was written.
222) The Polish boxer
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Polish boxer novels volume 1
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"Covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his Polish grandfather's past and the story behind his numbered tattoo; a Serbian classical pianist longs for his forbidden heritage; a Mayan poet is torn between his studies and filial obligations; a striking young Israeli woman seeks answers in Central America; a university professor yearns for knowledge that he can't find in books...
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[2022]
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First edition.
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"In the tradition of Rabelais, Swift, and Fran Ross - a tradition of biting satire that joyfully embraces the strange and fantastical - Caren Beilin offers a tale of familial trauma that is also a broadly inclusive skewering of academia, the medical industry, and the contemporary art scene. One day Iris, an adjuct at a city arts college, receives a terrible package: recently unearthed letters that her father wrote to her in her teens, in which he...
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After Alfie Budd's beloved wife dies, he returns to England to find his parents feuding and his grandmother's health failing. Alfie's ambitions to be a writer are fading as well. But when he begins tutoring a young single mother for her A-level exams, his bewildering life is suddenly transformed. A widely published journalist and the best-selling author of Man and Boy, Tony Parsons also regularly appears on BBC television.
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Vaclav Herza, the last of a dying breed of great but tyrannical conductors, has been music director of Harmonium for forty years. The world famous touring orchestra was created for him when he fled Czechoslovakia for America during the political turmoil in Eastern Europe in 1956. It is the eve of the opening of a dramatic new concert hall designed by Herza himself. It is also the eleventh hour of intense contract negotiations with the musicians that...
229) Ice Out
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A powerful tale of one woman's desperate journey from grief to acceptance and forgiveness after an accident shatters her life. Francesca Bodin has a near-perfect life as an accomplished music teacher and professional flutist living in the country with her husband, Ben, and their four-year-old daughter, Addie. This ends suddenly when a snowmobiling accident traps the three of them in a frozen lake. Ben escapes, leaving her and Addie behind to die....
230) One time
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Imaginative, eleven-year-old Gina, her mysterious new neighbor, Antonio, and their classmates are inspired by an unusual young teacher to see who they are and envision who they are meant to become.
231) The teacher's pet
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2017.
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First edition.
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When a class pet proves to be more than a handful, the students agree they cannot keep him, but how will they convince their teacher, Mr. Stricter, who loves the strange creature?
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A cranky, atheistic philosophy professor loves to shred the faith of incoming freshmen. He is chosen by a group of scientists to create a philosophy for a computer-generated world exactly like ours. Much to his frustration every model he introduces, from Darwinism, to Existentialism, to Relativism, to Buddhism, fails. The only way to preserve the computer world is to introduce laws from outside their system through a Law Giver. Of course this goes...
233) Dark things I adore
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"A debut thriller for fans of Lucy Foley and Liz Moore, Dark Things I Adore is a stunning Gone Girl-esque tale of atonement that proves that in the grasp of manipulative men, women may momentarily fall. But in the hands of fierce women, men will be brought to their knees. Three campfire secrets. Two witnesses. One dead in the trees. And the woman, thirty years later, bent on making the guilty finally pay. 1988. A group of outcasts gather at a small,...
237) Saving Mr. Terupt
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Mr. Terupt volume 3
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Seventh grade was going to be awesome. The only thing missing was Mr. Terupt. The kids from Mr. Terupt's fifth- and sixth-grade classes are entering their first year of junior high school. There's a lot to be excited about, but there are new challenges, too. Peter and Jeffrey face tough competition on their wrestling team. Alexia has a disastrous first day of school, and that's only the beginning. Anna is desperate for Charlie to propose to her mother--what...
238) Exit the milkman
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Peter Shandy mysteries volume 10
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Local sleuth Peter Shandy is dragged into a convoluted case when his neighbor, Jim Feldster, a professor of dairy management, goes out for an evening meeting and fails to return.
239) Penguin puzzle
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Ms. Frizzle whisks her students away to Antarctica, where they learn all about the South Pole and come face to face with playful penguins and colossal icebergs. But when the kids are magically changed into real penguins, they need Ms. Frizzlep1ss help to solve their penguin puzzle.
240) Travel writing
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Pete Ferry, our narrator, teaches high school English in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Lake Forest and moonlights as a travel writer. On his way home after work one evening he witnesses a car accident that kills a beautiful woman named Lisa Kim. But was it an accident? Could Pete have prevented it? And did it actually happen, or is this just an elaborate tale he concocts to impart the power of story to his teenage students? Why can't he stop thinking...
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