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Save the last dance / by Gray, Shelley Shepard,author.;
"Kimber Klein has left the modeling world behind. She's sick of the constant pressure to be perfect and ready to live her life without watching every little thing she eats. She's also really happy to finally spend some time getting to know herself and the two sisters she never met until recently. Life is good ... mostly. Kimber can't stop worrying about a stalker she's hoping she left behind in New York City. She doesn't think he's found her in Bridgeport, until one day she leaves her volunteer job at the elementary school library to find two of her tires slashed. Has her old life come back to haunt her in Ohio? Gunnar Law is satisfied with his life as a single dad. He's still getting to know his son, Jeremy, since he's only been fostering the teen for a short while. While parenting someone you only just met can be a little awkward, Gunnar loves Jeremy and plans to adopt him as soon as they can get the paperwork through. Life is pretty simple, and he likes it that way. Then one afternoon, he and Jeremy stop to help a distraught--and extremely beautiful--woman who had her tires slashed in the school parking lot. And suddenly life doesn't seem quite so simple anymore. In this final chapter of the Dance with Me series, Shelley Shepard Gray leads us back to Bridgeport, Ohio, where family comes in all shapes and sizes, everyone deserves a second chance, and falling in love happens when you least expect it."--Amazon.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Man-woman relationships; Models (Persons); Single fathers; Sisters; Stalkers;
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Gather me : a memoir in praise of the books that saved me / by Edim, Glory,1982-author.;
"An inspiring memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves, from the renowned founder of Well-Read Black Girl. 'She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.'-Toni Morrison. For Glory Edim, that 'friend of my mind' is books. Edim, who grew up in Virginia to Nigerian immigrant parents, started the popular Well-Read Black Girl book club at age thirty, but her love of books stretches far back: to public libraries alongside her little brothers after elementary school while her mother was working; to high school librairies where she discovered books she wasn't being taught in class; to dorm rooms and airplanes and subway rides-and, eventually, to a community of half a million other readers. When Edim's father moved back to Nigeria while she was still a child, she and her brothers were left with a single mother and little money, often finding a safe space at their local library. Books were where Edim found community, and as she grew older, she discovered the Black writers whose words would forever change her life: Nikki Giovanni through children's poetry cassettes; Maya Angelou through a critical high school English teacher; Toni Morrison while attending Morrison's alma mater, Howard University; Audre Lorde on a flight to Nigeria. In prose full of both joy and heartbreak, Edim recounts how these writers and so many others helped her to value herself: to find her own voice when her mother lost hers, to trust her feelings when her father remarried, to create bonds with other Black women and uplift their own stories. Gather Me is a glowing testament to the power of representation and the lasting impact of literature to gather our disparate parts and put them back together"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Edim, Glory, 1982-; Edim, Glory, 1982-; African American businesspeople; African American women authors; African American women; Authors, American; Books and reading; American literature; Literature;
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Backstage : stories of a writing life / by Leon, Donna,author.;
"An engaging collection of stories and essays by the celebrated author of the internationally bestselling Guido Brunetti series, infused with her ever-present and delightful senses of humor and irony. Donna Leon's memoir, Wandering through Life, gave her legions of fans a colorful tour through her life, from childhood in New Jersey to adventures in China and Iran, to her love of Venice and opera. Nowhere, however, did she discuss her writing life. In Backstage, Donna reveals her admiration for, and inspiration from, the great crime novelists Ruth Rendell and Ross Macdonald, examining their approach to storytelling as she dissects her favorite books of theirs. She expresses her love for Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and her appreciation for Sir Walter Scott's generosity of spirit. And she chronicles the amount of research she undertakes to be able to present authentically, through Guido Brunetti and his colleagues, places and characters far from her own experience-from interviewing a diamond dealer in Venice to open up the world of blood diamonds, to meeting, through back channels, a courageous sex worker and women's rights activist to depict accurately the trafficking of women in Italy. By contrast, the idea and opening scene of one of her novels came to her as she was walking through Venice. Venice is central in her memory, whether recounting the semicomic irritation of a noisy elderly neighbor or the origins of the city's Carnevale. Her teaching career yields memorable tales: helping a young Black boy in a Newark, New Jersey, elementary school; instructing young Iranian pilots in English just before the 1979 Iranian Revolution; and taking her students at a Swiss private high school to the famous Frank Zappa concert in Montreux interrupted by fire. Throughout, she is as good a storyteller about herself as she is a chronicler of Guido Brunetti's crime adventures. Readers will be as caught up in her world as she is in his"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Anecdotes.; Personal narratives.; Leon, Donna; Leon, Donna; Detectives in literature.; Women authors; Women teachers; Women;
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Teaching your kids new math, K-5 for dummies / by Jamsa, Kris,1960-author.;
"Teaching Your Kids New Math, K-5 For Dummies makes it easy to understand the new math being taught to students in kindergarten to Grade 5, showing parents and guardians how to help their kids with the new methods and concepts that have been introduced since they finished school ..."--
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Mathematics;
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Canadian curriculum SummerSmart. English, math, science, social studies. by Popular Book Company (Canada) Ltd.;
Canadian Curriculum SummerSmart 2 - 3 provides children with a relaxed and engaging way to retain knowledge acquired in Grade 2 and prepares them for Grade 3. In the spirit of summer fun, Canadian Curriculum SummerSmart 2 - 3 combines activities that review core concepts from English, Math, Science, and Social Studies into concise weekly units designed to require only a short yet reasonable amount of time to complete. Topics covered include compound words, addition and subtraction, simple machines, early Canadians, and many more. There are also engaging Arts and Crafts activities, as well as Comics and Fun Places to Go in Summer for leisure reading. Additional bonus content is available online as well along with a weekly planner to help schedule practice for your child. We are confident that Canadian Curriculum SummerSmart 2 - 3 will help prepare your child for academic success in the upcoming school year.
Subjects: Activity books.; Problems and exercises.; Education, Elementary; Second grade (Education); Third grade (Education); Creative activities and seat work;
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Canadian curriculum SummerSmart. English, math, science, social studies. by Popular Book Company (Canada) Ltd.;
Canadian Curriculum SummerSmart K - 1 provides children with a relaxed and engaging way to retain knowledge acquired in Kindergarten and prepares them for Grade 1. In the spirit of summer fun, Canadian Curriculum SummerSmart K - 1 combines activities that review core concepts from English, Math, Science, and Social Studies into concise weekly units designed to require only a short yet reasonable amount of time to complete. Topics covered include colour words, counting, plant and animal life cycles, children's roles and responsibilities, and many more. There are also engaging Arts and Crafts activities, as well as Comics and Fun Places to Go in Summer for leisure reading. Additional bonus content is available online as well along with a weekly planner to help schedule practice for your child. We are confident that Canadian Curriculum SummerSmart K - 1 will help prepare your child for academic success in the upcoming school year.
Subjects: Activity books.; Problems and exercises.; Education, Elementary; Kindergarten; First grade (Education); Creative activities and seat work;
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Canadian curriculum SummerSmart. English, math, science, social studies. by Popular Book Company (Canada) Ltd.;
Canadian Curriculum SummerSmart 1 - 2 provides children with a relaxed and engaging way to retain knowledge acquired in Grade 1 and prepares them for Grade 2. In the spirit of summer fun, Canadian Curriculum SummerSmart 1 - 2 combines activities that review core concepts from English, Math, Science, and Social Studies into concise weekly units designed to require only a short yet reasonable amount of time to complete. Topics covered include punctuation, counting with coins, the seasonal cycle, traditional foods and celebrations, and many more. There are also engaging Arts and Crafts activities, as well as Comics and Fun Places to Go in Summer for leisure reading. Additional bonus content is available online as well along with a weekly planner to help schedule practice for your child. We are confident that Canadian Curriculum SummerSmart 1 - 2 will help prepare your child for academic success in the upcoming school year.
Subjects: Activity books.; Problems and exercises.; Education, Elementary; First grade (Education); Second grade (Education); Creative activities and seat work;
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Teddy vs. the fuzzy doom / by Hallett, Braden.;
"The secrets of Ravensbarrow have been buried far too long. Now they're waking up . . . Starting at a new school is hard enough for an anxious kid like Teddy. But Ravensbarrow Elementary seems extra unsettling. First, there are the zombielike kids and teachers, with their vacant stares and strange, echoey voices. Then there are the hamsters. So. Many. Hamsters. With their scrabbly claws and beady eyes and . . . wait. Can those hamsters talk? . . . Alongside a crew of misfits, Teddy untangles the supernatural mysteries of the rainy town of Ravensbarrow"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: School fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Schools; Secrecy; Zombies; Hamsters; Supernatural;
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Peyakow : reclaiming Cree dignity / by McLeod, Darrel J.,author.;
"Mamaskatch, Darrel J McLeod's 2018 memoir of growing up Cree in Northern Alberta, was a publishing sensation--winning the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, shortlisted for many other major prizes and translated into French and German editions. In Peyakow, McLeod continues the poignant story of his impoverished youth, beset by constant fears of being dragged down by the self-destruction and deaths of those closest to him as he battles the bullying of white classmates, copes with the trauma of physical and sexual abuse, and endures painful separation from his family and culture. With steely determination, he triumphs: now elementary teacher; now school principal; now head of an Indigenous delegation to the UN in Geneva; now executive in the Government of Canada--and now a celebrated author. Brutally frank but buoyed throughout by McLeod's unquenchable spirit, Peyakow--a title borrowed from the Cree word for "one who walks alone"--is an inspiring account of triumph against unimaginable odds. McLeod's perspective as someone whose career path has crossed both sides of the Indigenous/white chasm resonates with particular force in today's Canada."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; McLeod, Darrel J.; Indigenous men; Indigenous men; Cree; First Nations;
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It came from the basement / by Pelletier, Dominique.; Ginzburg, Dina.;
On Tia's first day at Pleasant Valley Elementary, she joins the Philately Club where she meets the only other member, Leo, who has been sent there for detention. Together, they discover that Mr. Bob, the school janitor, is keeping a very strange creature in the basement. Could it really be an alien? And can the Philately Club save the world?LSC
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Science fiction comic books, strips, etc.; Students; Stamp collectors; Space ships; Human-alien encounters;
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