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Standing Strong by Teresa Giudice | Conversation Starters In “Standing Strong”, readers are given an intimate look into the author’s personal experiences and life after prison. The novel draws on the author’s personal experiences as a single mother, along with the triumphs and tragedies...

The English Spy by Daniel Silva | Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive, and the characters and its world still live on. Conversation Starters is peppered with questions...

The Girl with Seven Names by Lee Hyeon Seo | Conversation Starters “The Girl with Seven Names” is the harrowing story of one brave girl’s defection from North Korea. This in-depth story takes readers on a chronological journey through Hyeon-Seo Lee’s life, from birth, through adolescence,...

Tara, Mag-Tagalog Tayo! Come On, Let's Speak Tagalog! Elementary Tagalog's comprehensive approach will help students master basic Tagalog (Filipino) without frustration. From learning to read Tagalog words and pronounce its sounds to using correct grammar, communicating in dialogues and building...

Making Out in Thai is a fun, accessible and thorough guide to Thai as it's really spoken in Bangkok, Chiang Mai and throughout Thailand. This is your guide to modern spoken Thai as it is used in everyday interactions in Thailand today—including many colorful expressions and informal phrases...

A graded reader for learners of English (EFL). Level 4 - B1/B2 Intermediate (2) Word count: 8,866 Nakashige-cho is a very small town in Western Japan, but there’s always something happening there. There are two stories from Nakashige-cho in this book. Hatsuko is very puzzled. Every...

The Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story Study Guide contains a comprehensive summary and analysis of Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story by Ben Carson, M.D. It includes a detailed Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Character Descriptions, Objects/Places, Themes, Styles, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.

Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and profound wisdom. He sees with fresh eyes the upheaval in ideological values, the crises in politics, and the...

A celebration of the greatest kind of shop in the world, by an award-winning cast of writers including Ali Smith, Michael Dirda, Elif Shafak and Daniel Kehlmann. A cabinet of curiosities, a time machine, a treasure trove - we love bookshops because they possess a unique kind of magic. In Browse,...

In One-Way Tickets, Borinsky offers up a splendid tour across 20th-century literatures, providing a literary travelogue to writers and artists in exile. She describes their challenges in adjusting to new homelands, issues of identity and language, and the brilliant works produced under the discomforts...

Learn the words you need to succeed in high school Starting off with a powerful vocabulary is the best way to prepare for a successful, stress-free time in high school. High school opens a world of new ideas and experiences-along with more challenging and sophisticated concepts. Knowing these...

YOU are an astronaut on the first trip to Mars. Can you and your crew survive the dangers of space and complete your mission? An easy-English adventure with eight different endings. Atama-ii graded readers are multiple-path adventure stories in easy English. They are ideal for reluctant readers...

In this groundbreaking work of cultural history, Alice Fahs explores a little-known and fascinating side of the Civil War--the outpouring of popular literature inspired by the conflict. From 1861 to 1865, authors and publishers in both the North and the South produced a remarkable variety of war-related...

Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters This book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is dividied into...