Allison: 1539 books

Experience this powerful story about childhood innocence, friendship and suffering set at Auschwitz Concentration Camp during World War II. Assess students' comprehension of the novel and explore their personal reactions to the events of the book. Imagine what Bruno sees from his bedroom window that...

Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis, with roots deep in the nation’s colonial history. Despite numerous policies and programs developed to address the issue, Indigenous women continue to be targeted for violence at disproportionate rates. What insights can literature...

The most original and ground-breaking work on Beowulf in several decades, this book uses “lexomic” methods that blend computer-assisted statistical analysis with traditional approaches to reveal new and surprising information about the construction and sources of the greatest surviving Old English...

When Hollywood comes a-knockin’, a young, small-town Mississippi photographer named Sawyer Taylor packs his bags and heads to the West Coast. He’s been hired to photograph for a romantic comedy in San Francisco and looks at the opportunity as a chance to rebuild and reclaim his life. But a quick,...

Dear Diary: Book Two Prom ends with a bang of unexpected epic proportions and leaves Chris with a disheartened outlook on where he is in his life, when he should be on top of the world. He's graduating high school with honors and has the best boyfriend in the world, but things still aren't...

Dear Diary: Book Three Chris Bishop graduated high school with Josh, the love of his life, by his side. Agreeing it's not wise to room together, the boys choose to live in the dorms—separate dorms. But their decision fails to keep them apart, and on day one they’re caught making out by...

Mike Maltby has more time and money than he knows what to do with, and nothing to do with it, but a young boy and a broken bicycle enter his life and give it new direction. Now for the first time since his wife died, Mike has a reason to live. Instead of taking and taking and taking, he is going to...

It’s the 1950s and 1960s, and the United States and Soviet Union are in a race to be the first to reach the moon. Will you:  Participate in the space race as a young scientist working on early rocket technology?  Experience the space race as a reporter following space “firsts” in both the...

Veritas Dolor is a Latin phrase meaning truth through pain. Most of the poems within this book deal with the inner struggles of having depression on a daily basis. Many people often go through life hiding their sadness from the rest of the world. In this collection, the author gives the rest of the...

Human beings are both blessed and cursed by being born directly on the midpoint of two realities—the reality in the mind, and the reality outside of it. Every once in a while we can experience realizations and revelations that shock us into total cognizance or awareness. If we pay attention to these...

Amy is a thirtysomething lesbian who escaped her small, Midwestern hometown of Willow Bay, Wisconsin, to pursue an academic career and establish a life with her lover. After years away from Willow Bay, she returns to visit the people she's left behind-only to discover that her old friends Gina and...

Mike and his family move from the big city to a little town in the middle of nowhere, where Mike hopes to find new friends. After the first couple of days at the new school, he discovers that it isnt so easyespecially after everyone finds out that he moved into the yellow two-story house over on 7th...

In the NETT, Jack Allen is once again in the thick of a terrorist plot. Now working for a joint CIA/NSA/FBI initiative known as the National Espionage and Terrorist Tracking unit, Jack searches out terrorists using his finely-honed computer skills, but this time they are tracking him as fervently...

In a loveless society, a thousand years in the future, political correctness has been taken to the extreme and total harmony has ensued, but at great cost. With the aid of super computers a world-wide government controls the economy, relationships, food production, medicine, research, entertainment,...