The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner)

Author: Sherman Alexie

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2012-01-10

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 0316219304

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A New York Times bestseller—over one million copies sold! A National Book Award winner A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live. With a forward by Markus Zusak, interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney, and black-and-white interior art throughout, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike.

Nasreen's Secret School
Nasreen's Secret School

Author: Jeanette Winter

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-06-28

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1442441216

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Renowned picture book creator Jeanette Winter tells the story of a young girl in Afghanistan who attends a secret school for girls. Young Nasreen has not spoken a word to anyone since her parents disappeared. In despair, her grandmother risks everything to enroll Nasreen in a secret school for girls. Will a devoted teacher, a new friend, and the worlds she discovers in books be enough to draw Nasreen out of her shell of sadness? Based on a true story from Afghanistan, this inspiring book will touch readers deeply as it affirms both the life-changing power of education and the healing power of love.

Real Life
Real Life

Author: Brandon Taylor

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2020-02-18

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0525538887

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A FINALIST for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the VCU/Cabell First Novelist Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the NYPL Young Lions Award, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award “A blistering coming of age story” —O: The Oprah Magazine Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Public Library, Vanity Fair, Elle, NPR, The Guardian, The Paris Review, Harper's Bazaar, Financial Times, Huffington Post, BBC, Shondaland, Barnes & Noble, Vulture, Thrillist, Vice, Self, Electric Literature, and Shelf Awareness A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice. Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends—some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. But over the course of a late-summer weekend, a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with an ostensibly straight, white classmate, conspire to fracture his defenses while exposing long-hidden currents of hostility and desire within their community. Real Life is a novel of profound and lacerating power, a story that asks if it’s ever really possible to overcome our private wounds, and at what cost.

Constellation
Constellation

Author: James McFarland

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2012-12-31

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 0823245381

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The first extended exploration of the relationship between the Weimar-era revolutionary cultural critic and the radical philosopher. In five chapters, Constellation presents the changing figure of Friedrich Nietzsche as Walter Benjamin encountered him: an inspiration to his student activism, an authority for his skeptical philology, a manifestation of his philosophical nihilism, a companion in his political exile, and ultimately a subversive collaborator in his efforts to think beyond the hopeless temporality—new and always the same—of the present moment in history.

A Long Walk to Water
A Long Walk to Water

Author: Linda Sue Park

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0547251270

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When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, 11-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan. By a Newbery Medal-winning author.

Town and Gown Relations
Town and Gown Relations

Author: Roger L. Kemp

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2013-03-07

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 0786463996

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This is a timely work on a very dynamic field. It provides more than 40 best practice case studies from nearly half the states in America, and discusses current and evolving trends in the relations between educational institutions and cities, towns and other municipalities. The schools include public and private universities and colleges, public school districts, and other local school systems. Case studies examine current and evolving state-of-the-art practices. Appendices include a glossary; regional, national and international resource directories; bibliographic sources; model agreements and documents; a state municipal league directory; a state public library directory; and a summary of distance learning resources. The handbook is indexed. The future of America's cities and schools depends upon the proper management of resources through the use of state-of-the-art town-gown planning practices. Both public officials and taxpayers, faculties, as well as students, benefit from town and gown best practices.

The Student Life: From Failure to Success
The Student Life: From Failure to Success

Author: HB Goldsmith, Ph.D.

Publisher: Google Book Publishers

Published:

Total Pages: 87

ISBN-13:

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The Book ‘The Student Life: From Failure to Success’ is written for students, parents, teachers, tutors, faculties, academicians, counselors, educators as well as educationists of the society. It reflects various types of phases and events that each and every student experiences in his or her academic life, either during their school or college time. The book covers vital information about student’s life, such as how to maintain positive mindset in classroom, how to prepare study timetable, how to sit for long hours to study, how to avoid sleep during study, how to study smart, how to make notes for studying, revision tips, how to increase memory power, how to deal with exam stress, how to study for exams in one day, and how to relieve stress and anxiety. The book also focuses on fundamental facts like essence and significance of student life, discipline and success in student’s life, types of learners, top study skills and techniques, time management to improve study skills, good habits of highly effective students, common study problems and how to deal with them, general problems faced by students, major problems faced by students in school, common issues and problems faced by college students, challenges for students and parents, possible solutions to problems faced by students, essential life skills in future development of students, and prepare students for the jobs of the future. The author is acknowledging all the tutors, teachers, faculties, academicians, educationists, and educators for their suggestions, feedbacks, and opinions. He is also grateful to all the authors, content writers, website developers, and bloggers, mentioned in the section ‘Web Sources’ of this book. This book will definitely be a 24x7 Guide and a helping Guru for many students at regional, national, and global scale. The author feels highly indebted to ‘The Almighty Living God’, who has helped him directly or indirectly during the writing of this book. May All Students Reach The Mountainous Peak of Success !!

The Quotable Osler
The Quotable Osler

Author: Sir William Osler

Publisher: ACP Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781934465004

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This newly revised and updated paperback edition features the addition of fifty new quotes, forty of which have never before been published, as well as a chronology of Oslers life! The Quotable Osler is the ideal resource for those seeking an apt quote for an article, presentation, or for those wanting to sample Oslers thought-provoking and uplifting messages. Oslers meaningful and valuable teachings are timeless, and this new paperback edition would make a fine gift for a fellow physician, medical student, or a graduating resident.