Summer Express

Summer Express

Author: Jennifer Moore

Publisher: Teaching Resources

Published: 2011-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780545305884

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100 fun-filled activity pages--arranged in a progressive, 10-week format--that reinforce skills while preparing fifth graders for sixth grade!


Weekly Reader: Summer Express (Between Grades 4 & 5) Workbook

Weekly Reader: Summer Express (Between Grades 4 & 5) Workbook

Author: Scholastic Teaching Resources

Publisher: Teaching Resources

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781338108934

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Fun and engaging activity pages that reinforce reading, writing, spelling, phonics, grammar, math skills, and more, and prepare fourth graders for fifth grade! From the editors of Weekly Reader.


The Socrates Express

The Socrates Express

Author: Eric Weiner

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2020-08-25

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1501129031

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The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history’s greatest thinkers and showing us how each—from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir—offers practical and spiritual lessons for today’s unsettled times. We turn to philosophy for the same reasons we travel: to see the world from a dif­ferent perspective, to unearth hidden beauty, and to find new ways of being. We want to learn how to embrace wonder. Face regrets. Sustain hope. Eric Weiner combines his twin passions for philosophy and travel in a globe-trotting pil­grimage that uncovers surprising life lessons from great thinkers around the world, from Rousseau to Nietzsche, Confucius to Simone Weil. Traveling by train (the most thoughtful mode of transport), he journeys thousands of miles, making stops in Athens, Delhi, Wyoming, Coney Island, Frankfurt, and points in between to recon­nect with philosophy’s original purpose: teaching us how to lead wiser, more meaningful lives. From Socrates and ancient Athens to Beauvoir and 20th-century Paris, Weiner’s chosen philosophers and places provide important practical and spiritual lessons as we navigate today’s chaotic times. In a “delightful” odyssey that “will take you places intellectually and humorously” (San Francisco Book Review), Weiner invites us to voyage alongside him on his life-changing pursuit of wisdom and discovery as he attempts to find answers to our most vital questions. The Socrates Express is “full of valuable lessons…a fun, sharp book that draws readers in with its apparent simplicity and bubble-gum philosophy approach and gradually pulls them in deeper and deeper” (NPR).


Summer Brain Quest: Between Grades 1 & 2

Summer Brain Quest: Between Grades 1 & 2

Author: Workman Publishing

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Published: 2017-04-18

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0761189173

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Stop summer slide, stay summer smart! From the creators of America’s #1 educational bestseller Brain Quest comes Summer Brain Quest: Between Grades 1 & 2—a workbook, a game, and an outdoor adventure! It’s an interactive and personalized quest to keep kids excited about learning all summer long between 1st and 2nd grades. Summer Brain Quest: Between Grades 1 & 2 begins with a map that guides you through a workbook filled with activities based on reading comprehension, writing, addition and subtraction, earth science, the seasons, telling time, and more! As you complete activities, you earn stickers to track your progress on the map. Jam-packed with curriculum-based exercises, bonus challenges, outside activities, over 150 stickers, a summer reading list, and a Brain Quest mini deck, Summer Brain Quest: Between Grades 1 & 2 covers the core concepts in English language arts, math, science, and social studies so kids keep essential skills sharp all summer.


A Fine Balance

A Fine Balance

Author: Rohinton Mistry

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Published: 2010-10-29

Total Pages: 834

ISBN-13: 1551991381

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A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry’s stunning internationally acclaimed bestseller, is set in mid-1970s India. It tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a “State of Internal Emergency.” Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances – and their fates – become inextricably linked in ways no one could have foreseen. Mistry’s prose is alive with enduring images and a cast of unforgettable characters. Written with compassion, humour, and insight, A Fine Balance is a vivid, richly textured, and powerful novel written by one of the most gifted writers of our time.


Baghdad Express

Baghdad Express

Author: Joel Turnipseed

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780873514507

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In early summer of 1990, Joel Turnipseed was homeless--kicked out of his college's philosophy program, dumped by his girlfriend. He had been AWOL from his Marine Corps Reserve unit for more than three months, spending his days hanging out in coffee shops reading Plato and Thoreau. Then Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. Turnipseed's unit was activated for service in Operation Desert Shield. By January of '91, he was in Saudi Arabia driving tractor-trailers for the Sixth Motor Transport Battalion--the legendary "Baghdad Express." The greatest logistical operation in Marine Corps history, the Baghdad Express hauled truckloads of explosives and ammunition across hundreds of miles of desert. But on the brink of war, Turnipseed's greatest struggles are still within. Armed with an M-16 and a seabag full of philosophy books, he is a wise-ass misfit, an ironic observer with a keen eye for vivid detail, a rebellious Marine alive to the moral ambiguity of his life and his situation. Developed from Turnipseed's 1997 feature article for GQ Magazine, this innovative memoir--simultaneously terrifying and hilarious, equal parts Catch-22 and Catcher in the Rye--explores both the absurdities of war and the necessity of accepting our flawed world of shadows. With expansive humanity and profane grace, Turnipseed finds the real-world answers to his philosophical questions and reaches the hardest peace for any young man to achieve--with himself.


Laikonik Express

Laikonik Express

Author: Nick Sweeney

Publisher: Unthank Books.com

Published: 2011-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9780956422323

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Nolan Kennedy is a young American teaching English in Istanbul and hanging out with his alcoholic friend Don Darius. Don might also be the greatest living American novelist judging by the script Kennedy finds in Don's trash. But Don has left town and Kennedy had better find him and persuade him to get serious about the book before Don decides to get serious about the vodka. The catalyst Don thinks will help is finding the woman he met on the LAIKONIK EXPRESS. Kennedy and Don embark on a journey to find her in back-of-beyond Central Europe but en route find much more than a mysterious woman.


Vampire on the Orient Express

Vampire on the Orient Express

Author: Shane Carrow

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13:

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Paris, 1914. American adventurer Sam Carter boards the Orient Express, departing France in style after an impulsive decision to desert the Foreign Legion. British diplomat Lucas Avery is already nursing a drink in the smoking car, resenting his assignment to the distant Ottoman Empire. Neither man expects anything more from the next three days and three thousand miles than rich food, expensive champagne and fine cigars.But something dangerous is lurking aboard the train, hiding in plain sight among French aristocrats and German businessmen. Through fire and darkness, through blood and ice, the Orient Express is bearing an ancient evil across the continent - and not all its passengers will live to see Constantinople...


Nigella Express

Nigella Express

Author: Nigella Lawson

Publisher: Hachette Books

Published: 2013-06-25

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 1401306020

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The Domestic Goddess is back -- and this time it's instant. Nigella and her style of cooking have earned a special place in our lives, symbolizing all that is best, most pleasurable, most hands-on, and least fussy about good food. But that doesn't mean she wants us to spend hours in the kitchen, slaving over a hot stove. Featuring fabulous fast foods, ingenious shortcuts, terrific time-saving ideas, effortless entertaining tips, and simple, scrumptious meals, Nigella Express is her solution to eating well when time is short. Here are mouthwatering meals, quick to prepare and easy to follow, that you can conjure up after a day in the office or on a busy weekend for family or unexpected guests. This is food you can make as you hit the kitchen running, with vital advice on how to keep your pantry stocked and your freezer and fridge stacked. When time is precious, you can't spend hours shopping, so you need to make life easier by being prepared. Not that these recipes are basic -- though they are always simple -- but it's important to make every ingredient earn its place, minimizing effort by maximizing taste. Here too is great food that can be prepared quickly but cooked slowly in the oven, leaving you time to have a bath, a drink, talk to friends, or help the children with their homework--minimum stress for maximum enjoyment . . . Nigella Express features a new generation of fast food--never basic, never dull, always doable, quick, and delicious. Featuring recipes seen on Food Network's Nigella Express series.


Summer Express, Grade 7-8

Summer Express, Grade 7-8

Author: Frankie Long

Publisher: Teaching Resources

Published: 2011-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780545305907

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100 fun-filled activity pages--arranged in a progressive, 10-week format--that reinforce skills while preparing seventh graders for eighth grade!