Andrew Miller
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Williamson College of the Trades was founded in 1888 by Quaker businessman and philanthropist Isaiah V. Williamson, whose objective was to provide financially disadvantaged young men with a useful trade. Located in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, the school accepted its first students in the fall of 1891. Then, as now, the young men received free room, board, and tuition while dividing their day between the classroom and the shop. In 2015, the institution...
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From Costa Award-winning and Booker Prize-shortlisted author Andrew Miller comes a tender tale of guilt, trust, and a father's yearning to atone.
A harmless-looking letter drops onto the doormat in Stephen Rose's Somerset home like an unexploded bomb. It is a summons to an inquiry in Belfast, asking him to give testimony about his participation in a disastrous event during the Troubles–one he has long worked to forget.
An ailing ex-soldier...
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It is the Civil War and Colonel Michael Baker rules Fort Harmer. The old Fort, on the Delaware River a few miles south of Philadelphia, has been converted into a prison to hold captured Confederate soldiers. Baker is the commandant of Fort Harmer; he and his assistant, Major Jonathan Kelly, have turned the prison into their personal kingdom. Their tentacles reach far beyond Fort Harmer through a vast network of bribes, intimidation, murder, and corruption....
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LA MEILLEURE FAÇON DE TRANSFORMER SES PENSEES, SON BUSINESS ET SA VIE!
Vous avez ouvert votre entreprise mais les ventes ne décollent pas ? Vous avez l'impression de perdre votre temps et votre argent ? Alors ce livre est fait pour vous!
Perfectionnez-vous pour perfectionner votre business!
Vous devez donner le meilleur de vous-même, vous le savez ; mais ce n'est pas facile! Vous voulez être dans le meilleur état d'esprit possible ? Excellent!...
5) Unique
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Meet Ophelia. Ophelia is a vampire who has lived for centuries. She likes cruising the club scene, classical literature, and men who know their place.Meet Emma. Emma is a werewolf who lives above the pack owned garage. She likes bacon, working on bikes, bacon, cute boys with big brown eyes, and bacon.Meet Sajan. Sajan is a Herbad, an apprentice Magi, who lives with his Dastur. He likes making people happy, hot girls in leather, and serving Ahura Mazda...
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Literary criticism has, in recent decades, rather fled from discussions of moral psychology, and for good reasons, too. Who would not want to flee the hectoring moralism with which it is so easily associated-portentous, pious, humorless? But in protecting us from such fates, our flight has had its costs, as we have lost the concepts needed to recognize and assess much of what distinguished nineteenth-century British literature. That literature was...
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Hunting down pirates and slaughtering them for fun and profit might provide plenty of satisfaction, but not much profit. Like most bounty hunters, Lisa finds it best to supplement her income with other work, in her case by contracting out to clients looking to have targets tracked down in a discrete and professional manner. But after the capture and return of a telepathic gigolo at the behest of a jilted sugar mama, Lisa's skirting of the legalities...
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In The Freedom to Fail, veteran educator Andrew K. Miller explains the many benefits of intentionally designing opportunities for students to "fail forward" in the classroom. He provides a raft of strategies for ensuring that students experience small, constructive failures as a means to greater achievement, and offers practical suggestions for ensuring that constructive failure doesn't detrimentally affect students' summative assessments. He also...
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Science isn't about wearing thick glasses and talking down to people in a nasally whine. Science isn't about fighting tradition or advancing an agenda.Science is about riding what could have been a nuclear missile into outer space. Science is about attacking chemicals with math until you blow something up. Science is about living on a space station that spins like a top to create "artificial gravity." Science is about learning about other cultures...
10) The crossing
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Europa Editions
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2017.
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316 pages ; 21 cm
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Tim, an affable young man with modest ambition, is infatuated with Maud the moment they meet in hte University Sailing Club. A career scientist who betrays little of herself, Maud is found by some to be enchanting, by others distant. There is little to suggest that she has any need of anyone. Tim ties his life to hers, but slowly the marriage unravels as she quietly refuses to conform to the conventional demands of wife and mother. A sudden tragedy...
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Europa Editions
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2019.
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410 pages ; 21 cm
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One rain-swept February night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain's disastrous campaign against Napoleon's forces in Spain. Gradually Lacroix recovers his health, but not his peace of mind--he cannot talk about the war or face the memory of what happened in a village on the gruelling retreat to Corunna. After the command comes to return to his regiment, he sets out instead...
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Dogs are dogs and wolves are wolves. Except when they aren't! Most scientists now agree that the dog is a subspecies of wolf: Canis lupus familiaris. And while most wolves look and act differently from most dogs, it can be very hard to make accurate identifications, especially since wolves and dogs can and do interbreed and certain breeds of dogs look and act a lot like wolves. Having spent years employed at Wolf Park, in Indiana, authors Jessica...
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The initial story, "Elliot Finds a Home," introduces the pair, with Elliot starting out in a pet store, only to find that no one wishes to buy the puppy who is different and not normal. Because he can grasp objects with those adorable paws of his, he can open the latches on cages, open containers, grab things... making him more difficult to manage then a normal puppy. Eventually he is given away to an animal shelter, and the implication that he may...