Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Virginia

Science

The Art and Sciencr of Teaching

Clinton Pierce

Computer Science

NO CD-rom

Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours teaches readers new to Perl the necessary basics of Perl and then shows them how to apply that knowledge in real-world Web development. The book is divided into three sections: The first third of the book teaches the basics of the Perl language. The second third of the book builds on this foundation, and shows the reader how to interact with the file system, operating system, and network. The last third of the book focuses on Web development.It begins with the basics of CGI and then moves quickly into building common Web solutions such as data collection, multi-page forms, e-mail forms, and using Perl as a Web templating system.

Perl in 24 Hours

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Julia G. Thompson

Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools and Activities for Meeting the Challenges of Each School Day

Thoroughly revised edition of the bestselling resource for new teachers--complete with discussion questions, downloadable handouts, and a staff development guide

This award-winning book gives beginning educators everything they need to survive and thrive in the classroom. The third edition covers new material including working as a part of a professional learning community (PLC), teaching media literacy and social responsibility, incorporating Common Core State Standards, handling "homework push-back" from parents, changes in classroom technology, techniques for motivating students, seeking feedback, and much more.

 * A fully revised edition of a trusted resource, offering solutions to challenges and typical scenarios encountered by new teachers
 * Bonus CD features downloadable versions of the book's checklists, forms, worksheets, and self-assessments
 * Includes Discussion Questions and a handy training guide for Professional Development providers

This popular resource offers teachers an essential guide for knowing what to expect when they begin their career and ideas for solving classroom problems.

The First-Year Teacher's Survival Guide

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Laurie Halse Anderson

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A searing poetic memoir and call to action from the bestselling and award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson! Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and calls to action woven between deeply personal stories from her life that she's never written about before. Searing and soul-searching, this important memoir is a denouncement of our society's failures and a love letter to all the people with the courage to say #MeToo and #TimesUp, whether aloud, online, or only in their own hearts. Shout speaks truth to power in a loud, clear voice-- and once you hear it, it is impossible to ignore.

Shout

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Aravind Adiga

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Novel

When he relocates to New Delhi to take a new job, Balram Halwai is disillusioned by the city's materialism and technology-spawned violence, a circumstance that forces him to question his loyalties, ambitions, and past.

The White Tiger

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Greg Heffley feels the pressure mounting. His mom thinks video games is turning his brain to mush. So she want him to put down the controllers and explore his creative side..
 

Double Down #11

Diary of A Wimpy Kid 

Jeff Kinney

Life was better in the old days. Or was it? That's the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn't cut out for an old-fashioned world. With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, will Greg find a way to survive? Or is going "old school" just too hard for a kid like Greg?

Old School (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #10)

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Book#14

Wrecking Ball (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 14)

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Greg Heffley's middle school is shut down due to weather. This turns his neighborhood a wintry battlefield. Read on..

The Meltdown #13

Diary of A Wimpy Kid

Greg Heffley and his family are getting out of town. Prior to cold weather and holiday they decide to escape to a tropical island but is it all it's cracked up to be??

The Getaway #12

Diary of the Wimpy Kid

Fantasia

Fantasia uses heart felt emotions and realiness talking about the ups and downs of her life. How she was on the wrong path and she healed changed things and learned to be enough..using her voice for the gift it truely is.

"The more people say you can't, the more you can. The more they talk negatively, the more you fight. You have to think about bettering your life and go after it. I don't care what you got to do. You only have one life to live, so do your thing."In one moment, with one tearful, touching performance of "Summertime," Fantasia captured the hearts, and the votes, of millions ofAmerican Idolfans. Her powerful voice and independent style made her an overnight national sensation. But life wasn't always sensational for Fantasia.Fantasia could have been just another sad statistic. At the age of seventeen, despite the promise of her extraordinary voice, she was just another young girl who dropped out of high school, a baby on her hip. Her life and her plans for her future seemed to be going nowhere. The choices she had made were closing every door to the life she had hoped to live.But Fantasia had been raised by strong women of faith. Both her grandmother and mother are preachers. She was raised with an unshakable faith in God, the kind of faith that she needed when it came time to rethink her choices and redirect her life. Fantasia hoped that by using her gift to inspire others, she would be able to someday take care of her family and herself.Now readers can share the intimate moments of her life. InLife Is Not a Fairy Tale,Fantasia offers a deeply emotional look at her rise to the top and the life-altering revelations she came to during her lowest moments along the way. With a spirit as strong as her voice, she speaks with heartfelt, humorous frankness about what it takes to get off the wrong path and onto the right one. Fantasia confides in readers, walking with them through the trials of her family life and loving a man who didn't love her, through the challenge of being a baby mama to managing the joys and pressures of fame. She turns all that she's learned into uplifting life lessons, including:• Recognize your gift• You made your bed, now lie in it• Give props where props are due• Like mother, like daughter• It ain't about the blingFantasia keeps it real with her sassy, self-confident style and down-to-earth advice, making readers laugh and cry with her. Fantasia's story will inspire readers to believe in themselves and have the faith it takes to reach for their greatest potential.

Life Is Not a Fairy Tale

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Bobby/Derrick Brown/Handspike

Unauthorized Biography of Bobby Brown..the rise and fall..photos 
The same lessons that make you can also break you..thoughts??

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But...

Bobby Brown

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Angela Bassett

Courtney B. Vance

The love story of Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance

A Love Story

In this real-life love story, told by the lovers themselves, Hollywood and Broadway's classiest power couple started out as just friends. They are living their own love story and share the secret of how they make it work.

Friends

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Terry McMillan

The perfect wife and mother of three grown children, Marilyn Grimes copes with the problems of midlife as she struggles to recall some of her own postponed dreams and reinvent her marriage, friendships, family, and herself.

The Interruption of Everything

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Kiki Swinson

Yoshi Lomax a top criminal defense attorney,  plays dirty. But when a case of Haitian mob boss, Sheldon Chisolm her usual way of doing business- by any means necessary isnt working. She'll have to tighen up if she's to survive..

Yoshi Lomax, a devious criminal defense attorney, must deal with a saboteur who has turned the people on her payroll against her as she defends a ruthless Haitian mob boss.

Playing Dirty

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Nikki has some information that puts her life in jeopardy and could put alot of dangerous people behind bars. So she has to plan and use all her street skills to stay safe and not implicate herself, but prepare for the worse.

Nikki searches for Kira's killer while dating Syncere, a drug dealer about whom she knows information that could either put him and his friends in jail--or get her killed. Original.

Life after Wifey

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Anna J.

The story of Journey Clayton as she struggles to survive  betrayal. murder, deception, and violence that surrounds her.


An Essence magazine best-selling author presents this powerful coming-of-age novel that follows Journey Clayton, whose father was murdered and whose mother is dying of AIDS from sharing needles, as she struggles to avoid becoming a victim to the violence and murder that surrounds her. Original.

Snow White: a Survival Story

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Tracie Howard

Story of a successful psychotherapists in Manhattan,  Brooke Parrish, thinks she's found the man of her dreams. Problem- he's in a loveless marriage , is he worth the wait and how much will it cost them all??

From the author of" Why Sleeping Dogs Lie" and the coauthor of "Revenge Is Best Served Cold" comes her most scintillating novel to date--the provocative story of a dangerous secret that triggers one man's betrayal and one woman's revenge.

Never Kiss and Tell

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Carl Weber

How friendships and relationships play out through ups and downs..will an intervention cost a friendshp? Will an affair cost a marriage?  There's so much going on..read it..

James Robinson and his wife have had their rough patches. But seven years into their marriage things are better than ever - until the not-so-distant past catches up with James. His best friend Brent has his own romantic complications: while he's found his match in a full-figured woman he has also found temptation elsewhere. Sonny Harrison is back with his friends after a job in Seattle and burning his sanity with an old flame. Together the three men are learning that the real tests of manhood and friendship are just beginning.

So You Call Yourself a Man

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Meet the women of the Big Girls Book Club- Tammy. Egyypt, Nikki,Coco,and Tiny the love books as much as love- lust these friends will discover how tough it is to have  something on the side.

The bodacious women of the Big Girls Book Club have just one rule for new members: they must be at least a size 16. As insatiable about books as they are about love - and lust - these friends are about to discover just how tough it is to keep it real when they all have something on the side.

Something on the Side

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A funny, gritty urban love story about the mystery of desire,  about the burdens of past, respect and if it can or can't survive..read on

Disappearing Act

Felicia Pearson

David Ritz

Tells the real life story of Felicia Pearson protrayed in The Wire as "Snoop" how she started as a crack baby in East Baltimore to drug dealing in the streets. Landing in prison for self-defense, murder to changing her life..read it..its real life stuff so many.

A Memoir

Pearson, who plays Snoop on the HBO hit series "The Wire," reveals her incredible, hard-knock life story, one that dramatically parallels the life of her character on TV.

Grace after Midnight

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Blair Underwood

Donyell Kennedy-McCullough

Listen to the purest words from your children's heart. It will tell you about them before they got here.  They remember and speak truth as only they can. This book brought me so much joy and peace..from the mouthes of babies.

The Wondrous Things We Hear When We Listen to the Souls of Our Children

Blair Underwood, known to millions as a star of television and film, has delivered brilliant performances as a lawyer in L.A. Law and as a love interest in Sex and the City; currently, he is the voice of the title character in Nick at Nite's Fatherhood. But his proudest accomplishment is being a loving husband and father of three children who keep him in touch with the true meaning of life -- not fame, but family. When Blair Underwood's young son told him the dream he had about "the last night before there are no more mornings and no more nights," Underwood asked him, "Who told you that?" His son replied, "God told me when he made me, but I only had one ear at the time, so I could only hear a little." Through conversations with family and friends, Underwood discovered how very often people have children who say things that have "left them with their jaws on the floor." As a consequence, he and Donyell Kennedy-McCullough created a Website as a destination for others to share their profound moments with children. The response from people all over the world was tremendous and led to the creation of Before I Got Here, a collection of the best of the conversations and stories from people's responses to the Website, revealing just how brilliant and spiritually in tune our children can be. Before I Got Here makes you smile in the tradition of Art Linkletter's and Bill Cosby's Kids Say the Darndest Things, and inspires -- with the wonderful photographs of children taken by coauthor Donyell Kennedy-McCullough. This book is a wonderful gift for ourselves and others, showing the inherent wisdom that children possess, with the power to astound us and change our lives.

Before I Got Here

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Nikki Turner

Bambi learns the streets from her thug boyfriend Reggie who breaks her heart ,but not she vows for all others to pay $$ she uses her street knowledge and businesses savvy to build a multimillion-dollar party planning empire. In comes Lynx..what happens next..

The #1 bestselling author of Natural Born Hustler and Relapse, Nikki Turner gives up the game that could never be sold, only told. The lure of Richmond, VA’s streets is too strong for Bambi, a good girl from the right side of the tracks, who fell in love with, Reggie, a young hustler. Her thug love not only corrupted her but blinded her with the bling and cash that come with living the glamorous life of a gangsta’s girl–until Reggie hit her with a low blow, crumbling her heart. From that day forward, Bambi vowed that whoever crossed her or anyone she loved would pay–usually in large bills. With the street knowledge she gleaned from her ex as well as her own business savvy, Bambi builds a multimillion-dollar party planning empire. Along the way she runs across all kinds of dudes who try to run massive amounts of game, and ultimately she becomes a first-rate swindler and top-notch gamestress in her own right. Then she crosses paths with Lynx, a young drug dealer who sees more in Bambi than the gold digger she is rumored to be. He methodically penetrates her shield layer by layer until he captures her heart. But is she just setting herself up to be played once again? The #1 bestselling author of A Hustler’s Wife and A Project Chick, Nikki Turner gives up the game that could never be sold, only told.

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