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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Shakespeare's King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try to alleviate the suffering of others. Lear himself rages until his sanity cracks. What, then, keeps bringing us back to King Lear? For all the force of its language, King Lear is almost equally powerful when translated, suggesting that it is the story, in large part, that draws us to the play.

The play tells us about families struggling between greed and cruelty, on the one hand, and support and consolation, on the other. Emotions are extreme, magnified to gigantic proportions. We also see old age portrayed in all its vulnerability, pride, and, perhaps, wisdom--one reason this most devastating of Shakespeare's tragedies is also perhaps his most moving.

The authoritative edition of King Lear from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes:

-Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play

-Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play

-Scene-by-scene plot summaries

-A key to the play's famous lines and phrases

-An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language

-An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play

-Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books

-An annotated guide to further reading

Essay by Susan Snyder

The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.

King Lear (Simon & Schuster Paperback Edition, 2009)

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UK Paperback!  #fiction #youngadult #ya #youngadultfiction #paperback #contemporary #africa #ethiopia #war #school 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Alem, the product of an Ethiopean father and Eritrean mother, is left alone in London, his fate resting in the hands of the Refugee Council and the British justice system. This story charts Alem's fate as he is moved from children's home to foster family, and in and out of court hearings.

Refugee Boy

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#paperback #fiction #haitian #historicalfiction #shortstories #edwidgedanticat #literary #school #africanamerican #hope 

A scarred Brooklyn resident remembers his past life as a Haitian torturer in the 1960s, a period during which he waged personal and political battles before moving to New York, where his past continued to haunt him throughout his marriage and parenthood. By the award-winning author of The Farming of Bones. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

The Dew Breaker

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#paperback #fiction #johnsteinbeck #classics #historical #ya #youngadult #school #vintage #horses

The Red Pony (61st Printing, 1980)

A Little Princess (Charming Classics Edition, 2018)

Bees, Bugs, & Beetles : The Arrow Book of Insects (6th Printing, 1972)

A bit of a bent corner but otherwise like new #hardcover #ya #school

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Arizona

Tradition

Has been written inside.  There are notes and underlines.  #paperback #history #collegehistory #educational #college #school #smokefree

New York

History

Starting with an examination of how historians work, this "Very Short Introduction" aims to explore history in a general, pithy, and accessible manner, rather than to delve into specific periods.

History: a Very Short Introduction

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Chewed up in bottom corner #paperback #animals #fiction #winn-dixie #school #juvenilefiction #new 

California

An unforgettable first novel about coming of age one sweet summer—and learning to love what you have. The summer Opal and her father, the preacher, move to Naomi, Florida, Opal goes into the Winn-Dixie supermarket—and comes out with a dog. A big, ugly, suffering dog with a sterling sense of humor. A dog she dubs Winn-Dixie. Because of Winn-Dixie, the preacher tells Opal ten things about her absent mother, one for each year Opal has been alive. Winn-Dixie is better at making friends than anyone Opal has ever known, and together they meet the local librarian, Miss Franny Block, who once fought off a bear with a copy of WAR AND PEACE. They meet Gloria Dump, who is nearly blind but sees with her heart, and Otis, an ex-con who sets the animals in his pet shop loose after hours, then lulls them with his guitar. Opal spends all that sweet summer collecting stories about her new friends and thinking about her mother. But because of Winn-Dixie or perhaps because she has grown, Opal learns to let go, just a little, and that friendship—and forgiveness—can sneak up on you like a sudden summer storm. Recalling the fiction of Harper Lee and Carson McCullers, here is a funny, poignant, and utterly genuine first novel from a major new talent.

Because of Winn-Dixie

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Comes with CD 
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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Texas

Science

Always study with the most up-to-date prep! Look for ACT Prep Plus 2018, ISBN 9781506214351, on sale June 6, 2017.

Act Premier 2017

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#paperback #teacher #teachingeffectively #school A few pages with underlining and notes. See photos for examples. Other than that in pretty good condition.

New Hampshire

Reading & Language Arts

How to Be an Effective Teacher

A guide for teachers at any level shares ideas on classroom management and designing lessons for academic success.

The First Days of School

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#paperback #adollshouse #cheap #classic #fiction #henrikisbsen #school #used 

Massachusetts

One of the best-known, most frequently performed of modern plays, A Doll's House richly displays the genius with which Henrik Ibsen pioneered modern, realistic prose drama. In the central character of Nora, Ibsen epitomized the human struggle against the humiliating constraints of social conformity. Nora's ultimate rejection of a smothering marriage and life in "a doll's house" shocked theatergoers of the late 1800s and opened new horizons for playwrights and their audiences. But daring social themes are only one aspect of Ibsen's power as a dramatist. A Doll's House shows as well his gifts for creating realistic dialogue, a suspenseful flow of events and, above all, psychologically penetrating characterizations that make the struggles of his dramatic personages utterly convincing. Here is a deeply absorbing play as readable as it is eminently playable, reprinted from an authoritative translation. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

A Doll's House

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Florida

Julius Caesar (No Fear Shakespeare)

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#paperback #fiction #hemingway #classic #prose #oldmanandtgesea #requiredreading #school 

Michigan

*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize* “A beautiful tale, awash in the seasalt and sweat, bait and beer of the Havana coast. It tells a fundamental human truth: in a volatile world, from our first breath to our last wish, through triumphs and pitfalls both trivial and profound, what sustains us, ultimately, is hope.” —The Guardian The last of his novels Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the most enduring works of American fiction. The story of a down-on-his-luck Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal—a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream—has been cherished by generations of readers. Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of adversity and personal triumph won from loss and transforms them into a magnificent twentieth-century classic. First published in 1952, this hugely popular tale confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Old Man and the Sea

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Nebraska

“The greatest novel to emerge out of the tragedy of South Africa, and one of the best novels of our time.” —The New Republic “A beautiful novel…its writing is so fresh, its projection of character so immediate and full, its events so compelling, and its understanding so compassionate that to read the book is to share intimately, even to the point of catharsis, in the grave human experience.” —The New York Times An Oprah Book Club selection, Cry, the Beloved Country, was an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty. Cry, the Beloved Country, is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.

Cry, the Beloved Country

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Wisconsin

Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists. Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex. To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom—not merely reform—teachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist. Following in the tradition of activists like Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and Fannie Lou Hamer, We Want to Do More Than Survive introduces an alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and intersectional justice.

We Want to Do More Than Survive

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This book is in great condition. It has a marker dot on top edge of pages (see image). #paperback #business #nonfiction #barbaraehrenreich #economics #school 

North Dakota

On (Not) Getting by in America

Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job -- any job -- can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you int to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity -- a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. You will never see anything -- from a motel bathroom to a restaurant meal -- in quite the same way again.

Nickel and Dimed

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#hardcover #fiction #diaryofawimpykid #juvenilefiction #childrens #paperback #childhoodfav #children #school

Rhode Island

Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid # 2 - Rodrick Rules

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#paperback #summer #activities #calender #templates #chores #list #school #homeschool #summerbreak

North Carolina

Please Note that this book does have some hightlighting throughout!!!

Includes instructions for a variety of summer projects for children

A Mother's Manual for Summer Survival

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Ohio

The letter to the Roman’s 

#hardcover #thriller #suspense #school #psychopath #VeraKurlan #neversawmecoming marked in "good" condition because there are some marks on the spine of the dust jacket seen in photo 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

Grade a Student. Grade a Psychopath

'Utterly Gripping' Sunday Telegraph

Meet Chloe. First-year student. Ordinary girl next door. Psychopath.

Chloe Sevre can be whoever you want her to be. A cool girl, a best friend, someone to tell secrets to over midnight snacks. She has an impressive IQ, loves working out and frat parties.

She's also a psychopath.

In between her university classes and taking part in a secret clinical study of young psychopaths, Chloe is plotting to kill childhood friend Will Bachman.

They say you should never trust a psychopath. But when you hear what Will Bachman did to Chloe Sevre, you might just change your mind...

**Perfect for fans of How To Kill Your Family, You and Killing Eve*

'I fell in love with self-confessed psychopath Chloe on page one' Erin Kelly, bestselling author of Watch Her Fall

'Deliciously wicked and utterly addictive' Alice Hunter, author of The Serial Killer's Wife

William Shakespeare; Barbara A. Mowat (Editor); Paul Werstine (Editor)

King Lear (Simon & Schuster Paperback Edition, 2009)

Benjamin Zephaniah

Refugee Boy

Edwidge Danticat

The Dew Breaker

John Steinbeck

The Red Pony (61st Printing, 1980)

Francis Hodgson Burnett; Tasha Tudor (illustrator)

A Little Princess (Charming Classics Edition, 2018)

Ronald Rood; Denny McMains (illustrator)

Bees, Bugs, & Beetles : The Arrow Book of Insects (6th Printing, 1972)

Brendan Kiely

Tradition

John H. Arnold

History: a Very Short Introduction

Kate DiCamillo

Because of Winn-Dixie

Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions Staff

Act Premier 2017

Harry K. Wong; Rosemary T. Wong

The First Days of School

Henrik Ibsen

A Doll's House

SparkNotes

Julius Caesar (No Fear Shakespeare)

Ernest Hemingway

Old Man and the Sea

Alan Paton

Cry, the Beloved Country

Bettina Love

We Want to Do More Than Survive

Barbara Ehrenreich

Nickel and Dimed

Jeff Kinney

Diary of a Wimpy Kid # 2 - Rodrick Rules

Kathy Peel; Joy Mahaffey

A Mother's Manual for Summer Survival

William barclay

The letter to the Roman’s

Vera Kurian

Never Saw Me Coming

Catherine Hapka

Dolphin School

Betty G. Birney

Summer according to Humphrey

Betty G Birney

Trouble according to Humphrey