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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Lesson Plans

by BookRags

Published: 2012-08-24

Kindle Edition: 233 pages

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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love lesson plan contains a variety of teaching materials that cater to all learning styles. Inside you'll find 30 Daily Lessons, 20 Fun Activities, 180 Multiple Choice Questions, 60 Short Essay Questions, 20 Essay Questions, Quizzes/Homework Assignments, Tests, and more....

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The Men and the Girls: A Novel

by Joanna Trollope

Published: 2010-05-18

Paperback: 304 pages

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When James accidentally swerves into an elderly woman with his car, he is mortified. But for his girlfriend, Kate, it’s a wake-up call: What is she doing with this man, twenty-five years her senior, who forgets his glasses and knocks an old lady off her bike? James’s lifelong friend Hu...

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Black Mutiny: Revolt on the Schooner Amistad

by William Owens

Published: 1997-12-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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Set in 1839, this is the true story of a revolt on the Spanish slave ship "Amistad", whose cargo of 53 Africans rebelled against their captors. Captured off the coast of Connecticut when their desperate attempt to sail home failed, the Africans are forced to stand trial for the murder of the crew that...

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Breaking The News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy

by James Fallows

Published: 1997-01-14

Paperback: 352 pages

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Why do Americans mistrust the news media? It may be because show like "The McLaughlin Group" reduce participating journalists to so many shouting heads. Or because, increasingly, the profession treats issues as complex as health-care reform and foreign policy as exercises in political game...

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32 Cadillacs

by Joe Gores

Published: 1993-12-01

Mass Market Paperback: 335 pages

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Joe Gores worked the beat as a private eye and learned about crime and punishment up-close. Like Ed McBain, he goes beyond one-character detective fiction to feature a team of savvy sleuths. Here the Dan Kearny Associates target the baddest bunch of con artists and thieves this side of Romania: the Gypsies....

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Buddhist Boot Camp

by Timber Hawkeye

Published: 2013-02-19

Hardcover: 160 pages

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Buddhism is all about training the mind, and boot camp is an ideal training method for this generation's short attention span. The chapters in this small book can be read in any order, and are simple and easy to understand. Each story, inspirational quote, and teaching offers mindfulness-e...

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The Center of the World

by Thomas Van Essen

Published: 2013-06-04

Paperback: 375 pages

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Alternating between nineteenth-century England and present-day New York, this is the story of renowned British painter J. M. W. Turner and his circle of patrons and lovers. It is also the story of Henry Leiden, a middle-aged family man with a troubled marriage and a dead-end job, who finds...

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The Life of Objects (Vintage)

by Susanna Moore

Published: 2013-06-04

Paperback: 256 pages

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Berlin, 1938. When Beatrice, a young Irish Protestant lace maker, is whisked away from her dreary life to join the household of Felix and Dorthea Metzenburg, she feels like she’s landed in the middle of a fairy tale. Art collectors, and friends to the most fascinating men and women of Eu...

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The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV (Vintage)

by Robert A. Caro

Published: 2013-05-07

Paperback: 768 pages

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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD,  THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR  The Economist * Time *...

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* * * * Optimistic,
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The Memory Garden

by Mary Rickert

Published: 2014-05-06

Paperback: 304 pages

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Winner of the 2015 Locus Award for Best First Novel"A potent brew of guilty secrets and tragic histories, but also of enduring friendship and love. Add a pinch of the botanical. Serve on a luminous night faintly reminiscent of a Midsummer Night's Eve. A totally charming, totally engaging s...