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High School Hacks – The Return!
High School Hacks—The Return! is the second in the High School Hacks series, and just like the first, it is a handbook with a sense of humor. The Return! is designed to follow on from where the first book left off, as a guide to help teens navigate their later high school years, with straightforward […]
Coping and Thriving during Global Disasters
Scientists have predicted for years that a global pandemic was inevitable. They warned that we were not prepared and that we needed to take steps to mitigate the impact. Unfortunately, their warnings went unheeded and we are now facing the dire consequences. One of the groups that has been hit the hardest by the Covid-19 […]
In Search of Autism Amongst the Himba
The Himba people of Northern Namibia are at the center of ‘In Search of Autism Amongst the Himba’. In this influential book, Christofer Wärnlöf makes a real contribution to the study of autism and the region’s ethnography. Autism is all too often examined only as a product of Western discourse. Still, Wärnlöf shows that it […]
Social Learning Profile
A person’s behavior is like a clue in a mystery story. It reveals, and it conceals. It leads, and it misleads. It speaks a variety of messages and serves a variety of purposes. It is affected by the situations in which it occurs, the response it receives, and the depth of the need it conveys. […]
Social Detective Academy
A few years ago, Johnny Multony, transformed from not fitting into a socially savvy kid, started the first-ever social detective agency. He was hired by other students in his school for help with common interpersonal dilemmas, such as cliques, dealing with disappointments, bullying, personal space, friends, body language, and much more. Now, an opportunity of […]
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
An adventure story for children, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a fun-filled book that shows life along the Mississippi River in the 1840s. Written by Mark Twain, the book shows masterfully-done satire, racism, childhood, and the importance of loyalty and courage- no matter the cost.
A Tale of Two Cities
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. […]
Moby Dick or, The Whale
“It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships’ cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it.”So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling […]
Dracula
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced the character of Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the story of Dracula’s attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of […]
Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus
Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matter, Frankenstein assembles a […]
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
After a tumble down the rabbit hole, Alice finds herself far away from home in the absurd world of Wonderland. As mind-bending as it is delightful, Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel is pure magic for young and old alike.
War and Peace
War adn Peace chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families. Portions of an earlier version, titled The Year 1805, were serialized in The Russian Messenger from 1865 to 1867, then published in its entirety in 1869.Tolstoy said War […]
Little Women
Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to […]
Pride and Prejudice
Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work “her own darling child” and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, “as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print.” The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her […]
