Based on the true life story of a young Marine Corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. When she is assigned to clean up the K9 unit after a disciplinary hearing, Leavey identifies with a particularly...
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It is the summer of 1969 and Pearl, a married woman with children, realizes that the freedom of the times is passing her by. Then a chance encounter involves her in a daring, passionate affair with a younger man.
"Grow your own keeper crops for the chilly days of winter--and you'll be sure of putting the freshest, tastiest produce, packed with goodness, on your kitchen table! Growing Winter Food is the essential gardening guide for those who want to enjoy their garden's output all year ro...
Betty Anne Waters is a young woman whose world is shattered when her beloved brother Kenny is convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Steadfastly convinced of his innocence, Betty Anne embarks on an 18-year journey to set Kenny free, using state-of-the-art forensic t...
Activities that relate to every learning center--science, art, language, math, motor skills, drama, social studies, and cooking--all prompted by children's songs. Organized by the calendar, the words to each song are accompanied by things to talk about, thematic connections, curr...
"In this delightful exploration of the seasons in nature, an oak tree and its animal inhabitants change and grow over the course of a year--just like their human neighbors! A large old oak tree stands near an empty house. Like the house, the tree provides shelter and a place to r...
Shall we dance: A lawyer's life and marriage take an unexpected turn when he follows a woman to a dance studio and begins to take lessons and finds he has a passion for dance. His wife thinks he is having an affair and hires a detective to follow him.
Gabriela Marquez came to her parents' homeland of Venezuela to help its people. Working undercover for the CIA as Sister María, a Franciscan nun, she spends long days at the mission, giving food to the poor, helping the sick-and keeping a close watch on local drug trafficking. W...
Mona Gray is a quirky young woman who hides in a private world of numbers after her beloved mathematician father falls ill. But when Mona is offered a job as an elementary school math teacher, she will introduce the students to her own eccentric gift for numerical obsession. Can ...
"Power and Resistance debunks the dominant neoliberal, hyper-individualist approach to society's problems, which claims that people are poor because they are lazy, environmental crises stem from individuals' consumption habits, and Indigenous Peoples are oppressed because they re...
Includes songs, poems and fingerplays about animals found on the farm, at the pond, in the garden, in the air, in the forest, and at the zoo.
"The effects and meanings of destruction are central to the work of many of our most influential artists. Since the early 1960s, artists have employed destruction to creative ends. Here destruction changes from a negative state or passive condition to a highly productive category...
Nanny Wanted Garth Colquitt had placed the wanted ad, but he never expected to want the woman who answered it. Garth had a baby to raise, a ranch to run and a hard-and-fast hands-off-the-nanny rule. But single mom Lacey Shaw's homemaking ways and heartbreaking curves kicked t...
"Award-winning author Tonya Bolden explores the black women who have changed the world of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) in America. Including groundbreaking computer scientists, doctors, inventors, physicists, pharmacists, mathematicians, aviators, and ...
This volume includes 25 wonderful, wondrous stories and two poems about cats, by major authors old and new. Included are: INTRODUCTION: ...IN THE DARK, by Robert Reginald SEVEN SAW MURDER, by G. T. Fleming-Roberts THE CATS, by H. P. Lovecraft (poem) THE HEMINGWAY KITTENS, by A. R...
Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to understand and often to celebrate the natural world, yet it does so indirectly by focusing p...