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  Nineteen Minutes

  by Jodi Picoult

  Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens -- until the day its complacency is shattered by a shocking act of violence. In the aftermath, the town's residents must not only seek justice in order to begin healing but also come to terms with the role they played in the tragedy. For them, the lines between truth and fiction, right and wrong, insider and outsider have been obscured... (more)
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  Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms

  by Will Richardson

  For both novice and experienced "techies," this practical resource shows how to use blogs and other new Web tools for innovative, interactive teaching and motivated learning.
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  French Women for All Seasons

  A Year of Secrets, Recipes, and Pleasure

  by Mireille Guiliano

  By letter, e-mail, and in person, readers of Mireille Guiliano’s phenomenal best seller, French Women Don’t Get Fat, have inundated her with requests for more of her cunning but simple secrets to living the good life, the ways French women manage to enjoy wine, chocolate, and many other seductive pleasures without gaining weight. Mireille’s answer? This buoyant book brimming with fresh advice and seasonal... (more)
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  No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality

  by Judith Rich Harris

  A groundbreaking theory of personality. The author of the controversial book The Nurture Assumption tackles the biggest mystery in all of psychology: What makes people differ so much in personality and behavior? It can't just be "nature and nurture," because even identical twins who grow up together—same genes, same parents—have different personalities. And if psychologists can't explain why identical twins... (more)
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  A Thousand Splendid Suns

  by Khaled Hosseini

  Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their... (more)
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  Tell Them I Didn't Cry

  A Young Journalist's Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq

  by Jackie Spinner

  In her gripping account of the Iraq war, Jackie Spinner goes beyond the headlines to reveal the challenges of reporting news in a place where danger and fear accompany journalists everywhere. This is a vivid and personal story of her time in Iraq -- where for thirteen months she covered the war from its center in Baghdad, Fallujah, Kurdistan, and Abu Ghraib -- and of being transformed from a naive woman and rookie... (more)
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  FastWeb College Gold: The Step-by-Step Guide to Paying for College

  by Mark Kantrowitz

  Each year more than three million new students enter college. If you're one of them, or the parent of one of them, your biggest worry might be how to afford the up to $120,000 that a college education can cost. FastWeb's College Gold can help. This book offers a step-by-step program that builds a complete package of scholarships, loans, and federal aid. Learn how to develop a plan, apply for loans,... (more)
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  The Art of the One-act

  The Art of the One-Act is a fresh mix of craft-talk with twenty-six previously unpublished one-act plays from both award-winning, well-known dramatists and exciting newcomers. This collection contains fourteen ten-minute and twelve ten-to-thirty-minute plays, each introduced and discussed by the editors.
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  Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy

  by Jeff Chester

  The celebrated media advocate's clarion call for new media to serve the public instead of corporate interests—and what's involved in this high-stakes struggle. With the explosive growth of the Internet and broadband communications, we now have the potential for a truly democratic media system offering a wide variety of independent sources of news, information, and culture, with control over content in the hands... (more)
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  How She Does It: How Women Entrepreneurs Are Changing the Rules of Business Success

  by Margaret Heffernan

  Redefining power and the nature of success for the 21st century. The numbers are staggering. Between 1997 and 2004, privately held, women-owned businesses grew at three times the rate of all American privately held firms; women’s companies are creating jobs at twice the rate of all firms; women’s companies are growing profits faster than all firms. Five-time CEO and contributor to Real Business and ... (more)
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  Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders

  by Aimee Liu

  Aimee Liu's memoir Solitaire, America's first first- person account of a young woman's battle with anorexia, was published in 1979. At the time, she thought her battle was over, but a relapse in 2000 prompted her to reinvestigate the subject. Now, three decades after her initial recovery, Liu shares her story and those of her peers who are still struggling to understand the role anorexia and bulimia have... (more)
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  Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders

  by James D. Scurlock

  In this shocking and illuminating road trip through an America ravaged by debt, award-winning film director James Scurlock examines our multitrillion-dollar addiction to easy credit in all of its absurdities and contradictions. Maxed Out ventures beyond the mind-numbing statistics to expose a financial industry spinning wildly out of control. From the gilded master-planned communities of Northern Las Vegas to... (more)
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  Women of the Civil Rights Movement (Women Who Dare)

  by Linda Barrett Osborne

  Women Who Dare: Women of the Civil Rights Movement honors the contributions of many great women activists who may not have been in the most visible positions of the movement's leadership, but whose work was crucial to its survival, growth, and eventual success. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, inspiring mass action against segregation; Jo Ann Gibson Robinson started... (more)
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  Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy

  by Daniel Altman

  What if you could look behind the headlines of the global economy to see how it really worked? Instead of listening to pundits, politicians, and protestors, you could see firsthand how everyone from migrant workers to central bank governors lived their lives. Then you could decide for yourself where the big trends were heading.   Now you can. Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy isn’t another polemic for or... (more)
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  Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body

  by Courtney E. Martin

  "Why does every one of my friends have an eating disorder, or, at the very least, a screwed-up approach to food and fitness?" writes journalist Courtney E. Martin. The new world culture of eating disorders and food and body issues affects virtually all -- not just a rare few -- of today's young women. They are your sisters, friends, and colleagues -- a generation told that they could "be anything," who instead... (more)
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  Bucolics

  by Maurice Manning

  Untitled and unpunctuated, the seventy poems in this collection seem to cascade from one page to another. Maurice Manning extolls the virtues of nature and its many gifts, and finds deep gratitude for the mysterious hand that created it all. that bare branch that branch made black by the rain the silver raindrop hanging from the black branch Boss I like that black branch I like that shiny raindrop Boss ... (more)
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  Everything Conceivable

  How Assisted Reproduction is Changing Men, Women, and the World

  by Liza Mundy

  Skyrocketing infertility rates and the accompanying explosion in reproductive technology are revolutionizing the American family and changing the way we think about parenthood, childbirth, and life itself. In this riveting work of investigative reporting, Liza Mundy, an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post, captures the human narratives, as well as the science, behind what is today a controversial,... (more)
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  If They Only Listened to Us: What Women Voters Want Politicians to Hear

  by Melinda Henneberger

  Soon after the 2004 presidential election, veteran reporter Melinda Henneberger set out across the country to listen to women of all ages and occupations express their strong opinions on the major issues of our time. Over eighteen months she spoke in depth and at length with more than two hundred women in twenty states, from Massachusetts to Arizona and Oregon to Texas. She discovered how unheard women feel, how... (more)
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  The Price of Liberty: Paying for America's Wars

  by Robert D. Hormats

  In a bracing work of history, a leading international finance expert reveals how our national security depends on our financial security More than two centuries ago, America’s first secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, identified the Revolutionary War debt as a threat to the nation’s creditworthiness and its very existence. In response, he established financial principles for securing the... (more)
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  The Methamphetamine Crisis: Strategies to Save Addicts, Families, and Communities

  This groundbreaking book detailing the newest drug scourge to hit the streets includes information on the effects of and addiction to methamphetamine on the users, their children and their communities. The comprehensive coverage here includes details of the environmental effects of meth labs, as well as photographs of the physical effects of this drug, including how this form of speed rapidly and grotesquely ages... (more)