Hit Lit
Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century's Biggest Bestsellers
Written by James W. Hall
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $11.99
DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF WHAT MAKES A MEGA-BESTSELLER IN THIS ENTERTAINING, REVELATORY GUIDE
What do Michael Corleone, Jack Ryan, and Scout Finch have in common? Creative writing professor and thriller writer James W. Hall knows. Now, in this entertaining, revelatory book, he reveals how bestsellers work, using twelve twentieth-century blockbusters as...
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Being the Other One
Growing Up with a Brother or Sister Who Has Special Needs
Written by Kate Strohm
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $22.95
When there's a disabled child in the family, how are normally developing siblings affected? According to Kate Strohm, a counselor and health educator, siblings of the disabled face particular emotional challenges that are often overlooked. Able siblings commonly struggle with feelings of isolation, grief, anger, and anxiety—and these and other emotional...
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How to Be a Person
The Stranger's Guide to College, Sex, Intoxicants, Tacos, and Life Itself
Written by Lindy West, Dan Savage, Christopher Frizzelle, Bethany Jean Clement and The Staff of The Stranger
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $16.95
From Dan Savage, Lindy West, and The Stranger staff comes this hilarious guide to life for college students and beyond. Here is all the information you actually need to know that no one else will tell you including: which majors to avoid, how to not get a STD, everything there is...
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Light without Fire
The Making of America's First Muslim College
Written by Scott Korb
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $25.95
The story of America’s first Muslim institution of higher education, Zaytuna College
In the fall of 2010, anti-Muslim furor in the United States reached a breaking point, capping a decade in which such sentiment had surged. Loud, angry crowds gathered near New York’s Ground Zero to protest plans to build...
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The Passionate Teacher
A Practical Guide
Written by Robert Fried
Format: Trade Paperback, 328 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2001
Price: $17.00
An inspiring handbook, enthusiastically embraced by teachers; with a new chapter
Every teacher can be a passionate teacher-one who engages young people in the excitement of learning and ideas-if teaching is not undermined by the ways we "do business" in schools.
The Passionate Teacher draws on voices, stories, and successes of...
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