Category: Literary Collections

20 Ideas for Teaching Gifted Kids in the Middle School and High School

By: McIntosh, Joel E.

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Routledge : 1992-01-01

Seller ID: 1882664051-2-22833846

ISBN-13: 9781882664054

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Very Good

Imagine taking your gifted and talented students to a mysterious old graveyard in town and teaching them to conduct history research using the information they gather, teaching gifted children the concepts behind great literature using modern science fiction, allowing your students to conduct independent research in their mathematics classroom, or encouraging your students to plan and participate in exotic travel around the world--without ever leaving your classroom. In this book, you will receive the best ideas and lessons for teachers of secondary gifted kids developed by master teachers acr...
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3 Minutes or Less: Life Lessons from America's Greatest Writers

By: Bloomsbury; Pen/Faulkner Foundation [Editor]

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA : 2000-05-08

Seller ID: 1582340692-3-26984379

ISBN-13: 9781582340692

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

An anthology of never-before-published short essays by America's literary greats. Each October at the PEN Gala, well-known authors take the stage of the Folger Shakespeare Library's Theatre to ponder the meaning of such universal mysteries as "obsession," "illusion," "first love," and more. Each author is given only three minutes or less to speak. The results have been unpredictable--clever, confessional, inspiring, hilarious, profound, and all of them entertaining. These essays have been transcribed for the first time, and comprise this unique anthology.Among the authors are: Russell Banks, T...
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3 Minutes or Less: Life Lessons from America's Greatest Writers

By: Bloomsbury; Pen/Faulkner Foundation [Editor]

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA : 2000-05-08

Seller ID: 1582340692-4-28267964

ISBN-13: 9781582340692

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

An anthology of never-before-published short essays by America's literary greats. Each October at the PEN Gala, well-known authors take the stage of the Folger Shakespeare Library's Theatre to ponder the meaning of such universal mysteries as "obsession," "illusion," "first love," and more. Each author is given only three minutes or less to speak. The results have been unpredictable--clever, confessional, inspiring, hilarious, profound, and all of them entertaining. These essays have been transcribed for the first time, and comprise this unique anthology.Among the authors are: Russell Banks, T...
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A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit

By: Canfield, Jack; Hansen, Mark Victor

Price: $3.43 USD

Publisher: HCI : 1995-01-01

Seller ID: 1558743316-4-27708171

ISBN-13: 9781558743311

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

The runaway bestseller "Chicken Soup for the Soul" captured the imagination of millions of readers with its uplifting message of hope and inspiration. With a nation still hungering for more good news, Canfield and Hansen went back to work and cooked up another batch of life-affirming stories to warm your heart and soothe your soul.Through the experiences of others, readers from all walks of life can learn the gift of love, the power of perseverance, the joy of parenting and the vital energy of dreaming. Share the magic that will change forever how you look at yourself and the world around you....
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A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit

By: Canfield, Jack; Hansen, Mark Victor

Price: $3.43 USD

Publisher: HCI : 1995-01-01

Seller ID: 1558743316-3-27508643

ISBN-13: 9781558743311

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

The runaway bestseller "Chicken Soup for the Soul" captured the imagination of millions of readers with its uplifting message of hope and inspiration. With a nation still hungering for more good news, Canfield and Hansen went back to work and cooked up another batch of life-affirming stories to warm your heart and soothe your soul.Through the experiences of others, readers from all walks of life can learn the gift of love, the power of perseverance, the joy of parenting and the vital energy of dreaming. Share the magic that will change forever how you look at yourself and the world around you....
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A Call to Character: Family Treasury of Stories, Poems, Plays, Proverbs, and Fables to Guide the Development of Values for You and Your Children

By: Colin Greer [Editor]; Herbert Kohl [Editor];

Price: $3.54 USD

Publisher: Harper Perennial : 1997-05-22

Seller ID: 0060927879-4-23943108

ISBN-13: 9780060927875

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

A Call To Character: - contains selections from novels, short stories, plays, and poetry from around the world, both contemporary and classic.- includes selections from such beloved stories as E.B. White's Charlotte's Web; Horatio Alger's Born To Rise; Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince; Aesop's fable The Lion and the Boar; and Toni Morrison's Beloved.- introduces each excerpt with an essay that explores the values, dilemmas, and complexities of the story.- all the selections offer insights and amelioration for our society, calling for readers to stretch their moral imagination to ap...
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A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney

By: Andrew A. Rooney

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Scribner/Atheneum BC : 1981-09-01

Seller ID: 0689111940-3-18563678

ISBN-13: 9780689111945

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

A Gift of Irish Wisdom

By: Reilly, Cyril A.; Reilly, Renee Travis

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Hearst Books : 1995-01-01

Seller ID: 0688052924-3-27972241

ISBN-13: 9780688052928

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

A Hymnal: The Controversial Arts

By: William F. Buckley

Price: $4.20 USD

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Son : 1978-10-23

Seller ID: 0399122273-4-18121922

ISBN-13: 9780399122279

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Acceptable

A Kentucky Christmas

By: Lyon, George Ella [Editor]

Price: $4.60 USD

Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky : 2003-10-01

Seller ID: 0813122791-3-24726640

ISBN-13: 9780813122793

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

"Table of Contents A celebration of holiday poetry, fiction, essays, recipes, and songs by more than sixty of the Bluegrass state's finest writers. Gathered here are writings from some of the legendary voices of Kentucky -- and the nation -- as well as original Christmas stories and poetry from some of the state's emerging talents. Among the contributors to this handsome collection are Kentucky's visionaries, storytellers, historians, singers, cooks, children's authors, and poets, including all five Kentucky Poet Laureates. A delight for anyone interested in Kentucky literature, history, or tr...
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A Life in Letters: Ann Landers' Letters to Her Only Child

By: Howard, Margo

Price: $3.43 USD

Publisher: Warner Books : 2003-11-03

Seller ID: 0446532711-3-26159465

ISBN-13: 9780446532716

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

- Arun Landers was the most widely syndicated columnist in the world. Her advice saw three generations of readers through 47 years of sweeping social change and shifting mores.- Margo Howard is Prudence behind the "Dear Prudence" column in Bill Gates' online magazine Slate.com, and is committed to utilizing her vast media connections in promotion of this book. As a journalist, she has worked at the "Chicago Tribune and the "Chicago Daily-News, where syndicated nationwide. She's been a guest columnist for "New York Newsday and a columnist for "Boston Magazine. Currently she writes for "Good Hou...
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A Place Called Home: Writings on the Midwestern Small Town

By: Davies, Richard O. [Editor]; Amato, Joseph A. [Editor]; Pichaske, David R. [Editor];

Price: $6.19 USD

Publisher: Borealis Books : 2003-03-10

Seller ID: 0873514513-3-25020903

ISBN-13: 9780873514514

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

2004 Minnesota Book Award WinnerThe Midwestern small town has long held an iconic place in American culture--from the imaginings of Sinclair Lewis's Main Street and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio to Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon. But the reality is much more complex, as the small town has been a study in transition from its very inception. In A Place Called Home, editors Richard O. Davies, Joseph A. Amato, and David R. Pichaske offer the first comprehensive examination of the Midwestern small town and its evolving nature from the 1800s to the present.This rich collection, gleaned from t...
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A Pocketful of Prose: Vintage Short Fiction, Volume II

By: Madden, David

Price: $3.43 USD

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing : 1995-09-15

Seller ID: 0155025457-3-27155932

ISBN-13: 9780155025455

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

A Pocketful of Plays: Vintage Short Stories, Volume II contains 23 short stories that research reveals to be currently among the most commonly studied in class around the country. The works include source materials to encourage further discussion and analysis, Among these enhancement are author's comments, biographical and critical commentaries, and sections of a play and a film script for comparison of media. The reception of this series has supported the original assumption that students and teachers would welcome an innovative alternative to huge anthologies, which are rarely used entirely,...
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A Season in Granada: Uncollected Poems and Prose

By: Federico García Lorca; Christopher Maurer [Editor]; Christopher Maurer [Translator];

Price: $3.94 USD

Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry : 2004-06-01

Seller ID: 0856462993-3-25781914

ISBN-13: 9780856462993

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

A Season in Granada brings together poems, essays and excerpts from letters by the great twentieth-century poet Federico Garcia Lorca, including two sequences of poems and an essay previously unpublished in English. The writings form a dazzling, elegiac celebration of the city of Granada, where Lorca grew up, where he studied, and to which he returned frequently in his life and in his imagination. And where he would die. In Christopher Maurer's words, the twenty poems in the two Suites, Poem of the Fair', and Summer Hours', draw on the structural ideas and whimsical tone of one of Lorca's favo...
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A Tramp Abroad (Konemann Travel Classics)

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $15.43 USD

Publisher: Konemann : 2001-03-01

Seller ID: 3829053886-11-25313927

ISBN-13: 9783829053884

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A Treasury of African-American Christmas Stories

By: Collier-Thomas, Bettye [Compiler]; Collier-Thomas, Bettye [Editor];

Price: $3.52 USD

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co : 1997-01-01

Seller ID: 0805051228-3-28887214

ISBN-13: 9780805051223

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

A Treasury of Prayers

By: Lincoln, Editors of Frances [Editor]

Price: $4.89 USD

Publisher: Frances Lincoln : 1996-01-01

Seller ID: 0711210810-11-24415533

ISBN-13: 9780711210813

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

This anthology contains a selection of 50 prayers, from sources ancient and modern. There are prayers for every occasion: praising God, asking for forgiveness, interceding for family and friends, for people throughout the world, and for inner strength and peace.Each prayer is illuminated with a detail from a painting which is chosen from one of the world's great art museums renowned for collections of religious painting. The colours and fine detail of the medieval, Renaissance and later artists provides a touchstone for contemplation.Artists featured include: Giotto, Raphael, Titian, Botticell...
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A Veces, la Vida Puede Ser Dura... Pero Todo Saldra Bien: Una Antologia de Poesias

By: Susan Polis Schutz (Editor)

Price: $3.93 USD

Publisher: Blue Mountain Press : 1993-08-01

Seller ID: 0883963671-3-24742190

ISBN-13: 9780883963678

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

The messages of support and inspiration in this book are comforting reminders that with self-confidence and personal strength, hope is always near and brighter days are soon to come.
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Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)

By: Adrienne Rich; Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi; Albert Gelpi [Editor]

Price: $3.55 USD

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : 1993-05-17

Seller ID: 0393961478-4-26128376

ISBN-13: 9780393961478

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

The editors have also taken into account the many essays on Rich and reviews of her work that have been published since 1975. Some earlier biographical selections have been replaced with works that focus on the quality of Rich's writing and her place in twentieth-century American literature--not just as a poet, but as a woman, a lesbian, and a mother. Criticism includes thirteen reviews and interpretations of Rich's work by W. H. Auden, John Ashbery, Margaret Atwood, Helen Vendler, Judith McDaniel, Adrian Oktenberg, Charles Altieri, and Joanna Feit Diehl, among others. A second recent study by...
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Adventures in American literature: Curriculum and writing (The Adventures in literature program)

By: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Price: $4.46 USD

Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich : 1985-01-01

Seller ID: 015335044X-4-29037700

ISBN-13: 9780153350443

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Adventures in English Literature: Grade 12 (Adventures in Literature Program)

By: Damrosch; Leonard F. Dean; William Keach

Price: $5.01 USD

Publisher: Holt McDougal : 1985-01-01

Seller ID: 0153350458-3-17947858

ISBN-13: 9780153350450

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Adventures in English Literature: Grade 12 (Adventures in Literature Program)

By: Damrosch; Leonard F. Dean; William Keach

Price: $5.01 USD

Publisher: Holt McDougal : 1985-01-01

Seller ID: 0153350458-4-22753627

ISBN-13: 9780153350450

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Aequanimitas

By: Osler, William

Price: $23.37 USD

Publisher: McGraw Hill / Medical : 1904-01-01

Seller ID: 0070479151-4-28869412

ISBN-13: 9780070479159

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.
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African American Literature (Penguin Academics)

By: Gilyard, Keith; Wardi, Anissa

Price: $4.51 USD

Publisher: Longman : 2004-01-31

Seller ID: 0321113411-3-24558931

ISBN-13: 9780321113412

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

African-American Literature is a thematically arranged, comprehensive survey of African-American Literature. The unique thematic organization of the anthology allows for a concise and coherent assessment of African-American literature. The thematic approach gives students a better sense of the intertextuality that binds a literary tradition together rather than a chronological approach that organizes material strictly on the basis of an author's birth date.
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African Love Poems and Proverbs

By: Leslau, Charlotte [Editor]; Leslau, Wolf [Editor]; Skolnick, Solomon M. [Editor];

Price: $14.52 USD

Publisher: Peter Pauper Pr : 1995-01-01

Seller ID: 0880887915-11-28872885

ISBN-13: 9780880887915

Binding: hardcover

Condition: New

Our popular Charming Petites "TM" have eye-catching 4-color art and a wide array of subjects. Each has a 24K gold-plated or silver-plated charm to keep on the ribbon bookmark or to wear on a bracelet or necklace.

Words on love and life from the cradle of civilization.
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All I Want for Christmas Is...: Letters from Santa's Mailbag

By: Anderson, Carl [Editor]; Walker, Jim [Editor];

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Hci : 1998-09-01

Seller ID: 1558746366-3-14856813

ISBN-13: 9781558746367

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Doubting readers will find Santa's magic no matter what the season within the pages of All I Want for Christmas Is... -- a timeless keepsake that captures the true meaning of Christmas. Through the surprising, funny, poignant, and often touching letters that children to Santa, readers will get a glimpse of the truly unique way children experience wonder of the world and the spirit of Christmas.
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Altogether Elsewhere: Writers on Exile (Harvest Book)

By: Robinson, Marc [Editor]

Price: $4.10 USD

Publisher: Harvest Books : 1996-01-01

Seller ID: 0156003899-3-27421818

ISBN-13: 9780156003896

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

American Notes for General Circulation (Penguin English Library)

By: Dickens, Charles; Whitley, John S. [Editor]; Goldman, Arnold [Editor];

Price: $3.92 USD

Publisher: Penguin Books : 1986-03-01

Seller ID: 0140430776-4-28907543

ISBN-13: 9780140430776

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

An Anthology of Christian Mysticism (Pueblo Books)

By: Egan SJ, Harvey D.

Price: $6.30 USD

Publisher: Liturgical Press : 1991-07-01

Seller ID: 0814660126-4-27625081

ISBN-13: 9780814660126

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

This comprehensive anthology will serve both as a text for serious students of mysticism and a reflective collection for those first exploring its thought. Biographical and historical data, as well as the mystic's key ideas and information about why the particular text was selected introduce each mystic to the reader. Fifty-five mystics or mystical theologians, ancient and modern, are represented, including: Origen, Augustine of Hippo, Hildegard of Bingen, Francis of Assisi, Bonaventure, Angela of Foligno, Catherine of Siena, the anonymous author of Cloud of Unknowing, Thomas a' Kempis, Teres...
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An Anthropologist on Mars (Spanish Edition)

By: Sacks, Oliver

Price: $5.13 USD

Publisher: Picador USA : 2009-02-28

Seller ID: 0330343475-3-23424933

ISBN-13: 9780330343473

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

This collection of essays are mainly casebook studies. Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands.
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Category: Literary Collections