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On December 7, 2010, Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His Nobel lLecture is a resounding tribute to fiction's power to inspire readers to greater ambition, to dissent, and to political action. "We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist," Vargas Llosa writes. "Like writing, reading...
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This book "Heavy heart in Silence" is vent for people who went through the difficult chapters of their life in silence. It comprises the agony and resilience of the broken soul which time would heal. The heartbreak that would take more time to heal is the one that was never shared. Let this book be a place where we could share and heal.
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Falling into Grace is a study of Andrew Greeley's fiction and the message behind his words, revealing many timeless political and theological ideas. Professor R. W. Carstens shares the findings of his deep exploration into Greeley's novels as evidence of a set of ancient values and key political ideas that are needed today more than ever. As a great storyteller, Greeley's message is significant-that grace sustains us, unites us, comforts us, and sometimes...
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Are you a primary grade teacher who wants to boost your children's comprehension? In this unique resource, Taffy Raphael, Ph. D., creator of Question-Answer Relationships (QAR), makes comprehension strategies that are normally reserved for upper elementary students accessible to younger children. QAR for the Early Primary Grades provides 15 read-aloud lessons based on well-known picture books to teach children to comprehend stories and informational...
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Speed reading has been a skill peddled by experts putting it on the spotlight. The claim is that speed readers can read up to 1000- 1700 words in a minute while the average person reads 200 to 400 words. The only way to understand if these claims are true is by looking at the different techniques used in speed reading. And this book can help you with that.
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Why was Edgar Allan Poe unable to form either emotional or sexual bonds with the women in his life? Why did he worship at the grave of his friend's mother-a woman he may have loved but who he could have never been intimate with? Why did he marry his 13 year-old cousin and what impact did her tragic death have on his literary creations? Why do the female characters in his short stories endure disturbingly sadistic punishment and torture at the hands...
68) El Cielo
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No soy una persona religiosa. Puedo hablar libremente de Cristo, Seres Lumínicos como los Santos que pisaron y pisan la tierra, y Maestros Ascendidos de diversos tiempos y culturas, precisamente porque no pertenezco a ninguna religión. Religión es una cosa y espiritualidad, otra. A mi entender la espiritualidad no es monopolio de institución alguna ya que es un atributo inherente a todo ser.
Con esta declaración inicial, la autora deja por sentado...
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Teaching Reading, Foundational Principals for the Classroom, is a book of principles and strategies that teachers and parents can use to help struggling readers become better readers. Some topics discussed in the book are phonics, building phonemic awareness and teaching vocabulary. Many teachers struggle to teach reading in way that is effective. Teaching Reading will help take the guess work out of what should be taught and how it should be taught....
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En Abime explores listening and reading as creative and critical activities driven by memory and return, reshaped into the present. It introduces an idea of aural landscape as a historically defined cultural experience, and contributes with previously unexplored references to the emerging area of listening as artistic practice, adopting an expansive approach across poetry, visual art and literature.
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There are so many fantastic authors and great books out there that sometimes it's hard to know where to begin. Start Here solves that problem; it tells you how to read your way into 25 amazing authors from a wide range of genres--from classics to contemporary fiction to comics. Start Here Vol. 2 helps by showing you how to read your way into 25 amazing authors from a wide range of genres--from classics to contemporary fiction to comics. Each chapter...
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Phyllis Rose embarks on a grand literary experiment-to read her way through a random shelf of library books, LEQ—LES
Can you have an Extreme Adventure in a library? Phyllis Rose casts herself into the wilds of an Upper East Side lending library in an effort to do just that. Hoping to explore the "real ground of literature," she reads her way through a somewhat randomly chosen shelf of fiction, from LEQ to LES.
The shelf has everything Rose could...
73) Horroroso Chile
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Horroroso Chile. Ensayo sobre las tensiones políticas en la otra de Enrique Lihn, reúne catorce ensayos sobre la obra de Enrique Lihn, poniendo en relieve las tensiones políticas que se reflejan a lo largo de sus libros, así como su biografía marcada por su cuestionamiento in situ a la Revolución Cubana, su apoyo orgánico a la Unidad Popular o su postura contracultural bajo la dictadura de Augusto Pinochet. Autores como Álvaro Bisama, Bruno...
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There are so many fantastic authors and great books out there that sometimes it's hard to know where to begin. Start Here solves that problem; it tells you how to read your way into 25 amazing authors from a wide range of genres--from classics to contemporary fiction to comics. Each chapter presents an author, explains why you might want to try them, and lays out a 3- or 4-book reading sequence designed to help you experience fully what they have...
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From one of our most daring writers comes this intimate and seductive book: a working journal of pregnancy that was both a Lambda Literary Awards finalist and a Village Voice pick for Best Books of 2000. Maso chronicles with great tenderness and awe the months of her pregnancy, from its charmed conception through the auspicious arrival of Rose.
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Equip your students with the literacy support they need to think like scientists. Written by a team of experienced educators, this book provides practical literacy-based strategies designed for science teachers of grades 6-12. It can be read cover-to-cover or used as a quick reference for specific strategies. Learn how to connect science content with literacy skill development, differentiated instruction, designing meaningful assessments, effective...
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A young, handsome, charismatic Southern governor is, elected president of the United States in a landslide. He was so popular that world leaders were scrambling to attend his inauguration. Among the attendees were the pope, the queen of England, and other royalties.
He had, however, an Achilles' heel, he was a philanderer. It will not take long for his misdeeds to leak out to the media and the opposition party. While he was being, investigated, the...
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Imagine a thriving English classroom. One that's active, experiential, collaborative, and rigorous. Authentic Literacy Instruction will help you not just imagine this classroom, but also create it. Through a hands-on approach to student-centered literacy, the authors share how to reinvigorate your love for what you do and refine your practices to tap into the passions, strengths, and lived experiences of every learner.
• Understand what authentic...
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GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ crea un particular tipo de escritura en la que lo sobrenatural, lo insólito, no es el otro lado, sino que se incorpora al plano de la realidad, de la cotidianidad. La magnitud de su obra, literaria y periodística, no cabe en la etiqueta fácil del "realismo mágico". A García Márquez no hay que simplificarlo con le mármol y la canonización. es necesario, eso sí, leerlo y releerlo, para advertir que su alquimia de gitano...
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Faulkner from Within: Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner is the culmination of William H. Rueckert's lifetime of study of this great American novelist. Rueckert tracks Faulkner's development as a novelist through eighteen novels-ranging from Flags in the Dust to The Reivers-to show the turn in Faulkner from destructive to generative being, from tragedy to comedy, from pollution to purification and redemption. At the...
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