Melissa Lindsey's Library
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| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9781457610240 | 40 Model Essays: A Portable Anthology | Aaron, Jane E., Repetto, Ellen Kuhl | In response to requests from instructors and students for shorter and less expensive composition readers, 40 Model Essays — featuring material adapted from the successful The Compact Reader — offers about half the usual number of readings for about half the price of similar books. | Bedford/St. Martin's |
| 9781260108323 | 500 ACT English And Reading Questions To Know By Test Day, Second Edition (Mcgraw Hill's 500 Questions To Know By Test Day) | Anaxos, Inc. | McGraw-Hill Education | |
| 9780385501200 | A Painted House: A Novel | Grisham, John | The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a "good crop." Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and, sometimes, each other. As the weeks pass Luke sees and hears things no seven-year-old could possibly be prepared for, and finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever.A Painted House is a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience.Entertainment WeeklyHe takes command of this literary category just as forcefully as he did legal thrillers with The Firm. Never let it be said this man doesn't know how to spin a good yarn....The kind of book you read slowly because you don't want it to end. | Doubleday |
| 9780679755333 | A Raisin In The Sun | Lorraine Hansberry | When It Was First Produced In 1959, A Raisin In The Sun Was Awarded The New York Drama Critics Circle Award For That Season And Hailed As A Watershed In American Drama. A Pioneering Work By An African-american Playwright, The Play Was A Radically New Representation Of Black Life. A Play That Changed American Theater Forever. Lorraine Hansberry ; With An Introduction By Robert Nemiroff. Originally Published In 1958. | Vintage |
| 9780811216029 | A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook) | Williams, Tennessee | it Is A Very Short List Of 20th-century American Plays That Continue To Have The Same Power And Impact As When They First Appeared—57 Years After Its Broadway Premiere, Tennessee Williams' a Streetcar Named Desireis One Of Those Plays. The Story Famously Recounts How The Faded And Promiscuous Blanche Dubois Is Pushed Over The Edge By Her Sexy And Brutal Brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. streetcar Launched The Careers Of Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter And Karl Malden,and Solidified The Position Of Tennessee Williams As One Of The Most Important Young Playwrights Of His Generation, As Well As That Of Elia Kazan As The Greatest American Stage Director Of The '40s And '50s.who Better Than America's Elder Statesman Of The Theater, Williams'contemporary Arthur Miller, To Write As A Witness To The Lightning That Struck American Culture In The Form Of a Streetcar Named Desire?miller's Rich Perspective On Williams' Singular Style Of Poetic Dialogue, Sensitive Characters, And Dramatic Violence Makes This A Unique And Valuable New Edition Of a Streetcar Named Desire.this Definitive New Edition Will Also Include Williams' Essay The World I Live In, And A Brief Chronology Of The Author's Life. | New Directions |
| 9780073405483 | Adolescence | Steinberg, Laurence | Adolescence, 8th edition by Laurence Steinberg has been thoroughly updated to reflect current findings in the field of adolescent development. In this edition, the author continues to utilize the effective combination of a friendly writing style, thorough research and a contextual approach that emphasizes adolescence in contemporary society. The text’s careful organization ensures maximum teaching flexibility that allows the chapters to work together or be covered in sequence or stand alone. Ethnicity and minority issues are thoroughly discussed in a way that enables students to see how the adolescent experience is shaped by class and culture. The strong pedagogical framework helps students organize and integrate material. Adolescence, 8th edition, is based on solid research and theory, yet it has a distinctively “real world” feel that emphasizes the reality of being an adolescent in today’s society. | McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages |
| 9780679774020 | All Over But The Shoutin' | Bragg, Rick | When childhood is complicated by poverty and an abusive, alcoholic father, it vecomes focused on survival. Were it not for the dedication and strength of his mother, Rick Bragg may have never left northeast Alabama and become a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. His memoir captures the essence of the South, explores the bonds and responsibilities of family, and, in the end, celebrates his own coming-of-age. Stephanie Zacharek There's one thing for sure about the life story of New York Times national correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg, as he tells it in this angry memoir: He hasn't had it easy. All Over but the Shoutin' details a childhood spent dirt-poor and fatherless in Alabama, protected by a loving mother who sacrificed everything for her children. It's the story of a have-not, resentful of the haves, who overcomes crushing limitations to become a newspaper reporter and who eventually scrambles his way into a job at what he calls "the temple" of his profession, the New York Times. In the end he triumphs, buying his mother the decent house she's always wanted -- with cash. It's a tough story all right -- too bad that from the first page you can hear Bragg, in the measured spit-and-polish prose newspapermen use when they're being sensitive, milking it for all it's worth. The novelist Lee Smith, and Dolly Parton (in a number like her "Coat of Many Colors"), understand the power of understatement when it comes to conveying the heartbreak of poverty, and that's what makes their work so rich. But Bragg's litany of major bummers reads like a bid for sympathy. It's as if he believes that piled-on layers of hardship and woe are likely to wrench that many more tears out of us, as if we should be wowed by the sheer bulk and weight of his experiences. He recalls how his mother "scraped together money for my high school class ring, even though her toes poked out of her old sneakers and she was wearing clothes from the Salvation Army bin in the parking lot of the A&P. It was not real gold, that ring, just some kind of fake, shiny metal crowned with a lump of red glass, but I was proud of it ... If the sunlight caught it just right, it looked almost real." In case that reference to his mother's holey sneakers slips by you the first time, Bragg mentions them at least twice more during the course of the book. What makes All Over but the Shoutin' truly annoying, though, are Bragg's rooster-size ego and his sanctimoniousness about his profession. Of course, all journalists have big egos -- it comes with the territory. And on some level, you can't blame Bragg for being proud that he was able to crack the stuffy establishment that is the New York Times. But after he's mentioned his numerous journalism awards for the third time, and after you've caught onto his trick of sprinkling down-home cracker words like "ain't" amid his crisp, crafty Times-style prose, the whole thing starts to smell like yesterday's catfish. Bragg tells how he got a promotion at one of his pre-Times newspaper jobs by purposely "overwriting" a story about a chicken that fought off a bobcat. "The moral, I suppose, was this: Do not, on purpose, write a bunch of overwritten crap if it looks so much like the overwritten crap you usually write that the editors think you have merely reached new heights in your craft." Bragg thinks he's making a funny at his own expense, but by the time you read those words, a good two-thirds of the way through the book, you may wonder if the joke is really on you. -- Salon | Vintage |
| 9781948226370 | All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir | Chung, Nicole | Catapult | |
| 9780684874357 | Angela's Ashes (The Frank Mccourt Memoirs) | McCourt, Frank | sometimes It's Worth The Wait. Having Waited 40 Years To Tell His Story, Frank Mccourt Doesn't Pull Any Punches In His Story Of Growing Up Dirt Poor In Limerick, Ireland. Having Emigrated To America, Mccourt's Family Returns To Ireland After His Sister Dies In Brooklyn. It Is There That Things Turn From Bad To Worse.it Is Mccourt's Contention That There Is Nothing Worse Than Irish Catholic Poverty, And His Book Would Seem To Bear It Out: His Family Moves To A Row House In Limerick That Is Located Next To The Street's Lavatory. However, The Book Is Written In A Lyrical Style From The Point Of View Of Frank Mccourt As A Boy, And It Is Still Filled With The Whimsy Of Growing Up And The Natural Humor Of Its Author. While The Book Is Often Angry (at The Church, At His Father, At His Poverty, At His Mother), It Is Also Filled With Forgiveness Without Bitterness.covering The Ages Spanning Three To 19, angela's Ashes Is The Story Of Frank Mccourt's Struggle To Escape From Poverty And A Tale Of Ireland Still Seemingly In The Dark Ages. Barred From The Good Schools Because Of His Class, Teeth Falling Out From Malnutrition, And Facing Life With A Shiftless Alcoholic Father, Mccourt Nevertheless Survives On His Wits And Manages To Return To America To Start His Life Over. Again. It Is A Triumph Of Both The Art Of Memoir Writing And The Author's Spirit. people a Splendid Memoir, Both Funny And Forgiving. | Scribner |
| 9780060852566 | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year Of Food Life | Kingsolver, Barbara, Kingsolver, Camille, Hopp, Steven L. | bestselling Author Barbara Kingsolver Describes Her Family's Adventure As They Move To A Farm In Southern Appalachia And Realign Their Lives With The Local Food Chain. When Kingsolver And Her Family Move From Suburban Arizona To Rural Appalachia, They Take On A New Challenge: To Spend A Year On A Locally Produced Diet, Paying Close Attention To The Provenance Of All They Consume. Our Highest Shopping Goal Was To Get Our Food From So Close To Home, We'd Know The Person Who Grew It. Often That Turned Out To Be Ourselves As We Learned To Produce What We Needed, Starting With Dirt, Seeds, And Enough Knowledge To Muddle Through. Or Starting With Baby Animals, And Enough Sense To Refrain From Naming Them. animal, Vegetable, Miracle Follows The Family Through The First Year Of Their Experiment. They Find Themselves Eager To Move Away From The Typical Food Scenario Of American Families: A Refrigerator Packed With Processed, Factory-farmed Foods Transported Long Distances Using Nonrenewable Fuels. In Their Search For Another Way To Eat And Live, They Begin To Recover What Kingsolver Considers Our Nation's Lost Appreciation For Farms And The Natural Processes Of Food Production. American Citizens Spend Less Of Their Income On Food Than Has Any Culture In The History Of The World, But Pay Dearly In Other Ways -- Losing The Flavors, Diversity And Creative Food Cultures Of Earlier Times. The Environmental Costs Are Also High, And The Nutritional Sacrifice Is Undeniable: On Our Modern Industrial Food Supply, Americans Are Now Raising The First Generation Of Children To Have A Shorter Life Expectancy Than Their Parents. Believing That Most Of Us Have Better Options Available, Kingsolver And Her Family Set Out To Prove For Themselves That A Local Diet Is Not Just Better For The Economy And Environment But Also Better On The Table. Their Search Leads Them Through A Season Of Planting, Pulling Weeds, Expanding Their Kitchen Skills, Harvesting Their Own Animals, Joining The Effort To Save Heritage Crops From Extinction, And Learning The Time-honored Rural Art Of Getting Rid Of Zucchini. Inspired By The Flavors And Culinary Arts Of A Local Food Culture, They Explore Farmers' Markets And Diversified Organic Farms At Home And Across The Country, Discovering A Booming Movement With Devotees From The Deep South To Alaska. Part Memoir, Part Journalistic Investigation, And Complete With Original Recipes, animal, Vegetable, Miracle Makes A Passionate Case For Putting The Kitchen Back At The Center Of Family Life, And Diversified Farms At The Center Of The American Diet.the Washington Post - Bunny Crumpackerthis Is A Serious Book About Important Problems. Its Concerns Are Real And Urgent. It Is Clear, Thoughtful, Often Amusing, Passionate And Appealing. It May Give You A Serious Case Of Supermarket Guilt, Thinking Of The Energy Footprint Left By Each Out-of-season Tomato, But You'll Also Find Unexpected Knowledge And Gain The Ability To Make Informed Choices About What -- And How -- You're Willing To Eat. | Harper Perennial |
| 9781506258867 | AP Psychology Flashcards (Barron's AP) | McEntarffer Ph.D., Robert, Weseley Ed.D., Allyson J. | Barrons Educational Services | |
| 9781506278513 | AP Psychology Premium, 2022-2023: Comprehensive Review With 6 Practice Tests + An Online Timed Test Option (Barron's AP) | Weseley Ed.D., Allyson J., McEntarffer Ph.D., Robert | Barrons Educational Services | |
| 9781506263168 | AP Q&A Psychology: 600 Questions And Answers (Barron's AP) | McEntarffer Ph.D., Robert, Whitlock M.Ed., Kristin | Barrons Educational Services | |
| 9780316010665 | Blink: The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking | Gladwell, Malcolm | How Do We Think Without Thinking, Seem To Make Choices In An Instant--in The Blink Of An Eye--that Actually Aren't As Simple As They Seem? Why Are Some People Brilliant Decision Makers, While Others Are Consistently Inept? Why Do Some People Follow Their Instincts And Win, While Others End Up Stumbling Into Error? And Why Are The Best Decisions Often Those That Are Impossible To Explain To Others? Drawing On Cutting-edge Neuroscience And Psychology, The Author Reveals That Great Decision Makers Aren't Those Who Process The Most Information Or Spend The Most Time Deliberating, But Those Who Have Perfected The Art Of Filtering The Very Few Factors That Matter From An Overwhelming Number Of Variables. The Statue That Didn't Look Right -- The Theory Of Thin Slices : How A Little Bit Of Knowledge Goes A Long Way -- The Locked Door : The Secret Life Of Snap Decisions -- The Warren Harding Error : Why We Fall For Tall, Dark, And Handsome Men -- Paul Van Riper's Big Victory : Creating Structure For Spontaneity -- Kenna's Dilemma : The Right-and Wrong-way To Ask People What They Want -- Seven Seconds In The Bronx : The Delicate Art Of Mind-reading -- Conclusion: Listening With Your Eyes : The Lessons Of Blink. Malcolm Gladwell ; [with A New Afterword By The Author]. Originally Published: 1st Ed. New York : Little, Brown And Co., 2005. With New Afterword. Includes 'reading Group Guide'. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [277]- 283) And Index. | Back Bay Books |
| 9780312658854 | Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America | Ehrenreich, Barbara | A sharp-witted knockdown of America’s love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realismAmericans are a “positive” people—cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive, we are told, is the key to success and prosperity.In this utterly original take on the American frame of mind, Barbara Ehrenreich traces the strange career of our sunny outlook from its origins as a marginal nineteenth-century healing technique to its enshrinement as a dominant, almost mandatory, cultural attitude. Evangelical mega-churches preach the good news that you only have to want something to get it, because God wants to “prosper” you. The medical profession prescribes positive thinking for its presumed health benefits. Academia has made room for new departments of “positive psychology” and the “science of happiness.” Nowhere, though, has bright-siding taken firmer root than within the business community, where, as Ehrenreich shows, the refusal even to consider negative outcomes—like mortgage defaults—contributed directly to the current economic crisis. With the mythbusting powers for which she is acclaimed, Ehrenreich exposes the downside of America’s penchant for positive thinking: On a personal level, it leads to self-blame and a morbid preoccupation with stamping out “negative” thoughts. On a national level, it’s brought us an era of irrational optimism resulting in disaster. This is Ehrenreich at her provocative best—poking holes in conventional wisdom and faux science,and ending with a call for existential clarity and courage. Hanna Rosin - The New York Times I must confess, I have waited my whole life for someone to write a book like Bright-Sided…Now, in Barbara Ehrenreich's deeply satisfying book, I finally have a moral defense for my apparent scowl. All the background noise of America—motivational speakers, positive prayer, the new Journal of Happiness Studies—these are not the markers of happy, well-adjusted psyches uncorrupted by irony, as I have always been led to believe. Instead, Ehrenreich argues convincingly that they are the symptoms of a noxious virus infecting all corners of American life that goes by the name "positive thinking." | Picador |
| 9780451171122 | Cat On A Hot Tin Roof | Williams, Tennessee | The definitive text of this American classic—reissued with an introduction by Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Delicate Balance) and Williams' essay "Person-to-Person."NY Post...a play of tremendous dramatic impact...enormous theatrical power. | Signet |
| 9780618593941 | Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want To Know About Fast Food | Wilson, Charles, Schlosser, Eric | In the New York Times bestseller Chew on This, Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson unwrap the fast-food industry to bring you a behind-the-scenes look at a business that both feeds and feeds off the young. Find out what really goes on at your favorite restaurants—and what lurks between those sesame seed buns. Praised for being accessible, honest, humorous, fascinating, and alarming, Chew On This was also repeatedly referred to as a must-read for kids who regularly eat fast food. Having all the facts about fast food helps young people make healthy decisions about what they eat. Chew On This shows them that they can change the world by changing what they eat. Chew on This also includes action steps, a discussion guide, and a new afterword by the authors. | Houghton Mifflin |
| 9780547480350 | Children Of The Great Depression | Freedman, Russell | As he did for frontier children in his enormously popular Children of the Wild West, Russell Freedman illuminates the lives of the American children affected by the economic and social changes of the Great Depression. Middle-class urban youth, migrant farm laborers, boxcar kids, children whose families found themselves struggling for survival . . . all Depression-era young people faced challenges like unemployed and demoralized parents, inadequate food and shelter, schools they couldnât attend because they had to go to work, schools that simply closed their doors. Even so, life had its bright spots-like favorite games and radio shows-and many young people remained upbeat and optimistic about the future.Drawing on memoirs, diaries, letters, and other firsthand accounts, and richly illustrated with classic archival photographs, this book by one of the most celebrated authors of nonfiction for children places the Great Depression in context and shows young readers its human face. Endnotes, selected bibliography, index. | Clarion Books |
| 9780385312585 | Cold Sassy Tree | Olive Ann Burns | Dial Press Trade Paperback | |
| 9781566190305 | Collected Poems Of Emily Dickinson | Dickinson, Emily | Barnes Noble |