Melissa Lindsey's Library
Montgomery Central High
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| 9780143120612 | Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better And How They Can Change The World | McGonigal, Jane | Visionary Game Designer Jane Mcgonigal Shows How We Can Harness The Power Of Computer Games To Solve Real-world Problems And Boost Global Happiness, Since Her Research Suggests That Gamers Are Expert Problem Solvers And Collaborators Because They Regularly Cooperate With Other Players To Overcome Daunting Virtual Challenges. Introduction: Reality Is Broken -- Part 1. Why Games Make Us Happy. What Exactly Is A Game? ; The Rise Of The Happiness Engineers -- More Satisfying Work -- Fun Failure And Better Odds Of Success -- Strong Social Connectivity -- Becoming A Part Of Something Bigger Than Ourselves -- Part 2. Reinventing Reality. The Benefits Of Alternate Realities -- Leveling Up In Life -- Fun With Strangers -- Happiness Hacking -- Part 3. How Very Big Games Can Change The World. The Engagement Economy -- Missions Impossible -- Collaboration Superpowers -- Saving The Real World Together -- Conclusion: Reality Is Better -- Appendix 1: How To Play -- Appendix 2: Practical Advice For Gamers. Jane Mcgonigal. This Edition With A New Appendix 2 Published In Penguin Books, 2011--title Page Verso. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. | Penguin Books |
| 9780226500669 | River Runs Through It 25Th Ann Ed | Maclean, Norman | Just as Norman Maclean writes at the end of "A River Runs through It" that he is "haunted by waters," so have readers been haunted by his novella. A retired English professor who began writing fiction at the age of 70, Maclean produced what is now recognized as one of the classic American stories of the twentieth century. Originally published in 1976, A River Runs through It and Other Stories now celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary, marked by this new edition that includes a foreword by Annie Proulx. Maclean grew up in the western Rocky Mountains in the first decades of the twentieth century. As a young man he worked many summers in logging camps and for the United States Forest Service. The two novellas and short story in this collection are based on his own experiences—the experiences of a young man who found that life was only a step from art in its structures and beauty. The beauty he found was in reality, and so he leaves a careful record of what it was like to work in the woods when it was still a world of horse and hand and foot, without power saws, "cats," or four-wheel drives. Populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, and set in the small towns and surrounding trout streams and mountains of western Montana, the stories concern themselves with the complexities of fly fishing, logging, fighting forest fires, playing cribbage, and being a husband, a son, and a father. By turns raunchy, poignant, caustic, and elegiac, these are superb tales which express, in Maclean's own words, "a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by." A first offering from a 70-year-old writer, the basis of a top-grossing movie, and the first original fiction published by the University of Chicago Press, A River Runs through It and Other Stories has sold more than a million copies. As Proulx writes in her foreword to this new edition, "In 1990 Norman Maclean died in body, but for hundreds of thousands of readers he will live as long as fish swim and books are made." "Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. . . . As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway."—Alfred Kazin, Chicago Tribune Book World "It is an enchanted tale. . . . I have read the story three times now, and each time it seems fuller."— Roger Sale, New York Review of Books "Maclean's book—acerbic, laconic, deadpan—rings out of a rich American tradition that includes Mark Twain, Kin Hubbard, Richard Bissell, Jean Shepherd, and Nelson Algren. I love its sound."—James R. Frakes, New York Times Book Review "The title novella is the prize. . . . Something unique and marvelous: a story that is at once an evocation of nature's miracles and realities and a probing of human mysteries. Wise, witty, wonderful, Maclean spins his tales, casts his flies, fishes the rivers and the woods for what he remembers from his youth in the Rockies."—Publishers Weekly "Ostensibly a 'fishing story,' 'A River Runs through It' is really an autobiographical elegy that captivates readers who have never held a fly rod in their hand. In it the art of casting a fly becomes a ritual of grace, a metaphor for man's attempt to move into nature."—Andrew Rosenheim, The Independent From its first sentence to the last, this novella by Norman Maclean will captivate readers with its vivid images of the Blackfoot River, its tender yet realistic renderings of Maclean's father and brother and its uncanny blending of fly fishing with the affections of the heart. "Wise, witty, wonderful . . ."--Publishers Weekly. | University of Chicago Press |
| 9780395775301 | Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry And Related Readings | Mildred D. Taylor | McDougal Littell Inc. | |
| 9780375755194 | Sailing Alone Around The Room: New And Selected Poems | Collins, Billy | "High, most encouraging tidings"—that is how Billy Collins, the widely read and widely acclaimed poet, describes the music in his poem about the gospel singing group The Sensational Nightingales. The same phrase applies, just as joyfully, to the arrival of Sailing Alone Around the Room, a landmark collection of new and selected poems by this Guggenheim Fellow, NPR contributor, New York Public Library "Literary Lion," and incomparably popular performer of his own good works. From four earlier collections, which have secured for him a national reputation, Collins offers the lyric equivalent of an album of Greatest Hits. In "Forgetful-ness," memories of the contents of a novel "retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no phones." In "Osso Buco," a poem about gustatory pleasure, the "lion of content-ment" places a warm heavy paw on the poet's chest. In "Marginalia," he catalogs the scrawled comments of books' previous readers: " 'Absolutely,' they shout to Duns Scotus and James Baldwin. 'Yes.' 'Bull's-eye.' 'My man!' " And he also serves us a generous portion of new poems, including "Man Listening to Disc," a jazz trip with headphones, and "The Iron Bridge," a wildly speculative, moving elegy.Whether old or new, these poems will catch their readers by exhilarating surprise. They may begin with irony and end in lyric transcendence. They may open with humor and close with grief. They may, and often do, begin with the everyday and end with infinity. Wise, funny, sad, stealthy, and always perfectly clear, these poems will not be departing for that little fishing village with no phones for a long, long time. Billy Collins, possessed of a unique lyric voice, is one of American poetry's most sensational nightingales.John UpdikeBilly Collins writes lovely poems—lovely in a way almost nobody's since Roethke's are. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides. | Random House Trade Paperbacks |
| 9780812982190 | Salt Sugar Fat: How The Food Giants Hooked Us | Moss, Michael | Random House Trade Paperbacks | |
| 9780061924125 | Scout, Atticus, And Boo: A Celebration Of To Kill A Mockingbird | Murphy, Mary McDonagh | Harper Perennial | |
| 9780195369373 | Social Workers' Desk Reference | Roberts, Albert R. | Following in the groundbreaking path of its predecessor, the second edition of the Social Workers' Desk Reference provides reliable and highly accessible information about effective services and treatment approaches across the full spectrum of social work practice. Succinct, illuminating chapters written by the field's most respected and experienced scholars and practitioners ensure that it will continue to be the sourcebook for all social workers. Social work practitioners and agency administrators are increasingly confronted with having to do more with less, and must make decisions and provide services as quickly as possible. The Social Workers' Desk Reference, Second Edition, builds on the landmark achievement of the first edition with thorough revisions and over 75 all-new chapters. Its outstanding wealth of well-tested knowledge, presented in a crisp, to-the-point manner, makes it an even more vital resource for time-pressed practitioners. Page after page offers an abundance of up-to-date information and key tools and resources such as practice guidelines, program evaluations, validated assessment scales, and step-by-step treatment plans necessary for success in today's managed-care environment. The growing importance of evidence-based practice in social work is reflected throughout the chapters, as well as by the inclusion of an entire section devoted to showing how to use evidence intelligently and efficaciously. The Social Workers' Desk Reference, Second Edition, speaks directly to the daily realities of social workers in private, non-profit, and public settings, whatever their expertise and in all areas of practice: assessment and diagnosis, ethics, risk assessment, program evaluation, and beyond. Case managers, clinical social workers, supervisors, and administrators alike who have come to rely on the previous volume will quickly find its successor just as indispensable. "Equally useful for students, teachers, and practitioners, the Social Workers' Desk Reference provides comprehensive information on all of the various aspects of social work. Topics covered within the 146 chapters include crisis management, family therapy, treatment planning, disorders, case management, community services, and risk assessment. Each chapter concludes with a list of references or recommended readings. An excellent glossary and thorough indexes round out this practical volume. Authoritative and readable, this resource provides one-stop shopping for social work."--"The Best of the Best Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2003. | Oxford University Press |
| 9781580495820 | The Awakening: Literary Touchstone Classic | Kate Chopin | Prestwick House Inc. | |
| 9780142437339 | The Crucible: A Play In Four Acts | Miller, Arthur | based On Historical People And Real Events, Arthur Miller's Play Uses The Destructive Power Of Socially Sanctioned Violence Unleashed By The Rumors Of Witchcraft As A Powerful Parable About Mccarthyism. introduction By Christopher Bigsbyny Timesa Powerful Drama. | Penguin Classics |
| 9781616200152 | The Girl Who Fell From The Sky | Durrow, Heidi W. | Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., is the sole survivor of a tragic family incident. With her strict African American grandmother as her new guardian, Rachel moves to a mostly black community, where her light brown skin, blue eyes, and beauty bring a constant stream of mixed attention her way. As she attempts to come to terms with an unfathomable past, she confronts her own identity as a biracial young woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white.The Barnes & Noble ReviewRachel Morse is 11 years old when her Danish mother leads her and her two siblings to the edge of a Chicago rooftop one hot summer morning. Days later, Rachel wakes from a medically-induced coma to learn that all four of them fell from the roof, and she alone survived. Her father, a black G.I., doesn't claim her and so Rachel is sent to live in Portland with her paternal grandmother. It's there that, despite the blue eyes and golden skin that show she is bi-racial, she learns the world sees her as black. But she's also white and Danish and, in an added layer of identity, the sole survivor of an unspeakable tragedy. That's a lot to navigate but Heidi W. Durrow, using a real-life event as the starting point for her artful and affecting debut novel, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, deftly handles issues of grief and loss and race and identity. She tells the story of Rachel's family from multiple points of view -- there's Rachel as she faces her new life; Brick, a childhood neighbor who witnessed the tragedy; Rachel's father, in brief and anguished glimpses; and Rachel's mother, writing a diary in her broken English, a series of heartbreaking entries. Durrow sends the story back and forth in time, now digging for answers to what brought the family to that rooftop, now following Rachel as she grows into a teenager and deals with her intelligence and athleticism, her “light-skinned-ed” beauty. With so much drama and melodrama setting the story in motion, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky bears a heavy burden. Durrow, it turns out, has both the smarts and writing chops to bring it to a graceful and thought-provoking landing. --Veronique de Turenne | Algonquin Books |
| 9781451617535 | The Girls Of Atomic City: The Untold Story Of The Women Who Helped Win World War II | Kiernan, Denise | Looks At The Contributions Of The Thousands Of Women Who Worked At A Secret Uranium-enriching Facility In Oak Ridge, Tennessee During World War Ii. | Atria Books |
| 9780743273565 | The Great Gatsby | Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The mysterious Jay Gatsby embodies the American notion that it is possible to redefine oneself and persuade the world to accept that definition. Gatsby's youthful neighbor, Nick Carraway, fascinated with the display of enormous wealth in which Gatsby revels, finds himself swept up in the lavish lifestyle of Long Island society during the Jazz Age. Considered Fitzgerald's best work, The Great Gatsby is a mystical, timeless story of integrity and cruelty, vision and despair. The timeless story of Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan is widely acknowledged to be the closest thing to the Great American Novel ever written. | Scribner |
| 9780385341004 | The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society | Shaffer, Mary Ann, Barrows, Annie | January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. | Dial Press Trade Paperback |
| 9780743250627 | The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest To Become The Smartest Person In The World | Jacobs, A. J. | Simon & Schuster | |
| 9781401323257 | The Last Lecture | Pausch, Randy | we Cannot Change The Cards We Are Dealt, Just How We Play The Hand.--randy Pausch a Lot Of Professors Give Talks Titled The Last Lecture. Professors Are Asked To Consider Their Demise And To Ruminate On What Matters Most To Them. And While They Speak, Audiences Can't Help But Mull The Same Question: What Wisdom Would We Impart To The World If We Knew It Was Our Last Chance? If We Had To Vanish Tomorrow, What Would We Want As Our Legacy?when Randy Pausch, A Computer Science Professor At Carnegie Mellon, Was Asked To Give Such A Lecture, He Didn't Have To Imagine It As His Last, Since He Had Recently Been Diagnosed With Terminal Cancer. But The Lecture He Gave--really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams--wasn't About Dying. It Was About The Importance Of Overcoming Obstacles, Of Enabling The Dreams Of Others, Of Seizing Every Moment (because Time Is All You Have...and You May Find One Day That You Have Less Than You Think). It Was A Summation Of Everything Randy Had Come To Believe. It Was About living.in This Book, Randy Pausch Has Combined The Humor, Inspiration And Intelligence That Made His Lecture Such A Phenomenon And Given It An Indelible Form. It Is A Book That Will Be Shared For Generations To Come. | Hyperion |
| 9780316230872 | The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control | Mischel, Walter | Renowned Psychologist Walter Mischel, Designer Of The Famous Marshmallow Test, Explains What Self-control Is And How To Master It. A Child Is Presented With A Marshmallow And Given A Choice: Eat This One Now, Or Wait And Enjoy Two Later. What Will She Do? And What Are The Implications For Her Behavior Later In Life? The World's Leading Expert On Self-control, Walter Mischel Has Proven That The Ability To Delay Gratification Is Critical For A Successful Life, Predicting Higher Sat Scores, Better Social And Cognitive Functioning, A Healthier Lifestyle And A Greater Sense Of Self-worth. But Is Willpower Prewired, Or Can It Be Taught? In The Marshmallow Test, Mischel Explains How Self-control Can Be Mastered And Applied To Challenges In Everyday Life--from Weight Control To Quitting Smoking, Overcoming Heartbreak, Making Major Decisions, And Planning For Retirement. With Profound Implications For The Choices We Make In Parenting, Education, Public Policy And Self-care, The Marshmallow Test Will Change The Way You Think About Who We Are And What We Can Be. | Little, Brown Spark |
| 9780143037149 | The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel | Edwards, Kim | award-winning Writer Kim Edwards's the Memory Keeper's Daughter Is A Brilliantly Crafted Family Drama That Explores Every Mother's Silent Fear: What Would Happen If You Lost Your Child And She Grew Up Without You? On A Winter Night In 1964, Dr. David Henry Is Forced By A Blizzard To Deliver His Own Twins. His Son, Born First, Is Perfectly Healthy. Yet When His Daughter Is Born, He Sees Immediately That She Has Down's Syndrome. Rationalizing It As A Need To Protect Norah, His Wife, He Makes A Split Second Decision That Will Alter All Of Their Lives Forever. He Asks His Nurse To Take The Baby Away To An Institution And Never To Reveal The Secret. But Caroline, The Nurse, Cannot Leave The Infant. Instead, She Disappears Into Another City To Raise The Child Herself. So Begins This Beautifully Told Story That Unfolds Over A Quarter Of A Century In Which These Two Families, Ignorant Of Each Other, Are Yet Bound By David Henry's Fateful Decision That Long-ago Winter Night. A Rich And Deeply Moving Page-turner, the Memory Keeper's Daughter Captures The Way Life Takes Unexpected Turns And How The Mysterious Ties That Hold A Family Together Help Us Survive The Heartache That Occurs When Long-buried Secrets Burst Into The Open. It Is An Astonishing Tale Of Redemptive Love.publishers Weeklyedwards's Assured But Schematic Debut Novel (after Her Collection, The Secrets Of A Fire King) Hinges On The Birth Of Fraternal Twins, A Healthy Boy And A Girl With Down Syndrome, Resulting In The Father's Disavowal Of His Newborn Daughter. A Snowstorm Immobilizes Lexington, Ky., In 1964, And When Young Norah Henry Goes Into Labor, Her Husband, Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. David Henry, Must Deliver Their Babies Himself, Aided Only By A Nurse. Seeing His Daughter's Handicap, He Instructs The Nurse, Caroline Gill, To Take Her To A Home And Later Tells Norah, Who Was Drugged During Labor, That Their Son Paul's Twin Died At Birth. Instead Of Institutionalizing Phoebe, Caroline Absconds With Her To Pittsburgh. David's Deception Becomes The Defining Moment Of The Main Characters' Lives, And Phoebe's Absence Corrodes Her Birth Family's Core Over The Course Of The Next 25 Years. David's Undetected Lie Warps His Marriage; He Grapples With Guilt; Norah Mourns Her Lost Child; And Paul Not Only Deals With His Parents' Icy Relationship But With His Own Yearnings For His Sister As Well. Though The Impact Of Phoebe's Loss Makes Sense, Edwards's Redundant Handling Of The Trope Robs It Of Credibility. This Neatly Structured Story Is A Little Too Moist With Compassion. Agent, Geri Thoma. (july) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information. | Penguin Books |
| 9780817356835 | The Most They Ever Had | Bragg, Rick | University Alabama Press | |
| 9780385142649 | The New Jerusalem Bible: The Complete Text Of The Ancient Canon Of The Scriptures With Up-To-Date Introductions And Notes | Henry Wansbrough | Contains the complete text of the ancient canon of scripture, along with up-to-date and extensive introductions and notes. Eight pages of color maps and indexes, including biblical themes, personal names, and major footnotes. Richard S. Watts, San Bernardino Cty. Lib., Cal. - Library Journal Catholic readers have made The Jerusalem Bible (1966) a perennially popular study Bible. The Jerusalem-based French scholars, upon whose translation the work is based, published a revised French edition in 1973, incorpo rating recent research. General editor Wansbrough and his colleagues base The New Jerusalem Bible on this revision, though they have depended less on the French version and more on the original languages than did the English translators. They have thoroughly revised everything. The biblical text is loftier, more literal, and less colloquial. It is also less gender-specific, when this approach does not do violence to the original. A worthwhile purchase wherever the earlier edition is popular. | Doubleday |
| 9780142001080 | The Plug-In Drug: Television, Computers, And Family Life | Winn, Marie | This is the new edition of a book criticizing the effects of television on children, their schooling, and family relationships. The author argues that pretty much nothing has changed since the book was first published in 1977. Expanding her analysis to other electronic media, she suggests that many of the same problems are associated with the use of other electronic media. In chapters new to this edition, she discusses computers in the classrooms; video games, VCRS, and other electronic playthings. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Library Journal After 25 years, Winn (Children Without Childhood) has completely revised and updated her landmark study of the influence of television on children and family life by incorporating findings based on recent research and investigating the impact of the home computer, the VCR, and the video game terminal. She has also shifted the focus from the TV programs children watch to the negative effects of television on children's play, imagination, and school achievement. Although Winn pinpoints many key shortcomings of television, this study is not argumentative; Winn instead aims to stress the quality of family life without television, to show educators and parents how to control the medium, and to offer practical suggestions on how to improve family life not dependent on television. This refreshingly candid and inviting study is highly recommended for both public and academic libraries. Leroy Hommerding, Fort Myers Beach P.L. Dist., FL Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information. | Penguin Books |