![]() ![]() Dadier enters the school with a passion to teach and filled with romantic ideas. Richard Dadier, a young man who shortly after finishing his time in the military and graduating from college gets his first teaching job at North Manuel Trades High School, an inner-city, vocational school. It paints a picture of inner-city education as it focuses on a young teacher at a trade school filled with young, violent juvenile delinquents. The Blackboard Jungle caused a great deal of controversy surrounding the state of education in the United States during the 1950's. ![]() The back of the DJ has a half inch tear at top and a one inch tear at bottom both at the corners of the fold. The Brodarted Dust Jacket is in very good condition with chips and tears along the edges. The interior of the book is clean and unmarked. The book is in very fine condition with gray & black Binding and black lettering. 1954 First Edition, Second Printing(Stated) with brodarted DJ. ![]()
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In “Pluto, Volume 001,” detective Gesicht tries to figure out who - or what - destroyed the world’s most beloved robot Mont Blanc, killed a robot rights activist and left both victims with “horns” stuck in their heads. ![]() The whole series is based on “The Greatest Robot on Earth,” the most popular story arc in Astro Boy series by a legendary manga master Osamu Tezuka. “Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 001” by Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki is the first book in an eight-book science fiction manga series Pluto. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Sweet and bitter magic series![]() ![]() Of course, love bargains are a tricky thing, and these two have a long, perilous journey ahead of them that is, if they don't kill each other first. ![]() To save him, Wren proposes a bargain: if Tamsin will help her catch the dark witch responsible for creating the plague, then Wren will give Tamsin her love for her father. When a magical plague ravages the queendom, Wren's father falls victim. In this rich, nuanced fantasy world, witches can either draw power from themselves, from sourceshumans who are magical conduitsor from the earth. Sources are required to train with the Coven as soon as they discover their abilities, but Wren the only caretaker to her ailing father has spent her life hiding her secret. SWEET & BITTER MAGIC by Adrienne Tooley RELEASE DATE: MaA village girl and a cursed witch become unlikely allies on a quest to find the source of a devastating magical plague. Wren is a source a rare kind of person who is made of magic, despite being unable to use it herself. The only way she can get those feelings back even for just a little while is to steal love from others. But after committing the worst magical sin, she's exiled by the ruling Coven and cursed with the inability to love. Tamsin is a witch, but unlike other witches her age, she has spent the last five years banished from the witches land of Within, cursed. 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Brewster was hidden by his friends, but the congregation stepped up their efforts to relocate and contracted with Thomas Weston (l. 1568-1644 CE), published a tract criticizing the Anglican Church and orders were given by the English officials for his arrest. The English had established the colony of Jamestown in the Virginia Patent of North America in 1607 CE, which, ten years later, was flourishing, and the Leiden congregation were already looking into some means of creating their own colony in Virginia when, in 1618 CE, one of their leading members, William Brewster (l. Between 1607-1618 CE, the congregation lived freely in Leiden but could only hold menial jobs and became concerned that their children were losing their English heritage. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The Sea Nurses by Kate Eastham![]() As her village begins to empty of young men, Evie’s life is marked by a heartbreaking tragedy at home. ![]() But when Germany declares war on Britain, everything changes. For Evie, every day is the same – gutting fish at the docks, shoulder-to-shoulder with her friends, followed by fresh bread, a warm whiskey toddy and an early night. ![]() Evie Munro is a Scottish fisher girl, working the herring season from Wick to Great Yarmouth. The hospital ship was breaking apart… 1914. Somewhere, deep inside the vessel, came a loud crack. She lunged forward to grab his hand, but she was a second too slow. ![]() She could see the water rushing up to meet them. She spotted an injured young man clinging to the ship’s rail, his eyes wide with terror. The young nurse ran across the wooden deck, her feet skidding. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Fairyland a memoir of my father![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He rejects the suggestion of Alysia’s judgy maternal grandmother, nicknamed Munca (Geena Davis), that the girl would be better off being raised by her side of the family.Īlysia gets an eye-opening instant education when they move into a shared house with druggy den mother Paulette (Maria Bakalova), genderqueer Johnny (Ryan Thurston) and laid-back, guitar-strumming Southerner Eddie (Cody Fern), who occupies the couch but has a wife back in Jackson. Steve’s 5-year-old daughter Alysia (Nessa Dougherty) is still struggling to comprehend her mother’s sudden absence when he packs them off from the Midwest to San Francisco in his beat-up orange VW bug. That detail will prove significant later on. The film opens in 1974 with a middle-of-the-night phone call in which a stunned Steve (McNairy) learns that his wife has been killed in a head-on truck collision while driving with a patient she had been treating for suicidal depression. Venue: Sundance Film Festival (Premieres)Ĭast: Emilia Jones, Scoot McNairy, Geena Davis, Cody Fern, Adam Lambert, Maria Bakalova, Nessa Dougherty, Ryan Thurston, Bella Murphy, Isabella Peregrina, Ben Attal, Cabe Thompson, Roman Gonzalezĭirector-screenwriter: Andrew Durham, based on Alysia Abbott’s book Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Ron chernow biographies![]() ![]() Chernow's biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today's America is the result of Hamilton's countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. ![]() According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is "a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all." Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. 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