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1) The prince
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IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 7
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The Prince
Here is the world’s most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor, The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince...a king...a president.
When, in 1512, Machiavelli was removed from his post in his beloved Florence, he resolved to set down a treatise on leadership that was practical, not idealistic. The prince he envisioned...
Here is the world’s most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor, The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince...a king...a president.
When, in 1512, Machiavelli was removed from his post in his beloved Florence, he resolved to set down a treatise on leadership that was practical, not idealistic. The prince he envisioned...
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"A literary titan of Canadian short fiction, Keath Fraser's influence has been felt long and wide since the publication of his first collection Taking Cover in 1982. Damages collects the finest of Fraser's work across decades. Moving, complex, and with the emotional complexity of a true master, these stories showcase Fraser as one of the best story writers of the last fifty years."--
3) Utopia
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Presents the English statesman's classic denunciations of sixteenth-century tyranny and corruption and vision of an ideal society, along with historical and biographical notes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
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Enjoy more than two years of Sunday cartoons, portraying the colorful life of Nate Wright. This spunky eleven-year-old holds the school record for detentions and is in little chance of losing that distinction, but that doesn't stop him from dreaming big! He's a self-described genius, a sixth-grade renaissance man, and a full-fledged believer in his future as a cartoonist. Equipped with a No. 2 pencil and the unshakable belief that he is No. 1, Nate...
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Contributors include: Norma Alarcón, Stephanie Alvarez, Rusty Barceló, Cordelia E Barrera, Stephanie Brock, Catalina Bartlett, Casie C. Cobos, Marcos Del Hierro, Victor Del Hierro, Qwo-Li Driskill, Aydé Enríquez-Loya, and Stephanie Wheeler (as members of The Calmecac Collective), Antonia Castañeda Janie Covarrubias, Lauren Espinoza, Betsy Dahms , Kandace Creel Falcón ,Beth Hernandez-Jason Roberta Hurtado, Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová, Maria...
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"Presents readers with the Enochian selections from Aleister Crowley's original book Equinox and contains the Enochian Magic of John Dee and Edward Kelley--perhaps the most powerful and elegant of all magical systems. Dee and Kelley's work is one of the most popular magical techniques seized upon by modern magicians"--
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"Building on the first edition, this book features 330 high resolution celestial portraits selected by bestselling astronomy writer Terence Dickinson, a four-page fold-out of the Andromeda Galaxy and an illuminating narrative that brings to life Hubble's journey and the fascinating forces at work in the universe."--
12) Sold
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
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Jonathan Franzen's Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it "a masterpiece of American fiction" and lauded its illumination, "through the steady radiance of its author's profound moral intelligence, [of] the world we thought we knew." In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches...
18) The freelancer's bible: everything you need to know to have the career of your dreams on your terms
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Amazingly, one-third of the American workforce is freelance, that's 42 million people who have to wrestle with not just doing the work, but finding the work, then getting paid for the work, plus health care, taxes, setting up an office, marketing, and so on. Now help is here, and consultants, independent contractors, the self-employed, "solopreneurs," and everyone else living a freelancer's life will never be alone again but instead can be part of...
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" Written with the absolute beginner in mind, this book teaches all the basics for learning to knit with step-by-step instructions and photographs. Knitting skills are learned by working on projects, beginning with something very easy and getting progressively more difficult as the reader works through the book. New skills are explored in depth as they are introduced. The introductory section covers all the basics of knitting-selecting yarn, needle...