This guide includes information on the author, Turgenev, the book summary, commentary, test questions and further readings. 


Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Vermont

English

A critical guide to appreciation of meaning, form, and style. 

Monarch Notes for Fathers and Sons 

Contains commentary, summaries, characters, test questions and more 

A critical guide to appreciation and understanding 

Monarch Note: Anna Karenina

Complete and unabridged. Dell. 15th edition. 1979. Yellowing on pages. 

Crime and Punishment 

Ivan Turgenev

Rosemary Edmonds

Great classic.  Book has one bend on cover. Yellowing on pages. 

With an introduction by Rosamund Bartlett and an afterword by Tatiana Tolstaya

Turgenev's depiction of the conflict between generations and their ideals stunned readers when Fathers and Sons was first published in 1862. But many could also sympathize with Arkady's fascination with its nihilist hero whose story vividly captures the hopes and regrets of a changing Russia.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Fathers and Sons

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Lin Zainab

Poignant story of a teenager’s quest to belong after her family moves to England. 

Invisible Child 

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Chris Bohjalian

#hardcover #chrisbohjalian #fiction #familysaga


Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

After a decade of spending a delightful summer week at their country house in New Hampshire, the members of the extended Seton family are confronted by a terrible accident, testing the values and relationships that hold them together.

Before You Know Kindness

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Camille Peri

Tales of Reallife Parenthood

Mothers who think: tales of real-life parenthood, which grew out of Salon's popular daily department of the same name, comprises nearly forty essays by writers grappling with the new and compelling ideas that motherhood has dangled before them"--Jacket.

Mothers Who Think

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters 

Paul Tough

What Works and Why

A NOW READ THIS PBS NewsHour and New York Times Book Review selection 



An essential handbook of successful strategies to help kids overcome issues, learn, and thrive--including in today's chaotic learning environments for kids



In How Children Succeed, Paul Tough introduced us to research showing that personal qualities like perseverance, self-control, and conscientiousness play a critical role in children's success.

      Now, in Helping Children Succeed, Tough takes on a new set of pressing questions: What does growing up with economic and other stress do to children's mental and physical development? How does adversity at home affect their success in the classroom, from preschool to high school? And what practical steps can the adults who are responsible for them take to improve their chances for a positive future?

      Tough once again encourages us to think in a new way about the challenges of childhood. Mining the latest research in psychology and neuroscience, he provides us with insights and strategies for a new approach to childhood adversity, one designed to help many more children succeed.

Helping Children Succeed

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Carolyn Crowder

Audrey Ricker

4 Steps to Ending Rude Behavior in Your Kids

"So what? All the other kids get to do it!" Few behavioral problems challenge and frustrate parents, caregivers, and teachers as does verbal rudeness in children of any age. Reinforced by the wise-cracking kids on TV and in the movies, backtalk has become all too common among today's youngsters. But there is nothing cute about this behavior. Remarks like "Yeah, right," "Big deal," and "Make me" -- form children as young as three -- get in the way of real communication between parents and kids, and can also be detrimental to a child's social and intellectual development. Now two experts in the field share their simple and specific four-step program for ending backtalk and restoring balance in relationships between parents and children, from preschoolers to teens. You'll learn how to recognize backtalk, how to choose and enact a response that will make sense to you and the backtalker, and when to disengage from the struggle and move forward. Full of advice and encouragement as well as suggestions on how to keep track of what works and what doesn't, Backtalk can be put to use immediately, before you hear another "Whatever."

Backtalk

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Roni Cohen-Sandler

Michelle Silver

A New Understanding of Mother-Daughter Conflict

For mothers who are reeling from the rockiness of an ever-changing adolescent, or struggling with a relationship that's deteriorating by the day, here is encouragement, reassurance, and great advice. "I'm Not Mad, I Just Hate You!" discusses the social, emotional, cultural, and psychological issues that can lead to mother-daughter conflicts. It offers illuminating and very recognizable case studies, and demonstrates how mother-daughter friction during adolescence can actually empower girls by teaching them invaluable skills. By providing mothers with much-needed encouragement and practical strategies to help their daughters grow into emotionally healthy and capable adults, "I'm Not Mad, I Just Hate You!" can transform the tempestuous teenage years into years of positive, enriching growth.

I'm Not Mad, I Just Hate You!

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Thomas Sowell

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Thomas Sowell's new book is scheduled for release in the fall of 2023 by Basic Books.

Social Justice Fallacies

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James M. Kouzes

Barry Z. Posner

Unused workbook.  Companion to the book The Leadership Challenge.  Also listed. 

Based on Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner's classic book The Leadership Challenge, this Workbook will be your hands-on guide for improving your ability to put into action the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® model and become a leader who Models the Way, Inspires a Shared Vision, Challenges the Process, Enables Others to Act, and Encourages the Heart. The Workbook's easy-to-use worksheets make efficient planning simple and practical and supports your success in three ways: Reflection: Think about your approach to leadership and become more conscious about how well you engage in each of the Practices. Application: Apply the Practices and commitments to all your projects. Implications: Record what you've learned about yourself, your team, your organization, and your project. Develop your leadership potential with The Leadership Challenge Workbook!

The Leadership Challenge Workbook

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Stephen Goodwin

Losing his temper when he hears allegations about his daughter and a group of boys at a party, Tucker Jones inadvertently assaults one of the boys and is targeted in a legal battle that threatens his home, career, freedom, and relationship with his daughter. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Breaking Her Fall

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Jon R. Katzenbach

Douglas K. Smith

Creating the high performance organization. Includes thd Teams question and answer guide. 

Creating the High-Performance Organization

The bestselling book that explores the remarkable benefits of teams at all levels of the organization. A look at the 30 virtues of good business that have inspired success in thousands of leaders, by the man voted Boss of the Year, 1994 by the National Organization for Women.

The Wisdom of Teams

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Daniel Goleman

Richard E. Boyatzis

Annie McKee

Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence

National bestseller now available in paperback.

Drawing from decades of research within world-class organizations, the authors show that great leaders excel not just through skill and smarts, but by connecting with others using Emotional Intelligence competencies like empathy and self-awareness. The best leaders, they show, have "resonance"--a powerful ability to drive emotions in a positive direction to get results--and can fluidly interchange among a variety of leadership styles as the situation demands. Groundbreaking and timely, thisbook reveals the new requirements of successful leadership.

Primal Leadership

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Warren Bennis

The leadership classic updated and expanded.  

With a new introduction by the authorWarren Bennis's formative years, in the 1930s and '40s, were characterized by severe economic hardship and a world war that showcased the extreme depths and heights to which leaders could drive their followers. Today's environment is similarly chaotic, turbulent, and uncertain. On Becoming a Leader has served for nearly fifteen years as a beacon of insight, delving into the qualities that define leadership, the people who exemplify it, and the strategies that anyone can apply to become an effective leader. This new edition features a provocative introduction on the challenges and opportunities facing leaders today, with additional updates and current references throughout.

On Becoming a Leader

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Jon L. Pierce

John W. Newstrom

So much information in this gem of a book. A mosaic of contemporary views. 

A Mosaic of Contemporary Views

This "collage of views" contains 45 brief descriptive summaries of the most popular business best-sellers to date. The Fourth Edition, an ideal supplement for instructors of management and business courses, exposes students to a variety of material that has appeared in business books and publications.

The Manager's Bookshelf

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Robin Williams

Design and Typography Principles for the Visual Novice.  

Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice

Robin Williams wrote this one for people who now need to design pages but have not background or formal training in design. Follow her basic principles and your work is guaranteed to look more professional. organized, unified, and interesting. Witty and easy to read, this book is full of practical information, exercises, and quizzes that ensure you'll never look at a page in the same way again.

The Non-Designer's Design Book

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Don’t ask why, ask what’s the difference.  Many subject areas covered in this little book! 

How to Tell Things That Are Confusingly Close  

What’s the Difference?

Robin Wasserman

The ultimate hack challenge: breaking into the Ivy League. 

You don’t need to be brilliant, you just need a plan.

When three brilliant nerds--Max Kim, Eric Roth, and Isaac "The Professor" Schwarzbaum--bet $20,000 that they can get anyone into Harvard, they take on the Ivy League in their quest for popularity, money, and the love of a beauty queen valedictorian. Original.

Hacking Harvard

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Lucinda Rosenfeld

Funny novel about Phoebe Fine, daughter of classical musicians.  

A Novel

A fresh (in more than one sense) and honest new voice in fiction is extravagantly displayed in this first novel that candidly dissects modern romance.

Plagued with weird parents, an underdeveloped body, and a mind on the verge of self-deconstruction, Phoebe Fine feels ill-equipped for a journey through the hardening chambers of the late twentieth-century heart. But from fifth grade and Roger Mancuso, equal parts baby Brando and court jester, through her early adult life with New Media executive Neil Schmertz, a babytalker who prefers spooning to sex, Phoebe trudges defiantly through guyland, armed with a tart tongue, and propelled by an insatiable desire to be loved.

What She Saw...

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Sandeep Jauhar

Book is in excellent shape. Back cover has a crease. Medical memoir. 

A Doctor's Initiation

Intern is Dr. Sandeep Jauhar's story of his days and nights in residency at a busy hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question his every assumption about medical care today. Residency—and especially its first year, the internship—is legendary for its brutality, and Jauhar's experience was even more harrowing than most. He switched from physics to medicine in order to follow a more humane calling—only to find that his new profession often had little regard for patients' concerns. He struggled to find a place among squadrons of cocky residents and doctors. He challenged the practices of the internship in The New York Times, attracting the suspicions of the medical bureaucracy. Then, suddenly stricken, he became a patient himself—and came to see that today's high-tech, high-pressure medicine can be a humane science after all. Jauhar's beautifully written memoir explains the inner workings of modern medicine with rare candor and insight.

Intern

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Billie Letts

Oprah’s book club book. Includes guide for reading group. 

Special Reading Group Guide inside 

Talk about unlucky sevens. An hour ago, seventeen-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation was heading for California with her boyfriend. Now she finds herself stranded at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, with just $7.77 in change. But Novalee is about to discover hidden treasures in this small Southwest town--a group of down-to-earth, deeply caring people willing to help a homeless, jobless girl living secretly in a Wal-Mart. From Bible-thumping blue-haired Sister Thelma Husband to eccentric librarian Forney Hull who loves Novalee more than she loves herself, they are about to take her--and you, too--on a moving, funny, and unforgettable journey to . . . Where the Heart Is.

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