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  • So Much to Do

    A Full Life of Business, Politics, and Confronting Fiscal Crises

    Every city and every state needs a Richard Ravitch. In sixty years on the job, whether working in business or government, he was the man willing to tackle some of the most complex challenges facing New York. Trained as a lawyer, he worked briefly for the House of Representatives, then began his career in his family's construction business. He built high-profile projects like the Whitney Museum and ... Read more

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  • The Road to PROMESA

    Inside the Largest Public Debt Restructuring in US History

    The inside story of Puerto Rico's municipal debt restructuring and bankruptcy crisis—the largest in US history—and how Congress resolved itCold War tax incentives helped Puerto Rico to develop its economy. However, these incentives were phased out beginning in 1996, and the island slid into a recession a decade later. After years of stagnation, emigration of a large part of its population, and ... Read more

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  • 10 Common Core Essentials: Nonfiction

    Selections from New and Classic Books for the English Language Arts Standards for Middle and High School

    The excerpts featured in this free sampler come from some of our most popular nonfiction books for middle and high school classrooms—making them ideal choices to meet the new Common Core Standards for the English Language Arts. From the primary documents of The American Reader to The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind—the story of young man from an impoverished African village who built a windmill to ... Read more

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  • Shrieks in Cups of Gold

    Outsiders, outcasts, isolation, mutilation, transformation, exhibitionism, toxic families, poverty, identities, bodies, desire, transcendence, despair are just some of what legendary writer Katherine Dunn so grotesquely and beautifully mined in her small but powerful body of work. Oft regarded as literature but undeniably horror, Shrieks in Cups of Gold has Matt Brandenburg, Sasha Ravitch, Sara ... Read more

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  • The Trouble with Tractors

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  • How to Read Novels Like a Professor

    A Jaunty Exploration of the World’s Favorite Literary Form

    The follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor—a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and funOf all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, ... Read more

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  • My Way

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  • Book Was There

    Reading in Electronic Times

    by Andrew Piper ...
    Andrew Piper grew up liking books and loving computers. While occasionally burying his nose in books, he was going to computer camp, programming his Radio Shack TRS-80, and playing Pong. His eventual love of reading made him a historian of the book and a connoisseur of print, but as a card-carrying member of the first digital generation—and the father of two digital natives—he understands that we ... Read more

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    Find Passion, Embrace Fear, and Find Success on Your Own Terms

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  • Level 4 Sight Words: 69 Second Grade Flash Cards

    by Chris DiPaolo ...
    Series Book 4 - Easy-Peasy Reading & Flash Card Series
    Sight words can be known by many names including high-frequency words, Dolch words, Fry words, instant words or even Star words. This list includes 46 of the most common sight words, plus 23 common sight nouns.These flash cards have been designed to make learning sight words fun:- Skip Around Feature! - To keep your little one on his or her toes, each flash card has links on the bottom of page to ... Read more

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