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Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A memoir of paranoid schizophrenia by an accomplished professor recounts her first symptoms at the age of eight, her efforts to hide the severity of her condition, and the obstacles she has overcome in the course of her treatment and marriage.
Author
Series
Publisher
Neal-Schuman, an imprint of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The authors look at collaborating with faculty and engaging with students to the point where they begin their research: in their learning management system (LMS) classroom. The embedded librarian develops a sense of partnership, participation, and community with students and faculty, becoming an active participant in the course.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Perfect for fans of Carl Hiaasen and Armistead Maupin, this light, LGBT mystery follows an unlucky in love-and life-teacher who unwittingly ends up the prime suspect in a disappearance.
Seattle teacher and part-time blogger Hayden McCall wakes sporting one hell of a shiner, with the police knocking at his door. It seems that his new crush, dancer Camilo Rodriguez, has gone missing and they suspect foul play. What happened the night before? And where...
Publisher
Association of College and Research Libraries
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"As librarians, we often find ourselves outside the traditional structure of our education system. Time limits add another layer of complexity; how can we motivate students to learn when we only see them for an hour or two? Motivating Students on a Time Budget begins with a section of research-based, broad-level considerations of student motivation as it relates to short-term information literacy instruction, both in person and online. It then moves...
Series
Practical guides for librarians volume no. 26
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Publisher
ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Businesses have always recognized the value of "facetime" in keeping a customer. With the rise of online services, e-book collections, and other virtual resources, it is still necessary to connect on a more personalized venue. This collection of essays examines successful approaches and initiatives for personal library programs.
Author
Series
Joanne Kilbourn mysteries volume 10
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Pub. Date
2011, c2006
Language
English
56) Need me
Author
Series
Broke and beautiful novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Honey Perribow traded in her cowboy boots for stilettos and left her small Kentucky town to attend Columbia University, she never expected to find a dirt-cheap apartment or two new best friends. No stranger to hard work, Honey is completely focused on her medical degree … until she sees newly minted professor Ben Dawson, and her concentration is hijacked. Honey is fascinated by her gorgeous young English professor and vows to find a crack in...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A daring post-colonial satire . . . It's a blistering skewering, and as sharp as it is funny."-Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
A stellar novel rendered into a darkly comic, unforgettable narrative by Booker International Prize winning translator Jessica Cohen. An Israeli professor travels to a fictitious West African nation to trace a slave-trading ancestor, only to be imprisoned under a new law barring successive generations from profiting off...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Isabel Allende parte de la célebre cita de Albert Camus -"en medio del invierno aprendí por fin que había en mí un verano invencible"--Para urdir una trama que presenta la geografía humana de unos personajes propios de la América de hoy que se hallan "en el más profundo invierno de sus vidas": una chilena, una joven guatemalteca indocumentada y un maduro norteamericano. Los tres sobreviven a un terrible temporal de nieve que cae en pleno invierno...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and a finalist for the National Book Award: Alison Lurie's supremely entertaining masterwork about two American scholars, both alone in London, who find romance in the most unlikely places Prim, divorced, and middle-aged, Vinnie Miner gave up on love long ago. On her way to London to research a book about children's folk rhymes-a scholarly pursuit that even her fellow...
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