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  Homeschool Rising - Shattering...

  Christy-Faith

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  Homeschool Rising is a guide for anyone interested in homeschooling their children, regardless of background. 
   
   
   
  In Homeschool Rising, educator Christy-Faith offers insights from more than twenty years in the field and her experience working with thousands of students to debunk these myths and misconceptions. 
   
   
   
  The truth is, homeschooling sets today's students up for success in a way that traditional schooling no longer can. This authoritative yet casual and accessible guide provides parents the tools, courage, and knowledge to opt out of the school system and take charge of their children's education. 
   
   
   
  ● See why homeschooling is a great option for kids of any race, religion, and background 
   
   
   
  ● Gain the knowledge you need to start your kids off on the right foot with homeschooling 
   
   
   
  ● Make sure your homeschooled kids are getting the support they need academically and socially 
   
   
   
  New and experienced homeschoolers looking for support, as well as educators, psychologists, and others who work with homeschooled children will love the clear, evidence-backed, and conversational information in Homeschool Rising.

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  Life Takes Wings - Becoming the...

  Lynn Rippelmeyer

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  Life Takes Wings is the first female 747 pilot’s fascinating story that begins as a TWA flight attendant.

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  Unwelcome Guests - A History of...

  Steven J. Diner, Harold S. Wechsler

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  In Unwelcome Guests, Harold S. Wechsler and Steven J. Diner argue that discrimination in college admissions has a long and troubling history in the US. Institutions of higher learning have vigorously sought to shape their mission and the experiences of their undergraduate students by paying careful attention to race and religion in admissions decisions. Wechsler and Diner explore how American colleges and universities sought to restrict enrollment of students they considered undesirable. How, they ask, did these practices change over time? And how did underrepresented students cope with this discrimination—and with the indifference, bare tolerance, or outright hostility of some of their professors and peers? 
   
   
   
  Tracing the efforts of people from underrepresented racial, ethnic, and religious groups to attend mainstream colleges, Wechsler and Diner also look at how these students fared after graduation, paying particular attention to Black women and men. Unwelcome Guests illuminates a critically important aspect of the history of American colleges and universities but also addresses policy debates about affirmative action and racial/ethnic diversity in colleges today. This profound history of the limits on college access over decades of discrimination helps listeners recognize and understand the role of race in the history of American higher education.

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  Partisan - The gripping story of...

  James Caffin

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  The gripping story of a New Zealand solider who escaped the clutches of a prisoner-of-war camp to join the Yugoslav freedom fighters during the Second World War  
   After a daring escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in occupied Yugoslavia, John Denvir reached the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, where he joined a partisan band as a machine-gunner. Believed shot and killed by New Zealand forces and his family in New Zealand, from January 1942 until the end of 1943, Denvir led brave and heroic attacks on German and Italian soldiers from behind enemy lines. He was wounded four times, received the Soviet Medal for Valour and was eventually appointed brigade commander. When 'Corporal Frank' was demobilised he returned to New Zealand and became a taxi driver in the small South Island town of Temuka.  
    
    
  Originally published in 1945 and out of print for many years, this is his remarkable true story.   
  HarperCollins Australia 2022

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  Shakespeare Without a Life

  Margreta de Grazia

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  A fascinating account of how Shakespeare's works were understood and valued by readers and writers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, before Shakespeare's biography came to dominate readings of his plays and poetry. 
   
   
   
  For almost two centuries after his death, Shakespeare had no biography. The makings of one were not available. No chronology had been devised by which to coordinate the events in his life with the writing of his works. Nor was there an archive of primary materials on which to base a life. And the only work by Shakespeare written in the first person, the Sonnets, had yet to be critically edited and incorporated into the canon. Without a biography, how could Shakespeare have been valued and understood? 
   
   
   
  In Shakespeare Without a Life, Margreta de Grazia looks at aspects of Shakespeare's reception between 1600 and 1800 that have been all but lost to the now still prevailing biographical impulse. It recovers the anecdote as a form of literary criticism, retrieves the ancient category of genre as the canon's organizing rubric, demonstrates how the quest for authentic documents invalidated other forms of literary record, and reveals how the desire to forge connections between Shakespeare's life and the Sonnets occluded his self-presentation as the 'deceasèd I' of a posthumous poet.

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  Nadi te Naari

  Bhupinder Singh Raina

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  This novel is dedicated to the woman who devotes her entire life to her family and helping others. In the novel, a woman is compared to a river—one that brings happiness, life, and love to everyone. Just as a river overcomes rocks, cliffs, and other obstacles to reach its destination, a woman, too, faces numerous challenges while nurturing and supporting her family. Despite these hardships, she remains calm and composed, gracefully completing her journey through life like a flowing river.

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