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The tale of David and Bathsheba has, when studied, aroused curiosity, controversy and, sometimes, condemnation.

The tall sculpture on the front cover of this book was created from an striking experience the author had in the late 1970s when looking at the news on the TV. In the course of approximately four seconds, a tall young German boy - absent of mind, aimless and sad - wandered across the screen and left the analyst artist in a powerful, shocked, puzzled state. He was in the midst of what became a failed '69-'79 training analysis, and during it, ...

A Newbery Honor Book "A hilarious, heartfelt triumph."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) From the singular imagination of National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson comes a magical adventure about a boy and his dog--or a dog and her boy--and a forest of wonders hidden in plain sight. Clay has had his fill of home life. A global plague has brought the world to a screeching halt, and with little to look forward to but a summer of video-calling fri...

The year is 1087, and a pox is sweeping through the Italian port city of Bari. When a lowly monk is visited by Saint Nicholas in his dreams, he interprets the vision as a call to action. But his superiors, and the power brokers they serve, have different plans for the tender-hearted Brother Nicephorus. Enter Tyun, a charismatic treasure hunter renowned for "liberating" holy relics from their tombs. The six-hundred-year-old bones of Saint Nicho...

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Zoey Lyndon's world is turned upside down after a betrayal she never saw coming! With Valentine's Day quickly approaching and budding crushes in the air, Zoey and her friends are truly living their best lives. Now 5th graders at Briar Ridge Elementary, they're secretly hoping they'll have a secret admirer on the big day. When Zoey accidentally overhears a conversation, it causes a domino effect and fall-out amongst her friends. This story is ...

John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today--that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple flowers carpeting the Central Valley were the fertile gardens of the Sierra Miwok and Valley Yokuts Indians, modified and made productive by centuries of harvestin...

You're never too old for adventure. When you're a geriatric armed with nothing but gumption and knitting needles, stopping a sorcerer from wiping out an entire dragon-fighting organization is a tall order. No one understands why 83-year-old Edna Fisher is the Chosen One, destined to save the Knights from a dragon-riding sorcerer bent on their destruction. After all, Edna has never handled a magical weapon, faced down a dragon, or cast a spel...

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This volume provides a set of principles and systematic methods for improvement to help district and school leaders achieve the continuous improvement goals embedded in the Professional Standard for Educational Leadership (PSEL) and the National Educational Leadership Program (NELP) standards.

This volume provides a set of principles and systematic methods for improvement to help district and school leaders achieve the continuous improvement goals embedded in the Professional Standard for Educational Leadership (PSEL) and the National Educational Leadership Program (NELP) standards.

Happily Never After Midnight is a treasury of a dozen short story delights that engage the mind, stir the soul, and unleash the libido. Take a romp deep into the realm of imagination, where the fantastical becomes real and the everyday otherworldly. Full of innocence and terror, surprises and amusements. The collection includes these soon-to-be-classic tales: Angelic Persuasion Forty Winks The Creation Swan's Wake Still Life Final Blow Pond Lo...

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This collection of essays considers the concept of connoisseurship afresh by investigating its practice in familiar places, such as Western art history, while also incorporating a global perspective with Chinese numismatics and walnut collecting, wine and coffee expertise, the market for geological specimens, and the resonances between Morellian connoisseurship and modern forensics. These essays resonate with one another in surprising ways and...

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You're never too old for adventure. When you're a geriatric armed with nothing but gumption and knitting needles, stopping a sorcerer from wiping out an entire dragon-fighting organization is a tall order. No one understands why 83-year-old Edna Fisher is the Chosen One, destined to save the Knights from a dragon-riding sorcerer bent on their destruction. After all, Edna has never handled a magical weapon, faced down a dragon, or cast a spel...

You're never too old for adventure. When you're a geriatric armed with nothing but gumption and knitting needles, stopping a sorcerer from wiping out an entire dragon-fighting organization is a tall order. No one understands why 83-year-old Edna Fisher is the Chosen One, destined to save the Knights from a dragon-riding sorcerer bent on their destruction. After all, Edna has never handled a magical weapon, faced down a dragon, or cast a spel...

The tall sculpture on the front cover of this book was created from an striking experience the author had in the late 1970s when looking at the news on the TV. In the course of approximately four seconds, a tall young German boy - absent of mind, aimless and sad - wandered across the screen and left the analyst artist in a powerful, shocked, puzzled state. He was in the midst of what became a failed '69-'79 training analysis, and during it, ...

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