Teaching students to become lifelong readers A companion to the bestselling The Book Whisperer , Reading in the Wild explores whether or not we are truly instilling lifelong reading habits in our students and provides practical strategies for teaching "wild" reading.[...]

Widely used in introductory literature courses as a style guide or as a supplement to anthologies, this book provides valuable guidelines for interpreting literature and writing essays. It includes full-length selections as well as essays.[...]

In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley was a flood-ravaged region where an inland sea a hundred miles long regularly formed during the rainy season, to drain slowly away by the summer months. Today the Valley is marvelously productive, with a great capital city at its center, but only after [...]

Allan Kaprow has been described as an avant-garde revolutionary, a radical sociologist, a Zen(ish) monk, a progressive educator, and an anti-art theorist. But, above all, as this book reminds us, he has been an influential artist. Known for his "Happenings", Kaprow created vanguard performances in t[...]

Explores the beach - one of the planet's most dynamic environments - from tourist beaches to Arctic beaches strewn with ice chunks to steaming hot tropical shores. This book tells how beaches work, explains why they vary so much, and shows how dramatic changes can occur on them in a matter of hours.[...]

The #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Kelley Armstrong delivers the novel her fans have been clamoring for: "Thirteen," the epic finale of the Otherworld series.
It's been more than ten years, a dozen installments, and hundreds of thousands of copies since Kelley Armstrong introduced reade[...]

As #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's new Cainsville series continues, Olivia's power to read omens leads to the discovery of a gruesome crime with troubling connections to her new hometown.
"Omens," the first installment in Kelley Armstrong's exciting new series, introduc[...]