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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of The Winters's Tale provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play...
Author
Language
English
Description
An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery.
"As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle...
Series
Publisher
Health Communications
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Celebrating every little girl's childhood hero and the special dad and daughter bond! From the first time a daughter grasps dad's hand and says her first words, to the day she moves out on her own, the bond between a father and daughter is ever evolving: dad goes from childhood hero, feared inspector of boyfriends, to the sage friend of adulthood. Daughters mature from perfect little angels into rebellious teens to accomplished women who are dad's...
11) King Lear
Series
Publisher
Sweet Cherry Publishing
Lexile measure
NC 1140L
Language
English
Description
King Lear is one of the greatest tragedies by Shakespeare. The play is focused around Lear, the aging King of Britain, and his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. When Lear wants to step down from the throne, he decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters and asks each daughter how much she loves him. Goneril and Regan, greedy for their share, give him flattering answers, while Cordelia remains silent, which enrages Lear and...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The world renowned French cooking instructor teams up with his granddaughter to prepare plain but elegant dishes, including curly hot dogs with pickle relish, marinated Chinese mushroom salad, and blueberries in honey sauce.
World renowned French cooking instructor Jacques Pépin teams up with his granddaughter Shorey to prepare plain but elegant dishes. In addition to sharing his favorites, Pépin teaches the simple recipes using logical steps....
Author
Publisher
Abrams Image
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"As a single dad, Matthew Carroll didn't always have someone to share in his frequent laughter and incredulity at the various things his daughter Morgan said. Hoping to document some of her best commentary, Carroll took to recording her choicest quotes on his iPhone when she was between the ages of three and five ... [This book] is the record of the ... pronouncements of a little girl, but it's also the ... documentation of the love between a parent...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"With the searching, exquisite prose of a loving daughter, Patti Davis provides a life raft for the caregivers of Alzheimer's patients. "For the decade of my father's illness, I felt as if I was floating in the deep end, tossed by waves, carried by currents, but not drowning. "In a singular account of battling Alzheimer's, Patti Davis eloquently weaves personal anecdotes with practical advice tailored specifically for the overlooked caregiver. After...
Author
Publisher
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Lily Dunn was just six years old, her father left the family home to follow his guru to India, trading domestic life for clothes dyed in oranges and reds and the promise of enlightenment with the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. Since then he has been a mystery to her. She grew up enthralled by the image of him; effervescent, ambitious and elusive, a writer, publisher and entrepreneur, a man who would appear with gifts from faraway places, and...