29 Best Books for Students Entering Law School
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How to Think Like a Lawyer–and Why
- By: Kim Wehle
- Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 4 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: February 22, 2022
- Language: English
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3.26(110 ratings)
3.26(110 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDA law professor and author teaches non-attorneys how to think like a lawyer to gain advantage in their lives–whether buying a house, negotiating a salary, or choosing the right healthcare. Lawyers aren’t like other people. They oftenA law professor and author teaches non-attorneys how to think like a lawyer to gain advantage in their lives–whether buying a house, negotiating a salary, or choosing the right healthcare.
Lawyers aren’t like other people. They often argue points that are best left alone or look for mistakes in menus “just because.” While their scrupulous attention to detail may be annoying, it can also be a valuable skill.
Do you need to make health care decisions for an aging parent but are unsure where to start? Are you at crossroads in your career and don’t know how to move forward? Have you ever been on a jury trying to understand confusing legal instructions? How to Think Like a Lawyer has the answers to help you cut through the confusion and gain an advantage in your everyday life. Kim Wehle identifies the details you need to pay attention to, the questions you should ask, the responses you should anticipate, and the pitfalls you can avoid. Topics include:
- Selling and buying a home
- Understanding employment terms
- Creating a will and health care proxy
- Navigating health concerns
- Applying for financial aid
- Negotiating a divorce
Wehle shows you how to break complex issues down into digestible, easier-to-understand pieces that will enable you to make better decisions in all areas of your life.
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Little Soldiers
- By: Lenora Chu
- Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 19, 2017
- Language: English
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4.15(1658 ratings)
4.15(1658 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDIn the spirit of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Bringing up Bebe, and The Smartest Kids in the World, a hard-hitting exploration of China’s widely acclaimed yet insular education system–held up as a model of academic and behavioralIn the spirit of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Bringing up Bebe, and The Smartest Kids in the World, a hard-hitting exploration of China’s widely acclaimed yet insular education system–held up as a model of academic and behavioral excellence–that raises important questions for the future of American parenting and education.
When students in Shanghai rose to the top of international rankings in 2009, Americans feared that they were being “out-educated” by the rising super power. An American journalist of Chinese descent raising a young family in Shanghai, Lenora Chu noticed how well-behaved Chinese children were compared to her boisterous toddler. How did the Chinese create their academic super-achievers? Would their little boy benefit from Chinese school?
Chu and her husband decided to enroll three-year-old Rainer in China’s state-run public school system. The results were positive–her son quickly settled down, became fluent in Mandarin, and enjoyed his friends–but she also began to notice troubling new behaviors. Wondering what was happening behind closed classroom doors, she embarked on an exploratory journey, interviewing Chinese parents, teachers and education professors, and following students at all stages of their education.
What she discovered is a military-like education system driven by high-stakes testing, with teachers posting rankings in public, using bribes to reward students who comply, and shaming to isolate those who do not. At the same time, she uncovered a years-long desire by government to alleviate its students’ crushing academic burden and make education friendlier for all. The more she learns, the more she wonders: Are Chinese children–and her son–paying too high a price for their obedience and the promise of future academic prowess? Is there a way to appropriate the excellence of the system but dispense with the bad? What, if anything, could Westerners learn from China’s education journey?
Chu’s eye-opening investigation challenges our assumptions and asks us to consider the true value and purpose of education.
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Parkland
- By: Vincent Bugliosi
- Narrator: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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4.2(652 ratings)
4.2(652 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.95 USDNow a major motion picture! The exciting and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.In Parkland (originally titled Four Days in November), author Vincent Bugliosi “has definitively explainedNow a major motion picture! The exciting and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
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In Parkland (originally titled Four Days in November), author Vincent Bugliosi “has definitively explained the murder that recalibrated modern America” (Jim Newton, Los Angeles Times Book Review). Releasing this fall, the movie–starring Paul Giamatti, Zac Efron, Jacki Weaver, and Billy Bob Thornton–follows a group of individuals making split-second decisions after this incomprehensible event: the doctors and nurses at Parkland Hospital, the chief of the Dallas Secret Service, the cameraman who captured what has become the most examined film in history, the FBI agents who had gunman Lee Harvey Oswald within their grasp, and Vice President Lyndon Johnson who had to take control of the country at a moment’s notice. Based on Vincent Bugliosi’s Reclaiming History—Parkland is the story of that day. -
Papillon
- By: Henri Charriere
- Narrator: Michael Prichard
- Length: 18 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 12, 2012
- Language: English
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4.22(64980 ratings)
4.22(64980 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0038.99 USDHenri Charriere, called “Papillon,” for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with oneHenri Charriere, called “Papillon,” for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil’s Island, a place from which no one had ever escaped . . . until Papillon. His flight to freedom remains one of the most incredible feats of human cunning, will, and endurance ever undertaken.
Charriere’s astonishing autobiography, Papillon, was published in France to instant acclaim in 1968, more than twenty years after his final escape. Since then, it has become a treasured classic — the gripping, shocking, ultimately uplifting odyssey of an innocent man who would not be defeated.
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The Glass Castle
- By: Jeannette Walls
- Narrator: Jeannette Walls
- Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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4.3(1049987 ratings)
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4.3(1049987 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.95 USDMORE THAN EIGHT YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, “nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world’s most gifted storytellers. The Glass Castle is aMORE THAN EIGHT YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST
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The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, “nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world’s most gifted storytellers.
The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want the responsibility of raising a family.
The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.
The Glass Castle is truly astonishing–a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.
The memoir was also made into a major motion picture from Lionsgate in 2017 starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts. -
Dark Tort
- By: Diane Mott Davidson
- Narrator: Elizabeth Marvel
- Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: April 11, 2006
- Language: English
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3.82(7086 ratings)
3.82(7086 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDI tripped over the body of Dusty Routt sometime after10 o’clock on the evening of October 19. . . The New York Times bestselling author cooks up a knockout treat featuring the irrepressible caterer Goldy Schulz. Goldy Schulz has a lucrativeI tripped over the body of Dusty Routt sometime after
10 o’clock on the evening of October 19. . .The New York Times bestselling author cooks up a knockout treat featuring the irrepressible caterer Goldy Schulz.
Goldy Schulz has a lucrative new gig, preparing breakfasts and conference room snacks for a local law firm. It’s time-consuming, but Goldy is enjoying it — until the night she arrives to find Dusty, the firm’s paralegal, dead. The poor young woman also happens to be Goldy’s friend and neighbor, and now Dusty’s grieving mother begs Goldy to find out who murdered her daughter.
Just because the police are on the case doesn’t mean Goldy can’t do a little snooping herself. While catering a party at the home of one of the firm’s lawyers, she manages to overhear an incriminating conversation and ends up discovering a few clues in the kitchen. Before long, Goldy is knee deep in suspects, one of whom is incredibly dangerous and very liable to cook Goldy’s goose.
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What You Need to Know About Voting–and Why
- By: Kim Wehle
- Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 4 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 16, 2020
- Language: English
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3.76(106 ratings)
3.76(106 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USD“Now, more than ever, Americans are realizing that their votes count. Kim Wehle’s excellent guide tells you everything you need to know about the laws governing our greatest right and privilege. A must-read, especially in an election“Now, more than ever, Americans are realizing that their votes count. Kim Wehle’s excellent guide tells you everything you need to know about the laws governing our greatest right and privilege. A must-read, especially in an election year.” –Norah O’Donnell, Anchor and Managing Editor, CBS Evening News
Want to change the world? The first step is to exercise your right to vote! In this step by step guide, you can learn everything you need to know.
In What You Need to Know About Voting–and Why, law professor and constitutional scholar Kimberly Wehle offers practical, useful advice on the mechanics of voting and an enlightening survey of its history and future.
- What is a primary?
- How does the electoral college work?
- Who gets to cast a ballot and why?
- How do mail-in ballots work?
- How do I register?
For new voters, would-be voters, young people and all of us looking ahead to the next election, What You Need to Know About Voting–and Why is a timely and informative guide, providing the background you need in order to make informed choices that will shape our shared destiny for decades to come.
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Big Nate Strikes Again
- By: Lincoln Peirce
- Narrator: Fred Berman
- Length: 1 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publish date: October 19, 2010
- Language: English
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4.28(33397 ratings)
4.28(33397 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.008.99 USDSoon to be an animated series from Nickelodeon! “Big Nate is funny, big time” –Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid For fans of Jeff Kinney and Raina Telgemeier, here comes the second novel in the New York Times bestsellingSoon to be an animated series from Nickelodeon!
“Big Nate is funny, big time” –Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid
For fans of Jeff Kinney and Raina Telgemeier, here comes the second novel in the New York Times bestselling Big Nate series.
BIG NATE will surpass all others!
But it won’t be easy. He’s stuck with Gina, his all-time enemy, in a class project for his least favorite teacher Mrs. Godfrey, aka Godzilla. To make matters worse, Gina ALSO ends up on his fleeceball team, right when Nate is set to win his first fleeceball championship ever. This is his moment for glory, but Gina’s sure to steal his thunder, or ruin everything.
Will Nate win or lose? Pass or fail? Or end up in detention . . . AGAIN?
Meet BIG NATE, self-described genius and definitely NOT the teacher’s pet in this comic-strip novel perfect for anyone who’s ever been to middle school.
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Big Nate on a Roll
- By: Lincoln Peirce
- Narrator: Fred Berman
- Length: 1 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publish date: August 16, 2011
- Language: English
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4.37(17655 ratings)
4.37(17655 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.008.99 USDSoon to be an animated series from Nickelodeon! The third Big Nate novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Lincoln Peirce–Big Nate is on a roll! Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney says, “Big Nate is funny, bigSoon to be an animated series from Nickelodeon!
The third Big Nate novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Lincoln Peirce–Big Nate is on a roll!
Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney says, “Big Nate is funny, big time!”
Nate’s a big deal in his scout troop . . . until Artur–aka Mr. Perfect–joins. Now Nate’s stuck in second place. And Artur means business. Will Nate take the grand prize? Or wipe out, big time?
This hilarious third novel in the Big Nate series includes a sneak peek to the fourth Big Nate novel, Big Nate Goes for Broke.
Big Nate on a Roll was a 2012 YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers and a Junior Library Guild selection!
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Tracy Flick Can’t Win
- By: Tom Perrotta
- Narrator: Lucy Liu
- Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.69(6635 ratings)
3.69(6635 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDSoon to be a major motion picture starring Reese Witherspoon “Tom Perrotta is…one of the great writers that we have today. I love this book.” –Harlan Coben An “engrossing and mordantly funny” (People) novel aboutSoon to be a major motion picture starring Reese Witherspoon
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“Tom Perrotta is…one of the great writers that we have today. I love this book.” –Harlan Coben
An “engrossing and mordantly funny” (People) novel about ambition, coming-of-age in adulthood, and never really leaving high school politics behind–featuring New York Times bestselling author Tom Perrotta’s most iconic character of all time.
Tracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and underappreciated in midlife, Tracy gets a jolt of good news when the longtime principal, Jack Weede, abruptly announces his retirement, creating a rare opportunity for Tracy to ascend to the top job.
Energized by the prospect of her long-overdue promotion, Tracy throws herself into her work with renewed zeal, determined to prove her worth to the students, faculty, and School Board, while also managing her personal life–a ten-year-old daughter, a needy doctor boyfriend, and a burgeoning meditation practice.
But nothing ever comes easily to Tracy Flick, no matter how diligent or qualified she happens to be. Her male colleagues’ determination to honor Vito Falcone–a star quarterback of dubious character who had a brief, undistinguished career in the NFL–triggers memories for Tracy and leads her to reflect on the trajectory of her own life. As she considers the past, Tracy becomes aware of storm clouds brewing in the present. Is she really a shoo-in for the principal job? Is the Superintendent plotting against her? Why is the School Board President’s wife trying so hard to be her friend? And why can’t she ever get what she deserves?
A sharp, darkly comic, and pitch-perfect chronicle of the second act of one of the most memorable characters of our time, Tracy Flick Can’t Win “delivers acerbic insight about frustrated ambition” (Esquire). -
Columbine
- By: Dave Cullen
- Narrator: Don Leslie
- Length: 14 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 03, 2018
- Language: English
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4.28(75490 ratings)
4.28(75490 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDTen years in the works, a masterpiece of reportage, this is the definitive account of the Columbine massacre, its aftermath, and its significance, from the acclaimed journalist who followed the story from the outset. “The tragedies keepTen years in the works, a masterpiece of reportage, this is the definitive account of the Columbine massacre, its aftermath, and its significance, from the acclaimed journalist who followed the story from the outset.“The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . .”So begins a new epilogue, illustrating how Columbine became the template for nearly two decades of “spectacle murders.” It is a false script, seized upon by a generation of new killers. In the wake of Newtown, Aurora, and Virginia Tech, the imperative to understand the crime that sparked this plague grows more urgent every year.
What really happened April 20, 1999? The horror left an indelible stamp on the American psyche, but most of what we “know” is wrong. It wasn’t about jocks, Goths, or the Trench Coat Mafia. Dave Cullen was one of the first reporters on scene, and spent ten years on this book-widely recognized as the definitive account. With a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen, he draws on mountains of evidence, insight from the world’s leading forensic psychologists, and the killers’ own words and drawings-several reproduced in a new appendix. Cullen paints raw portraits of two polar opposite killers. They contrast starkly with the flashes of resilience and redemption among the survivors.
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In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower
- By: Davarian L Baldwin
- Narrator: Wayne Carr
- Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 30, 2021
- Language: English
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4.09(141 ratings)
4.09(141 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDAcross America, universities have become big businesses–and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas andAcross America, universities have become big businesses–and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow.
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Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. They maintain private police forces that target the Black and Latinx neighborhoods nearby. They become the primary employers, dictating labor practices and suppressing wages.
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes readers from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities. Through eye-opening conversations with city leaders, low-wage workers tending to students’ needs, and local activists fighting encroachment, scholar Davarian L. Baldwin makes clear who benefits from unchecked university power–and who is made vulnerable.
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower is a wake-up call to the reality that higher education is no longer the ubiquitous public good it was once thought to be. But as Baldwin shows, there is an alternative vision for urban life, one that necessitates a more equitable relationship between our cities and our universities. -
The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist
- By: Radley Balko
- Narrator: Robert Fass
- Length: 14 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: February 27, 2018
- Language: English
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4.05(3280 ratings)
4.05(3280 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDA shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered inA shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives
After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks. Together they spent a combined thirty years in prison before finally being exonerated in 2008. Meanwhile, the real killer remained free.
The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist recounts the story of how the criminal justice system allowed this to happen, and of how two men, Dr. Steven Hayne and Dr. Michael West, built successful careers on the back of that structure. For nearly two decades, Hayne, a medical examiner, performed the vast majority of Mississippi’s autopsies, while his friend Dr. West, a local dentist, pitched himself as a forensic jack-of-all-trades. Together they became the go-to experts for prosecutors and helped put countless Mississippians in prison. But then some of those convictions began to fall apart.
Here, Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington tell the haunting story of how the courts and Mississippi’s death investigation system — a relic of the Jim Crow era — failed to deliver justice for its citizens. The authors argue that bad forensics, structural racism, and institutional failures are at fault, raising sobering questions about our ability and willingness to address these crucial issues.
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How to Read the Constitution–and Why
- By: Kim Wehle
- Narrator: Kim Wehle
- Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 25, 2019
- Language: English
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3.96(465 ratings)
3.96(465 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“A must-read for this era.”–Jake Tapper, CNN Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent An insightful, urgent, and perennially relevant handbook that lays out in common sense language how the United States Constitution works, and“A must-read for this era.”–Jake Tapper, CNN Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent
An insightful, urgent, and perennially relevant handbook that lays out in common sense language how the United States Constitution works, and how its protections are eroding before our eyes–essential reading for anyone who wants to understand and parse the constantly breaking news about the backbone of American government.
The Constitution is the most significant document in America. But do you fully understand what this valuable document means to you? In How to Read the Constitution–and Why, legal expert and educator Kimberly Wehle spells out in clear, simple, and common sense terms what is in the Constitution, and most importantly, what it means. In compelling terms and including text from the United States Constitution, she describes how the Constitution’s protections are eroding–not only in express terms but by virtue of the many legal and social norms that no longer shore up its legitimacy–and why every American needs to heed to this “red flag” moment in our democracy.
This invaluable–and timely–resource includes the Constitution in its entirety and covers nearly every significant aspect of the text, from the powers of the President and how the three branches of government are designed to hold each other accountable, to what it means to have individual rights–including free speech, the right to bear arms, the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, and the right to an abortion. Finally, the book explains why it has never been more important than now for all Americans to know how our Constitution works–and why, if we don’t step in to protect it now, we could lose its protections forever.
How to Read the Constitution–and Why is essential reading for anyone who cares about maintaining an accountable government and the individual freedoms that the Constitution enshrines for everyone in America–regardless of political party.
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How Children Succeed
- By: Paul Tough
- Narrator: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: January 21, 2020
- Language: English
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3.89(20338 ratings)
3.89(20338 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDWhy do some children succeed while others fail?The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs.But in How Children Succeed,Why do some children succeed while others fail?
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The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs.
But in How Children Succeed, Paul Tough argues that the qualities that matter most have more to do with character: skills like perseverance, curiosity, conscientiousness, optimism, and self-control.
How Children Succeed introduces us to a new generation of researchers and educators who, for the first time, are using the tools of science to peel back the mysteries of character. Through their stories—and the stories of the children they are trying to help—Tough traces the links between childhood stress and life success. He uncovers the surprising ways in which parents do—and do not—prepare their children for adulthood. And he provides us with new insights into how to help children growing up in poverty.
Early adversity, scientists have come to understand, can not only affect the conditions of children’s lives, it can alter the physical development of their brains as well. But now educators and doctors around the country are using that knowledge to develop innovative interventions that allow children to overcome the constraints of poverty. And with the help of these new strategies, as Tough’s extraordinary reporting makes clear, children who grow up in the most painful circumstances can go on to achieve amazing things.
This provocative and profoundly hopeful book has the potential to change how we raise our children, how we run our schools, and how we construct our social safety net. It will not only inspire and engage readers, it will also change our understanding of childhood itself. -
KK Undercover Mystery: The Cookie Caper
- By: Nicholas Sheridan Stanton
- Narrator: Zoe Navapanich
- Length: 53 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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3.23(22 ratings)
3.23(22 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.006.95 USDRemember what it was like to see the world with the curious eyes of innocence? KK Undercover Mystery: The Cookie Caper is a remarkable tale that reminds us how cool it was to be a kid. The author’s lighthearted message of perseverance andRemember what it was like to see the world with the curious eyes of innocence? KK Undercover Mystery: The Cookie Caper is a remarkable tale that reminds us how cool it was to be a kid. The author’s lighthearted message of perseverance and loyalty appeals to people of all ages; you don’t have to be a kid to smile at these pages. The story will touch your heart, and the characters will imprint themselves in your mind.
The story introduces readers to KaSandra Dang—KK to her friends—a handicapable fourth-grader with a secret. She and her two closest friends, Winifred and Claire, have teamed up with Daniel, the new kid in school, to solve neighborhood mysteries for a supersecret government organization called Secret Agents for Moms.
In The Cookie Caper, KK and her colorful crew of grade school sleuths tackle the mystery of disappearing student lunches plaguing dear old Deer Canyon Elementary School. The team hatches a plan to hunt and trap the “Lunchito Bandito” in a whirlwind investigation that will involve teachers, family members, and every resource at their disposal. Together they gather clues and formulate a course of action that leads to the unmasking of this super-hungry fiend and to a surprise ending that will make you smile. You will fall in love with these delightful characters.
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The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
- By: Leslie Connor
- Narrator: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
- Publish date: June 05, 2018
- Language: English
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4.26(6803 ratings)
4.26(6803 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDFrom the critically acclaimed author of Waiting for Normal and All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook, Leslie Connor, comes a deeply poignant and beautifully crafted story about self-reliance, redemption, and hope. Mason Buttle is the biggest,From the critically acclaimed author of Waiting for Normal and All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook, Leslie Connor, comes a deeply poignant and beautifully crafted story about self-reliance, redemption, and hope.
Mason Buttle is the biggest, sweatiest kid in his grade, and everyone knows he can barely read or write. Mason’s learning disabilities are compounded by grief. Fifteen months ago, Mason’s best friend, Benny Kilmartin, turned up dead in the Buttle family’s orchard.
An investigation drags on, and Mason, honest as the day is long, can’t understand why Lieutenant Baird won’t believe the story Mason has told about that day.
Both Mason and his new friend, tiny Calvin Chumsky, are relentlessly bullied by the other boys in their neighborhood, so they create an underground haven for themselves. When Calvin goes missing, Mason finds himself in trouble again. He’s desperate to figure out what happened to Calvin and, eventually, Benny.
But will anyone believe him?
National Book Award Finalist * ALA Schneider Family Book Award * 2019 ALSC Notable Children’s Book * Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2018 * 2019-2020 Nebraska Golden Sower Award * Amazon Best Books of 2018 * Kirkus Best of Children’s 2018 * New York Public Library Best Books 2018 * Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books 2018 * 2018 Nerdy Book Club Middle Grade Winner * South Carolina Junior Book Award Nominee * 2020 Colorado Children’s Book Award Nominee * Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year 2019 (9-12) * 2020 Grand Canyon Reader Award Nominee * 2020-2021 Missouri Association of School Librarians Mark Twain Readers Award Preliminary Nominee * 2020-2021 Indiana Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee *
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My Dark Vanessa
- By: Kate Elizabeth Russell
- Narrator: Grace Gummer
- Length: 16 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: March 10, 2020
- Language: English
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4.09(187752 ratings)
4.09(187752 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.007.99 USDENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S BREAKOUT AUTHOR TO WATCH IN 2020 “Brilliant and stunning . . . an absolute must read.” – GILLIAN FLYNN “A well-constructed package of dynamite.” – STEPHEN KING A most anticipated bookENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S BREAKOUT AUTHOR TO WATCH IN 2020
“Brilliant and stunning . . . an absolute must read.” – GILLIAN FLYNN
“A well-constructed package of dynamite.” – STEPHEN KING
A most anticipated book by The New York Times * USA Today * Entertainment Weekly * Marie Claire * Elle * Harper’s Bazaar * Bustle * Newsweek * New York Post * Esquire * Real Simple * The Sunday Times * The Guardian
ONE OF THE MOST BUZZED ABOUT DEBUTS IN YEARS
AN INTERNATIONAL SENSATION SOLD IN 24 TERRITORIES AND COUNTING
Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naive teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher, a brilliant, all-consuming read that marks the explosive debut of an extraordinary new writer.
2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher.
2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager–and who professed to worship only her–may be far different from what she has always believed?
Alternating between Vanessa’s present and her past, My Dark Vanessa juxtaposes memory and trauma with the breathless excitement of a teenage girl discovering the power her own body can wield. Thought-provoking and impossible to put down, this is a masterful portrayal of troubled adolescence and its repercussions that raises vital questions about agency, consent, complicity, and victimhood. Written with the haunting intimacy of The Girls and the creeping intensity of Room, My Dark Vanessa is an era-defining novel that brilliantly captures and reflects the shifting cultural mores transforming our relationships and society itself.
Includes a bonus conversation with Kate Elizabeth Russell, Grace Gummer, and Jessica Williams (editor of My Dark Vanessa).
This audiobook includes an episode of the Book Club Girl Podcast, featuring an interview with Kate Elizabeth Russell about My Dark Vanessa.
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The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
- By: Al Ries
- Narrator: David Drummond
- Length: 3 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: April 22, 2014
- Language: English
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4.05(18049 ratings)
4.05(18049 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0015.99 USDThere are laws of nature, so why shouldn’t there be laws of marketing? As Al Ries and Jack Trout–the world-renowned marketing consultants and bestselling authors of Positioning–note, you can build an impressive airplane, but itThere are laws of nature, so why shouldn’t there be laws of marketing?
As Al Ries and Jack Trout–the world-renowned marketing consultants and bestselling authors of Positioning–note, you can build an impressive airplane, but it will never leave the ground if you ignore the laws of physics, especially gravity. Why then, they ask, shouldn’t there also be laws of marketing that must be followed to launch and maintain winning brands? In The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, Ries and Trout offer a compendium of twenty-two innovative rules for understanding and succeeding in the international marketplace. From the Law of Leadership, to The Law of the Category, to The Law of the Mind, these valuable insights stand the test of time and present a clear path to successful products. Violate them at your own risk.
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Double Shot
- By: Diane Mott Davidson
- Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 19, 2004
- Language: English
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3.98(10814 ratings)
3.98(10814 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USD“Today’s foremost practitioner of the culinary whodunit.”—Entertainment Weekly “In the genre of culinary mystery writers, Davidson is a Julia Child among Betty Crockers, and there is no question that Double Shot is her“Today’s foremost practitioner of the culinary whodunit.”
—Entertainment Weekly“In the genre of culinary mystery writers, Davidson is a Julia Child among Betty Crockers, and there is no question that Double Shot is her best book.”
—Denver PostNew York Times bestseller Diane Mott Davidson is the darling of cozy mystery readers and dedicated foodies the world over. Davidson is really cooking with Double Shot, another tantalizing puzzle featuring her beloved protagonist, accomplished caterer and sleuth Goldy Schulz. Whipping up a rich souffle of murder and mischief, Davidson has Goldy in a stew once again, when the reemergence of her psychopathic ex-husband and a murder that follows soon after brings chaos into her world. And, as always, many delicious recipes from Goldy’s kitchen are featured as well.
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Splat and the Cool School Trip
- By: Rob Scotton
- Narrator: Dan Bittner
- Length: 6 minutes
- Publisher: HarperFestival
- Publish date: June 25, 2013
- Language: English
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3.69(421 ratings)
3.69(421 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.002.99 USDJoin Splat the Cat on a school trip to the zoo in New York Times bestselling author-artist Rob Scotton’s hilarious new adventure, Splat and the Cool School Trip. Splat the Cat is so excited when Mrs. Wimpydimple announces that the class willJoin Splat the Cat on a school trip to the zoo in New York Times bestselling author-artist Rob Scotton’s hilarious new adventure, Splat and the Cool School Trip.
Splat the Cat is so excited when Mrs. Wimpydimple announces that the class will be going to the zoo. While everyone calls out his or her favorite animal–Elephant! Giraffe! Monkey!–Splat only wants to see the penguins. After all, penguins are perfect; they are black and white, just like Splat!
All day long, Splat just can’t wait. But when the smallest animal makes the biggest splash and shuts down the penguin exhibit, Splat goes home disappointed and alone . . . or does he?
Fans of Splat the Cat will delight in this story about zoo animals and enjoy Splat’s always-present enthusiasm.
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Sentimental Education
- By: Gustave Flaubert
- Narrator: Michael Maloney
- Length: 15 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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3.82(15030 ratings)
3.82(15030 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDFrederic Moreau is a law student returning home from Paris when he first notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last a lifetime. He befriends her husband, anFrederic Moreau is a law student returning home from Paris when he first notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last a lifetime. He befriends her husband, an influential businessman, and their paths cross again and again over the years. Through financial upheaval, political turmoil, and countless affairs, Mme. Arnoux remains the constant, unattainable love of Moreau’s life. Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education blends love story, historical authenticity, and satire to create one of the greatest French novels of the nineteenth century.
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The Worst Hard Time
- By: Timothy Egan
- Narrator: Jacob York
- Length: 12 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 26, 2021
- Language: English
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4.04(11168 ratings)
4.04(11168 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.99 USDIn a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.   The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years ofIn a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.
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The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, he does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, “the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency and respect” (New York Times). In an era that promises ever-greater natural disasters, The Worst Hard Time is “arguably the best nonfiction book yet” (Austin Statesman Journal) on the greatest environmental disaster ever to be visited upon our land and a powerful reminder about the dangers of trifling with nature.
 
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The Boys of My Youth
- By: Jo Ann Beard
- Narrator: Jo Ann Beard
- Length: 7 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 14, 2016
- Language: English
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4.12(4477 ratings)
4.12(4477 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.98 USDThe “utterly compelling, uncommonly beautiful” collection of personal essays (Newsweek) that established Jo Ann Beard as one of the leading writers of her generation. Cousins, mothers, sisters, dolls, dogs, best friends: these are theThe “utterly compelling, uncommonly beautiful” collection of personal essays (Newsweek) that established Jo Ann Beard as one of the leading writers of her generation.
Cousins, mothers, sisters, dolls, dogs, best friends: these are the fixed points in Jo Ann Beard’s universe, the constants that remain when the boys of her youth — and then men who replace them — are gone. This widely praised collection of autobiographical essays summons back, with astonishing grace and power, moments of childhood epiphany as well as the cataclysms of adult life: betrayal, divorce, death.
The Boys of My Youth heralded the arrival of an immensely gifted and influential writer and its essays remain surprising, original, and affecting today.“A luminous, funny, heartbreaking book of essays about life and its defining moments.” —Harper’s Bazaar... Read more -
Scoundrel
- By: Sarah Weinman
- Narrator: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: February 22, 2022
- Language: English
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3.6(1078 ratings)
3.6(1078 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDA Recommended Read from: The Los Angeles Times * Town and Country * The Seattle Times * Publishers Weekly * Lit Hub * Crime Reads * Alma From the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murderer whoA Recommended Read from: The Los Angeles Times * Town and Country * The Seattle Times * Publishers Weekly * Lit Hub * Crime Reads * Alma
From the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murderer who conned the people around him–including conservative thinker William F. Buckley–into helping set him free
In the 1960s, Edgar Smith, in prison and sentenced to death for the murder of teenager Victoria Zielinski, struck up a correspondence with William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review. Buckley, who refused to believe that a man who supported the neoconservative movement could have committed such a heinous crime, began to advocate not only for Smith’s life to be spared but also for his sentence to be overturned.
So begins a bizarre and tragic tale of mid-century America. Sarah Weinman’s Scoundrel leads us through the twists of fate and fortune that brought Smith to freedom, book deals, fame, and eventually to attempting murder again. In Smith, Weinman has uncovered a psychopath who slipped his way into public acclaim and acceptance before crashing down to earth once again.
From the people Smith deceived–Buckley, the book editor who published his work, friends from back home, and the women who loved him–to Americans who were willing to buy into his lies, Weinman explores who in our world is accorded innocence, and how the public becomes complicit in the stories we tell one another.
Scoundrel shows, with clear eyes and sympathy for all those who entered Smith’s orbit, how and why he was able to manipulate, obfuscate, and make a mockery of both well-meaning people and the American criminal justice system. It tells a forgotten part of American history at the nexus of justice, prison reform, and civil rights, and exposes how one man’s ill-conceived plan to set another man free came at the great expense of Edgar Smith’s victims.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Wishin’ and Hopin’
- By: Wally Lamb
- Narrator: Wally Lamb
- Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 10, 2009
- Language: English
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3.59(14147 ratings)
3.59(14147 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDWally Lamb, the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True, and She’s Come Undone, delivers a holiday treat with Wishin’ and Hopin’–an unforgettable novella thatWally Lamb, the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True, and She’s Come Undone, delivers a holiday treat with Wishin’ and Hopin’–an unforgettable novella that captures the warmth and joy of the holiday season. Poignant and hilarious, in a vein similar to Jean Shepherd’s A Christmas Story and David Sedaris’s The Santaland Diaries, Lamb’s Christmas tale focuses on a feisty parochial school fifth grader named Felix Funicello–a distant cousin of the iconic Annette!
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Fancy Nancy: Fancy Day in Room 1-A
- By: Jane O’Connor
- Narrator: Chloe Hennessee
- Length: 7 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publish date: May 01, 2012
- Language: English
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3.91(317 ratings)
3.91(317 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.002.99 USDThis Fancy Nancy I Can Read story from the beloved New York Times bestselling author-illustrator team Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser will entertain beginning readers–even on a rainy, gloomy day! After a gloomy, gray week stuckThis Fancy Nancy I Can Read story from the beloved New York Times bestselling author-illustrator team Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser will entertain beginning readers–even on a rainy, gloomy day!
After a gloomy, gray week stuck inside at school, Nancy comes up with a great idea to cheer up her friends. Ms. Glass’s classroom will celebrate a new holiday–Fancy Day! Everyone gets into the swing of things, practicing their manners and preparing for the party. But on the day of the celebration, Ms. Glass runs in late . . . looking quite plain. Can Nancy and her classmates doll up Ms. Glass and keep the party as elegant as expected?
Fancy Nancy: Fancy Day in Room 1-A is a Level One I Can Read book, which means it’s perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. The back matter features a list of the rich vocabulary words that are used throughout the story along with their definition.
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Handle With Care
- By: Marie Harte
- Narrator: Emily Beresford
- Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: August 27, 2019
- Language: English
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3.89(728 ratings)
3.89(728 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDEvan Griffith has done a lot in his life: a stint in the Marine Corps, as an overworked CPA, and investing in his family-owned moving company. But none of that holds a candle to helping people move. On an unforgettable job, he is involved in aEvan Griffith has done a lot in his life: a stint in the Marine Corps, as an overworked CPA, and investing in his family-owned moving company. But none of that holds a candle to helping people move. On an unforgettable job, he is involved in a female-on-female brawl, is taken by a teenage conman, and falls in love at first sight with a woman holding a knife. Yeah, his life has gone down the rabbit hole for sure. Kenzie Sykes is doing her best to raise her brother, keep him out of jail, and deal with a broken heart that still hasn’t healed. So, of course, the sexiest man she’s ever seen has to catch her on an off day. She doesn’t have time for romance. He’s not asking–until he is, and she finds herself saying yes. Both of them have loved and lost before, but if there’s one thing Evan knows, it’s that Semper Fidelis is more than a motto and that real men love hard and honest men love true.
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Blue Angel
- By: Francine Prose
- Narrator: Zach Villa
- Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 30, 2018
- Language: English
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3.38(3168 ratings)
3.38(3168 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDThe National Book Award Finalist from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose–now the major motion picture Submission “Screamingly funny … Blue Angel culminates in a sexual harassment hearing that rivals theThe National Book Award Finalist from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose–now the major motion picture Submission
“Screamingly funny … Blue Angel culminates in a sexual harassment hearing that rivals the Salem witch trials.” —USA Today
It’s been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England creative writing program, has published a novel. It’s been even longer since any of his students have shown promise. Enter Angela Argo, a pierced, tattooed student with a rare talent for writing. Angela is just the thing Swenson needs. And, better yet, she wants his help. But, as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Deliciously risque, Blue Angel is a withering take on today’s academic mores and a scathing tale that vividly shows what can happen when academic politics collides with political correctness.
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