Lent: 52 books

The gluttonous, jazz-loving character of Neil Connelly in John Lent’s So It Won’t Go Away can never get enough out of life, no matter how much he over-indulges his desires: “Drinking, smoking, sex: a man’s hands twittering, eyes bugged out in a desperate longing to be held, fondled, stuffed,...

Overcoming textbook fatigue means reaching within and beyond the textbook to access all sorts of 21st century tools, the same ones that students will be using in college, careers, and daily life. –ReLeah Cossett Lent Textbook fatigue is a malaise that negatively affects teachers and students. It...

The powerful and tragic tale of a young man and woman in early nineteenth-century New England mirror the birth of a nation. “In intensely charged prose very reminiscent of Faulkner’s,” Lost Nation delves beneath the bright, promising veneer of early-nineteenth-century New England to unveil...

The acclaimed author’s “transcendent story about the healing power of love and art” set in the New England woods—“magisterial and . . . beautifully written” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   Hewitt Pearce lives alone in his Vermont family home, producing custom ironwork and safeguarding...

A bold and epic novel chronicling the dark secrets and forbidden, transcendent loves of an American family across three generations. In the twilight of the Civil War, a Union soldier meets a runaway slave and returns with her to his family homestead in Vermont, launching the story of a bold,...

  Bülent Demirdurak'ın kaleminden yeni ülkeler, yeni şehirler... Yuvarlak Dünyanın Altı Köşesi   "Gezi kitapları, gezen gören insanlara geçmişi anımsatır, gidip görmediği, gezmediği yerlerin ise hayalini yaşatır. Bülent Demirdurak'ın bu kitabını...

For fans of The Orchardist and The Cove and from the author of bestselling In the Fall, an epic historical novel that fearlessly addresses the largest questions of love, justice, and how to live. "Wonderfully entertaining, deeply moving, beautifully written . . . In my estimation, Jeffrey...

Already appearing on must-read lists for Bitch, PopSugar, BookRiot, and Autostraddle, this is an exploration of women navigating serious health issues at an age where they're expected to be healthy, dating, having careers and children. Miriam’s doctor didn’t believe she had breast cancer....

Ünlü isimlerden başarı öğütleri, hayat dersleri ve birbirinden ilginç anekdotlar... Tanınmış, başarılı olmuş değişik kesimlere mensup zirvedeki 148 ünlüden başarı öğütlerinin, güzel sözlerin, hayat dersleriyle dolu anıların bir araya getirildiği bu derleme her zaman...

OKURUM, GEZERİM, YAZARIM Müzeleri, bulvarları, mağazaları, restoranları, gece kulüpleri ile PARİS… Eyfel Kulesi, Seine Nehri, Arc de Triomphe, Champs Elysees Bulvarı, Notre Dame Katedrali sizleri bekliyor. Yabancı diyarlarda, en güzel anıların kişisel deneyimler...

**Eusebio Franklin, a school teacher from a small community, is faced with the most terrifying dilemma imaginable: should he carry out an act of mass terrorism in order to save the human race?  ** Eusebio has been chosen to defend our human race in a special session of the United Nations.  It's...

The sweeping, intergenerational story of a Vermont family, from WWII to the dawning of the '60s--the most magisterial and moving novel of acclaimed author Jeffrey Lent's career. Katey Snow, seventeen, slips the pickup into neutral and rolls silently out of the driveway of her Vermont home,...

Humanity started small. Where did we get the idea big is better? The establishment promote big business, big government or big culture, more often than not, all three. In Small is Powerful Adam Lent reveals how our faith in big was manufactured in the 1900s – by a group of powerful business leaders,...

Keep Them Reading is a concise handbook for teachers, librarians, administrators, and district personnel about how to prevent censorship in a school or district—and what to do if it happens.  Written by two award-winning authors who have devoted much of their careers to anti-censorship work,...