Nancy: 4645 books
Things Invisible to See
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
**The first novel by Newbery Award–winning author Nancy Willard: A stunning story of magic and miracles, and a testament to the enduring power of faith and love **
Ben and Willie Harkissian are twin brothers (think Cain and Abel, Jacob and Esau) growing up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on the...
Better Learning Through Structured Teaching
A Framework for the Gradual Release of Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
In this updated 2nd edition of the ASCD best-seller, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey dig deeper into the hows and whys of the gradual release of responsibility instructional framework. To gradually release responsibility is to equip students with what they need to be engaged and self-directed learners....
by Nancy Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Winner of the Family/Parenting - Nonfiction category of the Global eBook Awards.
You have become the caregiver for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease. You may have been dreading this for some time, or you may have been surprised when this responsibility was thrust upon you. Maybe you know...
by Nancy J. Keane
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Nancy J. Keane is the author of the award-winning website Booktalks—Quick and Simple (nancykeane.com/booktalks), as well as the creator of the open collaboration wiki ATN Book Lists. With her latest book, 101 Great, Ready-to-Use Book Lists for Teens, she provides another indispensable resource for...
From Fear to Love
Overcoming the Barriers to Healthy Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Learn how to recognize and destroy barriers to authentic love. Reaching out to another in love has its risks. It means making yourself vulnerable, taking the risk that you may experience rejection or worse. But, oh the blessings! Ray and Nancy Kane have been there and have come out on the other side...
Gay and Lesbian Elders
History, Law, and Identity Politics in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The approximately two million gay and lesbian elders in the United States are an underserved and understudied population. At a time when gay men and lesbians enjoy an unprecedented degree of social acceptance and legal protection, many elders face the daily challenges of aging isolated from family,...
The Man Question
Male Subordination and Privilege
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
Among the many important tools feminist legal theorists have given scholars is that of anti-essentialism: all women are not created equal, and privilege varies greatly by circumstances,particularly that of race and class. Yet at the same time, feminist legal theory tends to view men through an essentialist...
by Nancy Kopp
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
After a messy divorce, Assistant District Attorney Liz Stanfeld has just relocated from the bustle of downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin to the quiet, affluent suburb of Oakwood. But just when she thinks her job is about to get easier, she is assigned one of the most explosive cases in the small town's...
After Silence
Rape & My Journey Back
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
"Silence has the rusty taste of shame. The words shut up are the most terrible words I know. . . . The man who raped me spat these words out over and over during the hours of my attack--when I screamed, when I tried to talk him out of what he was doing, when I protested. It seemed to me that for seven...
by Nancy Tillman, Eric Metaxas
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
It's time to sleep, it's time to sleep,
the fishes croon in waters deep.
The songbirds sing in trees above,
"It's time to sleep, my love, my love."
As children prepare for bed, the world around them is also settling down for the night. Animals who live in the...
by Nancy Jill Thames
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
The Christmas holidays get a morbid start when Jillian Bradley's niece Kaitlin Romero discovers the body of her boss at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An envelope containing rare Charles Dickens illustrations is missing, and Detective Mickey Wells must reluctantly rely on Jillian's help to solve...
by Nancy Jill Thames
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Here are more stories about the dynamic investigating duo of Jillian Bradley and her Yorkie companion Teddy. Enjoy stories centered on the holidays. For Christmas, "Lawrence Buys a Gift" introduces a fellow amateur sleuth with a case of his own to share. In "Final Performance," Jillian and her garden...
Doodlebug Days
An American Family's Ups and Downs as Middle-Class Migrants in the California of the 1930S
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2000
Our 1935 black Oldsmobile and heavily-loaded trailer drew hostile looks as we drove into Bakersfield and stopped at a shady park to check the tires. When Mother, Daddy, we two girls and our young brother, Skippy, got out, two work-hardened men in ranch straw hats and short-sleeved cotton shirts stood...
Fade to Gray
Aging in American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Americans are living longer and reinventing both work and retirement, but Hollywood movies barely hint at this reality of contemporary society. In many popular films, older characters fade into irrelevance, inactivity, or absurdity, or else they stay in the background as wise elders while younger characters...