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  • SAT Prep Black Book: The Most Effective SAT Strategies Ever Published

    • ASIN: 0692916164
    • ISBN: 9780692916162
    • Manufacturer: ACT Prep Books

    Click the "look inside" feature above to browse the SAT Black Book and get a feel for how it approaches the SAT! The fully up-to-date SAT Prep Black Book, Second Edition gives you unique, effective SAT strategies from Mike Barrett, an SAT tutor with clients all over the globe who pay him hundreds of dollars an hour for phone tutoring. In addition t... [Read More]

  • The College Panda's SAT Writing: Advanced Guide and Workbook

    • ASIN: 098949649X
    • ISBN: 098949649X
    • Manufacturer: College Panda, The

    A second edition fully updated for the current SAT (2018 and beyond)This book brings together everything you need to know for the SAT writing section, from the simplest to the most advanced grammar rule. Unlike most other test prep books, this one is truly geared towards the student aiming for the perfect score. It leaves no stones unturned.Inside,... [Read More]

  • The College Panda's SAT Math: Advanced Guide and Workbook for the New SAT

    • ASIN: 0989496422
    • ISBN: 0989496422
    • Manufacturer: College Panda, The

    Now fully updated and completely revised for the new SAT This book brings together everything you need to know for the SAT math section. Unlike most other test prep books, this one is truly geared towards the student aiming for the perfect score. It leaves no stones unturned.Inside, You'll Find:Clear explanations of the tested math concepts, from t... [Read More]

  • The Friend: A Novel

    • ASIN: B0721HK732
    • Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

    WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A beautiful book … a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love." —Wall Street Journal"A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory...Nunez has a wry, withering wit." —NPR"Dry, allusive and charming…the comedy here writes itself.” The New Yor... [Read More]

  • Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition

    • ASIN: 0316438529
    • ISBN: 9780316438520
    • Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal

    The 75th anniversary edition of this classic bestseller. This stunningly illustrated, hardcover edition will be beloved by fans of Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology of all ages.Since its original publication by Little, Brown and Company in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the world and established itself as a ... [Read More]

  • The Official SAT Study Guide, 2018 Edition (Official Study Guide for the New Sat)

    • ASIN: 1457309289
    • ISBN: 1457309289
    • Brand: COLLEGE BOARD
    • Manufacturer: College Board

    Review every skill and question type needed for SAT success – now with eight total practice tests.The 2018 edition of The Official SAT Study Guide doubles the number of official SAT® practice tests to eight – all of them created by the test maker. As part of the College Board's commitment to transparency, all practice tests are available on th... [Read More]

  • College Essay Essentials: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Successful College Admissions Essay

    • UPC: 760789258534
    • ASIN: 149263512X
    • ISBN: 149263512X
    • Brand: Ethan Sawyer
    • Manufacturer: Sourcebooks

    Writing an amazing college admission essay is easier than you think!So you're a high school senior given the task of writing a 650-word personal statement for your college application. Do you tell the story of your life, or a story from your life? Do you choose a single moment? If so, which one? The options seem endless.Lucky for you, they're not. ... [Read More]

  • The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need: A One-Stop Source for Every Writing Assignment

    • UPC: 045079208551
    • ASIN: 1580628559
    • ISBN: 9781580628556
    • Brand: Adams Media
    • Manufacturer: Adams Media

    Never stress over a comma, colon, or dash again! The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need is the ideal resource for everyone who wants to produce writing that is clear, concise, and grammatically excellent. Whether you're creating perfect professional documents, spectacular school papers, or effective personal letters, you'll find this handbook indis... [Read More]

  • Brave Companions

    • ASIN: B000QTD63I
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    From Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, these are stories of people of great vision and daring whose achievements continue to inspire us today, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.The bestselling author of Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women past and present ... [Read More]

  • Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.)

    • UPC: 876964003568
    • ASIN: 0060731338
    • ISBN: 0060731338
    • Brand: Harper Perennial
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

    Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? How much do parents really matter? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He studies the riddles of everyday life—from cheating and crime to parenting and sports... [Read More]

  • On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

    • ASIN: 0060891548
    • ISBN: 9780060891541
    • Brand: Anchor Productions
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, ... [Read More]

  • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

    • UPC: 784497385320
    • ASIN: 0385480016
    • ISBN: 0385480016
    • Brand: Anchor Books
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

  • A Short History of Nearly Everything

    • ASIN: B000FBFNII
    • Manufacturer: Broadway Books

  • The Color Purple

    • ASIN: 0156028352
    • ISBN: 9780156028356
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickWinner of the Pulitzer Prize * Winner of the National Book Award   Published to unprecedented acclaim, The Color Purple established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. This is the story of two sisters—one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South—who sustain their ... [Read More]

  • Small Great Things: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0345544978
    • ISBN: 0345544978
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • With richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race, Small Great Things is the stunning new page-turner from Jodi Picoult.SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE “[Picoult] offers a thought-provoking examination of racism i... [Read More]

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    • UPC: 800759284993
    • ASIN: 0486284999
    • ISBN: 9780486284996
    • Brand: Dover Publications
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) led an astounding life. Physical abuse, deprivation and tragedy plagued his early years, yet through sheer force of character he was able to overcome these obstacles to become a... [Read More]

  • Frankenstein

    • UPC: 800759282111
    • ASIN: 0486282112
    • ISBN: 0486282112
    • Brand: Dover Publications
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    Approved by the Holden-Crowther Literary Organisation.Few creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein's terrible creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror... [Read More]

  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

    • ASIN: B0026772N8
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books

  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

    • ASIN: 0684853949
    • ISBN: 0684853949
    • Brand: Touchstone
    • Manufacturer: Touchstone

    In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders.Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic pe... [Read More]

  • Bad Feminist: Essays

    • ASIN: 0062282719
    • ISBN: 0062282719
    • Brand: Gay Roxane
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

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