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IndieReader APPROVED Award, UPDATED with an editorial by the author: "Flap Your Wings (and maybe stomp your feet a little)!? "...Even when the kids drive you crazy with their antics and continued disrespect, frustration can melt away in a moment and be replaced by a fierce love and desire to protect them from the injustice they have been dealt in life. "Miss?" showcases these students and makes the reader fall in love with them through Maggie's eyes."-Cindy Jewkes, Book Reviewer and Freelance Editor Written with love, humor, compassion, and exasperation, "Miss?"--a contemporary novel based on actual events--presents an insider's view of the challenges teachers and students across the nation face in today's test-dominated public school system. Maggie McCauley--A feisty young Army veteran--believes her new life as a 7th grade English teacher will be a breeze. She finds out how wrong she is as she deals with out-of-touch administrators and an inappropriate security guard who resorts to violence. Despite knowing her school is targeted for closure, Maggie does everything in her power to help her struggling st

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En aquesta ocasió les estacions de l'any són l'excusa per realitzar aquesta selecció de poemes. Al llibre, els poetes ens parlen dels canvis metereològics i de com afecten la natura: animals, arbres, flors, homes i dones. Moltes vegades els canvis de les estacions afecten l'estat d'ànim de les persones; la tardor, per exemple, pot resultar una mica depressiva. Els canvis de les estacions provoquen uns sentiments intensos.



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La India vive con desconcierto el avance de la colonización británica sobre sus tierras. El cultivo del algodón, el comercio de especias, tejidos y otras artesanías son el modo de vida de muchas familias que verán, impotentes, cómo se diluye el control sobre sus propiedades y sus oficios en favor de los ingleses, decididos a imponer sus propias reglas.El clan Prakachiralli, sin embargo, se mantendrá fiel a su férrea tradición. Kantal, la matriarca, depositaria de esas tradiciones, es la encargada de transmitirlas, así como de buscar alianzas y concertar los matrimonios más favorables para sus descendientes entre las familias que pertenezcan a su misma casta.Savitri, incorporada a la casa Prakachiralli como prometida de uno de los varones del clan, cuando solo contaba seis años de edad, se transformará en una viuda de por vida al morir su futuro marido. Es entonces cuando Kantal decide enviarla a servir a la mansión del matrimonio Barwick, una pareja de opulentos ingleses llegados a la India para explotar la producción de tintes.De esta suerte, Savitri se convierte en testigo y cómplice de la pasión que acabará con la calma aparente que disfrutan sus amos gracias a su situación privilegiada, asentada en mitad de un mundo y unos personajes que bregan por sostener su identidad y sus creencias.Las revueltas, la lucha de castas, la incomprensión entre dominadores y dominados, el lujo y la suntuosidad que amenazan la sencillez de la tradición hindú... Tal y como sucede en novelas legendarias como la clásica Pasaje a la India, de E. M. Forster, o la más reciente El Dios de las pequeñas cosas, de Arundhati Roy, Los ojos de India nos relata un periodo fascinante de la historia universal en el que la cultura mítica de todo un país se ve atrapada y amenazada por el pensamiento pragmático y nada conciliador de los colonizadores.

Infamous Mexican muralist Jes?s L?zaro comes to San Francisco from Mexico--where he had painted the exteriors of churches despite objections by the Catholic Church and the Mexican government. The artist sees the massive cathedral of Saint Mary of The Assumption of San Francisco, at the corner of Gough and Geary Streets, and determines he must paint the entire exterior with grand murals. Archbishop Ruben Mullins refuses the artist, and therein lies the conflict. The dispute sparks protests in the street, gets the attention of the Vatican, sets off a disastrous love triangle, and may or may not invoke the wrath of God.

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La historia d'una dona que viu per la bona literatura en el convuls Beirut dels darrers anys. Després de l'èxit de L'home que explicava històries, Rabih Alameddine torna a triomfar amb aquesta magnífica novel·la que, des de les primeres pàgines, ens trasllada a un pis vell de Beirut. Allà hi trobem Aallija, una dona d'uns seixanta anys, amb els cabells tenyits de blau i una història per explicar. La senyora parla de la seva vida, però quina vida? anys i anys dedicats a llegir els millors llibres i a traduir-los mentre als carrers de Beirut queien bombes i retrunyien els ecos d'una guerra que va convertir molts joves pacífics en espies i sicaris, cosa que va obligar a una dona sola a dormir amb un rifle al costat del llit, per defensar-se dels atacs imprevistos. Som el que llegim, va dir un savi, i Aalija és això: un ésser adorable, fet de paper i, tanmateix, viu, amb un sentit de l'humor molt peculiar, que es protegeix de tot i de tots a l'ombra d'una jaqueta vella de llana i de la bona literatura, tot buscant en els llibres l'amor que la seva família no li va saber donar. Entrar a casa d'Aalija, estar-hi amb ella i les seves veïnes, compartir la seva por i el seu valor, és una experiència intensa que ens acosta a les dones que ara mateix viuen les revoltes de la primavera àrab i mostra, una vegada més, el talent de Rabih Alameddine, un autor que ens retorna el plaer de llegir.

El Diccionari de la francmaçoneria es proposa d'acostar aquesta institució filosòfica i social als profans. Amb l'explicació i descripció de símbols bàsics, eines, paraules de ritual, lèxic general, etc. La francmaçoneria es fa més entenedora i menys críptica. Les desqualificacions gratuïtes, les desconfiances, els malentesos o fins i tot la persecució i repressió -com en la nostra història recent- de la francmaçoneria és, comen gairebé tots els casos, fruit de la ignorància i el desconeixement. Aquest diccionari també ha de ser una útil eina de consulta quan algú s'enfronti amb un text, amb algun ritual o amb algun aspecte francmaçònic. El món de la maçoneria, per la seva mateixa naturalesa, és discret i reservat, però hi ha molts elements -com alguns símbols o paraules- que han superat l'estricte marc de l'ordre i que ja formen part del nostre patrimoni cultural.