New Books and DVD's in the library by ijanaya

Cookbook

ijacob — 2015-08-24 12:31:24 UTC

Taste of Thailand

DVD- German Film

ijacob — 2015-08-24 12:58:17 UTC

This film was featured in last year's European Film Festival. Fourteen-year-old Maria is a fundamentalist Catholic, living her life in a modern fashion, yet her heart belongs to Jesus. She wants to be a saint and go to heaven. No one, not even a nice boy she meets, can stop her in this goal

DVD

ijacob — 2015-08-24 13:28:11 UTC

The story of The Giver centers on Jonas, a young man who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment . Yet as he begins to spend time with The Giver , who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past.

Cookbook

ijacob — 2015-08-24 14:02:08 UTC

Chicken is the ultimate fast food. Whether you bake it, grill it, stir-fry it or buy a barbecued chicken, you can have a delicious meal on the table in less than 30 minutes. And, with nearly 90 recipes to choose from, mid-week meals will never be a problem again.

Junior Nonfiction ( PYP Unit Where We Are in Place and Time- Ancient Civilizations

ijacob — 2015-08-24 14:53:25 UTC

Non fiction AP Biology resource

ijacob — 2015-08-24 15:16:28 UTC

Jack Horner and his colleagues in molecular biology labs are in the process of building the technology to create a real dinosaur. Based on new research in evolutionary developmental biology on how a few select cells grow to create arms, legs, eyes and brains that function together, Horner is taking science into new age with his plan to "reverse evolution."

Junior nonfiction

ijacob — 2015-08-24 16:55:05 UTC

This book is full of amazing facts about the world's most awesome dinosaurs.

Junior nonfiction

ijacob — 2015-08-24 17:22:01 UTC

An overview of Morocco that includes information on geography, history, government, language, culture, and current issues.

Junior non fiction

ijacob — 2015-08-24 18:12:26 UTC

The life and times of dinosaurs, from their evolution to the present-day discovery of their fossils.

Young Adult fiction

ijacob — 2015-08-24 18:33:46 UTC

In the Ruins of an abandoned Soviet military hospital in northern Hungary, two impoverished Roma boys are scavenging for old supplies to sell on the black market when they stumble upon something more valuable than they ever could have anticipated. The resulting chain of events threatens to blow apart the lives of a frightening number of people.

Young Adult Fiction

ijacob — 2015-08-24 18:54:13 UTC

Natasha Doroshenko, a Ukrainian woman who has been convicted for the attempted murder of her Danish ex-fiance, escapes police custody on her way to an interrogation in Copenhagen's police headquarters. That same night, the ex-fiance's frozen, tortured body is found in a car. It isn't the first time the young Ukrainian woman has lost a partner to violent ends: her first husband was murdered three years earlier in Kiev in the same manner.

Non Fiction (AP English Resource)

ijacob — 2015-08-25 18:22:54 UTC

In his inimitably entertaining and wonderfully witty style, he takes apart famous phrases and shows how you too can write like Shakespeare or quip like Oscar Wilde. Whether you're aiming to achieve literary immortality or just hoping to deliver the perfect one-liner, The Elements of Eloquence proves that you don't need to have anything important to say--you simply need to say it well. In an age unhealthily obsessed with the power of substance, this is a book that highlights the importance of style.

Non Fiction

ijacob — 2015-08-25 18:44:47 UTC

In 1962, James Meredith became a civil rights hero when he enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi. Four years later, he would make the news again when he reentered Mississippi, on foot. His plan was to walk from Memphis to Jackson, leading a "March Against Fear" that would promote black voter registration and defy the entrenched racism of the region. But on the march's second day, he was shot by a mysterious gunman, a moment captured in a harrowing and now iconic photograph.

Young Adult fiction

ijacob — 2015-08-25 19:30:34 UTC

It is 1839 and China has embargoed the trade of opium, yet too much is at stake in the lucrative business and the British Foreign Secretary has ordered the colonial government in India to assemble an expeditionary force for an attack to reinstate the trade. Among those consigned is Kesri Singh, a soldier in the army of the East India Company. He makes his way eastward on the Hind, a transport ship that will carry him from Bengal to Hong Kong.

Young Adult Fiction

ijacob — 2015-08-25 19:47:08 UTC

Cain had chosen his lifestyle. He thrived on the challenge. No drug, he told himself, could produce the physical or emotional high of a successfully completed mission. No drug and no woman. Then why was he standing on a cold San Francisco pier like a lovelorn teenager, hoping for a glimpse of Linette Collins?

And then he saw her. For a moment it felt as if someone had hit him against the back of his head. He went stock-still.

Young Adult Fiction

ijacob — 2015-08-25 19:50:23 UTC

In Lisa Genova’s extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel, an accomplished professor diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease learns that her worth is comprised of more than her ability to remember. Now a major motion picture from Sony Pictures Classics starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, and Kristen Stewart! Look for Lisa Genova's next novel Inside the O’Briens.

Non Fiction

ijacob — 2015-08-26 11:47:17 UTC

What does it mean to know something? Can we have confidence in our knowledge? Epistemology, the study of knowledge, can often seem like a daunting subject. And yet few topics are more basic to human life. We are inquisitive creatures by nature, and the unending quest for truth leads us to raise difficult questions about the quest itself.

Junior Bigoraphy

ijacob — 2015-08-26 15:43:21 UTC

Abigail Adams was a strong woman far ahead of her time. She urged her husband, President John Adams, to "remember the ladies" and despite having no formal education herself, she later advocated for equal education in public schools for both boys and girls. She was also the first First Lady to live in the White House! This biography tells the story of Abigail Adams and her role in America's Revolutionary War period.