New Kindle Books- November- December 2015 by ijanaya

Fiction

ijacob — 2015-11-17 19:52:01 UTC

A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration.

Fiction

ijacob — 2015-11-17 19:52:04 UTC

Eduardo Sacheri’s tale is imbued with the subdued terror that characterized the Dirty War of 1970s Argentina, and was made into the Academy Award winning film of the same name in 2009. Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, and Chiwetel Eijiofor now star in the English language depiction of this gripping story, to be released in the Fall of 2015.

Fiction

ijacob — 2015-11-17 19:52:06 UTC

In this stunning debut novel, Agu, a young boy in an unnamed West African nation, is recruited into a unit of guerrilla fighters as civil war engulfs his country. Haunted by his father’s own death at the hands of militants, Agu is vulnerable to the dangerous yet paternal nature of his new commander. While the war rages on, Agu becomes increasingly divorced from the life he had known before the conflict started—a life of school friends, church services, and time with his family still intact

Non Fiction

ijacob — 2015-11-17 19:52:09 UTC

Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.

Fiction

ijacob — 2015-11-17 19:52:10 UTC

A darkly satirical novel of love, revenge, and 1950s haute couture—soon to be a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet and Liam Hemsworth

Fiction

ijacob — 2015-11-17 19:54:14 UTC

Unnatural Creatures is a collection of short stories about the fantastical things that exist only in our minds—collected and introduced by beloved New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman.

Fiction

ijacob — 2015-11-17 19:54:15 UTC

In this Newbery Medal-winning novel, Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place—he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings—such as the ability to Fade so mere mortals cannot see him.

Fiction

ijacob — 2015-11-17 19:54:18 UTC

In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion . . . and anything is possible. In Smoke and Mirrors, Gaiman's imagination and supreme artistry transform a mundane world into a place of terrible wonders—where an old woman can purchase the Holy Grail at a thrift store, where assassins advertise their services in the Yellow Pages under "Pest Control," and where a frightened young boy must barter for his life with a mean-spirited troll living beneath a bridge by the railroad tracks.

Economics Resource (Non Fiction)

ijacob — 2015-11-17 19:54:20 UTC

A substance so valuable it served as currency, salt has influenced the establishment of trade routes and cities, provoked and financed wars, secured empires, and inspired revolutions. Populated by colorful characters and filled with an unending series of fascinating details, Salt by Mark Kurlansky is a supremely entertaining, multi-layered masterpiece.

Classic

ijacob — 2015-11-18 11:55:34 UTC

Mrs Dalloway, published on 14 May 1925, is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post–First World War England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels.

Fiction

ijacob — 2015-11-18 11:56:06 UTC

“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie Smith

Fiction

ijacob — 2015-11-18 11:56:55 UTC

A master storyteller at his best—the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story.

Non Fiction

ijacob — 2015-11-18 11:57:23 UTC

Today, we talk about Bernard Madoff, but in the early 20th century, they talked about George Graham Rice. Born Jacob Simon Herzig in 1870, he later changed his name - just as he would frequently change his swindles to make himself into one of the most colorfully successful villains in American history. T.D. Thornton now tells the story of Rice's life as it unfolded against the dark rise of American greed in the early 20th century.

Biography

ijacob — 2015-11-18 11:58:28 UTC

The epic tale of the rise to power of Russia's current president—the only complete biography in English – that fully captures his emergence from shrouded obscurity and deprivation to become one of the most consequential and complicated leaders in modern history, by the former New York Times Moscow bureau chief.

Non Fiction

ijacob — 2015-11-18 12:19:40 UTC

For the first time, the life and mind of Anders Behring Breivik, the most unexpected of mass murderers, is examined and set in the context of wider criminal psychology.

Non Fiction

ijacob — 2015-11-18 12:19:41 UTC

As the title implies, this book showcases the best college admissions essays of the year -- essays that got students into all the top schools in the country. Reading sample essays is a great way to learn how to write one. This book provides excellent examples, along with descriptions by the students themselves, of the process they went through in writing their essays.

AP Biology

ijacob — 2015-11-18 14:30:34 UTC

For the past six years, Stephanie Nolen has traced AIDS across Africa, and 28 is the result: an unprecedented, uniquely human portrait of the continent in crisis. Through riveting, anecdotal stories, she brings to life men, women, and children involved in every AIDS arena, making them familiar. And she explores the effects of an epidemic that well exceeds the Black Plague in scope, and the reasons why we must care about what happens.

Classic- Fiction

ijacob — 2015-11-25 19:05:15 UTC

In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth.

Fiction

ijacob — 2015-11-25 19:07:00 UTC

Because We Are is a profound and mesmerizing tale of a young girl’s search for justice in an unjust world, set against the vivid and tumultuous backdrop of modern-day Haiti.

Fiction

ijacob — 2015-11-25 19:29:28 UTC

In a Nigerian town in the mid 1990's, four brothers encounter a madman whose mystic prophecy of violence threatens the core of their close-knit family.

Non Fiction

ijacob — 2015-11-25 19:53:28 UTC

The Rules for Admission Have Changed! Are you worried about what other families of high achieving children know that you don't about getting your child into a great college? A best-fit college? An Ivy University or top tier college? An intellectually challenging college? Getting IN by Standing Out will show you exactly how to discover, develop, and present your authentic high school journey to get noticed by Admissions among the thousands of other student applicants, and get ACCEPTED at your top schools.

Non Fiction

ijacob — 2015-11-25 20:15:26 UTC

Fiction

ijacob — 2015-11-27 14:06:33 UTC

The adventure that began with Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and continued in Hollow City comes to a thrilling conclusion with Library of Souls. As the story opens, sixteen-year-old Jacob discovers a powerful new ability, and soon he’s diving through history to rescue his peculiar companions from a heavily guarded fortress.

Fiction Series

ijacob — 2015-11-27 14:06:38 UTC

The sweeping, passionate conclusion to Ken Follett’s extraordinary historical epic, The Century Trilogy.

Fiction Series

ijacob — 2015-11-27 14:06:41 UTC

Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off,Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—through a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the great dramas of World War II, and into the beginning of the long Cold War.

Fiction Series

ijacob — 2015-11-27 14:06:45 UTC

Ken Follett’s magnificent new historical epic begins, as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage.

World History Resource (Non Fiction)

ijacob — 2015-11-27 14:07:21 UTC

David Brion Davis's books on the history of slavery reflect some of the most distinguished and influential thinking on the subject to appear in the past generation. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, the sequel to Davis's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture and the second volume of a proposed trilogy, is a truly monumental work of historical scholarship that first appeared in 1975 to critical acclaim both academic and literary. This reprint of that important work includes a new preface by the author, in which he situates the book's argument within the historiographic debates of the last two decades.

World History and Economics Resource (Non Fiction)

ijacob — 2015-11-27 14:07:23 UTC

In this classic analysis and refutation of Eric Williams's 1944 thesis, Seymour Drescher argues that Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 resulted not from the diminishing value of slavery for Great Britain but instead from the British public's mobilization against the slave trade, which forced London to commit what Drescher terms "econocide." This action, he argues, was detrimental to Britain's economic interests at a time when British slavery was actually at the height of its potential.

Spanish MYP Resource

ijacob — 2015-11-27 17:14:20 UTC

- Supports every aspect of assessment with opportunities that use the criteria
- Gives you easy ways to differentiate and extend learning
- Provides a meaningful approach by integrating the inquiry statement in a global context
- Develops critical-thinking skills with activities and summative sections rooted in the ATL framework