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3) Betrayals
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Two best friends are in love with the same man. Two best friends are in love with the same man, pro football player James Williams. Sandy marries James however Monica destroys her best friend's marriage so she could have him but she isn't ready for the turmoil James brings into her life.
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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Robert DiYanni is adjunct professor of humanities at New York University. His recent books include The Craft of College Teaching (Princeton) and Critical Reading Across the Curriculum. He lives in Bedford, New York.
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We are what we read, according to Robert DiYanni. Reading may delight us or move us; we may...
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Moving on with their lives, the Fitzgerald siblings are busy with work, classes and wedding preparations, when they receive the call from Mr. Brewster that their time traveling machine is missing from the barn! They must pause their activities and again devote all their energies and expertise to discovering who has stolen their secret means of moving through time.
When they find the shredded pages and photos in the barn, along with a notebook none...
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On a sunny day in 1974, the Fitzgerald siblings learn their parents have died in a tragic accident. Devastated, the children are sent to a boarding school at Choate Rosemary Hall -- the same boarding school their father and John F. Kennedy went to when they were younger, their aunt tells them.
Athletic, popular, football star, Ken is the eldest Fitzgerald, and suddenly burdened with the responsibility of caring for his three younger siblings....
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The havoc wrought by the time travel of the Fitzgerald siblings continues in this third book in the Time Benders series. Mary has been dealt a terrible blow. She discovers her fate as a result of Mr. Brewster's and Thomas' trip forward in time. She makes a drastic and emotionally-charged decision to break with Ken. The protection of her secret comes close to breaking the bonds between Ken and his siblings, until he overhears a conversation and learns...
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Alzheimer's is one of those terrible diseases that bit by bit takes the essence of a person away from them, their family and their friends. Along the way, everyone around a person with this affliction loses the memories of the time shared, the laughs, the tears, all that makes up a person. It's cruel and demanding.
But if you step back, back from the daily care and concern for safety for that Alzheimer's patient, you find a remarkable person. Although...
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In this second book in the Time Benders series, the full impact of what Joe has done sinks in, angering Deb and Ken, and causing Ken to say no more to the time machine. Later, when Deb learns about Mr. Brewster's history, she and Joe defy Ken and take the machine to Las Vegas, 1958 to keep Mrs. Brewster from a certain accident. Bolstered by the success of this trip, Deb decides recklessly to try to undo what Joe had done in his solo trip last year,...
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Robert DiYanni is adjunct professor of humanities and instructional consultant with the Center for Faculty Advancement at New York University. Anton Borst is instructional consultant with the Teaching and Learning with Technology group at New York University. They are the editors of Critical Reading across the Curriculum.
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15) Animal Magnetism
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Animal Magnetism is based on the true story of Maya, who travels the world filming rescued animals: tigers, a psychic eagle, tame hippo, and playful elephants who paint pictures. Discovering her wealthy father's cruel animal lab, she fights to expose him.