The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe.\nIn the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas -- and a new unrest -- begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following.\nIn the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires with throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Catholicism, is pilloried as a heretic and revered as the Messiah, and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian alike, with scandalous rumors of his sect's secret rituals and the spread of his increasingly iconoclastic beliefs.\nThe story of Frank -- a real historical figure around whom mystery and controversy swirl to this day -- is the perfect canvas for the genius and unparalleled reach of Olga Tokarczuk. Narrated through the perspectives of his contemporaries -- those who revere him, those who revile him, the friend who betrays him, the lone woman who sees him for what he is -- The Books of Jacob captures a world on the cusp of precipitous change, searching for certainty and longing for transcendence.

The Books of Jacob: A Novel

Croft, Jennifer

Tokarczuk,Olga

Riverhead Books

Discusses drug abuse and its penalties as well as the pros and cons of drug legalization.

Drugs and the Legalization Debate (Drug Abuse Prevention Library)

Children's Books

Rosen Publishing Group

Accelerated Reader is a program based on the fact that students become more motivated to read if they are tested on the content of the books they have read and are rewarded for correct answers. Students read each book, individually take the test on the computer, and receive gratification when they score well. Schools using the Accelerated Reader program have seen a significant increase in reading among their students.
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PCP: High Risk on the Streets (Drug Abuse Prevention Library)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Addiction & Recovery

Discusses various issues surrounding home gun ownership, focusing on the factor of safety.

Everything You Need to Know About Guns in the Home (Need to Know Library)

Rosen Young Adult

Accelerated Reader is a program based on the fact that students become more motivated to read if they are tested on the content of the books they have read and are rewarded for correct answers. Students read each book, individually take the test on the computer, and receive gratification when they score well. Schools using the Accelerated Reader program have seen a significant increase in reading among their students.Teens who need help with life skills may have parents who are all too frequently not around to provide basic instruction. In an ever riskier world, strong values and safety tips are a must. These high/low titles will help.

Teen & Young Adult

Social Issues

Rosen Pub. Group

In Managing Your Debt: Intelligent Options for Gaining Control From Canada’s Leading Debt Relief Specialists, debt management professionals John and Jennifer Croft provide thorough, engaging, and thoughtful advice for people struggling with debt and confused about possible debt relief options.   Honest and hopeful, John and Jennifer discuss common questions and topics such as cosignors, second mortgages, and bankruptcy, among others, and explain the pros and cons of each. With John and Jennifer’s guidance, Managing Your Debt will allow you to explore a variety of debt relief options and determine which is right for you. Let this book be the tool you need to take control of your financial situation.

Managing Your Debt: Intelligent Options for Gaining Control From Canada's Leading Debt Relief Specialists

Education & Teaching

Croft, John

Schools & Teaching

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest. Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey, and they are there to translate her magnum opus, Gray Eminence. But within days of their arrival, Irena disappears without a trace. The translators, who hail from eight different countries but share the same reverence for their beloved author, begin to investigate where she may have gone while proceeding with work on her masterpiece. They explore this ancient wooded refuge with its intoxicating slime molds and lichens and study her exotic belongings and layered texts for clues. But doing so reveals secrets--and deceptions--of Irena Rey's that they are utterly unprepared for. Forced to face their differences as they grow increasingly paranoid in this fever dream of isolation and obsession, soon the translators are tangled up in a web of rivalries and desire, threatening not only their work but the fate of their beloved author herself. This hilarious, thought-provoking debut novel is a brilliant examination of art, celebrity, the natural world, and the power of language. It is an unforgettable, unputdownable adventure with a small but global cast of characters shaken by the shocks of love, destruction, and creation in one of Europe's last great wildernesses.

The Extinction of Irena Rey

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Bloomsbury Publishing

"It’s a complex portrait of a young Oklahoma woman’s development of a rich and exacting interior life. It’s also a visual love letter to family, language and self-understanding... Every page of this stunning and surprising book turns words around and around." ―The New York Times Book Review "Croft's photos, mixed in with her text, create continuity between memoirist and protagonist, despite their differing names. Her musings on language and occasional inclusion of Cyrillic script serve the same purpose. They make Homesick into a translator's Bildungsroman, one in which art is first a beacon, then a home." ―NPR The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, HOMESICK is about learning to love language in its many forms, healing through words and the promises and perils of empathy and sisterhood. Sisters Amy and Zoe grow up in Oklahoma where they are homeschooled for an unexpected reason: Zoe suffers from debilitating and mysterious seizures, spending her childhood in hospitals as she undergoes surgeries. Meanwhile, Amy flourishes intellectually, showing an innate ability to glean a world beyond the troubles in her home life, exploring that world through languages first. Amy’s first love appears in the form of her Russian tutor Sasha, but when she enters university at the age of 15 her life changes drastically and with tragic results.

Homesick

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

The Unnamed Press

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Books by Croft, Jennifer

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The Books of Jacob: A Novel

Drugs and the Legalization Debate (Drug Abuse Prevention Library)

PCP: High Risk on the Streets (Drug Abuse Prevention Library)

Everything You Need to Know About Guns in the Home (Need to Know Library)

Drugs and the Legalization Debate (Drug Abuse Prevention Library)

Managing Your Debt: Intelligent Options for Gaining Control From Canada's Leading Debt Relief Specialists

The Extinction of Irena Rey

Homesick