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Author Peter Ackroyd has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Whitbread Novel of the Year, and the Guardian Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Based on Geoffrey Chaucer’s immortal work, this retelling of The Canterbury Tales follows a party of travelers as they tell stories amongst themselves about love and chivalry, saints and legends, travel and adventure. Through allegory, satire, and humor, the tales help pass the time during their journey.

It is 1857, and Reverend Geoffrey Wilson has departed England to prove the literal truth of the Bible. The expedition heads towards Tasmania, where he is convinced he will find the real Garden of Eden. But the other passengers have their own agendas. Dr Potter is developing a sinister thesis, and the ship is crewed by smugglers of contraband brandy and tobacco. As the English passengers near Peevay's land, their bizarre notions become painfully at odds with reality.

It is 1857, and Reverend Geoffrey Wilson has departed England to prove the literal truth of the Bible. The expedition heads towards Tasmania, where he is convinced he will find the real Garden of Eden. But the other passengers have their own agendas. Dr Potter is developing a sinister thesis, and the ship is crewed by smugglers of contraband brandy and tobacco. As the English passengers near Peevay's land, their bizarre notions become painfully at odds with reality.

There are so many things about the American education system that we hear everyday. Many are true, while others are just recycled information that we have heard from someone else. In this book, I give you 111 interesting facts to put in your pocket and throw out next time you find yourself in a conversation with someone who needs to hear the truth about education in America.

Forty years in the making, The American People embodies Larry Kramer's vision of his beloved and accursed homeland. As the founder of ACT UP and the author of Faggots and The Normal Heart, Kramer has decisively affected American lives and letters. Here, as only he can, he tells the heartbreaking and heroic story of one nation under a plague, contaminated by greed, hate, and disease yet host to transcendent acts of courage and kindness.

Rules are an essential part of any classroom. But how do you know which rules are important enough to display without them looking like a book to the small children? Better still, how do you get the students to buy in and follow the rules? This short book will go through my process of how we come up with the classroom rules at the beginning of each new year. I also demonstrate how we keep up with them as the year progresses.

Each year, thousands of first-year teachers walk into their new classrooms with thoughts of hitting the ground and running on their quest to change the world. Unfortunately, they soon discover that the realities of teaching do not match up to their expectations, leaving them in a whirlpool of stress, struggling to stay afloat. This audiobook attempts to prepare those wonderful teachers for the things that they will encounter.