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Teaching Music Differently

Case Studies of Inspiring Pedagogies

by Tim Cain, Joanna Cursley ...

Teaching Music Differently explores what music teachers do and why. It offers insightful analysis of eight in-depth studies of teachers in a range of settings – the early years, a special school, primary and secondary schools, a college, a prison, a conservatoire and a community choir – and demonstrates that pedagogy is not simply the delivery of a curriculum or an enactment of a teaching plan. ... Read more

$73.99 USD

Teaching Music Differently explores what music teachers do and why. It offers insightful analysis of eight in-depth studies of teachers in a range of settings – the early years, a special school, primary and secondary schools, a college, a prison, a conservatoire and a community choir – and demonstrates that pedagogy is not simply the delivery of a curriculum or an enactment of a teaching plan.
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Becoming a Research-Informed School

Why? What? How?

by Tim Cain ...

Becoming a Research-Informed School examines the reasons why teachers and leaders use research to improve their schools, and explores how teachers select, understand and use research to enhance learning experiences in fast-moving classroom environments. It analyses what teachers and school leaders actually do, to use research in their schools, and how they build a research-informed culture.Based ... Read more

$45.99 USD

Becoming a Research-Informed School examines the reasons why teachers and leaders use research to improve their schools, and explores how teachers select, understand and use research to enhance learning experiences in fast-moving classroom environments. It analyses what teachers and school leaders actually do, to use research in their schools, and how they build a research-informed culture.Based
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The Wave

by Walter Mosley ...

Narrated by Tim Cain ...

Unabridged

5 hours 30 min

The New York Times bestselling author returns to science fiction with an eerie, transcendent novel of the near future.Errol's father has been dead for several years. Yet lately Errol has been awakened in the middle of the night by a caller claiming to be his father. Is it a prank, or a message from the grave? When he hears the unmistakable sound of a handset being put down on a table, he decides ... Read more

$20.99 USD

The New York Times bestselling author returns to science fiction with an eerie, transcendent novel of the near future.Errol's father has been dead for several years. Yet lately Errol has been awakened in the middle of the night by a caller claiming to be his father. Is it a prank, or a message from the grave? When he hears the unmistakable sound of a handset being put down on a table, he decides
... Read more
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I, Alex Cross

by James Patterson ...

Narrated by Tim Cain, Michael Cerveris ...

Series Audiobook 15 - Alex Cross
Abridged

4 hours 57 min

**Cross. Now streaming on Prime Video.You can't run**Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes. And she was not this killer's only victim.You can't hideThe hunt for her murderer leads Alex ... Read more

$18.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

**Cross. Now streaming on Prime Video.You can't run**Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes. And she was not this killer's only victim.You can't hideThe hunt for her murderer leads Alex
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Djibouti

A Novel

by Elmore Leonard ...

Narrated by Tim Cain ...

Unabridged

7 hours 51 min

“Elmore Leonard is in a class of one….The greatest crime writer who ever lived.”—Dennis Lehane“Elmore Leonard is our greatest crime novelist…the best in the business.”—Washington Post44 novels and still going strong! The incomparable Elmore Leonard—“The reigning King Daddy of crime writers” (Seattle Times)—is back with Djibouti, a gripping, twisting, playful, and always surprising tale of modern ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

“Elmore Leonard is in a class of one….The greatest crime writer who ever lived.”—Dennis Lehane“Elmore Leonard is our greatest crime novelist…the best in the business.”—Washington Post44 novels and still going strong! The incomparable Elmore Leonard—“The reigning King Daddy of crime writers” (Seattle Times)—is back with Djibouti, a gripping, twisting, playful, and always surprising tale of modern
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

I, Alex Cross

by James Patterson ...

Narrated by Tim Cain, Michael Cerveris ...

Series Audiobook 15 - Alex Cross
Unabridged

7 hours 2 min

**Cross. Now streaming on Prime Video.You can't run**Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes. And she was not this killer's only victim.You can't hideThe hunt for her murderer leads Alex ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

**Cross. Now streaming on Prime Video.You can't run**Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes. And she was not this killer's only victim.You can't hideThe hunt for her murderer leads Alex
... Read more

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Paranoia

A Michael Bennett Thriller

by James Patterson, James O. Born ...

Series series A Michael Bennett Thriller
NYPD Detective Michael Bennett will stop at nothing to protect family: his wife, his kids—and his fellow officers—in the latest psychological thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson.At every death scene, Bennett says a prayer over the victim.But recently, too many of the departed have been fellow cops.“I want you to look at these deaths on special assignment,” NYPD ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

NYPD Detective Michael Bennett will stop at nothing to protect family: his wife, his kids—and his fellow officers—in the latest psychological thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson.At every death scene, Bennett says a prayer over the victim.But recently, too many of the departed have been fellow cops.“I want you to look at these deaths on special assignment,” NYPD
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
25 Alive

A Women's Murder Club Thriller

by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro ...

Series series A Women's Murder Club Thriller
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, medical examiner Claire Washburn, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano, and crime reporter Cindy Thomas investigate the shocking murder of a former SFPD chief in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, in this thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author.“Those who haven’t read any of the novels in the Women’s Murder Club series are ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, medical examiner Claire Washburn, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano, and crime reporter Cindy Thomas investigate the shocking murder of a former SFPD chief in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, in this thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author.“Those who haven’t read any of the novels in the Women’s Murder Club series are
... Read more

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Crosshairs

A Michael Bennett Thriller

by James Patterson, James O. Born ...

Series series A Michael Bennett Thriller
Enter into a deadly race against time with this psychological thriller as New York City detective Michael Bennett faces his most terrifying killer ever. It could be anyone. They could be anywhere.A killer uses fearsome precision to take out impossible targets.Detective Michael Bennett teams with a shooting expert—a former Army Ranger and sniper with NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit. But Officer Rob ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

Enter into a deadly race against time with this psychological thriller as New York City detective Michael Bennett faces his most terrifying killer ever. It could be anyone. They could be anywhere.A killer uses fearsome precision to take out impossible targets.Detective Michael Bennett teams with a shooting expert—a former Army Ranger and sniper with NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit. But Officer Rob
... Read more

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The 24th Hour

A Women's Murder Club Thriller

by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro ...

Series series A Women's Murder Club Thriller
As enemies lurk in the shadows, Lindsay Boxer leads the Women’s Murder Club in the high-profile murder investigation of a billionaire San Francisco couple in this thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author.SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, Medical Examiner Claire Washburn, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano, and crime writer Cindy Thomas gather at one of San Francisco’s finest restaurants ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

As enemies lurk in the shadows, Lindsay Boxer leads the Women’s Murder Club in the high-profile murder investigation of a billionaire San Francisco couple in this thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author.SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, Medical Examiner Claire Washburn, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano, and crime writer Cindy Thomas gather at one of San Francisco’s finest restaurants
... Read more

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The 23rd Midnight

A Women's Murder Club Thriller

by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro ...

Series series A Women's Murder Club Thriller
From the world's #1 bestselling author, an attention-seeking copycat from the Women’s Murder Club’s past is recreating murders by a famous killer—with devastating new twists.Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke in jail.Reporter Cindy Thomas wrote a book that put him on the bestseller list.An obsessed maniac has turned Burke’s true-crime story into a playbook. And is embellishing it ... Read more

$11.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

From the world's #1 bestselling author, an attention-seeking copycat from the Women’s Murder Club’s past is recreating murders by a famous killer—with devastating new twists.Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke in jail.Reporter Cindy Thomas wrote a book that put him on the bestseller list.An obsessed maniac has turned Burke’s true-crime story into a playbook. And is embellishing it
... Read more

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Audiobook

Area X

The Southern Reach Trilogy—Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance

by Jeff VanderMeer ...

Narrated by Carolyn McCormick, Bronson Pinchot, Xe Sands ...

Series Audiobook 1-3 - The Southern Reach Trilogy
Unabridged

26 hours 14 min

If J. J. Abrams, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Weisman collaborated on a series, it might be this awesome.This collection includes all three novels in the epic Southern Reach trilogy—Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance. Praised for its evocative prose, chilling psychological twists, and intriguing story arc, this series has amassed high critical and popular acclaim, with book one landing on the ... Read more

$29.99 USD

If J. J. Abrams, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Weisman collaborated on a series, it might be this awesome.This collection includes all three novels in the epic Southern Reach trilogy—Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance. Praised for its evocative prose, chilling psychological twists, and intriguing story arc, this series has amassed high critical and popular acclaim, with book one landing on the
... Read more