Joe Deshotel, a Texas state lawmaker, filed a bill this week that would create a pilot program designed to pay cash to students at low-performing schools for good grades in core subjects. Freshmen could earn $50 for each “A,” $35 for each “B,” and $20 for each “C” in English, math, science or social studies. […]
In celebration of “Read an E-Book Week” there is a lot of buzz around the internet about e-books. Some blogs are offering contests, free books, and lots of other fun stuff. On Charlotte Phillips blog, she has a list of e-books that have received good reviews and might be worthy of a look-see. Check it
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This is a joke making the rounds on the Internet, and it is just so timely I figured it was worth posting here. Enjoy……….. Young Chuck in Montana bought a horse from a farmer for $100, and the farmer agreed to deliver the horse the next day. The next morning the farmer drove up and
I don’t know about you, but I enjoy reading different interviews of authors to find out more about them, their books, and their approach to writing. We all do some things pretty much the same way — sit our butts down in the chair and write — but we all have little idiosyncrasies and rituals
This was posted on one of the groups I belong to, and I thought, who doesn’t like free books? So let’s all see what treasures we can find this coming week. Just to let you know that we’ll be helping to celebrate Read an eBook Week next week by having some eBooks available to download
YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS THIS! In celebration of the grand opening of the new Books We Love Reader’s Group at yahoo, BWL_Readers@yahoogroups.com, we’re asking you to get acquainted with some of our authors by participating in a fun scavenger hunt. We promise it isn’t hard. You just have to follow the provided links listed
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I just read this little tidbit of news on CNN news online. It seems the absurd lawsuit — $54 million over a missing pair of pants — just won’t go away: “The District of Columbia Court of Appeals denied Roy Pearson’s “voluminous” petition to rehear his case, attorney Christopher Manning said in a written statement
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Here’s another funny one from my friend, Tracy Farr…. Check him and the band out at Stinky Creek Someone actually said to me the other day that it was too cold to have Ice Cream. In that instant, I no longer doubted that space aliens have visited Earth; that they have conducted vicious and vile
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Unless you’ve been lost on a desert island for the past week, you have heard about the furor over the NY Post cartoon that has raised the ire of many African Americans. The NAACP has called for the firing of the cartoonist and protesters said that Rupert Murdoch, owner of the Post should be put
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Our dog needs a canine friend. Seriously, what would her family think if they saw her cavorting with all these cats? Poppy is half Border Collie and half Australian Shepard. She should be herding sheep, not cats. But I guess in the absence of sheep, cats will do. Poppy likes to play with John —