The Other Skim

Author : Mariko Tamaki
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1554980690
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skim written by Mariko Tamaki and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review choice as one of the 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2008. Skim is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth stuck in a private girls' school in Toronto. When a classmate's boyfriend kills himself because he was rumoured to be gay, the school goes into mourning overdrive, each clique trying to find something to hold on to and something to believe in. It's a weird time to fall in love, but that's high school, and that's what happens to Skim when she starts to meet in secret with her neo-hippie English teacher, Ms. Archer. But when Ms. Archer abruptly leaves, Skim struggles to cope with her confusion and isolation, armed with her trusty journal and a desire to shed old friendships while cautiously approaching new ones. Depression, love, sexual identity, crushes, manipulative peers --teen life in all its dramatic complexities is explored in this touching, pitch-perfect, literary graphic masterpiece. Cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki collaborate brilliantly in this poignant glimpse into the heartache of being sixteen. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7 Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.

Author : Max Allan Collins
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 1789091403
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skim Deep written by Max Allan Collins and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first new Nolan novel in 33 years from one of the masters of the genre, Max Allan Collins, award-winning author of Road to Perdition. The onetime world-class thief Nolan - now happily gone straight with his own restaurant/nightclub - whisks his longtime lover Sherry off to Vegas for a trip to a wedding chapel and a honeymoon stay. But an eye-in-the-sky security cam at a casino spots Nolan, whose past catches up with him when he's thought to be casing the joint. An old "friend" sees Nolan as the perfect patsy for a scheme to heist the weekly skim haul, and when the former thief's young frequent accomplice, Jon - a musician in the casino's house band - finds the couple mysteriously, suspiciously missing, it's up to Nolan's Best Man to keep wedding bells from tolling a funeral march.

Author : Thomas Henege
Publisher : Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780897331906
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skim written by Thomas Henege and published by Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited. This book was released on 1986 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The officers of the Manhattan Banking Corporation and their families, friends, and employees walk a dangerous tightrope when a billion-dollar loan is made to the corrupt West African Republic of Maraka.

Author : William Kisby
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781491703687
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Skim written by William Kisby and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized crime has made millions from legal gambling in the United States, and now it threatens the world's largest gaming markets. Despite the rigorous efforts to regulate the gaming industry after New Jersey legalized casinos in 1976, the Mob still found ways to skim millions of dollars in illegal profit. Even with stringent regulatory oversight of gaming, organized crime managed to reap millions in profits through its control of a network of companies providing gamblers from sixty-five cities in twenty-five states throughout the United States. Their network was ultimately discovered through the efforts of Operation Eagle, a multi-jurisdictional sting operation conducted by the Casino Intelligence Unit of the New Jersey State Police. During the investigation, detectives initiated an investigative effort that uncovered how the Mob was able to control a major portion of the casino's marketing dollars not only in Atlantic City casinos but also in other major gaming venues, including Nevada and the Caribbean. Currently, with more than thirty-eight billion dollars in revenue each year, the largest gaming venue in the world is Macau, China. Asian organized crime has found a way to penetrate the casino industry in Macau, in much the same way organized crime infiltrated legalized casino operations in other parts of the world. The Other Skim tells the story of how organized crime made millions from legal gambling in the United Sates and how it still threatens gaming markets today.

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Total Pages : 1022 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Author : United States. Department of Agriculture
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
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Download or read book Code of Federal Regulations written by United States. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special edition of the Federal register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect as of ... with ancillaries.

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Total Pages : 386 pages
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Total Pages : 466 pages
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Total Pages : 544 pages
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Author : Minnesota State Dairyman's Association
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Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Minnesota State Dairyman's Association written by Minnesota State Dairyman's Association and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: