Ann Fisher

Florence is 91 years old. She is dying. Atlantic City is dying too. But both were once vibrantly alive. This is a love story between friends who met in a yoga class. "When our l'affair du coeur started Florence was 87. I was 51. She lived in the city. I lived in the suburbs. She's a black Hebrew; I'm a WASP. We are completely alike. ...] During that first car ride when we started talking about everything--we had hardly scratched the surface of politics, nature, travel, race, spirituality, Atlantic City history, love, sex--we became immediate best friends." This is a love story carried on the wings of amazing songs in an amazing city. Atlantic City's Kentucky Avenue was the music mecca of the 1950s, rivaling Harlem and New Orleans. All of the black entertainers that came through Atlantic City--Sarah Vaughn, Count Basie, Dinah Washington, Nat King Cole, Erroll Garner, Louis Armstrong--drank champagne on Celebrity Row at Chicken Bone Beach and even stayed at Florence's house.

Make math matter to students in grades 6 and up using Algebra: Daily Skill Builders This 96-page book features two short, reproducible activities per page and includes enough lessons for an entire school year. It covers topics such as number patterns, word problems, equations, tables, graphs, linear relationships, variables, contextualized problems, properties, order of operations, and exponents. Activities become more challenging as students build upon what they have learned. The book is perfect for review and practice and supports NCTM and Common Core State Standards.

This text includes features that make learning easy and enjoyable - yet - challenging for learners. The text includes a wide range of learning experiences from activities with one or two commands to simulations and case studies that challenge and sharpen learners' problem-solving skills.