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  • Romances with Schools: A Life of Education by Goodlad, John I.
    John I. Goodlad

    Romances with Schools: A Life of Education

    John I. Goodlad has been an unflagging voice for humanistic ideals in education for more than six decades and has helped reframe the modern discourse on the role and function of schools. For Goodlad the goal of public education is to help children become...
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  • Autobiography of John G. Fee, Berea, Kentucky by Fee, John G.
    John G. Fee

    Autobiography of John G. Fee, Berea, Kentucky

    Published in 1891, Autobiography of John G. Fee, Berea, Kentucky describes various incidents that epitomize Fee's experience as an abolitionist in the South, beginning with his religious conversion in early childhood. The text details his beliefs, his role in founding Berea, and the obstacles...
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  • Survival Within Two Cultures by Rincon, Erminia Minnie Lopez
    Erminia Minnie Lopez Rincon

    Survival Within Two Cultures

    When Erminia "Minnie" Lopez Rincon was born, she was not breathing, but the attendant working on her tiny body did not give up until Rincon was breathing on her own. So began the life of a Mexican American woman who would not only endure...
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  • A Socrates for All Seasons - Alexander Meiklejohn and Deliberative Democracy by Perry, Eugene H.
    Eugene H. Perry

    A Socrates for All Seasons - Alexander Meiklejohn and Deliberative Democracy

    This is the story of a reform minded man who translated his interest in liberal education and academic freedom into a unique interpretation of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Although he died in 1964 his interpretation is still being applied to...
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  • The Autobiography of Joseph LeConte by Armes, William Dallam
    William Dallam Armes

    The Autobiography of Joseph LeConte

    Joseph LeConte was born to Louis and Ann LeConte in Liberty, Georgia in 1823. He attended the University of Georgia and then studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. He discovered he preferred teaching, however, and, after earning degrees...
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  • Living with a Learning Difference (Disability): Through the Eyes of the LD Child by Evans, Richard A., Jr.
    Richard A. Jr. Evans

    Living with a Learning Difference (Disability): Through the Eyes of the LD Child

    For everyone who struggles with learning difficulties this is a story for you This is one individual's journey from high school dropout to a Doctorate in Educational Psychology Dr R.A. Evans talks about what it is like to have and live with Learning Disabilities....
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  • Teaching in Elementary Schools: The Real Deal by Southall, Regina Long
    Regina Long Southall

    Teaching in Elementary Schools: The Real Deal

    Society needs to learn all about teaching requirements. My book has not been written to place blame on any school system or administrator. Having worked in many schools and knowing educators, the true story is the same across cities. So many other professions place...
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  • What's Shaking the School: A Principal's Retrospective by Judy Bertram Tomlinson, Bertram Tomlinso
    Bertram Tomlinso Judy Bertram Tomlinson

    What's Shaking the School: A Principal's Retrospective

    What really goes on in the principal's office? What's Shaking The School reveals the school community through the eyes of a seasoned educator and school leader. With candor and caring, humor and pathos, the experiences of one elementary principal shed light upon other questions...
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  • The English Governess At the Siamese Court; Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace At Bangkok, by Anna Harriette Leonowens. With Illustr by Leonowens, Anna Harriette
    Anna Harriette Leonowens

    The English Governess At the Siamese Court; Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace At Bangkok, by Anna Harriette Leonowens. With Illustr

    Author: Anna Harriette LeonowensISBN-10: 1425538312ISBN-13: 9781425538316Publisher: University of Michigan LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2006Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.76d
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  • Forget the Novocaine, Doc - - I was a Teacher by Calimeri, Robert F.
    Robert F. Calimeri

    Forget the Novocaine, Doc - - I was a Teacher

    Author: Robert F. CalimeriISBN-10: 1418441651ISBN-13: 9781418441654Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2004Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d
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  • Please Don't Eat the Crabapples: Prayers and Reflections of a Kindergarten Teacher by Oaks, Sandra Sheldon
    Sandra Sheldon Oaks

    Please Don't Eat the Crabapples: Prayers and Reflections of a Kindergarten Teacher

    For twenty-eight years Sandra Oaks taught five, six, and seven year olds. She laughed with them; she cried with them; she prayed for them; and she kept a journal of her experiences. PLEASE DON'T EAT THE CRABAPPLES is a reflection of the laughter, tears...
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  • Pestalozzi: His Life and Work by de Guimps, Roger
    Roger de Guimps

    Pestalozzi: His Life and Work

    It is important to have complete knowledge of a man who throughout a long life, sacrificed himself for what was, perhaps, the most fertile idea of modern times - the regeneration of nations by elementary education; a man who, passionately loving the people in...
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  • Miss Apple: Letters of a Maine Teacher in Kentucky by Cunningham, Eleanor W.
    Eleanor W. Cunningham

    Miss Apple: Letters of a Maine Teacher in Kentucky

    Author: Eleanor W. CunninghamISBN-10: 1403336954ISBN-13: 9781403336958Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/2002Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.06w x 0.72d
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  • The Kid Across the Hall: The Fight for Opportunity in Our Schools by Saaris, Reid
    Reid Saaris

    The Kid Across the Hall: The Fight for Opportunity in Our Schools

    Growing up, Reid was confused and disturbed by the radically different opportunities his best friend received. After a childhood spent together, Jamie and Reid found themselves on opposite sides of a high school hallway that separated kids based on a misunderstanding of their supposed...
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  • Giving My All: An Autobiography of Earl Martin Phalen by Phalen, Earl Martin
    Earl Martin Phalen

    Giving My All: An Autobiography of Earl Martin Phalen

    Giving My All is the true story of how Earl Martin Phalen's adoption into an all-white family led him on a lifelong journey to improve the outcomes for black and brown children across the country.Author: Earl Martin PhalenISBN-10: 1636980503ISBN-13: 9781636980508Publisher: Morgan James PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished:...
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  • Primary Sources, Historical Collections: The English Governess at the Siamese Court, with a Foreword by T. S. Wentworth by Leonowens, Anna Harriette
    Anna Harriette Leonowens

    Primary Sources, Historical Collections: The English Governess at the Siamese Court, with a Foreword by T. S. Wentworth

    This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject produced over the...
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  • Florence Nightingale: 1820-1910 - Biography of the Nursing Pioneer by Smith, Cecil Woodham
    Cecil Woodham Smith

    Florence Nightingale: 1820-1910 - Biography of the Nursing Pioneer

    Florence Nightingale was a great pioneer of nursing, her gifts for organizing and arranging a model of care resulted in many lives being saved during the Crimean War.This biography unveils the woman behind the icon - it covers the entirety of Nightingale's life, from...
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  • Haphiza's Odyssey: Soft skills and Spiritual lessons from my mom, Village girl turned Businesswoman by Mohammed, Shehnaz
    Shehnaz Mohammed

    Haphiza's Odyssey: Soft skills and Spiritual lessons from my mom, Village girl turned Businesswoman

    In a collection of flashback stories, Shehnaz offers a creative nonfiction narrative on the life of her mother. Her mother's story is about a girl from Monkey Town village who started her career in the travel industry in the 1970s. Haphiza became one of...
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  • Jan's Journey: A Portrait to Last a Hundred Years by Blanchard, Bill
    Bill Blanchard

    Jan's Journey: A Portrait to Last a Hundred Years

    Jan was an outstanding teacher who inspired students and teachers alike until multiple sclerosis forced her to retire. In this poignant memoir, Jan's filmmaker husband relates the story of her journey through life and how it was shaped by things both large and small....
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  • Moving Forward, Looking Back by Is 141, 8th Graders at
    8th Graders at Is 141

    Moving Forward, Looking Back

    This collection of narratives and poems pay homage to the life journey of the class of 2023. A juxtaposition of emotions, the voices of our seniors intertwine hope with fear and joy with sorrow. As the title, "Moving Forward, Looking Backward" suggests, the stories...
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  • Back the Flock Off: A Guide for Learners. A Survival Guide for Parents. by Richards, Steve
    Steve Richards

    Back the Flock Off: A Guide for Learners. A Survival Guide for Parents.

    Do you remember learning to drive?Are you planning on teaching someone who is?Are you prepared for the journey ahead?Are you currently learning to drive?Are you ready for your driving test?Discover the world of driving from an instructor's viewpoint: the other side of the car.It...
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  • Too Much Love Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Silence of Childhood Sexual Abuse by Bakari, Rosenna
    Rosenna Bakari

    Too Much Love Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Silence of Childhood Sexual Abuse

    This expression of truth about healing invites you into a space of healing no matter how old or how hidden your pain. Readers understand how what happens in childhood determines the quality of our emotional and physical health. Readers will identify with families protecting...
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  • A School Man of the Ozarks: Being an Autobiography of William Erwin Halbrook by Halbrook, William Erwin
    William Erwin Halbrook

    A School Man of the Ozarks: Being an Autobiography of William Erwin Halbrook

    It's hard to imagine a time when American schools lacked essential basics like paper, desks and qualified teachers. Well into the 20th century, however, Arkansas continued to offer its students sporadic education in crowded, inadequate conditions -- something William Halbrook was determined to change....
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  • Recollections of John Pounds: With additional contemporary newspaper extracts by Hawkes, Henry
    Henry Hawkes

    Recollections of John Pounds: With additional contemporary newspaper extracts

    Available post-free in the UK from the publisher's website, www.lifeisamazing.co.uk.John Pounds of Portsmouth was famous in the 19th Century. His life, dedicated to teaching, feeding and clothing the poorest children from the most wretched parts of Portsmouth sparked a revolution in the education of...
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  • Between Breaths: A Teacher in the Alaskan Bush by Mathews, Sandra K.
    Sandra K. Mathews

    Between Breaths: A Teacher in the Alaskan Bush

    In 1958, Alaska was not yet a state; it was one of the last frontiers in the West and offered a life of adventure to anyone willing to relocate there. Donna Joy McGladrey, the daughter of a Methodist minister, had recently graduated from college...
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  • Just Beneath My Skin: Autobiography and Self-Discovery by Foster, Patricia
    Patricia Foster

    Just Beneath My Skin: Autobiography and Self-Discovery

    Writing about oneself, says Patricia Foster, "engages in truth but depends on the imagination, on the life just beneath the skin, a life that's impressionistic and fragile." These eleven closely linked personal essays are at once an absorbing chronicle of a life fully undertaken...
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  • Geographical Voices: Fourteen Autobiographical Essays by Gould, Peter
    Peter Gould

    Geographical Voices: Fourteen Autobiographical Essays

    These highly personal essays reflect experiences and insights of key geographers of the past half-century. Contributors not only document the growing concern for research on social conditions and social justice, they also prove that scholarly commitment .is still vibrant and healthy in the discipline....
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  • A Life of Her Own: A Countrywoman in Twentieth-Century France by Carles, Émilie
    ﾉmilie Carles

    A Life of Her Own: A Countrywoman in Twentieth-Century France

    Published in France in 1977 as Une Soupe aux Herbes Sauvages, this autobiography of a peasant woman reared in the stony insularity of a tiny Alpine village reveals the unfolding of a formidable person. Carles, born in 1900, writes of her life in the...
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  • Paul Rusch in Postwar Japan: Evangelism, Rural Development, and the Battle Against Communism by McDonald, Andrew T.
    Andrew T. McDonald

    Paul Rusch in Postwar Japan: Evangelism, Rural Development, and the Battle Against Communism

    Paul Rusch first traveled from Louisville, Kentucky, to Tokyo in 1925 to help rebuild YMCA facilities in the wake of the Great Kanto earthquake. What was planned as a yearlong stay became his life's work as he joined with the Japan Episcopal Church to...
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  • Mr. Ambassador: Warrior for Peace by Perkins, Edward J.
    Edward J. Perkins

    Mr. Ambassador: Warrior for Peace

    "Apartheid South Africa was on fire around me." So begins the memoir of Career Foreign Service Officer Edward J. Perkins, the first black United States ambassador to South Africa. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan gave him the unparalleled assignment: dismantle apartheid without violence. As...
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  • I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories by Swope, Sam
    Sam Swope

    I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories

    Swope's marvelous, moving book revives the teaching memoir . . . And takes it to new realms of tenderness, insight and humanity. -Phillip Lopate In 1995, writer Sam Swope gave a workshop to a third-grade class in a Queens school bursting at the seams...
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  • Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945 by Chang, Gordon H.
    Gordon H. Chang

    Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945

    This book has a dual purpose. The first is to present a biography of Yamato Ichihashi, a Stanford University professor who was one of the first academics of Asian ancestry in the United States. The second purpose is to present, through Ichihashi's wartime writings,...
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  • The Passionate Mind of Maxine Greene: 'I Am ... Not Yet' by Pinar, William F.
    William F. Pinar

    The Passionate Mind of Maxine Greene: 'I am ... not yet'

    Maxine Greene is the most important philosopher of education in the United States today. The author of Teacher as Stranger (1973), Landscapes of Learning (1978), Dialectic of Freedom (1988), and Releasing the Imagination (1995), Greene has influenced tens of thousands of teachers in North...
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  • Sudden Death, Overtime by Courneya, Dennis
    Dennis Courneya

    Sudden Death, Overtime

    Author: Dennis CourneyaISBN-10: 0738819921ISBN-13: 9780738819921Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/20/2000Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.67d
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  • One Hundred Semesters: My Adventures as Student, Professor, and University President, and What I Learned Along the Way by Chace, William M.
    William M. Chace

    One Hundred Semesters: My Adventures as Student, Professor, and University President, and What I Learned Along the Way

    In One Hundred Semesters, William Chace mixes incisive analysis with memoir to create an illuminating picture of the evolution of American higher education over the past half century. Chace follows his own journey from undergraduate education at Haverford College to teaching at Stillman, a...
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  • The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography by Adams, Henry
    Henry Adams

    The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography

    Few books have so firmly established their place in American literature as The Education of Henry Adams. When it was first published in 1918, it became an instant bestseller and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. More than eighty years later, in an...
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  • Memories of My Childhood in Pleasant Valley by Godsey, J.
    J. Godsey

    Memories of My Childhood in Pleasant Valley

    This previously unpublished memoir of George N. Cross, born in Methuen, Mass. in 1853, is a vivid picture and historical account of rural life in the 1800's of a small town in Massachusetts along the Merrimack River caught between the two emerging and thriving...
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  • A Mango for the Teacher: Running the Beach and Running a School in Cancun's Early Days by Frisch, Deborah
    Deborah Frisch

    A Mango for the Teacher: Running the Beach and Running a School in Cancun's Early Days

    June, 1975 - With New York City deep in budget crisis, Deborah, a spirited young teacher of English as a Second Language, receives her third pink slip in two years. Her strongest ties to New York were cut when cancer claimed her mother, uncle...
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  • Nature's Messenger: Memoirs of a Prophetic Meteorologist by Edwards, Craig M.
    Craig M. Edwards

    Nature's Messenger: Memoirs of a Prophetic Meteorologist

    From snowstorms to thunderstorms to beautiful blue skies, author Craig Edwards has been fascinated by the weather from an early age; so fascinated that his four brothers nicknamed him "weather boy." In this memoir, Edwards recounts his life growing up in the Midwest, his...
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  • God from Afar: Memoirs of a University Professor by Schiavone, James
    James Schiavone

    God from Afar: Memoirs of a University Professor

    Author: James SchiavoneISBN-10: 0595091563ISBN-13: 9780595091560Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2000Pages: 412Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.05w x 1.20d
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  • The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles 1727-1795 by Morgan, Edmund S.
    Edmund S. Morgan

    The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles 1727-1795

    In this life of Ezra Stiles, president of Yale University from 1778 to 1795, the noted historian Edmund S. Morgan portrays a man who reflects the thought and temper of an age in New England and the middle colonies.Author: Edmund S. MorganISBN-10: 0393301265ISBN-13: 9780393301267Publisher:...
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  • Woodrow Wilson: Princeton to the Presidency by Maynard, W. Barksdale
    W. Barksdale Maynard

    Woodrow Wilson: Princeton to the Presidency

    Before Woodrow Wilson became president of the United States, he spent 25 years at Princeton University, first as an undergraduate, then professor, and finally as president. His experiences at the helm of Princeton-where he enjoyed four productive years followed by four years of wrangling...
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  • Antonio Caso: Philosopher of Mexico by Haddox, John H.
    John H. Haddox

    Antonio Caso: Philosopher of Mexico

    Few men have had as much cultural and educational influence on their own countries as the philosopher and educator Antonio Caso (1883-1946). He was above all a patriot of his beloved Mexico, and he sought to deliver his humanitarian message to his countrymen. In...
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  • Monk's Tale: The Presidential Years, 1987-2005 by Malloy, Edward A.
    Edward A. Malloy

    Monk's Tale: The Presidential Years, 1987-2005

    This long-awaited, last installment of Reverend Edward A. Malloy's three-volume memoir examines his eighteen years as president of the University of Notre Dame from 1987 to 2005. In this candid and lively account, Malloy, or "Monk" to all who know him, shares his reflections...
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  • The Triumph of Wounded Souls: Seven Holocaust Survivors' Lives by Lerner, Bernice
    Bernice Lerner

    The Triumph of Wounded Souls: Seven Holocaust Survivors' Lives

    The Triumph of Wounded Souls vividly recounts the stories of seven Holocaust survivors who overcame many obstacles to earn advanced degrees and become college and university professors. As Jews trapped in Nazi-occupied Europe from 1939 to 1945, these remarkable individuals witnessed and endured terror...
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  • Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography by Brown, David S.
    David S. Brown

    Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography

    Richard Hofstadter (1916-70) was America's most distinguished historian of the twentieth century. The author of several groundbreaking books, including The American Political Tradition, he was a vigorous champion of the liberal politics that emerged from the New Deal. During his nearly thirty-year career, Hofstadter...
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  • Other Loyalties: The Life of a School and the Education of a Teacher by Aal, Kareem
    Kareem Aal

    Other Loyalties: The Life of a School and the Education of a Teacher

    When was the last time you fell in love with a school?This is the tale of a public charter school on the east side of St. Paul, Minnesota, led by a charismatic and footloose principal, Ms. D. For six glorious years, it was a...
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  • Force of Nature: The Remarkable True Story of One Holocaust Survivor's Resilience, Tenacity, and Purpose by Huff, Gisèle
    Gis鑞e Huff

    Force of Nature: The Remarkable True Story of One Holocaust Survivor's Resilience, Tenacity, and Purpose

    A moving account of resilience, hope, and purpose-punctuated by unforgettable lessons from an extraordinary life.After escaping war-torn France, where eighteen members of her family were murdered in the Holocaust, Gis鑞e Huff arrived in the US with her mother. It was 1947, and they had...
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  • Modern Day Joan of Arc by Wallace, Angel
    Angel Wallace

    Modern Day Joan of Arc

    A biography of my life as a young girl beginning from the young age of 2-. It provides insight into my spiritual adventure, with Jesus and lessons learned. My story leads me down the Rabbit Hole of life as I began to hear the...
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  • 11,000 Days at School: From Class Clown to High School Vice-Principal by Greer, Hugh
    Hugh Greer

    11,000 Days at School: From Class Clown to High School Vice-Principal

    One day, Hugh Greer crunched the numbers and came to a startling realization: to date, he had spent over 11,000 days of his life in a school.From kindergarten in the 1950s to high school vice-principal, this memoir recounts Hugh Greer's career of comical, teachable,...
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