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  • Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson by Albom, Mitch
    Mitch Albom

    Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The blockbuster book that is one of the top-selling memoirs of all time and is the basis for the Emmy Award-winning film and stage adaptations that have been produced continuously worldwide since 2002 - An unforgettable story of...
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  • An Unlikely School Superintendent: A Memoir by Berrier, Bill
    Bill Berrier

    An Unlikely School Superintendent: A Memoir

    An Unlikely School Superintendent chronicles the life of Bill Berrier beginning as a student in a one-room schoolhouse in rural Missouri and culminating as the superintendent of a growing southern California school district minutes from the beach. He married his high school sweetheart and...
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  • Rice, Noodles, and Watermelon: English Summer School in China by Akers, Maralie
    Maralie Akers

    Rice, Noodles, and Watermelon: English Summer School in China

    "Do you know that you have something people all over the world want-your language?" began a radio announcement that would be a life-changing experience for Maralie Akers, a middle-aged high school teacher with empty nest syndrome. Two summers teaching English to Chinese English teachers...
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  • My Journey Through Life: An American Story: An American Story: An American Story by Davis, Gerald
    Gerald Davis

    My Journey Through Life: An American Story: An American Story: An American Story

    My Journey Through Life: An American Story is the autobiographical account of Dr. Gerald Davis, born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia in 19XX. He retired in 20XX after thirty-nine years as a student, teacher, advisor, and coach at an independent, co-educational boarding school in New...
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  • Beautiful Child: The True Story of a Child Trapped in Silence and the Teacher Who Refused to Give Up on Her by Hayden, Torey
    Torey Hayden

    Beautiful Child: The True Story of a Child Trapped in Silence and the Teacher Who Refused to Give Up on Her

    From the bestselling author of One Child comes this amazing, true story of a mute and withdrawn seven--year--old girl and the special education teacher determined never to abandon a child in need.Seven-year-old Venus Fox never spoke, never listened, never even acknowledged the presence of...
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  • We Want to Be Great by Vijfhuizen, Carin
    Carin Vijfhuizen

    We Want to Be Great

    Success and failures are worth telling, because we can learn from them and strengthen ourselves. We can use that experience to strengthen organizations and societies in which we work and live. This book is a true story, set in the gender segregated context of...
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  • The Making of a Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade by Dew, Charles B.
    Charles B. Dew

    The Making of a Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade

    In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America's most respected historians of the South--and particularly its history of slavery--turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of enlightenment but in a society unequivocally committed to segregation.Dew re-creates the...
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  • Lifeline 65: How Small Connections and Big Enthusiasm Can Change Education by Stein, Ryan T.
    Ryan T. Stein

    Lifeline 65: How Small Connections and Big Enthusiasm Can Change Education

    After fifteen years as an award-winning educator, Ryan Stein knows this: when you make the school experience about fostering genuine human connection, students don't just succeed--they thrive. In this part-guidebook, part-memoir, Ryan shares the best ideas and stories from his groundbreaking educational philosophy with...
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  • New Beginnings: From Behind the Iron Curtain to America by Duridanova, Antonina
    Antonina Duridanova

    New Beginnings: From Behind the Iron Curtain to America

    Burning with desire to share the value of freedom, Antonina takes you from her plight in communist Bulgaria to the free shores of America. Following unfortunate events of life in a totalitarian regime in Bulgaria, Antonina bids goodbye to her homeland and flees to...
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  • Riding from the Heart by Lynde, Sheryl
    Sheryl Lynde

    Riding from the Heart

    In this book, I share some of the strategies and approaches I have used to train the more challenging horses I have known. The parallels between human and horse gave me tremendous insight to the cause of many of their behaviors, as well as...
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  • From Prison Cells to PhD: It Is Never Too Late to Do Good by Andrisse, Stanley
    Stanley Andrisse

    From Prison Cells to PhD: It Is Never Too Late to Do Good

    A captivating story detailing how resilience and inner strength can be combined to overcome mountainous barriers to reach one's full potential. Growing up in Ferguson, Missouri, Stanley Andrisse began making poor decisions at a very young age. He started selling dope and was arrested...
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  • Memoir of a Black Christian Nationalist: Seeds of Liberation by McIntosh, Ed D. Shelley
    Ed D. Shelley McIntosh

    Memoir of a Black Christian Nationalist: Seeds of Liberation

    These days are filled with social unrest. Lack of compassion from elected officials, police brutality, unjust laws that create poverty through minimal wages but soaring profits for capitalists, benign neglect of blighted neighborhoods, and crime within the cities and in governments create a landscape...
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  • Hughisms: A Legacy of Life Lessons by Peery, Regina
    Regina Peery

    Hughisms: A Legacy of Life Lessons

    IF YOU CAN HELP ONE CHILD OR ONE PERSON BY SHARING YOUR STORY-DO IT. -Hugh "Sonny" Peery Hughisms is a collection of life lessons shared through the wit and wisdom from Hugh "Sonny" Peery, the author's father. Hugh shared these truths, which are ultimately...
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  • What Was Said to Me: The Life of Sti'tum'atul'wut, a Cowichan Woman by Peter, Ruby
    Ruby Peter

    What Was Said to Me: The Life of Sti'tum'atul'wut, a Cowichan Woman

    A narrative of resistance and resilience spanning seven decades in the life of a tireless advocate for Indigenous language preservation. Life histories are a form of contemporary social history and convey important messages about identity, cosmology, social behaviour and one's place in the world....
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  • Somebody Else's Kids: The True Story of Four Problem Children and One Extraordinary Teacher by Hayden, Torey
    Torey Hayden

    Somebody Else's Kids: The True Story of Four Problem Children and One Extraordinary Teacher

    "A heartwarming book full of tenderness." --Library JournalFrom the bestselling author of One Child, the true story of four problem children and one extraordinary teacher.They were all "just somebody else's kids"--four problem children placed in Torey Hayden's class because nobody knew what else to...
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  • Hughisms: A Legacy of Life's Lessons by Peery, Regina
    Regina Peery

    Hughisms: A Legacy of Life's Lessons

    IF YOU CAN HELP ONE CHILD OR ONE PERSON BY SHARING YOUR STORY-DO IT. -Hugh "Sonny" Peery Hughisms is a collection of life lessons shared through the wit and wisdom of Hugh "Sonny" Peery, the author's father. Hugh shared these truths, which are ultimately...
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  • Prince Harry & Meghan Markle: The biography - The Wedding and Finding Freedom Story of a Modern Royal Family by Library, United
    United Library

    Prince Harry & Meghan Markle: The biography - The Wedding and Finding Freedom Story of a Modern Royal Family

    Prince Henry of Wales, also known as Prince Harry, is the second son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Princess Diana. After enduring the death of his mother in 1997, he occasionally acted out and found himself in the tabloids for embarrassing events. Prince...
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  • The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Kanigel, Robert
    Robert Kanigel

    The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JEREMY IRONS AND DEV PATEL! A moving and enlightening look at the unbelievable true story of how gifted prodigy Ramanujan stunned the scholars of Cambridge University and revolutionized mathematics. In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a...
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  • God, Country, Notre Dame: The Autobiography of Theodore M. Hesburgh by Hesburgh, Theodore M.
    Theodore M. Hesburgh

    God, Country, Notre Dame: The Autobiography of Theodore M. Hesburgh

    I have traveled far and wide, far beyond the simple parish I envisioned as a young man. My obligation of service has led me into diverse yet interrelated roles: college teacher, theologian, president of a great university, counselor to four popes and six presidents....
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  • Teacher Man by McCourt, Frank
    Frank McCourt

    Teacher Man

    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, mega-bestselling author who wore his celebrity with extraordinary grace comes a magnificently appealing book about teaching and about how one great storyteller found his voice. Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto...
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  • Whistling for Hippos: A memoir of life in West Africa by Corey, Scott
    Scott Corey

    Whistling for Hippos: A memoir of life in West Africa

    Africa has a way of luring you in, Scott Corey writes in the opening lines of Whistling for Hippos. It begins with a flash of dark eyes in the firelight and ends with life-long fascination. Or it may begin with a mud-brick village awash...
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  • Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations by Rogers, Fred
    Fred Rogers

    Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations

    Fred Rogers's gentle spirit and passion for children's television takes center stage in this collection of interviews spanning his nearly forty-year career Nearly twenty years after his death, Fred Rogers remains a source of comfort and fond memories for generations who grew up watching...
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  • Afropessimism by Wilderson, Frank B.
    Frank B. Wilderson

    Afropessimism

    Why does race seem to color almost every feature of our moral and political universe? Why does a perpetual cycle of slavery--in all its political, intellectual, and cultural forms--continue to define the Black experience? And why is anti-Black violence such a predominant feature not...
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  • Memoir of a Black Christian Nationalist: Seeds of Liberation by McIntosh, Ed D. Shelley
    Ed D. Shelley McIntosh

    Memoir of a Black Christian Nationalist: Seeds of Liberation

    These days are filled with social unrest. Lack of compassion from elected officials, police brutality, unjust laws that create poverty through minimal wages but soaring profits for capitalists, benign neglect of blighted neighborhoods, and crime within the cities and in governments create a landscape...
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  • Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market by Wapshott, Nicholas
    Nicholas Wapshott

    Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market

    In 1966 two columnists joined Newsweek magazine. Their assignment: debate the world of business and economics. Paul Samuelson was a towering figure in Keynesian economics, which supported the management of the economy along lines prescribed by John Maynard Keynes's General Theory. Milton Friedman, little...
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  • The Flying Bridge Syndrome by O'Gara, Arlyne
    Arlyne O'Gara

    The Flying Bridge Syndrome

    The flying bridge is a naval term for the topmost part of a ship. Midshipmen are taught that the flying bridge is emblematic toward always seeking ones best and striving for the top.You will join Captain William R. O'Gara on his personal, exclusively exciting,...
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  • A Personal Odyssey by Sowell, Thomas
    Thomas Sowell

    A Personal Odyssey

    This is the gritty story of one man's lifelong education in the school of hard knocks, as his journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry....
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  • Flying on Broken Wings: One Woman's Journey from Poverty to Prominence by Bivins-Hudson, Phyllis
    Phyllis Bivins-Hudson

    Flying on Broken Wings: One Woman's Journey from Poverty to Prominence

    For Phyllis Bivins, extreme poverty, hunger, and homelessness were just a part of growing up in 1960's Virginia. Her mother could only afford to raise her on a part-time basis, passing Phyllis around to family members and friends while seeking whatever work was fitting...
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  • Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite by Kim, Suki
    Suki Kim

    Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite

    A haunting account of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea:...
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  • It Isn't Always Black or White: Reflections of a High School Principal During Nashville's Integration by Hargis, J. Mack
    J. Mack Hargis

    It Isn't Always Black or White: Reflections of a High School Principal During Nashville's Integration

    The Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) integration was a complicated process. Though a plan had been implemented in 1970, this plan was reversed by a higher court in 1981 resulting in school closings, teacher transfers, and students bussed miles from home just days before...
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  • The Ocean's Whistleblower: The Remarkable Life and Work of Daniel Pauly by Grémillet, David
    David Gr駑illet

    The Ocean's Whistleblower: The Remarkable Life and Work of Daniel Pauly

    "[Daniel Pauly] is an iconoclastic fisheries scientist ... who is so decidedly global in his life and outlook that he is nearly a man without a country."--NEW YORK TIMES "Daniel Pauly is a friend whose work has inspired me for years."--TED DANSONDaniel Pauly is...
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  • C. S. Lewis -- A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet by McGrath, Alister
    Alister McGrath

    C. S. Lewis -- A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet

    ECPA 2014 Christian Book Award Winner (Non-Fiction) Fifty years after his death, C. S. Lewis continues to inspire and fascinate millions. His legacy remains varied and vast. He was a towering intellectual figure, a popular fiction author who inspired a global movie franchise around...
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  • The Principal Chronicles by Garlick, David
    David Garlick

    The Principal Chronicles

    The Principal Chronicles is a collection of funny and poignant short stories that follow the arc of one man's life and career in education. These works of creative non-fiction-or, to be precise, of semi-autobiographical, pseudo-non-fictional memoir-have been refined by many years of telling and...
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  • Simply Teacher: The Life of Avis Carrington: The Life of Avis Carrington by Lindo-Carrington, Hazel
    Hazel Lindo-Carrington

    Simply Teacher: The Life of Avis Carrington: The Life of Avis Carrington

    'Simply Teacher' is an inspirational narrative of challenge, triumph and celebration. It chronicles the life of centenarian Avis Carrington born in colonial Barbados on the 17th September 1918. Avis was a timid, underachieving child at the elementary level. At the secondary level, and with...
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  • P.S. Look out for snakes: The love letters of Brian Farrell and Marie-Therese Dillon by Farrell-Shtaierman, Miriam
    Miriam Farrell-Shtaierman

    P.S. Look out for snakes: The love letters of Brian Farrell and Marie-Therese Dillon

    Brian Farrell (1929-2014) was one of the most respected broadcasters of his generation, as well as a distinguished academic. He covered current affairs on RTﾉ for over four decades, including general elections and state funerals. His daytime job was as lecturer and then professor...
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  • Empathy and Impact: Memoir of an Educator by Finch, Joan Gordon
    Joan Gordon Finch

    Empathy and Impact: Memoir of an Educator

    Frustrated with paperwork, testing, time demands, limited support, difficult relationships with parents, and feeling insecure about your ability to succeed as a teacher in the classroom? Teaching children with exceptionalities is a difficult task, not totally because of the children's needs but also because...
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  • Aristotle: The biography - Ancient Wisdom, History and Legacy by Library, United
    United Library

    Aristotle: The biography - Ancient Wisdom, History and Legacy

    Aristotle (c. 384 B.C. to 322 B.C.) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist who is still considered one of the greatest thinkers in politics, psychology and ethics. When Aristotle turned 17, he enrolled in Plato's Academy. In 335, Aristotle founded his own school,...
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  • I Will Bear Witness, Volume 2: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1942-1945 by Klemperer, Victor
    Victor Klemperer

    I Will Bear Witness, Volume 2: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1942-1945

    Destined to take its place alongside The Diary of Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel's Night as one of the great classics of the Holocaust, I Will Bear Witness is a timeless work of literature, the most eloquent and acute testament to have emerged from...
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  • Our Educational System Flipped Upside Down: Teaching Reading to Reduce the Negative Effects of School Closures during the Pandemic, and Beyond by Stotts Cochran, Barbara
    Barbara Stotts Cochran

    Our Educational System Flipped Upside Down: Teaching Reading to Reduce the Negative Effects of School Closures during the Pandemic, and Beyond

    Through specific, easy-to-understand directions, this book teaches any proficient reader how to teach the skills and strategies to any potential reader to maximize their learning capabilities. It combines the best parts of the guided reading, reading through trade books, and basal reader programs when...
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  • Beginning to End by Hebert, Marcia
    Marcia Hebert

    Beginning to End

    Beginning to End is the book I needed when I accepted the Director position of my first child care center. I could have used a roadmap to navigate the ins and outs of being a leader and of building an education organization - at...
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  • Sacred Ground: The Chicago Streets of Timuel Black by Black, Timuel D.
    Timuel D. Black

    Sacred Ground: The Chicago Streets of Timuel Black

    Timuel Black is an acclaimed historian, activist, and storyteller. Sacred Ground: The Chicago Streets of Timuel Black chronicles the life and times of this Chicago legend. Sacred Ground opens in 1919, during the summer of the Chicago race riot, when infant Black and his...
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  • Swing Low: A Life by Toews, Miriam
    Miriam Toews

    Swing Low: A Life

    "Audacious, original and profoundly moving . . . . Healing is a likely outcome of a book imbued with the righteous anger, compassion and humanity of Swing Low." --Globe and Mail (Canada)Reverberating with emotional power, authenticity, and insight, Swing Low is Miriam Toews's daring...
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  • Pivot: Empowering Yourself Today to Succeed in an Unpredictable Tomorrow (Students & Entrepreneurs) by Hutheesing, Ravi
    Ravi Hutheesing

    Pivot: Empowering Yourself Today to Succeed in an Unpredictable Tomorrow (Students & Entrepreneurs)

    Education is more than just going to schoolHow can you empower yourself to stay relevant in an ever-changing world? As globalization and artificial intelligence dramatically change the future of work, preparing for a life defined more by who you are than by what you...
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  • Shade of Pink by Pitek-Fugedi, Monica
    Monica Pitek-Fugedi

    Shade of Pink

    This is the true story of breast cancer. Not from the lens of thankfulness for what personal awakening cancer might bring. Screw that, cancer sucks. This is a raw tale of what it is really like from a person who went through it.Monica was...
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  • No Ordinary People: Twenty-One Friendships of C.S. Lewis by Heck, Joel
    Joel Heck

    No Ordinary People: Twenty-One Friendships of C.S. Lewis

    C. S. Lewis believed that our dealings with others have eternal importance, emphasizing that we are always helping one another toward perfection or destruction. He wrote, "There are no ordinary people." Joel Heck, author of several books about C.S. Lewis and creator of the...
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  • The Ascent of Jacob Bronowski: The Life and Ideas of a Popular Science Icon by Sandefur, Timothy
    Timothy Sandefur

    The Ascent of Jacob Bronowski: The Life and Ideas of a Popular Science Icon

    THE FIRST-EVER BIOGRAPHY OF JACOB BRONOWSKI--ONE OF THE LEADING SCIENCE POPULARIZERS OF HIS GENERATION. Best remembered today for his blockbuster documentary series The Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski spent decades explaining scientific ideas to laypersons on television and radio. A true Renaissance man, Bronowski...
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  • Hidden Lessons: Growing Up on the Frontline of Teaching by Baig, Mehreen
    Mehreen Baig

    Hidden Lessons: Growing Up on the Frontline of Teaching

    'Beautifully written, Hidden Lessons is both a heart-rending account of the challenges in our education system, and a heart-warming celebration of teachers and students who have triumphed through adversity. The pride Mehreen has for her community and the lives she has touched is palpable.'...
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  • Fragments of Time: From a Secure Childhood in Prewar Vienna to the Challenges of Emigration, Adaptation, and Pursuits in Science and in E by Lindenfeld, Peter
    Peter Lindenfeld

    Fragments of Time: From a Secure Childhood in Prewar Vienna to the Challenges of Emigration, Adaptation, and Pursuits in Science and in E

    It was a time of destruction of lives and futures and of rebirth and rebuilding. In his lively style with a wide sweep of insights Peter Lindenfeld recounts his personal and often intimate experiences, a microcosm of life during a time spanning nearly a...
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  • Remembering Lucile: A Virginia Family's Rise from Slavery and a Legacy Forged a Mile High by McLean, Polly E. Bugros
    Polly E. Bugros McLean

    Remembering Lucile: A Virginia Family's Rise from Slavery and a Legacy Forged a Mile High

    In 1918 Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Jones received her bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado, becoming its first female African American graduate (though she was not allowed to "walk" at graduation, nor is she pictured in the 1918 CU yearbook). In Remembering Lucile, author...
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  • Thread That Runs So True by Stuart, Jesse
    Jesse Stuart

    Thread That Runs So True

    First published in 1949, Jesse Stuart's now classic personal account of his twenty years of teaching in the mountain region of Kentucky has enchanted and inspired generations of students and teachers. With eloquence and wit, Stuart traces his twenty-year career in education, which began,...
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