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  • The Impact of Influence Volume 3: Ladies Using Their Influence to Create a Life of Impact by Baker, Chip
    Chip Baker

    The Impact of Influence Volume 3: Ladies Using Their Influence to Create a Life of Impact

    Author: Chip BakerISBN-10: 1737950146ISBN-13: 9781737950141Publisher: Baker Impact LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/2022Pages: 216Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
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  • Afropessimism by Wilderson, Frank B.
    Frank B. Wilderson

    Afropessimism

    Praised as "a trenchant, funny, and unsparing work of memoir and philosophy" (Aaron Robertson, ?Literary Hub), Frank B. Wilderson's Afropessimism arrived at a moment when protests against police brutality once again swept the nation. Presenting an argument we can no longer ignore, Wilderson insists...
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  • The Water Is Wide: A Memoir by Conroy, Pat
    Pat Conroy

    The Water Is Wide: A Memoir

    A "miraculous" (Newsweek) human drama, based on a true story, from the renowned author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But for the handful of families...
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  • Letters from an Astrophysicist by Degrasse Tyson, Neil
    Neil Degrasse Tyson

    Letters from an Astrophysicist

    Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world's largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to go behind the scenes of his public fame by revealing his correspondence with people across...
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  • Dear Freedom Writer: Stories of Hardship and Hope from the Next Generation by The Freedom Writers
    The Freedom Writers

    Dear Freedom Writer: Stories of Hardship and Hope from the Next Generation

    The students of today tell their stories of adversity and growth in letters to the original Freedom Writers--authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Freedom Writers Diary--who write supportive and powerful letters in response.Over twenty years ago, the students in first-year teacher...
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  • Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year by Codell, Esmé Raji
    Esmé Raji Codell

    Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year

    A must-read for parents, new teachers, and classroom veterans, Educating Esmé is the exuberant diary of Esmé Raji Codell's first year teaching in a Chicago public school. Fresh-mouthed and free-spirited, the irrepressible Madame Esmé-as she prefers to be called-does the cha-cha during multiplication tables,...
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  • In the Great Green Room by Gary, Amy
    Amy Gary

    In the Great Green Room

    The extraordinary life of the woman behind the beloved children's classics Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny comes alive in this fascinating biography of Margaret Wise Brown. Margaret's books have sold millions of copies all over the world, but few people know that she...
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  • The Last Lecture by Pausch, Randy
    Randy Pausch

    The Last Lecture

    After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, a professor shares the lessons he's learned--about living in the present, building a legacy, and taking full advantage of the time you have--in this life-changing classic."We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the...
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  • Miseducated: A Memoir by Fleming, Brandon P.
    Brandon P. Fleming

    Miseducated: A Memoir

    An inspiring memoir of one man's transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate--all by the age of twenty-seven. Brandon P. Fleming grew up in an abusive home and was shuffled through school, his passing grades a...
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  • The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori by de Stefano, Cristina
    Cristina de Stefano

    The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori

    A fresh, comprehensive biography of the pioneering educator and activist who changed the way we look at children's minds, from the author of Oriana Fallaci. Born in 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy, Maria Montessori would grow up to embody almost every trait men of her...
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  • Teacher: Two Years in the Mississippi Delta by Copperman, Michael
    Michael Copperman

    Teacher: Two Years in the Mississippi Delta

    When Michael Copperman left Stanford University for the Mississippi Delta in 2002, he imagined he would lift underprivileged children from the narrow horizons of rural poverty. Well-meaning but na?e, the Asian American from the West Coast soon lost his bearings in a world divided...
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  • The Art of Teaching Children: All I Learned from a Lifetime in the Classroom by Done, Phillip
    Phillip Done

    The Art of Teaching Children: All I Learned from a Lifetime in the Classroom

    An essential guide for teachers and parents that's destined to become a classic, The Art of Teaching Children is one of those rare and masterful books that not only defines a craft but offers a magical reading experience.After more than thirty years in the...
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  • Fantastic Voyage: A Story of School Turnaround and Achievement By Overcoming Poverty and Addressing Race by Roland, Lee
    Lee Roland

    Fantastic Voyage: A Story of School Turnaround and Achievement By Overcoming Poverty and Addressing Race

    How can we help our inner city children when schools continue to fail them? Who offers practical helps that have been tested and proven effective? Fantastic Voyage offers a helpful and hopeful tool for educators at every level. It also serves as a guide...
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  • From the Rearview Mirror: Reflections of a Culver Academies' Instructor by Horvath, Joseph M.
    Joseph M. Horvath

    From the Rearview Mirror: Reflections of a Culver Academies' Instructor

    It was September 1983 when Joseph Horvath began questioning whether he belonged at Culver Academies, a boarding-prep-military private school in Indiana. A veteran public school teacher but new to private boarding school life, Horvath struggled to find his niche and embrace the notion that...
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  • She Pees Like a Horse: Confessions of a School Principal by Leary, Karen
    Karen Leary

    She Pees Like a Horse: Confessions of a School Principal

    "She Pees Like a Horse! Confessions of a School Principal" will bring a smile to your face and a tear to your eye as you read about the humor and the horrors of working as a public-school administrator. An honest and deeply personal glimpse...
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  • Stayin Alive: A Transgender's Safety Guidebook by Lawrence, Grace Felicia
    Grace Felicia Lawrence

    Stayin Alive: A Transgender's Safety Guidebook

    In the best of times, the lives, health, and well-being of transgender and nonbinary (TGNB) people are precarious. With the COVID-19 pandemic, the pressures have increased significantly, thus worsening their condition.The 2015 National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that TGNB people were unemployed at three...
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  • From the Rearview Mirror: Reflections of a Culver Academies' Instructor by Horvath, Joseph M.
    Joseph M. Horvath

    From the Rearview Mirror: Reflections of a Culver Academies' Instructor

    It was September 1983 when Joseph Horvath began questioning whether he belonged at Culver Academies, a boarding-prep-military private school in Indiana. A veteran public school teacher but new to private boarding school life, Horvath struggled to find his niche and embrace the notion that...
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  • Pedagogy of the Heart: The Psychological and Political Memoirs of a Master Teacher by Kokol, Martin
    Martin Kokol

    Pedagogy of the Heart: The Psychological and Political Memoirs of a Master Teacher

    In this honest and daring work, Kokol tracks his career beginning as a high school teacher in south Florida, up to a graduate student in Massachusetts, out to a university professor in Utah and finally in New York City, and then to a high...
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  • Those Who Can't: A Danger to Themselves and Others by Nichols, Patrick
    Patrick Nichols

    Those Who Can't: A Danger to Themselves and Others

    "We shape the future society through the ways in which we educate or fail to educate our youth." - Patrick NicholsA gritty look into education in the inner city as told through the experiences of a teacher who struggled with trauma, addiction, and PTSD....
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  • On a Wave by Ziolkowski, Thad
    Thad Ziolkowski

    On a Wave

    In this prizewinning poet's wry and exhilarating coming-of-age story, Thad Ziolkowski's On a Wave poignantly looks back at adolescence in a memoir of his surfing years. As a disenchanted, unemployed English professor, Thad decides one day to sneak away from his temp job in...
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  • May Tomorrow Be Awake: On Poetry, Autism, and Our Neurodiverse Future by Martin, Chris
    Chris Martin

    May Tomorrow Be Awake: On Poetry, Autism, and Our Neurodiverse Future

    An author and educator's pioneering approach to helping autistic students find their voices through poetry--a powerful and uplifting story that shows us how to better communicate with people on the spectrum and explores how we use language to express our seemingly limitless interior lives.Adults...
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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 - A special 25th anniversary edition of the beloved book that has changed millions of lives with the story of an unforgettable friendship, the timeless wisdom of older generations, and healing lessons on loss and grief--featuring a new afterword...
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  • Home in the World: A Memoir by Sen, Amartya
    Amartya Sen

    Home in the World: A Memoir

    The Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is one of a handful of people who may truly be called "a global intellectual" (Financial Times). A towering figure in the field of economics, Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and famine, as inspired...
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  • Living My Golden Dream by Stuber, Lorna
    Lorna Stuber

    Living My Golden Dream

    "I wanna become a teacher and then teach in another country," an eight-year-old Canadian girl decided.By the age of twenty-five, she had checked this-her main goal in life-off her bucket list. In March 1992, Lorna Stuber stepped off an Air Canada plane in Tokyo,...
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  • The Quiet Trailblazer: My Journey as the First Black Graduate of the University of Georgia by Early, Mary Frances
    Mary Frances Early

    The Quiet Trailblazer: My Journey as the First Black Graduate of the University of Georgia

    The Quiet Trailblazer recounts Mary Frances Early's life from her childhood in Atlanta, her growing interest in music, and her awakening to the injustices of racism in the Jim Crow South. Early carefully maps the road to her 1961 decision to apply to the...
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  • Invisible Ink by Stern, Guy
    Guy Stern

    Invisible Ink

    The incredible autobiography of an exiled child during WWII. Invisible Ink is the story of Guy Stern's remarkable life. This is not a Holocaust memoir; however, Stern makes it clear that the horrors of the Holocaust and his remarkable escape from Nazi Germany created...
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  • Up from Slavery by Washington, Booker T.
    Booker T. Washington

    Up from Slavery

    Born in a Virginia slave hut, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) rose to become the most influential spokesman for African Americans of his day. In this eloquently written book, he describes events in a remarkable life that began in bondage and culminated in worldwide recognition...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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