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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Stewart, Jeffrey C.
    Jeffrey C. Stewart

    The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

    Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for BiographyWinner of the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston,...
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  • John Henrik Clarke Master Teacher by Adams, Barbara Eleanor
    Barbara Eleanor Adams

    John Henrik Clarke-Master Teacher

    Author: Barbara Eleanor AdamsISBN-10: 1617590126ISBN-13: 9781617590122Publisher: EworldLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2011Pages: 185Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
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  • Joseph Campbell: A Fire in the Mind: The Authorized Biography by Larsen, Stephen
    Stephen Larsen

    Joseph Campbell: A Fire in the Mind: The Authorized Biography

    The fascinating biography that illuminates the man whose work changed modern culture - Gives a complete biographical view of Campbell's life and a personal perspective of who he was through the voices of his friends and colleagues - Written by two of Campbell's preeminent...
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  • The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield by McPhee, John
    John McPhee

    The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield

    Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an academy that has long since taken its place on a level with Andover and Exeter. Boyden, who died in 1972, was the school's headmaster for sixty-six years....
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  • Lost Child: The True Story of a Girl Who Couldn't Ask for Help by Hayden, Torey
    Torey Hayden

    Lost Child: The True Story of a Girl Who Couldn't Ask for Help

    The first new book from beloved therapist and writer Torey Hayden in almost fifteen years--an inspiring, uplifting tale of a troubled child and the remarkable woman who made a difference.In a forgotten corner of Wales, a young girl languishes in a home for troubled...
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  • Ellen Constance Nightingale: A Life by Pedley, John Griffiths
    John Griffiths Pedley

    Ellen Constance Nightingale: A Life

    Ellen Constance "Connie" Nightingale (1892-1967) was a leading advocate for women's rights and, in an age when girls' education was given scant attention, for the education of girls. Headmistress of Dr. Williams' School, Dolgellau (1924-40) and The Mount School, York (1940-8), she drove these...
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  • The Boy from Buzwah: A Life in Indian Education by King, Cecil
    Cecil King

    The Boy from Buzwah: A Life in Indian Education

    A powerful memoir from an Indigenous educator. "Through my eyes, my community was creative, innovative and self-sufficient. In this remote northern traditional First Nation society, the skills, knowledge and abilities that the community needed to survive were all there. . . . The stories...
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  • The Vetting of Wisdom: Joan Montgomery and the fight for PLC by Rubenstein, Kim
    Kim Rubenstein

    The Vetting of Wisdom: Joan Montgomery and the fight for PLC

    In the story of the biggest school blow-up in Australian history, The Vetting of Wisdom is a gripping tale of a revered Principal-acclaimed nationwide as the leading girls' school educator of her day-loved and admired by all-but with a determined Presbyterian Church minority bent...
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  • Warming by the Fire: A Memoir by James, Sid
    Sid James

    Warming by the Fire: A Memoir

    Adversity and negativity can doom most children to a life of despair and failure. However, a few dedicated adults willing to offer love and support can make the critical difference. That's the lesson Sid James learned through an extraordinary life of challenge and perseverance....
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  • Confessions of a Public School Teacher by Marra, Michael
    Michael Marra

    Confessions of a Public School Teacher

    Confessions of a Public School Teacher: A 35-Year Veteran's Assessment on How Public Education Can Make the GradeBy: Michael MarraA veteran teacher of 35 years, Michael Marra believes deeply in education's power to change lives. His enthusiasm for helping children realize their full potential...
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  • Angels in the or: What Dying Taught Me about Healing, Survival, and Transformation by Barker, Tricia
    Tricia Barker

    Angels in the or: What Dying Taught Me about Healing, Survival, and Transformation

    As Heard On Coast To Coast With George Noory A life-altering car accident, an act of unforgettable violence... One woman's courageous story. Tricia Barker was a depressed, agnostic college student at The University of Texas in Austin...until a profound near-death experience (NDE) during surgery...
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  • A Collar In My Pocket: Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise by Elliott, Jane
    Jane Elliott

    A Collar In My Pocket: Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise

    Jane Elliott is an educator who began her career in a third-grade classroom in Riceville, Iowa, and over the past fifty years has become an educator of people of all ages all over the U.S. and abroad.The Blue-eyed, Brown-eyed Exercise which she devised to...
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  • Terlingua Teacher: The Remarkable Lessons Taught and Learned in a One-Room Texas Schoolhouse. by Jones, Trent
    Trent Jones

    Terlingua Teacher: The Remarkable Lessons Taught and Learned in a One-room Texas Schoolhouse.

    The Remarkable Lessons Taught and Learned in a One-room Texas Schoolhouse.A search for a simpler, more rewarding lifestyle brings Trent Jones and his wife Olga to the ghost town of Terlingua, Texas so that Trent can accept the unusual job of teacher/principal/janitor of a...
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  • Same as It Never Was: Notes on a Teacher's Return to the Classroom by Michie, Gregory
    Gregory Michie

    Same as It Never Was: Notes on a Teacher's Return to the Classroom

    After a decade as an education professor, Greg Michie decided to return to his teaching roots. He went back to the same Chicago neighborhood, the same public school, and the same grade level and subject he taught in the 1990s. But much had changed--both...
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  • The Tiger's Child: What Ever Happened to Sheila? by Hayden, Torey
    Torey Hayden

    The Tiger's Child: What Ever Happened to Sheila?

    From the bestselling author of One Child comes this incredible, true story of the six-year-old girl who touched the hearts of millions--and the courage of one teacher who would not give up on her.What ever became of Sheila?When special education teacher Torey Hayden wrote...
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  • Two Paths to Rico (Softcover): Homesteading, the Great Depression and Two Journeys to a Small Colorado Mining Town by Keown, Duane
    Duane Keown

    Two Paths to Rico (Softcover): Homesteading, the Great Depression and Two Journeys to a Small Colorado Mining Town

    The author's granddad Thomas Keown was a man of many sorrows. His first wife died in childbirth and their daughter Sarah died young of diphtheria. Having been prosperous he went broke in Kansas, and with his second wife Mary and sons, Herald and Urban,...
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  • Pivot: Empowering Students Today to Succeed in an Unpredictable Tomorrow (Educators & Parents) by Hutheesing, Ravi
    Ravi Hutheesing

    Pivot: Empowering Students Today to Succeed in an Unpredictable Tomorrow (Educators & Parents)

    Education is more than just going to schoolHow can educators empower students to stay relevant in an ever-changing world? As globalization and artificial intelligence dramatically change the future of work, preparing students for a life defined more by who they are than by what...
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  • Sul Ross at Texas A&m: Volume 132 by Adams, John A.
    John A. Adams

    Sul Ross at Texas A&m: Volume 132

    Most Texans today know of Lawrence Sullivan Ross only by his namesake, Sul Ross State University, or for his role in the capture of Cynthia Ann Parker as a fabled Texas Ranger. A few may know that he was a general in the Confederate...
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  • Shakespeare Saved My Life by Bates, Laura
    Laura Bates

    Shakespeare Saved My Life

    A female professor, a super maximum security prisoner, and how Shakespeare saved them bothShakespeare professor and prison volunteer Laura Bates thought she had seen it all. That is, until she decided to teach Shakespeare in a place the bard had never been before--supermax solitary...
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  • Tis: A Memoir by McCourt, Frank
    Frank McCourt

    Tis: A Memoir

    A #1 New York Times bestseller and the eagerly anticipated sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angela's Ashes, this masterpiece from Frank McCourt tells of his American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been...
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  • The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost: The Grand Strategy of Charles Hill by Worthen, Molly
    Molly Worthen

    The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost: The Grand Strategy of Charles Hill

    Psychologically astute and passionately written, Molly Worthen's remarkable debut charts the intricate relationship between student and teacher, biographer and subject. As a Yale freshman, Worthen found herself deeply fascinated by worldly-wise professor Charles Hill, a former diplomat who had shaped American foreign policy in...
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  • Finding Joy in Medicine by Manesh, Reza
    Reza Manesh

    Finding Joy in Medicine

    For Dr. Reza Manesh, a life caring for others hasn't been easy. By learning and cultivating three important principles, he found joy in practicing medicine.Through deeply personal stories, Reza shares how he came to value humanism, humility, and a hunger for growth over the...
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  • World as Family: A Journey of Multi-Rooted Belongings by Desai, Vishakha N.
    Vishakha N. Desai

    World as Family: A Journey of Multi-Rooted Belongings

    A Vedic phrase asks us to "treat the world as family." In our age of global crises--pandemics, climate crisis, crippling inequality--this sentiment is more necessary than ever. Solutions to these seemingly insurmountable problems demand new approaches to thinking and acting locally, nationally, and transnationally,...
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  • Touches: Journey to Healing by Douglas, Marlene J.
    Marlene J. Douglas

    Touches: Journey to Healing

    Touches healing to journey is a workbook that is created to help anyone who has dealt with mental rejection, emotional rejection, physical rejection, or abandonment. My first book, "Touches who am I", Is based on my life from birth into adulthood. This book is...
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  • The Light of the World: A Memoir by Alexander, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Alexander

    The Light of the World: A Memoir

    A deeply resonant memoir for anyone who has loved and lost, from acclaimed poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Alexander. In The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband. Channeling her poetic...
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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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  • Six Under After Five: Growing Old is Mandatory; Growing Up is Optional by Leffler, Lowell
    Lowell Leffler

    Six Under After Five: Growing Old is Mandatory; Growing Up is Optional

    A humorous collection of short stories that will keep you turning the pageHop into the author's DeLorean and travel back to a simpler and less complicated time. A time when the most advanced technology included vinyl records, transistor radios, black and white TV, and...
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  • Eden Across the Street and Other Formative Places: A Memoir by Keen, Bill
    Bill Keen

    Eden Across the Street and Other Formative Places: A Memoir

    Eden Across the Street and Other Formative Places: a Memoir attempts to recreate important relation-ships in the author's earlier life and to con-vey the spirit of the places where he lived. Bill Keen was born in1935 in Harrisburg PA, where he attended public schools,...
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  • The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South by Ivester, Jo
    Jo Ivester

    The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South

    In 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the...
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