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  • Problem Child: Leading Students Living in Poverty Towards Infinite Possibilities of Success by Green, Robert L.
    Robert L. Green

    Problem Child: Leading Students Living in Poverty Towards Infinite Possibilities of Success

    Dr. Khalid Mumin has lived the educational journey of which he speaks in Problem Child. Growing up in Philadelphia, PA he learned over time that when someone believes in you, it provides the necessary fuel to propel you forward. Once labelled a problem child...
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  • Up from Slavery: Collector's Edition by Washington, Booker T.
    Booker T. Washington

    Up from Slavery: Collector's Edition

    This hardcover collector's edition is cleanly formatted for easy reading. In his book, Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington shares his personal experiences and how he rose from a slave child during the Civil War to a successful and influential speaker, educator and leader....
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  • Up From Slavery: The Incredible Life Story of Booker T. Washington by Washington, Booker T.
    Booker T. Washington

    Up from Slavery: The Incredible Life Story of Booker T. Washington

    "Up from Slavery" is the autobiography of Booker T. Washington sharing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at...
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  • Up From Slavery by Washington, Booker T.
    Booker T. Washington

    Up From Slavery

    Booker T. Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slavery in the deep south, to work for the betterment of African Americans in the post Reconstruction period. 'Up From Slavery' is an autobiography of Booker T. Washington's life and work,...
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  • Roughhouse Friday: A Memoir by Coffin, Jaed
    Jaed Coffin

    Roughhouse Friday: A Memoir

    A beautifully crafted memoir about fathers and sons, masculinity, and the lengths we sometimes go to in order to confront our past A] lucidly written memoir . . . Coffin's triumph lies in ridding the language of his father, a language that compelled him...
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  • When All This Is Over by McLellan, Jean
    Jean McLellan

    When All This Is Over

    A unique and beautifully crafted glimpse into life lived to the brim, When All This Is Over follows the true story of a young girl as she navigates faith, family, tragedy, and happiness from her early days in a rural English village, to nostalgic...
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  • Anywhere but Here by Bailey, Christal
    Christal Bailey

    Anywhere but Here

    Public education often clashes with the legal, ethical, and civil rights of its teachers. One teacher tries to navigate her way through a series of obstacles and setbacks while trying to deal with abject mistreatment and her declining mental health. She is forced out...
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  • Breaking Barriers: The First Ladies of Education by Williams, DeWitt S.
    DeWitt S. Williams

    Breaking Barriers: The First Ladies of Education

    Three black women shattered the academic ceiling at all-white Ivy League institutions a century ago. The trio of Sadie Mossell (Alexander), Georgiana Simpson, and Eva Dykes faced massive obstacles to do the impossible: become the first black women to earn PhDs. This true story...
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  • The Quintessential Good Samaritan: The Authorized Biography of John Joseph Kelly, Champion of Social Justice by Huening, Thomas
    Thomas Huening

    The Quintessential Good Samaritan: The Authorized Biography of John Joseph Kelly, Champion of Social Justice

    "Fellow healer John Kelly devoted his life to the physical, emotional, and psychological healing of the socially and racially disadvantaged. His story inspires in these troubled times." - Deepak Chopra John Joseph Kelly--the quintessential Good Samaritan--changed the lives of thousands of people in need,...
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  • A Holocaust Story in Large Print: The Mothers of Maria by Geller, Harold
    Harold Geller

    A Holocaust Story in Large Print: The Mothers of Maria

    This is a Holocaust story as told by Dr. Maria Dworzecka to Dr.. Harold A. Geller It recounts thee story of a little girl separated from her parents by the Nazis. Alone on the curb of a square in Poland, Maria is taken in...
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  • The Accidental Immigrant: A Quest for Spirit in a Skeptical Age by Markides, Kyriacos C.
    Kyriacos C. Markides

    The Accidental Immigrant: A Quest for Spirit in a Skeptical Age

    The Accidental Immigrant is the capstone work of world-renown author Professor Kyriacos C. Markides, based on his over fifty-year-quest for an authentic understanding of the true nature of Reality. As a teenager he arrived at the docs of New York in 1960 with the...
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  • Square Peg: My Story and What It Means for Raising Innovators, Visionaries, and Out-Of-The-Box Thinkers by Rose, Todd
    Todd Rose

    Square Peg: My Story and What It Means for Raising Innovators, Visionaries, and Out-Of-The-Box Thinkers

    In the seventh grade, Todd Rose was suspended-not for the first time-for throwing six stink bombs at the blackboard, where his art teacher stood with his back to the class. At eighteen, he was a high school dropout, stocking shelves at a department store...
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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 20th anniversary edition of the beloved book that changed millions of lives--with a new afterword by the author "A wonderful book, a story of the heart told by a writer with soul."--Los Angeles TimesMaybe it was...
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  • World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements by Hunter, John
    John Hunter

    World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements

    "At a time when school systems have completely lost focus on what really matters, John Hunter reminds us what we should be teaching our children. His ideas will help anyone who has the courage to understand that a real education must go beyond filling...
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  • I'm Already Professionally Developed: Straight from the Teacher's Desk by B, Eddie
    Eddie B

    I'm Already Professionally Developed: Straight from the Teacher's Desk

    Eddie Brown found himself in a spot most teachers know all too well: Some days he loved his job, and other days he hated it. Teaching gave him money to take care of his family and a sense of fulfillment. But the culture, the...
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  • The ABCs of Public Education: Abuse, Bullying, and Corruption: A Story of Institutionalized Mobbing in Education by Pepi Sr. Dr John J.
    Pepi Sr. Dr John J.

    The ABCs of Public Education: Abuse, Bullying, and Corruption: A Story of Institutionalized Mobbing in Education

    The ABCs of Public Education tells a story about how bullying affects not only the educator going through the abuse, but also the students and the whole educational community. It will put you in the shoes of the educator to experience what he and...
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  • A Teacher's Quest by Murphy, Brian L.
    Brian L. Murphy

    A Teacher's Quest

    Brian L. Murphy's first degree was in Business Management which led to an eighteen-year career, performing as an individual contributor, then a supervisor, then as a manager. Now, having been a teacher for twenty years, and experiencing the educational process from the inside, including...
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  • Out of the Third World by Sharma, Ashok
    Ashok Sharma

    Out of the Third World

    Over a half- century ago, Ashok, a shy 18-year old Indian student from Tanzania, a third world country in East Africa, goes to England with the grand ambition to become a medical doctor. His travails are compounded by his poor command of British English...
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  • Memoir of a Chihuahua Bat by Stanford, Susan
    Susan Stanford

    Memoir of a Chihuahua Bat

    Elizabeth Jones, a newly hired Spanish teacher at North Gate High School, finds herself standing in the middle of a cinder block warehouse at her new campus. Formerly an Industrial Arts room with old equipment stored against the walls and rusty nuts and bolts...
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  • To Live More Abundantly: Black Collegiate Women, Howard University, and the Audacity of Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe by Beauboeuf-Lafontant, Tamara
    Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant

    To Live More Abundantly: Black Collegiate Women, Howard University, and the Audacity of Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe

    How have Black women fostered belonging in higher education institutions that have persisted in marginalizing them? Focusing on the career of Lucy Diggs Slowe, the first trained African American student affairs professional in the United States, this book examines how her philosophy of "living...
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  • Horseback Schoolmarm: Montana, 1953-1954 by Liberty, Margot
    Margot Liberty

    Horseback Schoolmarm: Montana, 1953-1954

    In 1953, Margot Pringle, newly graduated from Cornell University, took a job as a teacher in a one-room school in rural eastern Montana, sixty miles southeast of Miles City. "Miss Margot," as her students called her, would teach at the school for one year....
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  • Two Paths to Rico (Hardcover): Homesteading, the Great Depression and Two Journeys to a Small Colorado Mining Town by Keown, Duane
    Duane Keown

    Two Paths to Rico (Hardcover): 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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  • 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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  • Americo Paredes, 5: In His Own Words, an Authorized Biography by Medrano, Manuel
    Manuel Medrano

    Americo Paredes, 5: In His Own Words, an Authorized Biography

    Am駻ico Paredes (1915-1999) was a folklorist, scholar, and professor at the University of Texas at Austin who is widely acknowledged as one of the founding scholars of Chicano Studies. He was a brilliant teacher and prolific writer who championed the preservation of border culture...
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  • Values in Conflict: Reflections of an Animal Advocate by Dupras, Georges R.
    Georges R. Dupras

    Values in Conflict: Reflections of an Animal Advocate

    Values in Conflict: Reflections of an Animal Advocate offers an account of changing and conflicting social values regarding man's role in the natural world. Author Georges Dupras compels us to think about man's role in animal suffering and leads us to the inescapable conclusion...
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  • A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South by McCluskey, Audrey Thomas
    Audrey Thomas McCluskey

    A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South

    Emerging from the darkness of the slave era and Reconstruction, black activist women Lucy Craft Laney, Mary McLeod Bethune, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, and Nannie Helen Burroughs founded schools aimed at liberating African-American youth from disadvantaged futures in the segregated and decidedly unequal South. From...
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  • Teacher Man: A Memoir by McCourt, Frank
    Frank McCourt

    Teacher Man: A Memoir

    Nearly a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary scene with Angela's Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize -- winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland. Then came 'Tis, his glorious account of...
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  • The First 100 Years: A Life's Journey by Smith, Janie
    Janie Smith

    The First 100 Years: A Life's Journey

    The story of a person's life can be the history of a country and so it is with the life of Dr. Raymond L. Smith. Born in 1917. Ray's 101 years on earth witnessed the events that made the United States what it is...
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  • John. S. Pistole, Searching for Integrity & Faith by Callen, Barry L.
    Barry L. Callen

    John. S. Pistole, Searching for Integrity & Faith

    This is a biography of John S. Pistole, from his humble beginnings to positions of national power, from a chat with his father to conducting briefings in the Oval Office with three very different Presidents of the United States, rising up through the ranks...
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  • Methodists and Muslims: My Life as an Orientalist by Bulliet, Richard W.
    Richard W. Bulliet

    Methodists and Muslims: My Life as an Orientalist

    Richard W. Bulliet is an innovative historian of the Islamic world. His contributions have changed the way scholars think about the history of medieval city life, animal domestication, wheeled transport, religious conversion, Islamic institutions, and relations between Islam and Christianity. His fifty-year career at...
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  • Coming Ashore: A Memoir by Gildiner, Catherine
    Catherine Gildiner

    Coming Ashore: A Memoir

    Now in trade paper Written with the same spirit and wit as the bestselling Too Close to the Falls and After the Falls, Coming Ashore is the third and final volume of Catherine Gildiner's memoir series. Picking up her story in the late '60s...
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  • An Interruption That Lasted a Lifetime: My First Eighty Years by Heilman, E. Bruce
    E. Bruce Heilman

    An Interruption That Lasted a Lifetime: My First Eighty Years

    "I am proud to know Dr. E. Bruce Heilman as a Marine, educator and friend. He is a man of great character and the embodiment of our Core Values of Honor, Courage and Commitment. Drawing "inspiration" from his rural upbringing and his Marine Corps...
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  • Katharine Gibbs: Beyond White Gloves by Doherty, Rose a.
    Rose a. Doherty

    Katharine Gibbs: Beyond White Gloves

    How does a 46-year-old widow with no income, two sons to support, and only a high school education survive? If you are Katharine Gibbs, you found a secretarial school in 1911 that becomes the best in the world and gives women the ability to...
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  • From Sharecropping to Non-Stopping: Reflections on Life from a Veteran Educator by Hill, Margaret Bynum
    Margaret Bynum Hill

    From Sharecropping to Non-Stopping: Reflections on Life from a Veteran Educator

    Author Dr. Margaret Bynum Hill has always been a woman of courage. Unfortunately, she didn't discover this gift until she became an adult and a senior citizen. In From Sharecropping to Non-Stopping, she takes a look back at her life and how she has...
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  • Turned On!: A Young Professor's 1960s Memoir by Perone, S. P.
    S. P. Perone

    Turned On!: A Young Professor's 1960s Memoir

    No decade before or since witnessed cultural, technical, and social changes as dramatic as the 1960s. Pop culture reflected a transition from the rigid 1950s to the permissive 1970s. The Vietnam War spawned student protests, draft card burning, and a hippie counter-culture. Caught up...
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  • From Nowhere to Somewhere: An Uncharted Destiny by Mokhobo, K. P.
    K. P. Mokhobo

    From Nowhere to Somewhere: An Uncharted Destiny

    Author: K. P. MokhoboISBN-10: 1483606333ISBN-13: 9781483606330Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2013Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d
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  • Walker: Put a Sock In It by Walker, Tom
    Tom Walker

    Walker: Put a Sock In It

    In this heartwarming historical educational piece, Tom Walker gives readers a glimpse into the world of public special education, with its many rewards and challenges. He shares insight into the way it grew via trial and error - and a lot of patience, compassion,...
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  • Lessons Learned by Stevenson, Antonio L.
    Antonio L. Stevenson

    Lessons Learned

    Inspired by true events, 'Lessons Learned' is a revealing look at the life of a young man, whose existence was a winding path of despair and devastation, due to a void in his world. Most Fatherless young males struggle with serious issues and Antonio...
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  • William Friday: Power, Purpose, and American Higher Education by Link, William A.
    William A. Link

    William Friday: Power, Purpose, and American Higher Education

    Few North Carolinians have been as well known or as widely respected as William Friday (1920-2012). The former president of the University of North Carolina remained prominent in public affairs in the state and elsewhere throughout his life and ranked as one of the...
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  • Up From Slavery by Washington, Booker T.
    Booker T. Washington

    Up From Slavery

    "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." --- Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery: An Autobiography Up from...
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  • Thirst for Education: A Kenyan's Sojourn to America in Search of Education by Gachuhi, Mugo
    Mugo Gachuhi

    Thirst for Education: A Kenyan's Sojourn to America in Search of Education

    Crossing three continents and spanning three generations, this is the story of a young determined man who left his rural village in Kenya in the quest for Western education. Walking nearly 100 miles to Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, during the Mau Mau...
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  • Out of Wyoming: a memoir by Bryant, Edward C.
    Edward C. Bryant

    Out of Wyoming: a memoir

    Humorous, educational, philosophical, sometimes tragic, this memoir traces the rise from the uncompromising life of a homesteader's son to the world of professor, and founder and CEO of the premier survey research company in America. Includes tales of Wyoming.Author: Edward C. BryantISBN-10: 1591139767ISBN-13: 9781591139768Publisher:...
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  • Take It Lying Down: Finding My Feet After a Spinal Cord Injury by Linnell, Jim
    Jim Linnell

    Take It Lying Down: Finding My Feet After a Spinal Cord Injury

    "A stunning account."--Kirkus, starred review"This profoundly literate memoir of courage stuns and moves, and in its ferocious honesty, delights."--Mark Medoff, Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Children of a Lesser GodTake It Lying Down is "a movingly intricate weave--a detailed and poetic chronicle of healing against all...
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  • Then Darkness Fled: The Liberating Wisdom of Booker T. Washington by Mansfield, Stephen
    Stephen Mansfield

    Then Darkness Fled: The Liberating Wisdom of Booker T. Washington

    At a time when Booker T. Washington is being rediscovered by African Americans today, the author offers a compelling look at the man and the qualities of leadership he embodied in his life and work. The result is a timeless message of hope, empowerment,...
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  • Injustice is Served by Moller, Lynn
    Lynn Moller

    Injustice is Served

    With one false accusation, one woman's entire life comes to a screeching halt. Lynn Moller knew from an early age that she wanted to work with children. After obtaining a degree in early childhood education and child development, she went on to start a...
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  • Dying For A Voice To Be Heard by Baker, Mary
    Mary Baker

    Dying For A Voice To Be Heard

    I entitled my book Dying for a Voice to Be Heard because as a child, the adults in my life wanted me to be silent. My own mother did not want my siblings and me to tell anyone about my father's abuse because she...
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  • Scan Artist: How Evelyn Wood Convinced the World That Speed-Reading Worked by Biederman, Marcia
    Marcia Biederman

    Scan Artist: How Evelyn Wood Convinced the World That Speed-Reading Worked

    The best-known educator of the twentieth century was a scammer in cashmere. "The most famous reading teacher in the world," as television hosts introduced her, Evelyn Wood had little classroom experience, no degrees in reading instruction, and a background that included work at the...
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  • Our Journey by Lentz, John
    John Lentz

    Our Journey

    Our Journey is a true story of how one couple got through the trials and tribulations of dealing with early onset Alzheimer's. When his wife started calling him at work because she was lost while driving around their small town, he started to wonder...
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  • My Heart Belongs to Teaching by Tryloff, Joann
    Joann Tryloff

    My Heart Belongs to Teaching

    Growing up, JoAnn loved to play school with her younger brothers and sister. She started babysitting at nine years old and received a dollar for a few hours during the day. She always was a popular babysitter because she brought her own games, tricks,...
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  • The Siamese Christmas Story by McKee-Capuccio, Patricia
    Patricia McKee-Capuccio

    The Siamese Christmas Story

    This is a story about a little girl--Tricia--who is getting ready to go home from the hospital at Christmastime. Her doctor, Dr. Jeffrey, comes to Tricia's room and tells her "The Siamese Christmas Story." The story is of a Siamese cat's journey with the...
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