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  • Thrown Away Children: Sky's Story: The Thrown Away Children Series by Allen, Louise
    Louise Allen

    Thrown Away Children: Sky's Story: The Thrown Away Children Series

    When Sky and her older sister Avril were taken into care, the social workers knew this was a case like no other. Raised by unhinged parents who hoarded compulsively, creating horrific conditions no child should live in, the two girls arrived at foster carer...
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  • Just Call Me Coach by Pruner, Forrest
    Forrest Pruner

    Just Call Me Coach

    "Never say can't." This simple phrase defines the life of Coach Forrest Pruner. Because he lived out this philosophy every day, it became a watchword for the thousands of young men and women he coached over the course of more than half a century....
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  • Teacher Swear Word Coloring Book Vol. 2: A Snarky & Humorous Teacher Adult Coloring Book for Stress Relief & Relaxation - Teacher Gifts for Women, Men by Press, The S. Teachers
    The S. Teachers Press

    Teacher Swear Word Coloring Book Vol. 2: A Snarky & Humorous Teacher Adult Coloring Book for Stress Relief & Relaxation Teacher Gifts for Women, Men a

    Get the new Teacher Swear Word Coloring Book Vol. 2 to relief and mood lifting. You will feel very good after done the coloring of one page. We have now released a Volume 2 of our Teacher Swear Word Coloring Book series which includes...
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  • The Golden Needle: The Biography of Frederick Stewart (1836-1889) by Saltoun
    Saltoun

    The Golden Needle: The Biography of Frederick Stewart (1836-1889)

    Frederick Stewart became the first headmaster of what is now called Queen's College in Hong Kong. (Then it was called, the Hong Kong Government Central School for Boys; the first school to be founded and fully funded by the Hong Kong Government.) Born in...
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  • Educating Esmé Lib/E: Diary of a Teacher's First Year by Codell, Esmé Raji
    Esmé Raji Codell

    Educating Esmé Lib/E: Diary of a Teacher's First Year

    Codell's portrait of an inner-city elementary school is funny, poignant, and inspiring.Author: Esmé Raji CodellISBN-10: 1665186747ISBN-13: 9781665186742Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/22/2002Format: CDWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 6.14h x 6.69w x 0.71d
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  • Professor's Song: A Life in Teaching by Dowling, William C.
    William C. Dowling

    Professor's Song: A Life in Teaching

    William C. Dowling is University Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature emeritus at Rutgers University. His previous publications include The Epistolary Moment: A Poetics of the Eighteenth-Century Verse Epistle, Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson, Jameson/Althusser/Marx,...
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  • The Education of Henry Adams by Adams, Henry
    Henry Adams

    The Education of Henry Adams

    The Education of Henry Adams follows the life of presidential descendent Henry Adams. However, instead of serving just as an account of Adams' deeds, The Education of Henry Adams is a series of observations and introspections Adams makes on social changes, scientific advancements, personal...
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  • Myeān Kath: A Kashmiri Woman's Struggle for Empowerment (1925-2008) by Mufti, Shamla
    Shamla Mufti

    Myeān Kath: A Kashmiri Woman's Struggle for Empowerment (1925-2008)

    This is a story of a Kashmiri Woman's Struggle for Empowerment. In it the author weaves the social, economic, political and religious fabric in a beautiful way and provides insights of how our past is affecting our current trends.Author: Shamla MuftiISBN-10: 8563919466ISBN-13: 9798563919464Publisher: Independently...
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  • A Peace Corps Volunteer in Turkey by McCarthy, Kevin Michael
    Kevin Michael McCarthy

    A Peace Corps Volunteer in Turkey

    This is the story of how an American man in 1963 joined the American Peace Corps and spent two years teaching English in southern Turkey. The book describes Turkish customs, food, habits, and language, as well as what it was like to visit Lebanon,...
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  • Unbound Feet: Finding Freedom in Communist China by Orendor, Kim
    Kim Orendor

    Unbound Feet: Finding Freedom in Communist China

    There is no way that the thirteen-year-old wallflower me could have conceived of a day when I would dance-voluntarily-in the halftime show of the Chinese University Basketball Association championship that was broadcast to millions of people. But I did.While teaching at an international university...
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  • Baffled by Black and White: Teaching in an Urban School and Unlearning Assumptions about Race by Schivell, Chrystal
    Chrystal Schivell

    Baffled by Black and White: Teaching in an Urban School and Unlearning Assumptions about Race

    "What's it like to teach in that inner-city high school?" her friends often asked her. Implicit in the question was "why?" In this memoir, a well-meaning white teacher hopes to improve education for black students. She is baffled that not all of her black...
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  • Schimmels' Maxim: The Quixotic Yet Heartwarming Adventures of an Inner-City Teacher by Voelkel, Alan Janvier
    Alan Janvier Voelkel

    Schimmels' Maxim: The Quixotic Yet Heartwarming Adventures of an Inner-City Teacher

    Schimmels' Maxim: The Quixotic Yet Heartwarming Adventures of an Inner-City Teacher. A love story. Thrust into a rough-and-tumble inner-city school in Tucson, Arizona, author Alan Voelkel overcomes the crushing and overwhelming challenges of a beginning science teacher to ultimately help transform this once failing...
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  • Live As If: A teacher's love story by Gaillard, Frye
    Frye Gaillard

    Live As If: A teacher's love story

    In the most deeply personal writing of his long career, award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflects on the life and work of his wife Nancy, who died of leukemia in 2018. Partly the memoir of a vibrant marriage, Live As If... tells the story of...
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  • The Education of Henry Adams by Adams, Henry
    Henry Adams

    The Education of Henry Adams

    The Education of Henry Adams follows the life of presidential descendent Henry Adams. However, instead of serving just as an account of Adams' deeds, The Education of Henry Adams is a series of observations and introspections Adams makes on social changes, scientific advancements, personal...
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  • Baba and the Crew: A True Story of a Single Black Father's Journey to Redemption by Davis, Sekou Babatunde
    Sekou Babatunde Davis

    Baba and the Crew: A True Story of a Single Black Father's Journey to Redemption

    "Baba and the Crew is a candid story of Bill Davis' challenges and triumphs as a single dad raising four children ages 3, 5, 7, and 9. Despite the naysayers who believed children belong with their mother, Bill demonstrates that love, compassion, and structure...
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  • Out of the Third World: A memoir of my time in England from 1967-1976 by Sharma, Ashok
    Ashok Sharma

    Out of the Third World: A memoir of my time in England from 1967-1976

    When Ashok, a shy impressionable 18-year old Indian student from East Africa goes to England in 1967 with the ambition to become a medical doctor, his enormous challenges of British English comprehension and difficult pre-medical school studies are compounded by the adversity he faces...
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  • Teacher Swear Word Coloring Book: A Swear Word Coloring Book for Teachers, Funny Adult Coloring Book for Teachers, Professors ... for Stress Relief an by Press, The S. Teachers
    The S. Teachers Press

    Teacher Swear Word Coloring Book: A Swear Word Coloring Book for Teachers, Funny Adult Coloring Book for Teachers, Professors ... for Stress Relief an

    Get the best Teacher Swear Word Coloring book to relief stress and relaxation. This coloring book contains funny and humorous Teacher related designs and sayings surrounded by beautiful patterns, mandalas, and flowers, etc... You will feel very good after done the coloring of one...
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  • A Teacher's Tale: A Memoir by Gilliland, Joe
    Joe Gilliland

    A Teacher's Tale: A Memoir

    It was never in author Joe Gilliland's plan to becomea teacher, certainly not a college teacher and mostcertainly not an English teacher. But that's whathappened, and he's never looked back. In A Teacher's Tale, he explains how by neither planning for nor seeking a...
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  • The Murphys of Rathcore Rectory by Turner, Julia
    Julia Turner

    The Murphys of Rathcore Rectory

    A complex character, angry and aggressive, James Murphy was not an easy husband or father. But all his children said "He made a God out of education." He had found education to be his gateway out of poverty, his way to leave a countryside...
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  • Joslin A Pioneer in Diabetes Care by Sinha, S. K.
    S. K. Sinha

    Joslin A Pioneer in Diabetes Care

    Written for the lay public, this book describes innovations in the treatment of diabetes before and after the discovery of insulin through the life story of Dr Elliott P. Joslin who wrote the first English textbook on the treatment of diabetes .Nurtured by the...
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  • In Praise of Difference by Filley, Margaret
    Margaret Filley

    In Praise of Difference

    In Praise of Difference offers a fascinating insight into the world of autism. So often characterised by anxiety and seemingly insurmountable challenges for child and parents, this book breaks this negative mould. It is a celebration of the achievements of inspirational teachers, support assistants,...
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  • Confessions of a Radical Academic: A Memoir by Pincus, Fred L.
    Fred L. Pincus

    Confessions of a Radical Academic: A Memoir

    "Professor Pincus's Confessions of a Radical Academic is a fascinating story of engaged scholarship and personal authenticity." - Dr. Freeman Hrabowski President UMBCFrom the opening pages of Confessions of a Radical Academic: A Memoir, Fred L. Pincus pulls the reader into the complicated lives...
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  • Home Is Where We Are by Gungwu, Wang
    Wang Gungwu

    Home Is Where We Are

    Does home have to be a country or a city?... Or is home this house or that? We have been fortunate.... We seemed always to have been home. Wang Gungwu's account of his university education in Singapore and the UK, and the early years...
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  • Pauline: Biography of a Teacher by Burchett, Kenneth
    Kenneth Burchett

    Pauline: Biography of a Teacher

    This nonfiction book is about a visionary educator who grew up in a small Midwestern town. Her intensely personal story as a student and then teacher in one-room country schools took place during the struggle over public education in mid-twentieth century America.She put herself...
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  • Me and the Cottonwood Tree: An Untethered Boyhood by Bryce, Herb
    Herb Bryce

    Me and the Cottonwood Tree: An Untethered Boyhood

    Chock-full of unbelievable stories, Me and the Cottonwood Tree will enchant readers with the hilarious misadventures of young Herb growing up during some of the most pivotal times in America.From getting stuck in the family outhouse, to buying a donkey as a pet, to...
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  • Summers with Juliet by Roorbach, Bill
    Bill Roorbach

    Summers with Juliet

    They met in a bar on Martha's Vineyard. Bill was instantly smitten-her cool beauty, her insouciance, her sassy youth-but Juliet was unimpressed. Even so, a courtship began, and for the next eight summers, in sublime settings across North America, Bill Roorbach and Juliet Karelsen...
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  • Rubber Bands on My Socks: The Reflections of a Sharecropper's Daughter - Family, Poverty, Potential and Progress by Wimbish Ed D., Annie P.
    Annie P. Wimbish Ed D.

    Rubber Bands on My Socks: The Reflections of a Sharecropper's Daughter - Family, Poverty, Potential and Progress

    Nothing explains this book more than the subtitle, "The Reflections of a Sharecropper's Daughter - Family, Poverty, Potential, and Progress," that refers to the journey of the daughter of a sharecropper who became the first African-American female Superintendent in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The joys and...
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  • Memoirs of a Joyous Exile and a Worldly Christian by Houston, James M.
    James M. Houston

    Memoirs of a Joyous Exile and a Worldly Christian

    This book traces personal memoirs to encourage others in their personal sense of insecurity to be freed by God's grace, to become bold "in Christ." It binds memoirs of the inner self, with one's opportunities of public service. Two highlights are recorded: how three...
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  • Out of the Fog: A Hungarian Baptist's Personal Memoir of Immigration, Conversion, and Success in America by Kautz, Edwin Lucas
    Edwin Lucas Kautz

    Out of the Fog: A Hungarian Baptist's Personal Memoir of Immigration, Conversion, and Success in America

    Edwin Lucas Kautz, born in 1891 in Budapest, was the fourth child of Rosa and Ludwig Kautz in a Hungarian Catholic household. His older siblings had died in infancy of diphtheria, followed by Edwin then six more healthy children. Facing the dire poverty of...
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  • Stegomyia: The Story of My Life by Adeniyi, William Kunle
    William Kunle Adeniyi

    Stegomyia: The Story of My Life

    William Kunle Adeniyi was born into obscurity in a Nigerian world in which only the fittest survived. Education was a weapon of survival. However, he realized it was one commodity that seemed beyond the reach of him as an orphan. Stegomyia is the story...
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  • The First Waldorf Teachers: Twelve Vignettes of Leaders at the Original School by Gerwin, Douglas
    Douglas Gerwin

    The First Waldorf Teachers: Twelve Vignettes of Leaders at the Original School

    These vivid descriptions of twelve extraordinary biographies, describe the dedicated work of fulfilling the indications of philosopher, educator, artist, architect and scientist, Rudolf Steiner. The determination to establish this revolutionary approach to educating the young has now been verified by contemporary science. Without these...
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  • From Leaning To Leaders: Life After Lean on Me: The Real Students and Dr. Joe Clark's Legacy by Montgomery, Reece
    Reece Montgomery

    From Leaning To Leaders: Life After Lean on Me: The Real Students and Dr. Joe Clark's Legacy

    My name is Dr. Pinky Miller. I am a former student of the real bullhorn- and baseball-bat-toting icon from the 1989 film Lean on Me, Dr. Joseph Louis Clark. I believe the reshaping of education in the United States must start first at home....
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  • A Seat at the Table: The Courage to Care About Trafficking Victims by Williamson, Celia
    Celia Williamson

    A Seat at the Table: The Courage to Care About Trafficking Victims

    A SEAT AT THE TABLE is part memoir, part educational, and part instructional. Having been born and raised in a poor urban community in Toledo, Ohio, Celia Williamson was at risk in every way to become a trafficked youth. Having seen two of her...
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  • Patrick Van Rensburg: Rebel, Visionary and Radical Educationist, a Biography by Shillington, Kevin
    Kevin Shillington

    Patrick Van Rensburg: Rebel, Visionary and Radical Educationist, a Biography

    Patrick van Rensburg (1931-2017) was an anti-apartheid activist and self-made 'alternative educationist' whose work received international recognition with the Right Livelihood Award in 1981. Born in KwaZulu-Natal into what he described as a 'very ordinary South African family that believed in the virtue of...
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  • Albert Einstein: The Biography of a Genius Who Changed Science and World History by Brown, Adam
    Adam Brown

    Albert Einstein: The Biography of a Genius Who Changed Science and World History

    While his early childhood was unimpressive, Einstein later earned the respect of the entire world and won the coveted Nobel Prize. His name is the most revered in physics. Even though he was a well-respected genius, Einstein mingled freely among ordinary folk, just as...
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  • Try and Be Somebody: The Story of Dr. Henry Lake Dickason by Crabtree, Becky Hatcher
    Becky Hatcher Crabtree

    Try and Be Somebody: The Story of Dr. Henry Lake Dickason

    Inspiring biography of Dr. Henry Lake Dickason first president of Bluefield State College early 20th century leader in black education Awards: 2019 Next Generation Indie Book Award, Finalist African AmericanEarly LifeHenry Dickason, the grandson of slaves, was born two decades after the Civil War...
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  • Women and the Society of Biblical Literature by Tilford, Nicole L.
    Nicole L. Tilford

    Women and the Society of Biblical Literature

    In 1894, Anna Ely Rhoads became the first woman to join the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, an academic society devoted to the study of the Bible and its ancient context. Since Rhoads, the participation of women in the Society has increased dramatically....
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  • The Education of Brainiac: A New Yorker's Quest for the Good Life in the Hub of the Universe by Lapin, David E.
    David E. Lapin

    The Education of Brainiac: A New Yorker's Quest for the Good Life in the Hub of the Universe

    There is no available information at this time. Author will provide once available.Author: David E. LapinISBN-10: 1532080638ISBN-13: 9781532080630Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/19/2019Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70dReview Citation(s): Foreword 02/03/2020BlueInk Review 02/24/2020
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  • Alexander Graham Bell: A Life From Beginning to End by History, Hourly
    Hourly History

    Alexander Graham Bell: A Life From Beginning to End

    Alexander Graham BellEducator. Innovator. Inventor. These three words sum up Alexander Graham Bell, one of the greatest scientific men of his era. He is most famous for the invention of the telephone, a device which he predicted would transform human society. And it did....
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  • Sacred Groves: Or, How a Cemetery Saved My Soul by Davies, Kathleen
    Kathleen Davies

    Sacred Groves: Or, How a Cemetery Saved My Soul

    In the not-so-sacred Groves of Academe, where female colleagues can be less than supportive and male colleagues downright intimidating and even devious, Kathleen Davies felt intense pressure to prove herself as an English professor. But in the beautiful local cemetery, she found a truly...
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  • I Dwell in Possibility: A Memoir by McNaron, Toni
    Toni McNaron

    I Dwell in Possibility: A Memoir

    This brave and lyrical memoir is a powerful social document as well as an account of emotional, psychological, and intellectual self-actualization over four decades--from McNaron's childhood encounters with segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, through her first days of teaching and her fear of exposure as...
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  • Come Out the Wilderness: Memoir of a Black Woman Artist by Májozo, Estella Conwill
    Estella Conwill M疔ozo

    Come Out the Wilderness: Memoir of a Black Woman Artist

    Estella Conwill Majozo has lead a life of creativity and leadership in the arts. A respected poet, teacher, and performance artist, Majozo writes eloquently about both the deep roots in family and community that have sustained her, and the conflicts and challenges that have...
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  • Grand Old Man of Purdue University and Indiana Agriculture: A Biography of William Carol Latte by Whitford, Frederick
    Frederick Whitford

    Grand Old Man of Purdue University and Indiana Agriculture: A Biography of William Carol Latta

    William Carol Latta was the 13th member of the Purdue faculty. He became the driving force behind Purdue's world-famous School of Agriculture and initiated extension services that have lasted for more than a century. In 1890, he laid out the first permanent soil fertility...
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  • SISU, One American Boy's Life in the 1940's by Gran Sr, Tracy R.
    Tracy R. Gran Sr

    SISU, One American Boy's Life in the 1940's

    The 1940s was one of the most incredible decades in American history. A hobbled nation had overcome the Great Depression and emerged from a world war transformed into a leading global power. But as grand as this decade looks in the history books, there...
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  • Rudder: From Leader to Legend by Hatfield, Thomas M.
    Thomas M. Hatfield

    Rudder: From Leader to Legend

    In times of war . . . in times of peace . . . in times of sweeping social change . . . a leader for all seasons . . .Whether scaling the seemingly insurmountable cliffs of Pointe du Hoc with his advance assault...
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  • Tell Them We Are Rising: A Memoir of Faith in Education by Hayre, Ruth Wright
    Ruth Wright Hayre

    Tell Them We Are Rising: A Memoir of Faith in Education

    tell them we are rising ""The inspiring story of how one woman gave back.""--Ed Bradley ""This is a heartwarming story about struggle, survival, and achieve ment. If we didn't know people like this in our lives, we would want to invent them. What more...
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  • Making a Difference: The Story of Irl Solomon and the Difference One Teacher Made in the Schools of East St. Louis by Regenbogen, Joe
    Joe Regenbogen

    Making a Difference: The Story of Irl Solomon and the Difference One Teacher Made in the Schools of East St. Louis

    Irl Solomon graduated from Brandeis University in the early 1960s and immediately started to look for a teaching job in or near his hometown of St. Louis. Without giving it much thought, Irl, who had grown up in the middle-class inner suburbs of the...
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  • Garden of Broken Statues: Exploring Censorship in Russia by Choldin, Marianna Tax
    Marianna Tax Choldin

    Garden of Broken Statues: Exploring Censorship in Russia

    Marianna Tax Choldin has studied censorship in Russia for 40 years. She describes the tension between her strong commitment to freedom of expression and her growing understanding of Russian and Soviet censorship. Fluent in Russian, she travels widely in post-Soviet Russia, speaking with hundreds...
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  • Thanksgiving All Year Round: A Memoir by Shapiro, Gavriel
    Gavriel Shapiro

    Thanksgiving All Year Round: A Memoir

    The book describes the author's eventful life, which spans over seventy years, in three different countries and on as many continents.Author: Gavriel ShapiroISBN-10: 1618115170ISBN-13: 9781618115171Publisher: Academic Studies PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/15/2017Pages: 294Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.62d
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  • Belonging by Muir, Willa
    Willa Muir

    Belonging

    "But any story about human beings is bound to have an end, like this story about us, a pair of ingenuous people who fell in love and went journeying together through life, blundering by good luck in the right directions so that we came...
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