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  • Teaching While Black: A New Voice on Race and Education in New York City by Lewis, Pamela
    Pamela Lewis

    Teaching While Black: A New Voice on Race and Education in New York City

    Teaching should never be color-blind. In a world where many believe the best approach toward eradicating racism is to feign ignorance of our palpable physical differences, a few have led the movement toward convincing fellow educators not only to consider race but to use...
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  • A Will of Her Own: Sarah Towles Reed and the Pursuit of Democracy in Southern Public Education by Parr, Leslie Gale
    Leslie Gale Parr

    A Will of Her Own: Sarah Towles Reed and the Pursuit of Democracy in Southern Public Education

    The decades between the Progressive Era of the 1920s and the civil rights struggles of the 1960s were a period of profound change in the lives of southern women. The life of Sarah Towles Reed (1882-1978) illuminates and parallels many of these transformations. Over...
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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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  • Hesburgh by O'Brien, Michael
    Michael O'Brien

    Hesburgh

    The most versatile and highly respected academic leader in the United States, Father Theodore Hesburgh was known for his rare energy and ability to carry out a staggering variety of assignments with distinction. He combined an exceptional blend and balance of qualities-intellect, character, personality,...
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  • The Mentelles: Mary Todd Lincoln, Henry Clay, and the Immigrant Family Who Educated Antebellum Kentucky by Runyon, Randolph Paul
    Randolph Paul Runyon

    The Mentelles: Mary Todd Lincoln, Henry Clay, and the Immigrant Family Who Educated Antebellum Kentucky

    Though they were not, as Charlotte claimed, refugees from the French Revolution, Augustus Waldemar and Charlotte Victoire Mentelle undoubtedly felt like exiles in their adopted hometown of Lexington, Kentucky -- a settlement that was still a frontier town when they arrived in 1798. Through...
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  • Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's Moonlight Schools: Fighting for Literacy in America by Baldwin, Yvonne Honeycutt
    Yvonne Honeycutt Baldwin

    Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's Moonlight Schools: Fighting for Literacy in America

    The first woman elected superintendent of schools in Rowan County, Kentucky, Cora Wilson Stewart (1875-1958) realized that a major key to overcoming the illiteracy that plagued her community was to educate adult illiterates. To combat this problem, Stewart opened up her schools to adults...
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  • Leopold Zunz: Creativity in Adversity by Schorsch, Ismar
    Ismar Schorsch

    Leopold Zunz: Creativity in Adversity

    In 1818, with a single essay of vast scope and stunning detail, Leopold Zunz launched the turn to history in modern Judaism. Despite unending setbacks, he persevered for more than five decades to produce a body of enduring scholarship that would inspire young Jews...
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  • Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine by Kuklick, Bruce
    Bruce Kuklick

    Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine

    At a time when almost all African American college students attended black colleges, philosopher William Fontaine was the only black member of the University of Pennsylvania faculty--and quite possibly the only black member of any faculty in the Ivy League. Little is known about...
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  • From Slave to Statesman: The Life of Educator, Editor, and Civil Rights Activist Willis M. Carter of Virginia by Heinrich, Robert
    Robert Heinrich

    From Slave to Statesman: The Life of Educator, Editor, and Civil Rights Activist Willis M. Carter of Virginia

    In the 1980s, Willis McGlascoe Carter's handwritten memoir turned up unexpectedly in the hands of a midwestern antiques dealer. Its twenty-two pages told a fascinating story of a man born into slavery in Virginia who, at the onset of freedom, gained an education, became...
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  • Montana's Pioneer Naturalist: Morton J. Elrod by Dennison, George M.
    Georgia M. Dennison

    Montana's Pioneer Naturalist: Morton J. Elrod

    A naturalist on Montana's academic frontier, passionate conservationist Morton J. Elrod was instrumental in establishing the Department of Biology at the University of Montana, as well as Glacier National Park and the National Bison Range. In Montana's Pioneer Naturalist, the first in-depth assessment of...
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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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  • The Life of Elaine Goodale Eastman by Sargent, Theodore D.
    Theodore D. Sargent

    The Life of Elaine Goodale Eastman

    Raised in a sheltered, puritanical household in New England, Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863-1953) followed her conscience and calling in 1885 when she traveled west and opened a school on the Great Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. Over the next six years she witnessed many...
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  • Sharing Spaces: Essays in Honour of Sherry Olson by Sweeny, Robert
    Robert Sweeny

    Sharing Spaces: Essays in Honour of Sherry Olson

    Sherry Olson has almost always worked with others, inspiring them to ground their research in an empathetic understanding of the human condition. Through this team work, she has made signal contributions in fields as diverse as environmental, social, urban, and women's histories, as well...
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  • Teach with Your Heart: Lessons I Learned from the Freedom Writers by Gruwell, Erin
    Erin Gruwell

    Teach with Your Heart: Lessons I Learned from The Freedom Writers

    The extraordinary memoir of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Freedom Writers Diary, who's been hailed as "a true inspiration" (Hilary Swank) and "simply magical when it comes to inspiring people to action" (Los Angeles Times). Don't miss the public television...
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  • Eric Cyril Bellquist, Berkeley Professor: A Biographical Memoir by Bellquist, John E.
    John E. Bellquist

    Eric Cyril Bellquist, Berkeley Professor: A Biographical Memoir

    For a time, Eric Bellquist was thought of by many of his students and peers as synonymous with the University of California at Berkeley itself. He began as an undergraduate at Berkeley in 1925, where he ultimately became the nation's leading political scientist of...
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  • Dave Sanders--Columbine Teacher by Sanders, Marilyn Salzman
    Marilyn Salzman Sanders

    Dave Sanders--Columbine Teacher

    Linda Lou Sanders Linda Lou Sanders, widow of Columbine High School teacher and coach Dave Sanders, is a native of Colorado. She and Dave had three daughters, Cindy, Coni and Angela and twelve grandchildren. Linda is the daughter of Burt and Dorothy Skiff and...
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  • Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel by Froebel, Friedrich
    Friedrich Froebel

    Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel

    Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852) was a German educator who introduced the concept of kindergarten. This book is a collection of fifteen essays, originally published in German in 1861, on the value of different stages of a child's play. Froebel found an educational value in every...
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  • The Bridge to Brilliance: How One Woman and One Community Are Inspiring the World by Lopez, Nadia
    Nadia Lopez

    The Bridge to Brilliance: How One Woman and One Community Are Inspiring the World

    Be inspired by the magnetic young principal who "stands on the front line of the fight to educate America's children." (Brandon Stanton, author of Humans of New York ) and the book that Essence calls "Essential reading." In 2010, Nadia Lopez started her middle-grade...
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  • Pilgrim Soul by Fraser, Roy
    Roy Fraser

    Pilgrim Soul

    In the darkness with a great bundle of grief the people march.In the night, and overhead a shovel of stars for keeps, the people march: "Where to? What next?" --From Pilgrim SoulAuthor: Roy FraserISBN-10: 0595753485ISBN-13: 9780595753482Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/17/2002Pages: 196Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.42h x...
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  • Quest for Antarctica: A Journey of Wonder and Discovery by Barell, John F.
    John F. Barell

    Quest for Antarctica: A Journey of Wonder and Discovery

    . Antarctica fools you into thinking you are safe, that appearances are reality. Antarctica is not what she seems. Since he was thirteen years old, author John Barell's life-long-and life-enriching-dream has been to sail to Antarctica and explore its wild and expansive territories. Quest...
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  • Just A Regular Guy by Siegman, Dean
    Dean Siegman

    Just A Regular Guy

    Just A Regular Guy is the story of Charlie Morris, growing up in Northern Ohio with the simple ambition to join the Navy, learn a trade, and raise a family in typical Midwest middle class fashion. His life took an abrupt turn when, in...
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  • The Education of a Waldorf Teacher by Francis, Keith
    Keith Francis

    The Education of a Waldorf Teacher

    Waldorf education is a wonderful thing, but it doesn't always turn out quite the way its founder, Rudolf Steiner, expected. No matter how spiritual, anthroposophical or Waldorfian we become, we are still human beings and we do the funny, admirable or reprehensible things that...
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  • The Bee Eater by Whitmire, Richard
    Richard Whitmire

    The Bee Eater

    The inside story of a maverick reformer with a take-no-prisoners management style Hailed by Oprah as a "warrior woman for our times," reviled by teachers unions as the enemy, Michelle Rhee, outgoing chancellor of Washington DC public schools, has become the controversial face of...
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  • Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love by Maier, Thomas
    Thomas Maier

    Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love

    Now a New Showtime Original Series Showtime's dramatic series Masters of Sex, starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, is based on this real-life story of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Before Sex and the City and ViagraTM, America relied on Masters and...
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  • True North: A Memoir by Conway, Jill Ker
    Jill Ker Conway

    True North: A Memoir

    True North is the inspirational Canadian Chapter of Jill Ker Conway's life story, which began with her much love, bestselling memoir, The Road from Coorain. Beginning with her departure from Australia, Jill Ker Conway tells of her romance with Harvard House Master John Conway,...
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  • Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference by Edmundson, Mark
    Mark Edmundson

    Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference

    In 1969, Mark Edmundson was a typical high school senior in working-class Medford, Massachusetts. He loved football, disdained schoolwork, and seemed headed for a factory job in his hometown--until a maverick philosophy teacher turned his life around. When Frank Lears, a small, nervous man...
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  • The Art of Teaching by Parini, Jay
    Jay Parini

    The Art of Teaching

    Becoming an effective teacher can be quite painful and exhausting, taking years of trial and error. In The Art of Teaching, writer and critic Jay Parini looks back over his own decades of trials, errors, and triumphs, in an intimate memoir that brims with...
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  • W.E.B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line by Reed, Adolph L.
    Adolph L. Reed

    W.E.B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line

    In this explosive book, Adolph Reed covers for the first time the full sweep and totality of W. E. B. Du Bois's political thought. Departing from existing scholarship, Reed locates the sources of Du Bois's thought in the cauldron of reform-minded intellectual life at...
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  • F.M.: The Life of Frederick Matthias Alexander: Founder of the Alexander Technique by Bloch, Michael
    Hachette UK

    F.M.: The Life of Frederick Matthias Alexander: Founder of the Alexander Technique

    Author: Hachette UKISBN-10: 0316860484ISBN-13: 9780316860482Publisher: Little Brown and Co. (UK)Language: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2004Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 8.44h x 5.40w x 0.86d
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  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: A Biography by Greene, Meg
    Meg Greene

    Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: A Biography

    This full-length biography explores the multifaceted--and altogether fascinating--life, opinions, and accomplishments of African American scholar and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: A Biography is the first comprehensive volume about a man hailed as one of America's most influential scholars. Tracing...
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  • Education as My Agenda: Gertrude Williams, Race, and the Baltimore Public Schools by Robinson, J.
    J. Robinson

    Education as My Agenda: Gertrude Williams, Race, and the Baltimore Public Schools

    When Gertrude Williams retired in 1998, after forty-nine years in the Baltimore public schools, The Baltimore Sun called her "the most powerful of principals" who "tangled with two superintendents and beat them both." In this oral memoir, Williams identifies the essential elements of sound...
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  • History Lesson: A Race Odyssey by Lefkowitz, Mary
    Mary Lefkowitz

    History Lesson: A Race Odyssey

    From the author of Not Out of Africa comes a gripping first-person account of the tyranny of political correctness in academe In the early 1990s, Classics professor Mary Lefkowitz discovered that one of her faculty colleagues at Wellesley College was teaching his students that...
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  • Monk's Tale: Way Stations on the Journey by Malloy, Edward A.
    Edward A. Malloy

    Monk's Tale: Way Stations on the Journey

    In Monk's Tale: Way Stations on the Journey, Father Malloy carries forward the story of his professional life from when he joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1974 to his election as president of Notre Dame. His journey in this volume begins with the...
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  • Monk's Tale: The Pilgrimage Begins, 1941-1975 by Malloy, Edward A.
    Edward A. Malloy

    Monk's Tale: The Pilgrimage Begins, 1941-1975

    One of the most respected figures in Catholic higher education, the Reverend Edward A. Malloy has written a thoroughly engaging first installment of his three-volume memoir. This book covers the years from his birth in 1941 to 1975, when he received his doctorate in...
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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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  • Crossing: A Transgender Memoir by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen
    Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

    Crossing: A Transgender Memoir

    A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year "I visited womanhood and stayed. It was not for the pleasures, though I discovered many I had not imagined, and many pains too. But calculating pleasures and pains was not the point. The...
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  • Becoming Historians by Banner Jr, James M.
    James M. Banner Jr

    Becoming Historians

    In this unique collection, the memoirs of eleven historians provide a fascinating portrait of a formative generation of scholars. Born around the time of World War II, these influential historians came of age just before the upheavals of the 1960s and '70s and helped...
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  • A Life in School: What the Teacher Learned by Tompkins, Jane
    Jane Tompkins

    A Life in School: What the Teacher Learned

    Here one of our leading literary scholars looks back on her own life in the classroom, and discovers how much of what she learned there needs to be unlearned. Jane Tompkins' memoir shows how her education shaped her in the mold of a high...
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  • The Right Place at the Right Time: Stories from a Life in Education by Connaughty, Curtis
    Curtis Connaughty

    The Right Place at the Right Time: Stories from a Life in Education

    This inspiring memoir by a lifelong educator is for the young, teens, older adults, alumni, and parents. While attending school he helped defray college costs with part time temporary jobs such as: a stone-quarry driver, railroad worker, candy factory employee, and soldier. Six years...
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  • Booker T. Washington Rediscovered by Bieze, Michael Scott
    Michael Scott Bieze

    Booker T. Washington Rediscovered

    Booker T. Washington, a founding father of African American education in the United States, has long been studied, revered, and reviled by scholars and students. Born into slavery, freed and raised in the Reconstruction South, and active in educational reform through the late nineteenth...
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  • This Is Your Own Time You're Wasting: Classroom Confessions, Calamities and Clangers by Parkinson, Lee
    Lee Parkinson

    This Is Your Own Time You're Wasting: Classroom Confessions, Calamities and Clangers

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The side-splittingly hilarious and heart-warming new book from your favourite teacher duo and hosts of Two Mr Ps in a Pod(cast)Remember the distant days of lockdown and those futile attempts to homeschool distracted, disinterested kids? Parents rejoiced to send them...
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  • Flames of the Fire: Firefighting Amidst the Explosions by Davidson Ccfi-C Cfei Cfii, Bradley R.
    Bradley R. Davidson Ccfi-C Cfei Cfii

    Flames of the Fire: Firefighting Amidst the Explosions

    This book is about triumphs and tragedies while serving for four decades as a firefighter. In the book, Brad overcomes personal and professional roadblocks and adversity. He describes memorable people on his journey. He has been a lifelong learner studying his craft. The book...
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  • Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu by Anton, Ted
    Ted Anton

    Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu

    Winner of 1997 Carl Sandburg Award On May 21, 1991, University of Chicago professor Ioan Culianu was murdered execution-style on campus. The crime stunned the school, terrified students, and mystified the FBI. The case remains unsolved. In Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor...
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  • Word and Image in Russian History: Essays in Honor of Gary Marker by Di Salvo, Maria
    Maria Di Salvo

    Word and Image in Russian History: Essays in Honor of Gary Marker

    Word and Image invokes and honors the scholarly contributions of Gary Marker. Twenty scholars from Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Ukraine and the United States examine some of the main themes of Marker's scholarship on Russia-literacy, education, and printing; gender and politics; the importance...
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  • Rittenhouse Writers: Reflections on a Fiction Workshop by Rahn, James
    James Rahn

    Rittenhouse Writers: Reflections on a Fiction Workshop

    James Rahn has led the Rittenhouse Writers' Group since he founded it in 1988, making it one of America's longest-running independent fiction workshops. Hundreds of writers and would-be writers have sought out the group for its remarkable level of instruction and collaboration. Rittenhouse Writers...
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche: The Biography of a Cultural Critic that Redefined Power, Will, Good and Evil by Library, United
    United Library

    Friedrich Nietzsche: The Biography of a Cultural Critic that Redefined Power, Will, Good and Evil

    Dive into the profound life and groundbreaking ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche, the German philosopher, cultural critic, and literary genius, in 'Friedrich Nietzsche: The Biography of a Cultural Critic that Redefined Power, Will, Good and Evil.' Born on October 15, 1844, Nietzsche embarked on a...
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  • Tune in Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries by Anderson, Tim
    Tim Anderson

    Tune in Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries

    Everyone wants to escape their boring, stagnant lives full of inertia and regret. But so few people actually have the bravery to run, run away from everything and selflessly seek out personal fulfillment in another part of the world where they don't understand anything...
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  • Galileo Galilei: The Biography of an Italian Astronomer, Physicist, and Father of Modern Science by Library, United
    United Library

    Galileo Galilei: The Biography of an Italian Astronomer, Physicist, and Father of Modern Science

    Galileo Galilei: The Biography of an Italian Astronomer, Physicist, and Father of Modern Science delves into the life and remarkable achievements of one of the greatest minds in scientific history. This book offers an in-depth exploration of Galileo's groundbreaking contributions to astronomy, physics, and...
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero: The Biography of a Roman Philosopher that Adviced on True Friendship and Growing Old in Ancient Times by Library, United
    United Library

    Marcus Tullius Cicero: The Biography of a Roman Philosopher that Adviced on True Friendship and Growing Old in Ancient Times

    Step into the vibrant world of ancient Rome and explore the remarkable life and legacy of Marcus Tullius Cicero, one of history's most influential figures. In this captivating biography, delve into the multifaceted career of Cicero, from his rise as a statesman and consul...
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  • The Corner of My Round Room by Paine, Randall Todd
    Randall Todd Paine

    The Corner of My Round Room

    The Corner of My Round Room was created from one of the many wild and funny stories I love to tell from my experiences in the classroom and from the fields. There is always something new every day that comes from a kid's mouth...
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