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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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  • Life of Henry Dunster, First President of Harvard College. by Rev. Jeremiah Chaplin, P. P. by Chaplin, Jeremiah
    Jeremiah Chaplin

    Life of Henry Dunster, First President of Harvard College. by Rev. Jeremiah Chaplin, P. P.

    Author: Jeremiah ChaplinISBN-10: 1425534481ISBN-13: 9781425534486Publisher: University of Michigan LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2006Pages: 340Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.71d
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  • The English Governess at the Siamese Court; Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok, by Anna Harriette Leonowens. by Leonowens, Anna Harriette
    Anna Harriette Leonowens

    The English Governess at the Siamese Court; Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok, by Anna Harriette Leonowens.

    With illustrations from photographs presented to the author by the King of Siam.Author: Anna Harriette LeonowensISBN-10: 1418131261ISBN-13: 9781418131265Publisher: University of Michigan LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1899Pages: 368Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.49lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d
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  • TellTale Souls Writing the Mother Memoir: How To Tap Memory and Write Your Story Capturing Character & Spirit by Henriksen, Lynn Cook
    Lynn Cook Henriksen

    TellTale Souls Writing the Mother Memoir: How To Tap Memory and Write Your Story Capturing Character & Spirit

    The why and how of "Keeping Spirits Alive" through writing memoir. Who is she-your mother-deep down inside? How will she be remembered? Why does it matter? Join Lynn Cook Henriksen on a compelling journey, as she shows you how to discover your mother's individuality...
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  • By the Grace of God by Greenwood, Marie L.
    Marie L. Greenwood

    By the Grace of God

    Author: Marie L. GreenwoodISBN-10: 0984418725ISBN-13: 9780984418725Publisher: Greenwood & Associates, LLC.Language: EnglishPublished: 07/12/2013Pages: 412Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d
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  • A New Kind of Hustle: How to Find Success in the Midst of Obstacles by Lewis, Phd Sugar Lee
    Sugar Lee Lewis

    A New Kind of Hustle: How to Find Success in the Midst of Obstacles

    A story of poverty to success. As a little girl, Sugar Lee lived in a rat infested home and ate out of the garbage. But, as an adult, found success and helped others do the same. Read the story to learn how Dr. Lewis...
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  • "it's Not My Mountain Anymore" by Woodall, Barbara Taylor
    Barbara Taylor Woodall

    "It's Not My Mountain Anymore"

    A poignant Appalachian book written in an authentic voice by a veteran of the phenomenal Foxfire Books. It's Not My Mountain Anymore is a journey which mirrors that of other proud Appalachian people who tamed this once wild Eastern frontier.Taste the harsh realities of...
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  • It Was All for the Love of a Horse by Belotti, Mario
    Mario Belotti

    It Was All for the Love of a Horse

    In this memoir Mario Belotti recounts his journey starting as the son of a poor sharecropper, growing up in a large family, in a farmhouse without water or electricity, in an Italian town that could offer only a third-grade education. Thanks to a twist...
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  • Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte by Da Ponte, Lorenzo
    Lorenzo Da Ponte

    Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte

    Plot and counterplot lie at the heart of Don Giovanni, Cos fan tutte, and The Marriage of Figaro, the three brilliant libretti that Lorenzo Da Ponte prepared for Mozart. They were also central to Da Ponte's own extraordinary life. His Memoirs record a fantastic...
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  • Civil Rights Chronicle: Letters from the South by Campbell, Clarice T.
    Clarice T. Campbell

    Civil Rights Chronicle: Letters from the South

    Anyone who says nothing has changed must have forgotten or never have known the daily indignities, not to mention the powerless position, of African Americans in the South before the 1960s. A white California teacher named Clarice T. Campbell wrote detailed letters to family...
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  • No Ordinary Move: A Memoir by Bidabe, Linda
    Linda Bidabe

    No Ordinary Move: A Memoir

    A triumphant story of renouncing victimhood, reclaiming human dignity, and risking everything to see caged hearts and minds set free. Hers may not be a household name, but Linda Bidabe is a hero to thousands of people - especially children, worldwide. Now, in this...
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  • Going Away to Think: Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocritical Responsibility by Slovic, Scott
    Scott Slovic

    Going Away to Think: Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocritical Responsibility

    Scott Slovic has spent his life as a teacher, writer, environmental activist, and leader in the field of ecocritical literary studies. In Going Away to Think, he reflects on the twin motivations of his life--the commitment to do some good in the world and...
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  • Kane from Canada by Kane, Mary
    Mary Kane

    Kane from Canada

    George Kane (1916-2008) was at heart a farm boy from Saskatchewan. In the early part of his memoir he looks back on his family background, schooldays in St Peter's Abbey in Muenster and university years in Vancouver, Toronto, and Northwestern universities before he set...
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  • The Academic President as Moral Leader: James T. Laney at Emory University, 1977-1993 by Gulley, F. Stuart
    F. Stuart Gulley

    The Academic President as Moral Leader: James T. Laney at Emory University, 1977-1993

    During James T. Laney's term of service, Emory grew from a solid regional teaching institution into a major research university. By most salient measures -- endowment, student enrollment, faculty size, and square footage -- Emory's growth was enormous. This book examines how Laney accomplished...
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  • Under the Muhlberry Tree (Hardcover) by Muhl, Linda
    Linda Muhl

    Under the Muhlberry Tree (Hardcover)

    In almost everyone's life, there appears at least one teacher whom he never forgets, a teacher who makes an impression not erased by years of separation. For many students who attended high school in the suburban Texas town of Mesquite, that teacher is Linda...
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  • Karl König: My Task: Autobiography and Biographies by König, Karl
    Karl Kig

    Karl Kig: My Task: Autobiography and Biographies

    Karl K nig: My Task is an inspiring introduction to K nig's remarkable life and work. This book combines K nig's autobiographical fragment and an essay by Peter Selg with two selected reminiscences written by K nig's colleagues Anke Weihs and Hans-Heinrich Engel. Born...
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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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