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  • The Water Is Wide by Conroy, Pat
    Pat Conroy

    The Water Is Wide: A Memoir

    "A powerfully moving book . . . You will laugh, you will weep, you will be proud and you will rail." --Charleston News and CourierYamacraw Island was haunting, nearly deserted, and beautiful. Separated from the mainland of South Carolina by a wide tidal river,...
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  • Horace Holley: Transylvania University and the Making of Liberal Education in the Early American Republic by Cousins, James P.
    James P. Cousins

    Horace Holley: Transylvania University and the Making of Liberal Education in the Early American Republic

    Outspoken New England urbanite Horace Holley (1781-1827) was an unlikely choice to become the president of Transylvania University--the first college established west of the Allegheny Mountains. Many Kentuckians doubted his leadership abilities, some questioned his Unitarian beliefs, and others simply found him arrogant and...
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  • Clint's Story by Laird, Clinton
    Clinton Laird

    Clint's Story

    This book explains with what went wrong in Mr. Laird's early schooling and the effects that teachers and parents have on one's ability to learn. It shows the difference between a mother that had great expectations for her child John McCook (who played Eric...
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  • The School That Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler by Cadbury, Deborah
    Deborah Cadbury

    The School That Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler

    Named one of Book Riot's BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF 2022 The extraordinary true story of a courageous school principal who saw the dangers of Nazi Germany and took drastic steps to save those in harm's way. In 1933, the same year Hitler came to power,...
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  • Against the Odds: A Story of Courage, Faith and Resolve by Khan, Saleem A.
    Saleem A. Khan

    Against the Odds: A Story of Courage, Faith and Resolve

    The story of Musahib Ud-Din Khan is not a run of the mill tale of rags to riches. It is rather an inspirational narrative about the potential of education as a vehicle for upward mobility and for realization of individual potential in the face...
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  • Men As Friends: From Cicero to Svevo to Cataldo by Epstein, Irwin
    Irwin Epstein

    Men As Friends: From Cicero to Svevo to Cataldo

    Neither a cautionary tale nor a polemic, Men as Friends is about a variety of male friendships and a variety of men. A "coming-of-old-age story," it speaks to an audience of men who love or have loved other men but are too embarrassed to...
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  • Confessions of a Chancellor: The Politics of Higher Education by Gearhart, David
    David Gearhart

    Confessions of a Chancellor: The Politics of Higher Education

    During his seven years as chancellor of the University of Arkansas, David Gearhart was outspoken on many issues, including putting students first, advocating for undocumented and minority students, and raising the profile of the university as a nationally-recognized research leader. But on some of...
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  • Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard by Seo, Bo
    Bo Seo

    Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard

    "The rare book that has the potential to make you smarter--and everyone around you wiser." --Adam Grant Two-time world champion debater and former coach of the Harvard debate team, Bo Seo tells the inspiring story of his life in competitive debating and reveals the...
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  • Finding Savoonga: Letters from the Edge of America by Ray, Doris D.
    Doris D. Ray

    Finding Savoonga: Letters from the Edge of America

    NEVER IN THEIR WILDEST DREAMS did the young couple imagine their teaching careers would begin in a remote Yupik Eskimo village on a desolate, icy, wind-swept island in the Bering Sea.It was 1951. On a whim, Charles "Tod" and his fiancé, Doris Derby, answer...
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  • Tiny Altars: A Midlife Revival by Hallberg, Amy
    Amy Hallberg

    Tiny Altars: A Midlife Revival

    In childhood, Amy Hallberg receives a dollhouse that-while given with love-carries steep expectations. Forty years later, Amy walks away from her teaching career to forge a new life as a writer. The dollhouse reemerges as a mirror on Minnesota Nice, that familiar culture Amy's...
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  • Can't Make This Sh*t Up by Lizarraga, Mary
    Mary Lizarraga

    Can't Make This Sh*t Up

    Mary and Cheryl take their readers on a journey through their years serving in education. Laugh with them as they share stories of outrageous, typical student angst and ridiculous staff encounters. Cringe with them as they expose the less than lovely side of teaching....
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  • My Gurujee: Pt. Phiroz Dastur by Rane, Sujan
    Sujan Rane

    My Gurujee: Pt. Phiroz Dastur

    Pt. Sujan Rane is a professional Hindustani Classical Singer cum Portrait-Painter. He has received long training lasting 30 years from Pt. Phiroz Dastur associated with the Music Department of Bombay University, and a doyen of the well-known singing style Kirana Gharana of Abdul Karim...
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  • Rare Edition: How Many Unusual Events in One Life? by Kasal, Evelyn
    Evelyn Kasal

    Rare Edition: How Many Unusual Events in One Life?

    About the Book: One woman's amazing journey with many unusual events and surprises.About the Author: Educator and sales Director 20 and 32 years. Divorced after 36 years, 3 children, 6 grandkids 3 great-grandkids. Sixty years of life on the farm, jobs, 6 long relationships...
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  • Where There's a Will, There's a Way by Barger, Carl J.
    Carl J. Barger

    Where There's a Will, There's a Way

    Ma was a crafty lady who had been taught well by her father and mother, Elias Samuel Totten and Nancy Jane Bradford Totten. She learned to cook, sew, plow, hoe, pick cotton, do housework, and dry apples and peaches for fried pies. She worked...
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  • We Win: Volume 3 by Shinn, Kris
    Kris Shinn

    We Win: Volume 3

    As parents, our goal is to help our children to live their very best life as adults. There is no road map on how to get there, no one way is the same, and all the destinations are different. Book three in this series...
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  • Coach Boyce Smith: Springfield Yellow Jackets 1928-1972 by Garrett, John Ed
    John Ed Garrett

    Coach Boyce Smith: Springfield Yellow Jackets 1928-1972

    This book is a biography of one of America's pioneer high school coaches. Robert Ripley featured Smith and his 1937 team in his "Believe it or not" publications as the nation's most successful. Boyce Smith coached for 44 years, the Springfield High School Yellow...
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  • Men As Friends: From Cicero to Svevo to Cataldo by Epstein, Irwin
    Irwin Epstein

    Men As Friends: From Cicero to Svevo to Cataldo

    Neither a cautionary tale nor a polemic, Men as Friends is about a variety of male friendships and a variety of men. A "coming-of-old-age story," it speaks to an audience of men who love or have loved other men but are too embarrassed to...
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  • Ghetto Classics: How a Youth Orchestra Changed a Nairobi Slum by Brownell, Ginanne
    Ginanne Brownell

    Ghetto Classics: How a Youth Orchestra Changed a Nairobi Slum

    Situated next to the Kenyan capital's largest garbage dump, the Nairobi slum of Korogocho might seem like one of the least likely places on the planet where a youth orchestra has found itself a home. And yet, the classical strains of Mozart and Vivaldi,...
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  • From Enslavement to Belovedness: For the Dignity of My People by Sanford, Adelaide L.
    Adelaide L. Sanford

    From Enslavement to Belovedness: For the Dignity of My People

    In this transcendent memoir, grounded in fond reminiscence offamily, community, and a career dedicated to love and service, Dr.Adelaide L. Sanford shares personal reflections of her journey tobecoming a renowned educator, public scholar, school leader, Board of Regentspolicymaker, and activist. Born and bred in...
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  • The 13 Steps to Riches - Habitude Warrior Volume 8: Special Edition PERSISTENCE with Erik Swanson and Alec Stern by Swanson, Erik
    Erik Swanson

    The 13 Steps to Riches - Habitude Warrior Volume 8: Special Edition PERSISTENCE with Erik Swanson and Alec Stern

    Are you a student of Napoleon Hill's classic from 1937 Think and Grow Rich? Has your life or business benefited from the timeless truths of this global classic? Are you ready to embrace and experience foundational steps to success that carry on from generation...
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  • On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain by White, Ronald C.
    Ronald C. White

    On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero."A vital and vivid portrait of an unlikely military hero who played a key role in...
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  • The Butterfly Cage by Zemach, Rachel
    Rachel Zemach

    The Butterfly Cage

    A tender and perspective-shifting book that offers a rare level of understanding about the subtle and and no-so-subtle layers of internalized oppression and deep feelings and dilemmas of Deaf people, written by former Deaf teacher Rachel Zemach.This mesmerizing, funny, and disruptive narrative invites you...
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  • Leaving South Dakota: A Memoir of a Jewish Feminist Academic by Radin, Beryl A.
    Beryl A. Radin

    Leaving South Dakota: A Memoir of a Jewish Feminist Academic

    Leaving South Dakota is the tale of Beryl Radin and her experience growing up as a first generation Jewish American in the Midwest. From her small Jewish community of Aberdeen, South Dakota, to her career as a successful academic and professor in and out...
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  • Teach by Unger, Michael
    Michael Unger

    Teach

    TEACH showcases inspiring young adults and the remarkable teachers who celebrate the power of the HUMAN SPIRIT.Every successful urban educator's journey is different/unique. The common characteristic all great teachers possess is the ability to LISTEN to the FEARLESS, TENACIOUS, and DEMANDING voices of the...
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  • The Butterfly Cage by Zemach, Rachel
    Rachel Zemach

    The Butterfly Cage

    A tender and perspective-shifting book that offers a rare level of understanding about the subtle and and no-so-subtle layers of internalized oppression and deep feelings and dilemmas of Deaf people, written by former Deaf teacher Rachel Zemach.This mesmerizing, funny, and disruptive narrative invites you...
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  • Living Positive With Imperfection: A Memoir by Patton, Robert Bob D.
    Robert Bob D. Patton

    Living Positive With Imperfection: A Memoir

    Bob Patton grew up with little hope or opportunity, living in near poverty. With dreams, determination and faith, he became successful in many areas of life. His progression from earning first a high school diploma led to obtaining a doctoral degree. A job in...
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  • 100 Days Smart: A kindergarten teacher shares lessons on life, learning, and community during the COVID-19 outbreak in bella Italia by Tramm, Karin
    Karin Tramm

    100 Days Smart: A kindergarten teacher shares lessons on life, learning, and community during the COVID-19 outbreak in bella Italia

    "... one of the most delightful and charming books I've read in a long time ..."-Barbara Ferg-Carter, Ed.D., retired Chief of Staff, District Superintendent's Office, DoDEA Mediterranean District"... a joy to read ... documents recent history in an entertaining and inspiring way ... a...
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  • Living in the Ulu: Letters from a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malaysia, 1967-68 by Demerly, Ed
    Ed Demerly

    Living in the Ulu: Letters from a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malaysia, 1967-68

    This is the story of a young man's sojourn in the rainforest of Borneo in the late 1960s. Told through letters sent home, the book reveals the life of a small Kadazan village and the relationship that grows between the villagers and the American...
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  • Makeshift Manifesto by Merlyn, Christopher
    Christopher Merlyn

    Makeshift Manifesto

    This was my attempt to find a path or purpose in a world that I couldn't make sense of. A documentation of audacious choices that I once hoped would lead me to some kind of dissentient promised land. It's a weird-ass narrative about invigorating...
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  • Shattered: Exposing the Open Secret of the Children's Theatre Scandal by Stearns, Laura
    Laura Stearns

    Shattered: Exposing the Open Secret of the Children's Theatre Scandal

    John C. Donahue was considered a brilliant but difficult artistic genius in American theater in the 70s and 80s. His theater, the Children's Theatre Company and School (CTC), rose to the heights of critical acclaim. It was also a home to more than two...
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  • The 13 Steps to Riches - Habitude Warrior Volume 8: Special Edition PERSISTENCE with Erik Swanson and Alec Stern by Swanson, Erik
    Erik Swanson

    The 13 Steps to Riches - Habitude Warrior Volume 8: Special Edition PERSISTENCE with Erik Swanson and Alec Stern

    Are you a student of Napoleon Hill's classic from 1937 Think and Grow Rich? Has your life or business benefited from the timeless truths of this global classic? Are you ready to embrace and experience foundational steps to success that carry on from generation...
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  • A Chicano Spanish Teacher by Morin, Sonny
    Sonny Morin

    A Chicano Spanish Teacher

    The book begins with the life of a young Mexican-American boy from South Texas. Family and pop culture were influences on through high school and college showing the reader who he was and what he experienced. He continues with his experiences teaching at the...
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  • Renegade Teacher: Inside School Walls with Standards and the Test by Scheidler, Katherine
    Katherine Scheidler

    Renegade Teacher: Inside School Walls with Standards and the Test

    US public schools can do better. Post-pandemic, Harvard researcher Martin West states, "We've had the greatest decline in student achievement in US history. We have to have strategies to address this." 1980's national school change leader Ted Sizer commented, "School reform is like moving...
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  • Beyond the Lesson Plan: 33 Questions Inspired by 33 Years of Teaching by Cwodzinski, Steve
    Steve Cwodzinski

    Beyond the Lesson Plan: 33 Questions Inspired by 33 Years of Teaching

    Award-winning teacher Steve Cwodzinski was never content just imparting the assigned curriculum to his students. He saw in them the need to learn important life lessons as well about values, self-motivation, relationships, inquisitiveness, adventure, and so much more. Using his own struggles with growing...
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  • To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories by Viren, Sarah
    Sarah Viren

    To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories

    Part coming-of-age story, part psychological thriller, part philosophical investigation, this unforgettable memoir traces the ramifications of a series of lies that threaten to derail the author's life--exploring the line between truth and deception, fact and fiction, and reality and conspiracy.Sarah's story begins as she's...
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  • Growing From the Ashes by Lowe, Sheila
    Sheila Lowe

    Growing From the Ashes

    After many years of writing nonfiction about handwriting psychology and mystery fiction, I tackled a memoir. This book details my spiritual path, starting with a strict religious background that allowed for no belief in an Afterlife, to the freedom of understanding that there is...
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  • Sermons and Addresses by Saperstein, Marc
    Marc Saperstein

    Sermons and Addresses

    When a respected scholar with a career at three major American universities moves to a position as principal of an important institution in UK, there is likely to be considerable interest in what he has to say not only to his students, but to...
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  • The Journey by Banerjee, Jayanta Kumar
    Jayanta Kumar Banerjee

    The Journey

    The Journey tells the stories of professional and personal ventures from my mother's Kindergarten homeschooling till post-Doctoral studies and beyond in nine different countries. It is a saga of friendship with so many families and colleagues in diverse cultures, a true anecdote of universal...
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  • The Claims of Life: A Memoir by Walsh, Diana Chapman
    Diana Chapman Walsh

    The Claims of Life: A Memoir

    The engaging memoir of a legendary president of Wellesley College known for authentic and open-hearted leadership, who drove innovation with power and love. The Claims of Life traces the emergence of a young woman who set out believing she wasn't particularly smart but went...
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  • Never Settled: a memoir of a boy on the road to manhood by Congleton, Shawn D.
    Shawn D. Congleton

    Never Settled: a memoir of a boy on the road to manhood

    Imagine moving nearly 80 times and living in almost 20 states before graduating high school. This is the story of a young boy growing up on the road. Shawn D. Congleton shares his account of overcoming his life's challenges, of never settling, that included...
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  • The House Was My Home: My Life On Capitol Hill and Other Tales by Freeman, Daniel M.
    Daniel M. Freeman

    The House Was My Home: My Life On Capitol Hill and Other Tales

    Daniel Freeman's career as a public servant in government and his experiences as an educator are the foundation of this fascinating book. "The House Was My Home" is an intriguing and frequently humorous look behind the velvet curtain of the U.S. House of Representatives...
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  • I See Your Genius: Transform Your Idea into Income by Long, Shelby Jo
    Shelby Jo Long

    I See Your Genius: Transform Your Idea into Income

    The journey of an academic refugee.She walked into her office to begin her fourteenth year in a career that she loved. As college professor, she heard herself asking if there was something more. Was there another place where her knowledge and experience could make...
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  • Where There's a Will, There's a Way by Barger, Carl J.
    Carl J. Barger

    Where There's a Will, There's a Way

    Where There's a Will, There's a Way Ma was a crafty lady who had been taught well by her father and mother, Elias Samuel Totten and Nancy Jane Bradford Totten. She learned to cook, sew, plow, hoe, pick cotton, do housework, and dry apples...
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  • A Black First by Carter, Peter E.
    Peter E. Carter

    A Black First

    A BLACK FIRST is the story of an African-American, Black, Negro, colored man who weathered the storms of racism and bigotry and became a prominent educator in the State of New Jersey among its most powerful leaders for a significant period of time. The...
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  • El Curso de la Raza: The Education of Aurelio Manuel Montemayor by Garcia, Thomas Ray
    Thomas Ray Garcia

    El Curso de la Raza: The Education of Aurelio Manuel Montemayor

    El Curso de la Raza: The Education of Aurelio Manuel Montemayor tells the story of Chicano activist and self-described fronterizo Aurelio Manuel Montemayor, whose dual identities as an educator and political organizer informed his hitherto little-known role in developing a course, or curso, that...
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  • Please I Can to the Toilet Go? by Newmountain, Guy
    Guy Newmountain

    Please I Can to the Toilet Go?

    Ever wondered what it's like to be a supply teacher? This is the book for you! Artist and illustrator Guy Newmountain, a time-served teacher at the chalk-face for 25 years and a familiar sight to thousands of pupils across the spectrum from nursery to...
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  • Goal Setter: How to Win at College by Vance, Rashad
    Rashad Vance

    Goal Setter: How to Win at College

    Looking back, my life at school wasn't quite easy for me. Sometimes I hated school, but I was so determined to wrestle at the division I level, that I worked as hard as I could in order to accomplish that goal. I hardly ever...
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  • Contemplating Dis/Ability in Schools and Society: A Life in Education by Connor, David J.
    David J. Connor

    Contemplating Dis/Ability in Schools and Society: A Life in Education

    This book chronicles the professional life of a career-long, inclusive educator in New York City through eight different stages in special and general education. Developing a new approach to research as part of qualitative methodology, David J. Connor merges the academic genre of autoethnography...
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  • The Legacy of John Holt: A Man Who Genuinely Understood, Trusted, and Respected Children by Patrick, Farenga Lawrence
    Farenga Lawrence Patrick

    The Legacy of John Holt: A Man Who Genuinely Understood, Trusted, and Respected Children

    The Legacy of John Holt contains sixteen portraits of a radical teacher and writer whose ten books and work influenced schoolteachers and homeschoolers to help children learn in their own ways.Written by friends, colleagues, and homeschoolers who knew Holt personally, this book sheds new...
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  • Stephen Girard by Raciti, James J.
    James J. Raciti

    Stephen Girard

    Why is Stephen Girard, a figure from late Colonial America, important today? As a teenager, he left home in Bordeaux, France with meager funds and went to sea as a merchant marine, following his family's tradition. In early summer, 1776, he landed in Philadelphia...
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