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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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  • From the Outhouse to the President's Chair by Bliss, Robert L.
    Robert L. Bliss

    From the Outhouse to the President's Chair

    From the Outhouse to the President's Chair is a riveting memoir outlining the difficulties, adversities, and the good times in a unique and totally unplanned rise from a farm boy to a college presidency, coupled with proven success in the corporate world.Beginning on the...
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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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  • The Story of My Life and Work by Washington, Booker T.
    Booker T. Washington

    The Story of My Life and Work

    He is one of the great voices in African-American history: Booker T. Washington rose from a boyhood in shackles in West Virginia-he was eight when the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution freed all slaves in 1865-to the status of national hero. In this autobiography...
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  • One Life: An Afghan Remembers by Safi, Abdul Qayum
    Abdul Qayum Safi

    One Life: An Afghan Remembers

    I was born in the mountainous remote district of Pech, Kunar Province, in eastern Afghanistan, before it became known as the Valley of Death during decades of relentless wars. As the oldest of ten children, encumbered by the constant threat of fatal disease, due...
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  • Witness to the End of Empire: A young Englishman in Nigeria during its first year of independence, 1960-61 by Bush, Clive
    Clive Bush

    Witness to the End of Empire: A young Englishman in Nigeria during its first year of independence, 1960-61

    The story will speak of my voyage out to Nigeria in September 1960, officer class, on a British Navy Troopship. By telling this story of the End of Empire by a young, innocent member of the colonial power, I also hope, in a second,...
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  • Throttle Up! Teacher Astronaut Christa McAuliffe by McAuliffe, Tom
    Tom McAuliffe

    Throttle Up! Teacher Astronaut Christa McAuliffe

    The world watched......as a teacher flew into space. Do you remember where you were when Christa McAuliffe died? She was a wife, Mother and Teacher and the first civilian to fly into space but Christa's dream tragically ended on a cold January day with...
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  • Townsend's Folding Globe: A world in letters from Gold Rush California by Dennis Townsend, educator and inventor by Zorbas, Elaine
    Elaine Zorbas

    Townsend's Folding Globe: A world in letters from Gold Rush California by Dennis Townsend, educator and inventor

    Letters written between 1852 and 1868, vividly describe the overland journey and excitement of settling in the evolving California mining towns of Fiddletown and Volcano in the Sierra Nevada foothills. A native of Vermont, Dennis Townsend marveled at the wonders of California, writing about...
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  • A Ministry Not a Job: Memoirs of a Middle School Teacher by Hedgemon, LeVert
    LeVert Hedgemon

    A Ministry Not a Job: Memoirs of a Middle School Teacher

    In A Ministry. Not a Job: Memoirs of a Middle School Teacher, author Levert Hedgemon, Jr. reflects on his fifty-four-year career as a student, teacher, colleague, and mentor in the Tuscaloosa City Schools. Growing up during the Jim Crow era of segregation, racial tension,...
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  • From Classroom Teacher to Co-Conspirator: A Journey of Transformation by Wallitt, Roberta
    Roberta Wallitt

    From Classroom Teacher to Co-Conspirator: A Journey of Transformation

    In this memoir, a White educator reflects on her journey toward becoming an anti-racist co-conspirator. Each chapter describes the experiences and challenges that contributed to her understanding of how to work in coalition to ensure an equitable education for students of color. While these...
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  • Homeroom 109 by Cook, Sandra Jenkins
    Sandra Jenkins Cook

    Homeroom 109

    The miracles that took place in Homeroom 109 were astounding. Widespread student salvations, healings, and deliverance occurred. Spiritual battles were fought and won as school policies were changed to allow a Christian club and prayer at the flagpole. Even my fellow teachers, administrators, and...
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  • Between Washington and Du Bois: The Racial Politics of James Edward Shepard by Ellis, Reginald K.
    Reginald K. Ellis

    Between Washington and Du Bois: The Racial Politics of James Edward Shepard

    Southern Conference on African American Studies Inc. C. Calvin Smith Book Award Between Washington and Du Bois describes the life and work of James Edward Shepard, the founder and president of the first state-supported black liberal arts college in the South. Arguing that black...
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  • Playing for Overtime: The David Lee Herbert Story by Ainsworth, Al
    Al Ainsworth

    Playing for Overtime: The David Lee Herbert Story

    He was handed a terminal diagnosis. The way he faced it would make him immortal...Tishomingo County, Mississippi, 1985. David Lee Herbert was passionate about coaching high-school football. But one night driving the team bus home from a game, he came upon an accident that...
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  • What My Students Taught Me: Letters from My Time in Teaching by Fishkind, David J.
    David J. Fishkind

    What My Students Taught Me: Letters from My Time in Teaching

    What My Students Taught Me is a reflective work covering time I spent teaching in Broward County, Florida. It is a collection of students' thoughts and feelings that inspired and taught me how to be a better teacher. It is about the impact a...
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  • A Legacy Created: Memoir of a Boy from the South by Benson, Thomas
    Thomas Benson

    A Legacy Created: Memoir of a Boy from the South

    Dr. Thomas Benson III is on an extraordinary journey in life and is a man of many accolades with a story worth telling. From being a husband, father, son, and brother to being a longtime educator and mentor, and former athlete, Dr. Benson III...
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  • A Heart of Giving by Oliver, J. D.
    J. D. Oliver

    A Heart of Giving

    A Heart of Giving chronicles the life of J.D. Oliver-his extraordinary quest for learning, his career in education and the space industry, and the influences and events instrumental to his success. Navigating life as an African American man born in rural Texas in the...
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