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Lanterns
A Memoir of Mentors
Written by Marian Wright Edelman
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 1, 2013
Price: $28.00
I am grateful beyond words for the example of the lanterns shared in this memoir whose lives I hope will illuminate my children's, your children's, and the paths of countless others coming behind.--Marian Wright Edelman, from the Preface
Marian Wright Edelman, "the most influential children's advocate in the country" (The Washington Post)... Read more >
A Memoir of Mentors
Written by Marian Wright Edelman
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 1, 2013
Price: $28.00
I am grateful beyond words for the example of the lanterns shared in this memoir whose lives I hope will illuminate my children's, your children's, and the paths of countless others coming behind.--Marian Wright Edelman, from the Preface
Marian Wright Edelman, "the most influential children's advocate in the country" (The Washington Post)... Read more >
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I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had
My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
Written by Tony Danza
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $24.00
I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had is television, screen and stage star Tony Danza’s absorbing account of a year spent teaching tenth-grade English at Northeast High -- Philadelphia’s largest high school with 3600 students.
Entering Northeast’s crowded halls in September of 2009, Tony found his way to... Read more >
My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
Written by Tony Danza
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $24.00
I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had is television, screen and stage star Tony Danza’s absorbing account of a year spent teaching tenth-grade English at Northeast High -- Philadelphia’s largest high school with 3600 students.
Entering Northeast’s crowded halls in September of 2009, Tony found his way to... Read more >
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eBook and a
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I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had
My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
Written by Tony Danza
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $12.99
I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had is television, screen and stage star Tony Danza’s absorbing account of a year spent teaching tenth-grade English at Northeast High -- Philadelphia’s largest high school with 3600 students.
Entering Northeast’s crowded halls in September of 2009, Tony found his way to... Read more >
My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
Written by Tony Danza
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $12.99
I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had is television, screen and stage star Tony Danza’s absorbing account of a year spent teaching tenth-grade English at Northeast High -- Philadelphia’s largest high school with 3600 students.
Entering Northeast’s crowded halls in September of 2009, Tony found his way to... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Tisha
The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness
Written by Robert Specht
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2010
Price: $7.99
The author tells the story as told to him of Anne Hobbs, a woman who went to Alaska in the 1920's to teach, but who had trouble due to her kindness to the Indians there. Read more >
The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness
Written by Robert Specht
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2010
Price: $7.99
The author tells the story as told to him of Anne Hobbs, a woman who went to Alaska in the 1920's to teach, but who had trouble due to her kindness to the Indians there. Read more >
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Elvis Is Titanic
Classroom Tales from Iraqi Kurdistan
Written by Ian Klaus
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $14.95
In the spring of 2005, twenty-five-year-old Rhodes Scholar Ian Klaus took a semester-long appointment at Salahaddin University in Arbil, the largest city in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Officially he was there to lecture on American history and to teach English. Unofficially he was there because he felt obliged, as a... Read more >
Classroom Tales from Iraqi Kurdistan
Written by Ian Klaus
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $14.95
In the spring of 2005, twenty-five-year-old Rhodes Scholar Ian Klaus took a semester-long appointment at Salahaddin University in Arbil, the largest city in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Officially he was there to lecture on American history and to teach English. Unofficially he was there because he felt obliged, as a... Read more >
Teacher
The One Who Made the Difference
Written by Mark Edmundson
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
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 wearing a moth-eaten suit, arrived at Medford fresh... Read more >
The One Who Made the Difference
Written by Mark Edmundson
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
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 wearing a moth-eaten suit, arrived at Medford fresh... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Welcome to Lizard Motel
Protecting the Imaginative Lives of Children
Written by Barbara Feinberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 216 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2005
Price: $15.00
Welcome to Lizard Motel is one of the most surprising books about reading and writing to come along in years. Not only does this rich and wonderfully readable memoir explore the world of children and stories, it also asks us to look at how our children are growing up. Barbara Feinberg... Read more >
Protecting the Imaginative Lives of Children
Written by Barbara Feinberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 216 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2005
Price: $15.00
Welcome to Lizard Motel is one of the most surprising books about reading and writing to come along in years. Not only does this rich and wonderfully readable memoir explore the world of children and stories, it also asks us to look at how our children are growing up. Barbara Feinberg... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Welcome to Lizard Motel
Children, Stories, and the Mystery of Making Things Up
Written by Barbara Feinberg
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 1, 2004
Price: $23.00
Welcome to Lizard Motel is a completely original memoir about the place of stories in children's lives. It began when Barbara Feinberg noticed that her twelve-year-old son, Alex, who otherwise loved to read, hated reading many of the novels assigned to him in school. These stories of abandonment, kidnapping, abuse, and... Read more >
Children, Stories, and the Mystery of Making Things Up
Written by Barbara Feinberg
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 1, 2004
Price: $23.00
Welcome to Lizard Motel is a completely original memoir about the place of stories in children's lives. It began when Barbara Feinberg noticed that her twelve-year-old son, Alex, who otherwise loved to read, hated reading many of the novels assigned to him in school. These stories of abandonment, kidnapping, abuse, and... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Girl Meets God
On the Path to a Spiritual Life
Written by Lauren Winner
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 20, 2004
Price: $14.99
The child of a Jewish father and a lapsed Southern Baptist mother, Lauren F. Winner chose to become an Orthodox Jew. But even as she was observing Sabbath rituals and studying Jewish law, Lauren was increasingly drawn to Christianity. Courageously leaving what she loved, she eventually converted. In Girl Meets God... Read more >
On the Path to a Spiritual Life
Written by Lauren Winner
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 20, 2004
Price: $14.99
The child of a Jewish father and a lapsed Southern Baptist mother, Lauren F. Winner chose to become an Orthodox Jew. But even as she was observing Sabbath rituals and studying Jewish law, Lauren was increasingly drawn to Christianity. Courageously leaving what she loved, she eventually converted. In Girl Meets God... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Soul Survivor
How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church
Written by Philip Yancey
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2003
Price: $13.99
Philip Yancey, one of America's leading Christian thinkers and author of more than a dozen books with sales of more than five million copies, returns for his most profound and soul-searching books yet. Soul Survivor is the story of his own struggle to reclaim his belief, interwoven with inspiring portraits of... Read more >
How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church
Written by Philip Yancey
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2003
Price: $13.99
Philip Yancey, one of America's leading Christian thinkers and author of more than a dozen books with sales of more than five million copies, returns for his most profound and soul-searching books yet. Soul Survivor is the story of his own struggle to reclaim his belief, interwoven with inspiring portraits of... Read more >
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abridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Teacher
The One Who Made the Difference
Written by Mark Edmundson
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $15.00
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 wearing a moth-eaten suit, arrived at Medford fresh... Read more >
The One Who Made the Difference
Written by Mark Edmundson
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $15.00
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 wearing a moth-eaten suit, arrived at Medford fresh... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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