There Are No Shortcuts
Written by Rafe Esquith
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $15.00
Year after year, Rafe Esquith’s fifth-grade students excel. They read passionately, far above their grade level; tackle algebra; and stage Shakespeare so professionally that they often wow the great Shakespearen actor himself, Sir Ian McKellen. Yet Esquith teaches at an L.A. innercity school known as the Jungle, where few of his...
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College Admission
From Application to Acceptance, Step by Step
Written by Robin Mamlet
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: August 30, 2011
Price: $15.99
College Admission is the ultimate user's manual and go-to guide for any student or family approaching the college application process. Featuring the wise counsel of more than 50 deans of admission, no other guide has such thorough, expert, compassionate, and professional advice. Let’s be honest: applying to college...
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Foxfire 7
Written by Foxfire Fund, Inc.
Edited by Paul Gillespie
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1982
Price: $19.95
The seventh
Foxfire volume presents traditions of mountain religious heritage, covering ministers, revivals, baptisms, gospel-singing, faith healing, camp meetings, snake handling, and more.
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Taught by America
A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton
Written by Sarah Sentilles
Format: Trade Paperback, 216 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2006
Price: $16.00
After graduating from Yale University, Sarah Sentilles joined Teach for America and was assigned to a rundown elementary school in Compton, California. Through moving portraits of inspiring children, Sentilles relates a heartbreaking journey, as she learns about a failing school system, the true meaning of poverty in America, and the strength...
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How to Be a Person
The Stranger's Guide to College, Sex, Intoxicants, Tacos, and Life Itself
Written by Lindy West, Dan Savage, Christopher Frizzelle, Bethany Jean Clement and The Staff of The Stranger
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $16.95
From Dan Savage, Lindy West, and The Stranger staff comes this hilarious guide to life for college students and beyond. Here is all the information you actually need to know that no one else will tell you including: which majors to avoid, how to not get a STD, everything there is...
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