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Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher
Garret Keizer · Metropolitan Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this powerful, eloquent story of his return to the classroom, a former teacher offers a rousing defense of his beleaguered vocationPerhaps no profession is so constantly discussed, regulated, and maligned by non-practitioners as teaching. The voices of the teachers themselves are conspicuously... |
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The Creative Entrepreneur
Isa Maria Seminega · Fons & Porter
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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If you're an artist, crafter, maker, or designer, The Creative Entrepreneur is the book you need to turn your passion into profit. Guiding you from the seeds of your idea to the launch of your business, this one-stop guide provides you with the encouragement and expertise you need to take... |
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50 Fandom Programs: Planning Festivals and Events for Tweens, Teens, and Adults
Amy J Alessio · American Library Association
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
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This book of ready-to-go programs and events will help public libraries give fans who are passionate about genres, characters, games, and book series plenty of reasons to return to the library again and again. Fandom programming can require planning across departments, tie-ins to collections... |
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Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms
Nicholas Johnson · Prometheus Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Chronicling the underappreciated black tradition of bearing arms for self-defense, this book presents an array of examples reaching back to the pre—Civil War era that demonstrate a willingness of African American men and women to use firearms when necessary to defend their families... |
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Full Disclosure
Stormy Daniels · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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She was already well-known in some circles before March 6, 2018, but that's probably the first time you heard the name Stormy Daniels. That's the day she filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over a nondisclosure agreement negotiated before the election but never signed.How did Stormy... |
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Lessons of Hope: How to Fix Our Schools
Joel Klein · Harper
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller (Education) The Economist Best Books of the Year SelectionIn this revealing and provocative memoir, the former chancellor of the New York City schools offers the behind-the-scenes story of the city's dramatic campaign to improve public education and an inspiring... |
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Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press
James McGrath Morris · Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed biographer James McGrath Morris brings into focus the riveting life of one of the most significant yet least known figures of the civil rights era - pioneering journalist Ethel Payne, the "First Lady of the Black Press" - elevating her to her rightful place in history... |
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The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee
SAM KASHNER · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A poignant, evocative, and wonderfully gossipy account of the two sisters who represented style and class above all else - Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill - from the authors of Furious Love.When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her Fifth Avenue apartment, her younger... |
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World War I
Michael Ph.D. Shally-Jensen · Salem Pr Inc; Har/Psc edition
Format: Hardcover
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Defining Documents in American History World War I offers a broad range of historical documents on important authors and subjects in World War I research. Written by historians and experts in the field, this resource examines a wide array of primary source documents with an in-depth critical... |
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Snippets of New Orleans
EMMA FICK · Univ of Louisiana at Lafayette
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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FROM THE INTRODUCTION:Snippets are fragments of things. They are people observed, foods consumed, ornaments spotted: a man on a streetcar, crawfish shells on the sidewalk, an ornate cornstalk-shaped fence.I believe that to immerse oneself in a place means to try and hold all its elements,... |
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Rocco's Healthy & Delicious: More than 200
ROCCO DISPIRITO · Harper Wave
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The James Beard Award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author, chef, and healthy living expert gives his fans what they have been clamoring for - a beautiful cookbook featuring more than 250 flavorful, mostly plant-based recipes for eating well every day.Over the last decade, Americans... |
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Happiness: A Philosopher's Guide
Frederic Lenoir · Melville House
Format: Hardcover
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A huge bestseller in Europe, Frederic Lenoir's Happiness is an exciting journey that examines how history's greatest philosophers and religious figures have answered life's most fundamental question: What is happiness and how do I achieve it? From the ancient Greeks on--from... |
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Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution
Peter Ackroyd · Thomas Dunne Books; 1st US Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Peter Ackroyd has been praised as one of the greatest living chroniclers of Britain and its people. In Rebellion, he continues his dazzling account of the history of England, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first... |
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