Educators
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Ghost Girl: The True Story of a Child in Desperate Peril-And a Teacher Who Saved Her
$15.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of One Child comes this compelling, true story of a child in desperate peril and the teacher who saved her despite the odds.
Jadie never spoke. She never laughed, or cried,
- Author: Hayden, Torey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 23 2017
- ISBN10: 0062564382
- Language: English
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One Day, All Children…: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach for America and What I Learned Along the Way
$16.99 Add to cartFrom her dorm room at Princeton University, twenty-one-year-old college senior Wendy Kopp decided to launch a movement to improve public education in America. In One Day, All Children… , she shares … [more below]
- Author: Kopp, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 17 2007
- ISBN10: 1586481797
- Language: English
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On This Ground: Hardship and Hope at the Toughest Prep School in America
$30.00 Add to cart- Author: Depalma, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 006346439X
- Language: English
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I Will Bear Witness, Volume 2: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1942-1945
$28.00 Add to cartDestined to take its place alongside The Diary of Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel’s Night as one of the great classics of the Holocaust, I Will Bear Witness is a timeless work of literature, the most eloqu… [more below]
- Series: I Will Bear Witness #2
- Author: Klemperer, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 03 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756973
- Language: English
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Simply Magical: North Beach: 1977 – 1982
$17.99 Add to cartExplore an enchanting journey of a novice teacher navigating Prop 13 and the colorful 70s San Francisco, balancing between teaching and working at the hottest musical revue, BBB.
Simply Magical is a ca
- Author: Sollish, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822977082
- Language: English
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An Education: How I Changed My Mind about Schools and Almost Everything Else
$24.95 Add to cartFor many years, Diane Ravitch was among the country’s leading conservative thinkers on education. The cure for what ailed the school system was clear, she believed: high-stakes standardized testing, n
- Author: Ravitch, Diane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0231220294
- Language: English
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Family Conscience: A Memoir of Four Generations
$31.00 Add to cartThis memoir explores the role of conscience in four generations during a century of family history. It begins with the suicide of Barbour’s maternal grandfather and the impact of this traumatic event…. [more below]
- Author: Barbour, John D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1532636377
- Language: English
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That’s Not What This Book Is About
$21.99 Add to cart- Author: Johnson, Joanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1990566979
- Language: English
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Small-Town Chaos: Lessons on Country Life
$16.95 Add to cartIn Liberty, moments of grit, perseverance, heartbreak, and joy illustrate the fullness of living a small-town life.
A staunch urbanite, Lenore Focht never thought she’d end up in a remote farming commu
- Author: Focht, L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1069485403
- Language: English
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Oilfield Roughneck to University President: Bruce Benson
$49.99 Add to cartBruce Benson was a man in a hurry. Born on the Fourth of July, he drew on a fierce work ethic learned on a World War II-era farm outside Chicago to propel him through his eventful and remarkable life.
- Author: McConnellogue, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: December 18 2024
- ISBN10: 9798992059809
- Language: English
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Lives on the Boundary: A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America’s Educationally Underprepared
$27.00 Add to cartThe award-winning account of how America’s educational system fails it students and what can be done about it
Remedial, illiterate, intellectually deficient–these are the stigmas that define America’- Author: Rose, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0143035460
- Language: English
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Resilient Dreamer: A Memoir
$22.99 Add to cartAre you a resilient dreamer, too?
In this gripping memoir of resilience and roots, Hofstra University’s first female chair of its math department, Marysia Tarnopolska Weiss, tells the inspiring story
- Author: Tarnopolska Weiss, Marysia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: December 24 2024
- ISBN10: 9798990876408
- Language: English
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A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune
$28.00 Add to cartAn intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America’s towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political … [more below]
- Series: Significations
- Author: Rooks, Noliwe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0593492420
- Language: English
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Up Home: One Girl’s Journey
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “Simmons’s evocative account of her remarkable trajectory from Jim Crow Texas, where she was the youngest of twelve children in a sharecropping family, to the presidencies … [more below]
- Author: Simmons, Ruth J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 059344602X
- Language: English
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Tisha: The Wonderful True Love Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
$17.00 Add to cartThe beloved real-life story of a woman in the Alaskan wilderness, the children she taught, and the man she loved.
“From the time I’d been a girl, I’d been thrilled with the idea of living on a fronti- Author: Specht, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1524798894
- Language: English
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Always There, Always Gone: A Daughter’s Search for Truth
$19.99 Add to cartFor fans of Natasha Trethewey and Maggie Smith, a mother-daughter story of multigenerational trauma, grief, discovery, and love, with the backdrops of an historic American tragedy and an iconic family… [more below]
- Author: Ross-Dolen, Marty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1647428912
- Language: English
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Show, Don’t Tell: A Writer, Her Teacher, and the Power of Sharing Our Stories
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling writer and author of How to Love an American Man comes a memoir that inspires us to remember the special teachers in our lives and reflect on the change we creat
- Author: Gasbarre, Kristine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1546008063
- Language: English
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I Didn’t Come Here to Lie: My Life and Education
$27.95 Add to cartAn intimate, inspiring memoir by educator and labor union leader Karen Lewis, a formidable fighter, a staunch defender of teachers and students, and a beloved Chicagoan.
In 2012, Karen Lewis led the
- Author: G. J. Lewis, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888902530
- Language: English
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Teacher by Teacher: The People Who Change Our Lives
$29.00 Add to cartTeacher By Teacher traces the remarkable journey of the 10th U.S. Secretary of Education and is a deeply personal love letter to all the teachers in our lives.
The story of John B. King Jr.’s- Author: King, John B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 153875777X
- Language: English
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Dreams and Shadows: An Immigrant’s Journey
$20.95 Add to cartEmma Violand-S?nchez knew little English when she arrived in Virginia from Bolivia in the summer of 1961 as a high school senior. In the decades that followed, she would lose a husband in Vietnam, rai… [more below]
- Author: Violand-S?nchez, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: March 20 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888246467
- Language: English
