Educators
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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
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An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education
$27.95 Add to cartA prize-winning historian details his intellectual and political evolution
Written by the author of the landmark book The Wages of Whiteness and one of the key figures in the critical study of race an- Author: Roediger, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1531509576
- Language: English
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Women’s Crusader: Catharine Beecher’s Untold Story
$19.00 Add to cartA true story of love, loss, and the pioneering fight for women’s education in America.
Catharine (Kate) Beecher was a crusader for women’s education, bestselling author, and unique feminist thinker in
- Author: Wilson, R. Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991451512
- Language: English
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The Mad Manchurian
$24.95 Add to cartI was born in Harbin, Manchuria, (later China), in 1938. At the outbreak of the Second World War my mother, sister and I, along with other non-combatants of the Allied countries, were taken by the Jap
- Author: Meschery, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 418
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1684920914
- Language: English
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Teach with Your Heart: Lessons I Learned from The Freedom Writers
$21.00 Add to cartThe extraordinary memoir of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Freedom Writers Diary, who’s been hailed as “a true inspiration” (Hilary Swank) and “simply magical when it comes to inspiri… [more below]
- Author: Gruwell, Erin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0767915844
- Language: English
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Shades of Brown: The Official Biography of Jane Elliott and the Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes Exercise
$29.95 Add to cartWhat if, by eight years old, children could possess the mechanism to disrupt prejudicial tendencies? That is an argument posited by Jane Elliott for more than five decades. She initially made the clai
- Author: Mealy, Todd M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888191125
- Language: English
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Fragments from the Table of Life
$21.95 Add to cartI am not strong enough to derail God’s plan for my life. He uses people and events to accomplish his plan for my life.
He is like a good chess player: he arranges situations to accomplish his plan for
- Author: Tapay, Leandro (Lany) Maniwang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: April 10 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way
$24.95 Add to cartMa 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 appl… [more below]
- Author: Barger, Carl J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 458
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1682358291
- Language: English
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Letters from an Astrophysicist
$19.95 Add to cartAstrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world’s largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to g
- Author: Degrasse Tyson, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1324003316
- Language: English
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To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories
$20.00 Add to cart“Has the page-turning quality of a thriller.” –NPR
“Strange and wonderful…A book for our times.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Propulsive…mesmerizing…breathtaking.” —Publishers Weekly (sta… [more below]- Author: Viren, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1982166606
- Language: English
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On Great Fields: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and His Fight to Save the Union
$25.00 Add to cartNATIONAL 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 her… [more below]
- Author: White, Ronald C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0525510109
- Language: English
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Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power
$32.50 Read moreAn insightful biography of an unassuming literary scholar–and spy–who transformed postwar American culture.
Although his impact on twentieth-century American cultural life was profound, few people- Author: Barnhisel, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 09 2024
- ISBN10: 022664720X
- Language: English
