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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Seven seasons in Aurukun	Paula Shaw	A well-crafted memoir of a young woman who spends two years teaching at the school at Aurukun in Cape York paints a colourful picture of life in a remote Aboriginal community in the sweltering tropic…	OL13775894W
A schoolteacher in old Alaska	Hannah Breece	As an American woman on the Alaskan frontier at the turn of the century, Hannah Breece challenged the wilderness to teach native children. This moving, gripping account of her many adventures tells o…	OL15839692W
The water is wide	Pat Conroy	"A young white teacher goes to an island off the coast of South Carolina to teach a group of functionally illiterate black children. Yamacraw Island is backward and primitive, a world for the most pa…	OL15870941W
A Life in Motion	Florence Howe	Here is the long awaited memoir by this iconoclastic figure in the feminist movement. She was a pioneer in establishing the women's studies field, an international women's rights activist, and the fo…	OL15976238W
Secret Historian	Justin Spring,Sean Runnette	Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secret Historian is a sensational reconstruction of o…	OL16799820W
Substitute	Nicholson Baker	Nicholson Baker tells us all about the time in 2014 he worked as a substitute teacher in the Maine public school system.	OL17592858W
Bookmarked	Wendy W. Fairey	"Wendy W. Fairey grew up among books. Her mother, the famous Hollywood columnist Sheilah Graham, was F. Scott Fitzgerald's last love--he died in her living room in 1940. As part of a 'College of One'…	OL17863249W
It's good to know a miracle	Jay Shotel,Sue Shotel	In August 2002 Dani Shotel was a healthy 26-year old young woman with an almost perfect life. She had gratifying work, as a special needs teacher in an elementary school in Arlington County, Virgini…	OL18432599W
The Center Cannot Hold	Elyn R. Saks	Elyn R. Saks is an esteemed professor, lawyer, and psychiatrist and is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California…	OL1943090W
The new Negro	Jeffrey C. Stewart	A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawren…	OL19732332W
Strings attached	Joanne Lipman	A biography of a Ukrainian-born public school music teacher "whose life seemed to conspire against him at every turn and yet who was able to transform his own heartache into triumph for his students"…	OL19972469W
Choosing hope	Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis	"A teacher who saved the lives of fifteen elementary school students during the Sandy Hook shooting shares her experience with others in the hopes that they too can overcome their own personal traged…	OL20008558W
The Enigma of Kidson	Jamie Blackett	335 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cm	OL20193183W
Recapitulations	Vincent Crapanzano	392 pages ; 21 cm	OL21090600W
Republic of Imagination	Azar Nafisi	Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she tau…	OL21101437W
Things I've been silent about	Azar Nafisi	"In this stunning new book, Nafisi returns to Iran and her childhood to deliver an exquisite and moving portrait of a family's life, a life lived in thrall to Nafisi's powerful mother." - - Provided …	OL24302552W
Just Another Kid	Torey Hayden	From the Official Torey Hayden Website: "Torey Hayden's book "Just Another Kid" is not just another book. Though each page turns on the mysteries of emotional disturbance, sex, alcoholism, violence a…	OL265504W
West of the American dream	Paul Christensen	"Like many a pioneer exiting the eastern forests, Paul Christensen felt the strangeness of an alien landscape when he first arrived in Texas in 1974. Schooled in the cool colors of life and poetry in…	OL4614688W
The autobiography of an execution	David R. Dow	Near the beginning of The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow lays his cards on the table. "People think that because I am against the death penalty and don't think people should be executed, th…	OL8104557W
Crossing the Water	Daniel Robb	"Off the coast of Cape Cod lies a small windswept island called Penikese. Alone on the island is a school for juvenile delinquents, the Penikese Island School, where Daniel Robb lived and worked as a…	OL8442851W