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A schoolteacher in old Alaska
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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… |
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These Happy Golden Years
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Garth Williams,Laura Ingalls Wilder |
The Ingalls family homesteads on their claim in DeSmet, South Dakota. Fifteen-year-old Laura begins to take schoolteaching jobs to raise money for Mary's college. Laura is surprised when Almanzo Wild… |
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Bookmarked
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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'… |
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It's good to know a miracle
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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… |
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The Center Cannot Hold
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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… |
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Strings attached
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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"… |
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Recapitulations
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Vincent Crapanzano |
392 pages ; 21 cm |
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Republic of Imagination
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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… |
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West of the American dream
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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… |
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The autobiography of an execution
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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… |
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Crossing the Water
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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… |
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