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Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman

by Alice Steinbach

Published: 2005-04-12

Paperback: 320 pages

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This funny and tender book combines three of Alice Steinbach’s greatest passions: learning, traveling, and writing. After chronicling her European journey of self-discovery in Without Reservations, this Pulitzer Prize—winning columnist for the Baltimore Sun quit her job and lef...

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Educating Esme: Diary Of A Teacher's First Year, Expanded Edition (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

by Esme Raji Codell

Published: 2009-09-01

Library Binding: 262 pages

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A first-year teacher in the Chicago public school system reveals her frustrations, achievements, and struggles to maintain her individuality in the face of administrators, abusive parents, gang members, and weary teachers.

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Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year, Expanded Edition

by Esmé Raji Codell

Published: 2009-09-01

Paperback: 262 pages

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A must-read for parents, new teachers, and classroom veterans, Educating Esmé is the exuberant diary of Esmé Raji Codell’s first year teaching in a Chicago public school. Fresh-mouthed and free-spirited, the irrepressible Madame Esmé?as she prefers to be called?does the cha-cha during...

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Education of a Wandering Man

by Louis L'Amour

Published: 1990-12-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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From his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in Singapore and the West Indies, and as an itinerant bare-knuckled prizefighter across small-town Ame...

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The Education Of Harriet Hatfield

by May Sarton

Published: 1990-04-17

Paperback: 320 pages

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“Harriet Hatfield begins a new life at the age of 60 after her lover of 30 years has died and left her comfortably well off. But when Harriet opens a bookstore for women in a blue-collar neighborhood of Boston, she is viciously attacked for her lesbianism. Ms. Sarton's powerful portrayal...

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The Education of Henry Adams: A Centennial Version

by Henry Adams

Published: 2008-09

Paperback: 542 pages

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Both a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and at the head of the Modern Library's list of the one hundred best English-language nonfiction books of the twentieth century, "The Education of Henry Adams" has long been revered as a great work of literature. Written by Adams in the third person, the book became...

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The Education of Little Tree

by Forrest Carter

Published: 2001-08-31

Paperback: 216 pages

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The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression."Little Tree" as his grandparents call him is shown how to hunt and survive in the...

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The Education of Mrs. Brimley

by Donna MacMeans

Published: 2007-10-02

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

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Emma Brimley pretends to be a widow to find employment at an all-girl's school. But when she's expected to teach the intimacies of marriage, she strikes a scandalous bargain with a neighboring artist-a man well-versed in bedroom etiquette.

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The Education of Oversoul 7

by Roberts

Published: 1987-01-02

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An Education: The Screenplay

by Nick Hornby

Published: 2009-10-06

Paperback: 208 pages

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From the New York Times bestselling author-the shooting script to his award-winning film, with an original Introduction and vivid stills from the movie. Jenny is a 16-year-old girl stifled by the tedium of adolescence; she can't wait for her sophisticated adult life to begin. One rainy ...