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Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap

by Teach For America, Steven Farr

Published: 2010-02-02

Paperback: 352 pages

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A road map for teachers who strive to be highly effective leaders in our nation's classroomsTeach For America has fought the daunting battle of educational equity for the last twenty years. Based on evidence from classrooms across the country, they've discovered much about effective teachi...

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Teaching the Pig to Dance: A Memoir of Growing Up and Second Chances

by Fred Thompson

Published: 2010-05-18

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Fred Thompson has enjoyed a remarkable career in Hollywood and politics, but when he sat down to write a memoir about how he got to be the person he is, he discovered that his best stories all seemed to come out of the years he spent growing up in and around his hometown of Lawrenceburg, T...

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The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

by Carlos Castaneda

Published: 2008-05-09

Paperback: 240 pages

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Forty years ago the University of California Press published an unusual manuscript by an anthropology student named Carlos Castaneda. The Teachings of Don Juan initiated a generation of seekers dissatisfied with the limitations of the Western worldview. Castaneda's now classic book remains...

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The Teahouse Fire

by Ellis Avery

Published: 2007-12-04

Paperback: 465 pages

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“Like attending seasons of elegant tea parties—each one resplendent with character and drama. Delicious.”—Maxine Hong KingstonThe story of two women whose lives intersect in late-nineteenth-century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places an...

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Team of Rivals

Published: 2006

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Team of Rivals, the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Unabridged audiobook on 34 CDs)

Published: 2003

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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin paints a compelling and comprehensive picture of Abraham Lincolns uncanny ability to convert personal and political foes and strengthen his presidency. Displaying Lincolns disarming political savvy, this riveting narrative reveals how well Lincoln...

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Team of Rivals: Lincoln Film Tie-in Edition

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Published: 2012-10-16

Paperback: 944 pages

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Winner of the Lincoln PrizeThis brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln’s mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation’s history.

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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Published: 2006-09-26

Paperback: 944 pages

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Winner of the Lincoln PrizeAcclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president.On Ma...

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Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath

by Michael Norman, Elizabeth Norman

Published: 2009-06-09

Hardcover: 480 pages

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For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America’s first major land battle of World War II, the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan. It ended with the surrender of 76,000 Filipinos and Americans, the single largest defeat in ...

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Tears of a Tiger

by Sharon M. Draper

Published: 1996-02-01

Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages

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When Gerald was a child he was fascinated by fire. But fire is dangerous and powerful, and tragedy strikes. His substance-addicted mother is taken from him. Then he loses the loving generosity of a favorite aunt. A brutal stepfather with a flaming temper and an evil secret makes his life m...