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Teacher [Mass Market Paperback] ...
NonFiction, Education, Psychology, Womens Literature ISBN10: B000J01CXA ISBN13: 978B000J01CX9 Material Type: mass_market
Drama High: The Incredible True ...
Friday Night Lights meets Gleethe incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a townWhy would the multimillionaire pr...
Yours to Command: The Life and L...
Captain Bill McDonald 18521918 is the most prominent of the Four Great Captains of Texas Ranger history His career straddled the changing scene from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries In 189...
Convergence: The Idea at the Hea...
A brilliant history of science over the past 150 years that offers a powerful new argumentthat the many disparate scientific branches are converging on the same truthsConvergence is a history of mo...
Moman Pruiett: Criminal Lawyer [...
Moman Pruiett: Criminal Lawyer is a book written by Moman Pruiett himself, chronicling his experiences as a criminal defense attorney The book is a memoir that details Pruietts journey from a young...
One Buck at a Time: An Insiders ...
For over thirty years, Dollar Tree has succeeded at something the retail industry thought impossible: selling goods of surprising quality for no more than a dollar apiece, and in the process earnin...
Lord Mansfield: Justice in the A...
In the first modern biography of Lord Mansfield 17051793, Norman Poser details the turbulent political life of eighteenthcentury Britains most powerful judge, serving as chief justice for an unprec...
The Question of God: CS Lewis an...
Throughout the ages, many of the worlds greatest thinkers have wrestled with the concept of and belief in God It may seem unlikely that any new arguments or insights could be raised, but the twen...
Angelas Ashes The Frank McCourt ...
Angelas Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourts astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classicWhen I look back on my childhood I wonder how I mana...
The Warburgs: The TwentiethCentu...
Bankers, philanthropists, scholars, socialites, artists, and politicians, the Warburgs stood at the pinnacle of German and, later, of GermanAmerican Jewry They forged economic dynasties, built mans...
Teach Like Your Hairs on Fire: T...
Read Rafe Esquiths posts on the Penguin BlogFrom one of Americas most celebrated educators, an inspiring guide to transforming every childs educationIn a Los Angeles neighborhood plagued by guns, g...
Einstein: A Life [Paperback] Bri...
Blends the brilliance of the scientific genius with the compassion, playfulness, and wit of the private figureA fascinating read with more interesting material about Einstein as a human being than ...
This Just In: What I Couldnt Tel...
A CBS News broadcast journalist traces his long and distinguished career and shares behindthescenes information about key historical and political events of the past four decades as based on new in...
Henry and Clare Martin, Ralph G
A biography of Henry and Clare Luce shows the disparity between their distinguished public lives and their competitive private lives ISBN10: 0399136525 ISBN13: 9780399136528 Material Type: hardcover
Pocahontas Ingri dAulaire and Ed...
A simple biography of the proud Indian princess who saved the life of John Smith, married an Englishman, and went to England where she met the Queen ISBN10: 0385074549 ISBN13: 9780385074544 Materi...
Minding the Store: A Memoir Marc...
The chairman of Dallas NeimanMarcus discusses the stores history and shares his business philosophy ISBN10: 0316545988 ISBN13: 9780316545983 Material Type: hardcover
Colonel Sanders and the American...
From Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben to the Jolly Green Giant and Ronald McDonald, corporate icons sell billions of dollars worth of products But only one of them was ever a real personColonel Sanders of...
Galileos Daughter: A Historical ...
Presents a biography of the scientist through the surviving letters of his illegitimate daughter Maria Celeste, who wrote him from the Florence convent where she lived from the age of thirteen ISB...
Of Time and Change: A Memoir [Ha...
Details the life of the author and other members of the earliest artistic community in Taos, New Mexico ISBN10: 1878448862 ISBN13: 9781878448866 Material Type: hardcover
Nio Fidencio: A Heart Thrown Ope...
Nio Fidencio was a Mexican folk healer who lived in the northern state of Nuevo Leon in the early part of the twentieth century When he died at the age of forty in 1938, he was the countrys most pr...
Clyde Tombaugh: Discoverer of Pl...
In 1930 astronomer Clyde Tombaugh made the discovery of a lifetime: the planet Pluto His work remains relevant today as astronomers continue their search for planets in the outskirts of our solar s...
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