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I Wish My Teacher Knew: How One Question Can Change Everything for Our Kids

by Kyle Schwartz

Published: 2016-07-12

Hardcover: 272 pages

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One day, third-grade teacher Kyle Schwartz asked her students to fill–in–the–blank in this sentence: ?I wish my teacherknew _____.” The results astounded her. Some answers were humorous, others were heartbreaking–all were profoundly moving and enlightening. The results opened her...

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Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz

Published: 2016-03-08

Hardcover: 288 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER“Sprint offers a transformative formula for testing ideas that works whether you’re at a startup or a large organization. Within five days, you’ll move from idea to prototype to decision, saving you and your team countless hour...

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A Morbid Taste for Bones (The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael)

by Ellis Peters

Published: 2014-11-25

Paperback: 272 pages

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In the first installment of an iconic historical mystery series, a medieval monk seeks a saint’s remains for Shrewsbury Abbey—but finds a murderous sinner instead. A Welsh Benedictine monk living at Shrewsbury Abbey in western England, Brother Cadfael spends much of his time tending th...

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Dear Marcus: A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me

by Jerry McGill

Published: 2013-02-12

Paperback: 192 pages

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The idea to write to you was not an easy one. The scar from where the bullet entered my back is still there.   Jerry McGill was thirteen years old, walking home through the projects of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, when he was shot in the back by a stranger. Jerry survived, wheelchair-bo...

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Swerve

by Vicki Pettersson

Published: 2016-05-31

Mass Market Paperback: 464 pages

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The New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author whose “skill at capturing emotion in lyrical passages sets her head and shoulders above her peers” (Publishers Weekly) dives head first into the world of psychological thrillers with “one twisted, horrifying ride [that] kept me up t...

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Letters to a Young Teacher

by Jonathan Kozol

Published: 2007

Paperback: 288 pages

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This is the book for readers of Jonathan Kozol's previous works on education, including The Shame of the Nation and On Being a Teacher; for readers of memoirs like Frank McCourt's Teacher Man; for new teachers looking for guidance and inspiration; and for educators, administrators, and chi...

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Prisoners of Our Thoughts: Viktor Frankl's Principles for Discovering Meaning in Life and Work

by Alex Pattakos, Elaine Dundon

Published: 2017-01-09

Paperback: 288 pages

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7 Principles for Finding Meaning in Life & WorkWorld-renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning is one of the most important books of modern times. Frankl's extraordinary personal story of finding meaning amid the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps has inspired mil...

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The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement

by Jean M. Twenge, W. Keith Campbell

Published: 2010-04-13

Paperback: 368 pages

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Narcissism—an inflated view of the self—is everywhere. Public figures say it’s what makes them stray from their wives. Parents teach it by dressing children in T-shirts that say "Princess." Teenagers and young adults hone it on Facebook, and celebrity newsmakers have elevated it to a...

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Blood Magick (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy)

by Nora Roberts

Published: 2017-05-02

Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes the final novel in a trilogy about the land we’re drawn to, the family we learn to cherish, and the people we long to love…Book Three of The Cousins O’Dwyer TrilogyBlood MagickCounty Mayo is rich in the traditions of Irelan...

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Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America

by Patrick J. Carr, Maria J. Kefalas

Published: 2010-07-27

Paperback: 256 pages

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In 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved to Iowa to understand the rural brain drain and the exodus of young people from America’s countryside. They met and followed working-class “stayers”; ambitious and college-bou...