Biography & Autobiography - Educators
Explore inspiring educator books featuring impactful stories of great teachers. Discover new biography books, top autobiographies, and the best selling books at our online bookstore today!
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Through These HallsBuilt in 1926, the three-story red brick school building located on South Ash Street in Archer City, Texas, stood for eighty-nine years before being torn down to make room for a new school. The memories of those who walked its halls are innumerable, and...
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Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska WildernessThe beloved real-life story of a woman in the Alaskan wilderness, the children she taught, and the man she loved. "From the time I'd been a girl, I'd been thrilled with the idea of living on a frontier. So when I was offered the...
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To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories"Has the page-turning quality of a thriller." --NPR "Strange and wonderful...A book for our times." --The New York Times Book Review "Propulsive...mesmerizing...breathtaking." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) This unforgettable memoir traces the ramifications of a series of lies that threaten to derail the author's life--exploring...
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The blockbuster book that is one of the top-selling memoirs of all time and is the basis for the Emmy Award-winning film and stage adaptations that have been produced continuously worldwide since 2002 - An unforgettable story of...
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A special 20th anniversary edition of the beloved book that changed millions of lives--with a new afterword by the author "A wonderful book, a story of the heart told by a writer with soul."--Los Angeles TimesMaybe it was...
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A special 25th anniversary edition of the beloved book that has changed millions of lives with the story of an unforgettable friendship, the timeless wisdom of older generations, and healing lessons on loss and grief--featuring a new afterword...
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Unbalanced: Memoir of an Immigrant Math TeacherParent. Math coach. Climate science researcher. Software engineer and manager at Microsoft. Investment analyst, trader, and risk manager at hedge funds. Entrepreneur. A forty-five-year-old new teacher. This is the journey of a first-generation immigrant becoming a math teacher in the United States. This book...
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Up from SlaveryBorn in a Virginia slave hut, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) rose to become the most influential spokesman for African Americans of his day. In this eloquently written book, he describes events in a remarkable life that began in bondage and culminated in worldwide recognition...
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Up from Slavery: New Large Print Edition"Up from Slavery" is an autobiography written by Booker T. Washington, an African American educator, author, and advisor to presidents of the United States. The book was first published in 1901 and provides a firsthand account of Washington's life, from his childhood in slavery...
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Up Home: One Girl's JourneyNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Simmons's evocative account of her remarkable trajectory from Jim Crow Texas, where she was the youngest of twelve children in a sharecropping family, to the presidencies of Smith College and Brown University shines with tenderness and dignity."--The New York...
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Wake Up with Purpose!: What I've Learned in My First Hundred YearsKnown to millions as simply "Sister Jean," the Loyola Chicago matriarch and college basketball icon invites you into her remarkable memoir filled with history, wonder, and common-sense wisdom for this century and beyond. As Sister Jean wisely says, "I've seen so many changes in...
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Winter Light: The Memoir of a Child of Holocaust Survivors"Feuerverger's search for a "place of inner solace" is profoundly inspiring ... often rendered in poetically stirring prose. With affecting clarity, the author meditates on the ways in which trauma is transmitted generationally...This is a powerful story, conveyed with deep humanity and insight." -Kirkus...
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Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's EliteA haunting account of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea:...
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our TimesIf you're both overcome and angered by the atrocities of our time, this will inspire a "new generation of activists and ordinary people who search for hope in the darkness" (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor). Is change possible? Where will it come from? Can we actually make...
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