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A Transcendental Journey
"A Transcendental Journey" is a road-tripping travel memoir that’s graced with humor, adventure, and wisdom. Stephen Evans’s eloquent memoir "A Transcendental Journey" is about his inward-looking, post-divorce road trip. Abandoning...
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Help Them Learn with Their Strengths
"Help Them Learn with Their Strengths" is an educational treatise that suggests means of supporting dyslexic students. M. Susan Grogan’s education guide "Help Them Learn with Their Strengths" is about recognizing, encouraging, and...
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Woman, Watching
"Woman, Watching" is Merilyn Simonds’s account of the remarkable life and legacy of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, the amateur ornithologist and author who has been called “the Canadian Rachel Carson.” Born into Sweden’s landed...
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Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore’s inspiring biography traces the rise of a Black American painter, the great grandson of slaves, to a place of eminence in twentieth-century American art, despite the racism he faced. Born in 1911 in North...
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The Child Is the Teacher
Cristina De Stefano’s "The Child Is the Teacher" is an intimate, comprehensive biography of Maria Montessori, whose revolutionary approach to early childhood education provoked storms of controversy, brought about a new appreciation of...
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Robespierre
In his compelling interpretive biography "Robespierre", Marcel Gauchet reveals his subject as a complex man who was both an advocate for democracy, and a murderous tyrant with the potential to destroy democracy. Gauchet traces...
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Every Variable of Us
In Charles A. Bush’s young adult novel "Every Variable of Us", Alexis, a high school basketball star, dreams of receiving a college scholarship and pursuing a professional basketball career. Both are her ticket out of West...
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What We Give, What We Take
In Randi Triant’s novel "What We Give, What We Take", a young mother defies the political, economic, and personal forces arrayed against her. Fay is a single mother who works as a water tank escape artist. Living in ramshackle trailer...