Alexandra Robbins

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

A riveting, must-read, year-in-the-life account of three teachers, combined with reporting that reveals what's really going on behind school doors, by New York Times bestselling author and education expert Alexandra Robbins.
 
Alexandra Robbins goes behind the scenes to tell the true, sometimes shocking, always inspirational stories of three teachers as they navigate a year in the classroom. She follows Penny, a southern middle school math teacher who grappled with a toxic staff clique at the big school in a small town; Miguel, a special ed teacher in the western United States who fought for his students both as an educator and as an activist; and Rebecca, an East Coast elementary school teacher who struggled to schedule and define a life outside of school. Robbins also interviewed hundreds of other teachers nationwide who share their secrets, dramas, and joys.
 
Interspersed among the teachers' stories--a seeming scandal, a fourth-grade whodunit, and teacher confessions--are hard-hitting essays featuring cutting-edge reporting on the biggest issues facing teachers today, such as school violence; outrageous parent behavior; inadequate support, staffing, and resources coupled with unrealistic mounting demands; the "myth" of teacher burnout; the COVID-19 pandemic; and ways all of us can help the professionals who are central both to the lives of our children and the heart of our communities.

The Teachers

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Joel Spring

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Social Studies

Featuring current information and challenging perspectives on the latest issues and forces shaping the American educational system, Joel Spring introduces readers to the historical, political, social, and legal foundations of education and to the profession of teaching in the United States.

American Education

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Jean A. Mercer

Stephen Hupp

Jeremy D. Jewell

Science

Examining Myths and Misunderstandings

With a unique focus on inquiry, Thinking Critically About Child Development presents 74 claims related to child development for readers to examine and think through critically. Author Jean Mercer and new co-authors Stephen Hupp and Jeremy Jewell use anecdotes to illustrate common errors of critical thinking and encourage students to consider evidence and logic relevant to everyday beliefs. New material in the Fourth Edition covers adolescence, adverse childhood experiences, genetics, LGBT issues for both parents and children, and other issues about sexuality, keeping readers up to date on the latest scholarship in the field.

Thinking Critically about Child Development

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Dana Goldstein

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A History of America's Most Embattled Profession

"A brilliant young scholar's history of 175 years of teaching in America shows that teachers have always borne the brunt of shifting, often impossible expectations. In other nations, public schools are one thread in a quilt that includes free universal child care, health care, and job training. Here, schools are the whole cloth. Today we look around the world at countries like Finland and South Korea, whose students consistently outscore Americans on standardized tests, and wonder what we are doing wrong. Dana Goldstein first asks the often-forgotten question: "How did we get here?" She argues that we must take the historical perspective, understanding the political and cultural baggage that is tied to teaching, if we have any hope of positive change. In her lively, character-driven history of public teaching, Goldstein guides us through American education's many passages, including the feminization of teaching in the 1800s and the fateful growth of unions, and shows that the battles fought over nearly two centuries echo the very dilemmas we cope with today. Goldstein shows that recent innovations like Teach for America, merit pay, and teacher evaluation via student testing are actually as old as public schools themselves. Goldstein argues that long-festering ambivalence about teachers--are they civil servants or academic professionals?--and unrealistic expectations that the schools alone should compensate for poverty's ills have driven the most ambitious people from becoming teachers and sticking with it. In America's past, and in local innovations that promote the professionalization of the teaching corps, Goldstein finds answers to an age-old problem"--

The Teacher Wars

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The Saturday Night Ghost Club

6 book collection. Buckling and minor damage to slipcase. Books are like new.

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

The Best Collection of Dale Carnegie

Catherine Fisher

To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.

Incarceron

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Paulo Coelho

A Manual

Warrior of the Light: A Manual is an inspirational companion to The Alchemist, an international bestseller that has beguiled millions of readers around the world. Every short passage invites us to live out our dreams, to embrace the uncertainty of life, and to rise to our own unique destiny. In his inimitable style, Paulo Coelho helps bring out the Warrior of the Light within each of us. He also shows readers how to embark upon the way of the Warrior: the one who appreciates the miracle of being alive, the one who accepts failure, and the one whose quest leads him to become the person he wants to be. Paulo Coelho is one of the most beloved storytellers of our time. Now, in the long-awaited companion to his first novel, Coelho presents a collection of philosophical stories that will delight and guide seekers everywhere.

Warrior of the Light

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Tessa Wegert

A year ago, former NYPD detective Shana barely survived being abducted by a serial killer. Hoping to leave grisly murder cases behind, she's taken a job in a sleepy town. But as a storm bears down on her new territory, Shana and fellow investigator Tim receive a call about a missing man and travel to an isolated island owned by a rich family to investigate. Trapped on the island by the raging storm and surrounded by dark secrets, Shana has a theory. If she's right, a killer is in their midst and as the pressure mounts, so do the odds that they'll strike again.

Death in the Family

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Anthony Trollope

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

"Castle Richmond" is a drama of blackmail, disinheritance and romance set in Ireland. As the Fitzgerald family struggle to keep possession of their home, the castle of the book's title, Herbert Fitzgerald and his handsome cousin Owen pursue and fall in love with the same woman, Lady Clara Desmond, whose widowed mother herself has secret designs on Owen. Beyond these intrigues up at the great houses of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy lies an Ireland devastated by the 1845-9 famine, scandal which Trollope does not confront but which none less haunts his novel.

Castle Richmond

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Orson Scott Card

Thirteen-year-old Rigg has a secret ability to see the paths of others' pasts, but revelations after his father's death set him on a dangerous quest that brings new threats from those who would either control his destiny or kill him.

Pathfinder

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Mary W. Shelley

Harold Bloom

Douglas Clegg

Frankenstein

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Sara Gruen

A Novel

Water for Elephants

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GennaRose Nethercott

And Other Stories

From the author of the breakout novel Thistlefoot: a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring how our passions can save us—or go monstrously wrong. The stories in Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning, clawing, ravenous yearning: the hunger to be held, and seen, and known. And the terror, too: to be loved too well, or not enough, or for long enough. To be laid bare before your sweetheart, to their horror. To be recognized as the monstrous thing you are. Two teenage girls working at a sinister roadside attraction called the Eternal Staircase explore its secrets—and their own doomed summer love. A zombie rooster plays detective in a missing persons case. A woman moves into a new house with her acclaimed artist boyfriend—and finds her body slowly shifting into something specially constructed to accommodate his needs and whims. A pack of middle schoolers turn to the occult to rid themselves of a hated new classmate. And a pair of outcasts, a vampire and a goat woman, find solace in each other, even as the world's lack of understanding might bring about its own end. In these lush, strange, beautifully written stories, GennaRose Nethercott explores human longing in all its diamond-dark facets to create a collection that will redefine what you see as a beast, and make you beg to have your heart broken.

Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart

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Short Fiction of Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman

A Country Doctor

Susan Patterson

Susan DiLallo

James Patterson

The Perfect Mother-Daughter Book Club Read

"Every mother and daughter should have conversations that change their lives. This book will win your heart!" -Elin Hilderbrand, author of The Hotel Nantucket A mother and daughter on vacation in Paris unpack a lifetime of secrets and hopes--with a giant Pattersonian twist at the end! Every daughter has her own distinctive voice, her inimitable style, and her secrets. Laurie is an artist, a collector of experiences. She travels the world with a worn beige duffel bag. Every mother has her own distinctive voice, her inimitable style, and her secrets. "Dr. Liz," Laurie's mother, is an elegant perfectionist who travels the world with a matched set of suitcases. When Laurie surprises her mother with a dream vacation, it brings an unexpected sparkle to her eyes. So begins Things I Wish I Told My Mother. You will wish this novel never ends.

Things I Wish I Told My Mother

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Abigail Duffy

Abigail Duffy

@duffolicious

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The Best Collection of Dale Carnegie

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Incarceron

Paulo Coelho

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Tessa Wegert

Death in the Family

Anthony Trollope

Castle Richmond

Orson Scott Card

Pathfinder

Mary W. Shelley; Harold Bloom; Douglas Clegg

Frankenstein

Sara Gruen

Water for Elephants

GennaRose Nethercott

Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart

Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman

Short Fiction of Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman

Sarah Orne Jewett

A Country Doctor

Susan Patterson; Susan DiLallo; James Patterson

Things I Wish I Told My Mother

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The Best Collection of Dale Carnegie

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Orson Scott Card

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