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A Room for Learning
The Making of a School in Vermont
Tal Birdsey
St. Martin's Press
"We see how an authentic teacher builds a caring, loving community of learners. Every page, every incident and observation Birdsey relates, is a gentle but firm repudiation of technocratic schooling . . .
A Room for Learning
shows exactly what 'something closer to the heart' looks like in education. Birdsey sees each of his students as whole persons, with their own challenges, inclinations, learning styles, quirks and insecurities. Most of them . . . are afraid of ridicule and rejection, suspicious of adults who judge them and peers who band together in cliques to exercise power. They are reluctant to open themselves to others, to test their own limits or pursue their deepest dreams. Birdsey tells how he created a safe, nurturing space in which these young teens could find and test their best, authentic selves . . . Ultimately, what really matters to Birdsey and his students is a community where everyone feels cared for, a community rooted in love.
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. . . is what people are for."—
Ron Miller, author of
What Are Schools For?
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Vermont Commons
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Escape from Slavery
The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America
Francis Bok with Edward Tivnan
St. Martin's Griffin
"Bok takes the Sudanese government and world leaders to task for their indifference to his people's suffering. Although he at first was an unwilling ambassador, he has become a leading voice for the antislavery movement in the United States."—
Detroit News and Free Press
"A touching modern-day slave narrative that is more than just an account of [Bok's] journey from childhood to manhood under the worst of circumstances . . . Pages of historical details are eye-opening and provide a glimpse into what can happen when religion is the impetus in the governing of a nation . . . An informative, inspiring read."—
The Boston Globe
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Arc of Justice
A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Kevin Boyle
Holt Paperbacks
Winner of the National Book Award
"Masterful . . . An important, scholarly work . . . The writing is graceful [and] it endows the story with the majesty and consequence of an epic . . . This is the kind of book that causes students to major in history."—
Paul Butler,
The Boston Globe
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Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
The Authorized Adaptation
Tim Hamilton; Introduction by Ray Bradbury
Hill and Wang
“A new adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s classic work
Fahrenheit 451
, with a fascinating and challenging new introduction by the author, is a vivid reminder of the special power of a graphic novel, of the genre’s ability to do things that words alone can’t . . . If you know the novel, you’ll still be thrilled by Tim Hamilton’s artwork in this new version, which combines a comic-book clarity—the panels are simple and straightforward, without the distraction of a lot of visual razzmatazz—with a deep, humane rendering of the novel’s theme.”—
Julia Keller,
Chicago
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Overtreated
Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
Shannon Brownlee
Bloomsbury USA
"My choice for the economics book of the year . . . It's the best description I have yet read of a huge economics problem that we know how to solve—but is so often misunderstood."—
David Leonhardt,
The New York Times
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Born Under a Million Shadows
A Novel
Andrea Busfield
St. Martin's Griffin
"Former journalist Busfield first traveled to Afghanistan in 2001 to cover the fall of the Taliban. Her first novel presents the aftermath of that event through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy . . . Readers who like to explore other cultures and current events through fiction will find here an intriguing picture of contemporary Afghanistan. Extras for book clubs are appended."—
Debbie Bogenschutz, Cincinnati State Technical & Community College,
Library Journal
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Ender's Game
The Ender Quintet
#1
Orson Scott Card
Tor Books
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child...
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Can't Stop Won't Stop
A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Jeff Chang; Introduction by DJ Kool Herc
Picador
"The birth of hip-hop out of the ruin of the South Bronx is a story that has been told many times, but never with the cinematic scope and the analytic force that Chang brings to it. Robert Moses unleashes the destructive juggernaut of the Cross-Bronx Expressway; landlords set fire to worthless tenements; police stand by and do nothing; and, against a backdrop of gang warfare, peacemaking d.j.s lay down the heavy beats and spidery loops around which a rapping, dancing, graffiti-painting culture grows. This is one of the most urgent and passionate histories of popular music ever written. Chang is blind to no one's greed or viciousness, but he retains an idealistic view of a music that speaks the truth about the alternately stultifying and horrifying urban landscapes that the parents who hate hip-hop have made."—
The New Yorker
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Welfare Brat
A Memoir
Mary Childers
Bloomsbury USA
"Childers makes clear that she made the journey at considerable emotional cost . . . It's that complicated awareness, a sense of loss mingled with a feeling of triumph, that makes
Welfare Brat
stick in the mind."—
Columbus Dispatch
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College Success
What It Means and How to Make It Happen
The College Board
College Board
"The College Board has done the educational community a great service by publishing this excellently chosen set of essays that focuses primarily on what happens to students after they enter college. Many of us have felt for some time that too much emphasis is often placed on who gets into college rather than on success in college. McPherson and Schapiro provide a valuable guide to the contents in their introduction, and readers will have no difficulty identifying the essays of particular interest to them."—
William Bowen, President Emeritus, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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How Race Is Lived in America
Pulling Together, Pulling Apart
Correspondents of The New York Times, Introduction by Joseph Lelyveld
Times Books
"This is reporting at its best. This is how sociology should be, a comprehensive view in depth on a major social problem in America. This will be a benchmark for all future inquiries."—
Daniel Bell, professor emeritus, Harvard University
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The Hours
A Novel
Michael Cunningham
Picador
A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely...
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Beyond Oil
The View from Hubbert's Peak
Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Hill and Wang
"This work would be useful as a current holding for serving students of political science, economics, science, and technology."—
W.C. Peters,
Choice
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The Vertical Farm
Feeding the World in the 21st Century
Dr. Dickson Despommier
Picador
“Despommier has quickly become the central figure in what could be a worldwide revolution.”—
Scientific American
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The Lassa Ward
One Man's Fight Against One of the World's Deadliest Diseases
Ross I. Donaldson, M.D., M.P.H.
St. Martin's Griffin
"Donaldson started out as an earnest, well-meaning American medical student, off on a great African adventure. He came of age in the middle of a raging epidemic, civil war, and hideous poverty, discovering a humanity few Americans ever experience. Donaldson has bared his soul, offering a lesson that should be required reading for every doctor-in-training."
—Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
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Global Girlfriends
How One Mom Made It Her Business to Help Women in Poverty Worldwide
Stacey Edgar, founder and President of Global Girlfriend
St. Martin's Press
Start small, dream big, change lives— how one woman harnessed the power of fair trade to help women in poverty help themselves Seven years ago, Stacey Edgar...
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This Land Is Their Land
Reports from a Divided Nation
Barbara Ehrenreich
A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book
"Ehrenreich is at her best (and she’s very, very good) when chronicling the outrageous human downside of our economy, the costs it imposes on people who can’t afford a bacon-infused old-fashioned. There’s the hospital worker whose employer garnished her paycheck for an emergency room visit, 'a condition of debt servitude reminiscent of early-20th-century company towns.' There’s the poor man who got himself arrested in order to live more comfortably in prison, because 'we are reaching the point . . . where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system' . . . A tight and chilling companion volume to
Nickel and Dimed
, Ehrenreich’s account of her own experience working undercover in the low-wage economy."—
Eve Fairbanks,
The New York Times Book Review
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
An American Pilgrimage
Paul Elie
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Winner of the Christopher Award
"An ingeniously woven literary tapestry that tells the stories of four great American Catholic writers of the 20th century—[Walker] Percy, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day . . . In Elie's deeply moving study, imperfection is both the starting point of spiritual journeys and the stuff of which wisdom literature is made. [Elie] uses the four authors' lives and work—their pilgrimages, as he says—to explore 'a larger story of the convergence of literature and religion in the 20th century' and to learn from their complicated struggles toward God in a country that is at the same time abnormally religious and unusually devoted to Mammon . . . Inspiring and deeply intelligent."—
Lance Morrow,
Time
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The Invisible Cure
Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa
Helen Epstein
Picador
“Reading
The Invisible Cure
is like traveling into remote and hard-to-comprehend territory with an unblinking and sure-footed guide . . . [Epstein] teaches me things I didn’t know. Her rigorous reporting unearths new findings among old, worn-out issues. And the evidence she puts forward could provide a roadmap for comprehensive prevention programs that incorporate teaching abstinence, using condoms and, most critically, emphasizing fidelity.”—
John Donnelly
, The New York Times Book Review
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Match Day
One Day and One Dramatic Year in the Lives of Three New Doctors
Brian Eule
St. Martin's Griffin
"[An] insightful and well-written narrative . . . Throughout the book, how people make the transition from being medical students to being doctors is explained in revealing detail. Yet the accounts in this narrative transcend the context of medical training and give the reader a heartfelt look at the nature of intimate relationships in transition . . . It is a well-researched work, and even recent graduates of residency are likely to learn something new about the history, politics, and function of the Match or the continuing debate over work hours. Medical students and residents will find many insights that are relevant to their own relationships as they move through their training, and those who have completed training will be reminded of the sacrifices their spouses have made . . . [Readers] will find Eule’s detailed exposition interesting and informative."—
S. Ryan Greysen, M.D., M.A., George Washington University,
The New England Journal of Medicine
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I Am Not Sidney Poitier
A Novel
Percival Everett
Graywolf Press Paper
"Constantly shifting modes, from comic realism to tall tale, from recounted dreams to refashioned movie plots, Everett's hall of mirrors narrative presents African American identity itself as rooted in contradiction."—
Gregory Leon Miller,
San Francisco Chronicle
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Assumption
A Novel
Percival Everett
Graywolf Press Paper
A baffling triptych of murder mysteries by the author of I Am Not Sidney Poitier Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of...
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Erasure
A Novel
Percival Everett
Graywolf Press Paper
Percival Everett’s blistering satire about race and writing, available again in paperback Thelonious "Monk" Ellison’s writing career has bottomed out: his...
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Anne Fadiman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
"This is a captivating, riveting book—a must-read not only for medical professionals, anthropologists, and journalists, but for anyone interested in how to negotiate cultural difference in a shrinking world. Fadiman's ability to empathize with the resolutely independent Hmong as well as with the remarkable doctors, caseworkers, and officials of Merced County makes her narrative both richly textured and deeply illuminating. Sometimes the stakes here are multicultural harmony and understanding; sometimes they're literally life and death—whether in wartime Laos or in American emergency rooms. But whatever the stakes and wherever the setting, Fadiman's reporting is meticulous, and her prose is a delight. From start to finish, a truly impressive achievement."—
Michael Bérubé, author of
Life As We Know It
Boston Book Review - Winner - Nonfiction
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