The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them

By: Freedom Writers

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Broadway Books:

Seller ID: 9780385494229

ISBN: 038549422X

Condition: very good

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Straight from the front line of urban America, the inspiring story of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students. As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long beach, California, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of "unteachable, at-risk" students. One day she intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature, and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust--only to be met by uncomprehending looks. So she and her students, using the treasured books "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl" and "Zlat... View more info

Binge

By: N/A

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Gallery Books:

Seller ID: 9781501117695

ISBN: 1501117696

Condition: very good

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"Angels at the Table: A Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy Christmas Story"

By: Macomber, Debbie

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books:

Seller ID: 9780345528889

ISBN: 0345528883

Condition: GOOD

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In this joyous and whimsical holiday novel, Debbie Macomber rings in the season with the return of Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy, delivering laughs, love, and a charming dose of angelic intervention. Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy know that an angel's work is never done, especially during a time as wondrous as New Year's Eve. With an apprentice angel, Will, under their wings, they descend upon Times Square in New York City eager to join in the festivities. And when Will spies two lonely strangers in the crowd, he decides midnight is the perfect time to lend a heavenly helping hand. Luci... View more info

Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

By: Wojnarowicz, David

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Vintage:

Seller ID: 9780679732273

ISBN: 0679732276

Condition: NEW

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In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection of creative essays -- a scathing, sexy, sublimely humorous and honest personal testimony to the " Fear of Diversity in America." From the author's violent childhood in suburbia to eventual homelessness on the streets and piers of New York City, to recognition as one of the most provocative artists of his generation -- Close to the Knives is his powerful and iconoclastic memoir. Street life, drugs, art and nature, family, AIDS, politics, friendship and acceptance: Wojnarowicz challenges u... View more info

Dear Tiny Heart : The Letters of Jane Heap and Florence Reynolds

By: " Baggett, Holly A."

Price: $99.95

Publisher: NY, New York University Press: 2000

Seller ID: 9-0H006

ISBN: 081479856x

Condition: VERY GOOD

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"As new except for corner bump which has left tiny dog ears on the pages up to the table of contents page. 195 indexed, annotated pages. 6x9x.5"". Writer, artist, Manhattan gallery owner, and co-editor of the Little Review, Jane Heap was one of the most dynamic figures of the international avant garde, creating a life that defined the ""modernist experience"" as a syncretic one. Deliberately seeking a low profile throughout her life, Heap has frustrated many scholars interested in her personal life and the extraordinarily vital period in which she lived. Through her... View more info

Fire of the North: The Life of St. Cuthbert

By: "Adam, David"

Price: $14.95

Publisher: "London, GB", SPCK: 2003

Seller ID: 19T015

ISBN: 0281055610

Condition: NEW

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"Gift quality! ""vividly relates the story of this central figure in Celtic Christianity…St. Cuthbert, monk and bishop of Lindisfarne...preacher, teacher, and pastor...reputed to have gifts of prophecy and healing...…complemented throughout by prayers specially composed to help us experience the direct force of Celtic spirituality for ourselves."" 144 pages + Bibliography" View more info

Henry Adams: Novels: Mont Saint Michel; The Education - Democracy: An American Novel; Esther: A Novel; Mont Saint Michel and Chartres; The Education of Henry Adams; Poems

By: "Adams, Henry"

Price: $14.95

Publisher: The Library of America: ©1983

Edition: (1st printing)

Seller ID: 9NT040

ISBN: 0940450127

Condition: NEAR FINE/ No DJ

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"As new except for @ a dozen folded page corners and Strand sticker inside front cover. The Education is the 1919 Pulitzer Prize winner by the grandson & great-grandson of 2 American Presidents which was originally self-published; Democracy was originally published anonymously and pirated by many; Mont St. Michel & Chartres is a classic in both art history and American literature. Navy cloth with gilt lettering on spine, printed endpapers, bound-in ribbon bookmark, 1246 pages, 8x5"" (20.3x13cm)" View more info

Open: An Autobiography

By: "Agassi, Andre"

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Vintage:

Seller ID: 9780307388407

ISBN: 0307388409

Condition: very good

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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERFar more than a superb memoir about the highest levels of professional tennis, "Open" is the engrossing story of a remarkable life. Andre Agassi had his life mapped out for him before he left the crib. Groomed to be a tennis champion by his moody and demanding father, by the age of twenty-two Agassi had won the first of his eight grand slams and achieved wealth, celebrity, and the game's highest honors. But as he reveals in this searching autobiography, off the court he was often unhappy and confused, unfulfilled by his great achievements in a sport he had come ... View more info

In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom

By: "Ahmed, Qanta A."

Price: $8.50

Publisher: "Sourcebooks, Inc.":

Seller ID: 9781402210877

ISBN: 1402210876

Condition: very good

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"In this stunningly written book, a Western trained Muslim doctor brings alive what it means for a woman to live in the Saudi Kingdom. I've rarely experienced so vividly the shunning and shaming, racism and anti-Semitism, but the surprise is how Dr. Ahmed also finds tenderness at the tattered edges of extremism, and a life-changing pilgrimage back to her Muslim faith." - Gail Sheehy The decisions that change your life are often the most impulsive ones. Unexpectedly denied a visa to remain in the United States, Qanta Ahmed, a young British Muslim doctor, becomes an outcast in motion. On... View more info

"Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson"

By: "Albom, Mitch"

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Doubleday:

Seller ID: 9780385484510

ISBN: 0385484518

Condition: GOOD

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Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for ... View more info

Have a Little Faith: A True Story

By: "Albom, Mitch"

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Hachette Books:

Seller ID: 9780786868728

ISBN: 0786868724

Condition: very good

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What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds--two men, two faiths, two communities--that will inspire readers everywhere. Albom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy. Feeling unworthy, Albom insists on understanding the man better, which throws him back into a world of faith he'd left years ag... View more info