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• Fearless and Determined

  Two Years Teaching in a One-room School : a Memoir

  Manning, Linda

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  Part memoir, part creative non-fiction, Fearless and Determined, takes you back to life in rural southern Ontario in the mid 1960s.

• Braiding Sweetgrass

  Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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  Kimmerer, a trained scientist who never loses sight of her Native heritage, she speaks of approaching nature with gratitude and giving back in return for what we receive.

• I Left My Homework in the Hamptons

  What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent

  Grossberg, Blythe, 1971-

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  A captivating memoir about tutoring for Manhattan’ s elite, revealing how a life of extreme wealth both helps and harms the children of the one percent.

• Be Water, My Friend

  the Teachings of Bruce Lee

  Lee, Shannon, 1969-

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  Bruce Lee's daughter illuminates her father's most powerful life philosophies-demonstrating how martial arts are a perfect metaphor for personal growth, and how we can practice those teachings every day.

• The Seven Circles

  Indigenous Teachings for Living Well

  Luger, Chelsey

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  A revolutionary wellness guide rooted in Indigenous ancestral knowledge, offering wisdom for spiritual, physical, and emotional wellbeing from Native American wellness activists. (Publisher)

• Life Stages and Native Women

  Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine

  Anderson, Kim, 1964-

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  Anderson shares the teachings of elders from the Canadian prairies and Ontario to illustrate how different life stages were experienced by Métis, Cree, and Anishinaabe girls and women during the mid-twentieth century.

• Thank You, Teachers

  True Stories From America's Teachers, Our Last Line of Defense and Our First Line of Hope

  Patterson, James, 1947-

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  Express your gratitude with these heroic stories from the classroom trenches from the world’s #1 bestselling author James Patterson.

• My Spiritual Journey

  Personal Reflections, Teachings and Talks

  Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-

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  The Dalai Lama's riveting, deeply insightful meditations on life will resonate strongly with readers of Pema Chodron, Thich Nhat Hanh, or the His Holiness's own The Art of Happiness and Ethics for the New Millennium.

• You Suck, Sir

  Chronicles of a High School English Teacher and the Smartass Students Who Schooled Him

  Bae, Paul,

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  A collection of entries from the author's blog of his interactions with his students.