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The gifted school
Holsinger, Bruce W
Paper Book
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Wise and addictive... The Gifted School is the juiciest novel I've read in ages... a suspenseful, laugh-out-loud page-turner and an incisive inspection of privilege, race and class." -J. Courtney Sullivan, author of Friends...
School, the story of American public education
Bernard, Sheila Curran.
Paper Book
This text is a companion volume to the four-part PBS documentary series of the same name. Essays by five historians of American education examine the history of the American public school system, from colonial times to the present. They consider a variety of issues faced by educators, parents,...
The school for good mothers a novel
Chan, Jessamine
Paper Book
Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Longlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize Selected as One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2022! In...
A most tolerant little town the explosive beginning of school desegregation
Martin, Rachel Louise, 1980- author.
Paper Book
A "masterful" (Taylor Branch) and "striking" (The New Yorker) portrait of a small town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights history--about the first school to attempt court-ordered desegregation in the wake of Brown v....
The teachers a year inside America's most vulnerable, important profession
Robbins, Alexandra, 1976- author.
Paper Book
A National Bestseller *Winner of the 2024 DKG International Educators Book Award* 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...
The art of teaching children all I learned from a lifetime in the classroom
Done, Phillip
Paper Book
An essential guide for teachers and parents that's destined to become a classic, The Art of Teaching Children is one of those rare and masterful books that not only defines a craft but offers a magical reading experience. After more than thirty years in the classroom,...
I'd like to apologize to every teacher I ever had my year as a rookie teacher at Northeast High
Danza, Tony.
Paper Book
I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had is television, screen and stage star Tony Danza's absorbing account of a year spent teaching tenth-grade English at Northeast High -- Philadelphia's largest high school with 3600 students.    Entering Northeast's crowded...
Rush
Patton, Lisa
Paper Book
Set in modern day Oxford, Mississippi, on the Ole Miss campus, bestselling author Lisa Patton's Rush is a story about women ― on both ends of the social ladder ― discovering their voices and their empowerment.
The magicians a novel
Grossman, Lev.
Paper Book
Lev Grossman's new novel THE BRIGHT SWORD is out now! The New York Times bestselling novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world, now an original series on SYFY "The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of...
Fox a novel
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- author.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * An "enthralling" (Los Angeles Times) and "remarkably engrossing" (The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice) novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial...
Nichijou my ordinary life
Arawi, Keiichi, 1977- author, illustrator.
Paper Book
Following the surreal adventures of the young inhabitants of Tokisadame city, Nichijou is already making waves with its blend of strange situations and bubbly cast of characters. Set in a strange school where you may see the principal wrestle a deer, or a robot hide the school lunches, the days that...
The wayward girls a novel
Wiggs, Susan
Paper Book
"After decades of bestsellers, Wayward Girls might be Susan Wiggs' opus. A gut-wrenching story of survival, friendship, and justice. Masterful."--Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author of The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell "The magnificent Susan Wiggs takes a leap...
It's elementary
Bryant, Elise (Elise M.)
Paper Book
A fast-paced, completely delightful new mystery about what happens when parents get a little too involved in their kids' schools, from NAACP Image Award nominee Elise Bryant. Mavis Miller is not a PTA mom. She has enough on her plate with her feisty seven-year-old daughter...
Our beautiful boys a novel
Pandya, Sameer
Paper Book
When the star players on a high school football team are accused of violence by another student, their secrets--and the secrets of their parents--threaten to shatter their entire community in a gripping novel of race, class, and privilege from the author of Members Only. ...
Pink glass houses a novel
Elias, Asha
Paper Book
"Delicious, decadent, and utterly diabolical. No one serves up a scandal like Asha Elias."--Kirsten Miller, author of The Change A seductive social satire about the wealthy PTA moms of an elite elementary school in Miami Beach, Pink Glass Houses is very Big Little Lies and Pineapple Street...

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