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Biography & Autobiography - Educators
On Great Fields Cover
Author: Ronald C. White | Narrator: Ronald C. White
Release Date: October 31, 2023
From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero.“A vital and vivid portrait of an unl...
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Author: Ruth J. Simmons | Narrator: Ruth J. Simmons
Release Date: September 05, 2023
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Simmons’s evocative account of her remarkable trajectory from Jim Crow Texas, where she was the youngest of twelve children in a sharecropping family, to the presidencies of Smith College and Brown Univer...
Author: Bo Seo | Narrator: Bo Seo
Release Date: June 07, 2022
“The rare book that has the potential to make you smarter—and everyone around you wiser.” —Adam Grant Two-time world champion debater and former coach of the Harvard debate team, Bo Seo tells the inspiring story of his ...
The students of today tell their stories of adversity and growth in letters to the original Freedom Writers—authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Freedom Writers Diary—who write supportive and powerful letters in response.O...
Author: Kelly Treleaven | Narrator: Kelly Treleaven
Release Date: July 14, 2020
Hopeful, hilarious musings and serious advice for new teachers from the formerly anonymous blogger behind Love, Teach.Every teacher will tell you the first years are the hardest, and even the most confident of the pack sometimes ask themselves, Am I ...
Author: Tony Wagner | Narrator: Tony Wagner
Release Date: April 07, 2020
“A page turner. With candor and clarity, Tony Wagner tells the story of his remarkable life and, in so doing, tells the story of our education system.”—Angela Duckworth, Founder and CEO, Character Lab, and New York Times b...
Author: Michael Sokolove | Narrator: Mark Deakins
Release Date: September 12, 2017
The inspiration for the NBC TV series "Rise," starring Josh Radnor, Auli'i Cravalho, and Rosie Perez — the incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a town. By th...
Author: Rebecca Paley and Nadia Lopez | Narrator: Adenrele Ojo and Nadia Lopez
Release Date: August 30, 2016
“The story of Mott Hall Bridges Academy is the story of American education. Nadia Lopez . . . must be a principal, a mentor, and sometimes a mother. I hope that you’re as impressed by her dedication to these kids as I’ve been." ...
Author: Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis and Robin Gaby Fisher | Narrator: Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis
Release Date: October 06, 2015
"[S]tirring...a bold, inspiring and ultimately hopeful book."  --Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post and author of the New York Times bestseller ThriveKaitlin Roig-Debellis is the first-grade teacher at San...
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Author: Erin Gruwell and The Freedom Writers | Narrator: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin and Dominic Hoffman
Release Date: January 17, 2006
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic story of an incredible group of students and the teacher who inspired them, featuring updates on the students’ lives, new journal entries, and an introduc...
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Soul Survivor Cover
Author: Philip Yancey | Narrator: Philip Yancey
Release Date: September 18, 2001
Philip Yancey, whose explorations of faith have made him a guide for millions of readers, feels no need to defend the church. "When someone tells me yet another horror story about the church, I respond, 'Oh, it's even worse than that. Let me tel...
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Simone Weil Cover
Author: Francine Du Plessix Gray | Narrator: Donada Peters
Release Date: July 03, 2001
In Simone Weil, du Plessix Gray vividly evokes the life of an equally complex and intriguing figure. A patriot and a mystic, an unruly activist plagued by self-doubt, a pampered intellectual with a credo of manual labor, an ascetic who craved se...
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