The Little Book of Teachers’ Wisdom is a fun and inspirational book packed with words of wisdom on the art of teaching. With more than 3,000 entries, it includes the thoughts on the art of teaching from hundreds of teachers, professors, authors, and politicians, including Aristotle, the Buddha, Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Helen Keller, Freud, Albert Einstein, Gandhi, Winston Churchill, and John Lennon. It’s the perfect gift for a teaching school graduate, a favorite teacher, or anyone with a passion for learning and educating.

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A personal collection of essays on the experience of caring for family through crises of illness and death includes contributions by such writers as Julia Glass, Julia Alvarez, Ann Harleman, Helen Schulman, and Andrew Solomon.

In aid of Amnesty International, this is a 'serial' novel fifteen Irish writers. It begins with Roddy Doyle and ends with Frank McCourt. In between thirteen other Irish writers spin an elaborate tale of murder, mayhem and literary shenanigans in contemporary Dublin.

Continues the sometimes harrowing tale of the author's youth as he immigrates from Ireland to the United States, joins the Army, goes to college, and begins building a life.

The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn and his family's return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies

The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn and his family's return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies