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By Azar Nafisi and Peter Sis (illustrator)

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9780143127789 | Penguin USA, September 1, 2015, cover price $17.00

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Product Description: A passionate hymn to the power of fiction to transform people’s lives, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in TehranTen years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran...read more

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9780670026067 | Viking Pr, October 21, 2014, cover price $28.95

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9781611763225 | Unabridged edition (Penguin/Highbridge, October 21, 2014), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A passionate hymn to the power of fiction to transform people’s lives, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in TehranTen years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran.

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By Anna Quindlen (other contributor)

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9780767921770 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, April 22, 2014), cover price $14.00

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Product Description: “This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciousnesses and almost two epochs.” That’s how Edmund Gosse opened Father and Son, the classic 1907 book about his relationship with his father. Seth Lerer’s Prospero’s Son is, as fits our latter days, altogether more complicated, layered, and multivalent, but at its heart is that same problem: the fraught relationship between fathers and sons...read more

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9780226014418 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 5, 2013, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: “This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciousnesses and almost two epochs.

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9780226142234 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, March 22, 2014), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: “This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciousnesses and almost two epochs.

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A memoir that tells the story of a person who changed genders chronicles the life of James, a critically acclaimed novelist, who eventually became Jenny, a happy and successful English professor.

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9780767914048 | 1 edition (Broadway Books, July 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A memoir that tells the story of a person who changed genders chronicles the life of James, a critically acclaimed novelist, who eventually became Jenny, a happy and successful English professor.

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9780385346979 | 2 reprint edition (Broadway Books, April 30, 2013), cover price $16.00
9780767914291 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, August 1, 2004), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A memoir that tells the story of a person who changed genders chronicles the life of James, a critically acclaimed novelist, who eventually became Jenny, a happy and successful English professor.

Miscellaneous:

9780307419255 | Broadway Books, December 18, 2007, cover price $14.95

Prebinding:

9781417698110 | Turtleback Books, August 1, 2004, cover price $26.95

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Product Description: New York Times bestseller and acclaimed author Jennifer Finney Boylan returns with a remarkable memoir about gender and parenting, including incredible interviews discussing gender, how families are shaped, and the difficulties and wonders of being human...read more

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9780767921763 | Crown Pub, April 30, 2013, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: New York Times bestseller and acclaimed author Jennifer Finney Boylan returns with a remarkable memoir about gender and parenting, including incredible interviews discussing gender, how families are shaped, and the difficulties and wonders of being human.

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Product Description: Adopted as a baby and raised by a devout Jehovah’s Witness family, Joy Castro is constantly reminded to tell the truth no matter what the consequences. Nevertheless, Castro finds this tenet to be the most violated. Here, in her very own Truth Book, Castro bears witness to a childhood lost but a life regained...read more
By Dorothy Allison (foreword by)

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9780803240629 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, September 1, 2012, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Adopted as a baby and raised by a devout Jehovah’s Witness family, Joy Castro is constantly reminded to tell the truth no matter what the consequences.

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Product Description: What is “identity” when you’re a girl adopted as an infant by a Cuban American family of Jehovah’s Witnesses? The answer isn’t easy. You won’t find it in books. And you certainly won’t find it in the neighborhood. This is just the beginning of Joy Castro’s unmoored life of searching and striving that she’s turned to account with literary alchemy in Island of Bones...read more

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9780803271425 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, September 1, 2012, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: What is “identity” when you’re a girl adopted as an infant by a Cuban American family of Jehovah’s Witnesses?

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What would you be willing to do to save someone, perhaps someone you loved? On a moment’s notice, for instance, would you lunge between that person and an assailant’s knife strike? In that same situation, what would you be willing do for yourself? And what if there were nothing, ultimately, to be done? These and other such questions live in the untouched minutes—questions most of us are, fortunately, never compelled to answer, though the media exposes us daily to the stories of those who are. In February 2001, on what started out as a typical Sunday afternoon, Donald Morrill and his wife Lisa Birnbaum became the victims of a home invasion and found themselves faced with the specter of ultimate contingency. In The Untouched Minutes, Morrill recounts and examines the events of that day and its aftermath as well as the circumstances surrounding the murders of Dartmouth professors Half and Suzanne Zantop, which occurred the same week.Set against the unfolding drama of post-9/11 America, The Untouched Minutes explores how violence and the threat of violence color and recast one’s assumptions and can plot the course of people facing the unknown, the unknowable, the irredeemable. Morrill presents a memorable portrait of what it means to take back the life that, finally, wasn’t taken, and in the process he offers a powerful meditation on terror and security, home and travel, art, race, luck, and our individual places in the wider world.

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9780803232389 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: What would you be willing to do to save someone, perhaps someone you loved?

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9780803245624 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, June 18, 2012, cover price $14.95

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9780743291897 | Scribner, May 12, 2009, cover price $35.00

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9780743291903 | Reprint edition (Scribner, May 15, 2012), cover price $24.99

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Product Description: Sweeping in and out of real and imagined places, Dreamtime highlights the curious character of an unconventional teacher, writer, traveler, husband, and father as he takes stock of his multifaceted life. Sam Pickering―the inspiration for the main character in Dead Poets Society―guides us on a journey through his reflections on retirement, aging, gardening, and travel...read more

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9781611170382 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, October 15, 2011, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Sweeping in and out of real and imagined places, Dreamtime highlights the curious character of an unconventional teacher, writer, traveler, husband, and father as he takes stock of his multifaceted life.

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Signs of Life is Natalie Taylor's story. It starts the day her husband dies and ends sixteen months later on her son's first birthday. Natalie's journey from wife to widow to mother is heartbreaking, blackly funny and will move you to laughter and tears as she makes it across that finish line. And you have no doubt she will make it because Natalie is a warrior and a woman to cheer for. Intelligent, witty and moving, this is the very best kind of indie movie in a book. A book to delight, to treasure and to press into the hands of your best friend.

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9781444724677 | Hodder & Stoughton, July 7, 2011, cover price $20.20

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9781611730845 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, June 1, 2011), cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Signs of Life is Natalie Taylor's story.

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Product Description: A riveting story about the resiliency of Bronx high school students through the eyes of a passionate and dedicated teacherRundown, vermin-infested buildings. rigid, slow-to-react bureaucratic systems. Children from broken homes and declining communities...read more

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9780823234165 | Fordham Univ Pr, May 15, 2011, cover price $85.00

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9780823234172 | Fordham Univ Pr, May 15, 2011, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A riveting story about the resiliency of Bronx high school students through the eyes of a passionate and dedicated teacherRundown, vermin-infested buildings.

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Product Description: This is the utterly gripping account of a young girl who endured abuse and the disturbing effects of religious hypocrisy within one of the most enigmatic sects of Christian fundamentalism.

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9781559707879 | Arcade Pub, September 7, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Shares the account of a woman who was psychologically and sexually abused along with her mother and younger brother by her revered Jehovah's Witness stepfather, whose behavior was unquestioned by their congregation.

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9781611452808 | Arcade Pub, April 18, 2011, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This is the utterly gripping account of a young girl who endured abuse and the disturbing effects of religious hypocrisy within one of the most enigmatic sects of Christian fundamentalism.
9781559708210 | Reprint edition (Arcade Pub, February 7, 2007), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Shares the personal account of a woman who was psychologically and sexually abused along with her mother and younger brother by her revered Jehovah's Witness stepfather, whose behavior was unquestioned by their fundamentalist congregation.

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Product Description: Joan Weimer had spent three years researching the life of nineteenth-century novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson for a critical biography when a devastating back injury left her virtually immobile. Pain reshaped her research as she discovered more about Woolson's writing, family, and grief...read more

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9780226884158, titled "Back Talk: Teaching Lost Selves to Speak" | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 1996, cover price $26.00 | also contains Back Talk: Teaching Lost Selves to Speak | About this edition: Joan Weimer had spent three years researching the life of nineteenth-century novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson for a critical biography when a devastating back injury left her virtually immobile.

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Product Description: Breaking the silence on a number of sacrosanct aspects of higher education—and now and then raising the clamor about some highly politicized issues—Conspiring with Forms is a critique of both the academy and the discourse concerning its purposes and direction...read more

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9780820314211 | Univ of Georgia Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Breaking the silence on a number of sacrosanct aspects of higher education - and now and then raising a clamour about some highly politicised issues - "Conspiring with Forms" is a critique of both the academy and the current discourse concerning its purposes and direction.

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9780820337883 | Univ of Georgia Pr, December 1, 2010, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Breaking the silence on a number of sacrosanct aspects of higher education—and now and then raising the clamor about some highly politicized issues—Conspiring with Forms is a critique of both the academy and the discourse concerning its purposes and direction.
9780820314945 | Univ of Georgia Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Breaking the silence on a number of sacrosanct aspects of higher education - and now and then raising a clamour about some highly politicised issues - "Conspiring with Forms" is a critique of both the academy and the current discourse concerning its purposes and direction.

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Product Description: “William Zinsser turns his zest, warmth and curiosity—his sharp but forgiving eye—on his own story. The result is lively, funny and moving, especially for anyone who cares about art and the business of writing well.”—Evan Thomas, Newsweek In Writing Places, William Zinsser—the author of On Writing Well, the bestseller that has inspired two generations of writers, journalists, and students—recalls the many colorful and instructive places where he has worked and taught...read more

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9780061729027 | Harpercollins, June 1, 2009, cover price $22.99

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9780061729034 | Perennial, July 27, 2010, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: “William Zinsser turns his zest, warmth and curiosity—his sharp but forgiving eye—on his own story.

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Product Description: Interrogating Privilege is a welcome combination of personal essays and academic research, blending theory, analysis, and narrative to explore the function and consequences of privilege in second language education.While teachers’ focus on the learning process and class goals are quite important, there is not enough attention paid to the types of privilege—or lack thereof—that individuals bring to the classroom...read more

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9780472033942 | Univ of Michigan Pr, October 23, 2009, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Interrogating Privilege is a welcome combination of personal essays and academic research, blending theory, analysis, and narrative to explore the function and consequences of privilege in second language education.

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Product Description: A Slant of Light chronicles the life and death of a beautiful woman from ovarian cancer. More than a narrative of her struggle with cancer, however, this is a love story, exploring the richness of life, its joys and adversities as well as the complexity of loss experienced by those left behind...read more

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9781880977279 | Xoxox Pr, July 1, 2009, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A Slant of Light chronicles the life and death of a beautiful woman from ovarian cancer.

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Did you ever have a teacher you couldn't forget? Someone who helped shape your knowledge and values, and so remains an indelible part of you? For more than thirty-five years, Victor L. Cahn has been such an influential figure. As secondary school "master" at Mercersburg, Pomfret, and Phillips Exeter, and as professor of English at Bowdoin and Skidmore, he has instructed, entertained, counseled, and inspired thousands of students, who have reciprocated by granting him their respect and affection.With the same wit and perception that have made his classes so memorable, and from his singular perspective as student, scholar, playwright, actor, and musician, Professor Cahn offers fascinating insights about learning of all kinds. Equally delightful are the candid reflections on his career, unabashed confessions that will touch anyone who has ever wondered about those rare individuals who bring esteem to the title "teacher."

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9781607090045 | Rowman & Littlefield Education, January 30, 2009, cover price $94.00 | About this edition: Did you ever have a teacher you couldn't forget?

Paperback:

9781607090052 | Rowman & Littlefield Education, January 30, 2009, cover price $38.00

Miscellaneous:

9781607090069 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, February 16, 2009, cover price $75.00

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Product Description: In the early 1900s, the language of America was becoming colloquial English-the language of the businessman, manager, and professional. Since college and high school education were far from universal, many people turned to correspondence education-that era's distance learning-to learn the art of speaking and writing...read more

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9780195367126 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 2008, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: In the early 1900s, the language of America was becoming colloquial English-the language of the businessman, manager, and professional.

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Product Description: A neat and lavish, if constricting, childhood in the lush landscapes of North Carolina. Summers at a calm, remote beach house. A proper and religiously influenced prep school in Washington. Years at Bryn Mawr, an impulsive study trip to Paris, further education at Yale, married life, and divorced life...read more

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9780817314255 | Univ of Alabama Pr, October 31, 2004, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: To the Boathouse is the memoir of a southern girl and her maturing sense of self as she grows to become one of the most prolific and accomplished writers and critics of our day.

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9780817354961 | 2 new edition (Fire Ant Books, February 18, 2008), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A neat and lavish, if constricting, childhood in the lush landscapes of North Carolina.

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Product Description: This volume contains 15 eye-opening essays which probe the assumptions and values - ethical, intellectual, social, aesthetic, and inevitably political - of what Bloom has found to be the most complicated, challenging, and satisfying aspects of her loves and labours.

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9781570037306 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, May 15, 2008, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This volume contains 15 eye-opening essays which probe the assumptions and values - ethical, intellectual, social, aesthetic, and inevitably political - of what Bloom has found to be the most complicated, challenging, and satisfying aspects of her loves and labours.

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