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9780803240629 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, September 1, 2012, cover price $18.95
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9780743291897 | Scribner, May 12, 2009, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Award-winning novelist Reynolds Price provides a vivid portrait of his life in the mid-1950s leading up to the publication of his brilliant first novel A Long and Happy Life—detailing his time as a Rhodes scholar, writer, and a teacher.
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9780743291903 | Reprint edition (Scribner, May 15, 2012), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Award-winning novelist Reynolds Price provides “the best of his winning lot” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) of memoirs—a vivid portrait of his life in the mid-1950s leading up to the publication of his brilliant first novel A Long and Happy Life—now available in paperback.
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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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9781611730845 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, June 1, 2011), cover price $33.95
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9780823234165 | Fordham Univ Pr, May 15, 2011, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Rundown, vermin-infested buildings.
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9780823234172 | Fordham Univ Pr, May 15, 2011, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Rundown, vermin-infested buildings.
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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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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
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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9780820314211 | Univ of Georgia Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $30.00
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9780820337883 | Univ of Georgia Pr, December 1, 2010, cover price $24.95 | 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.
9780820314945 | Univ of Georgia Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $20.00
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9780061729027 | Harpercollins, June 1, 2009, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: William Zinsser's journey to all the places where he has done his writing and his teaching begins in 1946, with his first job at the New York Herald Tribune, a community of legendary journalists and oddballs, in its postwar years of glory.
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9780061729034 | Perennial, July 27, 2010, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: William Zinsser's classic bestseller, On Writing Well, has inspired three generations of writers, journalists and students.
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9780472033942 | Univ of Michigan Pr, October 23, 2009, cover price $23.95
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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?
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9781607090045 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, January 30, 2009, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Did you ever have a teacher you couldn't forget?
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9781607090052 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, January 30, 2009, cover price $34.95
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9781607090069 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, February 16, 2009, cover price $75.00
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9781564785176 | Dalkey Archive Pr, December 12, 2008, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: This bitterly funny memoir reads like an exposé of the power structures in America's higher education system: who's got it, how they're abusing it, what everyone else is willing to do to get it, and the social cost of doing educational business this way.
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9780195367126 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 2008, cover price $29.95 | 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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9780817314255 | Univ of Alabama Pr, October 31, 2004, cover price $30.00 | 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 $21.95 | About this edition: The southern landscape forms a lush backdrop in this memoir by Mary Ann Caws in which she recounts a life of passionate engagement.
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9781570037306 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, May 15, 2008, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In this career-spanning intellectual auto-biography, inspiring educator and writer Lynn Z.
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9781587296307 | 1 edition (Univ of Iowa Pr, April 1, 2008), cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Part epistolary memoir, part handbook, Teaching Life reflects on more than three decades of teaching literature and touching the lives of students.
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9780325011257 | Boynton/Cook Pub, February 27, 2008, cover price $26.25 | About this edition: I am not a natural-born teacher.
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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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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.
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9780307419255 | Broadway Books, December 18, 2007, cover price $14.95
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9781417698110 | Turtleback Books, August 1, 2004, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The provocative bestseller She’s Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders.
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A collection of eleven essays by the award-winning author of The Curse of the Appropriate Man reflects on the art of writing and the relationship between fiction and life, in a volume that includes the tales of a scandal created by publication, a meditation on the mother-daughter bond, and the trials of teaching writing in order to pay the bills. Reprint.
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9780151011322 | Houghton Mifflin, September 5, 2005, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A collection of eleven essays reflects on the art of writing and the relationship between fiction and life, in a volume that includes the tale of a scandal created by publication and a meditation on the mother-daughter bond.
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9780156030342 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, September 5, 2006), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of eleven essays by the award-winning author of The Curse of the Appropriate Man reflects on the art of writing and the relationship between fiction and life, in a volume that includes the tales of a scandal created by publication, a meditation on the mother-daughter bond, and the trials of teaching writing in order to pay the bills.
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Product Description: Using a biographical approach, this book examines Frank Aydelotte's enduring contributions to English studies in America and the various social, cultural, educational, and personal forces that shaped his pedagogy. Educated at Harvard and Indiana, Aydelotte's seminal experience was becoming a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford in 1904...read more
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9780761834779 | Univ Pr of Amer, June 30, 2006, cover price $67.50 | About this edition: Using a biographical approach, this book examines Frank Aydelotte's enduring contributions to English studies in America and the various social, cultural, educational, and personal forces that shaped his pedagogy.
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9780761834786, titled "Frank Aydelotte And the Oxford Approach to English Studies in America, 1908-1940" | Univ Pr of Amer, June 30, 2006, cover price $35.99 | About this edition: Using a biographical approach, this book examines Frank Aydelotte's enduring contributions to English studies in America and the various social, cultural, educational, and personal forces that shaped his pedagogy.
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9781425715038 | Xlibris Corp, June 23, 2006, cover price $32.99
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9781425713874 | Xlibris Corp, June 23, 2006, cover price $22.99
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9780826216311 | Univ of Missouri Pr, February 3, 2006, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In his enduring fiction and criticism, Walter Sullivan has invited readers to share the thoughts of a penetrating, contemporary intellect.
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9780787681388 | Gale Group, November 4, 2005, cover price $315.00
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9781569244685 | Marlowe & Co, April 1, 2004, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The author shares his insights into memoir writing, using his own life to illuminate the techniques and attitudes necessary for successfully rendering a life in words.
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9781569243794 | Da Capo Pr, March 27, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Written with elegance, warmth, and humor, this highly original "teaching memoir" by William Zinsser—renowned bestselling author of On Writing Well gives you the tools to organize and recover your past, and the confidence to believe in your life narrative.
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9780743249775 | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 2005, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The author shares life lessons taught by her father, poet Leonard Wolf, in a personal portrait that traces his Depression-era youth and offers insight into his beliefs about the learned quality of happiness.
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9780743249782 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, April 25, 2006), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The feminist author of Misconceptions and The Beauty Myth shares life lessons taught by her father, poet Leonard Wolf, in a personal portrait that traces his Depression-era youth and offers insight into his beliefs about the learned quality of happiness.
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