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The contract school is the new American public school, free to meet the needs of children the way they are growing up today . -- Lamar Alexander, former Secretary of Education AUTHOR: James W. Guthrie, Lawrence C. Pierce, Paul T. Hill
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | University of Success by Og Mandino
Og Mandino is the Dean of this unique 'University of Success,' and has solicited contributions from 'faculty' celebrities such as Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Dale Carnegie, W. Clement Stone, Napoleon Hill, George S. Classon, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Michael Korda, Lord Beaver brook, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, and many others to share their most treasured success secrets. AUTHOR: Og Mandino
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O'Brian, Richard Brown
The wine-dark sea of the title is the Great South Sea, and Jack Aubrey and the crew of the Surprise are pursuing an American privateer. They are beset not only by the eruption of a volcano which takes innumerable lives, but by revolution, storms, frostbite, and the sudden appearance of Aubrey's illegitimate son. AUTHOR: Patrick O'Brian, Richard Brown
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Pieces of White Shell by Terry Tempest Williams
This unusual book is an introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller. Steeped in the lore of the Navajo reservation, where she worked as a teacher, the author came to see Navajo legend and ritual as touchstones for evaluating her own experience. AUTHOR: Terry Tempest Williams
PUBLISHER: University of New Mexico Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Hostage by Anna Williams, Willo D. Roberts
Description not available.In order to keep the boredom out of her ordinary life, Kaci turns to reading scary tales for excitement, yet when she is suddently taken hostage by thieves, Kaci gets more adventure than she ever wanted and must use all her bravery to get through it all. AUTHOR: Anna Williams, Willo D. Roberts
PUBLISHER: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Ben Hur by David Mayer, Jim Killavey, Lew Wallace, Naunerle C. Farr, Nestor Redondo
Ben-Hur is better known as a film than as a novel. Cinematic in scope and narrative, it was nevertheless as a book that it first met huge popular success on its publication in 1880. Intended as a moral and inspirational narrative, Judah Ben-Hur's life parallels that of Jesus as he makes a journey of discovery and enlightenment through the Mediterranean world from Jerusalem through Nazareth to the galleys that carry him to shipwreck in the Aegean and, finally, Rome. A spiritual tale of the quest for love and the recovery of identity and patrimony, the novel also displays a vivid realism based on Wallace's biblical research and knowledge of the Holy Land. Like other 'toga novels' of the period, Ben-Hur reflects the dissent, division, and moral contradiction of America's emerging imperial culture, the 'New Woman' question, the settlement of the Far West, and even trade unionism. Rich in social parallels, Ben-Hur is both a great historical epic and a window on late nineteenth-century literature. AUTHOR: David Mayer, Jim Killavey, Lew Wallace, Naunerle C. Farr, Nestor Redondo
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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