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What happens when a teacher’s dream collides with the harsh realities of the classroom and the world beyond? In A Teacher’s Odyssey, Tarique takes listeners into the heart of Philadelphia’s schools while living a life few ever get to witness, with one foot in the classroom and the other on a plane as he travels the world. What he uncovers not only challenges what we think we know about education, but exposes truths the system would rather ignore. With sharp insight and unflinching honesty, this memoir reveals what’s possible when one teacher refuses to give up on his students or himself.

Dan-el Padilla Peralta has lived the American dream. As a boy he came here legally with his family. Together they left Santo Domingo behind, but life in New York City was harder than they imagined. Their visas lapsed, and Dan-el's father returned home. But Dan-el's courageous mother was determined to make a better life for her bright sons. Undocumented is a classic story of the triumph of the human spirit. It also is the perfect cri de coeur for the debate on comprehensive immigration reform.

Mary Pope Osborne concludes the exciting adventures of Odysseus, with two new books, each based on episodes from The Odyssey. Book Five: Return to Ithaca: After years of captivity on Calypso's island, Odysseus finds himself on the shores of yet another strange land. Meanwhile, his wife, Penelope...

In The Power of a Plant, globally acclaimed teacher and self-proclaimed CEO (Chief Eternal Optimist) Stephen Ritz shows you how, in one of the nation's poorest communities, his students thrive in school and in life by growing, cooking, eating, and sharing the bounty of their green classroom.

The Illiad & The Odyssey are two epic poems by Greek author Homer, works that have been entertaining—and perhaps exasperating—readers for centuries. In a series of lectures, literary scholar Elizabeth McNamer provides engaging insights into these two iconic works. McNamer first discusses how The Iliad portrays love, jealousy, pride, and the courage men and women display in war. McNamer then focuses on and The Odyssey in which the hero Odysseus endures strange adventures en route home to his faithful wife.