Mr. Chips is a shy and proper classics professor who teaches at an English all-boys school. He falls in love with a London dance-hall girl and decides to marry her. The couple makes Brookfield Academy for Boys its home and brightens the school with their unlikely union.

This is a biography of Noah Webster, public speaker, author, and friend of Benjamin Franklin, best known for his dictionary, "An American Dictionary of the English Language, " published in 1828.

"With all the openness to life, all the largeness of spirit, that made her girlhood memoir, The Road from Coorain, an acclaimed - and beloved - bestseller, Jill Ker Conway continues her story." "She was twenty-five when we left her, driven by a hunger to know and to understand, boarding a plane that would carry her far from her Australian homeland. As True North begins she lands, appropriately enough, in a hurricane, in New York. And is soon at Harvard,...

A look at one of America's most outstanding women, from her remarkable childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1950s through her rise to the highest echelons of power in the U.S. government.

"A juvenile biography of Booker T. Washington, who rose from slavery to become a great African-American leader and educator"--Provided by publisher.

This uncensored diary of an unconventional teacher is a must read for those in this profession. In this diary, a record of Esme's frustrations, achievements, and struggles to maintain her individuality in the face of bureaucracy, she reveals what it takes to be a "genuine" teacher.

"I might still carry my V-card, but I know exactly what I want in a man. Smart, charming and oh-so-skilled. Too bad I haven't found him yet. But maybe he's found me. Because when my charming, laid-back, next-door neighbor discovers a secret list I keep, he volunteers to work through every single item on it. Including the last one -- at the end, we walk away and stay friends. I say yes to his offer, and that's when I discover another side to him. A...