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10 best books like Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices And Small Salaries Of America's Teachers (Daniel Moulthrop): A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe , Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship, Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type, Main Street, The Great Santini, The Mammoth Hunters, Goodbye to All That, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
AuthorAldo Leopold
ISBN0195007778
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land.

Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the...
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
AuthorBill Bryson
ISBN0380715430
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson—the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent—brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your...
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 
AuthorThomas Cahill
ISBN0385418493
From the fall of Rome to the rise of Charlemagne - the "dark ages" - learning, scholarship, and culture disappeared from the European continent. The great heritage of western civilization - from the Greek and Roman classics to Jewish and Christian works - would have been utterly lost were it not for the...
Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship
AuthorTom Ryan
ISBN0061997102
After a close friend died of cancer, middle-aged, overweight, acrophobic newspaperman Tom Ryan decided to pay tribute to her in a most unorthodox manner. Ryan and his friend, miniature schnauzer Atticus M. Finch, would attempt to climb all forty-eight of New Hampshire’s four-thousand-foot peaks...
Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
AuthorIsabel Briggs Myers
Like a thumbprint, personality type provides an instant snapshot of a person's uniqueness. Drawing on concepts originated by Carl Jung, this book distinguishes four categories of personality styles and shows how these qualities determine the way you perceive the world and come to conclusions about...
Main Street
AuthorSinclair Lewis
ISBN0375753141
With Commentary by E. M. Forster, Dorothy Parker, H. L. Mencken, Lewis Mumford, Rebecca West, Sherwood Anderson, Malcolm Cowley, Alfred Kazin, Constance Rourke, and Mark Schorer.

Main Street, the story of an idealistic young woman's attempts to reform her small town, brought Lewis immediate...
The Great Santini
AuthorPat Conroy
ISBN0553268929
Step into the powerhouse life of Bull Meecham. He's all Marine --- fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife -- beautiful, southern-bred, with a core of velvet steel. Without her cool head, her kids would be in real trouble. Ben is the oldest, a born athlete...
The Mammoth Hunters
AuthorJean M. Auel
ISBN0553381644
Once again Jean M. Auel opens the door of a time long past to reveal an age of wonder and danger at the dawn of the modern human race. With all the consummate storytelling artistry and vivid authenticity she brought to The Clan of the Cave Bear and its sequel, The Valley of Horses, Jean M. Auel continues the...
Goodbye to All That
AuthorRobert Graves
An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy, published in Penguin Modern Classics.

In 1929 Robert Graves went...
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
AuthorLouise Erdrich
ISBN0007136358
This is the story of Father Damien Modeste, priest to his beloved people, the Ojibwe. Modeste, nearing the end of his life, dreads the discovery of his physical identity -- for he is a woman who has lived as a man.
For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the...
The Land of Painted Caves
AuthorJean M. Auel
ISBN0517580519
In The land of Painted Caves, Jean M. Auel brings the ice-age epic Earth's Children series to an extraordinary conclusion. Ayla, one of the most remarkable and beloved heroines in contemporary fiction, continues to explore the world and the people around her with curiosity, insight, and above all,...
Dead Man's Walk
AuthorLarry McMurtry
ISBN0684857545
Dead Man's Walk is the first, extraordinary book in the epic Lonesome Dove tetralogy, in which Larry McMurtry breathed new life into the vanished American West and created two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary fiction: Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call.

As young Texas Rangers,...
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
AuthorAlan W. Watts
ISBN0679723005
Alan Watts asks what is the cause of the illusion that the self is a separate ego, housed in a bag of skin, and which confronts a universe of physical objects that are alien to it. Rather a person's identity (their ego) binds them to the physical universe, creating a relationship with their environment...
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
AuthorThe Arbinger Institute
ISBN1576751740
The "disease" of self-deception (acting in ways contrary to what one knows is right) underlies all leadership problems in today's organizations, according to the premise of this work. However well intentioned they may be, leaders who deceive themselves always end up undermining their own performance.This...
Paradiso
AuthorDante Alighieri
ISBN0140441050
Dorothy L. Sayers's landmark translation follows Dante's terza rima stanza's and brings his poetry vividly to life. Her work was completed after her death by Barbara Reynolds, who provides a foreword on the importance of the translation and an introduction on Dante's view of Heaven. This edition...
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
AuthorElaine Pagels
ISBN0375501568
Pagels, a writer and thinker on religion and history, winner of the National Book Award for The Gnostic Gospels, reflects on what matters most about spiritual and religious exploration in the 21st century. This book explores how Christianity began by tracing its earliest texts, including the Gospel...
Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC
AuthorFrederick Buechner
ISBN0060611391
In Wishful Thinking, the first book in his much-loved lexical trilogy, Frederick Buechner puts the language of God, the universe, and the human spirit under his wry linguistic microscope. In his often ironic and always keen-sighted reflections on such terms as agnostic, envy, love, and sin, he invited...
The Fruit of the Tree
AuthorEdith Wharton
ISBN1428052305
Originally published in 1907, this little known novel by the author of The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome was considered controversial for its frank treatment of labor and industrial conditions, drug addiction, mercy killing, divorce, and second marriages.John Amherst, an idealistic middle...
Was That Really Me? How Everyday Stress Brings Out Our Hidden Personality
AuthorNaomi L. Quenk
ISBN0891061703
I've been growing more and more interested in MBTI and grabbed this book out of a desperate need to finally figure out how the heck the cognitive functions played a role in determining type. If nothing else, this book gets my undying gratitude for helping me understanding how the introverted and extroverted...
QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability in Work and in Life
AuthorJohn G. Miller
ISBN0399152334
The lack of personal accountability is a problem that has resulted in an epidemic of blame, victim thinking, complaining, and procrastination. No organization—or individual—can successfully compete in the marketplace, achieve goals and objectives, provide outstanding service, engage...
Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories
AuthorD.H. Lawrence
ISBN0521336740
Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories gathers together all of Lawrence's short stories not collected in the Prussian Officer volume. It offers a range of work from Lawrence's earliest surviving published story, 'A Prelude', to 'New Eve and Old Adam' written at the height of his early maturity...
To Know a Fly
AuthorVincent G. Dethier
ISBN0816222401
THIS WAS SO GOOD. IT'S HILARIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC, WHICH IS AWESOME.

This book was surprisingly hilarious. Dethier had these witty, comical comments and they made me laugh. The novel starts out talking about how why we should test on flies and how it’s an obvious choice because they’re always...
From Image to Likeness: A Jungian Path in the Gospel Journey
AuthorW. Harold Grant
ISBN0809125528
(This is more a story about this book/author, than a review per se).

This book represents to me, what Carl G. Jung called "synchronicity." Reading the book set off a chain of events in my life that to this day, amaze and mystify.

I found the tattered book tucked away in a Jesuit Library...
The Government Inspector
AuthorJeffrey Hatcher
ISBN0822223376
I was surprised I hadn't heard of this play before. It's Russian, it's a comedy, and it's a political satire? All things I love to death! I wish I had heard of it earlier.

The Government Inspector is a comedic farce that pokes fun at the socialist society of 1990's Russia, while also poking fun at...
The Scotch-Irish: A Social History
AuthorJames Graham Leyburn
ISBN0807842591
Dispelling much of what he terms the "mythology" of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He traces their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to Northern Ireland; and their successive migrations...
Redemption
AuthorLeon Uris
ISBN0061098442
Master storyteller Leon Uris, internationally acclaimed author of such bestsellers as Exodus, Topaz, QB VII,Trinity, the Haj and Mitla Pass,continues the epic story of the Irish struggle for freedom in Redemption. A dramatic saga set against the backdrop of growing unrest in Ireland and a world...
Le petit Prince ( Illustrate)
AuthorAntoine de Saint-Exupéry
À LÉON WERTH
Je demande pardon aux enfants d’avoir dédié ce livre à une grande personne. J’ai une excuse sérieuse : cette grande personne est le meilleur ami que j’ai au monde. J’ai une autre excuse : cette grande personne peut tout comprendre, même les livres pour enfants....
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