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Unfinished Desires: A Novel by Gail Godwin (Ballantine $15) Godwin "brings readers back in time to the early 1950s in this endearing story of Catholic school girls and the nuns who oversee them....Poignant and transporting, this faux memoir makes a convincing, satisfying novel."
(Publishers Weekly)

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The Good Soldiers by David Finkel (Picador $15) A spellbinding account of an Army battalion (average age 19) stationed in a violent neighborhood in Baghdad during the surge of 2007-8. On many 2009 "best books" lists.

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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer (Anchor $15.95) When Tillman was killed by "friendly fire" in Afghanistan in 2004, his uniform and belongings were burned and his family was repeatedly lied to in a cover-up by General McChrystal and other officers.

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The Siege by Ismail Kadare, translated by David Bellos (Canongate $15) The winner of the Man Booker International Prize and a Nobel contender. Kadare is Albania's most distinguished novelist. Originally published in 1970, this novel tells the story of a thwarted Ottoman siege of an Albanian fortress in the 15th century. "Extraordinary: an epic with the force of myth and the delicacy of a miniature…. You could read THE SIEGE every year for a lifetime and find something new each time…. A masterpiece.”
(The Telegraph)

LINDA NATHAN - With Lessons From An Urban School

Start: Wed, 02/17/2010 - 7:30pm

Many of the challenges facing schools are similar around the country. Dynamic Boston high school principal Linda F. Nathan presents THE HARDEST QUESTIONS AREN'T ON THE TEST: LESSONS FROM AN INNOVATIVE URBAN SCHOOL, in which she discusses schools that matter, teachers that inspire, and students who achieve. And that's what everyone wants.

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The Hardest Questions Aren't on the Test: Lessons from an Innovative Urban School (Hardcover)

By Linda Nathan

$25.95

ISBN-13: 9780807032749
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Beacon Press, 10/01/2009

The Boston Arts Academy comprises an ethnically and socio-economically diverse student body, yet 95 percent of its graduates are accepted to college. This remarkable success rate, writes Nathan, is in large part due to asking the right questions and being open to seeking answers collaboratively with faculty, parents, and the students themselves.

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LINDA NATHAN - With Lessons From An Urban School

The Hardest Questions Aren't on the Test: Lessons from an Innovative Urban School (Hardcover)