Arts and Crafts Furniture: Projects You Can Build for the Home by Blair Howard, ISBN 094193649X
The Craftsman-style furniture of Gustav Stickley has enjoyed an astonishing resurgence in popularity. Here Blair Howard presents fifteen projects, which represent not only the work of the most famous members of the movement, but also of such notable designers as Oscar Onken and Charles Limbert. Howard gives solid, concise information on how to choose lumber and obtain hardware, what tools to use, how to make the joints, and how to apply a finish. Each project contains step-by-step instructions, together with measured drawings and a bill of materials.
Dead Man's Mirror by Agatha Christie, ISBN 1572702966
Poirot arrives for dinner at the country estate of the imperious Sir Gervase Chevenix-Gore to find his host in his study, shot dead. The room is locked, making it appear a suicide, but Poirot is skeptical. When the will is read, the savvy sleuths suspicions are heightened.
Dead Man's Mirror by Agatha Christie, ISBN 1572702966 
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Best Practices for Teacher Leadership: What Award-Winning Teachers Do for Their Professional Learning Communities
The most dynamic educational leaders today often are the teacher leaders working in classrooms. Throwing their classroom doors wide open to learners, peer colleagues, families, and community alike, today's teacher leaders are always on the lookout for ways to enhance their teaching practice--through the use of new technologies, through professional development, through discovering and sharing the talents of the people living in their surrounding communities.
In this new collection of stories by award-winning teacher leaders, authors Randi Stone and Prudence H. Cuper recognize the unique ways in which teachers serve as leaders within their schools and communities. From offering "chem-mystery" experiments to bringing "Sweet Home Chicago" to Room 13, the 41 stories in this volume will prove inspirational to all readers.
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The Diamond Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom Text and Commentaries by Sanskrit, ISBN 1582432562
Zen Buddhism is often said to be a practice of "mind-to-mind transmission" without reliance on texts -- in fact, some great teachers forbid their students to read or write. But Buddhism has also inspired some of the greatest philosophical writings of any religion, and two such works lie at the center of Zen: The Heart Sutra, which monks recite all over the world, and The Diamond Sutra, said to contain answers to all questions of delusion and dualism. This is the Buddhist teaching on the "perfection of wisdom" and cuts through all obstacles on the path of practice.
As Red Pine explains: "The Diamond Sutra may look like a book, but it's really the body of the Buddha. It's also your body, my body, all possible bodies. But it's a body with nothing inside and nothing outside. It doesn't exist in space or time. Nor is it a construct of the mind. It's no mind. And yet because it's no mind, it has room for compassion. This book is the offering of no mind, born of compassion for all suffering...
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Mother Quiet
This may be the room you lived in, but do not fill, it tiny ghost. Do not fill the blooming shadow we call "our garden." Grey Faced One, go somewhere else and do not fill these winter flowers, do not fill this drying sea sponge, do not stand beside our bed tonight, do not fill our ears with glitter.
Mother Quiet
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