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  • LEADERSHIP FOR LEARNING
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    LEADERSHIP FOR LEARNING
    CARL GLICKMAN / REBECCA WEST BURNS
    In this revised edition, Carl Glickman and coauthor Rebecca West Burns synthesize their decades of experience in teacher education and supervision into a comprehensive guide to supporting teacher growth and student learning. Embedded in every page are the essential knowledge, skills, approaches, and methods that leaders need to drive instructional improvement.Official school le...

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  • THE SAGA OF THE CENTURY TRILOGY
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    THE SAGA OF THE CENTURY TRILOGY
    REBECCA WEST
    Three novels in one volume following the artistic and eccentric Aubrey family in the years surrounding the Great War.   In The Fountain Overflows,Papa Aubrey's wife and twin daughters, Mary and Rose, are piano prodigies, his young son, Richard Quin, is a lively boy, and his eldest daughter, Cordelia, is a beautiful and driven young woman with musical aspirations. But the talent...

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  • THE MEANING OF TREASON
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    THE MEANING OF TREASON
    REBECCA WEST
    West's acclaimed examination of traitors, this gripping profile takes readers inside World War II spy rings and gets to the heart of what it means to betray one's country   Throughout her career, Rebecca West dug into psyches, real and fictional, to try to understand the meaning of betrayal. In the aftermath of World War II, West was incensed when several wartime turncoats were...

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  • THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER
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    THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER
    REBECCA WEST
    Rebecca West's stunning debut novel: The classic story of a soldier's amnesia and its effect on the women in his life   A strange woman arrives at the door with unsettling news for Jenny and her sister-in-law Kitty: Jenny's husband has lost his memory while fighting in the war. As their solider returns home, the women discover that his mind is stuck on the woman he loved fiftee...

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  • SURVIVORS IN MEXICO
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    SURVIVORS IN MEXICO
    REBECCA WEST
    A travelogue and historical exploration of Mexico from one of the twentieth century's greatest travel writers Dame Rebecca West travels through Mexico and explores its people, history, religion, and culture in her unfinished work Survivors in Mexico, carefully stitched together by Bernard Schweizer in this posthumously published edition. West tackles the country's broad histori...

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  • THE YOUNG REBECCA
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    THE YOUNG REBECCA
    REBECCA WEST
    A collection of Rebecca West's early journalistic writings reveals her clarity of mind, severity of wit, and relevancy in today's modern world   In this collection of early writings, beginning when Rebecca West was just eighteen years old, Jane Marcus sheds light on one of the foremost feminist and political thinkers of our time. West's essays, reviews, and public correspondenc...

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  • THE BIRDS FALL DOWN
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    THE BIRDS FALL DOWN
    REBECCA WEST
    A "compelling . . . oddly intriguing" psychological thriller set in fin-de-siècle Paris from the New York Times–bestselling author of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon ( The New York Times). During early revolutionary stirrings in Russia, after an unexpected turn of events, Laura Rowan, the coddled granddaughter of an exiled British nobleman, becomes her grandfather's sole companion o...

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  • BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON
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    BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON
    REBECCA WEST
    Hailed as among the most important books of the twentieth century, Rebecca West's magnum opus is a history, a travelogue, and a sociological study of Yugoslavia that examines how the past shapes the present   In a breathtakingly wide-ranging journalistic work, West richly chronicles her travels throughout Yugoslavia in the 1930s, introducing vivid characters and illuminating de...

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  • COUSIN ROSAMUND
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    COUSIN ROSAMUND
    REBECCA WEST
    In the final installment of Rebecca West's Saga of the Century trilogy, family, marriage, and love alter the sisterly bonds that have seen them through poverty, war, and scandal   In the years after the war, Mary and Rose Aubrey have found success as accomplished pianists. In spite of their travels and material rewards, they remain apart from society. When their cherished cousi...

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  • THE FOUNTAIN OVERFLOWS
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    THE FOUNTAIN OVERFLOWS
    REBECCA WEST
    A talented, eccentric London family tries to find their place in the world in this semiautobiographical novel by a New York Times–bestselling author.   Papa Aubrey's wife and twin daughters, Mary and Rose, are piano prodigies, his young son Richard Quin is a lively boy, and his eldest daughter Cordelia is a beautiful and driven young woman with musical aspirations. But the tale...

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  • HARRIET HUME
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    HARRIET HUME
    REBECCA WEST
    In this modern fairy tale, Rebecca West transports her reader with a tale of the polar opposites of mind and spirit, love and power   Harriet Hume's unchanging beauty and commitment to her art stand in stark contrast to Arnold Condorex's more worldly goals. After a romantic tryst, she discovers that she can read his mind, but Arnold, with his sights set on moving up in the worl...

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  • THE JUDGE
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    THE JUDGE
    REBECCA WEST
    A brilliant romantic novel that traces the generational pulls of love and fidelity   At seventeen, Ellen Melville's life is filled with passion for the suffrage movement, her mother, and Edinburgh, if not romance. Then Richard Yaverland, a successful older man, enters her life. Haunted by his own illegitimacy, Richard wants to avert the pain that left his mother a bitter woman ...

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  • FAMILY MEMORIES
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    FAMILY MEMORIES
    REBECCA WEST
    Published posthumously, this wise and entertaining family history and memoir offers keen insight into the origins of Rebecca West and her work   Working on  Family Memories for over twenty years, West set out to narrate the story of her mother's, father's and husband's unique and talented families. As in her novels, the richly drawn characters of her heritage and childhood trav...

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  • THE ONLY POET
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    THE ONLY POET
    REBECCA WEST
    An enlightening collection of short stories and other unpublished works that highlight Rebecca West's deft hand at fiction   Published posthumously, these short stories and excerpts from unfinished works highlight what made West a highly regarded novelist: sensuous descriptions, self-sufficient yet vulnerable heroines wrestling with the meanings of identity and love, and even b...

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  • THE STRANGE NECESSITY
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    THE STRANGE NECESSITY
    REBECCA WEST
    In this intellectually challenging collection of literary criticism, Rebecca West undertakes the question of art's value, examining the works of her contemporaries and their places in history   "The Strange Necessity," one of the twelve essays collected here and first published in 1928, anchors West's quest to understand why art matters and how aesthetics of every caliber can n...

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  • SUNFLOWER
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    SUNFLOWER
    REBECCA WEST
    A beautiful actress of the 1920s faces painful decisions about her lovers and her future in Rebecca West's posthumously published semi-autobiographical novel   Star of the stage, Sunflower has everything but the attention she craves from her long-time—and married—lover, Lord Essington, a brilliant and intense man occupied with more intellectual thoughts. Eager for a more reward...

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  • THIS REAL NIGHT
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    THIS REAL NIGHT
    REBECCA WEST
    A new era for women—and the Aubrey sisters—dawns in the trilogy that proves " what an extraordinary, and extraordinarily honest, writer Rebecca West was" ( The New York Times ). They have put down their schoolbooks and put up their hair, but a talented musician and her kin ponder what being a young woman on one's own will entail. Abandoned by their feckless father, Rose and her...

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  • THE THINKING REED
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    THE THINKING REED
    REBECCA WEST
    A thoughtful romantic novel of love found, lost, rekindled, and redefined   Isabelle, a wealthy American widow, arrives in France to restart her life and discovers she has her choice of eligible suitors. Torn between a placid liaison with a southerner and a tortuous affair with a Frenchman, Isabelle's plans suddenly take an unexpected turn that will ultimately lead her to a lov...

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  • THE YOUNG REBECCA
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    THE YOUNG REBECCA
    REBECCA WEST
    A collection of Rebecca West’s early journalistic writings reveals her clarity of mind, severity of wit, and relevancy in today’s modern world In this collection of early writings, beginning when Rebecca West was just eighteen years old, Jane Marcus sheds light on one of the foremost feminist and political thinkers of our time. West’s essays, reviews, and public correspondence ...

    $119.00

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  • THE SAGA OF THE CENTURY TRILOGY
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    THE SAGA OF THE CENTURY TRILOGY
    REBECCA WEST
    Three novels in one volume following the artistic and eccentric Aubrey family in the years surrounding the Great War.  In The Fountain Overflows,Papa Aubrey’s wife and twin daughters, Mary and Rose, are piano prodigies, his young son, Richard Quin, is a lively boy, and his eldest daughter, Cordelia, is a beautiful and driven young woman with musical aspirations. But the talente...

    $299.00

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  • THE THINKING REED
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    THE THINKING REED
    REBECCA WEST
    A thoughtful romantic novel of love found, lost, rekindled, and redefined  Isabelle, a wealthy American widow, arrives in France to restart her life and discovers she has her choice of eligible suitors. Torn between a placid liaison with a southerner and a tortuous affair with a Frenchman, Isabelle’s plans suddenly take an unexpected turn that will ultimately lead her to a love...

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