10 must-read nonfiction books like A Repair Kit for Grading: 15 Fixes for Broken Grades by Ken O'Connor

Cover of A Repair Kit for Grading: 15 Fixes for Broken Grades by Ken O'Connor

A Repair Kit for Grading: 15 Fixes for Broken Grades

By: Ken O'Connor

3.80

Format: 125 pages, Hardcover

paperback only, there is no hardcover edition

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A Repair Kit for Grading: 15 Fixes for Broken Grades by Ken O'Connor , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Thrawn (Star Wars: Thrawn, #1)

By: Timothy Zahn

4.31

Format: 427 pages, Hardcover

One of the most cunning and ruthless warriors in the history of the Galactic Empire, Grand Admiral … read more

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"I did not refer to the legends themselves,"

-Timothy Zahn, Thrawn (Star Wars: Thrawn, #1)

"Repression and revolt feed and devour each other."

-Timothy Zahn, Thrawn (Star Wars: Thrawn, #1)

"Still, even when false, legends can be most informative."

-Timothy Zahn, Thrawn (Star Wars: Thrawn, #1)

"One may learn a great deal of a people by the stories they tell of others."

-Timothy Zahn, Thrawn (Star Wars: Thrawn, #1)

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2. Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

By: Bill O'Reilly , Martin Dugard

3.67

Format: None pages,

A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abrah… read more

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  • nonfiction

3. Anatomy of a Scandal: A Novel

By: Sarah Vaughan

3.91

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

An astonishingly incisive and suspenseful novel about a scandal amongst Britain's privileged elite … read more

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4. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

By: Jamie Ford

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Set during one of the most conflicted and volatile times in American history - the internment of Am… read more

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5. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

By: bell hooks

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more

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6. Everything Sad Is Untrue

By: Daniel Nayeri

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more

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"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

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7. What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

By: Bruce D. Perry

4.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
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8. Clap When You Land

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

4.24

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times … read more

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"Who knew death must be so damn polite?"

-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

"All these lies that we've all swallowed, they're probably rotting in our stomachs."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

"A queen offers her hand to be kissed, & can form it into a fist while smiling the whole damn time."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

"This whole time she's swallowed her words like bitter pills not realizing they were slow-drip poison."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

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9. Other Words for Home

By: Jasmine Warga

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

I am learning how to be sad and happy at the same time. Jude never thought she’d be leaving h… read more

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"Americans are obsessed with murder"

-Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home

"You will belong here. . .You will make anywhere beautiful."

-Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home

"It seems like the kind of place where dreams could grow and live."

-Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home

"Mama hugs me and I hold her back. Sometimes all you can do is hold on."

-Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home

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10. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.60

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times bestselling author of… read more

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  • nonfiction
"When someone loves loudly, with everything they have in them, the withholding of that loud love, even briefly, feels impossible to endure."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

"If I am going to be afraid, I might as well do it honest. Arm in arm with everyone I love, adorned in blood and bruises, singing jokes on our way to the grave."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

"I have wanted to die enough times in my life to understand the idea that wanting to die is not a foolish thing... I don't mean to prop up the idea of wanting an exit, but for me, not to imagine it as…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

"Of the many things America loves to pat itself on the back about, one of the things is an obsession with exploration, or the desire to seek places beyond the places you are from or the places you hav…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

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11. Huda F Are You?

By: Huda Fahmy

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

From the creator of Yes, I'm Hot In This, this cheeky, hilarious, and honest graphic novel asks the… read more

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"Use your hijab, woman! Cover that forehead!"

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Are You?

"I swear if we end up getting joint weddings, we're running away."

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Are You?

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12. From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life

By: Arthur C. Brooks

3.94

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard p… read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

By: Jenny Odell

3.68

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Huda F Cares?

By: Huda Fahmy

4.21

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this laugh-out-loud funny sequel to the graphic novel Huda F Are You?, the Fahmys are off to Dis… read more

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"Y'know, you catch more flies with honey..." "I don't know why people say that. You can catch flies with garbage too."

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Cares?

"We don't know they're friends. They could be brother and sister." "Impossible. They're smiling." "You're right. They're definitely not related."

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Cares?

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15. The Power of Ritual: How to Create Meaning and Connection in Everything You Do

By: Casper ter Kuile

3.88

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Ter Kuile, cohost of the podcast Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, demonstrates in his thoughtful d… read more

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  • nonfiction
"That's what this book is all about--taking things we do every day and layering meaning and ritual onto them, even experiences as ordinary as reading or eating--by thinking of them as spiritual practi…"

-Casper ter Kuile, The Power of Ritual: How to Create Meaning and Connection in Everything You Do

"I am convinced we are in the midst of a paradigm shift. That what used to hold us in community no longer works. That the spiritual offerings of yesteryear no longer help us thrive. And that, just lik…"

-Casper ter Kuile, The Power of Ritual: How to Create Meaning and Connection in Everything You Do

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16. The Love Prescription: Seven Days to More Intimacy, Connection, and Joy

By: John M. Gottman

4.47

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

What makes love last? Why does one couple stay together forever, while another falls apart? And mos… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Things I Wish I Told My Mother by Susan  Patterson

17. Things I Wish I Told My Mother

By: Susan Patterson

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A mother and daughter unpack a lifetime's secrets while on vacation in Paris. Every daughter ha… read more

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18. Mathematics for Human Flourishing

By: Francis Su

4.26

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

AN INCLUSIVE VISION OF MATHEMATICS - ITS BEAUTY, ITS HUMANITY, AND ITS POWER TO BUILD VIRTUES THAT … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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19. Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity

By: Peggy Orenstein

4.24

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

The author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daugh… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Psychologist Michael Thompson has pointed out that silence in the face of cruelty or sexism is how boys become men."

-Peggy Orenstein, Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity

"They [boys] are particularly eager to have their fathers talk to them about their own experience with sex, love, even regret."

-Peggy Orenstein, Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity

"At one time or another, every young man will get a letter of admission to dick school. The question is will he drop out, graduate, or go for an advanced degree?"

-Peggy Orenstein, Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity

"As culture critic Dara Mathis tweeted about Kanye West, 'Daughters are not spiritual retribution for your misogyny.' They are neither a form of punishment nor "tiny spiritual guides sent to newly sho…"

-Peggy Orenstein, Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity

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20. A Repair Kit for Grading: 15 Fixes for Broken Grades

By: Ken O'Connor

3.80

Format: 125 pages, Hardcover

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • school
  • education

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4.29

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