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  • What Teachers Make

    In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World

    by Taylor Mali ...
    In praise of the greatest job in the world...The right book at the right time: an impassioned defense of teachers and why we need them now more than ever.Teacher turned teacher’s advocate Taylor Mali inspired millions with his original poem “What Teachers Make,” a passionate and unforgettable response to a rich man at a dinner party who sneeringly asked him what teachers make. Mali’s sharp, funny, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Last Time As We Are

    by Taylor Mali ...
    You don't need a classroom to be a teacher, and you don't need to be a teacher to help someone learn a lesson. Taylor Mali's poetry explores this truth in entertaining and plainspoken ways because "the last thing this world needs is another poem" ("The Call to What We Know"). Whether discussing the language of love or the love of language, the poems contained in The Last Time As We Are prove that ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Bouquet of Red Flags

    by Taylor Mali ...
    With the perfect blend of wit, eloquence, and honesty, Taylor Mali's poems delight, haunt, and illuminate with equal measure every subject they celebrate. Bouquet of Red Flags is laced with more than the typical LSD (love, sex, divorce) of modern poetry. Here lie poems that elevate the overlooked daily miracles of coincidence ("The Luck I Crave") as well as the blessings of loss and longing ("Love ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Teachers I Loved Best

    by Taylor Mali ...
    Illustrated by Erica Root ...
    Educator and acclaimed poet Taylor Mali honors the magic of teachers and mentors in this joyful, energetic, uplifting gift book.Easy teachers who gave easy tests are not the teachers I loved the best....Perfect for teacher appreciation gifts and graduation, here is an inspirational, rhyming picture book ode to the extra-special teachers we remember all those years later.Children will love seeing ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • What Learning Leaves

    New Edition

    by Taylor Mali ...
    Called "a ranting comic showman and a literary provocateur" by The New York Times, Taylor Mali writes eloquently and entertainingly about his experiences in and out of the middle school classroom. Bob Holman, the man who brought the poetry slam to New York City, calls Mali's poems "clear, funny, appealing, accessible. And smart." "What Learning Leaves" includes many of Mali's greatest hits, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Teachers I Loved Best

    by Taylor Mali ...
    Narrated by Taylor Mali ...

    Unabridged

    4 min

    Educator and acclaimed poet Taylor Mali honors the magic of teachers and mentors in this joyful, energetic, uplifting gift audiobook.Easy teachers who gave easy tests are not the teachers I loved the best....Perfect for Teacher Appreciation Week and graduation, here is an inspirational, rhyming audiobook ode to the extra-special teachers we remember all those years later.Children will love seeing ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    What Teachers Make

    In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World

    by Taylor Mali ...
    Narrated by Adam Verner ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 29 min

    Former middle-school teacher and teachers' advocate Taylor Mali struck a chord with his passionate response to a man at a dinner party who asked him what kind of salary teachers make—a poetic rant that has been seen and forwarded millions of times on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.Based on the poem that inspired a movement, What Teachers Make is Mali's sharp, funny, reflective, critical call to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Whetting Stone, The

    A reading by the poet

    by Taylor Mali ...
    Narrated by Taylor Mali ...

    Unabridged

    30 min

    In September of 2004, Rebecca Tauber Mali, the wife of performance poet Taylor Mali, killed herself by jumping out the window of their apartment in New York City. She was a teacher, and it was morning on the first day of school. In this haunting new collection of poems, Taylor Mali, once a teacher himself, explores her life and their love as well as the shape and texture of his own guilt and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World

    The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance

    Narrated by Taylor Mali ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 47 min

    In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven men sailed from England in an attempt to cross Antarctica from one side to the other. Their ship, Endurance, became icebound and sank, still one hundred miles from land. What follows is one of the most amazing stories of survival ever recorded.Over the next nineteen months, Shackleton led his men through brutal perils of every kind on ice, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Poetry By Chance

    An Anthology of Poems Powered by Metaphor Dice

    Edited by Taylor Mali ...
    Writers of all ages and levels of experience have been using Taylor Mali’s Metaphor Dice for years to explore and revel in the formulaic nature of metaphors. The game gives you a collection of three different concepts or language tools that create a metaphor, and it is up to the poet to fill in the rest of the poem based on their roll. Some metaphors work and some don’t. Some are immediately ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Blizzard!

    The Storm That Changed America

    by Jim Murphy ...
    Narrated by Taylor Mali ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 39 min

    On March 12, 1888, hurricane-force winds and unrelenting snow began to bring the region of Virginia to Maine to its knees. During the next three days, the Great Blizzard raged out of control, devastating every community in its path. Through the eyes and words of survivors and victims alike, as well as the careful research for which Newbery Honor Award author Jim Murphy is known, listeners will ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    In the Heart of the Sea, Young Reader’s Edition

    The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

    Narrated by Taylor Mali ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 37 min

    In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex—the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick. In a harrowing page-turner, Nathaniel Philbrick restores this epic story to its rightful place in American history.In 1819 the 240-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage. Fifteen months later, in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD