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A Teacher's Final Quest to Discover Life's Greatest Lessons
Touchstone
January 2014
On Sale: January 14, 2014
240 pages
ISBN: 1476743444
EAN: 9781476743448
Kindle: B00BSBVHDE
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Non-Fiction
Based on a beloved teacher’s most popular lesson, The
Priority List is a bold, inspirational story of
learning, love, and legacy that challenges us to ask: What
truly matters in life?
David Menasche lived for
his work as a high school English teacher. His passion
inspired his students, and between lessons on Shakespeare
and sentence structure, he forged a unique bond with his
kids, buoying them through personal struggles while sharing
valuable life lessons.
When a six-year battle with
brain cancer ultimately stole David’s vision, memory,
mobility, and—most tragically of all—his ability to continue
teaching, he was devastated by the thought that he would no
longer have the chance to impact his students’ lives each
day.
But teaching is something Menasche just
couldn’t quit. Undaunted by the difficult road ahead of him,
he decided to end his treatments and make life his
classroom. Cancer had robbed him of his past and would most
certainly take his future; he wouldn’t allow it to steal his
present. He turned to Facebook with an audacious plan: a
journey across America— by bus, by train, by red-tipped
cane—in hopes of seeing firsthand how his kids were faring
in life. Had he made a difference? Within forty-eight hours
of posting, former students in more than fifty cities
replied with offers of support and shelter.
Traveling more than eight thousand miles from Miami to
New York, to America’s heartland and San Francisco’s Golden
Gate, and visiting hundreds of his students, David’s
fearless journey explores the things we all want and need
out of life—family, security, independence, love,
adventure—and forces us to stop to consider our own Priority
List.
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