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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
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
Based on a beloved teacherβs 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 Davidβs vision, memory, mobility, andβmost tragically of allβhis ability to continue teaching, he was devastated by the thought that he would no longer have the chance to impact his studentsβ lives each day.
But teaching is something Menasche just couldnβt 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 wouldnβt allow it to steal his present. He turned to Facebook with an audacious plan: a journey across Americaβ by bus, by train, by red-tipped caneβin 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 Americaβs heartland and San Franciscoβs Golden Gate, and visiting hundreds of his students, Davidβs fearless journey explores the things we all want and need out of lifeβfamily, security, independence, love, adventureβand forces us to stop to consider our own Priority List.
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