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Whether they are light-hearted or serious, time-tested or new, share your Teaching Tips with your colleagues and us! Your innovations, experiences, and tips towards better teaching — and teaching better — are welcomed.

PLUS, the Adjunct Genie will choose a "Top Teaching Tip" each month. If yours is selected, we will send you a FREE copy of the Penguin book of your choice from the list below.

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Please select one of the 12 Penguin titles listed below. If our Adjunct Genie awards your tip the "Top Teaching Tip" of the month, we will send you the book FREE.

Check the box next to the desired book to indicate which title you would like to receive:

	1.)	Patricia Cornwell, Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed Along with a team of experts, Patricia Cornwell applies her trademark skills for meticulous research, forensic techniques, and scientific expertise to reveal the true identity of the infamous Victorian killer. ISBN: 0-399-14932-5

	2.)	Tracy Chevalier, Falling Angels Time magazine crowned Girl With a Pearl Earring "a portrait of radiance...a jewel." In her New York Times best-selling follow-up, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters. ISBN: 0-452-28320-5

	3.)	Mike Lupica, Wild Pitch This is what happens when washed-up one-time pitching phenom Showtime Charlie Stoddard gets a second chance, and discovers that none of it is exactly what he expected it to be. ISBN: 0-399-14927-9

	4.)	Douglas Kelley, The Captain's Wife Based on the true story of Mary Patten, Douglas Kelley has crafted a brilliant and gripping tale of deception, danger, and treachery on the high seas. ISBN: 0-452-28355-8

	5.)	William Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault In this brilliant, profound and moving story of love, guilt and forgiveness, William Trevor has written a novel that stands alongside the best literature in the English language. ISBN: 0-670-03154-2

	6.)	Mark Spragg, The Fruit of Stone Mark Spragg's fiction debut is the story of the lifelong friendship between two men and their love for the woman who eludes them. Muscular, vivid, wise, tender, funny, and true: Spragg's much-anticipated first novel is entirely unforgettable. ISBN: 1-573-22223-2

	7.)	Adam Davies, The Frog King: A Love Story Harry Driscoll is living in New York City (if you call trying to survive on an editorial assistant's salary "living"). BUT... Harry Driscoll has a dream (if you call an unfinished manuscript hidden in the closet a "dream"). ISBN: 1-573-22938-5

	8.)	Harvey Frommer, A Yankee Century: A Celebration of the First Hundred Years of Baseball's Greatest Team This handsome and definitive volume celebrates a legendary century of Yankee history with rare photographs and unforgettable moments on and off the field. ISBN: 0-425-18617-2

	9.)	Tyler Anbinder, Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum All but forgotten today, Five Points horrified and enthralled everyone who saw it in its heyday. Award-winning historian Tyler Anbinder recaptures the enthralling story of this microcosm of American immigrant experience. ISBN: 0-452-28361-2

	10.)	Patrick S. Halley, On the Road with Hillary: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Journey from Arkansas to the U.S. Senate Patrick Halley takes the reader on a ten-year roller-coaster ride, with often-hilarious behind-the-scenes episodes. This is the ultimate book for political junkies and all of Hillary's admirers and detractors. ISBN: 0-670-03111-9

	11.)	John T. Edge, A Gracious Plenty: Recipes and Recollections from the American South Introduction by William Ferris. "There have been many, many cookbooks about the food of the former Confederacy. But A Gracious Plenty...trumps them all." (Wall Street Journal) "A cookbook you will enjoy from cover to cover." (Dallas Morning News) ISBN: 1-557-88388-2

	12.)	Jacques Steinberg, The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College New York Times education reporter Jacques Steinberg was given unparalleled access to an entire admissions season at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. His suspenseful, highly readable account moves from high schools to the admissions office to student's homes, as the academic futures of thousands of young people hang in the balance. ISBN: 0-670-03135-6

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