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Jeremy D. Lucas

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Jeremy D. Lucas has been an active classroom teacher for more than a decade, serving elementary and middle school students across South and Central Florida since 2010. Following a degree in history and political science, he went on to earn a Masters in Library and Information Science from Florida State University, allowing him to double as an academic reference and research librarian through the University of Central Florida from 2013 to 2023. Jeremy has published nine books, three of which are directly tied to education, from teacher retention to family partnerships to the struggle for professional motivation. He and his wife live in Lake Mary, Florida.

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	Thank You, Bliss it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Don't Quit On Us: Lessons from an Abandoned Classroom really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just Walk Normal (The Prairie Home Novels) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Segregated Hour: A Layman's Guide to the History of Black Liberation Theology 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cold Turkey Rage: Essays from a Midlife Echo Chamber, 2016-2021 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just Walk Normal (The Prairie Home Novels Book 3) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tinderbox Kids 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Fragile Partnership: A Year in the Civic Life of a Florida Teacher 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Two Flies & A Wet Mosquito: Short & Steady Reflections from a Turbulent World 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Essential Rumi

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Why We Hate: Understanding the Roots of Human Conflict

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Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

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Jeremy Lucas rated a book really liked it Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season by Forough Farrokhzad	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
For whatever reason, this being a sampler of Farrokhzad's greatest poems, I found myself more quickly moved by her earlier work, the rebellious and admittedly sinful part of her that rejects piety in all its forms, wishing, as she said, that God coul ...more
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Jeremy Lucas rated a book liked it Layli and Majnun by Nizami Ganjavi	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The story itself feels narrow and unhinged, with good reason, of course, because the Majnun is clearly and definitively a madman. But the story still carries with it a number of connections to the ancient world, from the Persian Empire to the Hebrew ...more
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Jeremy Lucas rated a book really liked it All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Reading this in 2026, after the late February invasion of Iran by Trump, after his openly braggadocios killing of Khamenei, after a Pentagon investigation conceded that his American bombs took out 150 Iranian school children, it's hard to conceive of ...more
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Jeremy Lucas rated a book really liked it The Education of John Adams by R.B. Bernstein	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
At a time in American history when "fair and balanced" is nothing but a cover for propaganda, for excusing every wrong as a right, a number of our history books are getting littered with similar retellings, writers framing the past according to what ...more
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