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B.H. James

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B.H. James was born and raised an only child in Galt, California. He attended Catholic schools and had a dog named Pepsi. He went to Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo where he majored in Sociology, which was slightly useless as he mostly took creative writing courses. He took too long to graduate, mostly due to his preoccupation with pursuing a career in amateur rodeo. Somewhere in his late twenties, he took a job teaching high school English in the International Baccalaureate program in Stockton, California, finding there his two loves: teaching and his wife, Liz, a fellow English teacher. B.H. holds a Master’s of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska. It was there that Parnucklian for Chocolate, B.H.’s first novel, began to ...more

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New Story at The Militant Grammarian

“Fire” (my eleventh Bob Sanders story) was published yesterday at The Militant Grammarian. If you’d like, you can read it here.

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	Parnucklian for Chocolate 3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2013 — 4 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
	A Sea of Troubles: Pairing Literary and Informational Texts to Address Social Inequality by Elizabeth James, B.H. James (Goodreads Author) 4.60 avg rating — 25 ratings — 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
	Method to the Madness: A Common Core Guide to Creating Critical Thinkers Through the Study of Literature by B.H. James (Goodreads Author), Elizabeth James 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 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
	The Subtopian: Selected Stories: Volume 2 by Trevor D. Richardson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kirby Light (Contributor), Steve Gronert Ellerhoff (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015	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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Notes from the Underground

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Song of Myself

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S/Z: An Essay

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