Terry Roberts’ direct ancestors have lived in the mountains of Western North Carolina since the time of the Revolutionary War. Steven Roberts, during the early 1900’s, was the proprietor of the Mountain Park Hotel in the town of Hot Springs in Madison County, North Carolina. Julius and Belva Anderson Roberts lived and farmed near Hot Springs in Anderson Cove. Born in Asheville and raised in Weaverville, North Carolina, Roberts is the Director of the National Paideia Center and lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his family.
His debut novel, A Short Time To Stay Here, won the Willie Morris award for southern fiction.
13 Ebooks by Terry Roberts
Terry Roberts: That Bright Land
Winner of the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Prize.
A new Southern gothic thriller from the winner of the 2012 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction. …
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€19.99
Terry Roberts: A Short Time to Stay Here
The summer of 1917 should have been a summer like any other. Stephen Robbins should have been doing the same thing he’d been doing for years past. As a young boy he’d fled his life in a secluded moun …
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€19.99
Terry Roberts: The Holy Ghost Speakeasy and Revival
Jedidiah Robbins is a man on a crusade. From town to town, his Gospel train rides the rails of 1920s Appalachia, spreading the Good News with his daughter and a loyal group of roustabouts in tow. But …
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€18.99
Laura Billings: Paideia Classroom
With sample lesson plans, student assessment forms (with rubrics), and other practical materials, this book shows how the principles of the Paideia Program can result in student learning and …
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€21.18
Laura Billings: Paideia Classroom
With sample lesson plans, student assessment forms (with rubrics), and other practical materials, this book shows how the principles of the Paideia Program can result in student learning and …
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€21.18
Laura Billings & Terry Roberts: Teaching Critical Thinking
Help students meet today’s literacy demands with this new book from Terry Roberts and Laura Billings. The authors show how a seminar approach can lead students deeper into a text and improve their …
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€28.17
Laura Billings & Terry Roberts: Teaching Critical Thinking
Help students meet today’s literacy demands with this new book from Terry Roberts and Laura Billings. The authors show how a seminar approach can lead students deeper into a text and improve their …
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€27.94
Terry Roberts: Power of Paideia Schools
Beginning in 1982 philosopher Mortimer Adler led a group of educators and scholars in publishing a trilogy of books on what they called "Paideia" educational reform. The first book, The …
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€15.02
Laura Billings & Eleanor Dougherty: Better Writing Breakthrough
Every teacher knows the challenge of trying to engage reluctant readers and struggling writersstudents whose typical response to a writing prompt is a few sentence fragments scribbled on a sheet of …
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€41.87
Laura Billings & Eleanor Dougherty: Better Writing Breakthrough
Every teacher knows the challenge of trying to engage reluctant readers and struggling writersstudents whose typical response to a writing prompt is a few sentence fragments scribbled on a sheet of …
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€42.10
Terry Roberts: The New Smart
In their world, neither static definitions of intelligence nor traditional ideas of training stand us in good stead. Rather, we need to reframe the question given what lies before us and come to term …
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€18.99
Terry Roberts: My Mistress’ Eyes Are Raven Black
Winner of the 2022 Thriller Fest Award for Best Original Paperback Novel
‘[An] impressive historical thriller.’ —Publishers Weekly
Ellis Island, 1920.
New York Harbor’s immigration and public h …
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€18.99
Terry Roberts: The Sky Club
Finalist for the 2023 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award
“When I’m dead and buried . . . you get the hell out of here . . . Make a life somewhere else . . . a life that I can’t even imagine.”&# …
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€21.99
