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If you are in instructor in the U.S., TP will send you at no charge one book from the 32 books in the Townsend Library and the Bluford Series for every TEN STEPS book you order from us.

Example 1:

For instance, if you order 100 Ten Steps to Advancing College Reading Skills for your students, contact us at cs@townsendpress.com. We'll then send you 100 TL books of your choice. Perhaps you'll want 100 copies of Reading Changed My Life! — inspiring stories of three women who took hard, courageous steps to change their lives for the better. We'll send the free books directly to you at your college address. (Please note that we cannot send these free books to your bookstore. It would be unfair for them to have to handle distribution of books without compensation.)

Example 2: If your school orders a combination of all three TEN STEPS books for the coming semester, totaling 1500 copies, contact us at cs@townsendpress.com. We'll then send you 1,500 TL books at no charge. Maybe you'll want 50 to 100 copies of each book — whatever combination you request, we'll send them at no charge for either the books or regular UPS shipping. Perhaps you'll want the books sent to your reading coordinator or department chairperson. (Please note again that the books will need to be mailed to and distributed by you or your department since your college bookstore, which takes a percentage of each book sold, can make no profit from free books.)

Notes about the Books:

All the Bluford series books, Reading Changed My Life! and Letters My Mother Never Read are original stories. The other books are timeless classics, from Jack London's White Fang to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

Please note that the edited TL classics are not "dumbed down" versions of the originals, nor are they abridged by the simplistic removal of large chunks of material. Each book has been carefully and respectfully edited in order to help readers enjoy its wonderful story.

Click here for more information on our editing process.