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This book of student work is too interesting to put down. How are young people coping today with global warming, family, and friendships? Times are changing and we need to listen to our young people as they speak out on a multitude of issues.

Mariano, or "Yano, " Rubino might have counted himself lucky to survive, let alone achieve. Born on a Central California prune ranch in the midst of the Great Depression, Yano was the child of Sicilian immigrants who spoke no English-and who thus could teach him none. But his parents could instill in him a faith in God and in his own abilities, and an appreciation for family, community, the rewards of hard work, and the good that life has to o...

Hello from Japan. Not much new here. My four-year-olds attacked me, my crazy female stalkers jumped on the desk and professed their love for me, my depressed coworkers fist-fought each other at the all-you-can-drink karaoke bar, and I have no idea what I ate yesterday but it was uncooked and squishy. Pretty much the usual. What's new from home? Ben took the teaching job in Japan because he wasn't quite ready to figure out what he wanted to do ...

Set in Indian Territory during the Civil War, Watie's Wolves follows the violent adventures of a mixed-breed Cherokee, Jacob Welles, and three boyhood friends who evolve into a special unit of scouts within the famed Cherokee Mounted Rifles led by Stand Watie, the last confederate general to surrender. With an underlying current of tribal factionalism, they participate in and witness the decimation of Indian Territory as the conflagration of w...

Nell Prentice has herself and a cat to support, so she can't spend her time as she'd like, reading Homer and the other classical authors. She also can't afford to be too choosy about which cases she takes in her work as a private investigator, but she does have one firm rule-nothing involving a baby. Nothing that reminds her of what happened to Michael, the love of her life, when he tried to save a child. Nell breaks her rule for Laura Reed, a...

Management Without Reservations: Leadership Principles for the Manager's Life Journey presents readers the unique opportunity to examine their own life values and goals in relation to the essential characteristics consistently exhibited by successful leaders and managers. The book details the observations and insights of Brother Herman Zaccarelli C.S.C., as he presents, basted upon 50+ years experience, his observations on management, and then...

The quietly triumphant poems in Lorraine Vail's Paradise Found take the reader from island to island, Eden to Eden, disclosing the paradises both within us and without us, both immediate and distant. These sharp, finely-wrought, and accessible lyrics are performed by a poet in full command of her considerable talents. Guiding us to these necessary boundaries, between our interior selves and the world outside of us, between land and water, betw...

Mariano, or "Yano, " Rubino might have counted himself lucky to survive, let alone achieve. Born on a Central California prune ranch in the midst of the Great Depression, Yano was the child of Sicilian immigrants who spoke no English-and who thus could teach him none. But his parents could instill in him a faith in God and in his own abilities, and an appreciation for family, community, the rewards of hard work, and the good that life has to o...

The road to Briar Island is an unmarked, gravel track that only someone with a persistent death wish would travel down. Along that road, it's best to drive with the windows up, the doors locked, and a loaded assault rifle under the seat. Vicki Brosko follows that road in search of the truth about her late husband's hunting accident. With a convicted felon named Ted Grainger at her side for protection, she abandons her better judgment and ventu...

The iPINIONS Journal Commentaries Vol. II In this volume of political and social commentaries, Anthony Livingston Hall synthesizes the most critical developments of 2006 with remarkable clarity and inimitable wit. But, unlike more celebrated columnists who trade in partisan political talking points, Hall seems beholden to no ideology and is definitely an equal-opportunity critic. Moreover, you would be hard-pressed to find another columnist an...

When I was sixteen, my English teacher took me to hear Robert Frost recite his poetry at nearby Wilson College in Chambersburg Pa. From that day forward I had a passion for poetry. I worked and worked on my own poems until one day, when I was in my forties, and during a major crisis in my life, I broke through into a subconscious level from which poems began to flow in full bloom. I wrote then, and still write, to figure out where I am, to dea...

In the 1980's, Junction City, Kansas, is still a small, rural community two hours outside of Kansas City. People know each other on a first-name basis, look out for each other's children, and are proud of their blue-collar roots. It's also the home of four boys who create havoc in the industrial town: Cory Blake, Jeff Brooks, Chris Tate, and Michael Thomson. Known as the Junction City Four, the boys are always together and always causing troub...

Growing up in Jersey City, New Jersey, from 1966 to 1979, Tony quickly learns that there are few rules on the streets. A child born in the city has to learn fast, and Tony is no exception. From the beginning day of first grade in Catholic school in 1966, Tony creates friendships that will last a lifetime. There's Chubs, one of the leaders of the group and the toughest boy in the class, Patty, a skinny blond kid with a penchant for making peopl...

The fog had not cleared in Piero's head. He heard people talking but they were only making sounds without meaning. The glass in his hand remained full, the floating ice cubes in it tinkling with every nervous movement. When Al Doro approached him, Piero turned with a jerk, spilling a little of his gin and tonic. Al had almost never gone to Piero to talk frivolities. This time was no different. Al looked down over his belly and then up to Piero...

How I fumble about eulogizing a career that never even started . " FISHING IN THE MAELSTROM is the first book of poetry by David A. Lowenthal. It was born from a number of private "Poetic Journals" written over a 20-year span. Though never intended to be published, the book lies here before you. Lowenthal dives into the passion, love, fear, joy, pain, loss, death and dreams of the young poet struggling to find his voice. His poems move from ma...

Was tut man, wenn die Midlife Crises zwar ohne Vorwarnung zuschlägt, aber eigentlich gar nicht so schlimm wie befürchtet? Genau, man packt Texte und Gedichte aus verjährten Zeiten in ein Buch, tut so, als würde man damit irgendetwas verarbeiten oder verändern und wundert sich gleichzeitig darüber, was bisher geschah. Trotz Mangel an nachhaltigen Konsequenzen vom Autor herzlichst zur Nachahmung empfohlen.

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Gott will in unseren Herzen wohnen - wenn wir es nur zulassen. Diese Botschaft möchte Anna an uns weiterleiten. Unter verschiedenen Überschriften und Fragestellungen hat sie Bibelzitate, überwiegend aus dem Neuen Testament, zusammengestellt, die den richtigen Weg weisen. Die ausgewählten Textstellen bilden einen roten Faden für die Antwort auf die Frage: "Wo ist Gott?" Anna kommentiert diese Bibelverse sehr zurückhaltend und ergänzt sie durch...

The aim of this monograph is to give a unified introductory treatment of the most important iterative methods for constructing fixed points of nonlinear contractive type mappings. It summarizes the most significant contributions in the area by presenting, for each iterative method considered (Picard iteration, Krasnoselskij iteration, Mann iteration, Ishikawa iteration etc.), some of the most relevant, interesting, representative and actual co...

A collection of essays which is written by contemporary scholars on the practice and theory of art history as it responds to institutions as diverse as art galleries and museums, publishing houses and universities, school boards and professional organizations, political parties and multinational corporations.