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Ridge Valley is the story of a mining town, located in the vast Connellsville Coke region in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Founded in the early 1900's the Ridge Valley mine was worked by hundreds of European immigrants to extract its treasure. Growing up in the "Patch" in the late teens and early 1920's are teenagers John, Jerry, Bull and Corky who soon face a calamity at the mine that immediately propels them into adulthood. In Carbon Hill, Alab...

David Hinshaw was born many decades ago in the small town of Puyallup, Washington. For the first 23 years of his life he was a semi-professional student, attending Tyee High School, Highline Community College, the University of Washington (go Huskies!) and Northwest College, amongst others. Most of his adult life, he was a transportation engineer and cargo technician, driving truck for Willows Lumber then Corliss Resources. When forced to reti...

In this real-life memoir, Roderick Knight's admittance into the college of his dreams turns into an unexpected nightmare. He enters a downward spiral upon his puzzling inability to adjust to his new environment. Roderick begins an arduous journey that includes a series of hospitalizations and other painful experiences as he fights battles raging within his mind. It takes years of struggle and setbacks before he is able to emerge from the tortu...

Life's greatest challenge-parenting In Cradle of Heaven, Murshida Vera Corda, Ph.D., helps parents and caretakers develop the ability to attune to their children through observing what is happening in their five developmental bodies: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and ethical/moral, regardless of their chronological age. She shows how motherhood and fatherhood consist of a series of skills we relearn in life's greatest challenge - par...

Escrito por uno de los poetas más prolíficos del siglo veintiuno de cualquier idioma o país, Rudy Calderón, enseña su versatilidad y pasión por la cultura y regiones mejicanas. Producido en Acapulco, Guerrero, el noveno poemario penetra a lo más profundo del intelecto, corazón, y alma del ser humano en general y del mejicano en particular. Se notará un toque distinto al ritmo acapulqueño donde Calderón sintetiza su experiencia. Incluso, en est...

Say hello to another comeback kid, the osprey. The osprey, like the California brown pelican and the American bald eagle, was once the victim of the pesticide DDT that caused its shells to become brittle and break, interfering with the ospreys' reproductive cycles. That combined with humans removing dead trees in which ospreys nested because they needed leafless trees in which to nest and make a quick escape (because osprey wings easily got ca...

The purpose of this quantitative study was to discover the perceptions of school culture and correlate those perceptions with standardized test scores in elementary and secondary schools in southwestern Arizona. The intention of this study was to contribute to the field of education leadership related to student achievement and factors contributing to student achievement including organizational culture. A survey of teachers and administrators...

La escritora Diana Hagee lleva a las mujeres a través de un examen personal de sus vidas y de sus metas desde la perspectiva de Dios, no desde el punto de vista de la sociedad secular.

The Frazzled Factor offers a lifeline to struggling working moms who feel overwhelmed and overworked.

When Jake Sheffield, a typical Christian teenager, awakens to discover that he can hear the deepest spiritual needs of those around him, his friends witness the experience and begin to "hear" also.

Adapted from master storyteller and award-winning children's author Max Lucado's popular adult book "Next Door Savior, " this book deals with the entire life of Christ, from His birth to His death and resurrection, showing His nature as both God and man. Through Scripture and anecdote, teens meet a Jesus who is intimately acquainted with all kinds of people. This is a Jesus who got his hands dirty, his feet wet, and his heart involved. His ver...

In true Miyeni style, this book of poems which range in time over the last two decades is indeed a journey. A journey through the geography of love and hate, politics, race, dance, poetry and language. Above all, it is a journey through language.