What does it take to learn to teach the toughest children? Twenty-four struggling six-year-olds, one angry young horse, and a teacher who wouldn’t give up. In this powerful book, part memoir and part how-to, master teacher Alix Moore shares with us how she learned to teach the unteachables. We follow her journey as she struggles with challenging animal and human...
Learn MoreBeginning from an interest in her own family’s history, with From the Old Sod to the Naugatuck Valley Janet Maher shares a deeply textured journey through a fascinating corner of the Irish Catholic diaspora. She explores the history of Ireland through the perspective of Catholicism, bridging it to the origins of Catholicism in Connecticut generally, then to several...
Learn MoreIlluminating the intimate, human faces of war, this unique series of short stories by award-winning author Katey Schultz questions the stereotypes of modern war by bearing witness to the shared struggles of all who are touched by it. Numerous characters—returning U.S. soldier and pragmatic jihadist, Afghan mother and listless American sister, courageous amputee and a...
Learn MoreThere are very few benefits to being the only man in the convent. There are fewer still being the only big brother to 250 boys in an orphanage. But if you keep busy, you stumble into opportunities to help. And if you’re clueless, you don’t know better than to attempt the improbable. And if you’re clumsy, you trip over life’s lessons at every turn....
Learn MoreMany beginning writers and editors benefited from a crusty old editor’s brisk maxims about the craft. If you want to be reminded of those days, look inside. If you want to learn those brisk maxims, many of them are collected here. And if you aspire to become a crusty old editor, this is the...
Learn MoreHow does a person stay upbeat in life when she constantly fears death or other health catastrophes? This humorous, absurd, yet relatable story offers a glimpse into the antics of a hypochondriac; from the rapturous to the downright ugly. She endures dance recitals gone wrong, first love amid the glow of mini golf, living the college dream with waffle batter in her hair,...
Learn MoreAs Eileen Rudnick drove home after a long day at work in October 2000, her life became unexpectedly and forever altered – she was in a near fatal head-on collision. A rush to Shock Trauma saved her life, but the accident left her with severe traumatic brain injury. The Glass Between us is the step-by-step chronology of her recovery from severe traumatic brain...
Learn MoreMore than 50 million children participate in some form of youth sport, but nearly 73% will drop out by the time they are thirteen years old. Playing Time is the first book about youth sports written by the person affected by youth sports programs: the young athlete. Fifteen-year-old Quinn Cotter helps grown-ups help kids play better, play longer, and smile...
Learn MoreIs investigative reporting about the environment advocacy? Drawing on revealing tales of adventure from their own experience, six reporters who have written about subjects including pollution, health, and ecology discuss how their stories take shape and what they do to ward off challenges to their credibility. Presented in a question and answer format, examples of their...
Learn MoreWine, Communism, and Volcanoes: A Story of Chilean Wine Drive beyond the dusty provincial towns and the Chilean landscape is carpeted with 1/4 million acres of grapes that ripen perfectly in bright sunlight, warm days, and cool evenings. Labor, land, and grape prices are low, so Chilean wineries can make high quality wines at a fraction of the cost of those in California,...
Learn MoreIn March 2005, a nine-year-old boy was gunned down in his Columbia Heights neighborhood in Washington, D.C. The unsolved murder tore the community to its core and sets Rose Marie Berger on an exploration for the soul of our nation’s capital. How can urban space be read as biblical narrative? Where do people locate themselves in urban time, space, and spirituality? Who...
Learn MoreCaptured Lightning is a compilation of award-winning magazine articles as judged by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). Their annual magazine writing contest highlights the outstanding work of journalism students throughout the country – and 2005 was no exception. The students represented in this compilation exceed broad...
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