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This collection presents through dramatic monologues the journeys of self-discovery of six historical figures: Danish author Isak Dinesen, who found her creative voice on a farm in Africa, 18th-century explorer Col. John May in the Ohio frontier, one personification of the Hindu Living Goddess, 19th-century British Consul to Zanzibar Atkins Hamerton, and 19th-century British explorers in search of the source of the Nile, Sir Richard Burton and...

We are witnesses to a world-historic achievement. We have made what was once a rarity-entry into old age-into something quite, ordinary. Hundreds of millions of people expect to grow old and will very likely do so. Even better, we have fashioned an old age that routinely yields the happiest years of one's life. At the same time, we work ceaselessly to snatch defeat from the jaws of this great victory.Our times are defined, in part, by a widesp...

What would you do if your whole world collapsed? Suddenly widowed a few months after losing her father to cancer, Aimee's world is upended. Left with a pair of shoes her husband designed but never got the chance to wear, the two powerful words printed on them become her silent mantra. Moving through the shadowlands of grief, she reflects on the love story they shared from the US to the UK and what she gleaned from their time together to Keep G...

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Personal and intimate poems that meander through life's paths of loss and joy via loves and losses, childhood memories and familial stomping grounds. This collection begins on an adult journey, and then turns back to childhood, the details which shape the yearnings and realities of the future. These poems are woven together by relationships with loved ones, the land, and ghosts of the past.

Now available in a revised and expanded edition, this accessible guide introduces readers to the issues and controversies surrounding the education of language minority students in the United States. What makes this book a perennial favorite are the succinct descriptions of alternative practices for transforming our schools and students futures, such as building on students home languages and literacy practices, incorporating curricular and pe...

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RIVETING - JAW DROPPING Smooth talking Jason Keeble is featured in this novel based on true events of mind-boggling, con games used to manipulate and coerce the public out of money and possessions. A natural born con artist, Jason mastered the game so well it allowed him to live a lavish lifestyle most would dream of. The cons delivered high financial scores and attracted beautiful women to Jason but the southern charmer's amorous adventures b...

The three notorious Santa Barbara sailors...Tom, Ernie and Emmet are back and once again wreaking havoc and inadvertently uncovering clandestine plots in this third adventure by Harris T, Vincent. Only this time the action takes place in Paris, France. After being dismissed from the Santa Barbara Yacht Club for questionable behavior during a regatta, the three wander up to Brophy's restaurant where they spot an ad in a sailing magazine recruit...

Although a cease-fire agreement was signed in Panmunjeom on July 27, 1953, fighting between North and South Korea never stopped. The hot war was replaced by a low-intensity war. Terrorism, assassinations, infiltration of spies, and the like replaced tank battles and artillery duels. Until 1993, the United States patrolled its sector of the DMZ (demilitarized zone) in South Korea. In Call Sign: Purple Three, author Mark Heathco, who pulled 385 ...

In the left field stands of Comiskey Park, on July 21 1955, Jack Levy came to a striking realization. It was a blisteringly hot day, 100 degrees plus. The Yankees were in town to play his beloved White Sox. He was 16 years old and a new vendor at Comiskey. And being a rookie, he was assigned peanuts, 300 bags to a load! Peanuts don't sell on hot days. Cold drinks do. His dream of being assigned Coke and making serious money that day was shatte...

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Simone, a vibrant African-American girl growing up in Washington, D.C., spends the day at the museum with her mother. The highlight of their day is a visit to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture where Simone misplaces something she values.