Dodging Raindrops

Dodging Raindrops

Author: Loretta Boyer McClellan

Publisher:

Published: 2013-04

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9780985649647

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Posing the question of, "Do I dare?" in whether or not to dodge raindrops, the metaphor for "life happens" is unleashed in this inspiring collection of 28 poems and prose from Poet, Artist and Author of the Misthaven of Maine novels, Loretta Boyer McClellan. Using nature in all its might, majesty and tranquility as a recurring theme, readers engage in an emotional ascent in poetic storytelling, both gratifying and transforming. Several forms of poetry are included in this volume, including Haiku and Tanka, known for their richness of season and poignancy. Whether challenged by physical or emotional pain, grief or life's daily rigors; seeking peace, have already found it, or wish to share in a written form of it, Dodging Raindrops: Poems and Prose of Beauty, Peace and Healing offers an empathic approach to resiliency, strength in adversity and being at-one. Totaling 50 pages, the book was intentionally designed to be brief and lightweight, allowing for readers with chronic hand pain, as well as for those in need of shorter reading intervals to read with greater ease. Dodging Raindrops: Poems and Prose of Beauty, Peace and Healing was written for readers ages 12 and up.


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Download or read book Dodging Raindrops written by Loretta Boyer McClellan and published by . This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Posing the question of, "Do I dare?" in whether or not to dodge raindrops, the metaphor for "life happens" is unleashed in this inspiring collection of 28 poems and prose from Poet, Artist and Author of the Misthaven of Maine novels, Loretta Boyer McClellan. Using nature in all its might, majesty and tranquility as a recurring theme, readers engage in an emotional ascent in poetic storytelling, both gratifying and transforming. Several forms of poetry are included in this volume, including Haiku and Tanka, known for their richness of season and poignancy. Whether challenged by physical or emotional pain, grief or life's daily rigors; seeking peace, have already found it, or wish to share in a written form of it, Dodging Raindrops: Poems and Prose of Beauty, Peace and Healing offers an empathic approach to resiliency, strength in adversity and being at-one. Totaling 50 pages, the book was intentionally designed to be brief and lightweight, allowing for readers with chronic hand pain, as well as for those in need of shorter reading intervals to read with greater ease. Dodging Raindrops: Poems and Prose of Beauty, Peace and Healing was written for readers ages 12 and up.

Dodging Raindrops

Dodging Raindrops

Author: M. D. Ajemian

Publisher:

Published: 2005-02-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781930113008

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Hearings

Hearings

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce

Publisher:

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 988

ISBN-13:

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dead Reckoning

Dead Reckoning

Author: Dave Atcheson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-03-14

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1510716181

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An action-packed story of adventure and survival in one of the planet’s most treacherous places. This is the true story of a journey to a seaside town and the always unpredictable torrent of dark escapades that accompany a life at sea. It’s a story of a world peopled by those who often live on the frayed edges of society, who shun the world in which most people thrive. It’s a story in which college students and “fish hippies” work in canneries alongside survivalists, rednecks, religious freaks, and deckhands with damning secrets in dangerous waters, driven by the need to feed an insatiable appetite for adventure. This is the heart of the world Atcheson found himself in at the age of eighteen. Having never even seen the ocean, he took his first job on the frigate Lancer with Darwin Wood, a man so confounding, so complex, and so frightening that it’s hard to believe Atcheson walked away from that job unscathed. Forced to buddy up with a murderer in order to cope, Atcheson began to question his deeply ingrained ideas of success and status. The resulting conflict would finally resolve itself fifteen years later, in the least likely of places: on the Bering Sea, aboard a boat in peril, during a night of terror that would reshape the lives of everyone involved. Reminiscent of The Perfect Storm and Into the Wild, Dead Reckoning is not only an intimate look at life at sea but also an insider’s view into one of Alaska’s small communities and the myriad of upstarts, dropouts, and rogues that color its landscape.


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Download or read book Dead Reckoning written by Dave Atcheson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An action-packed story of adventure and survival in one of the planet’s most treacherous places. This is the true story of a journey to a seaside town and the always unpredictable torrent of dark escapades that accompany a life at sea. It’s a story of a world peopled by those who often live on the frayed edges of society, who shun the world in which most people thrive. It’s a story in which college students and “fish hippies” work in canneries alongside survivalists, rednecks, religious freaks, and deckhands with damning secrets in dangerous waters, driven by the need to feed an insatiable appetite for adventure. This is the heart of the world Atcheson found himself in at the age of eighteen. Having never even seen the ocean, he took his first job on the frigate Lancer with Darwin Wood, a man so confounding, so complex, and so frightening that it’s hard to believe Atcheson walked away from that job unscathed. Forced to buddy up with a murderer in order to cope, Atcheson began to question his deeply ingrained ideas of success and status. The resulting conflict would finally resolve itself fifteen years later, in the least likely of places: on the Bering Sea, aboard a boat in peril, during a night of terror that would reshape the lives of everyone involved. Reminiscent of The Perfect Storm and Into the Wild, Dead Reckoning is not only an intimate look at life at sea but also an insider’s view into one of Alaska’s small communities and the myriad of upstarts, dropouts, and rogues that color its landscape.

Skipping Stones and Yellow Bones

Skipping Stones and Yellow Bones

Author: Carolyn O'Brien

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published:

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1304210030

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Download or read book Skipping Stones and Yellow Bones written by Carolyn O'Brien and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Proper Marriage

A Proper Marriage

Author: Dorothy Love

Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM

Published: 2014-10-14

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1401691358

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From a hasty union begun in shame, a young man and woman struggle to build a lasting love. Following a brief romance with George Mackenzie, Blue Gap, North Carolina’s most desirable suitor, Olivia Brooks finds herself abandoned and expecting a child. She is cast out of her father’s house and hastily weds George’s brother Luke, whom she has known since childhood. Luke hopes that giving his brother’s child a name will prove his own worth and provide a home for the woman he has long admired. Determined to make a fresh start, they set off for Laurel Grove, Tennessee, but an accident on an icy mountain road forces them to take refuge with a Quaker family in Sweetbriar Creek. As Olivia and Luke recover from their injuries and await the birth of the child, they must confront their past mistakes and make peace with old hurts and betrayals if they are ever to forge a proper marriage.


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Download or read book A Proper Marriage written by Dorothy Love and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a hasty union begun in shame, a young man and woman struggle to build a lasting love. Following a brief romance with George Mackenzie, Blue Gap, North Carolina’s most desirable suitor, Olivia Brooks finds herself abandoned and expecting a child. She is cast out of her father’s house and hastily weds George’s brother Luke, whom she has known since childhood. Luke hopes that giving his brother’s child a name will prove his own worth and provide a home for the woman he has long admired. Determined to make a fresh start, they set off for Laurel Grove, Tennessee, but an accident on an icy mountain road forces them to take refuge with a Quaker family in Sweetbriar Creek. As Olivia and Luke recover from their injuries and await the birth of the child, they must confront their past mistakes and make peace with old hurts and betrayals if they are ever to forge a proper marriage.

Searching for Zion

Searching for Zion

Author: Emily Raboteau

Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Published: 2013-01-08

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 080219379X

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From Jerusalem to Ghana to Katrina-ravaged New Orleans, a woman reclaims her history in a “beautifully written and thought-provoking” memoir (Dave Eggers, author of A Hologram for the King and Zeitoun). A biracial woman from a country still divided along racial lines, Emily Raboteau never felt at home in America. As the daughter of an African American religious historian, she understood the Promised Land as the spiritual realm black people yearned for. But while visiting Israel, the Jewish Zion, she was surprised to discover black Jews. More surprising was the story of how they got there. Inspired by their exodus, her question for them is the same one she keeps asking herself: have you found the home you’re looking for? In this American Book Award–winning inquiry into contemporary and historical ethnic displacement, Raboteau embarked on a ten-year journey around the globe and back in time to explore the complex and contradictory perspectives of black Zionists. She talked to Rastafarians and African Hebrew Israelites, Evangelicals and Ethiopian Jews—all in search of territory that is hard to define and harder to inhabit. Uniting memoir with cultural investigation, Raboteau overturns our ideas of place, patriotism, dispossession, citizenship, and country in “an exceptionally beautiful . . . book about a search for the kind of home for which there is no straight route, the kind of home in which the journey itself is as revelatory as the destination” (Edwidge Danticat, author of The Farming of Bones).


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Download or read book Searching for Zion written by Emily Raboteau and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jerusalem to Ghana to Katrina-ravaged New Orleans, a woman reclaims her history in a “beautifully written and thought-provoking” memoir (Dave Eggers, author of A Hologram for the King and Zeitoun). A biracial woman from a country still divided along racial lines, Emily Raboteau never felt at home in America. As the daughter of an African American religious historian, she understood the Promised Land as the spiritual realm black people yearned for. But while visiting Israel, the Jewish Zion, she was surprised to discover black Jews. More surprising was the story of how they got there. Inspired by their exodus, her question for them is the same one she keeps asking herself: have you found the home you’re looking for? In this American Book Award–winning inquiry into contemporary and historical ethnic displacement, Raboteau embarked on a ten-year journey around the globe and back in time to explore the complex and contradictory perspectives of black Zionists. She talked to Rastafarians and African Hebrew Israelites, Evangelicals and Ethiopian Jews—all in search of territory that is hard to define and harder to inhabit. Uniting memoir with cultural investigation, Raboteau overturns our ideas of place, patriotism, dispossession, citizenship, and country in “an exceptionally beautiful . . . book about a search for the kind of home for which there is no straight route, the kind of home in which the journey itself is as revelatory as the destination” (Edwidge Danticat, author of The Farming of Bones).

The Pale of Memory

The Pale of Memory

Author: Peter Halsey Sherwood

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1475943490

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In the mid-1990s, Manhattan quivered under a dreadful affliction. For one group of New Yorkers, what starts out as a caper worthy of the Hardy Boys themselves quickly spirals into a reckless mission of obsession and a dangerous love affair with dire consequences. Crafted with the focused perspective of the voyeur, the pale of memory portrays a shifting world of the questionable protagonist, a young man named Scott. As he attempts to hide his secrets, he also tries to transform his new lover in a desperate attempt to recreate his own past. For Scott, nothing is as it seems in the swirling vortex of lies, trickery, and emotional misdirection. As perceptions are revealed and confronted, everything Scott wants to believe is challenged with haunting vigor. Too soon, Scott’s mania reveals more than he can comprehend or manage. From the darkest memories of his curious, confusing past, Scott’s present is about to spin out of control too, to a place where the pale of memory builds to a devastating crescendo. “Hitchcock’s Vertigo with sexy, dangerous young men. Had me hooked from page one.” —Charles Busch, author of The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife Recently chosen as Book of the Month in “Interior Design” Magazine. For more information, please visit http://thepaleofmemory.com\nthepaleofmemory.com


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Download or read book The Pale of Memory written by Peter Halsey Sherwood and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1990s, Manhattan quivered under a dreadful affliction. For one group of New Yorkers, what starts out as a caper worthy of the Hardy Boys themselves quickly spirals into a reckless mission of obsession and a dangerous love affair with dire consequences. Crafted with the focused perspective of the voyeur, the pale of memory portrays a shifting world of the questionable protagonist, a young man named Scott. As he attempts to hide his secrets, he also tries to transform his new lover in a desperate attempt to recreate his own past. For Scott, nothing is as it seems in the swirling vortex of lies, trickery, and emotional misdirection. As perceptions are revealed and confronted, everything Scott wants to believe is challenged with haunting vigor. Too soon, Scott’s mania reveals more than he can comprehend or manage. From the darkest memories of his curious, confusing past, Scott’s present is about to spin out of control too, to a place where the pale of memory builds to a devastating crescendo. “Hitchcock’s Vertigo with sexy, dangerous young men. Had me hooked from page one.” —Charles Busch, author of The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife Recently chosen as Book of the Month in “Interior Design” Magazine. For more information, please visit http://thepaleofmemory.com\nthepaleofmemory.com

Jasmine

Jasmine

Author: Noboru Tsujihara

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2012-12-01

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0857282697

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Intrigue, betrayal, family secrets, forbidden passions – this tale of adventure and suspense links the Tiananmen Massacre of 1989 and the Kobe earthquake of 1995 through the story of Akihiko Waki. The story begins in 1990, as Akihiko learns that his father, presumed dead in China, was leading a double life and is in fact alive and in danger. His journey leads him to Shanghai, where he finds himself mysteriously drawn to the actress Li Xing, as his search for his father becomes also a desperate battle to save her from the brutal authorities…


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Download or read book Jasmine written by Noboru Tsujihara and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intrigue, betrayal, family secrets, forbidden passions – this tale of adventure and suspense links the Tiananmen Massacre of 1989 and the Kobe earthquake of 1995 through the story of Akihiko Waki. The story begins in 1990, as Akihiko learns that his father, presumed dead in China, was leading a double life and is in fact alive and in danger. His journey leads him to Shanghai, where he finds himself mysteriously drawn to the actress Li Xing, as his search for his father becomes also a desperate battle to save her from the brutal authorities…

Improving Urban Science Education

Improving Urban Science Education

Author: Kenneth Tobin

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2005-04-07

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 0742568679

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Many would argue that the state of urban science education has been static for the past several decades and that there is little to learn from it. Rather than accepting this deficit perspective, Improving Urban Science Education strives to recognize and understand the successes that exist there by systematically documenting seven years of research into issues salient to teaching and learning in urban high school science classes. Grounded in the post structuralism of William Sewell_and brought to life through the experiences of different students, teachers, and school settings in Philadelphia_this book shows how teachers and students can work together to enact meaningful science education when social and cultural differences as well as inappropriate curricula often make the challenges seem insurmountable. Chapters contain rich images of urban youth and each strives to offer insights into problems and suggestions for resolving them. Most significant, in spite of the challenges, the research offers hope and shows that fresh approaches to teaching and learning can lead students_some who have already been pronounced academic, even societal, failures_to becoming avid and deep learners of science.


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Download or read book Improving Urban Science Education written by Kenneth Tobin and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2005-04-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many would argue that the state of urban science education has been static for the past several decades and that there is little to learn from it. Rather than accepting this deficit perspective, Improving Urban Science Education strives to recognize and understand the successes that exist there by systematically documenting seven years of research into issues salient to teaching and learning in urban high school science classes. Grounded in the post structuralism of William Sewell_and brought to life through the experiences of different students, teachers, and school settings in Philadelphia_this book shows how teachers and students can work together to enact meaningful science education when social and cultural differences as well as inappropriate curricula often make the challenges seem insurmountable. Chapters contain rich images of urban youth and each strives to offer insights into problems and suggestions for resolving them. Most significant, in spite of the challenges, the research offers hope and shows that fresh approaches to teaching and learning can lead students_some who have already been pronounced academic, even societal, failures_to becoming avid and deep learners of science.