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The Toughest Kid We Knew

Author : Frank Bergon
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 1948908654
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book The Toughest Kid We Knew written by Frank Bergon and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From critically acclaimed author Frank Bergon comes a new personal narrative about the San Joaquin Valley in California. This intimate companion to Two-Buck Chuck & The Marlboro Man brings us back to an Old West at odds with New West realities where rapid change is a common trait and memories are of rural beauty. Despite the physical transformations wrought by technology and modernity in the twenty-first century, elements of an older way of thinking still remain, and Bergon traces its presence using experiences from his own family and friends. Communal camaraderie, love of the land and its food, and joy in hard work done well describe Western lives ignored or misrepresented in most histories of California and the West. Yet nostalgia does not drive Frank Bergon’s intellectual return to that world. Also prevalent was a culture of fighting, ignorance about alcoholic addiction, brutalizing labor, and a feudal mentality that created a pain better lost and bid good riddance. Through it all, what emerges from his portraits and essays is a revelation of small-town and ranch life in the rural West. A place where the American way of extirpating the past and violently altering the land is accelerated. What Bergon has written is a portrayal of a past and people shaping the country he called home.

The Night Gate

Author : JK Franks
Publisher : JK Franks Media
ISBN 13 : 1736215310
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The Night Gate written by JK Franks and published by JK Franks Media. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are worlds that exist beyond our dreams…and our nightmares. A brilliant scientist has uncovered a secret that threatens humanity's future. Now his girlfriend is missing, and the voices in his head are back. Since losing his daughter, Emma, seven years ago, Pike Shepard has struggled to maintain a normal life for himself in the coastal community of Blackwater. It’s a quiet life, until a beautiful scientist shows up on his doorstep with a desperate plea for help. Dr. Kate Cassidy has uncovered a new aspect to quantum entanglement: the ability to not just see the multiverse but a way to travel through it. Her device allows them to SideSlip between parallel planes that are at once familiar and quite bizarre, wondrous, and terrifying. Her ability to travel between realities uncovers a dark future for mankind. A man with a dark purpose promises profound evil and a ruthless government agent eager to see them all fail. Unless Kate and Pike can outwit them, the place they call home may never be safe again. Few authors would dare tackle interdimensional travel from a hard-science point of view. Franks does that and does it brilliantly. Slip into this gripping techno-thriller, where the biggest enemy you face might just be yourself. You absolutely won’t want to miss The Night Gate. Grab your copy now!

THE SMUGGLERS LAMENT

Author : Doug Chesler
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1489733779
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book THE SMUGGLERS LAMENT written by Doug Chesler and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since he was a young man he would write long letters to his family and friends. Many people liked them and even saved them. Some said that he would be a great writer someday. Growing up in the wild days of the late 60s gave him plenty to write about. Living through the hippie daze of sex, and drugs and rock and roll put him on the search for that cosmic consciousness, if there was really such a thing ? Getting drafted really changed all that. What started as a bunch of guys chipping in to cop some grass in the Village ended up on speed boats and planes. Then the United States Air Force became the biggest smugglers in the world. Nothing was what it seemed to be, deception ruled. Join Doug on a wild ride through the California coast and America, SE Asia, Europe , Africa and behind the Iron Curtain. After all of that it was time to switch the tables and go after sex trafficking and the human smugglers. But the biggest journey was finding love and then finding God.

Cannabis Chronicles

Author : Dariell Flores
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728363896
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Cannabis Chronicles written by Dariell Flores and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever wonder why we do the things we do? What makes us so inclined to make the wrong choices? Are we captains of our own lives or are we passengers directed merely by force of habit? In the Cannabis Chronicles, Timmy struggles with these questions as well and learns various harsh lesson of the world and also of the people he chose to be around him.

Oath of Office

Author : C. Lee Thornton
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 146707263X
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Oath of Office written by C. Lee Thornton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-01-13 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the rearing of an African-American child in the Upsouth during the 1950s and 1960s, and his experiences as an adult in another worldthe F.B.I. The author walks the reader through many harrowing experiences; several nearly fatal, growing up in St. Louis and also with the F.B.I. His life with the F.B.I. will take you through the urban jungles of several U.S. cities to the tropical rainforests and islands of the Caribbean. The author details his personal experiences with segregation coupled with lessons taught by his family and older friends. Highlighted early in the book is the authors controversial admission to college at the age of eighteen. This book focuses on family history lessons taught by his elders whom he used as a guide for his education, and his career in law enforcement. The author highlights the controversy he caused in his family, when he defied his parents wishes, and joined the F.B.I in 1979. His fascinating career covers 21 1/2 years of complex federal investigations and dangerous undercover operations. The author sums up his experiences and career with the F.B.I. by examing the differences between him and scores of criminals he arrested over the years. After reading this book, you will discover the values of strong parents, knowledge of ones history, and thanking The Almighty everyday.

Dangerous Minds

Author : LouAnne Johnson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312956207
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Minds written by LouAnne Johnson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ex-Marine LouAnne Johnson's account of her first year teaching at Parkmount High School in California.

From the Foot of Destrehan Street

Author : Jim Frank
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462837395
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book From the Foot of Destrehan Street written by Jim Frank and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From a Juvenile Delinquent to a Police Officer

Author : Benjamin Wright
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
ISBN 13 : 1662939094
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book From a Juvenile Delinquent to a Police Officer written by Benjamin Wright and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a young man who went from the back seat of the police car, to being the driver of the car—an inspirational story of how God’s grace brought a young man who was destined for prison, or the grave, to triumph over his circumstances and defeat all odds. This is the story of a kid who went through so much rejection and pain that he contemplated suicide yet found redemption in the arms of a loving God. Witness how the Lord’s mercy is strong enough to stop a habitual violator and equip him with the necessary tools to reach other juvenile delinquents. This is the story of Benjamin Wright’s life and how God’s power set him free.

The Price of the Ticket

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807006564
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Price of the Ticket written by James Baldwin and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential compendium of James Baldwin’s most powerful nonfiction work, calling on us “to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country.” Personal and prophetic, these essays uncover what it means to live in a racist American society with insights that feel as fresh today as they did over the 4 decades in which he composed them. Longtime Baldwin fans and especially those just discovering his genius will appreciate this essential collection of his great nonfiction writing, available for the first time in affordable paperback. Along with 46 additional pieces, it includes the full text of dozens of famous essays from such books as: • Notes of a Native Son • Nobody Knows My Name • The Fire Next Time • No Name in the Street • The Devil Finds Work This collection provides the perfect entrée into Baldwin’s prescient commentary on race, sexuality, and identity in an unjust American society.

World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements

Author : John Hunter
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547905629
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements written by John Hunter and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “His ideas will help anyone who has the courage to understand that a real education must go beyond filling in circles on a standardized test form.” —Rafe Esquith, New York Times-bestselling author of Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire Can playing a game lead to world peace? If it’s John Hunter’s World Peace Game, it just might. In Hunter’s classroom, students take on the roles of presidents, tribal leaders, diplomats, and military commanders. Through battles and negotiations, standoffs and summits, they strive to resolve a sequence of many-layered, interconnected scenarios, from nuclear proliferation to tribal warfare. Now, Hunter shares inspiring stories from over thirty years of teaching the World Peace Game, revealing the principles of successful collaboration that people of any age can apply. He offers not only a forward-thinking report from the frontlines of American education, but also a generous blueprint for a world that bends toward cooperation rather than conflict. In this deeply hopeful book, a visionary educator shows us what the future of education can be. “The World Peace Game devised by fourth-grade teacher Hunter has spread from a classroom in 1978 to a documentary, a TED Talk, the Pentagon, and now finally a book, in which he describes the ways his students have solved political and ecological crises that still loom large in the world of adults . . . Hunter’s optimism is infectious.” —Publishers Weekly “Inspired, breath-of-fresh-air reading.” — Kirkus Reviews “Hunter proves the value of ‘slow teaching’ in this important, fascinating, highly readable resource for educators and parents alike.” — Booklist

The 21 Toughest Questions Your Kids Will Ask about Christianity

Author : Alex McFarland
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 162405188X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The 21 Toughest Questions Your Kids Will Ask about Christianity written by Alex McFarland and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: University apologist, director, and popular speaker Alex McFarland has spent the last two decades answering questions about Christian worldview and the Bible from children, teens, and parents. In The 21 Toughest Questions Your Kids Will Ask about Christianity, he summarizes questions today’s children and teens are asking about God, the Bible, and the problem of evil. Alex’s experiences have taught him that how adults answer questions about God is as important as, if not more important than, what kids ask. He provides parents with teaching strategies that will help them reach their children intellectually and spiritually. Today’s kids and teens are looking for authenticity, integrity, and straightforward truth. Alex comes alongside parents and gives them tools to effectively answer not only their children’s toughest academic questions but also the questions that plague their hearts.

10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

Author : Jeff Anderson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003840698
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know written by Jeff Anderson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether writing a blog entry or a high-stakes test essay, fiction or nonfiction, short story or argumentation, students need to know certain things in order to write effectively. In 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know, Jeff Anderson focuses on developing the concepts and application of ten essential aspects of good writing—motion, models, focus, detail, form, frames, cohesion, energy, words, and clutter. Throughout the book, Jeff provides dozens of model texts, both fiction and nonfiction, that bring alive the ten things every writer needs to know. By analyzing strong mentor texts, young writers learn what is possible and experiment with the strategies professional writers use. Students explore, discover, and apply what makes good writing work. Jeff dedicates a chapter to each of the ten things every writer needs to know and provides mini-lessons, mentor texts, writing process strategies, and classroom tips that will motivate students to confidently and competently take on any writing task. With standardized tests and Common Core Curriculum influencing classrooms nationwide, educators must stay true to what works in writing instruction. 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know keeps teachers on track—encouraging, discovering, inspiring, reminding, and improving writing through conversation, inquiry, and the support of good writing behaviors.

Chronospace

Author : Allen Steele
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101208015
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Chronospace written by Allen Steele and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-01-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA

The Ride: Burning Desire #1 (of 5)

Author : Doug Wagner
Publisher : Image Comics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ride: Burning Desire #1 (of 5) written by Doug Wagner and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE RIDE celebrates its 15th anniversary with a five-part story from the award-winning team of PLASTIC, plus a special backup feature from ADAM HUGHES! After serving a hard 15 years in prison on a murder plea, former Atlanta P.D. detective Samantha Vega now makes her living as a bouncer at an exotic dance club. But life on the outside isn't easy, especially when enemies have scores to settle

A Drop of Hope

Author : Keith Calabrese
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 133823322X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book A Drop of Hope written by Keith Calabrese and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing an extraordinary new voice who shows us how powerful an act of kindness, a hint of magic, and a little hope can be. "A book that reminds us of the kindness we are all capable of." -- Gary D. Schmidt, Newbery Honor winner and author of Okay For NowA well. A wish. And a little drop of hope.Times are tough. Jobs are scarce and miracles are in short supply. But something strange is happening in Cliffs Donnelly, Ohio. An old well has suddenly, impossibly, begun to grant wishes. And three sixth graders are the only ones who know why.Ernest Wilmette believes a good deed makes magic happen. Ryan Hardy thinks they should just mind their own business. Lizzy MacComber believes in facts, not fairy tales. Of course, you don't have to believe in wishes to make one.As more wishes are made, the well's true secret gets harder and harder to keep. Ernest, Ryan, and Lizzy know they can't fix the world. But in their own little corner of it, they can give everyone a little hope... one wish at a time.

Journey in Learning and Teaching Science

Author : Dr. Sondra Barber Akins
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book Journey in Learning and Teaching Science written by Dr. Sondra Barber Akins and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author tells her life story through journals and real life vignettes written in the first person. She describes her experiences while growing up in a segregated, mid-twentieth century African American community. Nurturing relationships and activities in her working class African American home, learning in segregated African American schools, and strong connections between her home, schools, and other community institutions are described. Family history and customs, community characteristics, and socio-economic and political circumstances and events that affected her early life and her upbringing are described. Included in her story are prominent people, places, events, and circumstances that facilitated her holistic development from early childhood through adolescence. Readers will be able to infer how all the above factors and enriched learning activities in and outside of school resulted in her a positive self-image and outlook on life as well as her determination to pursue chemistry studies in challenging higher education institutions. Throughout the book the author provides commentary in which she explicitly connects her early life with events and experiences (academic, professional, and personal family life) that occurred along her journey in later years.

Children of the Uprising

Author : Trevor Shane
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101626518
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Children of the Uprising written by Trevor Shane and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What side do you choose when you don’t even know what War you’re fighting? Over generations, the War has grown. It has become bloodier. Both sides will do anything to win. But with the involvement of a third faction—one that wants to put an end to the violence finally—even more enemies lurk around every corner. Strangers have been watching Christopher for his entire life. He doesn’t know why, but he knows that he has paranoia in his blood. He has prepared since he was young for the day that they would stop watching and come for him. On his eighteenth birthday, Christopher is attacked. Though he escapes with his life, he finds himself thrust into a War he never knew existed. To the people of the War, Christopher is a legend, the hero or the villain who may one day bring an end to the conflict. But Christopher knows only that he isn’t willing to become anyone’s pawn....