Download or read book The Flourishing Teacher written by Christina Bieber Lake and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on more than twenty years of teaching experience, Christina Bieber Lake helps you rediscover your passion for the teaching profession. Creatively structured around the typical rhythms of the academic calendar, this book offers refreshing and practiced advice about how to flourish in the midst of the teaching life.

Download or read book Patterns of India written by Christine Chitnis and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s the trip of a lifetime—a textile-based tour of colorful Rajasthan, India featuring more than 200 lush photographs depicting everyday life in one of the most vibrant regions in the world. ”Get lost in the beauty of the photographs in Patterns of India, a striking journey through the colorful Indian state of Rajasthan.”—BuzzFeed Patterns of India is a visual experience that offers intimate insights into the diverse and richly hued Western Indian culture. Color is the thread that binds the vast country together, defining every aspect of life from religion and politics to food and dress. Organized by the five dominant colors royal blue, sandstone, marigold, ivory, and rose, this book explores how deeply color and pattern exist in a symbiotic relationship and are woven into every part of the culture. For instance, the fuchsia found in the draping fabric of a sari is matched by the vibrant chains of roses offered at temple, and the burnt orange spices in the marketplaces are reflected in the henna tattoos given to brides and wedding guests. While every color is imbued with meaning, it is often within the details of patterns that the full story comes to light. Photographer and writer Christine Chitnis spent over a decade traveling through, getting to know, and falling in love with the intricate patterns of everyday Rajasthani life. With history and culture-based essays woven throughout the more than 200 stunning photographs of architecture, markets, cuisine, art, textiles, and everyday goings-on, Patterns of India captures the beauty and essence of this unique part of the world.

Download or read book The Ghost Tree written by Christina Henry and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When people go missing in the sleepy town of Smith’s Hollow, the only clue to their fate comes when a teenager starts having terrifying visions, in a chilling horror novel from national bestselling author Christina Henry. When the bodies of two girls are found torn apart in the town of Smiths Hollow, Lauren is surprised, but she also expects that the police won't find the killer. After all, the year before her father's body was found with his heart missing, and since then everyone has moved on. Even her best friend, Miranda, has become more interested in boys than in spending time at the old ghost tree, the way they used to when they were kids. So when Lauren has a vision of a monster dragging the remains of the girls through the woods, she knows she can't just do nothing. Not like the rest of her town. But as she draws closer to answers, she realizes that the foundation of her seemingly normal town might be rotten at the center. And that if nobody else stands for the missing, she will.

Download or read book Christina s Pen Pal written by Candice L. Woods and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a pen pal? That's the questions that Christina Riley wondered in her sixth grade math class. Christina is excited about having a pen pal. She is excited about having to write a pen pal and who her pen pal would be. Would she be nice, would she be mean, or would she be a he? Pen pals can be from anywhere in the world. Christina wanted her pen pal to be from New York since she wanted to visit there someday. Christina would have a lot to talk about with her pen pal. Like what is her favorite color, what's her favorite food, and what is her hobbies. Most pen pals never meet. But would Christina get to meet her pen pal? Would she get to know what her pen pal look like? Christina is excited to have a pen pal as a friend. Christina also loved to write. She loved to meet new people as well. Christina's best friend, Alyssa, is excited about her pen pal assignment as well. Both the girls are. When Christina told Mrs. Smith what state she wanted her pen pal to be from, she couldn't wait to find out who her pen pal would be. So who would Christina's pen pal be? And would she write Christina back, or would Christina not get a response?

Download or read book The Soulmate Equation written by Christina Lauren and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners returns with a witty and effervescent novel about what happens when two people with everything on the line are thrown together by science—or is it fate? Perfect for fans of The Rosie Project and One Plus One. Single mom Jess Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convince her to step back into the dating world. Raised by her grandparents—who now help raise her seven-year-old daughter, Juno—Jess has been left behind too often to feel comfortable letting anyone in. After all, her father’s never been around, her hard-partying mother disappeared when she was six, and her ex decided he wasn’t “father material” before Juno was even born. Jess holds her loved ones close, but working constantly to stay afloat is hard...and lonely. But then Jess hears about GeneticAlly, a buzzy new DNA-based matchmaking company that’s predicted to change dating forever. Finding a soulmate through DNA? The reliability of numbers: This Jess understands. At least she thought she did, until her test shows an unheard-of 98% compatibility with another subject in the database: GeneticAlly’s founder, Dr. River Pena. This is one number she can’t wrap her head around, because she already knows Dr. Pena. The stuck-up, stubborn man is without a doubt not her soulmate. But GeneticAlly has a proposition: Get to know him and we’ll pay you. Jess—who is barely making ends meet—is in no position to turn it down, despite her skepticism about the project and her dislike for River. As the pair are dragged from one event to the next as the “Diamond” pairing that could make GeneticAlly a mint in stock prices, Jess begins to realize that there might be more to the scientist—and the science behind a soulmate—than she thought. Funny, warm, and full of heart, The Soulmate Equation proves that the delicate balance between fate and choice can never be calculated.

Download or read book The Quiet You Carry written by Nikki Barthelmess and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When seventeen-year-old Victoria Parker is suddenly placed into foster care, she struggles to find words for the abuse that upended her life. Determined to keep her head down, stay out of trouble, and graduate on time, Victoria soon realizes that no matter how hard she tries to move forward, the trauma in her past won’t leave her alone.

Download or read book Before the Mortgage written by CHRISTINA AMINI and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The swank apartment, the killer job, and the perfect boyfriend/girlfriend haven't yet fallen into place. Is this reallyadulthood? Welcome to life before the mortgage. Here's what you need to know. Christina Amini and Rachel Hutton have brought together the very best writing on this unpredictable -- and often hilarious -- time. This book features essays by celebrated writers such as Joel Stein, Thisbe Nissen, Thomas Beller, Foundmagazine's Davy Rothbart, and ReadyMade's Shoshana Berger, as well as exciting new writers.

Download or read book The Gift of the Barking Frog written by , Robin And The Giant, Robin MacBlane, Larry Whitler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 56 short stories for children and other deep thinkers! These stories were written by Robin And The Giant (also known as Robin MacBlane and Larry Whitler) for their children's radio program.

Download or read book The Fortune of Christina M Nab written by Sarah Macnaughtan and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tomb Song written by Julián Herbert and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incandescent new voice from Mexico, for readers of Ben Lerner and Rachel Cusk Sitting at the bedside of his mother as she is dying from leukemia in a hospital in northern Mexico, the narrator of Tomb Song is immersed in memories of his unstable boyhood and youth. His mother, Guadalupe, was a prostitute, and Julián spent his childhood with his half brothers and sisters, each from a different father, moving from city to city and from one tough neighborhood to the next. Swinging from the present to the past and back again, Tomb Song is not only an affecting coming-of-age story but also a searching and sometimes frenetic portrait of the artist. As he wanders the hospital, from its buzzing upper floors to the haunted depths of the morgue, Julián tells fevered stories of his life as a writer, from a trip with his pregnant wife to a poetry festival in Berlin to a drug-fueled and possibly completely imagined trip to another festival in Cuba. Throughout, he portrays the margins of Mexican society as well as the attitudes, prejudices, contradictions, and occasionally absurd history of a country ravaged by corruption, violence, and dysfunction. Inhabiting the fertile ground between fiction, memoir, and essay, Tomb Song is an electric prose performance, a kaleidoscopic, tender, and often darkly funny exploration of sex, love, and death. Julián Herbert’s English-language debut establishes him as one of the most audacious voices in contemporary letters.

Download or read book Sweet Dependence written by Christina Crawford and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sweet simplicity of a child's trust is a wonder to behold. They stand in a place of freedom and joy that we're convinced we have to leave as we grow older. We have come to believe that just as our physical maturity is characterized by independence, our growth as followers of Christ is too. What would happen if we came to see that dependency is not a reality we grow out of but grow more deeply into?Saturated with the truths of Scripture, Sweet Dependence calls us to rejoice in the freedom we find as we rely completely on Christ. With our prayers, in our praise, and through our pain, we have the privilege of depending on our Savior and celebrating the abundant life we have in Him.

Download or read book Brunch and Other Obligations written by Suzanne Nugent and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Poignant, funny, and smart, Brunch and Other Obligations is a must-have for contemporary women's fiction shelves. Readers will want to watch for what Nugent does next.” —Booklist “A thoroughly upbeat and fully entertaining novel from cover to cover.” —Midwest Book Review “Brunch and Other Obligations is women’s fiction at its finest! A tender, witty, heartfelt novel that had me laughing out loud in one chapter and reaching for tissues in the next. With humor, heart, and hope, Nugent reminds us that, once in a lifetime, if we’re very, very lucky, we just might find a friend who knows us better than we know ourselves.” —Lori Nelson Spielman, New York Times best-selling author of The Life List The only thing reclusive bookworm Nora, high-powered attorney Christina, and supermom-in-training Leanne ever had in common was their best friend, Molly. When Molly dies, she leaves mysterious gifts and cryptic notes for each of her grieving best friends, along with one final request: that these three mismatched frenemies have brunch together every month for a year. Filled with heartwrenching scenes and witty prose, Brunch and Other Obligations explores the intricate dynamics of girlhood acquaintances who are forced to reconnect as women. This upbeat novel reminds readers that there’s hope for getting through the hard times in life—with a lot of patience, humor, and a standing brunch date.

Download or read book Crossing Boundaries Teaching and Learning with Urban Youth written by Valerie Kinloch and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a book of stories told by adolescents and adults about teaching and learning. . . . Puzzlement, wonder, curiosity, disruption, and distress mark the emotions of all the storytellers here.” —From the Foreword by Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University “Crossing Boundaries is a must-read for anyone interested in improving the academic achievements and enhancing the literacy practices of marginalized students.” —Beverly Moss, The Ohio State University “This book will shake the ‘common’ and reshape the ‘knowledge’ we have about the passion and potential of students in urban schools.” —JoBeth Allen, University of Georgia In her new book, Valerie Kinloch, award-winning author of Harlem on Our Minds, sheds light on the ways urban youth engage in “meaning-making” experiences as a way to assert critical, creative, and highly sophisticated perspectives on teaching, learning, and survival. Kinloch rejects deficit models that have traditionally defined the literacy abilities of students of color, especially African American and Latino/a youth. In contrast, she “crosses boundaries” to listen to the voices of students attending high school in New York City’s Harlem community. In Crossing Boundaries, Kinloch uses a critical teacher-researcher lens to propose new directions for youth literacies and achievements. The text features examples of classroom engagements, student writings and presentations, discussions of texts and current events, and conversations on skills, process, achievement, and underachievement. Valerie Kinloch is associate professor in literacy studies in the School of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University. Her other books are Harlem on Our Minds: Place, Race, and the Literacies of Urban Youth and Urban Literacies: Critical Perspectives on Language, Learning, and Community. All royalties go to the Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color grant and mentoring program sponsored through the National Council of Teachers of English

Download or read book The End of Men written by Christina Sweeney-Baird and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The End of Men is a fiercely intelligent page-turner, an eerily prescient novel, at once thoughtful and highly emotive." --Paula Hawkins, #1 internationally bestselling author of The Girl on the Train Set in a world where a virus stalks our male population, The End of Men is an electrifying and unforgettable debut from a remarkable new talent that asks: what would our world truly look like without men? Only men carry the virus. Only women can save us all. The year is 2025, and a mysterious virus has broken out in Scotland--a lethal illness that seems to affect only men. When Dr. Amanda MacLean reports this phenomenon, she is dismissed as hysterical. By the time her warning is heeded, it is too late. The virus becomes a global pandemic--and a political one. The victims are all men. The world becomes alien--a women's world. What follows is the immersive account of the women who have been left to deal with the virus's consequences, told through first-person narratives. Dr. MacLean; Catherine, a social historian determined to document the human stories behind the "male plague"; intelligence analyst Dawn, tasked with helping the government forge a new society; and Elizabeth, one of many scientists desperately working to develop a vaccine. Through these women and others, we see the uncountable ways the absence of men has changed society, from the personal--the loss of husbands and sons--to the political--the changes in the workforce, fertility, and the meaning of family. In The End of Men, Christina Sweeney-Baird turns the unimaginable into the unforgettable.

Download or read book Courtroom Justice written by Nick Morgan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spin-off from the N.S.O.H. series. Animals do have rights. It took an endless amount of wit and pranks to convince a Jury the pet characters need to live their own lives.

Download or read book Supersonic Warrior Finding Love written by Josh Zimmer and published by Josh Zimmer. This book was released on with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christina and James fall in love with each other before the huge football game between Oasis Falls Wildcats, and the Sunshine Paradise Dragons

Download or read book Chosen 2 written by Sunny Giovanni and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-29 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diego and Christina are back at it, in hopes that their love can conquer all things standing in their way. With a bigger responsibility and a wedding right around the corner, now that the competition is over, Diego handles the family business without much effort. However, it’s weighing Christina down when not being able to spend much time with the man she’s supposed to marry in three months. The villains come out in full affect when it comes to keeping the pair apart, because they practically failed the first time around. On the team of bad guys comes Christina’s Uncle Buck, and some of the things that he has to say will definitely throw a wrench in her plans to marry the love of her life. This also includes the infamous Markiesha and her attempts to keep herself dripping in gold and dressed in designers. Even in this installment, life is not as nice to her as it’s always been. Her demons come back to haunt her, and it places her beloved son and fiancée right in the crossfire. What happens when you choose, who others seem to think, is the wrong woman? Diego’s trust, faith and loyalty are all placed on the line when trying to answer this question. There’s a lot that comes with the territory of being a Street King’s woman, including losing everything closest to you. Christina learns the hard way when drama enters her life from every angle, and she and Diego can’t seem to handle it all. The end of this tale will leave you breathless with a dropped jaw at what happens next.