Download or read book Why Can t Sophomore Summer Be Like Pizza written by Andy V. Roamer and published by NineStar Press. This book was released on 2021-08-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s the summer after sophomore year and RV plans to enjoy new adventures and new challenges after finishing two years of high school. He gets a job as an usher at a movie multiplex but discovers the realities of dealing with job stresses and unruly customers. It’s also time for him to start learning how to drive, and his father is eager to give him lessons. But he’s not the most patient of teachers and RV is not the most capable of drivers. RV opens himself up to a new relationship and it looks like the start of a budding romance—until it isn’t. And then there is RV’s family… Luckily, as always, Mr. Aniso, RV’s freshmen-year teacher, is always there to talk over anything that might be bothering RV. But he’s away for the summer, so there’s only so much time and attention he can give RV. It looks like RV’s summer won’t be fun and games after all.
Download or read book Why Can t Relationships be like Pizza written by Andy V. Roamer and published by NineStar Press. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As RV enters sophomore year, his friendships and relationships create more questions than answers. RV still cares for Bobby, but Bobby seems a different, more distant person. RV’s best friend Carole is distracted by the ups and downs in her relationships with her French boyfriends, while RV’s new friend Mark is more focused on his family’s troubles. School is a mixed bag. RV enjoys the Spanish club he has joined, which is run by his beautiful Spanish teacher, Señorita Sanchez. But he struggles with other subjects and annoying teachers and always has to watch out for the school bullies who seem to know how to stay under the detention radar. As always, RV’s former teacher and mentor, Mr. Aniso, is there for advice, especially when near-tragedy strikes and RV needs Mr. Aniso’s counsel to stay strong and provide help where it’s needed most.
Download or read book Education without Debt written by Scott D. MacDonald and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost 50 million Americans have cumulatively borrowed more than $1.5 trillion to attend college. Roughly one-third of all adults aged 25 to 34 have a student loan. In Education without Debt businessman and philanthropist Scott MacDonald examines the real-life impact of crushing levels of student debt on borrowers and what can be done to fix this crisis. Weaving together stories of debt-impaired lives with stories of personal success achieved with the essential help of financial aid, MacDonald reveals the devastating personal and societal impact of the debt problem and offers possible solutions. He explores the efforts of colleges and private philanthropists to make education affordable and relates his own experience of funding financial aid for need-eligible students at five universities. Education without Debt is a must-read book for anyone concerned about the rising cost of education and what to do about this critical policy and societal issue.
Download or read book In Our Own Words written by Various Authors and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Georgia Southern College in the small town of Statesboro opened its doors to its first six colored students in 1965, it did so without much of the very public outcry faced at other schools and colleges as part of desegregation. These six pioneers share their personal memories of integrating the college, which opened doors for those who would follow. In 2014, more than 5,400 African American students enrolled at the school, now known as Georgia Southern University (GSU). The essays of those initial pioneers—as well as those by fifteen other alums through the Class of 1985—demonstrate the perseverance of the human spirit and illustrate how social change can be achieved by boldly confronting difficult and frightening situations to bring about lasting reform. Their stories of integration at the southern school tell of emotional ordeals, some of which led to lasting scars and times of defeat. Life wasn’t easy if you were black on a predominantly white college campus. But in the midst of despair comes triumph. In Our Own Words also shares the determination and dedication of those early students, most of whom went on to successful careers and personal accomplishments. This powerful collection of essays that needed to be written showcases a group of students who never dreamed they would one-day help shape the college’s history and leave a legacy that would allow others to follow in their footsteps.
Download or read book My Senior Year written by Jim Towne and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Senior Year is the story of a seventeen-year-old boy whose life is turned upside down when he is forced to move to a new city one day before the beginning of his senior year of high school. But more than that, the story of Nick Bradford and the Belmont Street Boys is one of friendship that grows into lasting community. Along the way, Nick sees what life can become when people of influence use their power to serve others. Told in the style of a memoir, My Senior Year is a coming-of-age story filled with laughter, pathos, surprises, and the kind of interesting people found in the mixed culture of Pueblo, Colorado.
Download or read book Perfectly Planned written by and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Goodbye Summer written by Sarah Van Name and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Dessen meets Morgan Matson in the perfect summer debut about learning to say goodbye—or finding a reason to stay. Caroline is counting the days until September, when she'll turn seventeen and she and her older boyfriend, Jake, will run away together. She doesn't feel connected to anyone at home now that she has him, and she can't wait to see the world with the most important person in her life. So with just a few more months until freedom, she spends her summer working at the local aquarium gift shop and dreaming of the fall. Then she meets Georgia, a counselor at the aquarium's camp, and Caroline's world changes. Through pizza lunches, trips to amusement parks, and midnight talks, Georgia begins to show Caroline there's more to life than being with Jake. The stronger Georgia and Caroline's bond grows, the more uneasy Caroline becomes about her plans to leave. When summer comes to a close, she'll have to say goodbye to someone...but who is she willing to lose?
Download or read book Embraced written by Steve Sherwood and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a post-modern world leery of abstracted theology, might the answers to the deep question of why Jesus died on the cross be found, not in theology textbooks, but in the stories of the Bible? What if the playing out of one Hebrew word, hesed, tells us who we are, who God is, and what Jesus' life and death were all about? Embraced: Prodigals at the Cross tells the story of hesed, God's steadfast love, as it weaves its way from our creation for relationship, through our rejection of that relationship, to God's centuries-long pursuit of reconciliation. The story ends in embrace, the embrace of a good father who runs to his prodigal son, and a loving God who takes on human flesh to reach out to us on the cross. This book is God's story. This book is our story.
Download or read book A Shattered Soul written by Eve N. Adams and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come with Eve as she travels through the 54 years of her life, a life of sadness and pain as well as great victory and joy. Clearly what the devil meant for evil God turned into good. There is nothing quite like experience to make us doubt and reject God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit. There is nothing quite like experience to prove the truth of God's word. Climbing the mountain of obstacles to reach the destination of faith is exhausting, frightening, maddening at times, and at the same time exhilarating, powerful and joy producing. None of any of these things were possible in the author's strength. Indeed her journey through hopelessness and helplessness drove her deeper and deeper into her loving Savior's arms. You may not be able to put this book down once you start it but hang in there and you will feel the thrill of victory of Jesus over the devil in Eve's life. Eve is a mother of three, grandmother of 3 (with two more on the way), wife of the same man for 34 years. She has an Associate's degree in Marketing and a Bachelor of Business Administration, graduating Summa Cum Laude. She has devoted her life to her family and serving God.
Download or read book Owl Nation written by Mike Maloni and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-02 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlo Amadeo, team captain of the Keene State Owls men’s soccer club, leads an ensemble cast in this rousing tale of camaraderie and big dreams. Keene State College is a happening D3 school in Keene, New Hampshire, located in the southwest part of the state. This story covers D3 soccer at its best, as the Owls’ team season winds through numerous ups and downs in its quest for the championship. The Owls are a different kind of team. During their four years in school, students here have played for the sheer enjoyment of the game, realizing that a professional soccer career will not be an option. They understand that they will end up in other professions after graduation. Even so, they play their hearts out in every play of every game. Owl Nation provides great soccer action, featuring players who work hard for the love of the game, as well as the camaraderie both on and off the pitch.
Download or read book Off the Sidelines written by Kirsten Gillibrand and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand recounts her personal journey in public service and galvanizes women to make a meaningful difference in the world around them. “One of the most helpful, readable, down-to-earth, and truly democratic books ever to come out of the halls of power.”—Gloria Steinem Off the Sidelines is a playbook for women who want to step up, whether in Congress or the boardroom or the local PTA. If women were fully represented in politics, Gillibrand says, national priorities would shift to issues that directly impact them: affordable daycare, paid family medical leave, and equal pay. Pulling back the curtain on Beltway politics, she speaks candidly about her legislative successes (securing federally funded medical care for 9/11 first responders, repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell) and her crushing disappointments (failing by five votes to pass a bill protecting survivors of sexual assault in the military). Gillibrand also shares stories of growing up the daughter and granddaughter of two trailblazing feminists in a politically active family in Albany, New York, and retraces her nonlinear path to public office. She lays bare the highs and lows of being a young (pregnant!) woman in Congress, the joys and sacrifices every working mother shares, and the support system she turns to in her darkest moments: her husband, their two little boys, and lots of girlfriends. In Off the Sidelines, Gillibrand is the tough-love older sister and cheerleader every woman needs. She explains why “ambition” is not a dirty word, failure is a gift, listening is the most effective tool, and the debate over women “having it all” is absurd at best and demeaning at worst. In her sharp, honest, and refreshingly relatable voice, she dares us all to tap into our inner strength, find personal fulfillment, and speak up for what we believe in. Praise for Off the Sidelines “Gillibrand has written a handbook for the next generation of women to redefine their role in our world.”—Arianna Huffington “There are moments of immensely appealing self-disclosure that seldom appear in other books of this genre. . . . This isn’t your mother’s political memoir.”—The New York Times Book Review
Download or read book The Insider s Guide to the Colleges 2005 written by Yale Daily News Staff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College students discuss what colleges are really like, including grades, sports, social life, alcohol policies, gender relations, admissions, and classes.
Download or read book Women s Health Take It Off Keep It Off written by Lesley Rotchford and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with stories from women who lost big while living bigger, Take It Off, Keep it Off lets you in on the weight-loss secrets that have helped women drop 20, 40, and even 100 pounds—now you can too! Maybe you've been overweight since childhood, or you're a mom who had trouble returning to your pre-pregnancy weight after having a baby. Maybe you've tried every trendy diet and popular exercise program out there, or pored over before and after shots, wondering how to take that first step. If you have struggled for years—or maybe your entire life—to feel confident and strong in your body and lose the weight, Take It Off! Keep it Off! is the plan that will have you regularly rocking skinny jeans and crushing 10-Ks in just a few months. As the former editor of Women's Health’s popular "You Lose, You Win" column, Rotchford has distilled the weight loss lessons and inspiration of hundreds of women into an easy-to-follow practical program. The five-day quick-start meal plan provides innovative eating strategies that focus on portion control and includes 50 wholesome, protein-packed recipes. Paired with a three-phase exercise plan that features timesaving strength and cardio routines specifically designed to build endurance, strengthen, and tone your body, you have an easy-to-follow program that clears a solid path toward transformation. With the women from the success stories motivating you from the sidelines, you will lose weight, gain strength, build confidence, and live the longer, healthier life you deserve!
Download or read book ENGAGEMENT IN PERIL written by DARA ODOE SOK and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s funny; it takes your death for people to realize what you were trying to tell them while you were still living!” Engagement in Peril is Dara Odoe Sok’s third book in a series of three. This selection is his longest and most detailed published work. Here Sok features the life of his beloved Shin-Shin Igami and uncovers the many trials and tribulations that Igami had endured in the hands of betrayal, deceit and lies. This shocking and provocative piece takes readers to the sharp and double-edged sword that describes the ambivalence, the inconsistencies and ironies that was bequeathed into Sok’s and Igami’s lives. With blatant expressions, this brave and bold read holds nothing back. The author bluntly shares his experiences in the identical image that is reflected in his mind, void of any pretentions or sugar-coating. This book is for a mature set of readers who has the open-mind and wide understanding for radical beliefs, ideas and expressions.
Download or read book Why Can t Sophomore Summer Be Like Pizza written by Andy V. Roamer and published by Ninestar Press, LLC. This book was released on 2021-08-25 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the summer after sophomore year and RV plans to enjoy new adventures and new challenges after finishing two years of high school. He gets a job as an usher at a movie multiplex but discovers the realities of dealing with job stresses and unruly customers. It's also time for him to start learning how to drive, and his father is eager to give him lessons. But he's not the most patient of teachers and RV is not the most capable of drivers. RV opens himself up to a new relationship and it looks like the start of a budding romance-until it isn't. And then there is RV's family... Luckily, as always, Mr. Aniso, RV's freshmen-year teacher, is always there to talk over anything that might be bothering RV. But he's away for the summer, so there's only so much time and attention he can give RV. It looks like RV's summer won't be fun and games after all.
Download or read book Who Gets In and Why written by Jeffrey Selingo and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning higher education journalist and New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Selingo comes a revealing look from inside the admissions office—one that identifies surprising strategies that will aid in the college search. Getting into a top-ranked college has never seemed more impossible, with acceptance rates at some elite universities dipping into the single digits. In Who Gets In and Why, journalist and higher education expert Jeffrey Selingo dispels entrenched notions of how to compete and win at the admissions game, and reveals that teenagers and parents have much to gain by broadening their notion of what qualifies as a “good college.” Hint: it’s not all about the sticker on the car window. Selingo, who was embedded in three different admissions offices—a selective private university, a leading liberal arts college, and a flagship public campus—closely observed gatekeepers as they made their often agonizing and sometimes life-changing decisions. He also followed select students and their parents, and he traveled around the country meeting with high school counselors, marketers, behind-the-scenes consultants, and college rankers. While many have long believed that admissions is merit-based, rewarding the best students, Who Gets In and Why presents a more complicated truth, showing that “who gets in” is frequently more about the college’s agenda than the applicant. In a world where thousands of equally qualified students vie for a fixed number of spots at elite institutions, admissions officers often make split-second decisions based on a variety of factors—like diversity, money, and, ultimately, whether a student will enroll if accepted. One of the most insightful books ever about “getting in” and what higher education has become, Who Gets In and Why not only provides an unusually intimate look at how admissions decisions get made, but guides prospective students on how to honestly assess their strengths and match with the schools that will best serve their interests.
Download or read book The Rock Wren s Song written by Peggy Carey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05-08 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Kat's husband disappears, everyone thinks the mystery will be solved, but it doesn't happen so easily. When Kat finds herself embroiled in a fight for her way of life on the ranch, she relies on the strength of the mountains to see her through. -- cover [p. 4]
