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The Promise of Rain
For young Ethie Coulter the sudden death of her mother in strange circumstances is a shock almost too painful to bear. Her dad was already withdrawn; now he becomes silent, drinking too much and leaving Ethie and her brother Kipper to fend for themselves. Ethie was born after her father's return from the war in the Far East, so she never knew him as the open-hearted, loving husband he used to be. However, she senses that whatever happened to him back then had something to do with her mother's subsequent death. Inquisitive and fearless, Ethie is determined to work her way to the truth. As she digs deeper, a shocking secret emerges - one which challenges everything that Ethie thought she knew about her family...
After River
Growing up in the 1960s on a dairy farm in the mountains of British Columbia, Natalie Ward knew little of the outside world. But she had her family. A family so close and loving that Natalie believed they were the envy of the nearby town of Wakefield - particularly her eldest brother Boyer, whom Natalie held especially close to her heart. But Natalie began to question her family's idyllic existence the summer she turned fifteen. The arrival of a soft-spoken stranger, an American draft-dodger called River, would test the morals and beliefs of the family and the community to breaking point. The series of events following that summer day would leave relationships shattered and the Ward family changed forever.
Somewhere In-between
After losing their daughter, Julie and Ian move to the Chilcotin region of British Columbia where they buy a ranch with a condition that the tenant, Virgil Blue, maintains his ability to continue living there. While dealing with their grief and their deteriorating marriage, Julie and Ian reluctantly allow Virgil into their lives.
A Place Called Sorry
Growing up in the 1930s, Adeline Beale knows little of the outside world or the looming shadows of a second world war. Addie-as her grandfather Chauncey Beynon Beale affectionately calls her- believes that everything she could ever want or need is to be found on his cattle ranch, the place her family calls home, or in the little town twelve bush miles away, a place called Sorry. After tragedy strikes her family, Addie holds her sorrows close to her heart. Only later will she learn that her grandfather too has lived with his own secret torment for more than seventy years. It will take his slipping into blindness and dementia before the dark spectre from his past emerges, leaving her the one responsible for its consequences. And when that day arrives, when Chauncey Beale's past intersects with Addie's present, it will change her future in ways that she, and those she loves, could never have imagined.
True Love
Jeff Sandler is a rich, gorgeous, famous movie star. He has surpassed the American dream. He is in love with his wife and his life. With a happy marriage and healthy kids, he's living a dream. But one fateful day his dream turns into a nightmare and he finds himself alone, with four kids to raise. As time passes, in walks Gina Daniels. She's a successful writer who has vowed to remain single and alone after a terrible marriage and stress-filled divorce. What she sees as an incredible risk, he sees as a second chance. Take One ended badly. Take Two begins.
The Archaeology of Prostitution and Clandestine Pursuits
Case studies of nineteenth-century sites from New York City to the American West The Archaeology of Prostitution and Clandestine Pursuits synthesizes case studies from various nineteenth-century sites where material culture reveals evidence of prostitution, including a brothel in Five Points—New York City’s most notorious neighborhood—and parlor houses a few blocks from the White House and Capitol Hill. Rebecca Yamin and Donna Seifert also examine brothels in the American West—in urban Los Angeles and in frontier sites and mining camps in Sandpoint, Idaho; Prescott, Arizona; and Fargo, North Dakota. The artifact assemblages found at these sites often contradict written records, a...
The Fishers of Paradise
In 1930s Hamilton, the boathouse community of Cootes Paradise is under siege: the squatters' shacks that line the shores of Dundas Marsh stand in the way of ambitious plans to make the city beautiful. Egypt Fisher and her mother are struggling to keep their lives together in the absence of her father, a con man neither of them has seen for six years. Into this mix walks a handsome drifter and the family falls under his spell, until Egypt's father unexpectedly returns. Unhinged by jealousy and a harrowing brush with the local mafia, he reveals a family secret that sets Egypt's world off-kilter and poisons her relationship with her mother. When Egypt tries to turn the situation to her own advantage, her lies set in motion a series of events with devastating consequences.
The Wiley Handbook of Teaching and Learning
Provides a comprehensive reference for scholars, educators, stakeholders, and the general public on matters influencing and directly affecting education in today’s schools across the globe This enlightening handbook offers current, international perspectives on the conditions in communities, contemporary practices in schooling, relevant research on teaching and learning, and implications for the future of education. It contains diverse conceptual frameworks for analyzing existing issues in education, including but not limited to characteristics of today’s students, assessment of student learning, evaluation of teachers, trends in teacher education programs, technological advances in cont...
Le temps du pardon
Juillet 1966. Natalie Ward a quinze ans. Elle a grandi dans une ferme au cœur des montagnes de la Colombie-Britannique, à quelques kilomètres de la frontière avec les États-Unis. Son univers se limite à sa famille aimante et unie, qui, Natalie en est convaincue, fait l’admiration et l’envie des habitants d’Atwood, la ville voisine. En pleine guerre du Vietnam, l’arrivée d’un conscrit réfractaire, un Américain à la voix douce surnommé River, va mettre à l’épreuve la moralité et les certitudes des Ward ainsi que de leur entourage. Rien ne sera plus comme avant, les drames vont s’enchaîner, poussant Natalie à remettre en question l’existence idyllique de sa famille. Octobre 2003. Natalie se rend au chevet de sa mère atteinte d’un cancer incurable. Ce retour sur les lieux de sa jeunesse fait ressurgir les souvenirs qu’elle a passé sa vie d’adulte à fuir. Elle sait qu’elle va enfin devoir affronter la vérité – les secrets de famille sont sur le point d’être exposés au grand jour. Traduit de l’anglais par Béatrice Roudet-Marçu
Rac(e)ing to Class
In this incisive and practical book, H. Richard Milner IV provides educators with a crucial understanding of how to teach students of color who live in poverty. Milner looks carefully at the circumstances of these students’ lives and describes how those circumstances profoundly affect their experiences within schools and classrooms. In a series of detailed chapters, Milner proposes effective practices—at district and school levels, and in individual classrooms—for school leaders and teachers who are committed to creating the best educational opportunities for these students. Building on established literature, new research, and a number of revelatory case studies, Milner casts essential light on the experiences of students and their families living in poverty, while pointing to educational strategies that are shaped with these students' unique circumstances in mind. Milner’s astute and nuanced account will fundamentally change how school leaders and teachers think about race and poverty—and how they can best serve these students in their schools and classrooms.
