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The Peepal Tree Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories
Since its beginnings 33 years ago, Peepal Tree has published around 45 collections of Caribbean short stories, reinforcing the view that the short story is the Caribbean literary form par excellence. This anthology draws from those collections, plus a few guests, focusing on work written over the past twenty-five years, the majority dealing with the recent post-independence period up to the present. Though quality is the ultimate criteria, this anthology is unrivalled in its range across the Anglophone Caribbean and its diasporas, and representative of Caribbean ethnicities, gender and sexual orientations. Stories offer images of the city from ghettos to gated communities, suburbia, villages...
The Classic Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher
Step into the charming world of Beatrix Potter with this board book edition of The Classic Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher featuring new illustrations by Charles Santore. Join Mr. Jeremy Fisher as he puts on his shiny galoshes one rainy day and hops aboard his water lily boat to fish for minnows—only to discover that the pond can be a dangerous place for a frog! With lavish illustrations from New York Times bestselling artist Charles Santore, this board book edition of the classic story is perfect for toddlers and features rounded edges. It makes a great companion to The Classic Tale of Peter Rabbit and Beatrix Potter’s other works.
Brothers: Lost and Found
Ty, 20, lives in an apartment with Nick, 9 (a boy he got off the street). As Ty looks at pictures of his older brothers (that he lost touch with after their parents divorce but knows where they work) Nick continues to ask Ty when he's going to tell them. When Ty is hurt and in the hospital, Nick reveals it to Ty's oldest brother Jerry.
The Giraffe Tree and Other Tall Stories
Warning! Strange things happen in The Giraffe Tree and Other Tall Stories. Do you know what to do if the evil Investigator Black from the Ministry of Birthdays invites himself to your party? Or what you must definitely not do if you are locked in a library overnight? Or what to do if you are a garden gnome who has lost his garden. Or how to save yourself if you are a helpless snail about to be eaten by a thrush? And who should you trust if you are sold as a slave? You can find out the unexpected answers in these stories which Eric Johns has gathered together because they are all very strange and get on well together. Also, how does a giraffe become a tree?
Cosmic Misfits
Ryan Bettencourt has an enviable life. Happily married with two great kids and a successful and profitable career he loves, the world is at his feet. But one evening, while driving home, something extraordinary changes everything. His ordinary life takes a twist into the bizarre when his drive home is interrupted by a ship visiting from another planet. He is now an unwilling guest on the spaceship Solar Flare, an extraordinary blend of machine and sentient being. The Solar Flare has been sent to Earth to retrieve a human being, and Ryan is the lucky winner of this new adventure. The ship, using telepathy and Ryans help, awakens the ships crew, four humanoids and Tobias, a being unlike any Ry...
Realms of Flimenia Jeremy’S Journey
In the four years since his parents divorced, Jeremy Striker is so lonely; he plays his computer game until he is able to play it in his daydreams. However, in grade eight, he finally has a school chum only Jeremy is tossed aside because he refuses to disobey his mother and join the friend on a trip to Disneyland. Jeremy is so hurt and angry, he takes his computer characters on their most dangerous mission, but then he leaves them stranded when he decides to save the friendship and sneak away to go on the trip to Disneyland. Already disoriented by his chum's confusing map to the rendezvous, Jeremy runs when he hears something following him and falls into a steep ravine. Seriously injured, he is convinced that he will die because no one knows where he is except for the friend and he said that he would not wait. Everything seems hopeless until a dog and a raven join him. Jeremy is sure that they are Wolf and Talon from his game and his computer characters have forgiven him. In this gripping fantasy adventure, Jeremy struggles to save his computer teammates...but can he save himself?
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness for Psychosis
Emerging from cognitive behavioural traditions, mindfulness and acceptance-based therapies hold promise as new evidence-based approaches for helping people distressed by the symptoms of psychosis. These therapies emphasise changing the relationship with unusual and troublesome experiences through cultivating experiential openness, awareness, and engagement in actions based on personal values. In this volume, leading international researchers and clinicians describe the major treatment models and research background of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Person-Based Cognitive Therapy (PBCT), as well as the use of mindfulness, in individual and group therapeutic contexts. The book con...
Learning to Teach Through Discussion
Nel Noddings, author of Critical Lessons: What Our Schools Should Teach --
The Clearing
A fictional story based on mysteries of the afterlife, ascended masters, life after death, absence of time and all things in between. A beautiful meadow in a clearing in the woods. An ugly pit of darkness and fear. What mysteries do they hold? Young Eva Carson faces these questions in a long summer in May, visiting her grandparents' cabin on the majestic Grand Mesa in Colorado. Her reality is questioned when she is confronted by numerous unexplained phenomena embarking upon her stable life. Soon she is engulfed in a torrent of mysteries and struggling for a sanity she believed she already possessed. All is chaos when she soon discovers life is a massive question mark of fear, but all questions are answered at one time or another.
