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From Behaving to Belonging
Challenging behavior is one of the most significant issues educators face. Though it may seem radical to use words like love, compassion, and heart when we talk about behavior and discipline, the compassionate and heartfelt words, actions, and strategies teachers employ in the classroom directly shape who students are—and who they will become. But how can teaching from the heart translate into effective supports and practices for students who exhibit challenging behavior? In From Behaving to Belonging, Julie Causton and Kate MacLeod detail how teachers can shift from a "behavior management" mindset (that punishes students for "bad" behavior or rewards students for "good" or "compliant" beh...
Tales From Across Space
Tales from Across Space collects five stories from fantasy and science fiction writer Kate MacLeod: The science fiction novelette “Required to Assist,” a mystery set on board a colony ship, where one woman alone is woken by the ship’s droids to solve a murder. “Sword and Tattoo,” a fantasy short story where a stranger stumbles into a hidden town. He brings danger with him, but the people of the town just might be more dangerous still. The science fiction short story “Being Neighborly”, a light-hearted tale of a human family homesteading on a world side by side with a very alien people. “Tumbling Up”, a science fiction short story about a group of diplomats attempting to negotiate a peace with an aquatic alien species. “Death Spiral”, a science fiction mystery where a security officer must solve a murder and keep a strange species of aliens calm at the same time.
Death Spiral
Sanyah Allani, born on a space station, once dreamt of retirement on a cabin down on Earth. But when she finds herself suddenly a widow, that dream loses all appeal. Instead, she goes to a mining asteroid, taking work as a security officer. But what was meant to be a sleepy posting becomes anything but, when a dead body is found deep in one of the mine’s caves. A murder, but worse, the victim isn’t even supposed to be there. And the aliens the humans share the mining rights to the asteroid with are livid. Now Allani has to not only solve a murder, but also keep an important, if hard to communicate with, species of allies at peace. “Death Spiral”, a science fiction short story originally published in Analog magazine.
Tales of Blood and Ink
Kate MacLeod writes both fantasy and science fiction. This book collects her nine previously published short stories as well as two new bonus stories. These tales span from Heian era Japan to the near reaches of space, from alternate world fantasies inspired by Babylon and Mohenjo-Daro to post-apocalyptic air ships that never touch the ground, from light-hearted fare like "Trifle" to the darker "On Desperate Seas", based on the ill-fated John Franklin Expedition. This collection includes: Blood and Ink Oil Fire Gardens of Wind Seagull and Raven Mother River Tale of a Fox Full Circle On Desperate Seas Trifle The Onmyoji's Wife Din Ba Din (This short story appeared on the 2013 Locus Magazine Recommended Reading List, was given an honorable Mention in Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection, and was recommended reading in Rich Horton's The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2014 Edition.)
Building a Positive and Supportive Classroom (Quick Reference Guide)
Julie Causton and Kate MacLeod provide heartfelt and compassionate strategies to help teachers work with students who exhibit challenging behavior.
Tumbling Up
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Tales from Forgotten Days
"Tales from Forgotten Days" collects five never-before-seen stories from fantasy and science fiction writer Kate MacLeod: the high fantasy murder mystery "Impostor Apparition", the western weird tale "Unsafe, Unsound", the pseudo-Egyptian fantasy "Tear of a Sphinx", the early Bronze Age fantasy "Changing Tides" and "In the Waste Places", the sequel to "Oil Fire".
A Lethal Betrayal
Murdina Ritchie left her childhood home of Buennagel when a volatile, very alien species abducted her father during a failed diplomatic meeting. Six years later, she finds herself flying back. Her best friend Shackleton Fitz IV needs her help. His father's increasingly bizarre behavior demands an explanation. And Ritchie and Fitz specialize in finding explanations. But when another guest at the house dies when brutally attacked their first night home, Ritchie and Fitz find themselves caught up in two cases. Someone in the house is the killer, and anyone in the house could be next. A Lethal Betrayal, Book 6 and the concluding chapter in the Ritchie and Fitz Sci-Fi Murder Mysteries.
Mother River
Sarsuti, goddess and river, bathes her City in her life-giving waters, and the People prosper from her inundations. But now she runs dry and the People whither with her.Sarsuti loves her People best of all people. So Prithvi's grandmother the high priestess always tells them. So why the long, relentless drought? Why the lack of male offspring in more than a decade? Why the raiders sieging their city walls?Sarsuti with her feet in the ocean and her hair in the mountains knows all. Some of it she whispers to Prithvi's grandmother. But Prithvi hears a voice too. One river, one goddess, one path of action for the People. But how to know the true voice from the false one?
The Body in the Catacombs
Murdina Ritchie and Shackleton Fitz IV start their junior year at the Oymyakon Foreign Service Academy finally feeling like they belong in that world. They stand as equals among the other cadets. And the crushing load of schoolwork? Surprisingly manageable when you're not trying to solve a murder at the same time. But the rumors of big changes in the political universe reach even the depths of the Academy. Distrust and secretiveness invade the minds of all of the cadets. Something dark and tumultuous hangs over all of them, and not just the ever-present storms of Oymyakon. Then someone finds a body in the lower levels, and the accusations fly. A murder, but committed decades before. Long before the time of any of the cadets. But not before the time of the instructors. In fact, exactly at the time Colonel Hansen was Cadet Hansen. Can Ritchie and Fitz solve the coldest of cases and prove the colonel innocent? Or worse, guilty?
