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The Summertime of Our Lives
Darlene Kardatzke, M.D., a developmental pediatrician, died of metastatic breast cancer in 2010. Parts of her story are funny and sentimental. Some stories are grim as the realities of cancer treatment are told. Her cancer journey and life of faith will be especially meaningful to cancer survivors and to friends of current and past cancer patients.
Widow-Man
Widowed men are vastly outnumbered by widows, and they receive disproportionately little attention in their time of grief and recovery. Though widowed men have much in common with widows, their sisters in grief, their journey is uniquely male. Writing from a Christian perspective, the author shares his practical responses to many issues faced by widowed men, including grief, changed relationships, personal upkeep, the possibility of remarriage, and how they hope they and their wives will be remembered. The book contains stories and questions with space for the reader to make notes on his experiences, writing his own "book" about his time of loss and healing.The author calls himself a "widow-man," a term of his own creation to avoid the title "widower," which he finds unsavory.
The Brown House Stories
"While the world was being flung into the maelstrom of World War II, a young family lived peacefully in a small rented farmhouse in Northern Ohio. Brown wooden shingles covered the house, so the family always talked of it as "the brown house." One of the three young boys especially treasured memories from his life in that brown shingled home, those times of fun, adventure, danger, exploration, and discovery. In his mind, the brown house was his Garden of Eden, the place where his life began."--Cover
Eritrea 1962
A young American college student heard John F. Kennedy's challenge to make this world better. He applied for the Peace Corps, and he was invited to join the first Peach Corps group in Ethiopia. He had to look up "Ethiopia" in an encyclopedia to learn where he would be going. In the small city of Adi Ugri in northern Ethiopia, Nyle Kardatzke taught math and science to local boys and girls in a public school. His two years in Ethiopia were a defining episode of his life. His experiences introduce you to some of the food, languages, and customs of that ancient land. Friendships with Ethiopians and Americans have enriched his life from 1962 until now.When he went to Eritrea, a former Italian colony, it was in a close relationship with Ethiopia but it had a degree of independent governance. Soon after he arrived in 1962, Eritrea was made a province of Ethiopia, and a civil war began to resist that change.The author's two years from 1962 to 1964 changed his life in ways he understood better in his later years. For some readers, the book itself will be an adventure to a faraway place long ago.
CLOCK OF THE COVENANT
A passenger train collided with a family car in 1913, killing a mother and a firstborn son. Out of that tragedy, a small church of farmers, factory workers, carpenters, and teachers formed in a northwestern Ohio town. One Sunday in 1945, a young boy thought he heard his minister say that God's people had carried the promises of God wherever they went in the "clock of the covenant" and assumed it was the very clock that hung in the boy's church in Elmore, Ohio. That revelation and the boy's best memories about that small church, its people, and their ways of "doing church" in postwar America became the basis for this collection of stories, The Clock of the Covenant. The book includes comical ...
Growing Up Too Fast
A leading child psychologist draws on a wide-reaching survey of American pre-teens to reveal the earlier ages at which today's young people are being introduced to sex, drugs, and body-image issues, in a guide for parents on how to help young people address modern pressures. By the author of See Jane Win. Reprint.
Leatherport, Ohio
Leatherport, Ohio was a tiny settlement near Elmore on the north bank of the Portage River. The town disappeared soon after 1851 when the railroad crossed the river at Elmore. Leatherport lived on in the one-room Leatherport School and in the minds of people who populated the countryside nearby. You will read of rustic practices long lost to modern methods of farming and eating. Small adventures and disasters are magnified in the book's close-up lens. A boy's outdoor adventures with turtles and snakes and other critters are here. Comic events in Elmore and the majesty of Toledo cast the stories in historical context. World War II ended just days before the author's class entered school, and he looks affectionately at the teachers he exasperated there. He graduated near the bottom of his class in 1957 but learned to type, a skill that made this book possible. Elvis Presley's show in Toledo on November 22, 1956 foreshadowed other events yet to come.
Dacoma, Oklahoma, USA
When the Cherokee Outlet was opened to homesteaders in the great Land Run of 1893, Wilbert Bruner and his wife Eliza lived in Kansas with two very young sons. Avoiding the mayhem of the land rush, Wilbert staked a claim in the Cherokee Outlet in spring 1894. He slept on the ground and lived alone in a crude sod house until he could build a small frame house for his wife and sons. The book includes stories of the extended family's 250-year migration across America to Oklahoma, stories of adventure, success, poverty, heartbreak, and joy.
Rescuing the Emotional Lives of Our Overweight Children
A compassionate guide for parents focuses on the emotional impact of being an overweight child, citing the risks and challenges faced by young people with weight problems while offering advice on how to be aware of peer discrimination, encourage healthy eating without nagging, and more. 40,000 first printing.
The Clash of Economic Ideas
This book places economic debates in their historical context and outlines how economic ideas have influenced swings in policy.
