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The Walker siblings who live in a poor section of Central New Hampshire are taken from their family by the state and placed into an orphanage where Howard, six years old finds it hard to adjust to. He is a bed wetter and this brings him trouble abuse from the other children. Howard and his three brothers are taken on weekends to a home of the “Ladies of Charity” but this is not enough, so he runs away in search of his parents, guided only by the landmarks he remembers when his parent would take them into the city by bus. The journey to find them, leads him to meet several different families along the way.
Rich with anecdotes and personality, Dora Wang's account is a must-read for anyone curious about health care in New Mexico.
THE STORY: The author carries us through a number of varied scenes and shows us not only a somewhat unflattering picture of womanhood, but digging under the surface, reveals a human understanding for and sympathy with some of its outstanding figure
In Positive Academic Leadership, Jeffrey Buller offers new insights and practical tools, as well as language and tactics, for fostering a more effective approach to leadership. With acumen and a dash of humor, he shows leaders how they can take the focus off the negative and change what they say, their perspectives, and their strategies. This more constructive leadership style plays to the strengths of leaders rather than to the weaknesses of their institutions. Offering time-tested and fresh ideas for becoming the type of leader who acts as a coach, counselor, and conductor for faculty, staff, and students, Buller demonstrates how positive leadership can become a day-to-day practice. With i...
The Ampersand Prize-winner Erin Gough delivers a heart-warming debut novel about queer romance, crap parents & finding your feet when life gets messy. Seventeen-year-old Delilah drops out of high school when her romance with another girl goes horribly wrong and the whole school turns on her. Preferring chaos to bullying, Del makes it her mission to save her dad's crumbling café, the Flywheel, while he 'finds himself' overseas. Accompanied by her charming troublemaker best friend Charlie, Del sets out to save the cafe, keep Charlie out of prison, and maybe get a date with Rosa, the beautiful flamenco dancer from across the road. But when life is messy enough as it is, can girl-on-girl romance ever have a happy ending? A beloved #LoveOzYA novel about how to be heartbroken, how to fall in love, and how to wrestle with problems that are (almost) too big.
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Follow the Tinchebray Congregation of intrepid priest-professors initiating with their formation in nineteenth century France to their arrival to Central Alberta in 1904 where they evangelized, organized parishes, constructed churches, founded Roman Catholic convents and schools over a period of twenty years. Witness the challenges they faced adjusting their ministry from one primarily serving a French-speaking laity to one serving a growing multilingual church using English as the language of communication. Feel their disappointment when they were squeezed out of their Central Alberta missions in 1924 only four years after the appointment of Henry J. O’Leary as Archbishop of Edmonton, their new diocesan superior. Could there have been a different ending to their saga?