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In 1845, after Emily’s parents passed away, she suddenly realizes she has no family. As she travels to Ireland, she finds happiness when she meets an Irish woman, her young daughter, and a man who would become the love of her life, Patrick O’Rilley. Several months after living in Ireland with her new family, she soon had to leave to return to America, but without Patrick. After arriving in America, Emily meets John and David, Irish friends of Patrick. From then, they become the family they all had been longing for. What awaits them in the future will engross readers as the wonderful story unfolds its inspiring end.
Written for children reading at first and second grade levels, this readers theatre book uses Mother Goose rhymes as its basis, making it especially valuable to teachers and librarians working on building fluency skills in their beginning readers. The book offers plays based on well-known rhymes, complete with presentation and instructional follow up suggestions. The author also offers staging diagrams that enable teachers to use each script with entire classrooms of students, and he includes lists of further teaching resources for each play as well. Reading levels are based on accepted readability formulas. Several of the scripts feature simultaneous Spanish translations—a real plus for ELL programs. An introductory chapter discusses the educational value of using readers theatre with young readers and ELL students. Grades 1 and 2.
In her first year of medical school, Abby West’s goals for the future were derailed by an unexpected pregnancy. Reluctantly, she discarded her dream of becoming a physician in favor of being a wife to one. Nineteen years later, Abby discovers her powerful, well-connected husband has been keeping a secret—an eight-year-old son from an old affair. Devastated by the betrayal, she flees to her grandmother’s hometown on the Amalfi coast. There, Abby meets Daniel Quinn, a former American soldier turned photographer. As she travels across Europe with him, she begins to imagine a new life, one without a controlling and unfaithful husband. Empowered by a newfound sense of freedom and courage, Abby returns to St. Augustine to settle things with her husband. But nothing goes as planned, and what awaits may very well destroy her.
"I sleep on the Mountain, next to my secret cave. All night I dream about walking in the desert. Somehow, I wake up at the foot of Mont Royal s cross." The story of a Montreal homeless man, anguished by disturbing images, who realizes he s a time-travel fugitive hunted by the CIA for his link to pre-Christian writings. With the help of a sixteenth century New-France explorer, an underground society inhabited by mysterious children, ex-agents, homeless and Aboriginal friends, Gabriel Norson is ready to battle a Draconian empire that has matured for eons on Earth. As Gabriel reads these sacred texts on Mont Royal, a lysergic kaleidoscope of events ignites that may dismantle the foundation of faith upon this planet."
In 1724-1726, the Dutch clergyman François Valentyn published a 5,000-page account of the Dutch East India Company’s empire. It was the first and, for a long time, the only survey of the Dutch establishments in Asia and South Africa. Shaping a Dutch East Indies analyses how Valentyn composed this work and how it largely determined the Dutch perspective on the colonies in Asia until the 1850s. It seeks to highlight both the great diversity of knowledge gathered in Valentyn’s book and its geographical spread, from the Cape of Good Hope to Japan, with a focus on the Indonesian archipelago. Huigen’s book is the first in-depth study of Valentyn’s work, which is a foundational text in the history of Dutch colonialism.