Ed D : 428 books
Retirement Rocks
Life’S Rollercoaster
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Retirement ROCKS is an insightful case study of the Golden Age that offers both great new opportunities and deep, heartbreaking challenges. Since June 2007, the author and her gringo have embarked in this stage with enthusiasm and zest: they moved to a small retirement home and experimented with activities...
The Indigenous Black People of Monroe, Louisiana and the Surrounding Cities, Towns, and Villages
A 100 Year Documentary
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
This book is for those Louisiana slaves (and all the American slaves) whose labor was forced without regard to their humanity, even further, with unrestrained disrespect for their existence. This book is a tribute to the indigenous (originated in or native to the region) Black people of Northeast...
Winter Always Turns to Spring A Memoir
My Triumphant Journey Sachiko Takata Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Sachiko Takata was 14 years-old when an atomic bomb dropped on her hometown of Hiroshima, Japan. In an instant her world was changed. Her mother died shortly after Japan’s surrender. The devastation of war and the loss of her mother awakened in Sachiko’s heart a deep resolve to devote her life to...
The Chicken Trilogy
The Chicken Family Trials and Tribulations in the Carolina Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Three books comprise The Chicken Trilogy. The first volume in this collection is George Chicken, Carolina Man of the Ages; the second book is George Chicken Jr., Son of Carolina; and the third is Little Mistress Chicken, A Veritable Happening of Colonial Carolina. These three books examine the challenges,...
by Charles Dickens, Kathleen Olmstead, Arthur Pober
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Dickens’ timeless novel transports young readers to a colorful Victorian England filled with mistreated orphans, grim workhouses, and gangs of thieving children. The hero finds himself in dire circumstances after he dares to beg for more food in the orphanage. Determined to make his way in the world,...
Instrument Flying
10 Indispensable Principles to Know and Remember
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Written by an instrument instructor for instrument pilots Instrument Flying offers fresh insight into—and distinct ways to remember—10 specific principles designed to calibrate your thinking and lead to safer, better-managed, and less stressful flights. Validated by a cadre of distinguished instructors...
It's Time to Remember, America
Restoring the Foundations of Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
It’s Time to Remember, America is an attempt, through the use of original documents and primary sources, to canvass and rehearse the voices of our American ancestors—those who have gone before, laying down their lives as stepping stones for us who have come later. Few would dispute the fact that...
Isabel
Memoir of an Immigrant Cuban Girl.
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2018
Isabel, a Cuban American immigrant, has contemplated writing about her familys ordeal while living in Communist Cuba under the Castro regime. It is only after she suffers a sudden heart attack at the age of fifty-five that she realizes she needs to share her story with others who have had similar...
by Daniel Defoe, Deanna McFadden, Arthur Pober
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
A shipwreck. A sole survivor, stranded on a deserted island. What could be more appealing to children than Robinson Crusoe’s amazing adventure? Set in the 17th century, and unfolding over a 30-year period, it offers plenty of suspense and everyday detail about how Crusoe manages to stay alive. Additionally,...
by Constance L. McCart Ed.D., Friends of the Margaret E. Heggan Free Public Library
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
Washington Township, now the largest community in Gloucester County, was first incorporated in 1836. Its 22 acres of land, however, had been settled by Europeans as early as the 18th century, when farms were established near Lenni-Lenape encampments. By the mid-19th century, the area listed the communities...
by Jack London, Kathleen Olmstead, Arthur Pober
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Half wolf, half dog, White Fang fully understands the cruelty of both nature and humans. After nearly starving to death during the frigid Arctic winter, he’s taken in first by a man who “trains” him through constant whippings, and then by another who forces him to participate in vicious dogfights....
by Jules Verne, Arthur Pober, Ed.D
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Jules Verne—and his one-of-a-kind hero, Phileas Fogg—take children on an action-packed, whirlwind race around the world. For as long as anyone can remember, Fogg’s daily ritual has never varied by even a minute. Then, on a whim and a bet, he sets out to prove that he can span the globe and return...
by Bram Stoker, Tania Zamorsky, Arthur Pober
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Dracula, that compelling creature of the night, continues his neck-biting ways in a version of the novel that children will devour. Moving from Transylvania to London, the timeless vampire serves up thrills and chills as he imprisons and terrorizes the innocent Jonathan Harker, and then goes after...
Empty Chair, The
Handling Grief on Holidays and Special Occasions
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Losing a loved one--whether a spouse, parent, child, sibling, or friend--leaves people feeling overwhelmed and hopeless. Holidays and other special occasions seem to intensify the pain. Whether the occasion is Christmas or Easter, a birthday or anniversary, these celebrations force the bereaved to...