Bøger af Will Ryan

Five years ago, Adam Kane's life fell apart when he was dishonorably discharged from the military. Forced to return to San Francisco, a disgraced and broken man, he thinks his life can't get any worse. He's wrong. A terrifying attack sets him on a collision course with an enemy more powerful and dangerous than he can imagine, but the only man who has a chance of stopping it doesn't even exist yet. All across America a shadowy organization is seizing control of the illicit drug trade, growing ever more powerful, while the most devastating attack in US history is being planned in secret. A new epidemic sweeps the streets.

1969 - Jacques Carpentier returns from Vietnam to attend elite Latham University located in the heart of the Pennsylvania country-side. Although he's haunted by war memories, he finds friendship and comfort with a fellow veteran and with other students whose personal loses and conflicted lives resonate with his own. 1969 becomes a watershed year him when he and his friends, although innocent, are implicated in the murder of a fellow student.

Following the sudden death of his father, Lt. Commander Lane Goodling leaves the active Navy, which he loves, to help manage his family's complicated holdings in properties and money. When he takes on the renovation of the ancient family estate and farmstead in Pennsylvania's Amish county, he finds more than he expected. Friendship, loyalty, betrayal love, sex, a gorgeous, mercurial soprano, the rare American Chestnut tree, a plucky biologist, honest lawyers, dishonest lawyers, and the senseless murder of a good man.

Regent's Academy in Parsons Spring, New York, trains the pre-school children of well-healed professionals and business people. It's founder, Dr. Leslie Regent, touts it as a school of Marvels, Wonders and Knowledge, and in many ways it is both for the children and the faculty. As their stories unfold, the strange and wonderful loves and lives of children, their parents and the teachers of the school intertwine in unexpected, romantic and sometimes tragic ways. A childhood friendship evolves into an adult obsession that ends in bitter disappointment. One character remakes her life in classic American style, creating herself in a new persona, an identity that obscures her origins. Another flees from halfway across the world the lies and treachery of a family that has deceived and used her. Yet another finds the love of her life and loses him in a sad reversal of fate. All of them have one thing in common, the school of wonders, the place of marvels and knowledge, Regent's Academy.

Set amid the dramatic events of 2001, love, infidelity, sacrifice, jealousy, lust and tragedy affect the lives of three sisters, their husbands and their lovers. Events play out over two continents, involving corporate politics, the discovery of a lost painting, and the publication of a scandalous novel.

With the help of a friend, Janie Schweigart flees an abusive family, leaving central Pennsylvania for Philadelphia where she finds employment and advances her education. Things go well for a short time until Tom, the friend who helped her, is accused of crime he didn't commit, falsely identified and sentenced to prison for armed robbery. Janie drops out of college and works two jobs, trying to save enough money to afford the legal fees demanded to to get Tom a new trial. Eventually, her need for money drives her to accept a position with "Elegant Escorts." The job with "Elegant" brings her unwanted admirers and a murdered client entangled in a blackmail plot.

Sometimes the Search for truth can lead to love and redemption. Commander Penn Fuller, USN, comes from a family whose tradition of service in the U.S. Navy stretches back two centuries. He was a deep-water sailor who loved the sea and his life in the Navy. Combat in Iraq, however, left him with a distinguished record, but damaged physically and mentally. Gone to ground at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, he tries to make the best of his situation by pursuing a doctoral degree and publishing a book on Naval river operations during the Iraq war. The doctorate and the distinctions he's earned, however, offer no redemption. For him they're just hollow credentials that cannot comfort, heal or vindicate anything he's done, and cannot return him to the way he was before the war. Post-traumatic stress, intermittent physical pain, and self-doubt overshadow everything he does. He buries his feelings in work, despises his own self-pity and wants, above everything, to meet that someone who'll be the focus of his life and help restore him to what he was. Harriet, grand-aunt and doyenne of the family repeatedly tries to engage him with women she thinks will help his career. One of them, Kate Hobson, comes close, but it's not until Penn Fuller researches the shadowy life and career of his Great-grandfather, Vice-Admiral John Pennington, that he discovers long-hidden truths about his ancestry and also finds the love that will bring him the salvation he seeks. Penn's journey of discovery takes him from Annapolis to Vermont to Japan and the revelation of family and official secrets that change his life and color historical events with the unique contributions of an ancestor whose sense of honor and life-long commitment to the woman he loved overcame vast distances of location, time and culture.

Will Ryan'sDare to be Different: A leadership fable about >transformational change in schoolsthe fictional tale of Brian Smith a primary school head teacher who listens to what his political masters have to say, but then sets out to inspire real transformational change by doing the exact opposite and leading through his own va

If you did the calculations you would discover that during their primary school years, a child will spend roughly 70 days in assembly, and possibly a further 52 days during their secondary years.

What is it that Inspirational teachers do differently? In short, they plan for their pupils to be inspirational. Many teachers who join the teaching profession do so because they were taught by inadequate teachers and they feel they can provide a far better and more exciting education for youngsters than they received themselves. Whereas other teachers speak with clarity of detail about stimulating and influential teachers who inspired their lives and now they want to do the same. This book is an examination of what our most inspirational teachers do in order to get creative and inspirational responses from children. It aims to put fun back into teaching, provide a framework for creativity in the twenty first century and act as a book of hope for the new curriculum proposals.

This book gives all primary heads - aspiring, newly appointed or those for whom the phrase 'There must be something more than this...!' rings a bell - the ideas, techniques, tools and direction to turn their schools Inside-Out and lead them from the heart and soul. What's more it will help give Heads the confidence to do those things they know are right because they are right for the children, right for the staff and right for the community.