Bøger af William J Palmer

When Barrington High School teacher William J. Palmer tells his at-risk students he can relate to their problems, he's speaking literally. As a teenager, Palmer couldn't balance academics with the pressures of his dysfunctional family and the temptations of the streets. Once a student at Barrington High School, he dropped out before earning a diploma. Palmer's path from dropout to beloved teacher was a long and winding one. He earned a GED, an Associate's degree, bachelor's degree, and a master's degree. He also built a successful career in commercial real estate. Palmer knew, however, that a teaching career would allow him to be the mentor he always wished he'd had. At the encouragement of his colleagues and students, Palmer wrote his story as both an inspiration to troubled youth and a guidebook for parents and educators. Palmer focuses on helping others understand the connections between negative life experiences and potential academic failure. He utilizes the cognitive behavioral strategies of Dr. Albert Ellis's Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and Education (REBT/E) model to encourage students to live and learn positively. Palmer believes all students can achieve, even those who come from families blighted by alcohol, poverty, or domestic violence. He's a living example of the strategies he teaches.

Hi, My Name Is Molly . . . is a work of creative nonfiction chronicling the life of Molly, a sufferer of DOOSE syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy that took Molly's life at age 16. It is a very unconventional biography/memoir that works the magic of words to attempt to overcome the reality of death.

It's the Pandemic, the film industry is on unwelcome hiatus, and Hollywood's brightest star, Mandy Troy, is receiving death threats and compromising photos out of her past. Sherlock's former Marine Corps Sergeant is Mandy's bodyguard and lover.Suspecting blackmail is imminent, he brings Sherlock Jones and the WDGA "e;Disreputables"e; (Wednesday Drunken Golfer's Association) on to the case. But one of Sherlock's prime suspects, the Producer of the porno films that Mandy made when she was a struggling actress, turns up murdered. Now Mandy and the Sergeant are a new set of prime suspects. This second of the Sherlock Jones novels drags the reader down into the dark and dirty depths of the move world of plague-stricken Los Angeles in 2021.

"e;[A] delightful hot toddy of a winter's read."e; -LA TIMESIt was the best of times, it was the worst of crimes in this delightful Dickensian romp, with the canonical author teaming up with a famous upstart to solve a devilish murder.In Victorian London, Charles Dickens and his protege, the renowned author Wilkie Collins, make the acquaintance of the shrewdest mind either would ever encounter: Inspector William Field of the newly formed Metropolitan Protectives. A gentleman's brutal murder brings the three men together in an extraordinary investigation that leads Dickens to the beautiful young actress Ellen Ternan. Almost immediately, she becomes the love of his life. But first, Dickens must protect her from the noose, as she is the main suspect.