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What does it take to learn to teach the toughest children? Twenty-four struggling six-year-olds, one angry young horse, and a teacher who wouldn't give up. In this powerful book, part memoir and part how-to, master teacher Alix Moore shares with us how she learned to teach the unteachables. We follow her journey as she struggles with challenging animal and human students, surrenders ego, finds patience, and ultimately succeeds because of her unshakable conviction that all her students can learn.

"What we find in Nesting is a well-rounded and clear-sighted perspective on motherhood. Readers will respect the authority and wisdom of the poet. Trondson has situated herself in the solid mainstream of American poetry. The poetry is honest and real, primarily literal with subtle and effective touches of imaginative language and shifts of direction-poetry that is accessible and interesting."-Tim HoughtonJudge and Affiliate Associate Professor Department of Writing, Loyola UniversityErin Ruzicka Trondson''s poetry has appeared in So to Speak, Cold Mountain Review, and Connections. She holds a B.A. in women''s studies and anthropology from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She is the Executive Director of a Montessori school and lives in Madison with her husband and three daughters.

The two men came at dinnertime on friday night to murder a young rabbi and his family.They didn''t say why. They didn''t say who sent them. Fortunately, Gidon Aronson was at the right place at the right time. Gidon, a former member of an elite Israeli special operations unit, must not only protect the clergyman, but also peel back the layers of the man''s personal and professional lives to get at a secret not even the target knows, or admits. Gidon''s inquiries soon place him in the crosshairs as well, and lead him from the United States to Israel and the Gaza Strip. In his search, Gidon not only uncovers more questions, but in the process must also face his own demons from past Israeli operations.

Deranged links ecological explorations with moments of individual maturation in nineteen essays that braid natural history and memoir. On one level, Deranged investigates salient environmental topics such as Colony Collapse Disorder, forest fragmentation, the near-extinction of Britain's Large Blue Butterfly, altruism, the evolution of walking in early humans, and the threat of another mass extinction. But interwoven is a woman's coming-of-age, an exploration of the process of accepting childlessness while at the same time developing a sense of place in the Midwest. Deranged explores the mutability of where we believe we belong, and who we believe we are.

As Eileen Rudnick drove home after a long day at work in October 2000, her life became unexpectedly and forever altered - she was in a near fatal head-on collision. A rush to Shock Trauma saved her life, but the accident left her with severe traumatic brain injury. The Glass Between us is the step-by-step chronology of her recovery from severe traumatic brain injury, starting with the motor vehicle collision, through the time in coma, continuing with emergence, through rehabilitation, and ending in the present time. Eileen recounts the extraordinary story of her emergence from coma and the accelerated developmental processes she sped through to become a new and improved version of her former self.

From the ruins of ocean liners and model cities, to the dark impulses of Greek myths and biblical narratives, poet Megan Gannon casts a wide thematic net in tracing the legacy of desire in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. With the lyric compression of Emily Dickinson, the syntactical momentum and surrealist imagery of Sylvia Plath, the poems in White Nightgown examine how desire serves as both a creative and a destructive force, drawing loved ones near to us and pushing them away, destroying nations as well as shaping them. In Gannon's poems, the vestiges of desire are as encompassing as water, as enduring and semi-visible as ghosts.

This memoir chronicles the author Meg Tipper''s journey in the land of grief for the first year after the sudden death of her 22 year old daughter Maggie. These starkly honest observations weave inspiring and amusing details of Maggie''s life with universal feelings of grief. Through the daily entries and occasional photographs other stories of Meg''s life unfold as well: long-term recovery in a twelve step program, the first year of retirement and frequent traveling, the aftermath of divorce, a move, and the cementing of a new romance. While sudden death puts Meg on the edge of a terrifying emptiness, she finds in that space deeper spiritual and personal connections, a richer experience of life. "Standing at the Edge fiercely and lovingly tells a story of death, grief and love. Any mother, any daughter and every woman in recovery will be moved and changed by this book."-Diane Cameron, syndicated columnist and author of Out of the Woods at Blogspot.com

The school year is just beginning, and twelve-year-old Kelsey Baker has a lot on her mind. September brings opportunities for new friendships, beginning when Allie Anderson moves in next door. The girls bond over Allie's interest in learning about Kelsey's Deafness, as well as their shared love of running. They quickly become friends and are excited to join their school's cross country team together. But Kelsey soon wonders whether she has to pretend to be someone she isn't in order to be a part of the team. Plus, balancing her old friendships with her new ones and dealing with less-than-kind classmates are both much more difficult than she thought. She wonders where she fits in and whether her family and friends really understand her. Kelsey needs to bring her different worlds together, but how? This year will test her courage, patience, and confidence, but, despite it all, Kelsey's shining positivity and determination will lead her to realize who she truly is: a girl of many colors.

Chilling and mysterious folklore comes to life in this supernatural thriller about a writer investigating ghost legend in a town in denial. Stakes are raised when the writer protagonist discovers a Native American burial ground under an Eastern Shore jail and begins hallucinating black shapes and undulating snakes. This poltergeist fable is based upon the spirit myth of Dorchester County as well as Lynne's personal ghost narrative. Like a parable with a little bit of dangerous truth, the ghost stories are all genuine.