A Heartfelt Story for Every Classroom and Every Child Who Wants to Be SeenEvery day, children walk into classrooms carrying invisible backpacks full of worries, secrets, and fears. If She Only Knew Me gives voice to those children. Told from the perspective of a young boy, this beautifully illustrated book allows readers to peek into the thoughts and feelings of a child who longs to be understood by his teacher.Through simple but powerful words, this story reminds educators, parents, and c...

"Come Watch the Nighttime Breathe " is the first novel in a series written by Jeff Gray that follows a young man named Tristan Wallace as he comes of age and begins his journey to learn the meaning of life and more specifically – the meaning of his life. Tristan was born and raised in a small, Midwest town in the 1970's by a middle-class family, enriched in Catholic values. His safeguarded upbringing never allowed him to adapt properly. As a result, as Tristan comes of age, his desire to g...

Excerpt from What If...What If we celebrated the success of our students like we celebrated the victories of our favorite sports team.

This highly interactive and motivational book offers clear insight for making Matthew 22:3739 into a lifes path. Dr. Wayne Scott presents the content through an innovative method of learning called biblical journaling. This helps you to interact with Gods Word.Included are seven chapters on Gods love that have been rewritten into a more contemporary style from Orison Swett Mardens book Loves Way (1891). Marden was the most widely read author of self-development books in the ninetee...

In the early hours of January 4th 1944 a Wellington bomber of the RAF crashed in Brockhurst Wood near the village of Farnham Common. Of the crew of six only one survived. After the war the people of the village clubbed together for a memorial and installed a stained glass window in the Anglican Church of St. John’s nearby.Forty years later Mrs. Florence Payne (cover picture), mother of the dead rear-gunner, Sergeant Victor Payne, returned on a pilgrimage, revisiting the site and the...

Going through my fathers papers after his death in 2016 I found a heap of papers in a box in the wardrobe. Rather than going through them at the time I packed them up to go through later. The papers turned out to be a number of short stories and articles he had written as well as a tatty file labeled ‘It’s Pull To Go Up’ that contained several hundred typed pages, mostly ordered and several old exercise books with my fathers characteristic handwriting. Some of the articles have bee...

My name is Leslie Joy (Les to my friends), and I was born on the 16th March 1923 in Bradford, Yorkshire. This is my true story of how at the age of 19 I joined the RAF, fell in love with a Tiger Moth, got my wings and flew as a Lancaster Bomber pilot in World War II, and survived just!

This WWII memoir of an NCO Royal Air Force pilot offers a vivid, personal account of wartime life and dangerous operations over Europe.In 1941, Graham White was passing a Royal Air Force recruiting center and, on the spur of the moment, signed up. As a non-commissioned RAF pilot, he went on to fly long-range night-fighters against the Luftwaffe. White experienced badly designed and dangerous aircraft, such as the Beaufighter with its Merlin engine. But he also flew...

The first Royal Navy pilot to fly transatlantic non-stop (in a Buccaneer) describes his thirty-five-year career in the Fleet Air Arm and as an Empire Test Pilot.The spectacle of Alan Cobham's Flying Circus and the Fleet at anchor in Weymouth inspired the author's lifelong passion for aeroplanes, flying and the Royal Navy. World War Two provided the opportunity to fulfil his ambition and at eighteen he volunteered for the Fleet Air Arm as a pilot. Training in Canada ...

The posthumous memoirs of a World War II Pathfinder pilot and Distinguished Flying Cross recipient who flew target-marking missions in enemy territory.Denys A. Braithwaite was born of a well-to-do Yorkshire family and joined the Auxiliary Air Force on his eighteenth birthday in 1939. On the occasion of Chamberlain's speech to the British nation on September 3, the situation changed dramatically and from being a "super weekend club," his squadron was assigned coasta...

The remarkable autobiography of a pioneering female aviator who left a privileged life to serve in World War II.Her father was a millionaire race-car driver who became chairman of Bentley Motors, and her grandfather cofounded the De Beers mining company. But by the late 1930s, debutante Diana Barnato had enough of her affluent, chaperoned existence and sought excitement in flying—soloing at Brooklands after only six hours' training.Joining the Air Transport...

Catch a rare glimpse into the training of the nation's defence personnel, as pilot turned flying instructor Mike Brooke shares with us some of his amusing firsthand flying stories. After his success as a Cold War Canberra pilot, Mike was dispatched to become a flying instructor at the Central Flying School in the 1970s. 'Follow him through' – as he would instruct his trainees – as he experiences the quite literal ups and downs of teaching the Glasgow and Strathclyde Air Sq...