Jersey Day isn't just about uniforms — it's about proving you belong.At Appalachian Trail High School, the Lady Pioneers are gearing up for a new basketball season in a small town where every game matters and every secret threatens to spill. For returning junior point guard Mallory Kane, this season is her time to lead. For freshman Brynn Tate, it's a battle against nerves, mistakes, and her own self-doubt.Jersey Day is the first story in the L...

Dive into big questions with the enhanced eBook+ version of Philosophy for Kids! This interactive book turns mind-bending ideas into exciting challenges that students in grades 4-12 can explore in class or on their own. Wonder about everything while building critical thinking skills! Perfect for curious minds ready to explore ideas that have puzzled people for thousands of years—all presented in a way that's clear, logical, and actually fun!Enhancements include:Multip...

Gardens have always been places where people sought meaning. From Eden to Gethsemane, from Versailles to Kew, from Powerscourt to Altamont, something of these places resonated with people's souls as they yearned to connect to more. Styles of gardens have changed down the millennia, as have the lifestyles of those who created and gardened them, but what has remained constant has been the human desire for wholeness, holiness, and connection. As much as we have created and cultivated gardens,...

Under the faded canvas of the Kraft‑Ebbing Wonder Circus, miracles are manufactured nightly-and death is never far from the spotlight.Set against the harsh backdrop of the Great Depression and shadowed by the psychological scars of World War I, The Invisible Gun is a sweeping literary novel about illusion, faith, race, ambition, and the desperate hunger for belief in a collapsing world.Bruno Maxwell Hollenbeck, a war-scarred performer, clings to a set of bones he believes t...

David White's The Blind Pilot is not a book you read so much as a book you fall into. Across hundreds of short, densely imagistic pieces, the collection careens through carnival midways, burnt-out shacks, crashed planes, ice cliffs, and half-remembered towns - a landscape assembled from dream logic, dark humor, and unfiltered association.There is no single plot to follow and no character to root for in the traditional sense. Instead, White offers a voice - by turns comic, grotesque...

First Game JittersA Lady Pioneers Basketball Story – Season One: Game OneThe jerseys are on. The lineup is set. But nothing about game day feels normal.For the Appalachian Trail Lady Pioneers, the season opener is more than just another game — it's the start of something bigger. One player is suiting up for the first time. Another is desperate to prove she belongs. A new captain has been named. And everyone feels the pressure, even if no one...

In this book, the follow-up to the best-sellingPhilosophy for Kids, Dr. David White delves deeper into the philosophical questions kids (and adults) care about deeply. Through vibrant discussions and debate, the book offers ways teachers can help students grapple with age-old questions about the nature of friendship (Aristotle), time (Augustine), knowledge (Plato), existence of God (Aquinas), perception (Berkeley), freedom and society (Rousseau), and many more.The book is ...

Both the region of Champagne and its wines have always been associated with prestige and luxury. Knowledgeable wine enthusiasts have long discussed top Champagnes with the same reverence they reserve for the finest wines of Bordeaux and Burgundy. But everyday Americans usually keep Champagne way back on the high shelf. It’s for big celebrations, send-offs, and wedding toasts and, more often than not, is bought by the case. The good stuff costs plenty-and frankly, rarely seems worth the pri...

The times that have been foreseen, foretold, and mostly feared have suddenly come upon us. These will prove to be times like no other in history. If God had intended for you to live during any other age, He would have arranged it. Yet from the foundation of the world God has purposed you live on the earth during a time of unprecedented deception and darkness and yet unequaled grace and glory. God has promised hope and help in troubled times. You may even discover that you were more prepare...

This book reviews recent work in psychology which sheds new light on important areas of concern to primary school teachers, providing clear guidelines for good practice. The Psychology of Teaching and Learning in the Primary School details the current controversies regarding the effective teaching of reading and numeracy, how to deal with emotional and behavioural difficulties, the best methods of assessing learning, as well as teaching children to think and develop their creativi...

This book demonstrates that mathematical positions are based on metaphysical elements, which in turn provide schemata for evaluating and expanding metaphysical positions. The argument is grounded in the Platonic notion of the good, Whitehead's late essay on mathematics and the good, and Aristotle's sustained criticisms of Platonic philosophy of mathematics. Bridging ancient and modern thought, from Phaedo to the modern notion of Abelian groups in ...

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