Returning home through a bog late one night, sixteen-year-old Dick Dodds passes a trail that for some reason sends a chill up his spine. He feels the same inexplicable terror the next day when he explores the trail further and meets a girl, Helen Johnson, who saw something that looked like a man with no arms or legs moving and gliding across the landscape. The mystery deepens when a local widow, Mrs Knowles, becomes convinced that something evil has emerged from the river near her house. W...

This book is an indispensable guide for anyone training to become a secondary English teacher. It provides an overview of the main topics taught in schools, informed by good teaching practice drawn from the classroom and supported by research and theory, and engages with the requirements of the 2014 National Curriculum for England.Each chapter is based around a ‘lesson feedback’ case study informed by real classroom observations combined with research findings to explore and analys...

Exploring how Ulysses imitates the human mind at work, connecting close readings to psychological theories of Joyce’s timeIn this book, John Gordon uses historically oriented close readings to demonstrate that Ulysses is a book that mimics the workings of the human mind. Gordon highlights James Joyce’s exceptional ability to capture and represent lived experiences, showing how Joyce’s writings display the ways specific minds interact with their en...

Wintertime in the moody, atmospheric mists of East Anglia. Diving into the cold, murky water of a lake, Kit and Joe find an elaborate patten - a Fen word for ice skate. Its return to the surface is not widely welcomed and, as it emerges, the story of how the skate became detached from its owner fifty years ago leads the boys deep into a chilling mystery whose conclusion is yet to be played out. What could have been surging up through the ice that day half a century past that so frightened ...

This book is for any adult who reads to a child below reading age, when both have tired of traditional nursery rhymes. The words and pictures will stimulate discussion and conversations between adult and child. It is also the author’s hope that his appalling jokes will raise a smile from the adults.

Drawing on a multidisciplinary approach integrating insights from conversation analysis, narrative analysis, and narratology, this book theorizes teaching around narrative prose in each level of education, with a focus on a new framework of Pedagogic Literary Narration which emphasizes the practice of shared novel reading and the importance of the role of the teacher in mediating this practice. // With insights taken from a comprehensive set of transcripts taken from actual classrooms, the...

His second wife divorces him citing no reason. Boredom, another man? He never finds out. The company he works for folds. Taking a job in far away upstate New York. he rents an empty farmhouse on Coal Yard Road giving his only companion and loyal friend, his dog, a huge yard to run in. Winter and his new job are both harsh and endless. His dog dies. He is broken, fallen past the bottom. An act of love and caring saves him from the abyss. A seemingly random discovery forces him to examine hi...

There comes a time in each mans life when he will stand before another, and give an accounting. It is a moment of inventory, reconciliation and reflection, an opportunity to acknowledge, and perhaps a time to ask for forgiveness. That time has come for Monroe. His hard life stares back at him in an unflinching mirror of pain, despair, success, failure, and fl ashes of unbridled joy. He confesses with candid detail a journey of confusion, fear, and unanticipated courage. from the counter-cu...

This volume of collected stories gathers nine tales of unforgettable characters in settings that are both brutally realistic and cast from a spirit world of whimsical imagination. An introspective and imaginative discovery on a primeval Canadian lake; a brave boy defending his family in a struggle between love and hatred, injury and pardon; the despair of a woman trapped on a bridge and held hostage to the witness of the World Trade Center collapse; the sadness, joy, vulnerability, and str...

This is a meditative collection of thoughts, quotes, musings, devotionals, opinions, editorials, ticklers, and wincers.My inspiration is a playful, and devoted yellow lab named Gus.My canvas is the pre-dawn light which unfolds before me each new day.My gratitude is unbounded.

Time marches on, bulldozing obstacles, ignoring impediments and complications. It takes time to realize that there is no time like the present and longer, perhaps, to realize that there is no better present than the gift of time.This is another volume of musings, thoughts, opinions, and silly comments accumulated over timetime appreciating life and loving the blessing of that appreciation.

I don't know why I was chosen for this, or even how it happened.After many years of meditation and development, one night my Guide told me to "let go and we'll do the rest."This book is all about what heppened next.