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A powerful and moving memoir about how the youth detention system is letting down our most desperate and damaged kids, and how one rookie teacher fought the system on their behalf. Explosive, heart-breaking, inspiring.'Honest and courageous ... This book is the report card we've all known was coming.' Gabbie Stroud, bestselling author of TeacherWhat happens when your first teaching job isn't in a classroom - but in juvenile detenti...

'When an accident occurs, something may emerge of lasting value, for the human spirit may rise to its greatest heights. This happened on Haramosh.'The Last Blue Mountain is the heart-rending true story of the 1957 expedition to Mount Haramosh in the Karakoram range in Pakistan. With the summit beyond reach, four young climbers are about to return to camp. Their brief pause to enjoy the view and take photographs is...

This issue of the Rosicrucian Digest presents a compendium of materials that provide a solid introduction to the most important aspects of Kabbalah.

Addison Harper is abruptly summoned to Milverton at the behest of an abrasive lawyer. He plans to be in and out, back to the city lickety-split. Instead, he finds himself charmed by the small town with its delightful and eccentric residents, not to mention the rather easy-on-the-eye Sergeant Jake Murphy.Despite the rocky start, Addison admits he's had a pleasant day out. That is, until returning to find the prickly old lawyer on the floor, and very...

Where the Light Begins explores one of the most subtle and yet profound frontiers of human experience: children's near-death experiences. When children come close to death, some return with memories that challenge easy explanation. They describe a light that feels like home, presence without form, and connection beyond language. Their words are simple and expressed with calm certainty. They do not speculate. They remember.Based on real-life cases, hospice encounters, and y...

From a compelling new voice in middle grade literature comes a reimagination of The Odyssey told from the point of view of Odysseus's loyal dog. Argos is a thrilling tale of loyalty, determination, and adventure.For twenty years, the great hero Odysseus struggles to return to Ithaka. After ten years beneath the walls of Troy, he begins the long journey back home. He defeats monsters. He outsmarts the Cyclops. He battles the gods. He does whatever it takes to reuni...

A Texas cowboy drives a herd across the unforgiving landscape while battling enemies in this Western adventure from the USA Today –bestselling author.Armed with only a Colt rifle, a Bowie knife, and courage as big as the West, Ten Chisholm—the bold, illegitimate son of frontier scout and plains ambassador Jesse Chisholm and a Cherokee woman—arrives in the heart of Comanche country with a price on his head. His only crime:...

Cowboys encounter rustlers, hostile Indians, and stampedes on the trail in this Western adventure from the USA Today –bestselling author.The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them north where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-bl...

From the award-winning series with over one million copies in print, a novel of the courageous men who drove freight across the western frontier.Between Kansas City and Montana Territory were a thousand ways to die—and a few bold men who would never turn back.Miners dug for fortunes. Soldiers died on open plains. And a few brave men drove the wooden freight wagons into the wild land. Now, master Western novelist Ralph Compton tells the real story of the tou...

The New York Times–bestselling author of the Battle Hymn Cycle recreates one of the Civil War's most dramatic battles in this historical novel.Centered upon one of the most surprising and dramatic battles in American history, Darkness at Chancellorsville recreates what began as a brilliant, triumphant campaign for the Union—only to end in disaster for the North. Famed Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson bring off an against-all...

The publication of The Book of Runes (over two million in print) marked the return of an ancient Oracle last used in the Middle Ages by Viking navigators to set their courses under cloudy skies. In our time, the Runes Oracle serves as a compass for conduct, a means of determining the "true north" of right action in any challenging situation. According to anthropologist Margaret Mead, for an Oracle to endure, it must be of service to at least three consecutive generations. We are now hearing...

How to make city cycling--the most sustainable form of urban transportation--safe, practical, and convenient for all cyclists.Cycling is the most sustainable mode of urban transportation, practical for most short- and medium-distance trips--commuting to and from work or school, shopping, visiting friends, going to the doctor's office. It's good for your health, spares the environment a trip's worth of auto emissions, and is economical for both public and personal b...