This book explores notions of justice-oriented literacy coaching and offers a way of being in the world with young people, teachers, and communities that centers transformative coaching, teaching, and learning. It is intended to disrupt the traditional and historical positioning of literacy coaches in schools today. Through the lens of social justice and liberatory education, Sailors and Manning begin a dialogue with literacy coaches to help them reconsider their own roles and positions as...

REFLECTIONS is written as creative nonfiction, based on actual events from the author’s life. Memoir is a popular form for sharing practical life lessons and each story stands alone. Read the book from cover to cover or choose the titles that catch your eye.Life generally comes as a package of daily routines, but by taking time to reflect on past experiences we often discover positive solutions for the future which help us avoid repetition of past mistakes. These short stories have...

Accessible and inviting, this book showcases how teachers and literacy coaches can use research as a tool to teach literacy effectively and with intention. Sailors and Hoffman invite literacy specialists and practicing and preservice teachers into a conversation about how they can use research as means for professional learning, mentorship, and empowerment.Chapters feature a wealth of tools, examples, and strategies that make key concepts in literacy research refreshing and practic...

In a city where the corporate ladder is built on headstones, survival is the only promotion that matters.Victor Cross is a man of rigid discipline and cold calculation. When he lands a role as a junior financial consultant at The Rovers, he believes his first-class degree and aggressive debt-recovery skills are his greatest assets. But he quickly discovers that at this firm, "performance" isn't measured in spreadsheets. It is measured in blood.The Rovers is a hollowed-out e...

In the troubled subcounty of Ragweta, childhood friends Keing and Lorraine reunite after nine painful years. Their emotional encounter quickly turns dangerous when they are pulled into a quest for justice. As they investigate the suffering around them, they uncover a web of corruption that reaches the highest levels of local power.The deeper they dig, the more personal the battle becomes: their own fathers are entangled in the schemes of Ondiek, a ruthless mastermind whose invisibl...

Welcome to the world of Owen Cash, a man pushed finally to conform with society and pursue his own slice of the Great American Dream: Homeownership. He journeys forth to battle the trials of financial planning (negative amortization—what the hell is that?), house hunting (kids, go slice that family's tires), and mortgage applications (you need an ultrasound of my kidneys?!), all to please family and society and join the ranks of responsible, landed Americans—just at the height of the real ...

Dawn breaks on a city on the edge of chaos, and Cross is at the heart of the storm. Haunted by a brutal loss of a friend he could've prevented, he navigates a world where his survival demands blood, cunning, and relentless focus. Innocence is gone, and every choice drags him closer to unseen enemies with deadly agendas, while ancient, unseen forces stir, watching, waiting.‎When the life of a little girl he cares for is threatened, Cross is forced into a lethal game that pushes him ...

Paul Bowman is a former airship freighthauler recently conscripted into the Army of the Kingdom of Aurora. He certainly doesn't think he's anybody particularly special.But when Paul accidentally wins a minor victory, he suddenly finds himself as the most famous soldier in the Kingdom of Aurora. Soon, this unpolished and proudly working-class former freighthauler, is catapulted into the treacherous world of Auroran politics.Now given an airship to command, Captain Bowman is ...

He's ice on the rink, fire in her bed.Sports journalist Sophie Walker has made a name for herself tearing hockey gods off their pedestals—and no one has fallen harder than Chicago Devils captain Damon "Ice King" Reeves. Her scathing columns have made her persona non grata in the locker room. But when she's assigned to cover the team up close during their playoff run, Sophie finds herself face-to-face with her favorite enemy…and stuck in his orbit.Damon Reev...

About the BookSailor and Ally Jones reside in the Lakes region of Naples, Maine. They decided it would be fun to write a children’s book of Maine adventures!Included are delightful illustrations of life on the water and in the air. Imagination and fun combine with Ally Jones’s “Best Friend.”Sailor and Ally hope that you enjoy the book as much as they did creating it.

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consu...

Reading Egyptian anecdote you see yourself. The unique document will spell out to you something new. Quintessence of my book is contained in a simple way how to change the world for the better. For example: no more cash, corruption, robbery, kidnapping for ransom, and much more.