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The Pocket Advisor : Sue Ohrablo
A Family Guide to Navigating College
Congratulations, you’re headed to college! While it is an exciting time in your life, it can also be challenging to find your way around, learn what’s expected of you, and connect with the people that can help and support you when you need it.
The Pocket Advisor: A Family Guide to Navigating College is a practical, easy-to-use guide for navigating college. Drawing on over thirty years’ experience as an academic advisor, Dr. Ohrablo provides concrete tips on how to access the information, resources, and services you will need to be successful throughout your college career.
You will learn how to communicate using the language of higher education, understand who the key players are, and learn how to avoid and overcome challenges and obstacles that students commonly encounter. Included in the book are checklists and worksheets that will help you get oriented to your institution and will serve as valuable resources as you begin your higher education journey.
Students have lots of questions, and The Pocket Advisor has the answers! Included in the book are the following:
- What classes do I need to take and how do I sign up for them?
- How many courses should I take each semester?
- What does the bursar’s office do?
- Where can I find my academic advisor?
- What do my professors expect from me?
- How do I connect with my professors?
- What do I do if I run into academic or personal difficulty?
Dr. Sue Ohrablo has been supporting diverse college students (freshman through doctoral level) as an academic advisor, counselor, and professor for over 30 years. Through her extensive work with college students, she has developed an in-depth understanding of the questions students have along with the challenges they face. She has successfully partnered with thousands of students over the years, providing them support and assisting them in navigating the college experience.
In this book, Dr. Ohrablo has combined her own advising “must-knows” with her insider knowledge of how institutions really work to provide you with a comprehensive guide to finding your way through an often-complex environment. She is experienced in helping students to engage in academic planning, decision-making, and problem-solving while developing positive, lasting relationships with the students she has advised.
Professionally, Dr. Ohrablo is established as an internationally known expert in the field of academic advising and student services. The author of High-Impact Advising: A Guide for Academic Advisors, Dr. Ohrablo serves as a higher education consultant and trainer to institutions that wish to improve the quality of academic advising and support they provide to students.
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A Strange Beginning : Gretta Curran Browne
Aberdeen, 1798 — Beginning when he is a boy of ten years old, we join George Gordon when he is living a miserable life with his manic Scottish mother in a few rented rooms above a shop.
Poetry is his only form of escape. Tormented by his mother, the boy narrowly survives childhood through the dint of his own intelligence and his sabre-sharp wit. But his bleak world takes a turn for the better when a legal messenger from the English aristocracy reveals that his true surname is not Gordon, and he has inherited his family’s title of Lord Byron…
Despite his lowly upbringing, the handsome Byron charms school and University classmates with his charisma… and conquers bullies with his bare-knuckle boxing skills. But none of his talents can win the heart of his true love. And it is the pain of his rejection that inspires him to travel to faraway lands and pen the poems that will last forever.
Discover the poor-to-riches story of a young lord whose words changed the course of history.
Readers’ Favorite Award Winner
Finalist in the Ian Book Of The Year Award for Outstanding Historical Fiction
All Because of Her and By Eastern Windows by Gretta Curran Browne are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Limited Duty : Tadeous Furlepa
The uniquely compelling memoir of my father’s life leading up to and through WWII. His personal triumph of overcoming a severe physical disability as a child, to eventually changing others perception of him and his handicap, and proving himself worthy of serving his country.
As a soldier from the north, he witnessed first hand the racial tension between the whites and those blacks he befriended. His surviving a botched appendectomy, operating a lucrative gambling enterprise on base, dancing with Judy Garland at the Hollywood Canteen, experiencing the initial test of the atomic bomb to his discharge from the military in January 1946. These are just some of the historical events that provided a fascinating, and oftentimes humorous look into his military career of a stateside soldier.
Limited Duty was selected for inclusion by both the National WWII Museum in New Orleans and Texas Historical Commission to be used as research material available for staff, visitors, and researchers to gain a better understanding and appreciation of the American experience during World War II.
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Timeless: The Becoming of a Teenage Witch : Jessa Lynn Pease Garrett
Emlyn Perry never expected to be demon hunting in the most notorious haunted house in Savannah, Georgia. Before her mother died, Emlyn was an average teenager, preparing for her senior year with her best friend and boyfriend.
After discovering a secret Emlyn’s parents kept hidden for 17 years, Emlyn embarks on a journey to embrace a lineage of Celtic magic but soon realizes a life of witchcraft comes with consequences.
As soon as she accepts her powers, Emlyn becomes the target of the Ainbertach Coven, a powerful organization of dark witches with roots dating to early 1300 Ireland. The coven’s goal is abolishing all white magic, and initiation for new members is eliminating a light witch of true Irish descent.
To win, Emlyn must master the power of past, present, and future with the help of a local magic shop owner and a mysterious newcomer, but can Emlyn fight someone she’s already fallen for?
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Breathe: A Journal To Help Conquer Life : Desiray Henderson
This is a journal designed to help individuals deal with many different obstacles that we all face in life.
There are four chapters in this journal and they are Depression, Friendships, Dealing with loss, and Isolation.
This journal provides hands-on help for anyone who may be struggling with any of these issues.
It also prepares those who are not in that crisis to be better prepared just in case life permits them to go there.
It is capable of helping anyone of any age, race, or status, and decreases the suicide rate as it encourages everyone to Breath..
This is a great investment for any child or adult to really connect with their heart and be aware of what’s going on inside of them.
It also gives tips to create a more rounded human being.
This journal is definitely a great experience so be prepared to write.
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All Because of Her : Gretta Curran Browne
London, 1963. Marian Barnard may have lost her family, but nothing can steal her hope for the future. Struggling to make ends meet, the young waitress draws strength from the Kennedy-led era of optimism. So when her very own American knight sweeps her off her feet, her dreams seem to come true…
US Army Lieutenant Marc Gaines would risk everything for freedom. From his French Resistance fighter mother, he learned the true cost of liberty. But he’s smitten by the young waitress and he knows his rich mother will never approve.
The happy couple plan for the future. But with each new milestone, his mother’s fanatical opposition darkens like the war clouds gathering over Vietnam.
Jacqueline Castineau joined the French Resistance at 16 and mercilessly killed Nazis without any regret. But now she carries a dark secret that torments her, a secret that no one must know.
All Because of Her is a deeply touching romantic and suspense novel. If you like sweeping family sagas, emotional ups and downs, and a tenacious casts of characters then you’ll love this novel.
A Strange Beginning and By Eastern Windows by Gretta Curran Browne are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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The secret they did not say TO US : A.N.Karambakhsh
Your thoughts have a powerful impact. Thoughts are the cause of everything that happens to you. Conscious use of them will awaken you to a whole new life full of power and facilities. Things that we were not told at school until the end of university.
In this book, I help you update your mind.
By reading and acting on this book, you create a new life.
Storms of Tyranny : C. J. Clark
U.S. Marine Horace Meyers faces a world in which the U.S. Constitution no longer exists.
The SCOTUS serves at the will of the Supreme Commander, and members of Congress accept lavish gifts to keep the status quo.
Without constitutional rights, the United States is a faded memory…
The nation is now divided into four quadrants, but the Sapros dynasty thirsts for complete control. Political intrigue, moral decay, and growing persecution of anyone opposing Sapros’ edicts push the population even further away from fundamental rights.
Horace is forced to walk a tightrope between the growing evil and protecting the integrity of his Marines and U.S. citizens as he tries to find a way to bring the tyrant down without endangering millions.
The stakes are high in this futuristic thriller!
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A Haunted Past : April Kennedy
Angie Conaty has long suffered from a reoccurring nightmare. The same one she’s had since childhood.
As an adult, the dreams come far less frequently, due to her demanding public relations position, in the Toronto based reality television station, Gottchaon TV.
The channel is in hot water currently, with the creator’s son — an entitled, rich, manchild — at the helm. Knowing that his mother, Judy Jones, the creator of the investigative reality channel, hand-picked Angie to mentor Jason elects Angie to be the assistant director for his new show, Sustainable.
Angie has no choice but to fly out to the remote fishing town in British Columbia, the very next morning. When she arrives, things quickly take a turn for the worst! Her dreams become hallucinations, and they come vividly, while she is fully lucid, and working with the handsome and rugged Max Murphy — Sustaninable‘s leading man!
Soon Angie accidentally enlists the help of local mediums, and husbands Yin and Larry, two charmingly different characters, who immediately take Angie under their wing.
Can Angie solve the mystery of her (A) Haunted Past?
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Just In Case, a Kind Kids story : Caroline M. Bielskis
It feels good to help others, and the Kind Kids are always prepared to help! They each carry something helpful, just in case someone needs it.
Follow the Kind Kids, in this fun, rhyming story for early readers and pre-school aged children. It follows the Kind Kids, as they help people throughout their day.
The happy, colorful illustrations will make you and your child smile, as they learn about being helpful and kind.
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