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America’s Diversity Meltdown : John Fuller
America’s Diversity Meltdown: Challenging diversity education and its epic failure to improve race relations
From its inception, diversity curriculum designers disregarded Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream. Instead, they created a proverbial white elephant in very uncomfortable classrooms extinguishing the respect and acceptance of instruction and participation from white males.
Themes were meant to target white males for blame, make them feel uncomfortable to get in touch with their feeling, and most importantly, create guilt. In America’s Diversity Meltdown, Dr. John Fuller offers straight talk about white male privilege, communities of color, identity politics, affirmative action, and divisive diversity rhetoric. He provides eye- opening insight into diversity education’s failures which still contribute to deteriorating race relations.
He reveals the facade of past and current diversity education, and proposes dialogue sessions such as the World Cafe concept for employee and community engagement that will address real issues and understanding versus “us versus them” that permeates our society.
Through the eyes of a dedicated diversity practitioner, America’s Diversity Meltdown goes behind the scenes to view the constantly new, but merely repackaged curriculum themes, of -us versus them- still targeting white males for privilege, blame, and unconscious biases, but excludes them from meaningful dialogue. Here, Fuller recommends limiting the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, affirmative action, Federal Special Emphasis Programs, and extinguishing diversity phrases from our diversity vocabulary such as -we have a long way to go, – -getting it, – and -we need more diversity; words that are heard throughout businesses as a mandatory requirement for employment considerations and training.
How to be the Best Educator : Julie A. Bealke
How to be the Best Educator: Strategies, Methods and Tips for Success in the 21st Century Classroom
For upper elementary to middle level educators, How to be the Best Educator provides checklists and overviews on collaboration, communication and organization.
Provided are easy, logical, and and classroom-tested practices from the first day of school to the last so teachers can have a successful first year and beyond. The book is divided into three sections:
How to be your best in the classroom, What the best lessons have, and How to best meet the needs of you.
These sections are developed by the author, Julie, who has nearly 20 years of teaching experience, has her masters degree in curriculum and instruction, degrees in general education and special education, and understands the challenges teachers face today.
While many topics are taught in college, one can not master the art of teaching unless in the classroom. One does need to understand their own self and the culture of the school to make a positive impact and be their best in the classroom; building relationships is the key to success.
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A Day In Eternity : Kathryn Gabriel Loving
A Day In Eternity
British pilot Anson Roe will ignore borders and strain relationships to land a career in Ag-aviation. But when he dreams of crashing his airplane in a remote corner of the world, all he can think of is the whereabouts of his girlfriend, Vivianne. He awakens at a small airstrip in “no man’s land” Oklahoma, a year backward in time, suffering from apparent heatstroke and random amnesia.
Brought to his knees, he is rescued by World War II Spitfire pilot and poet, John Magee, who takes him in hand. As Anson Roe regains his memory, he makes a shocking discovery. That discovery forces him to look more deeply into his life, his love, and the prospect of his own death.
This novel in based, in part, on the life, letters, and poetry of the historical figure John Gillespie Magee, Jr., author of the famous sonnet, “High Flight.” Anson Roe’s story in the novel is also based on a real event.
A Day in Eternity was recently named a finalist in the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Inspirational Fiction Category.
Pop-Out Girl : Irene Woodbury
Pop-Out Girl
When Zane Hollister returns home to Las Vegas after two years in prison and discovers his showgirl-lover is with another guy, he goes ballistic. After stalking and taunting the couple for months, his toxic jealousy takes a darker turn.
To wipe out Colton, Zane masterminds a devilish zip line accident and a terrifying car crash. When those fail, he resorts to kidnapping Jen and forcing her to marry him. And it gets even worse when Zane shoots Colton’s boss, Matt, by mistake as he aims for Colton in a horrific drive-by shooting.
With Matt lingering in a coma, Jen’s cocktail-waitress mother, Brandi, absorbs a seismic shock of her own. After hearing Matt’s name on the local news, she realizes he’s her first love of decades past—and Jen’s real father.
Will Matt emerge from his coma to reunite with Brandi and Jen? Do the cops nab Zane, who’s hiding out in Hawaii? And can Jen and Colton’s love survive Zane’s lethal jealousy?
There’s a happy ending for some, but not for all, in Pop-Out Girl.
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Freeing Linhurst : Al Cassidy
Freeing Linhurst
A Journey to Uncover the Truth
Linhurst State School and Hospital, the abandoned mental asylum in the small town of Spring Dale, has been shrouded in mystery as long as Jack Alexander can remember. Before her untimely passing, his mother — an investigative journalist for the local paper — had begun to inquire about the truth behind its crumbling walls. Devastated, Jack is determined to uncover the truth about Linhurst no matter what.
As he digs deeper, Jack unearths powerful secrets that have long been buried by patronizing adults and a modern day plot that threatens to destroy the property in just days and erase the memories of those who once called Linhurst home.
Working against the clock — and the better judgement of his best friend Celia — Jack slips into the abandoned property…on Halloween night. What they discover could destroy Linhurst forever or spark a revolution that could change the future of Spring Dale.
A Dangerous Discovery : Zachary Brock
A Dangerous Discovery
Can Ace and Zeke survive the discovery of a lifetime: a secret the Vatican will stop at nothing to protect?
Marion (Ace) Acevedo grew up on the streets as a Latin American. The things he had to do to survive as a child, no one should have to do, but a chance encounter changed his life.
Now he is the face of an international corporation. Wealth, social standing and travel is what his life is all about. He loves what he does, and with the guiding hand of Ezekiel (Zeke) Smith, his mentor and friend, his life cannot get much better.
Unbeknownst to Ace and Zeke, the acquisition of a new company in Peru holds a secret the Vatican does not want discovered. Special agents from the Holy See will do anything to stop this secret from being released.
As Ace gets closer to uncovering this dangerous secret, he must use every skill he was taught from the streets and from his mentor. But, even with an unknown stranger looking out for him, Ace may lose it all, including his life.
Hometown : Matthew Keville
Hometown
It’s the Fall of 1994 in the small milltown of Belford, New York. The leaves are turning, the kids are going back to school, and the heat of Summer is giving way to a cool, misty season.
It happens every Fall. Only this Fall, people are disappearing into that mist. Some people are found torn apart, some people are found dead for no reason, and some people aren’t found at all.
Other people see strange things in the mist: ghosts and campfire stories. There’s something out there in that mist. Something old. Something that has slept for a long time, but has now woken up hungry.
Maybe the people of Belford could resist it, but as the terrible Fall wears on, more and more of them start…changing. Acting bizarre and violent. In the end, only a small group of teenage defenders are left to make their stand.
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Twisted Tales : L.H.A
Twisted Tales
The twenty young adult flash fiction stories featured in this collection of twisted tales will creep inside your mind and stay with you long after you’ve finished the book.
Author L. H. A brings a visual sensibility to twenty twisted stories about the blurring of boundaries between the realistic and the impossible. In one of the stories featured, a girl believes she is “defective” because she cannot speak. But she finds a mysterious notebook that will lead to a magical adventure and will reveal the truth about who she really is.
Other stories feature a boy mustering the courage to stand up to a bully, a man determined to change the world, a fairy who ends up hunted by humans, and an old man confined by a debilitating disease.
Each of the twenty stories features not just a fantastical concept but a message that will resonate with readers of any age!
Ritual : V L Young
Ritual
Ritual follows Nikki, a quiet young woman who works to survive. When her best friend Alexia is kidnapped by Immortals, she does everything she can to save her.
Along with her boyfriend Cole and werewolf Conrad, they must fight to stop an ancient Ritual from being performed that will unleash new terrors into the world.
Will Nikki be able to stop the Ritual and what will she uncover before time runs out?
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Stockholm Ransom : S.K. Vall
Stockholm Ransom
Stockholm Ransom is a lush, vibrant, thriller…the tale of a young woman whose kidnaping turned into a lustful, passionate, breath-taking affair.
Feisty 26 year-old Sukhi Rai has just escaped her captor, having been kidnapped and sexually abused. Once back safe and secure with her wealthy family, Sukhi tries to come to terms with what has happened to her.
Dr Meller, the Rai family’s new, young and handsome therapist encourages her to talk about her captor in order to aid her recovery.
But something isn’t quite right with Sukhi. Her relationship with her kidnapper was not all it seems and she is diagnosed with Stockholm Syndrome.
Determined to discover the identity of her kidnapper, she undertakes her own dangerous investigation only to uncover a whole hornet’s nest of family lies, betrayal and secrets.