Since his death, Grant has reluctantly accepted his new surroundings and excelled at his work. In Elite, inner strength and instinct propelled Grant to lead an empathy-driven crusade, defying the powers that be. Now Grant's future is unclear, his present is uncomfortable, and his past is more than he believes it to be. With willful blind spots regarding his situation and his potential, will Grant ever figure out how to choose his battles or why he should listen to those who care about him?...

The Visitor Studies Guide offers an up-to-date overview of the rapidly expanding field of theory and research practice relating to the public use of museums, galleries, libraries, archives, memorials, zoos, aquariums, planetariums, gardens, urban parks, arboretums, nature centres, historic sites, and protected areas.It surveys the field’s evolution, current challenges, and future possibilities. It reviews the most recent applications and theoretical advances in Visitor Stu...

Grant Bradley is proving to be a natural leader, but will he ever learn when to let go of the past and look toward the future?Since his death, Grant has reluctantly accepted his new surroundings and excelled at his work. In Elite, inner strength and instinct propelled Grant to lead an empathy-driven crusade, defying the powers that be. Now Grant's future is unclear, his present is uncomfortable, and his past is more than he believes it to be. With willful blind spots regarding his ...

On a whim, Laura Lee Davidson decides to stay the entire winter on the Lake of Many Islands. Her friends and relatives don’t fully understand her need to stay on the rocky island. But she desperately wants the solitude, and romanticizes the idea of being cut off from society for a few months. There will be no phone, no way of returning to the city once the dead of winter sets in. There are few people that live in the area, and many travel by canoe in the isolated area. It is a large proper...

A charming memoir recounting 10 months spent among the country people of Ontario at the outbreak of the Great War. Resplendent in its descriptions and heartwarming in its depictions of the 'simple' folk living along Many Islands Lake. - Summary by Kevin

A charming and thoughtful view of life in Canada experienced while vacationing on a small island in summer. The author is a women who is independent, observant, and compassionate in her view of her 'simple' neighbors. Ms. Davidson's description of the natural world, also, in this idyllic setting and time is well worth the time of one's listening and contemplation.

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Annalee Davidson presents "Monkeys For Kids". Beautiful Pictures and easy reading format will help children fall in love with monkeys. This is one of over 20 books in the Amazing Animal Books for Young Readers Series.Lots of facts and photos will help your children learn about this wonderful animal. Children are given a well-rounded understanding of this beautiful mammal: its anatomy, feeding habits and behavior.*** You and your kids will love learning about monkeys***

Bestselling author John Davidson presents "My First Book about Pandas - Children's Picture Books". Beautiful Pictures and easy reading format will help children fall in love with pandas. This is one of over 30 books in the Amazing Animal Books My First Book about Animals Series.The series is known as one of the most beautiful on the kindle. The pictures look great even in black and white and are excellent on the full color kindle.Lots of facts and photos will help your child...

It is 1793 in France—the year of the guillotine. Already, Louis XVI has been sentenced to the scaffold, and terror reigns. Ideals topple in the face of political necessity, alliances founder, and intrigue is a way of life.The architects of the Revolution—Marat, Danton, and Robespierre—have set up an embryo parliament called the Convention, designed to stem social chaos. As Republican troops engage in bloody battle with counter-revolutionaries, a peasant woman strives simply to prot...

Mary Webb’s award-winning novel adapted for radio with a full cast, plus a dramatised biography of the celebrated authorNovelist and poet Mary Webb is as closely associated with Shropshire as Thomas Hardy with Dorset and the Brontës with Yorkshire. She wrote six books set against the timeless landscape of the county she knew and loved so well, but only achieved literary success after her death when the then Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin praised her work, describin...

This textbook offers students and practitioners an accessible introduction to strengths-based approaches in Social Work and Social Care practice. Covering the theory and research in support of these approaches, and packed full of case studies, the book will allow readers to develop a critical understanding of how strengths-based approaches work, and how they can be successfully applied in order to improve outcomes for people with lived experience.Covering the five main models of st...