In 1845, seventeen-year-old Amad Adebayo lives a peaceful life in a small West African village, unaware that fate is about to wrench him from everything he knows. Captured and sold into slavery, Amad Adebayo is torn from his homeland and brought to a plantation near St. Augustine, Florida, where he endures the brutal realities of servitude. But the spirit of freedom burns fiercely within him. Defying the odds, Amad escapes the bands of slavery and sets his sights on a bolder dream—freeing ...

In 1845, seventeen-year-old Amad Adebayo lives a peaceful life in a small West African village, unaware that fate is about to wrench him from everything he knows. Captured and sold into slavery, Amad Adebayo is torn from his homeland and brought to a plantation near St. Augustine, Florida, where he endures the brutal realities of servitude. But the spirit of freedom burns fiercely within him. Defying the odds, Amad escapes the bands of slavery and sets his sights on a bolder dream—freeing ...

Walking on Thin Ice, a memoir of love, hate, envy, and greed traces a young womans pursuit of stardom down a dangerous road that leads to shattered dreams and a harrowing fate.I found myself staring down the barrel of a revolver, and a wave of disbelief rippled through me ... An explosion blasted me into a nightmare. The room swirled slowly. Clickclick. The sound reverberated each time she pulled the trigger. I realized this woman was trying to kill me!In ...

First published in 1977, Patterns of Education in the British Isles is the first modern discussion of the educational systems of the British Isles and the ways in which they influence each other. It is no arid account of administrative structures but the first major attempt to set the systems in their cultural, political, and historical context, and to relate them to each other.The book discusses the extravagant claims sometimes made for Scottish education, the often-negle...

Russia, 1993. Certain Freedoms is an unforgettable novel set against the upheaval of a nation at a turning point in history. Award-winning author R. R. Bell brings readers into the lives of Russians and expatriates from the West caught up in Russia’s fight to realize its new freedom after the fall of communism. Set during the weeks leading up to the siege of the nation’s parliament, the novel explores the power of the past to threaten our future. In this richly textured rendering ...

In the spring of 1881, William Bell and his son-in-law Walter leave their families in Pickering, Ontario, and head west in hopes of securing land in what was then the North-West Territories. At fifty-six William is determined to keep a promise made to his dead wife, Annie, that they find land and settle where they can make a life for themselves on their own terms, a place where their family can forge a future beholden to none. And so it is that the two make their way first to Winnipeg, the...

Annals and Legends of Calais, with Sketches Emigre Notabilities and Memoir of Lady Hamilton is a fascinating history of the French city. It also includes a biography of the famous mistress of Horatio Nelson, Miss Lady Hamilton.

Join Scott OGrady when he leaves home to start the adventure of a lifetime. See how this young man fairs when he is put into a world of men and is expected to act accordingly. See what happens when he starts to meet the family he never knew existed before this summer. Be with him when his wise cracks get him into a fight he never saw coming. Stay with him as he weaves his way through the summer becoming more the young man everyone is expecting him to become. Watch as he goes from a guy who...

When Scott returned home after spending all summer working in New York, where he learned the ways of men and what they expected of him, he felt different. He realized he wasn’t the same person he was in June. He was very confident, and his attitude toward his peers was “I’m someone to be reckoned with.” This, of course, caused problems with them, as well as with his teachers. So began the worst four months of his young life.

When you're doing poorly in school, the standard advice is to Work Harder. That will help a little, and there is no escaping the fact that hard work is necessary. BUT! More effort usually means doing more of the same ineffective type of work you already did in the past. It wasn't very successful then, and just doing more of it isn't going to help you much. You'll still be wasting a lot of your study time working in an inadequate way and not learning well.What you n...

“Keep a brave heart. You are steadily rising. People recognize that you are an artist working with love, not a machine producing novels against bank-notes, with no interest in its work. But keep a good heart, little lady. It is the way with people of imagination and keen sensibility to have their moments of depression.... I believe you will emerge out of all this with your brave little spirit, and I shall rejoice to see you successful, because I believe you will not be spoilt by success.” ...

John Pride is a forensic accounting investigator for the FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He lives on a Puget Sound island west of Seattle enjoying the quiet life between cases. When he receives an unexpected phone call with unfortunate news it sends him packing his bag and flying to the mainland.At the University of Washington someone has cut short some genetically modified organism experiments with an explosive bloodbath. John is the investigations only hope as their be...