This is an interesting material for an avid sports fan. This book discusses about the different Baseball, Basketball, Hockey, Football and Soccer teams. Data showing championships and corresponding year is also presented in this book. Sit back, read and enjoy
Another absorbing material from Lyn Christian. In this book he covers the Football Champions from 1929 (Green Bay Packers) up to 2021. Some team statistics and trivia were thrown in as well.
Great book to educate your child while she has fun. This ABC Activity Book will allow little girls to learn their alphabet and have fun at the same time This is the perfect book for toddlers in kindergarten as well as Preschoolers. Help your little princess to sound out her ABC's and to visualize them by means of the puzzle pages and different activities in the book. Colorful images and shapes are also suggested to help her learn the ABCs quicker. Most of all, let her have fun doing so. And Mom you will be able to join in the fun of seeing your little girl learning her ABCs This fun book would make a great Christmas gift or birthday gift for your daughter, granddaughter or niece. FEATURES: 8.5" x 11" size pagesHigh Quality white pagesBright colorful imagesLarge alphabet lettersPhonics corresponding to each letterMaze puzzles to improve cognitive abilitiesDot to dot puzzles to improve concentrationFun features that will improve thinking abilityKnowledge of different colors
This ABC Activity Book will allow little boys to learn their alphabet while having fun. This is the perfect book for toddlers in kindergarten and Preschoolers. Help your little boy to sound out his ABC's and to visualize them by means of the puzzle pages and different activities in the book. Colorful images and shapes are also suggested to help him learn the ABCs quicker. Most of all, let him have fun doing so. And Mom you will be able to join in the fun of seeing your little boy learning his ABCs
Before his career as a champion racehorse, and his death following a devastating injury, Barbaro was a colt like any other. In her traditional poetic style, Lifshin outlines the life of the champion horse before his fame, highlighting the beauty and grace of the young colt from his birth, through his youth, and finally to his time as a champion on the track. The artistic rendering of Barbaro’s life from his early years to his first races culminate in the celebration of his life after his death in this poetry collection.from “Those Nights in the Stall” did Barbaro dream horses galloping? In the dark, starless, did he feel the ground shaking? Imagine the sound of hooves on turf? Was there some thing in the wind? The scent of horses thundering past the barn, of flying manes, the beating of his own heart, louder than hooves?
This collection of poems captures the life and brilliance of one of racings biggest legends. In a lyrical style that brings the tale of Secretariat to life, Lifshin highlights the beauty and wonder of the foal’s early days from birth to the track. As always, Lifshin focuses on Secretariat’s life before the track, outlining the playfully perfect foal who found his way into the hearts of many. Full of emotion and beauty, this collection outlines the life and death of one of the tracks biggest racing legends.from “As The Days Get Longer” the horse dreams of flying in the air like a gust of wind on an abandoned Christmas tree, red exploding like a spurt of light, flaming wildly like those boughs of northern lights out of darkness
Trauma-Responsive Schooling outlines a novel approach to transforming American schools through student-centered, trauma-informed practices.The book chronicles the use of an innovative educational model, Trauma-Responsive Equitable Education (TREE), as part of a multiyear research project in two elementary schools in rural Maine. In this model, Lyn Mikel Brown, Catharine Biddle, and Mark Tappan endorse whole-school change, encouraging educators to upend traditional classroom power dynamics by listening foremost to student voices, validating student experiences, and promoting student agency.The authors provide complex real-life examples of student involvement in the creation and implementation of trauma-responsive and equitable practices. Their work offers readers concrete, actionable examples of such practices, which include supporting the whole child by promoting social and emotional learning (SEL) as well as academic achievement; providing access to basic needs such as food, clothing, and health care; and meeting the instructional requirements of dual-language learners.Many rural schools in the United States experience low student achievement and high absenteeism rates as their geographically isolated communities struggle with poverty, substance abuse, and other significant stressors. Yet, as the authors demonstrate, supportive learning environments, even in under-resourced rural schools, are able to mitigate adversity, stress, and trauma—and thus promote healing.This heartening work illustrates that, when educators and school leaders put student needs and interests at the core of school life, long-lasting change for all students is possible.
Rosedale Investigations team has two cases this time: a missing woman and a client who wants a provenance created for an antique painting. The missing woman dies in an accident but the team doubts it was accidental. Researching the century-old painting reveals that it's considered cursed and then it's stolen.
A woman approaches Rosedale Investigations to report her husband missing. Then another woman arrives to report her husband is missing. When the team sees the photographs of James Browning, they realize it's the same guy; they have a bigamist on their hands. Detective Wayne Nichols locates Browning's car at the local airport and learns the man's been subpoenaed to provide evidence in the trial of a decade-old murder of a police officer-a shooting Browning witnessed. A second client, Hilary Broadchurch-Miller believes her brother, Grant, is being blackmailed by Aimee, his yoga instructor. He had earlier pledged to cover the cost of sending Hilary's sons to college and she's afraid he might renege on that promise. When Billy Jo interviews Aimee, she denies having an affair and is shocked when accused of blackmail. However, when Billy Jo checks the Venmo app, she discovers Grant has been giving Aimee money for two months. Something is definitely going on. This one is a page-turner with two wives who don't know about each other, a man who may or may not have a daughter, and a final 4th of July party where all the strands of the tale come together.
Death strikes England's foremost novelist, his latest tale only half told. Was he murdered because someone feared a ruinous revelation? Or was it revenge for some past misdeed? Set in the Kent countryside and London slums of 1870, Immortalised to Death embeds an ingenious solution to Charles Dickens's unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood within the evolving and ultimately tragic consequences of a broader mystery surrounding the author himself. Debut author Lyn Squire kicks off his fascinating Dunston Burnett Trilogy with legendary Victorian novelist Charles Dickens dead at his desk, pen still in hand. Convinced that the identity of Dickens's murderer lies in the book's missing denouement, Dickens's nephew and unlikely detective, Dunston Burnett, sets out to complete his uncle's half-finished novel. A stunning revelation crowns this tale about the mysterious death of England's greatest novelist, and exposes the author's long-held secret.
A diabolical tale of retribution cast against the greatest debate of its time.Darwin's theory of evolution is the fascinating background for this tragic story of seemingly unrelated events.Award-winning author Lyn Squire has done it again with an extraordinary follow-up to Immortalised to Death. Set in Victorian England amidst the furor triggered by Charles Darwin's revolutionary theory, Fatally Inferior plunges Dunston Burnett, the series' unassuming but sometimes insightful amateur sleuth, into a cauldron churning with secrets and lies. An abduction -- the victim mysteriously vanishing from a locked-tight country house.A birth -- the newborn torn from its mother's arms. These seemingly independent incidents converge in a vile act of vengeance: a hellish torture for the victim; the perfect revenge for the perpetrator. Will Dunston ever be able to expose the heart of this dark, confounding mystery?
We don't suffer from psychological problems but we do suffer from inherited emotional problems.Most of our 'psychological problems' are from emotions we have inherited from a number of previous generations. We are born with our emotions fixed even before birth - no-one teaches us how to feel, we just feel them. Our family environment will now depend on whether we can cope with the poor emotions. Our experiences in life will, of course, increase or decrease depending on circumstances.Psychologists and psychiatrists seem to shy away from explaining this to their clients/patients.
The world for some comes to an end, while for others it is a new beginning. Tam, who loves her privacy and hates children has her world interrupted by its ending. Faced with children with no parents and no one to look after them, she embarks on a journey that saves her and all those who she embraces. Set in a post-apocalyptic Australia Lyn McConchie takes the reader to a place where nothing works properly and the future is bleak. But Lyn knows enough about survival to add a deep sense of realism in this novel, and a deep sense of care for others. In a world that seems to have lost all hope, Lyn digs out the remnants of life and gives it new meaning.
Hope Jones operates the Bront Bookshop in the hamlet of Sweet Springs amid the rolling, green hills of the Virginia piedmont. Her best friend and business partner Peggy Sue Roswell assists Hope along with Stacey, her smart, spirited fifteen-year-old daughter. Their tuxedo feline Nozy Cat, always opinionated and outspoken, is the bookshop mascot. A local woman, Marian Hightower, is discovered murdered inside her farmhouse, and the puzzling mystery begins to unfold. The three murder suspects are quickly identified, and the sleuths refuse to back off their investigation until they expose Marian's killer and restore order to Sweet Springs. Nozy Cat 3 offers mystery fans a clean read and exciting whodunit with loads of good-natured humor and a fun dose of the paranormal.
June Matharia is a normal Kenyan 16-year-old. She's got her mum and her great-grandma, she enjoys school. But two days after her exams, her mum sits her down and gives her a plane ticket and a photograph. Now she's got to spend the entire holiday in a tiny rural village on the South Coast, getting to know her father and his family. Trouble is, they don't seem especially keen on getting to know her. Eventually her step-sister Tana puts aside her jealousy. June, Tana and Ali, Tana's best friend, turn their backs on the parents who don't seem to want them and find their peace in an abandoned hotel in the dense forest. But what happens when developers come to tear the hotel down?
