Finding My Way

Finding My Way
Author: Ray Pons
Publisher: BPS Books
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2008-06-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0980923131

The true-life story of how one man moved from the trials of employment to the triumphs of self-employment. After a boyhood in northern England, Ray Pons winged his way to the Great White North (a.k.a. Canada) to pursue his dreams. Or were they fantasies? He did well -- more than well -- as a sales manager, insurance salesman, and reinsurance executive, but somehow happiness never stepped out to greet him. He was easily bored, quickly losing motivation, momentum and eventually the jobs themselves. Then, after a few fits and starts, and with the moral support of his wife, Marva, he said goodbye once and for all to a regular paycheck and hello to life as a business owner. Here he tells his story with great honesty and practical wisdom, offering tips for how you can find your way in life and work.

Struggling to Find Our Way

Struggling to Find Our Way
Author: Stephanie Oudghiri
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2022-10-01
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Rural communities across the United States are experiencing a rapid increase in the number of immigrant students. While the number of culturally and linguistically diverse students continues to grow within midwestern states, the demographics of teachers remain white, female, and monolingual. Often teachers have little to no training working with students and their families whose backgrounds differ from their own. Thus, there is a great urgency for teachers to develop culturally competent teaching practices that address the needs of all students. The purpose of this year-long, school-based narrative inquiry was to examine the beliefs, attitudes, and practices of rural educators as they described their work with Latinx immigrant, elementary students, negotiated the “space” between a professional and personal identity and demonstrated an ethic of care. This inquiry is arranged into “livings, tellings, retellings, and relivings” (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000, p. 70) and serves to shed light on the entwined lived experiences of myself, my participants, and the community in which we reside. Grounded in Noddings (1984; 2012) work on authentic caring and Valenzuela’s (1999) concept of culture and caring relations for Latinx students, Swanson’s middle range theory of care (1991, 1993) which served as the conceptual framework that illuminated how my participants discussed working with and caring for their Latinx immigrant students. In Struggling to Find Our Way: Rural Educators’ Experiences Working with And Caring for Latinx Immigrant Students, Stephanie Oudghiri’s one-year school-based narrative inquiry is a carefully crafted balance of creativity and rigor with the right notes to engage the reader, challenge them to think, wonder at what they can do, and imagine possibilities for a more socially just education system. In this book, Oudghiri examines the beliefs, attitudes, and practices of two white teachers and one Hispanic paraprofessional working with and caring for immigrant students in a rural Indiana community. Due to the sensitive nature of this inquiry, which focuses on teachers’ relationships with vulnerable populations (immigrant and undocumented), Oudghiri’s book serves as a model for active engagement by creating a strong sense of place, a strong sense of who these teachers and students are, and a strong sense of being in the midst of community and school life. What is unique and compelling about Oudghiri’s writing, is her focus on stories of the teachers working in her school site, and the children in their classrooms. She provides strong evidence using a compassionate lens and the art of storytelling to illuminate lives in the school.

Finding My Way Home

Finding My Way Home
Author: Pam Estes
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2021-06-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1636309011

Finding My Way Home is a historical fiction book. It details the lives of the two main characters, Bobbie James, and Allie Stephens. The book is set in the 1940s and describes what life was like during this era. This is a fictional work, but the story is based on actual people, places, and events. Travel with Allie as she is forced to move from her childhood home in Elizabeth to Elm Springs, Arkansas. Experience what it was like for her to work in the strawberry fields, begin a new school, and weather the storms of life. Journey with Bobbie through cotton fields, a haunted house, and an encounter on a train. You will laugh at the predicaments these two individuals find themselves and be brought to tears by their struggles. Above all, you will be entertained and inspired by this simple story of faith, family, and fun.

Finding Your Way Home: A Story of Homeownership

Finding Your Way Home: A Story of Homeownership
Author: Brent Sute
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2010-02-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0557129494

In "Finding Your Way Home: A Story of Home Ownership", the main character, Marsha Myles, navigates the rocky path on the road to becoming a home owner. The book not only educates potential home buyers on the steps and processes of buying a home, but also addresses many of the emotions, fears, concerns, and joys of achieving the "American Dream."

The Mammoth #5

The Mammoth #5
Author: Paul Tobin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2024-11-13
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1545815739

Leaving the House of the Zombie behind, with the screams still echoing in the night, Jess and her undead girlfriend Olivia, along with Kokoro and Mason, speed through the forest on a path straight to the Mammoth, and the hardest decision Jess will ever face: stand up to the mammoth ghost of a creature that died eons before humanity ever walked this earth, or say goodbye to the woman she loves.

Jessica

Jessica
Author: Jeffrey Von Glahn
Publisher: Booktango
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2014-03-05
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1468944762

Jessica had always been haunted by the fear that the unthinkable had happened when she had been “made-up.” For as far back as she could remember, she had no sense of a Self. Her mother thought of her as the “perfect infant” because “she never wanted anything and she never needed anything.” As a child, just thinking of saying “I need” or “I want” left her feeling like an empty shell and that her mind was about to spin out of control. Terrified of who––or what––she was, she lived in constant dread over being found guilty of impersonating a human being. Jeffrey Von Glahn, Ph.D., an experienced therapist with an unshakable belief in the healing powers of the human spirit, and Jessica blaze a trail into this unexplored territory. As if she has, in fact, become an infant again, Jessica remembers in extraordinary detail events from the earliest days of her life––events that threatened to twist her embryonic humanness from its natural course of development. Her recollections are like listening to an infant who could talk describe every psychologically dramatic moment of its life as it was happening. When Dr. Von Glahn met Jessica, she was 23. Everyone regarded her as a responsible, caring person – except that she never drove and she stayed at her mother’s when her husband worked nights. For many months, Jessica’s therapy was stuck in an impasse. Dr. Von Glahn had absolutely no idea that she was so terrified over simply talking about herself. In hopes of breakthrough, she boldly asked for four hours of therapy a day, for three days a week, for six weeks. The mystery that was Jessica cracked open in dramatic fashion, and in a way that Dr. Von Glahn could never have imagined. Then she asked for four days a week – and for however long it took. In the following months, her electrifying journey into her mystifying past brought her ever closer to a final confrontation with the events that had threatened to forever strip her of her basic humanness.

Obsession

Obsession
Author: Debra Webb
Publisher: Forever
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2012-08-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1455527661

She thought she'd left the murders - and his obsession -behind . . . Special Agent Jess Harris has spent more than a decade studying the many faces of evil. In her determination to stop a serial killer, she broke the rules, and it cost her everything. With her career in need of resuscitation and her love life dead and buried, Jess jumps at a chance to advise on a case that has the top detectives of Birmingham, Alabama, stumped. But the case forces her to confront all the reasons she put her hometown-and her first love-in her rearview mirror. Four young women have gone missing, and Police Chief Dan Burnett will do anything to find them before it's too late-even if it means asking for help from the woman who has spent a decade avoiding him. Jess agrees to lend a hand and welcomes the diversion of a new case, a new life to save to make up for the victims she's lost. But then the unthinkable happens: the crazed serial killer from her past follows Jess to Birmingham. The situation is becoming increasingly desperate-and time is swiftly running out . . . Praise for Obsession "Compelling main characters and chilling villains elevate Debra Webb's Faces of Evil series into the realm of high-intensity thrillers that readers won't be able to resist." -- CJ Lyons, New York Times bestselling author "This gritty, edge of your seat, white knuckle thriller is peopled with tough, credible characters and a brilliant plot that will keep you guessing until the very end. Move over Jack Reacher." -- Cindy Gerard, New York Times best-selling author "Debra Webb's name says it all..." -- Karen Rose

Jessica Bannister and the Midnight Séance

Jessica Bannister and the Midnight Séance
Author: Janet Farell
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2021-06-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1718323506

When Jessica gets a job writing for the London City Observer, she expects a demanding editor to be the biggest threat to her career. Instead, she finds herself caught up with ghosts, curses, and premonitions lurking behind every corner. Can Jessica, along with her trusty cameraman Jim, find the truth behind the story - and do it before her deadline?

Mishandled

Mishandled
Author: Ngena Feechi Campbell
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2011-04-15
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1456764632

Alone, hurt, abused, ignored, and always left behind. Stephanie couldn't remember ever being really loved by anyone except her mother. Then, suddenly her mother dies. Life moves on. Desperate for love, Stephanie stumbles through relationship after relationship in search of acceptance. When will the vicious cycle end? Will Stephanie continue to pour out her love to men, who are only capable of taking from her and giving back nothing?

Jessica Trent's Inheritance

Jessica Trent's Inheritance
Author: Evelyn Raymond
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2023-09-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3368929461

Reproduction of the original.