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This audiobook is about what it is like to grow up with Aspergers Syndrome and not knowing it until you are 17. I talk about all the ups and downs that have happened in my life. All the problems in school, with bullies, and trying to find my way in a world that is not designed for people on the spectrum. You will get to hear in my words everything that has happened to me. From my first memories, to being hospitalized, to getting a job, and having a girlfriend.

This audiobook tells the story of the Brown family of Caswell County, NC, and their journey over four generations, captured in short stories, vignettes, and whimsical narrative glimpses. The Brown family’s journey began two generations earlier with my grandmother’s grandmother, Queen Evans, who was kidnapped in Africa and brought to North Carolina as a slave on a plantation of a White slave owner. One of the many duties of Queen, the seven-year-old enslaved girl, was to serve as a “foot-warmer”.

In A Matter of Principal, Mandy Davis takes listeners on a heartfelt voyage from the corridors of traditional schooling into the nurturing embrace of homeschooling. Rooted in her experience as an elementary school principal, Mandy highlights the gaps in a system that often overlooks the diverse needs of individual children. As a dedicated mother and educator, she felt the call to transition to homeschooling, seeking a more personalized and meaningful educational experience for her own children.

A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate, Give Me Everything You Have chronicles the author's strange and harrowing ordeal at the hands of a former student, a self-styled "verbal terrorist", who began trying, in her words, to "ruin him". Hate mail, online postings, and public accusations of plagiarism and sexual misconduct were her weapons of choice, and as with more conventional terrorist weapons, proved remarkably difficult to combat.

"A great spiritual autobiography, a worthy companion to books like The Seven Storey Mountain and the Autobiography of a Yogi. The book is so vividly and poetically written that I felt as if I was reading a kind of spiritual ‘On the Road.’ It sits well with Kenneth Rose's scholarly work on mysticism, as it contains so many beautiful descriptions of his own mystical experiences. I hope that the book gains the wide readership it deserves." Steve Taylor PhD. author of The Leap and The Calm Center. " . . . will resonate with readers who are interested in and struggle with the search for ...

An Amazon Best Non-Fiction Book of 2022 'Essential reading' - The Guardian 'Sharp and witty with moments of startling candour' - The i 'Makes a powerful case' - Rt Hon Lady Hale ‘Revealing and beautifully written’ - David Harewood ________ Before Jeffrey Boakye was a black teacher, he was a...

Do you have hills interfering with your soul’s radio waves that keep you from connecting to God and living a life of peace? Struggling with depression after a painful divorce, Jeff Copeland found himself questioning God’s power when his radio lost connection to the worship music's signal as he drove through the hills. The Lord then confronted him about the hills he had in his life that kept him from receiving a signal he greatly needed: communion with God. The Hill in Our Lives dives into this innate longing for the one thing humans were created for, a real relationship with God, and ...

POVERTY: WHAT'S SOCIAL SCIENCE GOT TO DO WITH IT? Sixty years after Lyndon B. Johnson initiated the "War on Poverty," the number of children living in poverty today is higher than of any time in our nation's history. Doug Wallace and his seven siblings barely survived childhood, fleeing in the night from landlords, scrambling for food, and burning down the only house they ever owned to collect insurance money. Wallace digs deeper into the language and behavioral barriers faced by generational poverty victims, combining personal anecdotes and compelling personal experiences to establish new ...

Le Petit Poème de Saint Grégoire l’Arménien constitue une œuvre d’art dans la mesure où la poésie est classée parmi les arts. La vie de Saint Grégoire l’Arménien modèle un pragmatisme philosophique où le christianisme est vécu dans toute son ampleur, pratiqué dans toute sa véhémence et expérimenté en dépit de son idéalisme apparemment impraticable, cependant profondément accessible dans la foi chrétienne ; cette foi dont la vie de Saint Grégoire illustre la bannière invisible et la grâce du Christ en est l’emblème. Nous n’avons pas voulu dissocier ...

France had no idea that other children did not grow like she did. She believed all the lies that she was told, after all mothers are supposed to be honest and loving. Everything was a contradiction. The horror she lived started to make sense after her mother received her diagnosis, but authorities decided not to take her and sister away. Her mother held an important position in society, so with supports, they felt, all would be good. But follow-ups were not done and abuse continued albeit in different forms. Her mother learnt how to avoid getting caught, but her rage only grew and was ...

Murder, Poverty, Racism, Alcoholism, Love, and Loss. Landon Perdew saw all this and more including dangerous adventures with his wild teenage friends like bootlegging moonshine. He scratched his way out of the backwoods of Kentucky after the Depression. His destiny like so many others around him was more tough times working the land to make ends meet in the poverty-stricken Appalachian farming culture. But he escaped to Japan as a medic in the US Air Force after World War II. There, he was exposed to educated and cultured doctors and nurses. As a high school dropout who could barely read or...

From a humble childhood in a small Malaysian town to a life of healing, teaching, and faith, Memoirs of a Doctor is a powerful story of resilience, grace, and God’s providence. Born in 1952 in Tanjong Malim, Dr. Andrew Koh grew up during a rapidly changing Malaysia. Against the odds, he pursued his dream of becoming a doctor, overcoming financial struggles, academic challenges, personal losses, and even a near-crippling spinal injury. Through it all, his unwavering faith in God carried him from humble beginnings to a distinguished medical career spanning decades. In these pages, you’ll ...

What happens when you spend your life chasing curiosity instead of climbing ladders? Steve Alcorn has designed theme park attractions for Disney, founded a company that powers rides worldwide, taught over 100,000 students to write novels, authored 27 books, traveled the globe, raised a family, and somehow managed to avoid taking himself too seriously. This is the story of how curiosity — not careful planning — led to an extraordinary life at the intersection of engineering and creativity. From the underbelly of EPCOT on opening day to a rooftop overlooking Future World at sunrise. From ...

In March 2005, Dr. Steven Berk was kidnapped in Amarillo, Texas, by a dangerous and enigmatic criminal who entered his home, armed with a shotgun, through an open garage door. Dr. Berk's experiences and training as a physician, especially his understanding of Sir William Osler's treatise on aequanimitas, enabled him to keep his family safe, establish rapport with his kidnapper, and bring his captor to justice.

An author and educator’s pioneering approach to helping autistic students find their voices through poetry—a powerful and uplifting story that shows us how to better communicate with people on the spectrum and explores how we use language to express our seemingly limitless interior lives...

Need a good laugh? Then grab a cup of tea and dive into this collection of humorous short stories. Betty McGillivray, a retired teacher, will entertain you with her quirky interactions in and out of the classroom. Adventures such as tipping canoes, police pranksters, creating the perfect pie for a curling bonspiel, or avoiding jury duty, bears and tornados—all told in a way that will make you feel like you are chatting with a friend.

Cathy is een ervaren pleegouder, maar niemand had haar kunnen voorbereiden op de komst van Jodie, een achtjarig meisje met zoveel gedragsproblemen dat ze in vier maanden tijd bij vijf verschillende gezinnen wordt geplaatst. Langzaam wint Cathy het vertrouwen van Jodie, en haar gedrag verbetert aanzienlijk. Stukje bij beetje onthult het meisje de schokkende en hartverscheurende details van haar mishandeling door de mensen die haar hadden moeten liefhebben en beschermen.

Als Tom Michell einen Pinguin mit ölverschmiertem Gefieder am Strand von Uruguay findet und beschließt, ihn mitzunehmen, um das Öl zu entfernen, ahnt er noch nicht, dass der watschelnde Zeitgenosse nicht nur sein Leben vollkommen auf den Kopf stellen wird. Der Pinguin zieht auf Tom Michells Terrasse ein. Für den Lehrer wird er ein treuer Freund, für seine Schüler zum Pinguin des Vertrauens.

Dr. Ed Panosian has dedicated his life to the study and teaching of world history. Yet, his own astounding story is relatively unknown. Panosian's grandparents, aunts, and uncles were among the 1,500,000 people killed by Islamic Turks during the Armenian genocide (1915-1918). His own parents narrowly - and providentially - escaped martyrdom, immigrating to the United States, living out the American Dream, and raising a son who became an iconic professor to nearly 30,000 students.

The University of California system—constitutionally independent, a public trust—is a great American experiment that has endured through fraught battles over access, funding, and leadership and the looming crisis in education. The University has been at the nexus of nearly every public policy decision and social movement in the Golden State since the Civil War, from affirmative action to immigration to student protests.