For Gerald Anderson, a brewing storm meant an opportunity to break into cars, stores, and homes. He would then buy drugs and inevitably land in jail. From age 15 to 37, this cycle was all he knew. But when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the levees broke, Anderson's focus shifted, and he called upon skills he had learned in prison to tend to those who were trapped. Using a boat they found at an evacuated house in the Garden District, Anderson and his homeboys battled chin-high floodwaters to rescue victims, in some cases their bodies: a woman in labor, an old man without legs, an addict with a bullet in his chest. He and his friends looked after families and elderly in the projects “just like if we was protecting the President’s house.”Still Standing: How an Ex-Con Found Salvation in the Floodwaters of Katrina is more than a tale of struggles when the levees broke. A gifted storyteller, Anderson weaves reflections on life before Katrina into the narrative. “Whenever I disobeyed my brother, he’d hold me up to the ceiling and drop me. One hour later I go right back and disobey him. After a while it like a bee sting, it hurt for a minute and go away. . . . The neighborhood I came up in, you sit on the porch, and it like watchin’ a wrasslin’ match. You see the ladies, the hustlers, the dogfights. If there ain’t men doin' violence, women be fightin’ about men.”Anderson also reflects on using his wits in prison, where he grilled cheese sandwiches by ironing them inside brown paper bags. In Louisiana State Penitentiary, Anderson lived with his father for the first time and realized, “My daddy got a little care about me.”Seeing dead bodies had been commonplace for Anderson. But when his beloved Miss Mary and her grandchildren are stabbed to death during Katrina, Anderson says, "It put chills in my body . . . . I ain’t never seen anyone murdered that open her heart to you like Miss Mary."Anderson's memoir illuminates a man’s life that is tested by floodwaters and then given new meaning by his rescue efforts. His voice and cadence lend immediacy to his riveting story.When author and award-winning journalist Susan Orlins met Anderson he was selling Street Sense, Washington, DC’s newspaper that is written and sold by homeless vendors. For 18 months they met weekly. He talked, she typed. She asked questions, he answered. Anderson’s memoir is the result.

Still Standing: how an ex-con found salvation in the floodwaters of Katrina

Biographies & Memoirs

Anderson, Gerald

Orlins, Susan

Memoirs

Jambalaya Press

Could something like murder happen in Fergus Falls–a quiet Minnesota town known for its Scandinavian heritage and great lake fishing? Yah, you betcha! Every August Dr. George Gherkin, the Fergus Falls State University president, hosts a faculty party. It's tradition for George to lock himself inside the kitchen to prepare his signature dish. But instead of Chicken Kiev, the guests find their chef with a meat cleaver buried in his head. All the guests are suspects. There's Sally Ann Pennwright, Gherkin's scorned secretary and former mistress; Sherwin Williams, the assistant professor of Art who's been denied tenure for years; and Francis Olson, the athletic director whose attempt to leave Fergus Falls was thwarted by Gherkin. Everyone has an ax to grind with the selfserving, manipulative university president. Can the small-town sheriff–who hasn't handled a homicide case in his entire career–solve this unsavory crime?

Death Before Dinner (The Otter Tail County Mysteries)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Midnight Ink

In the good old Minnesota town of Fergus Falls, murder is about as common as shorts-wearing tourists in January. But even in quiet Nordic towns, strange things can happen in the dead of winter. Eager to retire, insurance company owner "Pinky" Hofstead had grand plans to announce the appointment of his new president at an all-employee winter weekend retreat. But after a night of snowmobiling in sub-zero weather, Hofstead is found the next day―as cold and stiff as a piece of dried lutefisk. Puzzled by how Hofstead's body could be lying beneath a concrete loon with his snowmobile abandoned fifty feet away, Otter County Sheriff Palmer Knutson and his upstart rookie detective suspect that this is more than just an accident. With possible motives of greed, ambition, and jealousy, could any of the four employees or their spouses be cold-blooded enough to ice the boss? Uffda! There's a murderous chill in the air!

Murder Under the Loon (The Otter Tail County Mysteries, 2)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Orchestra Expressions(tm) provides music educators at all levels with easy-to-use, exciting tools to meet daily classroom challenges and bring new vibrancy and depth to teaching music. The lessons were written based on the National Standards for the Arts in Music -- not retro-fitted to the Standards. The program is music literacy-based and satisfies reading and writing mandates in orchestra class. The pedagogy involves a "four-fingers-down" start for every instrument and separate but simultaneous development of both hands. Each student book features an attractive full-color interior with easy-to-read notes and includes: -A 92-track accompaniment CD that covers Units 1-18 (a second CD covering Units 19-33 is available separately, individually as item 00-EMCO1006CD or in a 25-pack as item 00-MCO1007CDP) -Historical notes on some of the most notable composers of orchestral music -A thorough glossary of musical terms Future reprints may be printed with black and white interiors. This title is available in SmartMusic.

Orchestra Expressions, Book One Student Edition: Violin, Book & Online Audio

Arts & Photography

Brungard, Kathleen DeBerry

Dackow, Sandra

Witt, Anne C.

Alexander, Michæl

Music

Alfred Music

Orchestra Expressions, Book One Student Edition: Viola, Book & Online Audio

Orchestra Expressions, Book One Student Edition: Cello, Book & Online Audio

Orchestra Expressions(tm) provides music educators at all levels with easy-to-use, exciting tools to meet daily classroom challenges and bring new vibrancy and depth to teaching music. The lessons were written based on the National Standards for the Arts in Music -- not retro-fitted to the Standards. The program is music literacy-based and satisfies reading and writing mandates in orchestra class. The pedagogy involves a "four-fingers-down" start for every instrument, separate but simultaneous development of both hands, and beginning the bass in III position to develop early shifting. Each student book features an attractive full-color interior with easy-to-read notes and includes: -A 92-track accompaniment CD that covers Units 1-18 (a second CD covering Units 19-33 is available separately, individually as item 00-EMCO1006CD or in a 25-pack as item 00-MCO1007CDP) -Historical notes on some of the most notable composers of orchestral music -A thorough glossary of musical terms Future reprints may be printed with black and white interiors. This title is available in SmartMusic.

Orchestra Expressions, Book One Student Edition: String Bass, Book & Online Audio

Orchestra Expressions(tm) provides music educators at all levels with easy-to-use, exciting tools to meet daily classroom challenges and bring new vibrancy and depth to teaching music. The lessons were written based on the National Standards for the Arts in Music -- not retro-fitted to the Standards. The program is music literacy-based and satisfies reading and writing mandates in orchestra class. The pedagogy involves a "four-fingers-down" start for every instrument, separate but simultaneous development of both hands, and beginning the bass in III position to develop early shifting. The Teacher Curriculum Package for Book One includes Teacher's Edition Books Volumes I-IV, Teacher's Resource Guide, Teacher Lesson, Masterworks and Performance Selection CDs (1 Masterwork and Rhythms CD, 7 Lesson CDs, and 1 Performance Selections CD), Teacher's Support Pack, which includes Student worksheets #1-#54 (85 total), Teacher Forms and Rubrics (student assessment worksheets, 5 total), and Transparencies #1-#66 (67 total), Orchestra Progress Record Book One (OPR1), several orchestra arrangements by Sandra Dackow, and a final full orchestra concert piece. This Curriculum Package does not include a DVD. This title is available in SmartMusic.

Orchestra Expressions, Book One Teacher Edition: Curriculum Package

Orchestra Expressions(tm) provides music educators at all levels with easy-to-use, exciting tools to meet daily classroom challenges and bring new vibrancy and depth to teaching music. The lessons were written based on the National Standards for the Arts in Music -- not retro-fitted to the Standards. The program is music literacy-based and satisfies reading and writing mandates in orchestra class. The pedagogy involves a "four-fingers-down" start for every instrument, separate but simultaneous development of both hands, and beginning the bass in III position to develop early shifting. The Teacher Curriculum Package for Book Two includes Teacher Edition Books Volumes I-IV, Teacher Resource Guide Book, Teacher Lesson, Masterworks and Performance Selection CDs (1 Masterworks CD, 2 Lesson CDs, 1 Ear Training CD, and 2 Performance Selection CDs), Teacher Support Pack, which includes Student Worksheets #1-#88 (123 total), Teacher Forms and Rubrics (student assessment worksheets, 4 total), Transparencies #1-#49 (57 total), Orchestra Progress Record Book Two, and several orchestra arrangements by Sandra Dackow. This title is available in SmartMusic.

Orchestra Expressions, Book Two Teacher Edition: Curriculum Package

Orchestra Expressions(tm) provides music educators at all levels with easy-to-use, exciting tools to meet daily classroom challenges and bring new vibrancy and depth to teaching music. The lessons were written based on the National Standards for the Arts in Music -- not retro-fitted to the Standards. The program is music literacy-based and satisfies reading and writing mandates in orchestra class. Unique Features of Orchestra Expressions(tm): * Four-fingers-down" start for every instrument * Separate but simultaneous development of both hands * Bass begins in III position developing early shifting * Orchestra arrangements by Sandra Dackow * Final full orchestra concert piece"

Orchestra Expressions, Book Two: Teacher Edition

Alfred Pub. Co

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