WINDY CITY

Ross, Sam

Ballantine Books

Windy city: A novel

PUTNAM

The son of Russian Jewish immigrants tries to come to terms with American society and understand his father

Melov's Legacy

Literature & Fiction

United States

Second Chance Pr

My Life in the Trenches recounts my 12-year experience as a New York City junior high school teacher who unfortunately suffered a career-ending injury, and has since endured a life of excruciating pain and countless operations. Through the eyes of this insider, you will enter a world that at times was so unforgiving, it cost many of its inhabitants their hopes, dreams and, in some cases, their sanity. For one New York City police officer, who lay mortally wounded on the ground with blood trickling out of the corners of his mouth, it cost him his life. I too nearly “died” when I learned that it was one of my students who killed him. The reader will take an emotional roller coaster ride that will tear at their very soul but will also lift their spirits and give them hope, which has been lost by so many of our students, teachers, parents, and leaders in this great country of ours. I’m absolutely positive that my language will shock you, and the violence I bore witness to will sicken you. Drug use, sex, incompetence, illiteracy, and so much more will be told as never before. Just when you feel that all is lost, I will offer realistic solutions to the problems our students and their teachers face every day they enter our educational facilities. When all is said and done, I can only make one promise to the reader: you will never forget this autobiography!

My Life in the Trenches: Welcome to My World

Biographies & Memoirs

Publishamerica Inc

You want to help them. They don't want to be helped. How on earth are you going to reach those troubled teens? This is the essential guide to reaching troubled teens based on Sam Ross' years of listening to, researching and working with the most challenging, disengaged young people. Written in the voice of those teens and also in hers, it will change the way you work with young people. This is what our troubled teens need you to read. This is what they need you to hear. This is what they need from you. Read this and change lives. "I've never met any worker who actually cares, you know, who really wants to know and understand me. Sam does, and she she's helped me turn my life around, get it right. She's like magic. I wish all workers were like her." K, age 17 "I particularly like how she writes from the teen's perspective. I regularly recommend her site to schools, youth workers, social workers, school health and loads of parents." Matt Chipchase, Lancashire County Council Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub "She has guided me towards a more empathic way of working. It has encouraged me to make use of the most important resource available to those working with teenagers- the young people themselves." D. Chambers, Homelessness Support Worker (16-25s) Sam Ross, BSc, MSc, MSc, Cert EP (YJ) is a Teen Behavioural Consultant and founder of the popular Teenage Whisperer blog (www.teenagewhisperer.co.uk). She is passionate about connecting with and helping the most challenging, disengaged and troubled teens to turn their lives around. She works in both educational and criminal justice settings, both with young people and their parents or carers. Really understanding teens is the beginning, middle and end of her work and she helps professionals and parents achieve this through her website, books and public speaking engagements.

What I Need From You: the essential guide to reaching troubled teens

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Independently published

Crossing urban, foreign, and coastal terrain, the poems of Company navigate misperception, memory, and threat while engaging with an electrifying sense of possibility: "What I want is you to see what is backlit, behind me. Not the silhouette-- but the negative space I make blocking light." Ross's book is sensual, political, ghostly, and frank; what a close friend or beguiling stranger might whisper in your ear in the corner of a crowded party to make you say, "Tell me more."

Company (Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry)

Poetry

Four Way Books

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