Sugar and Sand

Gerwin, Gail Fishman

Full Court Press

"What motivates children to do well in school-and in life?" asks Sheila Zaretsky in this compelling, highly readable view of the most troubling aspect of modern education. "Why is it that some are goal oriented and succeed while others hang back, turn away, or totally shut down? How can the unmotivated ones be reached? Finding answers to these questions became the focus of my twenty-five-year career in teaching, and it remains the focus of my second career as a psychotherapist. This book tells what I have learned about the powerful inner forces that can lead to growth and success or to dysfunction and despair. It is also about how to help children reverse their patterns of desolation and failure." In this warm and compassionate story, she shares the insights she gained by applying therapeutic understanding to her inner-city classroom. Like Erin Gruell's "The Freedom Writer's Diary," it begins with wanting to connect with her often difficult students in a constructive way. In an innovative psychotherapeutic program, she found solutions that built rather than destroyed her students' egos. The balance of her twenty-five-year teaching career was a stress-free, creative, and fascinating adventure.

Reaching the Unreachable Child: Using Emotional Wisdom To Help Children Recover from Hopelessness and Negativity

Science & Math

Zaretsky, Sheila

Behavioral Sciences

Find the Numbers for Your Business Plan helps you understand your own personal financial situation and allows you to start your business knowing you can make a living while you build your dream! You need this book if you want to start a service business, plan to operate from your home or a small office, and estimate that start-up costs are less than $35,000. The economy is tough, so isn't this the best time to be in charge of your destiny?

Find the Numbers for Your Business Plan

Business & Money

W. Hope Player

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Based on a true story, The People With No Camel, weaves two journeys of freedom: A ten year old girl escapes Iran in 1981 with her family, due to the heavy persecutions they face as Baha'is, carrying nothing but three little handbags, new identities, their faith. The novel then takes a turn. The girl has become a woman, and the narrative shifts into parable. Infused with Persian mythical characters, the woman's quest to save her dying forest turns into her own spiritual journey - the search for ultimate freedom.

People With No Camel

Literature & Fiction

Roya Movafegh

Literary

There's Nothing Wrong With Her: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Yakoubian, Mary Beth

Community & Culture

A steamy, hilarious romantic comedy that tackles the dating world in an ongoing, intimate, behind-the-scenes conversation between two singles of the opposite sex. Readers will easily identify with the set-ups, the break-ups, the forays into online dating, all the hopes and fears of budding relationships - and find the characters both sympathetic and painfully human and fallible.

He Typed. She Typed.

Wye, Mark Van

Turner, Amy

Contemporary

ANOTHER LEGAL WHODUNIT FROM FULL COURT PRESSA lawyer's personal account of his involvement in an unusual case at the request of a mysterious client. The book many people have been waiting to read.

Wise Child

Tyler, B K

Genre Fiction

It is important that each of us understand and communicate our personal health goals in order to maintain good health and receive good health care. We all hope to avoid premature death and disability, participate in meaningful life activities, become more capable and adaptable, and experience a comfortable death. However, each of us defines these goals differently, and we differ in the strategies we choose to achieve them. In this book, the author, a primary care physician and teacher, uses case examples and practical advice to help readers clarify their health goals, understand the kinds of strategies likely to be effective, and understand the health care system in order to get the help they need and avoid unnecessary tests and treatments. The book includes 16 chapters divided into 3 sections, The Goals of Health and Health Care, Obstacles and Challenges, and Achieving Your Health Goals. The first 14 chapters are followed by questions for contemplation or discussion. The book has 256 pages.

Achieving Your Personal Health Goals: A Patient's Guide (Goal-Oriented Healthcare)

Mold MD, James W.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Collected poems

Denby, Edwin

Poetry

I Remember

Joe Brainard's I Remember is a cult classic, envied and admired by writers from Frank O'Hara to John Ashbery and Edmund White. As autobiography, Brainard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each prefaced by the refrain 'I remember'. Fifty-two years after its original US publication in 1970, this is the first UK edition. 'In simple, forthright, declarative sentences, he charts the map of the human soul and permanently alters the way we look at the world. I Remember is both uproariously funny and deeply moving. It is also one of the few totally original books I have ever read.' Paul Auster 'I would make a case for I Remember as one of the twenty or so most important American autobiographies, important for its air of unimportance and for its mingling of cultural bric-a-brac with sexual frankness and self-revelation.' New Yorker

I remember

Brainard, Joe

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