The Boys on the Porch: An Allegory--Bridges from Fear to Faith

When a company of homeless men took up residence on the portico at University Lutheran Church in Seattle, Washington, all hell broke loose. Neighbors, realtors, health professionals, the bishop's office, the business community, the daycare staff, irate parents, and the ecumenical community began to divide around the question, "Who is our neighbor?" This allegorical work addresses middle class values and superficial material appearances that block the mysterious, transformational work of the Spirit, who bridges all to the vision of the celestial city of God: crossing without fear to faith and love. Written by retired Lutheran minister June Nilssen Eastvold The Boys on the Porch is based on her years as an activist in Seattle, Washington, while serving in the university district as the pastor at University Lutheran Church.

Politics & Social Sciences

Eastvold, June Nilssen

Social Sciences

Henschel Haus Pub

Necessary Inclusion: Embracing the Changing Faces of Technology

Information Technology is the lifeblood of every company. Hundreds of thousands of tech jobs are being created by U.S. corporations each year, but there are not enough talented people to fill those openings. Despite increased emphasis on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), women and people of color are not participating in or inventing technology. Without them, these pipeline challenges will persist. Necessary Inclusion: Embracing the Changing Faces of Technology is the one book that not only breaks down the challenges into digestible bites, it also provides a road map to solving this ever-expanding problem. Thought leader and entrepreneur Avis Yates Rivers established her own successful technology company more than three decades ago. Her story shines a spotlight on the importance of strategic mentoring, persistence, and hard work. She is a highly sought-after global speaker on the subjects of race, gender and the need to embrace the changing faces of technology. Avis is a long-time advocate for the increased utilization of minority and women-owned businesses, and a change agent for increasing the meaningful participation of women and people of color in technology. She serves as a director on the boards of a select group of non-profit organizations, and is the National Spokesperson for NCWIT’s “Sit With Me” Campaign.

Rivers, Avis Yates

Computers & Technology

Karen Buhk has kept her traditional family recipes alive in Happiness is Homemade in Door County, a cookbook that contains the most delicious desserts and meals from the past to the present. Growing up in Seymore, a small farming community in northeast Wisconsin, Karen spent her childhood at the feet of her grandmother and mother, watching them in the kitchen, learning all the techniques and skills found in these recipes.
Karen has been cooking and baking by look, feel, and taste all of her life and has now recorded many little details and secret tips so you can make these delicious dishes for yourself. She is well-known around Door County as the “Cookie Grandma,” making her special treats with love and sharing them with everyone she knows.
You will be transported to the good old days, when life was hard but simple, through the recipes and stories found in Happiness is Homemade in Door County. Beautiful photographs by Karen’s granddaughter-in-law, Sandy Buhk, make this cookbook even more special.

Happiness Is Homemade in Door County

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Buhk, Karen

Desserts

12 Methods to Make Your ABE Students Comfortable is a practical handbook for adult basic education program managers, directors, and administrators who want to build maximum comfort among incoming students, delivered in a direct and comprehensible way. This handbook can be a great tool for the continuing education professional as well.

12 Methods to Make Your Abe Students Comfortable - Even Before the Learning Starts: A Handbook for Abe Administrators

Education & Teaching

Ezi Adesi

Higher & Continuing Education

Poison Pen is the absurdist tale of redemption about a depressed game show host known for his cruel on-air insults and crude behavior. The story, as told by a misanthropic poison-pen-letter writer, offers an off-beat look at American culture while exploring themes of life, death, and the deeper meaning of 1960's television shows like The Beverly Hillbillies.Jerry Most is the acidic MC of Die Trying, a game show in which players perform death-defying acts for fabulous cash and prizes. But Jerry has had enough of the show and his lavish lifestyle. As he seeks inner meaning during a cross-country sojourn that lands him in Hammertown, a miserable northern Wisconsin burg, Jerry encounters a cast of characters that includes the dour protagonist, a beer-drinking, cheese stick-eating television rerun junkie, as well as Billie the Kangaroo, a troop of intoxicated baboons, and Pinky Lee, the muse and the bane of every man she encounters.Poison Pen is an unforgettable comic masterpiece in the tradition of A Confederacy of Dunces that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Thomas Peele called a “tour de force.”

Poison Pen

Literature & Fiction

Bill Zaferos

Humor & Satire

Often, when adults encounter children's literature, they tend to think about simplicity, fictional reality, naivit'e, and elementalism, as in "Elementary, Watson, elementary," Sherlock Holmes to his disciple, Dr. Watson. The very last things that cross the minds of skeptical adults are complexity, intricacy, shrewdly wrought devices, and praiseworthy sophistication. Children's literature is not elementary at all. Not Hebrew children's literature, or any kind of children's literature, in fact. What you see is not what you get. You get much, much more. The observations, literary techniques, and aesthetic artistry traced in this book through Hebrew children's literature "piously" echo any kind of children's literature in any language. The major critical proclivity both exhibited and probed in this book is the way anticipated simplicity is eclipsed by well-sculpted complexity. The text of children's literature consists of two layers: the upper, surface layer and the cryptic, underlying layer. Under the upper "epidermic" layer of the text, one that radiates simplicity and elementalism, there is a hidden, concealed, cryptic layer that contests the upper layer. It proves that the very essence of the text is desirably intricate and that the upper layer is indeed an artistic channel that unearths the "real" text that consists of the literary mechanism to delivery the text's message (educational, moral, ethical, etc.) in concealed sophistication.

In the Land of Childhood: Hebrew Children's Literature

Mazor, Yair

Teen & Young Adult

The storm was called a "bombogenesis." On February 8, 2013, a blizzard and a hurricane simultaneously hit the East Coast with a fierceness not seen in a century. People flocked to a Cape Cod emergency shelter for warmth and food. They needed electricity to run their oxygen concentrators, their feeding pumps, and their CPAP machines. But the food never arrived and at the height of the storm, the power shut down. People shivered under army blankets for warmth. Then a woman disappeared. This is the story told by Terri Arthur, RN, the Red Cross nurse who was assigned to manage the medical clinic in the shelter. "I pondered that I might have failed in some way," writes Arthur. "Years later, it still haunts me. I continue to wonder what else I could have done."

Power Failure: A Nurse's Story

Science & Math

Arthur, Terri

Earth Sciences

Despite knowing the risk for relinquished persons, there remains a chasm in awareness, both within and outside the adoption community about the special, unspoken, and unmet needs of relinquished persons and their families.Authors David B. Bohl, MA, and Jamie Marich, PhD, provide an overview of the complex issues involved in relinquishment and adoption, and in particular, as they relate to susceptibility of addiction.

Relinquishment and Addiction: What Trauma Has to Do With It

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Marich, Jamie

Bohl, David

Addiction & Recovery

The Pixologist’s Guide to Old Photos, Genealogy and Saving Your Family History

Bartelt, Mollie

Parenting & Relationships

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