<div> Set in the days of small, local banks when embarrassing entrepreneurs were the one family in town who bought a new car every year--those cars everyone else called 'gunboats--and the bad guys came with black hats, this rollicking send-up of stupid criminals who even Barnie Fife could have outwitted makes for belly-laughs while reading and memories that will bring smiles to readers' faces.&nbsp; </div>

The Boys from Possum Grape: A novella

Humor & Entertainment

Hout M.D., Dr. Judson N

Humor

Parkhurst Brothers Publishers Inc

Set in the 1980s, when Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas, this Flaggesque exploration of Southern characters is filled with plot twists, character surprises, New Orleans parties and true love. The second volume in the Peavine Chronicles Series, Hankins undergirds the narrative with a whimsical spirituality and delivers belly-laugh reading enjoyment with an afterglow.

The Thirty-Foot Elvis: A novel (Volume 2) (The Peavine Chronicles Series)

Literature & Fiction

Hankins, Ms. Jane F.

Humor & Satire

What sort of education would be worthy of angels? Tony Armstrong argues it would be an education focused on helping them achieve their deepest aspiration: happiness. Contemporary education ignores the question of children's happiness. Schools aren't in the happiness business. For the most part, they're in the preparing-workers business. Children are treated more as means to economic ends than as ends in themselves in today's schools. Armstrong doesn't think this moral lapse is due to not caring enough about our children. He says it has more to do with people being unaware that schools could do far more than they do to improve kids' chances for realizing happiness. If parents understood schools could do more for the happiness of their children, he believes they would insist on it. Armstrong offers a practical understanding of happiness as a feeling you want to keep feeling and sees the pursuit of happiness as the steps you take to feel better than you do at present. Seen in this light, empowering students' lifelong pursuit of happiness involves helping them gain the insights and skills that allow them to feel as they choose from moment to moment as well as in the long-term. He points to classroom-tested methods that have proven quite effective in helping kids feel better. And also behave better, learn better, relate better, and treat others more kindly. Dr. Armstrong presents a kindergarten-through-college pedagogy that would result in happier people and better societies. He paints an inspiring picture of an education worthy of angels and a future worthy of humanity.

Educating Angels: Teaching for the Pursuit of Happiness (Volume 9) (Our National Conversation)

Politics & Social Sciences

Armstrong Ph.D, Tony

Sociology

An anthology of traditional and original stories with commentary for using the stories to help troubled teens in need of character formation and re-formation. Also for use in general classrooms and youth activities to undergird healthy character formation in the pre-teen and teen years. Mentoring teens can be a wild dance. As adults we count and measure our movements but teens have created their own music and their own steps, they dance to the cycle of adolescent change in an effort to become one of us, though they would never admit that. The books Dancing at the Crossroads: Stories for Mentoring At-Risk Youth, Practitioner’s Guidebook and Caregiver’s Guidebook are packed with the lessons of fifteen years in the field working with at-risk populations in runaway shelters, group homes, residential treatment facilities and one-on one with youth and parents. Out of a real understanding of these young people and their needs, and a passion for helping guide them into the adult circle, Lorna MacDonald Czarnota has compiled a collection of time-tested stories with activities, advice and information for parents and families, and a series of programs that storytellers, mental health workers, counselors, therapists, and others can utilize with groups of their own.

Dancing at the Crossroads: A Guide for Practitioners in At-Risk Youth Programs

Education & Teaching

Czarnota, Lorna

Schools & Teaching

Study of Gratitude, it's practice and impact are ideal for group discussion and personal study.

Gratitude: Affirming One Another Through Stories

Froyen, Len

Religion & Spirituality

"A brilliant mixture of story, philosophy, humor and wisdom, this book reminds us that---if we are open to story, dreams, imagination, and myth---we can open doors within our soul." —Jay O’Callahan, author, storyteller, and NPR commentator
A lifetime collection of stories, wise words, assembled musings and quotations about overcoming hurdles, elusive enlightenment, personal evolution, persistence in the face of discouragement, this pastiche is designed to encourage the downhearted, lift up the strivers, and add wings to the heels of spiritual seekers.

Trail Guide for a Crooked Heart: Stories and Reflections for Life's Journey

Self-Help

May, Jim

Personal Transformation

Lyn Ford, an African-American storyteller honored by her peers nationally retells traditional stories and folkways from her cultural heritage. In addition, she provides readers with insights and historic perspective of these tales by including notes and references to extensive resources regarding the folktales she tells and the history that brought them to us.

Beyond the Briar Patch: Affrilachian Folktales, Food, and Folklore

Biographies & Memoirs

Ford, Ms. Lynette

Community & Culture

"Made in Mexico, born in America," Barrio Princess shares heartwarming family stories, cultural tradition stories, learning English by total immersion, socialization as a minority, education, stories of her mother as a single parent, and women’s stories from a minority point of view.

Barrio Princess: Growing Up in Texas

Samarripa, Consuelo

"Made in Mexico, born in America," Barrio Princess shares heartwarming family stories, cultural tradition stories, learning English by total immersion, socialization as a minority, education, stories of her mother as a single parent, and women’s stories from a minority point of view.

Karen Chace’s book, Story by Story, Building a Storytelling Troupe is a must have for anyone even slightly interested in starting a storytelling group with students. I know I am guilty of sometimes skipping over sections, but every word that Karen writes is important and useful distilled (and therefore potent) information. Ms. Chace not only tells you what to do to run a successful troupe, but also WHY you need to do it. This is, to me, very important. Sometimes one is tempted to skip things, but this book explains how important the steps are. Everything from how many hours Karen thought it would take, to ACTUAL hours, where the funding comes from, how and why to lay foundations and expectations (including ‘no teasing policies’ and group dynamics), right the way through presentation skills to advertising the event and getting bums on seats (emphasis important)! Over the years Karen has and continues to come up with new and inventive ways of teaching the skills of storytelling, and a great many of these exercises and activities are included in the book. When it comes to research and materials as well as technique, Karen adds new meaning to "thorough". There are links to websites for stories, for grants, for microphone techniques, and how storytelling connects to the school curriculum and more. And if you prefer to read books, there is an extensive bibliography, too. Basically, I believe if you want to succeed in building a storytelling troupe or group, all you need is Karen Chace’s book, Story by Story, Building a Storytelling Troupe and to do everything Karen suggests. I am sure it would be very hard to fail if you follow her words of wisdom between the covers of her goldmine of a book. Simon Brooks, storyteller, and educator

Story By Story: Creating a School Storytelling Troupe & Making the Common Core Exciting

Arts & Photography

Chace, Karen

Performing Arts

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The Boys from Possum Grape: A novella

The Thirty-Foot Elvis: A novel (Volume 2) (The Peavine Chronicles Series)

Educating Angels: Teaching for the Pursuit of Happiness (Volume 9) (Our National Conversation)

Dancing at the Crossroads: A Guide for Practitioners in At-Risk Youth Programs

Gratitude: Affirming One Another Through Stories

Trail Guide for a Crooked Heart: Stories and Reflections for Life's Journey

Beyond the Briar Patch: Affrilachian Folktales, Food, and Folklore

Barrio Princess: Growing Up in Texas

Barrio Princess: Growing Up in Texas

Story By Story: Creating a School Storytelling Troupe & Making the Common Core Exciting