Mentoring Teenage Heroes is written for parents, teachers, coaches, and other ex-adolescents who now guide today’s teenagers along the heroic journey from childhood to adulthood — a rite of passage as old as the ancient myths that metaphorically describe it. Those myths echo through contemporary books and movies and the real-world experience of growing up. For most adults, daily life is a routine grind. For teenagers, it’s an epic struggle for identity.

Mentoring Teenage Heroes: The Hero's Journey of Adolescence

Parenting & Relationships

Winkler, Mr. Matthew P.

Parenting

Woodhall Press

Matthew P. Winkler's viral TED-Ed lesson "What Makes a Hero?" introduced the Hero's Journey to millions of viewers (ed.ted.com/lessons/what-makes-a-hero-matthew-winkler). The book Mentoring Teenage Heroes guides parents, teachers, coaches, and other adults toward a fresh understanding of adolescence as a heroic quest. For grown ups, daily life is a routine grind. For teenagers, it's an epic struggle for identity.

Winkler, Matthew

The seventy-one flash essays collected here are hilarious proof that you don’t need more than 750 words to laugh out loud. Featuring both established and up-and-coming writers, these essays are no flashes in the pan—they demonstrate careful attention to craft and exploration: everything you want in a thoughtful essay, only shorter. This collection is perfect for students of writing and comedy—and for anybody who appreciates a good laugh!

Flash Nonfiction Funny: 71 Very Humorous, Very True, Very Short Stories

Humor & Entertainment

Hazuka, Tom

Humor

*Foreword Reviews 2018 INDIES Book of the Year Award Winner**2019 Connecticut Book of the Year Awards - Finalist*"Seigel's solid debut provides an intriguing and plausible variant on moon landing conspiracy theories. . . . Equally strong on plotting and characterization, Seigel does better than many other thriller writers in making his lead's pain and uncertainty about the past palpable." --Publishers Weekly The Astronaut's Son will "keep you on the edge of your seat all the way through . . . The best part of this book are the characters . . . The dialogue and description are good too." --Mensa BulletinOn the eve of the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing comes a novel in which a Jewish astronaut must reassess his moral compass when forced to confront NASA's early collaboration with Nazis and the role it may have played in his father's death. Jonathan Stein thinks only a bad heart can stop him from reaching the moon. But when he discovers his father may have been murdered to protect an appalling NASA secret, he must decide whether his moral compass still points towards the stars. Days before the Apollo 18 launch in 1974, Jonathan's father, an Israeli astronaut at NASA, died of an apparent heart attack. A year before his own launch, in 2005, Jonathan, a typically devout skeptic, becomes captivated by the tale of a mysterious online conspiracy theorist who claims that his father had been killed. Unable to keep long-buried suspicions from resurfacing, he reopens the case, digging into a past that becomes stranger and more compelling the deeper he goes. To get to the truth he must confront Dale Lunden, his father's best friend and the last man on the moon, and his elusive childhood hero Neil Armstrong. When his relentless pursuit of the truth leads to disturbing revelations about the Nazis who worked for NASA, the hardest questions to answer are the ones he must ask himself. The Astronaut's Son was inspired by the true story of Nazi scientists and engineers at NASA.

The Astronaut's Son: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Seigel, Tom

Literary

A Lion in the Snow: Essays on a Father's Journey Home

When his wife was pregnant, James M. Chesbro started having daydreams of seeing a lion in his street, padding toward his house through the snowflakes of a New England storm. He felt more like a son, still grieving over the early loss of his own father, rather than a prepared expectant-dad. In these essays, Chesbro finds himself disoriented and bewildered by fatherhood again and again as he explores the maddening moments that provide occasions for new understandings about our children and us. "James Chesbro makes the mundane memorable. His clear and resonant voice makes every word feel as if it was written just for you. Smart, witty, and relatable, I'm always waiting for that next word, anxious to read on the page what I've so often felt in my heart." --B.J. Hollars, author of Flock Together, From the Mouths of Dogs, This Is Only a Test, and Sightings "Whether writing about missing his father during the solitude of an early morning, or musing about an elderly, lonely neighbor, Chesbro's essays are moving, thoughtful, and beautiful. I love reading his work." --Jerald Walker, author ofThe World in Flames and Street Shadows "A lawn mower, a train ride, a rubber ball, a wooden bridge over flapping fish--in A Lion in the Snow, James M. Chesbro has gathered together the small objects and moments that unite fathers and sons to produce a brilliant book." --Sam Borden, senior writer for ESPNand former foreign correspondent forThe New York Times

Self-Help

Chesbro, James

Relationships

"I thought I was a pretty brave man, 'til I read LaRue Cook's memoir. It took guts to walk away from a cushy corporate job, and even more guts--and great talent--to turn it into such an excellent read. It is Southern at its heart, but universal in its appeal, to strike out, and do what you yearn to do." -- Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author of Ava's Man and All Over but the Shoutin'
At the age of thirty, LaRue Cook thought he had achieved the "American Dream"--a cushy job at ESPN; a long-term relationship; friendship and respect from his colleagues within the cutthroat industry of sports media. Still, he felt troubled and restless, attempting in vain to live up to the journalistic legacy of his late father, the man whose early death he'd never reconciled.
And so he left. He moved from Connecticut back to his native Tennessee, hoping to find solace in the place where he'd first found meaning as a writer. To help pay the bills, he started driving for Uber and found himself looking in the rearview mirror, sharing stories with people across race and class, gender and ethnicity--all while the United States experienced one of the most polarizing presidential elections in its history.
Part voyeuristic, part inspirational, sometimes hilarious, always thoughtful and probing, Man in the (Rearview) Mirror is a book about learning how to love yourself at a time in America when it is often too easy to hate. With compassion for his passengers and himself, Cook carefully navigates us to a place of forgiveness, patience, and, hopefully, peace.

Man in the (Rearview) Mirror: That Time I Left Corporate America, Became an Uber Driver, and Lived to Write About It

Biographies & Memoirs

Cook, LaRue

Professionals & Academics

As of the 2017-2018 academic year, more than 2,000 students have participated in the Educational Opportunity Program at Central Connecticut State University. Thousands more have been part of similar programs at other Connecticut colleges, including Southern and Eastern Connecticut State Universities, and Wesleyan University. This book is a celebration of all those students. Fifty years after the program was created at CCSU, the students who have passed through its auspices--largely first-generation college students from minority populations--are a testament to how far the program has come since its early days, when its mission was often called into question. The histories chronicled herein shed light on a program that has achieved a lasting, generational impact, and which, over the course of successive summers, has indeed changed thousands of lives.

A Summer That Can Change Your Life: A History of the Educational Opportunity Program at Central Connecticut State University

Education & Teaching

Jones, C J

Higher & Continuing Education

The Curious Childhood of Wanton Chase: Rose Island Lighthouse Series (The Rose Island Lighthouse Series)

Wanton Chase lived with his grandparents at the Rose Island Lighthouse from 1910 to 1916, from the time he was one to seven years old. Later in life, he recorded his memories of his adventures on the island, which he shared with the Lighthouse Foundation. His recollections are the basis for the story chapters of this book. The history chapters contain additional information and photographs to provide context for the stories.

Heinzmann, Lynne M.

History

When his wife was pregnant, James M. Chesbro started having daydreams of seeing a lion in his street, padding toward his house through the snowflakes of a New England storm. He felt more like a son, still grieving over the early loss of his own father, rather than a prepared expectant-dad. In these essays, Chesbro finds himself disoriented and bewildered by fatherhood again and again as he explores the maddening moments that provide occasions for new understandings about our children and us.In James M. Chesbro's stirring debut, A Lion the Snow, we find a contemporary father's field guide, a husband's compendium, and a wife's glimpse into the turning mind of a spouse in the grounded prose of domestic conflict.

Chesbro, James M.

Essays & Correspondence

<div>Alice's Adventures in #Wonderland re-imagines Lewis Carroll's classic stories through the digital lens, down the rabbit hole, and beyond the smartphone glass. With the help of Penny Farthing and illustrations by Bats Langley comes a new adventure for Alice. About the Illustrator Bats Langley grew up in the dark and perilous countryside of New England. His art has been shown in galleries in New York City, Los Angeles, Hangzhou China, as well as in the United States Capitol building. Mr. Langley has done work for Triumph Publishing and also has shown regularly in Ladybug and Spider magazines.</div>

Alice's Adventures in #Wonderland

Teen & Young Adult

Lewis. Carroll

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Mentoring Teenage Heroes: The Hero's Journey of Adolescence

Mentoring Teenage Heroes: The Hero's Journey of Adolescence

Flash Nonfiction Funny: 71 Very Humorous, Very True, Very Short Stories

The Astronaut's Son: A Novel

A Lion in the Snow: Essays on a Father's Journey Home

Man in the (Rearview) Mirror: That Time I Left Corporate America, Became an Uber Driver, and Lived to Write About It

A Summer That Can Change Your Life: A History of the Educational Opportunity Program at Central Connecticut State University

The Curious Childhood of Wanton Chase: Rose Island Lighthouse Series (The Rose Island Lighthouse Series)

A Lion in the Snow: Essays on a Father's Journey Home

Alice's Adventures in #Wonderland