Meet the Knights of the Square Table, San Francisco's all-star chess team. On their way home from a tournament in Europe, their plane makes a forced landing on a remote island in the North Atlantic. Part survival story, part crime novel with a twist, here's what happens when six teenagers act on their optimism and attempt the impossible. Teri Kanefield's awards and distinctions include the 2015 Jane Addams Book Award for The Girl From The Tar Paper School.
As the four princes became knights, they enjoyed many challenges and adventures that began by many hours of planning and scheming around the square table in the cellar of their castle home. In the beautiful town of Kilgora in old Ireland, this loving family lived out their lives in love and peace together in their old castle home. High Queen Granny and High King Papa were the heads of this loving family, and they ruled with kind and loving hearts. However, even though the knights lived in peace and happiness, their biggest challenge was about to come to pass when they had to save their princesses from Mama Dragon. Although they were very brave and valiant knights, a very different turn of events shows everyone that a grandmother’s love is much more powerful than any sword of any knight in shining armor.
(Book 1 in this series is currently being offered FREE!) Six teenagers determined to create a utopia discover that it may not be possible. After all they’ve been through and done, will they now have to accept defeat? The conclusion of the series
Square Table is a fundraiser cookbook for the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council; it includes over 300 community-donated and tested recipes, artwork by area artists, and essays by local authors.
BOOK 1 in this series is currently being offered FREE! Empowered by their experiences while stranded on an island, six teenagers set out to right the wrongs in the world. When unconventional—and illegal—methods get them into trouble, they find themselves on the run. A story of hope and adventure. Teri Kanefield's awards and distinctions include the 2015 Jane Addams Children's Book Award for The Girl From The Tar Paper School.
Like the movie American Beauty, this novel focuses on a dysfunctional family. While providing for his family financially, the father Douglas, is in constant search of new and younger women for sexual gratification. The mother, Vicky, is discontent with her life and betrayed relationship, and in anger has a relationship with Douglas's co-worker in retaliation for his infidelity. She struggles with trying to find her freedom and leaving the security of the relationship. Robert and Barbara are teenagers trying to understand their family, although both of them are having adolescent problems of their own. Only young Winston, in his imaginary kingdom of fantastic creatures such as Sir Rhinoceros and other magical creatures have made any sense of his family.
Kate Powell is forced to give up her role as midwife on a Cherokee reservation in Oklahoma when her husband maims a man in an attempt to protect her. Now, she struggles to rebuild her life in the rattlesnakeinfested mountains deep in the Cuyamaca range, just east of San Diego. Her dream of becoming a doctor vanished and her relationship with her husband deteriorating, she nearly gives up. But in a twist of fate, she learns that dreams can come true. `Round the square oak table, a family comes together to discover that where theres love all things are possible.
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation—the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. From the bestselling authors of Tightrope, two of our most fiercely moral voices With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope. They show how a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel and, with assistance from an aid group, built a thriving retail business that supports her family. The Ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. A Zimbabwean mother of five, counseled to return to school, earned her doctorate and became an expert on AIDS. Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. They make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do; it’s also the best strategy for fighting poverty. Deeply felt, pragmatic, and inspirational, Half the Sky is essential reading for every global citizen.
