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Author: Robert Klose
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1584659521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe personal reflections and insights of one professor and writer on the experience of teaching at the "poorest college in America"
Author: Steven Long
Publisher: 12 Willows Press
Published: 2023-12-01
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1961905035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDive into the Heart of Maine with Rivers of Ink Embark on a literary journey along the Penobscot River with Rivers of Ink: Literary Reflections on the Penobscot. Curated with care and profound insight, this anthology opens with an introduction by Sherri Mitchell Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset, a respected Indigenous attorney, activist, and author from the Penobscot Nation. Through its pages, Rivers of Ink offers a mosaic of voices from 61 Maine writers, each weaving a tale of the river’s indelible mark on the region’s history, culture, and daily life. A Confluence of Stories and Causes This collection is more than a literary exploration; it’s a voyage into the heart of Maine’s heritage, highlighting the Penobscot River’s vital role in industry, environmental resilience, and personal narratives of those who live along its banks. From evocative essays and compelling fiction to soul-stirring poetry, Rivers of Ink captures the essence of the Penobscot—its sights, sounds, and spirit—while addressing today’s environmental and climate challenges with hope and resilience. Supporting “A Monumental Welcome” Your purchase of Rivers of Ink supports the Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters’ campaign “A Monumental Welcome.” Proceeds will fund a new visitor contact station, priority park projects, and Wabanaki-directed initiatives, ensuring the preservation and appreciation of this magnificent natural heritage for generations to come.
Author: Robert Klose
Publisher: Medallion Media Group
Published: 2015-06-22
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 160542580X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrover Cleveland College is dying, and the shock is too much for the college’s founder and president, Cyrus Cleveland—a direct descendant of President Grover Cleveland—who begins to die in tandem with his school. In a last bid to save his beloved institution, he wills the college to his nephew Marcus Cleveland, a used car salesman in New Jersey who has never been to college, much less administered one. Marcus heads north to see what he can do to live up to his uncle’s expectations and save the day. Facing the impending calamity with cheer, an incorrigibly sunny attitude, and ample naivete, he is totally unprepared for the stew of discontented faculty, internecine rivalries, and unforeseen events that threaten to upend his every effort to rescue the school from the threat of extinction.
Author: Joyce Kelley
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1134802854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPositioned at a crossroads between feminist geographies and modernist studies, Excursions into Modernism considers transnational modernist fiction in tandem with more rarely explored travel narratives by women of the period who felt increasingly free to journey abroad and redefine themselves through travel. In an era when Western artists, writers, and musicians sought 'primitive' ideas for artistic renewal, Joyce E. Kelley locates a key similarity between fiction and travel writing in the way women authors use foreign experiences to inspire innovations with written expression and self-articulation. She focuses on the pairing of outward journeys with more inward, introspective ones made possible through reconceptualizing and mobilizing elements of women’s traditional corporeal and domestic geographies: the skin, the ill body, the womb, and the piano. In texts ranging from Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark to Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out and from Evelyn Scott’s Escapade to Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage, Kelley explores how interactions between geographic movement, identity formation, and imaginative excursions produce modernist experimentation. Drawing on fascinating supplementary and archival materials such as letters, diaries, newspaper articles, photographs, and unpublished drafts, Kelley’s book cuts across national and geographic borders to offer rich and often revisionary interpretations of both canonical and lesser-known works.
Author: Robert Klose
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2011-08-15
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781617033421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough single women have long been permitted to adopt children, adoption by unmarried men remains an uncommon experience in Western culture. However, Robert Klose, who is single, wanted a son so badly that he faced down the opposition and overcame seemingly insurmountable barriers to realize his goal. The story of his quest for a son is detailed in this intimate personal account. The frustrating truth he reports is that most adoption agencies seem unsure of how to respond to a single man's application. During the three years that it took for him to proceed through the adoption maze, Klose met resistance and dead ends at every attempt. Happenstance finally led him to Russia, where he found the child of his dreams in a Moscow orphanage, a Russian boy named Alyosha. This is the first book to be written by a single man adopting from abroad. The narrative of his quest serves as an instructional firsthand manual for single men wishing to adopt. It details the prospective father's heightening sense of anticipation as he untangles bureaucratic snarls and addresses cultural differences involved in adopting a foreign child. When he arrives in Russia, he supposes the adoption will be a matter of following cut-and-dried procedures. Instead, his difficulties are only beginning. Although he meets kind and generous Russians, his encounter with the child welfare system in Moscow turns out to be both chaotic and bizarre. However, his dogged ordeal pays off more bountifully than he ever could have hoped. In the end he comes face to face with a little boy who changes his life forever.
Author: Clifford Straehley
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2011-11-22
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 1105277615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnedited Draft - Clifford Straehley was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1922. He attended the University of Michigan as a premedical student for three years. Prior to graduating with his bachelor's degree, Clifford was admitted to the Harvard Medical School and graduated cum laude in !946 . He went on to surgical training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and later taught surgical students at Syracuse Medical School, Stanford Medical School, and at the University of Hawaii. Even with his impressive career history and resume, Clifford always regretted not finishing his undergraduate degree. When he entered his early eighties, he decided to enroll at St. Mary's College of California and earned his bachelor's degree in 2005 from St. Mary's College California at the tender age of eighty-four. Today Clifford resides in Walnut Creek, California with his beloved wife Marmie. He is the proud father and grandfather to three children and three grandchildren.
Author: Robert Klose
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
Published: 2019-07-11
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1684333040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLife on Mars takes a satirical look at evolution vs. Intelligent Design — a sort of feint by anti-evolutionists to get creationism into the classroom by assiduously avoiding the mention of God. Instead, reference is made to a “higher” or “superior” intelligence. The novel’s conceit is this: what if the Intelligent Design folks are right and the evolutionists are wrong? What if a higher intelligence did indeed get the ball of creation rolling, only the intelligence wasn’t God but an alien race (“The Spong”) that had seeded earth as a botanical garden eons ago, only to return to find it contaminated with humans? In preparation for a “Treatment” to correct their error, the Spong assign a human to act as earth’s final biographer to provide them with proof of why humans just have to go.
Author: Neil Peart
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 2014-10-01
Total Pages: 572
ISBN-13: 1770906738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhether navigating the backroads of Louisiana or Thuringia, exploring the snowy Quebec woods, or performing onstage at Rush concerts, Neil Peart has stories to tell. His first volume in this series, Far and Away, combined words and images to form an intimate, insightful narrative that won many readers. Now Far and Near brings together reflections from another three years of an artist’s life as he celebrates seasons, landscapes, and characters, travels roads and trails, receives honors, climbs mountains, composes and performs music. With passionate insight, wry humor, and an adventurous spirit, once again Peart offers a collection of open letters that take readers on the road, behind the scenes, and into the inner workings of an ever-inquisitive mind. These popular stories, originally posted on Peart’s website, are now collected and contextualized with a new introduction and conclusion in this beautifully designed collector’s volume.
Author: Nachama Skolnik Moskowitz
Publisher: Behrman House, Inc
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 742
ISBN-13: 9780867050844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNote: This product is printed when you order it. When you include this product your order will take 5-7 additional days to ship.¬+¬+This complete and comprehensive resource for teachers new and experienced alike offers a "big picture" look at the goals of Jewish education.
