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The third book of Jerry L. Jones, They Included Me, profiles his fifty-two-year teaching career. Jones, a native of Glade Spring, Virginia, had only three fulltime jobs in this very long time period: high school business teacher in Baltimore, Maryland; a professor at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Richmond, Virginia; and a professor at Emory & Henry College in Emory, Virginia. Each of these jobs were in teaching, not in administration. There are many stories to be told! An added feature of this book centers around Jerry Jones' own educational journey-from the segregated public schools of his childhood and adolescence to his bachelor's and master's degrees from the historically-black Virginia State University. There are also discussions of his experiences while earning a doctorate from Virginia Tech as well as studies, seminars, and workshops from several universities: Morgan State, Indiana, East Tennessee State, Virginia Commonwealth, Purdue, and the University of Memphis. The book contains teaching suggestions, student evaluations, sample assignments, words of wisdom, and curriculum analyses. There are lots of stories about the personal, civic, and spiritual aspects of the life of Dr. Jerry L. Jones. Even in his last book, Go and Come Again, there was at least one chapter devoted to self-analysis and related discussions. Similarly, in this latest book, there are sufficient discussions about what makes Jerry tick-playing church music, community service, public speaking, local history, and miscellaneous issues of the first quarter of the twenty-first century.

Render Me Bountiful is a collection of poetry that was written to fill your entire mind, body, and spirit with a new breath of life. You are at once captivated by the poetry's potent truth and honesty, rhythmic patterns, and flowing imagery. Each poem will communicate to every reader a valued interpretation to help them grow in understanding their purpose, as well as appreciate the many experiences they have faced or will face, good or bad, throughout life, ones that each and every one of us goes through. You will sing, you will dance, you will rejoice, you may even cry. The three sections - Rhapsody, Stars and Dust, and Labyrinth contain poems you will find yourself reading over and over again for the wisdom each poem offers, for the light each brings. The author tells us in the poem, "Hearts Forever Young," that there is much more we should and must anticipate as we move forward in life rather than simply growing old. There are the doubtless reasons we should trust in the grand unknown, where, as stated so profoundly in the poem, "Love Is," the abstract and often intangible expression of love, when you do find it, means "...you and I never asking why...."

A country girl breaks out of the mold of her childhood. Born and raised in the country in Southern Illinois, the author's culture dictated her life as an adult. Follow her through her rebellious life as she develops into adulthood different from her original family.

Life is a journey that does not end at death.When Pam's life ends in a suspicious accident at age twenty-six, she finds herself in a Heaven completely different from what she had ever imagined. It takes time for Pam to accept her death, and when she does, Fara, her assigned guide, informs her that to move forward into her eternal existence, they must first view Pam's entire earthly life. It is during this viewing that Pam learns she is a Hope Mother, the title given to women who lost an infant on earth before that child was able to take even one breath of air. These children are called Angel Babies, and Pam must fulfill her Hope Mother obligation by locating hers through a search of Heaven's vast territories. Only then will they be allowed to be reborn to fulfill their earthly journey, and Pam can move on in her afterlife. But Earth has been invaded by an evil force that follows Pam into Heaven and creates havoc by interrupting the viewing. Fara seeks assistance from Archangel Michael, who soon discovers it is Lucifer himself who is determinedly seeking to claim Pam as his chosen one-placing all of Heaven's occupants at risk. The Hope Mother is a unique and uplifting debut novel that offers an alternative view of the afterlife. Anyone who has ever lost someone special-whether it is a child, a relative, a friend, or even a beloved pet-will find comfort and hope in this story.

It is time to go "all-in" with the digital transition and realize its true end-pointContaining studied critiques and survival strategies, The Consumerization of Learning is a distillation of knowledge from the author's epic road trip to every major U.S. city. This is a book for educational leaders, teachers and parents as well as curriculum publishers. Find out about schools in the Age of Experience, the digital war for balance, what the future you will do to gain knowledge, the market blur, the jerk, digital curriculum evaluation, the hidden villain in institutional learning, teacher transformation, the anti-tech of Love, educators as software mavens, schools becoming thrilling Expos, conquering time, and other epiphanies.Chapters include: Conquering Time The Grand Scheme A Model Architecture for Schools The Characteristics of Digital Curriculum Evaluating Digital Curriculum Un-gating Potential and Rigor Love, the Anti-Tech Paying for ItThis is a deep dive into the disruption at hand for the way leaders lead education digitally. It highlights consumerization as the act of making something desirable and consumable by the individual. If schools fully discover and adapt to consumerization's ingenuity, it has the power to give teachers back time spent custom building every digital resource themselves-time that can now be turned to attention on students, to create more hands-on learning activities, and to guide students in the fullness of a digital learning experience.Read this book and be part of the discussion about how schools are finding a new relevancy at the natural end-point of digital transition: maximized live experience and quality digital learning, also known as "expo" education.Leaders in Education Praise The Consumerization of Learning"The creators of Amazon know the future of retail is direct to consumer. The founders of Uber know the future of transportation is on-demand. The visionary at Tesla understands that the future of energy creation and storage is distributed. LeiLani Cauthen knows the future of Education shares all three of these characteristics. In The Consumerization of Learning she shares her expansive knowledge of what it all means." -Erik Heinrich Former IT Director, San Francisco Unified School District "A breath of fresh air - it is a thought-provoking, visionary book that every educator, teacher, administrator and parent must read. Change, as LeiLani describes it, is absolutely happening. Educators can join in... or be left behind." - Dr. Elliot Soloway School of Education, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor "LeiLani has been asking essential questions as she investigates the educational system across the United States. In approaching trends and gaps from a business lens, she is able to highlight areas that may seem obvious after she points them out but may have gone largely unnoticed or unconsidered from an education focused lens. In the three years of knowing LeiLani, I've gained new insight and perspective shifts, learned about broader trends, gaps and predictions for future movement in digital content and strategy, and been able to fit together puzzle pieces I didn't know I was missing before. She has a forward thinking vision for the future of education, paradigm shifts, organizational shifts, with students at the center." - Dr. Michelle Zimmerman 2016 NCCE Outstanding Technology Educator of the Year, Microsoft Innovative Education Expert at Microsoft Education Teacher/Researcher, Renton Preparatory Academy

The Strawberry Pot is an inspiring and powerful coming of age adolescent chapter book designed to build peace, good character, and the language of empathy from the eyes of a fifth grade student who has experienced and overcome many difficulties and challenges in her life. The story is written to inspire a change towards bullying within a youth's heart regarding the value of being a human being-regardless of gender, age, color, nationality, disability or religion, and to celebrate our similarities and differences.

POETRY THAT IS SPIRITUAL, INSPIRATIONAL,AND IN TUNE WITH THE BEAUTY AND THEGLORY OF GOD'S WORLD

A ground breaking work of science fiction, in this gripping novel tinged with supernatural events, Joey's dreams lead him on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces him to face his demons where he will eventually meet Ambrose or Satan himself who delights in chaos and violence. But who will have the upper hand in the end? Steeped in mystery and in imagination, working from his bestselling The Watcher, Jeffrey Barbieri, NJ Male Author of the Year continues to share his adventures his fan base has come to expect. Hold on tight as Joey finds himself in Mexico, working on a cruise ship and being thrown off only to land on the big island of Hawaii. Filled with twist and turns this story is tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting as his first book in the series "The Watcher."

Th is book is a compelling, visionary and evocative approach to quantum entanglement from all perspectives, micro and macro levels. These essays and poems lead you on a deep journey into the interconnectedness of all things. If you are intrigued by genetics, astronomy, the Ice Age, and a host of poetic/scientific interfaces, this is your book.

Join our adventurous Little Yellow Puppy as he makes his way through the big city to the place he has to be. Jumping on buses and cabs and dodging people, from the dogcatcher to a lady who wants to take him home, he doggedly struggles from one roadblock to another proving determination can pay off when you stay focused and never give up. Our hero puppy has someone who loves him dearly waiting for him and he will do whatever it takes to make it home. Love conquers all as he makes his way home where everything a puppy could want is waiting for him. So, put one paw in front of the other, stay focused on what you want, and you will find the place you are supposed to be. Written in a beautiful style with luxurious pictures, that will thrill everyone and that your child will want to read over and over again.

Gabriella Simone was born into a very affluent and artistic family. Her father was icon to the Haute Couture and one of the foremost art collectors in the world. But Gabriella turned her back on his empire and went out on her own. That is until she received an unexpected email telling her it was important that she return to Paris at once. What did it all mean? She would soon find out. The Daughter takes you to Paris, Provence and Monte Carlo. You'll meet Henri, worldwide luxury resort developer; Stefano, the handsome young groundskeeper of the estate in Provence who also directed the operation of the sailing yacht; The indispensable Laurent, right hand to the House of Simone and the enchanting Veronica, the famous muse and love of Simon Simone. They're all special in their own way. You won't forget them. Much love, Jo Ann Audrey

This is the true story about a young man and a wild horse. No one could have foretold the bond and love that would develop between them as they worked through each, sometimes dangerous step of gaining trust in each other and the tragic end that would befall them.

The author of this book was able to put together a hundred billion dollars self-publishing deal due to the valuable data in this book. Most successful sales of a product depend on marketing strategies to give an advantage to their product over other products in this competitive market. Rarely a product becomes unrivaled forever. This book belongs in this category for the following reasons: (1). The author has deciphered the calendar system, which reflect the exact movement of the earth as it orbits the sun; (2). This is the only book to ever reveal a calendar in a comprehensive way to adequately commentate and reflect the earth to orbit the sun; (3). This book explains the reason for the leap year, then offer a more adequate formula, which is based on scientific facts; (4). This book also reveals new patterns within a year, and beyond the years, which was unnoticed by others; consequently, this led them to their failure in their attempt to create a correct calendar system. Each civilization has failed to create a calendar system as an exact representation to express and reflect the exact movement of the earth to orbit the sun. Each civilization admits that their calendar system is not exactly right. Therefore, it has become a competition of which calendar system is better, or the closest to being right. No civilization has ever understood the full meaning and purpose of the earth to end the year in a different position than the previous year; therefore, each civilization has adopted some type of system by creating a leap year as an attempt to bypass this mystery. People who tried to create a calendar system tried to create one to reflect the earth to start each year in the same position. The ideal that the earth is not in the same position at the end of the year is probably a sign that nature did not intend for this to happen. We consider a new year as the completion of the cycle of time instead of the next year. For example, no second, minute, hour, day, week or month is in the same position as the previous one. They add up to form something new. I have discovered by observing the years to form a pattern, too, which is the reason for the next year to start in a different position than the previous year. You are probably thinking that this is a simple observation. Yet everyone's attempt to solve this mystery with time has overlooked this very small little detail. Moreover, notice that each minute has sixty seconds; each hour has sixty minutes; each day has twenty-four hours; each week has seven days; and each year has 365 days; nevertheless, there is no consistent pattern to have the same number of days in each month. If there were 364 days in a year, then you could very easily arrange each month to have the same number of days; however, every year would start on the same day. The last day of the year is a link, which causes the earth to alternate days at the beginning of the new year, which reflects balancing nature on earth. You will learn more about this, and many other interested new pattern about time after reading this book.

Frederick Harlencinchester is an ordinary farmer from 18th century Holland, who boards a passenger ship, called "The William". He attempts to sail to Prussia to seek out a life of adventure and possibly become a sailor. However, one fateful night a terrible storm hits the ship and ultimately changes Frederick's life forever. All of a sudden he is given a commission as a naval captain. Now Captain Harlencinchester has to battle pirates, encounters mysterious supernatural forces, time traveling, meets strange individuals, and some historical figures as well. Nevertheless, he is not alone as he is teamed up with two of his trusted companions: Captain Walls and First Mate, Caudwell. Will Frederick Solve the mystery of his quest or will he face his ultimate doom?"

The autobiography of the author presents in short story from true adventures and actual events which have spanned his eighty-seven years. Like exploring pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, the reader is able to discover what has shaped the man he is and what he has become. Some stories are humorous, others spiritual but all are entertaining

Mark 6:52-For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened. When people doubt, despise, deride, and disbelief, Miracles happen, and they discourage and dispute you; and when you are depressed, distraught, despondent, and dejected, cry out louder for Holy Jesus Christ's mercy and grace. Luke 18:39-42-but he (the blind man) cried so much the more, THOU SON OF DAVID, HAVE MERCY ON ME. And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him: and when he (the blind man) has come near, he (Jesus) asked him, saying, 'What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee?' And he said, 'LORD, THAT I MAY RECEIVE MY SIGHT.' And Jesus said unto him, 'RECEIVE thy sight: thy FAITH hath saved thee.' And the blind man received his eyesight.

For Scout, strike one was biting a boy who did not know how to interact with a dog. Perhaps this was strike two, as Scout had already been abandoned, a mixed breed, some Beagle, some Collie, some other intelligent dogs in his ancestry, not a pure-bred by any means. Strike three might lead to being labeled a "dangerous dog" or even "put to sleep," his demise. He needed rigorous training, fast. Riverview Animal Shelter could provide that training if it survived the schemes of a shady lawyer.Meanwhile, a vital member of the RAS was coping with a different kind of trouble, something growing in her brain. Two others connected with the RAS had serious but different medical problems. Scout's home was changed because of this. It was not the last such change for him. Pixie, a young, shy girl, fell in love with Scout, and he, with her, becoming her protective playmate and the excuse for two single adults to spend time together. "Do I smell smoke?" Yes. Where there is smoke, often there is fire, and sometimes an arsonist. Fire changes lives., including Scout's and Pixie's. In addition to several sections that describe the RAS training-with-love techniques, the novel has romance and mystery to spice up the stories of the people who populate the lives of Scout and Pixie. Helen Bemis has enjoyed working with dogs all her life. She is grateful for the opportunity to help others understand these loving companions. UNDERSTANDING SCOUT features some extensive descriptions of her training-with-love methods. She grew up on a dairy farm in Upper New York State. She obtained a college degree at SUNY Adirondack, earned the Certified Professional Dog Trainer international certification, and has a successful business, K-9 Karing. Helen has published over a dozen novels in her UNDERSTANDING... series.She loves to hear people say, "Helen has gone to the dogs."

These letters reflect a pastor's heart for his church family as well as his thoughts as he leads that church through times of great change. Jim McCormack wrote monthly as part of the church newsletter from April 1992 to June 2009. The newly formed church had relocated. Some people had left. New ones were arriving. There was concern over the best use of funds and the best ways to worship. And there were mission trips, both globally and locally. Jim shares the joys and tragedies of the congregation-baptisms, illnesses, deaths, even a murder. And as his retirement approaches, he reflects on his own life-the death of parents, children leaving the nest, the births of grandchildren. These letters paint a picture of what was going on in the 90s and early 2000s in the world, the country, the mission field and the church as well as in the day-to-day lives of Jim and his church members. You will find in this book a steadfast commitment-to love the people of God, to bring new people to Christ and to bring salt and light to a world in need of God. - Pam O'Brien, former parishioner, Church of the Cross

Instead of watching the Chicago White Sox play in Comiskey Park as he had planned, Matthew Morrison is spending the summer of 1944 in Omaha, Texas, with his grandparents. What could be worse? Matt thinks his summer is ruined. Then he meets Joshua who has an answer for just about everything, and can ride Grandpa's mules bareback. Throw in two brothers who are looking for trouble, a visit from Texas Rangers, a tornado, and a run-in with rustlers, and Matt's summer is well on the way to being more exciting than a baseball game in the park. The cast is rounded out with two dogs, a belligerent rooster named Roscoe, a rabid fox, and a group of local boys who are looking forward to the Watermelon Festival in nearby Naples, Texas. By the end of the summer, Matt decides watching a baseball game is fine, but nothing beats roaming the northeast Texas countryside for adventure and excitement.

A Novel Based on Family LoreSet in the mid-1800s, A Gripping Tale of Desperation, Disaster, and DeterminationIt's 1844 in Swansea, a grimy industrial town in South Wales dominated by copper smelters. John Gibson, destitute and desperate, has just turned eighteen and he's drunk, at the mercy of a recruiter who signs him to a twenty-year stint in the British Army. Sober, hungover, and frightened, he runs away, across the Bristol Channel to Tiverton, in Devonshire, England, where he changes his name to Taylor and is taken on as an apprentice to become a cordwainer, a shoemaker. He falls in love with Molly Lake, his boss's comely, smart, and feisty seventeen-year-old daughter.The young couple marry and begin a family. But life is brutally harsh, and they make plans to immigrate to America. John travels ahead to find work and sends money for Molly and the children to join him. But mid-Atlantic, her ship is plagued by deadly disease and torn apart by a raging storm. A passing steamship sees the burning wreck and watches in horror as it sinks into the sea. They report all were lost.The story is based on family lore set out in a letter written by a beloved aunt forty years ago, years before the invention of the internet and genealogy search engines. What she wrote was based on what she'd heard over the years, with lots of guesses and uncertainties-as much mythology as history. But the story she told was a gripper--tracing the uncertain origins of John William Gibson Taylor and Mary Lake, their romance and marriage, the dire challenges they faced in poverty-stricken Victorian England, and their desperate and dangerous flight to America.

Many people today are lost, or becoming lost, caught up in the problems and faults that are not of your making. Choosing to ignore the fundamental gifts and the simplicity of living in a harmonious world-one that will provide for those who seek a way to comfort, and an understanding of life itself. God's gifts to mankind have been ignored far too long. He has watched as mankind reinvents itself over and over, watching quietly the destruction of man by man. He grows tired and weary of mankind's inability to bring into His Garden of Eden-this Earth-a more beneficial life for mankind and for this, His Garden. I have been given a task to try to deliver His message, and this is it.

For many years I've sought the initial "rule of law" proving One's personal and private continuous and contiguous dominion over a violently removed "jus cogens" fetal measure accounting for the internationally recognized rest, residue, and remainder of One's foundational SUPREME BEING.I found it.

The Death of the Christian Church is the revelation God revealed to me to see that I had been a big part of the Death of the Christian Church for fifty years of being a pastor of eight churches. The church that Jesus spoke to Peter about in Matthew 16:18 is not any of the churches that I have served as pastor. Deacons ran the church, never approved by Jesus or God's Word, things of beauty in the church was more important than those who needed help.¿ Big bands and huge choirs were more significant than heart felt praise songs sung by God's family. Programs and play grounds was the calling cards to build bigger and bigger congregations which meant more offerings and gifts. God's House was being turned into a place of entertainment and sermons that tickled the congregants ears. Churches served as the breeding beds for gossip, judgmentalism, cliques, social gatherings, musical presentations, rather than wholesome and spiritual praise to our Living Jesus Christ. It will take a true disciple of Christ, willing to admit the truth that will be revealed to you if you truly desire truth. Compare the house of worship that you attend to the Word of God and you too will see even though most of you will turn a deaf ear. God bless you in your search.