Bøger af Meredith Madden

It is the summer of 1962 and Harv Sullivan has delivered his family to Hyannis Port's elite Honeysuckle Inn where each family member will embark on a month long journey revolving around Harv's unwavering American dream: to live like a Kennedy. Harv's son, Jack, soon discovers that the glossy Honeysuckle Inn brochure fails to capture what happens behind the scenes of the affluent men and women socializing at the clambakes and cocktail parties. And the lavish bedroom photos are erased clean of the darkness that even the wealthiest of families come to know. While the brochure's parting guest photo reads: See you next summer! beneath a throng of beaming faces, not every guest leaves the Honeysuckle with a smile, though a few will fight to leave with integrity. For Jack, the Honeysuckle Inn has been made bearable by a deep and unexpected friendship with a blithe Southern blonde, Isabelle Whitney. But his friendship with Isabelle is just the beginning of what Jack discovers that summer. Join him on the Cape, if only in your imagination, as you read a story that begins with people striving to make grand impressions, and ends with Jack's life having been impressed upon in the most meaningful ways, through friends turned family, through powerful first love, and through a startling loss.

Dear Students: 10 Letters to Empower and Transform Your Higher Education Journey is a higher education guide that prepares students to authentically and intentionally "do school." This is not your typical "how-to" guide. Dear Students uses narratives to illuminate critical topics that will foster the reader¿s understanding of valuable matters such as getting noticed and having your experiences centered; building a circle of support; the significance of faculty relationships including building those relationships in spaces like office hours; addressing fears of speaking, disrupting silence, and engaging voice in the classroom; developing deep listening; cultivating community; nurturing belonging; preparing to participate; and keeping hope alive. Readers will engage moments of critical reflection and leave with many diverse "know-how" strategies that will position them to "do-school" from a place of empowerment and for the purpose of transformation. This book will support the journey of all students, and the people who support them, but is an especially important resource for students holding marginalized identities such as first-generation college students.