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When Kevin Barry turned sixty, his internal alarm clock went off. It was time. Thirty-plus years after his previous cross-country road trips, after the demands of raising a family and a long legal career had worn low the tread on his psychological tires, he could no longer ignore the itch. So he took an extended leave from work, upgraded his camping gear, and hit the open road. For the next sixty-seven days, he and his beloved Subaru (a.k.a. Subi), with guidance from his GPS guardian angel (a.k.a. Sweetie), traveled 11,007 miles, music blaring, on a schedule meant to be modified by impulse and whimsy (or blinding rain). By keeping his snoot to the ground and his eyes and heart wide open, Barry finds his way to beautiful places and wonderful people in unsuspecting nooks and crannies across America. In Counterclockwise: A USA Road Trip, Barry takes readers along on adventures big and small, from nostalgic reunions with old friends to a canoe rescue on Michigan's Lower Platte River and a breathtaking bald eagle sighting in Alberton, Montana; from late-night chats with fellow campers to a desperate search for lodging in Las Vegas. Woven throughout is Barry's immense enjoyment of freedom on the road and his profound love for this magnificent, complicated nation.

Everything I Needed to Know is a small book, but a big shortcut to success-in the insurance industry or any commission-based sales position. Easy to read, entertaining, and inspiring. For those who are just starting out in their careers or those who are ready to go to the next level, this book offers a clear pathway to success. Each chapter provides a simple step-by-step guide to get where you want to go. A common-sense approach that offers amazing results!

Growing up in the small town of Grand Island, Nebraska, left Michael Monk with no shortage of stories to tell-stories he was more than happy to share when a friend approached him about writing a column for his high school's alumni newsletter. Collected here in A Distant Mirror Anthology, Monk's essays encompass a lifetime of memories, observations, experiences, and wisdom gained. Through reminiscences about the first day of school, a teacher who kindled a lifelong love of reading, and classic childhood hijinks, Monk captures the nostalgia of growing up in the Midwest in the 1960s. His later endeavors through life as a lawyer in Los Angeles and as a husband, parent, and grandparent have left him with plenty of witty observations, humorous anecdotes, and touching memories to share-not to mention good books to recommend. (Other literary treasures include an homage to Shakespeare and a rhyming ode to the class of 1967 that names every graduate.) Originally published between 2015 and 2022, these thirty-eight essays preserve a slice of time for anyone from Grand Island and beyond who wishes to take a look into A Distant Mirror.

Cerebral palsy is the most common physically disabling condition affecting school-age students. Why, then, are so many educators and parents confounded by the multiple and often interrelated aspects of this group of disorders? Using easy-to-follow, demystifying language, Educating Students with Cerebral Palsy details how the physical, medical, sensory, cognitive, and social-emotional elements of cerebral palsy impact learning-and therefore teaching-both at school and at home. Author Adine R. Usher, EdD, and her contributors emphasize the need for collaboration between educators and families, and they spotlight the voices of students and parents living with the hopes and challenges of cerebral palsy each day.

Joseph H. Dabby was ten years old when he discovered he had three older siblings. His parents, facing increasing persecution in Iraq, had sent their older children to Israel when Dabby was five and planned to join them a few weeks later-but they never made it. Instead, the family was split in two, forced to live in separate countries at war with each other. NO LOOKING BACK is the story of one man's childhood and adolescence under a repressive regime, his marriage to his sweetheart, and their eventual escape to freedom in 1971. It begins on the eve of the Farhud ("dispossession") in 1941, the first violent pogrom the Iraqi Jews experienced since the beginning of the Ottoman rule in Iraq 550 years before. This was the beginning of the end of tolerable life for the Jews in Iraq and the dawn of the slow and systematic ethnic cleansing of one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world.Dabby offers readers a glimpse into the life of the last Jews of Iraq, who held on to their customs and traditions during the turbulent times that followed World War II and the birth of the State of Israel. He tells the story of a community that fought against the odds to survive and did its best to live a normal life in abnormal times.Growing up in a hostile society, Dabby learned from a young age what discrimination and persecution meant. He learned to be careful not to say the wrong thing on the street and to be passive and invisible to avoid trouble. Nonetheless, he was imprisoned twice by the Iraqi government, his fate always uncertain.Woven into the story is the violent power struggle in a young country created by the British after World War I: thirteen years of British mandate, followed by twenty-six years as a parliamentary kingdom, which was overturned by an authoritarian republic that went through three coups d'état in ten years, culminating in Saddam Hussein's rise to power in 1968.It would be twenty years before Dabby would be reunited with his family and learn their unbelievable stories.NO LOOKING BACK is a story that happens every day somewhere in the world. It is the story of the suffering of people persecuted because of their religious beliefs, their dispersal to distant and foreign lands, and the sacrifices they make to give their children the chance to live a better life free from discrimination.

R. Bacon Whitney is a professional writer of prehistory about the earliest Greeks, whose nation race emerged shortly after the Early and Late Helladic Periods of the Late Aegean Bronze Age, from the early fifteenth century BC onward. He writes his serializations and individual protohistories under the pseudonym of Saltonstall Weld Bardot-an author/translator of his contemporary master of oldest Greek by syllabic writ. Eight books in keeping with the New Greek Mythology have been published, or are pending release, under "S. W. Bardot, in Translation."Whitney is formally the author/publisher of Bardot Books (2008); since 2010, he's been in collaboration with Small Batch Books of Amherst, Massachusetts.His four Rude books, including this title, are fictionalized accounts of his life, written in four genres. The first, Rude at Rowing: 1964's US8s, a faux memoir about Harvard's Class of 1965, describes the college's 1964 Varsity Crew under Harvard's famous coach Harry Parker. It was followed by Rude at Rowing: In Reverse of Decline, an annal and "loose" sports history about the comeback of Harvard Heavyweight Rowing from 1961 to 1963, which presents the author most fictionally and least autobiographically, notwithstanding his true-blue undergraduate forays into two Olympic sports. The third book, Rude at Olympics, merges the first, now retired, into a bildungsroman, that venerable coming-of-age genre, about his ascendancy to a dual Olympic sports star of the 1964 Olympiads-both of them! This fourth book, Rude at Rowing: A Final Annal, is a genuine historical-fiction novel that effects Whitney's apogee as a sport-AmPro out of the kingdom of Rude. His peak autobiographical year, 1965, has him seated in the strong 7-Man aboard "the World's Best Crew," a moniker accorded by the loathsome liars in a 1965 Sports Illustrated.For past readers Whitney remains the Downhill Skier, "the Klütch," of great fame and infamy howsoever restricted to his small sized European and Asian fans­-Niblicks and Niblungs all.