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Leo the Lop
by Stephen Cosgrove Robin JamesLeo is a lop-eared rabbit whose ears go down, not up. The other normal rabbits laughed and laughed until they discovered that down was normal and up was not. A classic Serendipity story about the meaning of normal. Ages 5-9.
Leonard Builds a Haunted House (A Leonard the Ghost Book)
by Mike CiccotelloPerfect for fans of Gustavo the Shy Ghost, this laugh-out-loud picture book puts a charming twist on the classic haunted house tale—a funny, spook-tacular read for Halloween or any time of year. Leonard the cheerful, can-do ghost is building his family members a new haunted house. It needs to be the scariest house EVER! Except the more Leonard builds, the less creepy their new home looks. From the un-scary cellar to the snug roof that doesn’t leak, it’s nothing like the house of horrors his family imagined . . . or is it?Mike Ciccotello’s Leonard Builds a Haunted House is a hilariously triumphant tale about family, moving, house-building—and the spirit it takes to make something truly you.
Leonetti's Housekeeper Bride: Leonetti's Housekeeper Bride Castelli's Virgin Widow The Consequence He Must Claim Illicit Night With The Greek
by Lynne GrahamA housekeeper marries her childhood crush to help him with his career—and help her family—in this sexy romance by a USA Today–bestselling author.The last thing Gaetano Leonetti wants is to be shackled in marriage, but to become CEO of his family’s bank, his grandfather has decreed Gaetano must find a nice, ordinary woman to wed.Convinced his grandfather is mad, Gaetano sets about proving him wrong with housekeeper Poppy Arnold. With her outspoken nature and unusual dress sense, she’s definitely not wife material!But it’s not long before hardworking, self-sacrificing Poppy charms his grandfather and Gaetano’s stuck with a union he didn’t want and a bride he sinfully craves! Having set her up to fail, can he really take the precious gift of her virginity?
Leroy and the Old Man
by W. E. ButterworthFleeing from a neighbor's assailants, who believe he has identified them to the police, LeRoy leaves his Chicago housing project to live with his grandfather, a shrimp fisherman, in Mississippi.
Les 7 Clés du bonheur
by Mohamed Bouzitoune Fabien CesarNotre vie est confrontée à des problèmes et défis qui affectent notre vision du monde et nous empêchent de vivre en paix en harmonie avec nous-mêmes. Le bonheur, la satisfaction et notre croissance dépendent beaucoup de nous, mais , essentiellement, ils exigent une harmonie entre l'esprit et la tête. Pour cela, nous vous présentons 7 conseils qui vous permettront de trouver le bonheur si désiré.
Les adolescents: Et leurs affaires (Comment … #45)
by Owen JonesBonjour et merci d'avoir acheté cet ebook intitulé « adolescents ». J'espère que vous trouverez des informations bénéfiques, utiles et profitables. Les informations contenues dans cet ebook sur les adolescents et les choses qui affectent ces derniers sont organisées en 20 chapitres d'environ 500 à 600 mots chacun. J'espère que cela intéressera ceux qui s'intéressent à la vie d'ados. En prime, je vous accorde la permission d'utiliser le contenu sur votre propre site web ou dans vos propres blogs et newsletters, bien qu'il soit préférable que vous les réécriviez d'abord en vos propres termes. Vous pouvez également diviser le livre et revendre les articles. En fait, le seul droit dont vous ne disposez pas est de revendre ou de donner le livre tel qu'il vous a été livré. Si vous avez des commentaires, veuillez les laisser à la société auprès de laquelle vous avez acheté ce livre. Merci encore d'avoir acheté cet ebook, salutations, Owen Jones.
Les dotze tribus de la Hattie
by Ayana MathisUna novel·la en la qual bateguen l'ànsia irrefrenable de l'ésser humà per millorar la seva condició i la seva capacitat per afrontar els revessos de la vida. Amb quinze anys i desitjosa d’una vida millor, el 1923 la Hattie Shepherd va fugir de l'horror del sud amb un tren a l'albada amb destinació a Filadèlfia. Aquesta és la història de la seva família les sis dècades següents, repartida en dotze fils narratius. Les dotze tribus de Hattie és una novel·la extraordinària i única sobre la culpa, el sacrifici, la responsabilitat i l’angoixa que són una part intrínseca de l'amor incondicional.
Les enfants adorent chanter
by Bernard LevineApprenez à vos enfants les chansons que vous chantiez quand vous étiez enfant. Voici une collection de vos chansons préférées bien connues que vous pourrez chanter avec vos enfants. Ce livre divertissant fera passer à vos enfants des moments de bonheur et de plaisir.
Les hauts et les bas de Fish (Orca Currents en Français)
by Joanne LevyFishel (Fish) Rosner, douze ans, n’aime pas les activités qui plaisent généralement aux garçons. Il déteste les sports et préfère lire ou faire du bricolage plutôt que de grimper aux arbres ou de faire du vélo de montagne avec ses amis. Il aime aussi danser. Tout ce qu’il aime est considéré comme des passe-temps de « filles », mais Fish ne comprend pas pourquoi ce serait une mauvaise chose. Il s’intéresse simplement à des activités différentes des autres garçons. Quand il demande à sa Bubby de lui enseigner le tricot, elle lui dit d’aller jouer dehors. Quand il insiste pour que sa mère l’amène au cours de zumba, elle l’inscrit plutôt au water-polo. Pourquoi tout le monde décide-t-il ce que Fish doit faire ou ne pas faire?
Lesbian Academic Couples
by Michelle GibsonLearn how lesbian couples deal with political, social, and legal issues related to their relationships-and their professions Lesbian Academic Couples is a collection of writings by scholars who examine-in theory and in narrative-issues faced by partners working in the academic field, including the politics of spousal hiring, discrimination in hiring practices, collaboration between partners, long-distance relationships, team teaching, and job sharing. This unique book presents firsthand accounts from senior faculty with lengthy credentials in LGBT scholarship who have been able to land academic positions not compromised by outing, from established academics who have been outed to negative effect, from junior scholars with a queer specialty, and from faculty whose work is constantly shifting and unpredictable. The format of Lesbian Academic Couples is unique. Authors well known to the lesbian communities in the United States, Canada, and Australia, present essays that "converse" with one another, offering opposing positions that represent a diversity of approaches on vital issues. The book offers candid accounts of the experiences of lesbian couples fortunate enough to work in supportive academic environments and from those discouraged from being out on campus or from doing academic work in the area of LGBT studies. This groundbreaking book is especially timely given current lawsuits and legislation involving civil unions and domestic partner benefits, enforcement of domestic violence statutes, and the rights of unmarried older couples.Lesbian Academic Couples includes the stories of couples who: achieved scholarly success and a reaffirmed relationship were separated when they couldn&’t find viable academic positions in the same geographical area abandoned the security of tenured positions for the sake of their relationship were professionally marginalized because of their same-sex, mixed-race relationship wrote under the pen name "Michael Field" in the nineteenth centuryIn addition, Lesbian Academic Couples examines the critical issues of: state sanctioning through marriage spousal hiring package plans sexual orientation nondiscrimination policiesLesbian Academic Couples have existed, as long as there have been female academics. This powerful book gives voice to their successes and struggles.
Lesbian Couples
by D. Merilee Clunis G. Dorsey GreenWritten by two well-known lesbian psychologists, this book is a guide to developing and maintaining lesbian relationships. No matter how short or long your current relationship has been, a review of this book is always helpful.
Lesbian Ex-Lovers: The Really Long-Term Relationships
by Esther D Rothblum Jacqueline Weinstock"We have earned a certain place in each other&’s lives, and in the best of times we can rest on what we have made together." Lesbian Ex-Lovers: The Really Long-Term Relationships examines the need for the development of better understanding and more critical analysis of lesbian ex-lover relationships. This eye-opening look into the minds and hearts of women offers personal insight into the possibilities for and potential pitfalls of lesbian ex-lover relations. This book contains personal stories, fictional accounts, poetry, and theoretical analyses of the frequency and significance of ex-lovers at different stages in a relationship. Topics of interest in Lesbian Ex-Lovers include: the roles ex-lovers play in our lives ex-lovers as contexts for change and development how we continue to be influenced by ex-lovers letting go and moving on ex-lovers as current friends and family themes of betrayal and loss of faith reconstructing friendships and community the mystique of the ex-lover friend/family connections among lesbian ex-lovers "Rather than totally scrap a relationship, we recycle it-from lover to ex-lover to friend in a relatively short half-life." Lesbian Ex-Lovers is the only book in print that explores how a lesbian&’s ex-lovers impact her subsequent romances and lifestyle. This special collection adds a new dynamic to the current literature for and about the lesbian community. Lesbian Ex-Lovers offers advice, anecdotes, and interpretations from such authors, poetesses, and artists as: Michelle Gibson, PhD-educator and editor of Femme/Butch: New Considerations of the Way We Want to Go- who says goodbye to her lover in a sad, passionate elegy Marny Hall-Psychotherapist, editor of the anthology Sexualities, and author of several books, including The Lavender Couch: A Consumer&’s Guide to Psychotherapy for Lesbians and Gay Men-who muses on the unique bonding between lesbians and their ex-lovers, lending a mystique that surrounds the lesbian lifestyle Alison Bechdel-creator of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For-who presents a humorous comic strip thanking her former lovers for teaching her about herself Jane Futcher-newspaper reporter and author of three novels-who uses a chapter in her novel to illustrate the tensions that can occur when ex-lovers choose to remain friends, especially when those bonds provoke jealousy in both current and ex-lovers Renny Christopher-educator and award-winning poetess-who expresses her love, loss, and regret in three poems about her ex-lover and much more!
Lesbian Families' Challenges and Means of Resiliency: Implications for Feminist Family Therapy
by Anne M. Prouty LynessAn inside look at the unique challenges of the lesbian experienceLesbian Families&’ Challenges and Means of Resiliency: Implications for Feminist Family Therapy is a unique collection of interdisciplinary feminist examinations of the resiliency of lesbian couples and families. Leading feminist researchers and clinicians discuss parenting within lesbian families, with a focus on personal resiliency. These thought-provoking and insightful articles address the challenges of having and raising children in a society that struggles to accept alternative family structures.Lesbian Families&’ Challenges and Means of Resiliency examines a wide range of issues facing lesbian couples, with a special focus on parenting and couple violence. The book&’s contributors examine the unique challenges of lesbian and gay parenting; adversities facing lesbian parents and the coping methods they employ; violence among lesbian couples and the lesbian community&’s response to domestic violence; and the application of feminist theory to validate, strengthen, and promote resiliency in lesbian couples. The book also includes interviews with single or partnered lesbians who had children through adoption, artificial insemination, or a previous relationship.Topics examined in Lesbian Families&’ Challenges and Means of Resiliency include: parenting artificial insemination lesbian family therapy family law couple violence lesbian community feminist research feminist couple therapy and much moreLesbian Families&’ Challenges and Means of Resiliency is a vital professional aid for psychotherapists, family therapists, psychologists, social workers, and counselors. It&’s an equally valuable resource for academics working in family studies, women&’s studies, queer studies, gender studies, and sociology.
Lesbian Motherhood: Stories of Becoming
by Amy HequembourgA unique practical application of poststructuralist theory to lesbian mothers’ narratives, Lesbian Motherhood: Stories of Becoming analyzes the personal stories of 40 lesbian mothers to discover the complex ways their sense of self is constructed in the current legal, political, and social climate. These intimate narratives are examined by using Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s conceptual framework to understand subjectivities by focusing on the many flexible lines of movement that constitute subjectivities, or ‘becomings.’ This unique source reveals deep insight into a lesbian's construction of self through her stories about her own sexuality, parenting, and other experiences in becoming a mother. Lesbian Motherhood: Stories of Becoming challenges the assimilation/resistance perspective typically expressed by scholars of lesbian motherhood. Qualitative interviews reveal startling new perspectives to lesbian mother subjectivities viewed within the context of the legal, political, and social areas that seek to define and regulate contemporary family life. This powerful source explores in detail the discursive strategies through which lesbian subjectivities are created and recreated. Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of ‘becoming’ provides a valuable framework for analyzing the discursive strategies employed by those participating in this study. Lesbian Motherhood: Stories of Becoming offers insightful, powerful information that is indispensable to GLBT scholars, and social theorists.
Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love
by Ellen Cole Esther D Rothblum Janet M WrightLesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love explores five lesbian step families’definitions of the step parent role and how they accomplish parenting tasks, cope with homophobia, and define and interpret their experiences. An intensive feminist qualitative study, the book offers guidelines for counselors and lesbian step families for creating healthy, functioning family structures and environments. It is the first book to concentrate exclusively on lesbian step families rather than on lesbian mothering in general.In Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love, you’ll explore in detail the different kinds of step relationships that are developed and what factors may lead to the different types of step mothering in lesbian step families. The book helps you understand these relationships and parent roles through in-depth discussions of: how a step mother and legal mother who live together negotiate and organize parenting and homemaking tasks how members of lesbian step families define and create the step mother role strategies family members use to define and cope with oppression how sexism is transmitted within the family and how mothering may limit and/or contribute to female liberation the opinions and viewpoints of the children of these families The findings in Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love challenge traditional views of mothering and fathering as gender and biologically based activities; they indicate that lesbian step families model gender flexibility and that the mothers and step mothers share parenting--both traditional mothering and fathering--tasks. This allows the biological mother some freedom from motherhood as well as support in it. With insight such as this, you will be prepared to help a client, a loved one, or yourself develop and maintain healthy family relationships.
Lesbian and Gay Foster Care and Adoption, Second Edition
by Stephen Hicks Janet McDermottNew collection of stories from lesbian, gay and transgender foster and adoptive parents about the challenges and rewards of parenting children of all ages. Interviews with some of the first LGBT families to adopt or foster also gives unique insight into parenting adolescent and adult children with reflections on recent policy and cultural changes.
Lesbian, Gay and Queer Parenting
by Stephen HicksThis study is based upon original research carried out with lesbian, gay and queer parents and explores how genealogy, kinship, family, everyday life, gender, race, state welfare and intimacy are theorized and lived out, drawing upon interactionist, feminist, discursive and queer sociologies.
Less Stress, More Success
by Kenneth R. GinsburgIs your teen stressing over college admittance? Are you? Cowritten by a former top college admissions dean and a leading pediatrician, this first-of-its-kind book delivers strategies for surviving the admissions process while strengthening parent-child relationships, managing the stress of applying to college, and building resilience to meet challenges today and in the future.Less Stress, More Success is just what parents and teens need to thrive during this important rite of passage into adulthood.For Parents How to encourage true high achievement, rather than perfectionism Important dos and don'ts about the admissions process and how you can most effectively help your child Why and when some forms of "helping" undermine your teenager's self-confidence and chances of admission How to turn deadlines into opportunities to learn time-management and organization skills How you can encourage positive strategies for handling stress and building resilienceFor Teens How to evaluate campus culture to find the right fit for you Ways to manage your parents and your friends Tips for the college interview Letting your true, authentic self come through in your admissions essay How your body handles stress...and what you can do to feel better and stay healthyIncludes a Personalized Stress Management Plan for teens!
Lesson One: The Skills We All Need but Were Never Taught
by Jon Oliver Michael RyanA Guide for Adults and Children by the Founder of the Award-Winning Lesson One Program This indispensable book gives adults a proven plan to help children develop the life skills and internal discipline necessary to learn and thrive in today's society. Following the logical progression of a child's development, the book uses upbeat activities and games that adults and children can share to ground themselves in Lesson One skills for use in everyday life. Offering much-needed answers to major problems gripping our culture, here is the book that anyone living and working with children has been waiting for -- a lesson plan that works for life.
Lesson Plans: A Novel
by Suzanne GreenbergLibrary Journal Editor's PickReader's Digest "Great Books from Small Presses That Are Worth Your Time""Witty and insightful." -Reader's Digest"Readers who enjoyed Tom Perrotta's Little Children will want to try Suzanne Greenberg's Lesson Plans, an entertaining, funny, and thoughtful debut novel about three California homeschooling families." -Library Journal Editor's Pick citationLesson Plans chronicles the lives of three California families who choose to homeschool for different, deeply personal reasons.Patterson is a straight-laced insurance adjuster who has recently discovered both surfing and God and convinces his wife to homeschool their rambunctious twins. David is a liberal stay-at-home dad who feels stuck in suburbia and throws his energy into homeschoolong his three "ducklings." Wedding photographer Keith has just separated from Beth, a full-time mom struggling to manage her own private chaos. And there's Jennifer, Keith and Beth's precocious daughter, who copes with severe allergies and doesn't understand why she's not attending school and seeing friends like she used to. Will homeschooling provide balance and harmony for these families? Or will it bring unforeseen challenges and stress?In this captivating and funny debut novel, Suzanne Greenberg takes a serious look at the choices parents profess to make on behalf of their children, as well as the unpredictable ways in which new relationships can change our lives.Suzanne Greenberg is the author of Speed-Walk and Other Stories, which was selected for the Drue Heinz Literature Prize by Rick Moody and was a John Gardner Fiction Book Award Finalist. She is also the co-author of two novels for children and a guide to creative writing. Lesson Plans is her first novel for adults.A New Jersey native, Greenberg lives with her husband and three children in California and teaches creative writing at California State University, Long Beach.
Lesson Study for Learning Community: A guide to sustainable school reform
by Atsushi Tsukui Masatsugu Murase Eisuke Saito John YeoLesson Study has been actively introduced from Japan to various parts of the world, starting with the US. Such introduction is heavily connected with a focus on mathematics education and there is a strong misconception that Lesson Study is only for mathematics or science. The introduction is usually done at the departmental or form level and there has been a strong question about its sustainability in schools. This book comprehensively explores the idea of Lesson Study for Learning Community (LSLC) and suggests that reform for the culture of the school is needed in order to change learning levels among the children, teachers and even parents. In order for this to happen, the ways of management and leadership are also included as objectives of LSLC, as are practices at the classroom level. It argues that LSLC is a comprehensive vision and framework of school reform and needs to be taken up in a holistic way across disciplines. Chapters include: How to Create Time How to Build the Team How to Promote Reform How to Reform Daily Lessons How to Conduct a Research Lesson How to Discuss Observed Lessons How to Sustain School Reform based on LSLC Strong interest in LSLC is already prevalent in Asian countries, such as Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam and Singapore and is now being introduced more in the west. This book will be of great interest to those involved in education policy and reform, and for practitioners of education at all levels.
Lessons
by Bonnie GeisertSummer was drawing to a close, and Rachel would soon return to school to begin fifth grade. Like many of her classmates, she was anxious about her friends, the strict Mrs. Kelly, and the timed arithmetic tests, but there was something else worrying Rachel, too. Ever since her baby brother, Matthew, was born, she couldn't help but notice that her father seemed even more brooding and withdrawn than ever. Confused and concerned by his behavior, Rachel starts demanding answers--but the secret she uncovers raises more questions than it solves. Author Bonnie Geisert transports readers back to a simpler time and place. Yet life on a rural South Dakota farm in the 1950s was not without its challenges, and Rachel soon discovers she has many lessons to learn, both in Mrs. Kelly's classroom and beyond . . . AGES 8-12 Grades 3-7 AUTHOR Bonnie Geisert grew up on a farm near Cresbard, South Dakota, and her childhood adventures there inspired many of the events in her Prairie trilogy.
Lessons For Dylan: On Life, Love, the Movies, and Me
by Joel SiegelAt the age of fifty-seven, movie critic Joel Siegel both became a father for the first time and learned that he had cancer. In Lessons for Dylan, Siegel shares all the things he wants his son to know-in case he's not around to tell him. It's a story about a life well-lived and about living life well. It's chock-full of earnest advice, hilarious anecdotes, a Yiddish lexicon, and recollections of everyone from Brad Pitt to the Beatles. Siegel lays out the History of the Jewish People in Four Jokes; offers Dylan manly advice on sex ("ask your mother"), culinary arts, the movies; and of course, offers a few lectures ("Be anything you want to be, but, please God, please don't want to be an actor"). Along the way, Joel teaches Dylan, and readers, a little something about growing up at any age. At times heart-wrenching, at times laugh-out-loud funny, Joel Siegel has crafted an indelible and enduring love letter to his son, and a literary gift to us all.
Lessons From My Parents: 100 Shared Moments that Changed Our Lives
by Michele RobbinsHave you ever experienced a moment in your life when you began to appreciate the stories and lessons your parents might have shared with you? Perhaps it was a moment quietly working when your father told you of his painful experience during WWII; or when your mother taught you about beauty while picking daffodils for her neighbor; or when in a moment of tragedy you recall how your parents handled something so difficult with such poise and strength that it helped you go on? Our culture and our history is created through stories, personal stories, whether funny or sad, light or difficult, poignant or profound. Lessons From My Parents has collected 75 such stories from writers from across the world and shares them in this seminal work celebrating the life lessons we learn without even realizing it.
Lessons From a Father to His Son
by John AshcroftSenator John Ashcroft writes about the values and spiritual principles he learned from his father who was a country preacher. Lessons from a Father to His Son is filled with stories about Senator Ashcroft's father who was a simple man, but profoundly spiritual. These stories will entertain and inspire, while imparting life lessons.