Brothers: 133 books
Educating Angels
Teaching for the Pursuit of Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
School reform and accountability tests have been hotly debated for decades, but the goal of reform and accountability has not. Most agree that the main problem with contemporary education is that it fails to adequately prepare students with the “21st century skills” needed to find jobs and promote...
Boo-Tickle Tales
Not-So-Scary Stories for Ages 4-9
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
**The attraction of scary stories begins very early in childhood, but the fortitude to be truly scared comes later. So where are the scary stories for young children? Educators and storytellers, Ford and Norfolk deliver a silly and gently spooky collection of jumps, laughs, interactive moments,...
Cripple Joe
Stories from my Daddy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Donald Davis was a young United Methodist minister when the telephone rang one morning. "It's your daddy," the caller said, "Mama just couldn't get him awake this morning. He is gone."
"A million questions about him began to line themselves up in my mind." Davis...
by Gerald Loren Fishkin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Shame is the ghost in the machine of the human mind. It can implant itself in the psyche before the first word is spoken, even before the first thought has formed. In his groundbreaking book, The Science of Shame and Its Treatment, psychotherapist and author Gerald Loren Fishkin, Ph.D., addresses...
by Julie Moss Herrera
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
An American storyteller’s immersion In the Chinese folktale tradition
“Having traveled on the same People to People Ambassador journey to China with Julie, I have seen Julie's anthology from inception to fruition. It is a masterful, engaging, informative and scholarly addition to our understanding...
Euphrates Dance
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Hussein’s Euphrates Dance is a masterfully imagined and brilliantly written story of the universal struggle to seek light in the shadow of dominant horror and tragedy
Eye to the Sky
Storytelling on the Edge of Magic
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Nobody knows how to tell a story like Bobby Norfolk, and here he tells his own life story. Norfolk grew up in hardscrabble neighborhoods of Saint Louis, Missouri, during the 1950s and 60s, sometimes walking to elementary school from an apartment his parents could not afford to heat. Lifting himself...
Playing With Stories
Story crafting for storytellers, writers, teachers and other imaginative thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
It has not been easy to value play. Mainstream culture urges us to rush and finish what we are working on to quickly advance to the next task at hand. Too often we must punch our time clock forward without much consideration. As the minutes and hours move, we indirectly communicate both to ourselves...
The Stable Boy
The First Witness Tells His Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In writing a nativity story from the point of view of a boy who lives in the stable, Shirley Taylor has given us a vivid account of Christ’s birth and a motivating experience to readers and hearers, alike. Likely to become an ‘instant classic’ of Christian literature, this simple story will...
The Ghost of Bud Parrott
a novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
A teen’s life is complicated. Add an overworked dad, a distraught mom.
Enter an old man from the wrong side of the tracks.
He knows things. He’s there when you need him.
This happens to someone; it’s not a maybe thing. People get hurt. People die. There’s a dad who loves his kid...
Beyond the Briar Patch
Affrilachian Folktales, Food, and Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Lyn Ford, an African-American storyteller honored by her peers nationally retells traditional stories and folkways from her cultural heritage. In addition, she provides readers with insights and historic perspective of these tales by including notes and references to extensive resources regarding the folktales she tells and the history that brought them to us.
Trail Guide for a Crooked Heart
Stories and Reflections for Life's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
"A brilliant mixture of story, philosophy, humor and wisdom, this book reminds us that---if we are open to story, dreams, imagination, and myth---we can open doors within our soul."
—Jay O’Callahan, author, storyteller, and NPR commentator
A lifetime collection of stories,...
A Bridge of Stories
Risking it All to Connect Classrooms and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
“With openhearted generosity, Kristin shares not only the story of her amazing journey but complete lesson plans and valuable tips on inter-cultural work. She deepens our understanding of the culture and legends of Belize all the while imparting courage and a can-do philosophy that could truly...
Less Than Charming
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
A second novel, LESS THAN CHARMING tells the story of a world beyond a veil in which all of the characters writers have ever created are alive and living in their own society. As writers in the other—human world—constantly write new characters into existence, those characters emerge into this...