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From a humble childhood in a small Malaysian town to a life of healing, teaching, and faith, Memoirs of a Doctor is a powerful story of resilience, grace, and God’s providence. Born in 1952 in Tanjong Malim, Dr. Andrew Koh grew up during a rapidly changing Malaysia. Against the odds, he pursued his dream of becoming a doctor, overcoming financial struggles, academic challenges, personal losses, and even a near-crippling spinal injury. Through it all, his unwavering faith in God carried him from humble beginnings to a distinguished medical career spanning decades. In these pages, you’ll ...

Need a good laugh? Then grab a cup of tea and dive into this collection of humorous short stories. Betty McGillivray, a retired teacher, will entertain you with her quirky interactions in and out of the classroom. Adventures such as tipping canoes, police pranksters, creating the perfect pie for a curling bonspiel, or avoiding jury duty, bears and tornados—all told in a way that will make you feel like you are chatting with a friend.

What happens when you spend your life chasing curiosity instead of climbing ladders? Steve Alcorn has designed theme park attractions for Disney, founded a company that powers rides worldwide, taught over 100,000 students to write novels, authored 27 books, traveled the globe, raised a family, and somehow managed to avoid taking himself too seriously. This is the story of how curiosity — not careful planning — led to an extraordinary life at the intersection of engineering and creativity. From the underbelly of EPCOT on opening day to a rooftop overlooking Future World at sunrise. From ...

In A Matter of Principal, Mandy Davis takes listeners on a heartfelt voyage from the corridors of traditional schooling into the nurturing embrace of homeschooling. Rooted in her experience as an elementary school principal, Mandy highlights the gaps in a system that often overlooks the diverse needs of individual children. As a dedicated mother and educator, she felt the call to transition to homeschooling, seeking a more personalized and meaningful educational experience for her own children.

In 1967, when Jo Ivester was 10 years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for miles around. But ultimately it was not Ivester’s father but her mother - a stay-at-home mother of four who became a high school English teacher when the family moved to the South - who made the most enduring mark on the town.

An author and educator’s pioneering approach to helping autistic students find their voices through poetry—a powerful and uplifting story that shows us how to better communicate with people on the spectrum and explores how we use language to express our seemingly limitless interior lives...

A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate, Give Me Everything You Have chronicles the author's strange and harrowing ordeal at the hands of a former student, a self-styled "verbal terrorist", who began trying, in her words, to "ruin him". Hate mail, online postings, and public accusations of plagiarism and sexual misconduct were her weapons of choice, and as with more conventional terrorist weapons, proved remarkably difficult to combat.

Dr. Ed Panosian has dedicated his life to the study and teaching of world history. Yet, his own astounding story is relatively unknown. Panosian's grandparents, aunts, and uncles were among the 1,500,000 people killed by Islamic Turks during the Armenian genocide (1915-1918). His own parents narrowly - and providentially - escaped martyrdom, immigrating to the United States, living out the American Dream, and raising a son who became an iconic professor to nearly 30,000 students.

Winner of 5 Awards: 2017 IPPY GOLD Award 2017 BookLife Award 2017 Writer’s Digest’s Self-Published E-Book Award 2018 National Indie Excellence Award 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Finalist Award PLOT SYNOPSIS: With only half a canteen of water and one baby bottle, a family of eight fought for their lives in the killing fields and land mines of Cambodia. Surrounded by unimaginable adverse forces, one strong woman would ultimately lead her entire family to survive. Beautiful Hero is an autobiographical narrative told from a daughter’s perspective. The story centers around Meiyeng, the ...

One American seldom receives the attention he rightly deserves. Noah Webster, Jr., does not often come immediately to mind when one considers those who helped the United States during its infancy. He should. His services were many and unique in the earliest stages of America. Even as a boy, Noah was fascinated with language and education. He was troubled by the lack of interest shown by others in formal schooling, and the lack of books and proper facilities bothered him even more. When the fires of the Revolution broke out in the early 1770s, Noah was a student at Yale.

Miracles can and do happen—when one does the footwork. Dr. Walter Turnbull dreamed of creating opportunities and better lives for the children of Harlem, and Lift Every Voice is the inspirational story of how he realized his dream. Dr. Turnbull shares the hard-bought wisdom he learned throughout his life—from his impoverished childhood in backwoods Mississippi to his experiences as founder and director of the Grammy Award-winning Boys Choir of Harlem. Turnbull shares insights on how to teach children that with hard work, discipline, and self-respect they can attain their highest goals.

Als Tom Michell einen Pinguin mit ölverschmiertem Gefieder am Strand von Uruguay findet und beschließt, ihn mitzunehmen, um das Öl zu entfernen, ahnt er noch nicht, dass der watschelnde Zeitgenosse nicht nur sein Leben vollkommen auf den Kopf stellen wird. Der Pinguin zieht auf Tom Michells Terrasse ein. Für den Lehrer wird er ein treuer Freund, für seine Schüler zum Pinguin des Vertrauens.

Murder, Poverty, Racism, Alcoholism, Love, and Loss. Landon Perdew saw all this and more including dangerous adventures with his wild teenage friends like bootlegging moonshine. He scratched his way out of the backwoods of Kentucky after the Depression. His destiny like so many others around him was more tough times working the land to make ends meet in the poverty-stricken Appalachian farming culture. But he escaped to Japan as a medic in the US Air Force after World War II. There, he was exposed to educated and cultured doctors and nurses. As a high school dropout who could barely read or...

“Valley of Horrors.” “Free Love Camp.” “Torture School.” The headlines were everywhere—outrageous, sensational, and sometimes true. In the chaotic churn of the 1960s and ’70s, one radical school dared to do what no institution had done before: accept the students nobody else wanted and teach them like they mattered. That school was Green Valley, and this is the true story of how it changed—and shattered—lives. Founded by the fiercely unconventional Reverend George von Hilsheimer, Green Valley School became a lightning rod for controversy. What began as a “free school...

Jonathan Starr is not your traditional do-gooder, and in 2009, when he decided to found Abaarso, a secondary school in Somaliland, the choice seemed crazy to even his closest friends. Why, they wondered, would he turn down a life of relative luxury to relocate to an armed compound in a breakaway region of the world's number one failed state? To achieve his mission, Starr would have to overcome profound cultural differences, broken promises, and threats to his safety and that of his staff.

A chronicle of life on the resplendent island. Adele Barker and her son, Noah, settled into the central highlands of Sri Lanka for an 18-month sojourn, immersing themselves in the customs, cultures, and landscapes of the island: its elephants, birds, and monkeys; its hot curries and sweet mangoes; the cacophony of its markets; the resonant evening chants from its temples. When, having returned home to Tucson, Barker awakes on December 26, 2004, to see televised images of the island's southern shore disappearing into the ocean, she decides she must go back.

Le Petit Poème de Saint Grégoire l’Arménien constitue une œuvre d’art dans la mesure où la poésie est classée parmi les arts. La vie de Saint Grégoire l’Arménien modèle un pragmatisme philosophique où le christianisme est vécu dans toute son ampleur, pratiqué dans toute sa véhémence et expérimenté en dépit de son idéalisme apparemment impraticable, cependant profondément accessible dans la foi chrétienne ; cette foi dont la vie de Saint Grégoire illustre la bannière invisible et la grâce du Christ en est l’emblème. Nous n’avons pas voulu dissocier ...

Joe Lewis grew up poor on a Mississippi cotton farm without electricity or running water. And yet it was a rich life — one lived in close proximity to family and nature. Because of a childhood spent around mules, chickens and insects of every kind, Lewis developed a deep and abiding curiosity for the creatures of the natural world. That led him on a trajectory to become an award-winning entomologist with the USDA-ARS at the Tifton Campus, University of Georgia. During his 40-year career, Lewis discovered how plants use “SOS” signals to recruit beneficial insects to their defense. In ...

August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in. Sunlight, or rain. Scudding clouds and backbreaking labour. Three hundred feet underground, young Charles Hutton is at the coalface. Cramped, dust-choked, wielding a five-pound pick...

From humble beginnings in poverty, Eddie Garcia’s path was transformed by two guiding forces: faith and education. Through the opportunities provided by a U.S. Army–sponsored education, he not only served his nation with distinction but also embarked on a profound personal journey. Anchored in his devotion to God, Eddie sought to understand his heritage, his struggles, and the experiences that shaped his character. This pursuit forged the resilience and wisdom that would define him as a respected leader, devoted husband, loving father, and trusted mentor to many.