School Crisis

Elena Cross runs before dawn because it's the one hour of her marriage Julian never found a way to buy. Six years in, she's renewing a lapsed certification and touring a studio space she hasn't told him about. Then a message lights up Julian's phone. The name above it is Sloane Argent — the girl who made Elena small for three years at Brackenridge High, now a consultant on the deal that ate her husband's year. Elena says the name to his face and is gone by seven. What she learns later is worse: Sloane didn't stumble into his world. She engineered her way in. He sends flowers, a car, forty...

The Amish will be the first to tell you they're not perfect. But they do a lot of things right. Forgiveness is one of them. A one-room schoolhouse sat amid the gentle, quaint Amish community in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. It made such a picturesque scene with its wide, welcoming front porch...

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER “Five gritty leaders whose extraordinary passion and perseverance changed history…a gripping read on a timeless and timely topic” —Angela Duckworth, #1 bestselling author of Grit An enthralling historical narrative filled with critical leadership insights...

His loneliness will soon turn to fear…. When Chris Buckley moves to Solitary, North Carolina, he faces the reality of his parents’ divorce, a school full of nameless faces—and Jocelyn Evans. Jocelyn is beautiful and mysterious enough to leave Chris speechless. But the more Jocelyn resists...

Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises. Ilana is a veteran Hebrew instructor at a Midwestern college who has built her life around her career. When a young Hebrew literature professor joins the faculty, she finds his post-Zionist...

Rene Guenon Explained: Traditionalism, Sacred Knowledge, Metaphysical Truth, The Crisis of the Modern World, Initiation, Symbolism, and the Recovery of Ancient Wisdom explores the profound and often misunderstood ideas of one of the twentieth century’s most influential metaphysical thinkers. Rene Guenon challenged the foundations of modern civilization by arguing that contemporary society has lost contact with sacred knowledge that once guided traditional cultures. In this accessible and deeply informative guide, readers are introduced to Guenon’s critique of modern materialism, his ...

The 10th Anniversary Edition of the Leadership Classic The surprisingly common sense approach to leading a global company, based on a theoretical framework first used by the nineteenth-century Prussian Army. For over a decade the approach known as 'mission command' has been taught at the leading...

A girl who struggles to breathe befriends a boy who seems shrouded in dust, in this unmissable tour de force from bestselling and award-winning author Dusti Bowling. After Avalyn nearly died from an asthma attack, her parents moved her to the clear, dry air of Clear Canyon City, Arizona. And for...

We live in a time between stories, poised between utopia and dystopia, facing unprecedented existential risks that threaten humanity. Only a new Story of shared global value will allow us to respond effectively to our shared global challenges and turn our potentially dire fate into a new collective date with destiny.

**An instant New York Times bestseller** Narrated by the Author! From TikTok star and the author of I Didn’t Know I Needed This Eli Rallo, a reflection on the anxiety of transitioning into adulthood, navigating the quarter-life crisis, and realizing you’re actually not alone. Does anyone...

There used to be an empty chair at the back of Mrs. Khan's classroom, but on the third Tuesday of the school year a new kid fills it: nine-year-old Ahmet, a Syrian refugee. The whole class is curious about this new boy - he doesn't seem to smile, and he doesn't talk much. But after learning that Ahmet fled a very real war and was separated from his family along the way, a determined group of his classmates bands together to concoct the greatest idea in the world - a magnificent plan to reunite Ahmet with his loved ones.  

"Former college president and now U.S. Senator Ben Sasse reads with the clarity and confidence of a voice pro in this friendly warning aimed at America's parents, teachers, and governing officials." — AudioFile Magazine AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER — read by the author. In an era of...

Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Malala Yousafzai turns the faceless statistics and endless news stories about displacement into real people, introducing a small fraction of the millions worldwide who have fled home in this powerful account. "A stirring and timely...

Far from being a self-eulogising chronicle, K. Vasuki’s The School of Life is a blazingly honest account of her evolution from “an imperfect human into, not a perfect human, but a better version of herself.” Steadfast in her insistence that she is not positing any definitive, universally applicable solutions to the troubles of life, she offers us a glimpse into her inspiring life and career in the Indian Administrative Service, demanding throughout that we “keep questioning everything” she says. Unassuming as she is, she even downplays her monumental role in coordinating the ...

A bigger competitor just moved in across the street. What do you do first? You built the business. You did most of it right. Then the hit came anyway: a slow season, a price war, a lost customer, a storm, a letter you didn’t expect. And the decision landed on you, alone, at the kitchen table, tired and scared. Small businesses rarely close because the owner was foolish. They close because something hit them that nobody planned for. This book teaches you to plan for it, in four jobs: Protect, Endure, Unite, Last. In the Fabled Forest, a hard winter comes, and fourteen owners each get the ...

An urgent rethinking of the Western approach to mental health, which treats the symptoms rather than the exploitative systems causing our distress—by a Rhodes Scholar and Harvard Medical School physician-anthropologist—offering lessons from the rest of the world. What if the mainstay of...

A Great Guide Towards High-Performing Leadership What makes the difference between a school that merely operates and one that consistently delivers excellent results? Effective management. Running a school requires more than academic knowledge or years of teaching experience. It demands the ability to lead people, manage finances, organise resources, establish effective systems and translate the school’s vision into measurable outcomes. Essential Management Skills for School Executives by Adedamola Israel Olofa is a practical professional-development guide designed to help school leaders ...

From the leader of the online army in America's parental rights movement comes the real story of how moms and dads across the country are turning the tide against radical activists in public schools. It’s no secret that our government-run public education system has held generations of...

Gordon appears to be living the good life. He is married, has two delightful children, owns a home in the western suburbs of St. Louis, and teaches popular history classes at the local high school. As Gordon approaches the midlife phase of his life, though, an event occurs one winter evening that leaves him wracked by guilt and remorse. Gordon’s life soon plummets into a separation from his wife and a descent into mediocrity in his classroom. He only sees his children on Saturday afternoons and starts to question his veracity as a father. Gordon can barely face his own reflection in the ...

MAVERICK: I might have been a crappy excuse for a big brother in the past, but now I’m making up for lost time… And time isn’t the only thing that’s lost. So is my sister, Astrid. So, I do what any good brother would do—I go after her. Concealing my true identity, I attend Blood Rose Academy as a professor of potions. And along for the ride is my new wife, Taliyah. Not only am I hoping we can find Astrid, but I’m really hoping we find her alive. ASTRID: Even though I definitely have a thing for vampires, that doesn’t mean I wanted to become one… And it definitely didn’t ...