Pat Ryan: 6 books

Pat Ryan works seasonally in upstate New York and spends his Winters traveling the world with a tent, a backpack and a very low budget. In fifteen Winters of traveling he has wandered around more than fifty countries on five continents. He carries a pen and spiral notebook as he travels and writes...

In December of 2008, Pat Ryan sets out on a journey through North Africa. He has a vague plan to reach the semi-mythical destination of Timbuktu. He's traveling alone, he doesn't speak the local languages and he has a very limited money supply. Nevertheless, he believes he will make it there. Along...

Pat Ryan won’t offer tips on dieting in his collection of short stories, but The Baseball Diet Book will appease readers’ appetites for small-town America’s favorite pastime—baseball. Ryan’s stories embrace those odd, both humorous and serious, moments in life. Each story stretches readers’ imaginations into extra innings, until they are lost in the timeless of the game itself.

In response to a minor emotional crisis, a young, somewhat naive American man runs off to South America on a fool-hearty journey to "find himself." Over the course of several months, he wanders from the beaches and festival cities on the coast of Brazil to the dead center middle of the Amazon jungle....

Long forgotten but dramatic events from history have inspired fourteen short stories in this collection of new fiction from Irish writers. Drawn by the authors' imagination, these compelling stories reignite familiar historical themes once told through the satire of popular verse. Reinterpreted...

Queering Elementary Education is not about teaching kids to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or straight. ItOs not part of a sinister stratagem in the Ogay agenda.O Instead, these provocative and thoughtful essays advocate the creation of classrooms that challenge categorical thinking, promote interpersonal...