Apprentice House: 58 books
by Cailean McCarric Geary
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The school year is just beginning, and twelve-year-old Kelsey Baker has a lot on her mind. September brings opportunities for new friendships, beginning when Allie Anderson moves in next door. The girls bond over Allie's interest in learning about Kelsey's Deafness, as well as their shared love of...
It All Started With a Deli
The Attmans of Lombard Street
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
When you’re at Oriole Park enjoying a soda with a tray of nachos or hot dogs... or need an apartment and want to choose from 14 apartment complexes with over 3000 units... or seek a nursing facility for a loved one, you will find various Attman companies behind the scenes. And for a deli fix, there...
The Art of Crisis Leadership
Save Time, Money, Customers and Ultimately, Your Career
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
In today's turbulent world, the issue isn't if crisis will occur, but when. Do you know how to prepare for, navigate through and recover from crisis? Can you turn adversity into advantage? This book holds the key. In his decades on the core executive teams of the Baltimore Police Department, U.S. Department...
Hale Storm
The Incredible Saga of Baltimore’s Ed Hale, Including a Secret Life with the CIA
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The most interesting man in the world? At times, Ed Hale made the Dos Equis guy look like a shut-in. Now for the first time, Hale’s inspiring story is told in the pages of Hale Storm. It’s a rollicking, inspirational tale like no other: a kid from gritty Sparrow’s Point, Md., has his fill of back-breaking...
by Karsonya Wise Whitehead Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
In Sparking the Genius, Whitehead outlines the Critical Moments in American History that defined both the beginning of the early Civil Rights Movement—with the release of the Emancipation Proclamation—and the modern Civil Rights Movement in 1963. Starting with the Birmingham Campaign (Project C),...
Flashes of War
Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Illuminating the intimate, human faces of war, this unique series of short stories by award-winning author Katey Schultz questions the stereotypes of modern war by bearing witness to the shared struggles of all who are touched by it. Numerous characters-returning U.S. soldier and pragmatic jihadist,...
I'm Not Chinese
The Journey from Resentment to Reverence
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The first thing you need to know is I'm not Chinese. My name is Raymond Wong and I stopped being Chinese at the age of five. Raymond Wong wants to forget his past: a charming, conniving, and controlling Chinese mother, a father who hasn't so much as written him a letter in 28 years, a stepfather who...
by Henri Diamant
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Henri lived only a few short years in Europe before the family moved to the Belgian Congo, a country deep in the heart of Africa. These were the early 1900?s, at a time when the colonial era was in full swing, the White Man ruled the native population with undisputed authority and many parts of the...
Prophet in a Time of Priests
Rabbi “Alphabet” Browne 1845-1929
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Who was “Alphabet” Browne... and why is this the first time anyone has written about him? Between his arrival in the United States during post-Civil War Reconstruction and his death at the onset of the Great Depression, he grabbed headlines as a rabbi, journalist, attorney, and political activist,...
by Eileen Rudnick
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
As Eileen Rudnick drove home after a long day at work in October 2000, her life became unexpectedly and forever altered - she was in a near fatal head-on collision. A rush to Shock Trauma saved her life, but the accident left her with severe traumatic brain injury. The Glass Between us is the step-by-step...
The Gift
How My Horse Taught Me to Teach the Toughest Children
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
What does it take to learn to teach the toughest children? Twenty-four struggling six-year-olds, one angry young horse, and a teacher who wouldn't give up. In this powerful book, part memoir and part how-to, master teacher Alix Moore shares with us how she learned to teach the unteachables. We follow...
At Sunset, Facing East
A Memoir in Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Bill Jones’s nearly 65 years on Earth have filled the man with wonder. He’s heard the voices of family through five generations, the young magically echoing the old. He’s witnessed the world of anthrax and America’s cities set on fire, seen the impossible become all too possible. In the US, Mexico,...
by Charles J. Acquisto
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Jump inside this amazing, original golf book... Filled with the ABC’s of success to life and the game of golf, this book is written by the very people who have achieved fame and fortune in their respective golf-related field. Historically compelling and just plain fun to read, Wisdom For A Young Golfer...
The Old Editor Says
Maxims for Writing and Editing
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Many beginning writers and editors benefited from a crusty old editor’s brisk maxims about the craft. If you want to be reminded of those days, look inside. If you want to learn those brisk maxims, many of them are collected here. And if you aspire to become a crusty old editor, this is the handbook.