Working from the established premise that boys and girls learn at different rates, the authors present their theory that, due to basic fundamental differences, boys and girls learn differently and thus need to be educated in different ways. Based on research conducted at the Michael Gurian Institute, the authors offer guidelines and suggestions on ...
When Kate Banner, an American midwife in Nicaragua, loses another patient -- a young Nicaraguan woman who had given birth only the night before on the bottom of a swamped wooden boat -- she knows it is time to go home. Because to care for the children of war, you have to cut off pieces of your heart. But traveling home leads her to Guatemala, ...
Ruth Anne Bond learns that her daughter is a lesbian, and because of her deeply devout Roman Catholicism she is upset. Her own less than conventional past, however, returns when she hears from a boy who says he is her son--the child she gave away long ago in Vietnam, where he was conceived during an affair she had with a local man.
An impressive overview of a writer whose career is still climbing, Worship of the Common Heart allows us a rare opportunity to observe twenty years in the evolution of a writer of uncommon talent and heart. Emotionally complex, achingly real, these nineteen stories focus on the everyday, defining moments of life, celebrating the unsung and calling ...
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