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Homeless persons are among the most misunderstood people in America. We clump the whole lot of them into a pile called "the homeless" and seem to be OK with them living, in some cases, like stray dogs.
For eleven years, educator Catherine Cadden ran the bold experiment called TEMBA, a K-8 academic school based on the tenets of nonviolence and founded on the conviction that children who have the opportunity to practice peace in the classroom wouldn't just survive school - they'd thrive.
The book is largely about a guy who suffers from extensive burns to his body. We learn a great deal of empathy towards burn victims. There is also schizophrenia and deep religious thought which provides more lessons in empathy. It is also a hell of a good read.
'Mother' is a word heavy with associations.
David Foster Wallace's illuminating and frank appraisal of what it means to live with awareness, gloriously, expansively, given as a commencement address to students at Kenyon College in 2005.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother.
Donal Ryan's wonderful first novel is set in Ireland after the crash of 2008 and is a story told by 21 different voices and perspectives. With each monologue we share the confusion and uncertainty that has come about in response to the recession.
A mysterious (ghostly?) inspector exposes the contribution of every member of the Birling family in the suicide of Eva Smith.Birling's view that we are not all "bees in a hive" and that it is every man for himself is subverted by the Inspector who demonstrates how our actions impact upon others.