After the war, Crimea is free once again, and Anya returns to the childhood haven she once knew. A call from her grandmother, Ba, brings her back to Olenivka, where she reunites with her cousin Leo after years of separation. But the place Anya remembers is now a landscape of memories and change, where the scars of the past linger. As Anya navigates this familiar yet altered world, she finds herself on a journey that intertwines the sweet memories of youth with the bitter realities of starting over. Through her story, we see the resilience of the human spirit and the enduring hope that remains even after the darkest of times. "Leo" is a poignant tale of love, memory, and the rediscovery of a place that has been transformed by history. In this moving narrative, Elizabeth Nastenko invites readers to explore the delicate balance between the past and the future, and the enduring power of home.
Behind the headlines and controversy surrounding new academy schools, many of their principals, teachers and pupils have been quietly changing the culture of learning and achievement in some of the most disadvantaged communities in England. While successful innovation and change is not unique to academies, this book illustrates how the academy policy represents a significant opportunity to improve the life chances of their pupils. Too much attention has focused on unanswerable questions about whether academies are better or worse than their predecessor or comparable schools in their neighbourhood. Too little focus has been on what policy makers and practitioners can learn from the different, and often conflicting, perspectives of the key players, notably sponsors, architects, principals, parents and pupils in order to create a school that can truly serve their community with distinction.
This memoir follows a young woman's correspondence over an eleven month period. She received a scholarship to attend New York University's graduate program, New York City, to earn a Master in Retailing Science. Her journey began by almost missing the bus from Monmouth, Oregon to catch the train in Eugene, Oregon, onto Oakland, California, and running to catch the Treasure Island1ferry to the World's Fair August of 1939. Finding the last available seat, she never would have expected to sit next to the man who would change the course of her future good luck and finding love. The personal writings found in the following pages were those written by the young woman, and by the man she met on the ferry, without edits. Their letters recount their developing relationship and love story over the course of the next year. Some expressions within the letters may be offensive to today's readers, but they were commonly used by some during that era.I noticed in the reading of the letters that although one or more may be missing from the collection, the essence of the growth of their relationship is intact.My mother in-law gave this book its title, Good Luck. It happened in her last year or so of her life, she paused to think a bit, and then simply said, the book should be called, 'Good Luck'. She felt that it was simply good luck that she and her future husband had met, corresponded, and later married. That it was, a chance occurrence of Good Luck.Elizabeth Jackson Rickman Leatham
Welcome to alternative dating…the tenth circle of hell It started simply enough. The editor of Tess Magazine demanded an assignment about dating practices for the urban set. Something fun. Something sexy. Something that the three women working on the assignment could research and really get into. Suddenly, Julia is smitten with a stranger she meets while speed dating, Samantha's coffeehouse dating research is less engaging than the naughty e-mails she's been getting from her pen pal in Italy and Abby is busy dealing with her new roommate, an Irish photographer who looks like sex in pants. Needless to say, there's not much work getting done! So how do you write about relationships when your own love life has been less than noteworthy? Until now…
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