The Miracle On Cooper Street

Author : Gloria Bonilla-Santiago, PhD
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480806234
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miracle on Cooper Street written by Gloria Bonilla-Santiago, PhD and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Author Dr. Gloria Bonilla-Santiago, a Puerto Rican child of migrant farm workers, defied family, tradition, and expectations to reach the highest ranks of academia and overcome monumental obstacles to create LEAP Academy, one of the nation's best charter schools. In this book, she shares the challenges and obstacles, potential resources, and support of fellow professionals that moved LEAP Academy from a small charter school in 1997 to its top position today. She describes and analyzes the establishment and accomplishments of LEAP Academy in one of America's poorest and most violent cities, Camden, New Jersey. [She] also shares the story of her personal and professional struggles as a Latina from an impoverished and working-class background, surviving and fighting for respect in an academic world that many times did not value racial or ethnic diversity. Those experiences forged a dream of transforming a poor urban community through education. [This book] presents a working model for charter schools, while at the same time admitting that LEAP is a work in progress. Most of all, it describes an inspiring institution that has seen many young people break the cycle of poverty, graduate from high school, succeed in college, and go on to live productive lives."--Back cover.

Author : Thea Cooper
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 142996569X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breakthrough written by Thea Cooper and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. It is essentially a death sentence. The only accepted form of treatment – starvation – whittles her down to forty-five pounds skin and bones. Miles away, Canadian researchers Frederick Banting and Charles Best manage to identify and purify insulin from animal pancreases – a miracle soon marred by scientific jealousy, intense business competition and fistfights. In a race against time and a ravaging disease, Elizabeth becomes one of the first diabetics to receive insulin injections – all while its discoverers and a little known pharmaceutical company struggle to make it available to the rest of the world. Relive the heartwarming true story of the discovery of insulin as it's never been told before. Written with authentic detail and suspense, and featuring walk-ons by William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Eli Lilly himself, among many others.

Author : Scott Brown
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1623681332
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miracle in the Making written by Scott Brown and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Taliaferro had it all: smarts, an easy-going personality, and incomparable athletic ability. None of that seemed to matter, however, on that fateful September day when his father was given startling news: Do not expect your son to walk. Ever. Since that numbing day, Taliaferro, the Penn State freshman cornerback who was paralyzed after he tackled an Ohio State running back, has defied the odds. Before he had spinal-fusion surgery, he made a vow to his mother: "Mom, I'm not going out like this." Three months later, he walked out of a Philadelphia hospital on crutches, determined to complete his amazing recovery, making the name "Adam Taliaferro" synonymous with courage and perseverance.

Author : Desiree Cooper
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814341500
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Know the Mother written by Desiree Cooper and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-13 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While a mother can be defined as a creator, a nurturer, a protector—at the center of each mother is an individual who is attempting to manage her own fears, desires, and responsibilities in different and sometimes unexpected ways. In Know the Mother, author Desiree Cooper explores the complex archetype of the mother in all of her incarnations. In a collage of meditative stories, women—both black and white—find themselves wedged between their own yearnings and their roles as daughters, sisters, grandmothers, and wives. In this heart-wrenching collection, Cooper reveals that gender and race are often unanticipated interlopers in family life. An anxious mother reflects on her prenatal fantasies of suicide while waiting for her daughter to come home late one night. A lawyer miscarries during a conference call and must proceed as though nothing has happened. On a rare night out with her husband, a new mother tries convincing herself that everything is still the same. A politician’s wife’s thoughts turn to slavery as she contemplates her own escape: “Even Harriet Tubman had realized that freedom wasn’t worth the price of abandoning her family, so she’d come back home. She’d risked it all for love.” With her lyrical and carefully crafted prose, Cooper’s stories provide truths without sermon and invite empathy without sentimentality. Know the Mother explores the intersection of race and gender in vignettes that pull you in and then are gone in an instant. Readers of short fiction will appreciate this deeply felt collection.

Author : Thomas COOPER (the Chartist.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Verity and Value of the Miracles of Christ, Etc written by Thomas COOPER (the Chartist.) and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Haskins
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061136123
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Beginnings written by James Haskins and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the history of Africa's rich cultural empires from the early part of the millennium through the time of Christopher Columbus.

Author : Jean C. Cooper
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480955280
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miracle of Christmas written by Jean C. Cooper and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Miracle of Christmas By: Jean C. Cooper Five-year-old Emily, an only child, is quite spoiled. Her parents give her everything she needs—and more – but she always wants more. Christmas is coming soon, and Emily, like all children, cannot wait! Her list to Santa is so long that her parents pray for a miracle—a miracle that someday their child won’t be as spoiled. One night Emily’s mother peeped through the blinds in her room and saw the biggest, brightest, most beautiful star she has ever seen. She doesn’t know why, but she suddenly drops to her knees and feels an overwhelming need to pray. Somehow, for some reason or another, she knows this strange experience is not to be shared. It is only meant for her. Could it be a wonderful Christmas miracle? The Miracle of Christmas reminds us that Christmas is a time of deep gratitude, appreciation, and joy – it’s not about the presents.

Author : Susan Cooper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 144245895X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over Sea, Under Stone written by Susan Cooper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three siblings embark on an epic quest for a mythic grail in this first installment of Susan Cooper’s epic and award-winning The Dark Is Rising Sequence, now with a brand-new look! All through time, the two great forces of Light and Dark have battled for control of the world. Now, after centuries of balance, the Dark is summoning its terrifying forces to rise once more…and three children find themselves caught in the conflict. The Drew siblings—Simon, Jane, and Barney—are on a family holiday in Cornwall when they discover an ancient map in the attic of the house they are sharing with their Great Uncle Merry. They know immediately that the map is special but have no way of knowing how much. For the map leads to a grail: a vital weapon for the Light’s fight against evil. In taking on the quest to find the grail, the Drews will have to race against the sinister human beings who serve the dreadful power of the dark—an adventure that puts their own lives in grave peril.

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Publisher : R.M. Lamb
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary's Way written by and published by R.M. Lamb. This book was released on 1999 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Randall Sullivan
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 9780751530223
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miracle Detective written by Randall Sullivan and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2004 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As sightings of the Virgin Mary have increased around the world over the last couple of decades, the Vatican has placed increased importance on a group of theologians, scientists and physicians whose job is to investigate them. These are the miracle detectives. Randall Sullivan's book follows these investigators on the trail of the Virgin Mary from the Vatican City in Rome to Oregon, Arizona, Venezuela, Switzerland, Ireland, Japan and Kenya. What he discovers is that every road and each mystery leads back to a tiny village in Bosnia. There, against the background of the ongoing war, eight young visionaries have been receiving what they say are the final apparitions of the Madonna. These appearances, which began in 1981 in a small village in the former Yugoslavia, have been more thoroughly examined than any purported miraculous phenomenon in history. To date, the results defy explanation. This is an amazing story of religious mysticism, as well as a testing of the author's own faith and beliefs.