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  • A Hard Silence

    One daughter remaps family, grief, and faith when HIV/AIDS changes it all

    by Melanie Brooks ...
    "A profound and riveting journey through shame and grief, A Hard Silence is, quite simply, unforgettable." Monica Wood, author of When We Were the KennedysIn the mid 1980s, Canada's worst public health disaster was unfolding. Catastrophic mismanagement of the country's blood supply allowed contaminated blood to be knowingly distributed nationwide, infecting close to two thousand Canadians with HIV ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writing Hard Stories

    Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma

    by Melanie Brooks ...
    Some of the country’s most admired authors—including Andre Dubus III, Mark Doty, Marianne Leone, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Richard Blanco, Abigail Thomas, Kate Bornstein, Jerald Walker, and Kyoko Mori—describe their treks through dark memories and breakthrough moments and attest to the healing power of putting words to experience.What does it take to write an honest memoir? And what happens to us ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Hard Silence, A

    One daugher remaps family, grief, and faith when HIV/AIDS changes it all

    by Melanie Brooks ...
    Narrated by Melanie Brooks ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 11 min

    "Melanie Brooks is that rare writer who can delve as deeply into the world of ideas as she can the pitted terrain of the human heart." Andre Dubus III, author of Such Kindness and Townie"Quite simply, unforgettable."Monica Wood, author of When We Were the Kennedys**In the mid 1980s, Canada's worst public health disaster was unfolding. Catastrophic mismanagement of the country's blood supply ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Education and Muslim Identity During a Time of Tension

    Inside an American Islamic School

    by Melanie Brooks ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Education and Muslim Identity During a Time of Tension explores life inside an Islamic Center and school in present-day America.Melanie Brooks’ work draws on in-depth discussions with community and school leaders, teachers, parents and students to present thoughtful and contemporary perspectives on many issues central to American-Muslim identities. Particularly poignant are the children’s voices, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Great Muslim Leaders

    Lessons for Education

    Edited by Melanie C. Brooks, Miriam D. Ezzani ...
    Great Muslim Leaders presents Islamic-informed alternatives to Eurocentric Christian understandings of education and educational leadership. It does so by interrupting and displacing the West’s centuries long dismissive stance and monolithic gaze on Islam by showcasing outstanding diverse Muslim leaders across space and time. Each chapter focuses on a single leader, and includes a biographical ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Urban Educational Leadership for Social Justice

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Jeffrey S. Brooks, Melanie C. Brooks ...
    Series series Educational Leadership for Social Justice
    The chapters in Urban Educational Leadership for Social Justice: International Perspectives constitute a collection of works that explore dynamics related to equity in multiple contexts. Authors examined these issues in Turkey, Egypt the United States, Thailand and at a global level by comparing and contrasting school leadership practice across borders. Considered as a whole, these papers explore ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Critical Perspectives on Black Education

    Spirituality, Religion and Social Justice

    Edited by Noelle Witherspoon Arnold, Melanie C. Brooks, Bruce Makoto Arnold ...
    Series series New Directions in Educational Leadership: Innovations in Scholarship, Teaching, and Service
    While nation engages in debates concerning central issues of religion and religious diversity in education, the historic saliency of religion and spirituality in the Black community and in the education of its children continues to be largely ignored. Historically, religion and spirituality were foundational to the development and understanding of social justice issues, including, but not limited ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Globalization and Education

    Teaching, Learning and Leading in the World Schoolhouse

    Edited by Jeffrey S. Brooks, Anthony H. Normore, Melanie C. Brooks, Nicola Sum ...
    Series series New Directions in Educational Leadership: Innovations in Scholarship, Teaching, and Service
    Globalization and Education: Teaching, Learning and Leading in the World Schoolhouse explores the various ways educators’ work is influenced by globalization. This book presents topics and contexts traditionally marginalized in mainstream education research discourses and shows how local and global education issues are intersecting and shaping the ways in which ideas and practices are shared ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • A Good Kind of Trouble (A Good Kind of Trouble, #1)

    The new heart-warming coming of age story for younger YA readers

    by Brooke Blurton, Melanie Saward ...
    Series Book 1 - A Good Kind of Trouble
    A brilliantly warm-hearted NEW series from Brooke Blurton and Melanie Saward, full of high school longing, friendship, footy matches, and dreams to change the world!It's funny how your life changes.I used to worry about playing footy and whether my first kiss would be with a boy or a girl. I used to worry about having enough time after school to go for a run with my best friend, Loz, and whether ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    A Good Kind of Trouble (A Good Kind of Trouble, #1)

    by Brooke Blurton, Melanie Saward ...
    Narrated by Brooke Blurton ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - A Good Kind of Trouble

    Unabridged

    3 hours 22 min

    A brilliantly warm-hearted NEW series from Brooke Blurton and Melanie Saward, full of high school longing, friendship, footy matches, and dreams to change the world!It's funny how your life changes.I used to worry about playing footy and whether my first kiss would be with a boy or a girl. I used to worry about having enough time after school to go for a run with my best friend, Loz, and whether ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Making Trouble (A Good Kind of Trouble, #2)

    The sequel to the heart-warming coming-of-age story for younger YA readers

    by Brooke Blurton, Melanie Saward ...
    A brilliantly warm-hearted NEW book from Brooke Blurton and Melanie Saward, a follow-up to A Good Kind of Trouble.Things don't always go to plan. I should be at the Australian Ballet School. Instead, h**ere I am, boarding and going to school hundreds of kilometres away from home, but I feel even further away from my dreams. At least I've got Jamie ... that part's deadly. Until she finds out my ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Making Trouble (A Good Kind of Trouble, #2)

    by Brooke Blurton, Melanie Saward ...
    Narrated by Melanie Saward ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - A Good Kind of Trouble

    Unabridged

    3 hours 39 min

    A brilliantly warm-hearted NEW book from Brooke Blurton and Melanie Saward, a follow-up to A Good Kind of Trouble.Things don't always go to plan. I should be at the Australian Ballet School. Instead, h**ere I am, boarding and going to school hundreds of kilometres away from home, but I feel even further away from my dreams. At least I've got Jamie ... that part's deadly. Until she finds out my ... Read more

    $23.99 USD