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Yes, Literacy is your go-to podcast for discovering and celebrating books by Black and POC authors. Each episode, we explore the stories from amazing authors who are often overlooked/ From fiction to memoirs, poetry to thrillers, we’re shining a light on it all. Join us as we dive into captivating books, interviews with authors, and discussions that will expand your literary horizons, have you laughing, crying, feeling motivated, inspired and entertained.

Literacy Moments Magazine presents Books, Blessings, and Business podcast platform where we explore the interconnected realms of literature, spirituality, and entrepreneurship. Hosted by: Kym Oglesby and Monica Williams. The podcast goal is to inspire and empower listeners by featuring enriching conversations with authors, experts, and those who have overcome due to blessings, and successful entrepreneurs who share their insights, experiences, and the transformative power of aligning passion, purpose, and blessings in both personal and professional life.

Highlights from the weekly newsletter. Get to know our contributors, discover the best tools, literacy lessons, and advice from teachers & school leaders. Mostly, keep your soul aloft as you empower student choice & voice in your corner of the world.

Dette er podkasten til Nordic Journal of Literacy Research, et åpent vitenskapelig tidsskrift utgitt av Cappelen Damm Forskning. Her får du engasjerte samtaler mellom gjester og fageksperter om aktuelle og viktige temaer. Podkasten gir deg smakebiter fra tidsskriftets artikler og temanummer og muligens lysten til å lese mer: https://nordicliteracy.net. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Heartland Institute's podcast discussing notable new works with their authors. Hosted by Tim Benson.

Literacy Moments Magazine presents Books, Blessings, and Business podcast platform where we explore the interconnected realms of literature, spirituality, and entrepreneurship. Hosted by: Kym Oglesby and Monica Williams. The podcast goal is to inspire and empower listeners by featuring enriching conversations with authors, experts, and those who have overcome due to blessings, and successful entrepreneurs who share their insights, experiences, and the transformative power of aligning passion, purpose, and blessings in both personal and professional life.

Literacy Moments Magazine presents Books, Blessings, and Business podcast platform where we explore the interconnected realms of literature, spirituality, and entrepreneurship. Hosted by: Kym Oglesby and Monica Williams. The podcast goal is to inspire and empower listeners by featuring enriching conversations with authors, experts, and those who have overcome due to blessings, and successful entrepreneurs who share their insights, experiences, and the transformative power of aligning passion, purpose, and blessings in both personal and professional life.

Literacy Moments Magazine presents Books, Blessings, and Business podcast platform where we explore the interconnected realms of literature, spirituality, and entrepreneurship. Hosted by: Kym Oglesby and Monica Williams. The podcast goal is to inspire and empower listeners by featuring enriching conversations with authors, experts, and those who have overcome due to blessings, and successful entrepreneurs who share their insights, experiences, and the transformative power of aligning passion, purpose, and blessings in both personal and professional life.

ACB Annual National Conference and Convention sessions pertaining to the Literacy Track

Sacred Garden offers calm, thoughtful reflections on stories from the Tanakh.Each short episode retells a biblical moment in plain, gentle language and ends with a personal insight to carry with you.A weekly Torah bite for anyone seeking light, meaning, or a peaceful pause in their day.

Lisa's grandfather is turning 100, and her family is gathering to celebrate in a sprawling southern Californian apricot orchard. The orchard is both the heart of their family and a reminder of its past. Like many immigrants to America, Joe and his wife, Anna, fled their home country in one of the horrific ethnic cleansings of the twentieth century. Forced out of Turkey because they were Greek, they arrived in the New World full of hope. A piece of land with a thriving orchard gave a new beginning to a new American family.

Dr. Christopher Lemuel escapes England on a privateer after he has the misfortune of winning a duel. With his life in jeopardy, he signs on as ship's doctor only to face further dangers on the high seas. The good doctor is wounded in a sea battle, captured by pirates, and reluctantly becomes a buccaneer. Then matters become stranger still when Dr. Lemuel is marooned on an island populated by enormous beasts unknown in natural history.

Suzanne Kamata lived in Japan for more than half of her life, yet she had never explored the small nearby islands of the Inland Sea. The islands are noted for displaying artwork created by prominent, and sometimes curious, international artists and sculptors: Naoshima's wealth of museums, including one devoted to 007, Yayoi Kusama's polka dot pumpkins, Kazuo Katase's blue teacup, and a monster rising out of a well on the hour in Sakate, called "Anger at the Bottom of the Sea"—to name a few.

What do you do when something magical happens...in your own backyard? Linda and Earl are a happy couple. Although married for many years, they have never had children. Still, they are content being together, and watching reruns of "I Love Lucy" keeps them close. That, and a magical garden that never seems to grow what they plant. One day Earl finds a set of infant toes in the loam. He and Linda plant them and watch in amazement as the garden produces an enormous baby.

A young girl leaves Tokyo with her mother in 1979, carrying her pink suitcase to a new home, a new father and sister, on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. Thirty-three years later, her mother's belongings are found packed into boxes, her furniture draped in white sheets. Without so much as a note, a mother leaves these grown sisters to figure out where she has gone. What happens when people lose their way home? Like a little barn cat, they grab onto a second family... and start again.

On any given day, in any given city, countless people are arriving and departing... to visit grandma, to close a business deal, to hook up with a lover, to climb a mountain. Intrepid traveler Luis is trapped in flight delay and has many hours to see and hear and sense his fellow passengers. As he grows more invisible, the kinetic world around him takes on a life of its own.

What do you do when Fate shows up in your rose bed with three-inch canines and retractable claws? Robert--not Bob--Stevenson wakes up one morning in his Vermont home to find a Bengal tiger sitting in his rose garden. Is the tiger real? Or has the illness that has invaded every other part of Robert's body finally and quite literally gone to his head? Remember, once you get on a tiger's back, there is no dismounting!

Rollo is tired of humans. Their cities are dirty, and their gizmos are dumb. He knows mankind is wrecking the planet. Rollo's dream is to escape to the Sierra Nevada mountains where he can live alone and be free of other people. There's just one problem with his scheme: Rollo's hungry human stomach. No matter how much food he carries in his backpack, he always runs out. Inevitably, Rollo has to come back to the "messed-up, man-made world" or starve. All this changes when Rollo finds an old, dusty, bear suit in a costume shop.

The Charles River divides Boston and Cambridge, and the Red Line ties the cities together, traveling through classes and cultures along its route. When an unlikely group shares an afternoon train, the riders are surprised to discover what's common in their American experience.

I rediscovered a bit of myself in Jun-li, and in May-lee Chai's beautifully constructed and perfectly contained world. It's the deftly and subtly rendered intricacies that mark this story, link it to the experience of Asians in America, and linger in the imagination. Julie Shigekuni, author of A Bridge Between Us, In Plain View, and Invisible Gardens When you are eleven years old, is there anything more humiliating, or bound to cause a fight, than shopping with your mother when your body is in full-throttle warp? Yes, there is: picking out the school-required underwear.