Cheryl Clark spent 38 years teaching high school English and Spanish starting in Indianapolis in 1970 and retiring in Los Angeles in 2008. Sometimes the days could be tough, but they were frequently memorable. Cheryl describes her career journey in this anecdote-laden memoir with bonus tips for classroom management and teaching aids throughout.

Class Dismissed: My Four Decades as an Inner City Teacher

Biographies & Memoirs

Clark, Cheryl

Professionals & Academics

Gambit Publishing

A fugitive from federal justice, Lieutenant Max Ewing returns home to the Gulf port city of Apalachicola determined to seek revenge. The War Between the States has ended, but Apalachicola remains occupied by federal troops and local opportunists emboldened and empowered by the war. Max's brother Randy has died, a victim of shipboard hostilities in the Bay of Cardenas. Soon, Ewing learns of other losses incurred in his absence: his mother's death from yellow fever, the confiscation of his family's property, and the fates and deaths of many friends. Revenge, loyalty, honor, passion and greed clash in this dramatic tale, set among the raw and rugged elements of Florida's Gulf coast at a turbulent time in its history.

Island Light

Literature & Fiction

Key, Alexander

Genre Fiction

A fugitive from federal justice, Lieutenant Max Ewing returns home to the Gulf port city of Apalachicola determined to seek revenge. The War Between the States has ended, but Apalachicola remains occupied by federal troops and local opportunists emboldened and empowered by the war. Max's brother Randy has died, a victim of shipboard hostilities in the Bay of Cardenas. Soon, Ewing learns of other losses incurred in his absence: his mother's death from yellow fever, the confiscation of his family's property, and the fates and deaths of many friends. Revenge, loyalty, honor, passion and greed clash in this dramatic tale, set among the raw and rugged elements of Florida's Gulf coast at a turbulent time in its history.

The three-times World Chess Solving Champion distils the most useful middlegame concepts and knowledge into 100 lessons that everyone can understand. Following on from his successful Understanding Chess Endgames, John Nunn turns his attention to the middlegame - the phase of the chess battle where most games are decided, yet the one that has received the least systematic treatment from chess writers. With the outstanding clarity for which he is famous, Nunn breaks down complex problems into bite-sized pieces. In the case of attacking play, we are shown how to decide where to attack, and the specific methods that can be used to pursue the enemy king. Positional play is described in terms of the major structural issues, and how the pieces work around and with the pawns. Nunn explains how to assess when certain pieces are better than others, and how we can make use of this understanding at the board. Readers will never be short of a plan, whatever type of position arises. Each lesson features two inspiring examples from modern chess, annotated honestly and with a keen focus on the main instructive points. Both sides' ideas are emphasized, so we get a clear picture of the ways to disrupt typical plans as well as how to form them.

Understanding Chess Middlegames

Humor & Entertainment

Nunn, John

Puzzles & Games

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Class Dismissed: My Four Decades as an Inner City Teacher

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Understanding Chess Middlegames