Mike is unsettled. He knows that something odd is happening at home because his parents are whispering all the time. But, being a detective, Mike is quickly on the case. He enlists his friend Ikem to help him get to the bottom of the mystery. Mike and his family are moving to another country, making him confused and fearful. What will happen to his toys, his room, his friends, his house? How will he learn to talk in a new language and how will he ever make new friends? As his mission gathers momentum, Mike and Ikem find the answers to his questions and solutions to his problems. One of the authors is a psychologist, both are experienced expatriates, parents, storytellers and interculturalists. The Mission of Detective Mike: Moving Abroad will allay the fears of every relocating family member as this sensitive story, written in words and terms that make sense to young children, shares rock solid strategies and advice that anyone will find easy to apply.

The Mission of Detective Mike: Moving Abroad a Story to Help Expat Children Understand the Relocation Process

Serra, Ana

Costa Eriksson, Simone T

Parenting & Relationships

Summertime

Third culture kids/global nomads have typically interacted with two or more cultures during their developmental years - those years that shape who they are as human beings. As they go about living their normal highly mobile, cross-cultural lives, they have no clue as to how they are being impacted. But one day they have an experience that wakes them up to the fact that they are different from others. This commonly takes place upon repatriation for college or university when they are surrounded mostly by those who have never ventured away from their home country or culture. What results is the feeling of cultural imbalance, not fitting in, inability to connect with their home-country peers. They feel like a "fish out of water" in their own country. This can lead to isolation and depression. Now there is a guide book to help these students understand what takes place in re-entry and/or transition and gives them the tools and strategies they need to not only survive but to thrive in the adjustment. This is the first book written to and for students who have been living outside their "passport" countries but are either returning "home" or transitioning on to another host country for college/university. It addresses the common issues students face when they are making the double transition of not only adjusting to a new life stage but to a cultural change as well. Parents will appreciate the chapter dedicated to how they can come alongside their students, prepare them for the journey and support them throughout this major transition.

The Global Nomad's Guide to University Transition

Children's Books

Quick, Tina L.

Education & Reference

Gimme One: A Ugandan Dog Diary

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Schroeter, Barbara

Pets & Animal Care

The experience of moving to and living in a different culture is one that is difficult to imagine. The opportunities may be endless, but the challenges can be confusing and overwhelming. Tollenaere presents a guide to living an internationally mobile life, based on her own experiences.

The Art of Possibilities: Creating Our Path in an International, Mobile Life

Tollenaere, Natalie

Travel

Il est difficile de s'imaginer l'experience vecue lorsqu'on decide de vivre dans une culture differente. Les opportunites peuvent etre sans fin. Mais les defis peuvent etre perturbants et accablants meme lorsque vous vous sentez bien prepare. Les manieres de prendre votre vie en main, qui ont ete efficaces avant le demenagement, peuvent ne plus pouvoir vous servir. Si vous recherchez des approches nouvelles et creatives pour vous aider vous ou vos clients a tirer le meilleur de l'experience d'une vie dans une culture differente, lisez ce livre. L'auteur, Natalie Tollenaere, vous emmene dans un voyage createur qui est inspire et nourrit par son experience personnelle et professionnelle etendue qu'elle a utilisee tant pour creer son propre chemin que pour aider d'autres a vivre une vie internationale mobile. Bien que bon nombre d'entre nous soient intimides par l'art, ce livre n'est absolument pas intimidant. La combinaison des histoires personnelles avec des outils accessibles produisent un livre facile a utiliser. L'auteur vous invite a prendre contact avec les materiaux et a vous les approprier par Reflexions Creatives guidees. Avec ses approches nouvelles et uniques, vous redeviendrez ami avec vos experiences, vous serez energises pour sortir de la confusion qui peut mener a la perte de contact avec vous-meme et votre environnement. Ce livre sera pour vous l'occasion de generer encore plus de possibilites dans votre vie mobile.

L'Art Des Possibles: Creer Son Chemin Dans Une Vie Internationale Mobile

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

This book comes as part of a complete home study course, comprising a 60 minute video, 2 hours of audio and over 200 JustWrite Inspirational stickers in addition to this text book. Inside the text book is information on how to obtain the 8 audio lessons, video and stickers. This home study course has been created, written, tested and produced by Jo Parfitt, herself a writer of 26 books, hundreds of articles, blog posts and columns in the 26 years she has worked as a writer and teacher. Its eight lessons include: Introduction to the SPICE method for making your life stories leap off the page; letting it flow; writing about childhood; writing about people' writing about places; writing on a theme; writing humour; writing complete stories with beginnings, middles and ends. There is an additional bonus lesson on the 20 most common mistakes and the editing process. Each lesson comprises an introduction to the topic, a limbering up exercise and a variety of examples of life story writing taken from published authors and the author's own students. The lesson concludes with a written exercise. Personal feedback on one or more pieces of homework is available for an additional fee. The author has lived abroad in seven countries – Dubai (UAE), Oman, Norway, France, the Netherlands, Brunei and now Malaysia, in addition to her native England. Living in an international community means that her course includes many extracts and examples from students and authors of over 10 nationalities. The course is ideal for anyone who wants to write about real incidents from his or her life and turn those into individual stories, full-length memoir, blogs, columns, a family legacy, self-help books or fiction. Jo Parfitt has been teaching for 20 years and her students claim she is inspiring and empowering.

Write Your Life Stories: Learn How to Add Spice to Your Life Stories

Parfitt, Jo

The only thing you can be sure you can move around the world is your child's ability to increase his or her interpersonal skills. In today's global world, each of us is searching for effective tools that can help our children to thrive. Emotional Resilience for the Expat Child provides a step-by-step guide that is designed to increase a child's emotional vocabulary and emotional intelligence. Doing this will enable your child to achieve his or her fullest potential. The bond between an adult and child is key to the psychological health of the child. For the expatriate child, this bond is more vital than ever. This workbook has been created for you to use together and will provide the perfect place to connect for you and your family. With easily understood and practical steps any parent can apply, you can start to create and enjoy your family's 'emotion stories'. This book will help you to develop the mutually respectful and loving relationships with your kids that you've always wanted. Working on these 'emotion stories', all children can develop a strong sense of personal narrative; they will find their own 'voice' and in so doing will grow into confident, happy teenagers. When a child feels happy and confident, he will be more likely to construct and communicate his emotions. The richer his vocabulary is in emotions, the more competent and powerful he will be in reflecting on his behavior and how his actions and interactions are intertwined. Well-written in an engaging, conversational tone, this book is sensible, straightforward and based on the experiences of expat families. It will give your child what he or she needs to understand and express today in order to grow into a caring, emotional intelligent adult tomorrow.

Emotional Resilience and the Expat Child: Practical Storytelling Techniques That Will Strengthen the Global Family

Simens, Julia

Everyone knows that laughter is the best medicine, but Forced to Fly is more than a collection of funny stories about the seeing the funny side of the day to day blunders we all make. It is packed with stories that resonate with anyone who has lived abroad Its opening chapters, written by experts, counsellors and real-life expats who have struggled with culture shock, will provide support and advice to guide you through any dark patches. When the first edition came out I had no idea that it would find its way into corporate goodie bags for relocating employees, nor that people would call me up, saying, "Help, my daughter-in-law has just moved to Dubai and is not doing so well. Can you send her a book, please?" In this second edition, we have added a chapter on emotional resilience in addition to more than 20 new stories for you to enjoy from new writers such as Jack Scott, whose memoir, Perking the Pansies, has been shortlisted for the Polaris prize and the hilarious Debbie Fletcher, author of Bitten by Spain. Blogger contributors AdventuresInExpatland, DisparateHuisvrouw, WordGeyser and IWasAnExpatWife make this a thoroughly modern version of an old favourite. "A must-have book for expats everywhere. A unique mix of practical advice and funny stories that everyone will relate to." Toni Summers-Hargis, author of Rules, Britannia and blogger at Expat Mum - http://expatmum.blogspot.com 'I would love to have had it with me when I left home ten years ago for the first time." Laura J Stephens, author of An Inconvenient Posting, an expat wife's memoir of lost identity - www.laurajstephens.com "Delightfully relevant. A cleverly crafted collection of expatriate stories and advice, including the good, the bad and the hilarious side of international living. Perfect for global nomads looking to feel connected through shared experiences." Alison Cavatore, Founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Global Living Magazine - www.globallivingmagazine.com

Forced to Fly - An Anthology of Writings That Will Make You See the Funny Side of Living Abroad

Religion & Spirituality

Fully updated and revised, with additional 30 pages of photographs and epilogue. Ruth van Reken describes herself as 'a person in process' - someone whose life is made up of the continuous interplay between her inner and outer journey. For more than twenty-five years, Ruth has traveled to over 45 countries sharing what she has learned while 'listening to life' about the often paradoxical nature of growing up globally. What she has learned resonates with expatriate children and adults from all sectors - corporate, diplomatic, military, missionary, immigrant and refugees. Born and raised in Nigeria as the daughter of American missionaries, at age 39 Ruth needed to understand why, despite a life filled with rich experiences, a meaningful spiritual component, and family and friends who loved her, she often battled a secret depression. Through the journaling that became this book, she discovered that the very goodness of her life kept her from dealing with some of the challenges that also come with a global lifestyle - the realities of chronic cycles of separation and loss, reentry, and questions of identity. How could there be any struggles when she loved her childhood world so much? As a way of examining this 'other side' of her story, Ruth's began to write many letters home such as the girl known as Miss Question Box might have written. This book contains her story from ages six to thirty-nine. Today, in her mid-sixties, renowned internationally for her compassion, knowledge and insight into what it means to be a child growing up among worlds, van Reken, looks back over her life and adds a fascinating and reflective epilogue to a memoir that has already sold 32,000 copies and has helped and inspired its readers. Journaling has always been Ruth's first port in a storm. Writing her memoir this way is a natural part of her process. That she would also turn to her journal as a way of making sense of the cancer that knocked her 'out of line' for a couple of years, is no surprise. As she writes: "This is the power of journaling - to see the obvious but not yet named places in life." "Others who have experienced the many separations and losses in a childhood lived abroad will find Ruth's hurts their hurts, just as her healing becomes the beginning of their own." Norma M McCaig, Executive Director, Global Nomad's Society "Ruth Van Reken takes off all the spiritual masks and lets you look down into the deepest struggles of her soul." Phil Troyer, HCJB, Quito, Ecuador

Letters Never Sent, a global nomad's journey from hurt to healing

Biographies & Memoirs

Van Reken, Ruth E.

Community & Culture

When American homicide detective, Cathy Macpherson, reluctantly agrees to join her husband on a genealogy trip to Scotland, she does not expect to solve a mystery set in motion by her own ancestors. Switching back and forth between Victorian times and 2011, Bloodlines - Touch Not the Cat, reveals what forced Alexander Stewart to emigrate to America in 1895 and what moved laird Gordon Macpherson to protect his Highland values. Women's suffrage, racism and social division are at the heart of this gripping mystery. All bloodlines and events come together at a clan gathering in Scotland, where a family skeleton has a story to tell.

Bloodlines - Touch Not the Cat, a genealogy mystery novel

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thomas McKerley

Mystery

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