Signed Sealed And Delivered

Published by Psicom Publishing Inc

Jacaranda has joined with the National Museum of Australia to produce a text that offers an engaging and thought provoking collection of sources from the National Museum and elsewhere. These sources are presented with accompanying questions and activities to which students and teachers of English and History will readily respond. Letters, advertisements, posters, postcards, print media, invitations, government proclamations and protest songs are some of the many text types represented in this lively and authoritative resource that highlights Australia's textual heritage. As part of the English Alive program, the novel has a number of accompanying worksheets, found in the English Alive Teacher Resource Book Phase 3, covering language, reading, thinking strategies, and an overview of the novel.

• An all-in-one volume sharing the history, practice, and viewpoints of Confirmation in the Episcopal Church and the first book on the subject for at least 15 years • Resolutions regarding Confirmation are coming to the 2015 General Convention • Includes questions for reflection and study by individuals and groups Many clergy and educators would say that the rite of Confirmation in the Episcopal Church today is a sacrament in search of a meaning. Some believe Confirmation is an essential rite of passage for adult leadership in the governance of the church. Some believe it is a rite that no longer has a place in the life of the church, understanding the importance that Baptism now holds in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer’s ecclesiology. Following a history of how the rite of Confirmation came about and its implications for youth and adults in the church today, voices in the Episcopal Church (bishops, liturgical scholars, confirmation leaders, and youth themselves) offer fresh viewpoints here in a conversational format to engage the reader.

Two years ago, Dion Perides lost his little brother, Theos, in a car wreck. The accident did not only steal Theos; Dion was in the car, too, and he almost lost his own life. Despite the passage of time, Dion hasnt truly healed. Physically, he is weakened and still recovering from injury. He mourns the loss of his brother and feels a sense of guilt. But he does his best to carry on as part of the lucrative Perides family business. Hes running the successful Melbourne office when he comes across a newspaper photo of his father holding an infant child. Dion realizes Theos must have had a sonDions nephew, Alexander. He is driven to connect with his lost brothers child, but there is a problem: Alexanders mother, Terri, wants her son to have nothing to do with the Perides family fortuneand possibly nothing to do with his uncle Dion. Terri is a strong, independent woman, and soon Dion finds her brush-offs strangely alluring. Hes charmed by her resolve, and he longs for the possibility of friendship. In some way, Dion feels his closeness to her brings him closer to Theos. However, nothing is simple. Terri has a pasta dark secret that threatens her life, her son, and Dions hope to find a connection to the little brother he lost.

"Witty, moving, informative, and inspiring, Signed, Sealed, Delivered begins with Nina Sankovitch's discovery of trunk filled with a trove of hundred-year old letters in an old house she has just bought with her husband. They are from a Princeton freshman to his mother. Sankovitch cannot help think of her own son, who is about to go off to Harvard, and of the letters she's kept and cherished from a beloved sister and from her husband. From there she sets off on a quest to discover the secrets of letter writers and why we find them so fascinating--from the ancient Egyptians to the medieval lovers, Abelard and Heloise, from letters between Benjamin Franklin and his daughter to the notes that President Lincoln receives when his son dies. Sankovitch celebrates letters from Edith Wharton to Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald to his daughter describing life in Hollywood, James Joyce to his Nora, V.S. Naipaul to his father, young Sam Stewart to Gertrude Stein, Georgia O'Keefe to Alfred Stieglitz, and Rachel Carson to her woman lover. She looks at epistolary novels and her husband's love letters as well as her uncle's letters from his Holocaust exile, and dozens more. Plus her son's brief reports from college on the weather and his allowance. In a beautifully written book, itself a perfect gift, Nina Sankovitch reminds us that the letters we write are as important as the ones we wait for"--

Details and more details, charts, graphs, and statistics that document the many programs, innovations, budgetary and policy decisions made during the Zell Miller years in Georgia. A researcher's delight.