Keating: 302 books

Written for educators and administrators, this book explores professional learning communities from a teacher’s perspective. Focused chapters survey effective and collaborative team actions, instructional practices that enhance teacher efficiency, and the role teacher judgment and classroom context...

In this sequel to Total Instructional Alignment, the author peels back complex layers of the change process to reveal the five big ideas at the core of successful schools. Focus on these foundational ideas to simplify decision making and eliminate distractions from your efforts to promote effective teaching...

As seen on the hit animated series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic! Inspired by the magical journal of Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, the pony friends--Princess Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity and Applejack--start a diary of their own so they can learn from...

Mail Order May: Planting A Garden Of Love, is a beautiful story about a reluctant mail order bride who is sent off to California by her parents after a cholera epidemic. What she finds there is a potential husband who is not as promised, and the desire to run right back home.

A delegation of visiting firemen arrives at Southampton, greeted by a stagecoach which carries a reception committee in early 19th century costume. This Old English greeting has been arranged between their president, Foster P. Schelemberger, and George Hamyadis, the flamboyant travel agent who is...

An injured French officer struggles along a desolate stretch of West African coastline, desperate to hold on to his secret. Alas for him, his tale is soon ended, and violently, but a young pirate recruit, Patrick Devlin, who happens to speak fluent French, comes away from their encounter with a new...

Rachel Fisher’s Life-Changing Decision, is the story of a young woman with a powerful decision to make. Should she leave her family, her community and her church for a young man she loves and who also must leave his community because he wants to get away from his father and get a job with the English...

The Western Mail Order Bride: Weston B. Freeman & His English Lady, Eleanor, is a wonderful story about an entrepreneur in old Montana, Weston B. Freeman. He has a checkered, colorful, and sometimes sordid past but he finally wants to settle down--and he’s lonely. He advertises for a mail order...

Abandoned By The Wagon Train: A Story of Survival & Faith -- is about a teacher who needs to find a new job because her schoolhouse is being torn down. Looking in the newspaper to see what might be available -- anywhere -- she spots an ad for both a schoolteacher in California, and a mail order bride...

Two sisters head out with their children to become mail order brides to twin ranchers, after their husbands were both killed together in the same accident. One works out immediately but the other has to contend with a strange and angry housekeeper.

Ordinary objects. Extraordinary tales. As Told by Things is a lighthearted, multi-genre collection of short stories and flash fiction, each told from the perspective of an inanimate object. Fun, witty, and full of charm, As Told by Things will capture your imagination—as well as your heart. What objects do you think have stories to tell?

Mail Order Bride – Becoming A Good Farmer’s Wife, is about a woman sent by her parents to Oklahoma to escape a raging influenza epidemic. She knows the farmer she is supposed to marry told her parents several untruths about his age and occupation, but she reluctantly tells herself that staying...

Mail Order Groom: You’re Gonna Stay, Ain’t Ya?: A farmer from back east journeys to Colorado to become the mail order husband of a widow with two children. They decide together whether he will become Rebecca’s husband, and father to her two rambunctious children. Mail Order Bride: It’s...

Our Wagon Train: Christian Love Never Ends On The Oregon Trail, is the story of a woman whose husband is killed in an attack on their wagon train, leaving her alone with her two children and parents. She bears a terrible burden after retaliation in self-defense and it’s only when they come upon...