Central Kansas Library System

We've never been more educated and entertained. We have technological tools our parents could only dream of, and we are saturated with information, amusement, and recreation. Yet more than ever, we are starving for hope. School shootings are all too familiar. Depression is on the rise. And more people than ever are orchestrating their own deaths. In America alone, the suicide rate has increased 24 percent in fewer than twenty years. If a disease saw...

With each child you encounter, you have the power and opportunity to build up-- or, tragically, to tear down. You never know when you are making a memory. Stafford has collected stories that show that, if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.

Titles contained: The Great Conversation: The Substance of a Liberal Education; The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon of Great Books of the Western World Vol. I; … Vol. II; The Iliad of Homer and the Odyssey; The Plays of Aeschylus, … of Sophocles, … of Euripides, … of Aristophanes; The History of Herodotus, The History of The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides; The Dialogues of Plato, The 7th Letter; The Works of Aristotle Vol. I; … Vol. II; Hippocratic...

Fifteen minutes a day; the reading guide. New York, Collier [1956, c1938] 95 p.: illus.; 23 cm. v. 30--Scientific papers: physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology. v. 31--The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini. v. 32--Literary and phylosophical essays, French, German, Italy. v. 33--Voyages and travels, ancient and modern v. 34--French and English philosophers: Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes. v. 35--Chronicle and romance: Froissart,...

This A-Z topical guide will equip you to instill God's principles into the everyday lives of your family members. It includes a section on identifying "teachable moments" in your child's life, ideas for simple discussions, Scriptures for memorization, and activities that are adaptable to your children's ages and interests.--From back cover.

Mike Huckabee--pastor, politician, governor, presidential candidate, talk show host, rock bassist, pundit, husband, and father--shares his love and wisdom with his grandson Chandler and granddaughter Scarlett, recounting heartwarming stories from his past and the bittersweet lessons learned along the way.

In the book of Philippians we are told to be anxious over nothing, and yet we are anxious over everything. We worry that our students will be "behind," that they won't score well on the SAT, get into a good college, or read enough of the Great Books. Our souls are restless, anxiously wondering if something else out there might be just a little bit better -- if maybe there is another way or another curriculum that might prove to be superior to what...