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  • A Wizard's Good Misfortune

    by Jack Volante ...
    Porrello is the only wizard attempting to stop a former colleague from committing a terrible act. But when his two grandchildren come to visit him, their mischievous games get in the way of the critical spell he is concocting.A slight mishap later, and Porrello's spell backfires spectacularly. In another time and place, four unfortunate characters are teleported from their world to this magical ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Force of Will: A Short Ghost Story

    by Jack Volante ...
    What if the last emotion you experience, moments before you die, is the only thing that defines you in the afterlife?This short story tells the first hand account of one young man and what happens on his fateful last day in the magical land he inhabits. Little does he know that someone has been watching him from afar and has great plans for his future, although not in the way he would want. A ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Defender - Volume 2 - Back to Iraq

    by Giroud, Laurent Galandon ...
    Illustrated by Volante ...
    Series Book 2 - The Defender
    Celebrity lawyer Leo Sully-Darmon must return to Iraq to prove the innocence of his client, a woman accused of crimes against humanity, despite having increasing doubts himself about her role in these events. While there, he finds shocking evidence of a massive coverup and, under pressure from all sides, is compelled to reveal secrets from his own dark past. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Defender - Volume 1 - Legal Eagle

    by Laurent Galandon, Giroud ...
    Illustrated by Volante ...
    Series Book 1 - The Defender
    Meet Leo Sully-Darmon, a hot-shot photogenic criminal defense attorney who takes on cases nobody else will touch. Leo loves a good cause just as much as he loves a good photo-op, and he happens to excel at both. But when he agrees to represent a woman accused of crimes against humanity during her former life as an officer in an Iraqi detention camp, he may have bitten off more than he can chew, as ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Risk, Resilience, and Recovery Across Global Education Systems

    The Long-Term Impact of Pandemic Reforms

    Edited by Louis Volante, Kristof De Witte, Orazio Giancola, Luca Salmieri, Don A. Klinger ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
    This book provides a critical review of the long-term effectiveness of education and social protection policies enacted by G10 countries in response to the global pandemic.The COVID-19 pandemic caused the most significant disruption to education systems since the devastation of World War II. Successive waves and variants of the coronavirus resulted in school closures and spurred a range of policy ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    No More Secrets

    From Hurt Never Told To Transformational Truth

    by Adam Volant ...
    Narrated by Jim McFarlane ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 44 min

    Considering my suicide, I stared out a window in Maryland and saw that rain blurred colors in a parking lot. The shame of being sexually abused caused recurring nightmares, and a life that became a complex facade of covers, military titles and secrets never told. In this book, published poet and author Adam Volant shares his own testimony of brokenness and success, rising from childhood abuse to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Defender - Volume 3 - The Law of the Desert

    by Laurent Galandon, Giroud ...
    Illustrated by Volante ...
    Series Book 3 - The Defender
    The stakes rise for hot-shot criminal defense attorney Leo Sully-Darmon and his client, an Iraqi woman accused of crimes against humanity, when "LSD" decides to go after the real culprit, a French industrial group that illegally manufactured chemical weapons during the Gulf War. Will he find the evidence he needs to take down Big Business while keeping himself and his client out of harm's way? ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Intersection of International Achievement Testing and Educational Policy

    Global Perspectives on Large-Scale Reform

    Edited by Louis Volante ...
    Educational systems around the world look to student assessment programs as they initiate reforms and revise educational policies to increase student achievement. This edited volume examines the intersection of international achievement testing and education policy development in key countries around the world, exploring how assessments can inform curriculum, pedagogy, strategic planning, and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The PISA Effect on Global Educational Governance

    Edited by Louis Volante ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
    The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international achievement measure that assesses 15-year-old student performance in the areas of reading, mathematics, and science literacy in over 70 countries and economies triennially. By presenting an in-depth examination of PISA’s role in education governance and policy discourses, this book provides the reader with a critical ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • No More Secrets From Hurt Never Told To Transformational Truth

    by Adam Volant ...
    Considering my suicide, I stared out a window in Maryland and saw that rain blurred colors in a parking lot. The shame of being sexually abused caused recurring nightmares, and a life that became a complex facade of covers, military titles and secrets never told. In this book, published poet and author Adam Volant shares his own testimony of brokenness and success, rising from childhood abuse to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Socioeconomic Inequality and Student Outcomes

    Cross-National Trends, Policies, and Practices

    Edited by Louis Volante, Sylke V. Schnepf, John Jerrim, Don A. Klinger ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines socioeconomic inequality and student outcomes across various Western industrialized nations and the varying success they have had in addressing achievement gaps in lower socioeconomic status student populations. It presents the national profiles of countries with notable achievement gaps within the respective school-aged student populations, explains the trajectory of ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Immigrant Student Achievement and Education Policy

    Cross-Cultural Approaches

    Edited by Louis Volante, Don Klinger, Ozge Bilgili ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines immigrant student achievement and education policy across a range of Western nations. It is divided into 3 sections: Part 1 introduces the topic of immigrant student achievement and the performance disadvantage that is consistently reported across a range of international jurisdictions. Part 2 then presents national profiles from scholars in ten countries (England, Germany, ... Read more

    $80.09 USD