Dog Ear Cafe is a true-life adventure story about how one Aboriginal community beat the odds and defeated petrol sniffing. It tells of the Mt Theo Petrol Sniffing Program: a story of culture clash, of two lines of fire that meet in the desert night, of partnerships that cross Australia's racial divide. Woven throughout are humour, taboos, bush mechanics, hope and tragedy. In a colloquial and narrative manner, this book invites the reader to a deeper analysis of the assumptions behind white and black economics, indigenous alcoholism, welfare dependency and the failure of well intended policy and programs. Hidden in the subtext is a mud map for reproducing successful partnerships with indigenous Australians. The Mt Theo Program was founded in 1994, when half the teenage population of Yuendumu were sniffing. Eight years later no one sniffed, and ex-sniffers had become youth leaders and community workers. The elders of Mt Theo used their traditional bush knowledge to turn lives around.

In her late 30s, Lucie Tanguay is a self-reliant, lippy livewire when her high-pressure, upscale Vancouver life suddenly and shockingly unravels. With help from one of her few trusted friends, Lucie gets out of town and starts looking... for what? She doesn’t know. Car trouble maroons her in the small town of Sweetgrass, Alberta, where she takes a temporary job in a local café. She begins soaking in the natural beauty and drama of her surroundings, and comes to form close bonds with people in town. Sweetgrass becomes as much a state of mind for Lucie as a place she just might want to call home. She falls in love in a brand-new way, her world-view utterly altered. Then a series of frightening events causes another seismic shift in Lucie’s life, thrusting her into danger and suspicion – a terrifying situation in which she must learn to balance her long-held toughness with her newfound faith in love. A lyrical, contemporary romantic drama, The Sow’s Ear Café tracks one woman’s path to healing through spectacular landscape, friends, and love.

Dog Coffee is a collection of musings about life, kids, dogs, and anything else that needs to be mused about. In these pages you will find exploding fruit, rogue hormones, and flatulent dogs who know more than they're saying - or perhaps less. I was working at a bookstore which also has a cafe, and I would go over to get coffee and chat with the manager, Andy W.( He has a last name but I can't divulge it because it gives Spellcheck a seizure.) One of the more popular coffees was Organic Blue Heeler, which is also a dog breed. In fact, Andy himself owned such a creature. So I started calling that blend the dog coffee, and I always thought it would make a good name for something. But no one took me up on it, leaving it available to me as a title for this, my first book. Jennifer Perry is an actual person who grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan and attended Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, graduating with a degree in Linguistics and a husband, Mills. After graduation, Jennifer and Mills remained in Appleton, even in the winter. Their family currently includes two grown sons, Matt and Andrew, and a black-and-white cocker spaniel, Dexter, who doesn't know he's been neutered. Jennifer has worked in bookstores and other retail establishments, most recently Basic Books and Cafe in Oshkosh, Wis. During a good part of the 80's and 90's she was a stay-at-home mom for Matt and Andrew (this was pre-Dexter.) She coached baseball, wrote dramas for church, and solved the world's problems over doughnuts and coffee with her friend Micky. In 2004 she began writing as a Community Columnist for the Appleton Post-Crescent, where many of these essays first appeared.

A collection of essays, stories, and poems by thirty-two Southern writers, including Jim Dees, Bret Anthony Johnston, and Diane McWhorter.

Steve and Rochester seek the truth about a neighbor’s murder There’s a new dog in town – a golden retriever named Luke, in training to be a seeing-eye dog. He and Rochester immediately bond, but there’s something odd about Luke’s human, Ben Ji. How can someone so young afford an expensive townhouse on Sarajevo Way? When Ben is shot, Steve begins to discover the lies he has been telling. Steve’s also forced to tell the truth about his past, when he deals with a student plagiarist at Eastern College, a professor locked in the stone age, a climate activist with dangerous habits, an angry bartender—and a rifle-wielding assassin. Will he and Rochester be able to dig up the clues to all these mysteries? Or will a deadly killer go unpunished?

This volume explores conceptualizations of indigeneity and the ways that indigenous philosophies can and should inform educational policy and practice. Beginning with questions and philosophies of indigeneity itself, the volume then covers the indigenous philosophies and practices of a range of communities—including Sami, Maori, Walpiri, Navajo and Kokama peoples. Chapter authors examine how these different ideals can inform and create meaningful educational experiences for communities that reflect indigenous ways of life. By applying them in informing a philosophy of education that is particular and relevant to a given indigenous community, this study aims to help policy makers and educational practitioners create meaningful educational experiences.