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Sailing Toward Horizon: A Leadership Voyage of Discovery takes place on the inland waters of Washington State and British Columbia. This book provides a rationale for why leadership needs to be different and examples of how to make it happen.The Great Man archetype is deeply embedded in our leadership DNA and is the default model for many organizations. This outdated archetype will not work in a world affected by climate change when entire coastal communities will need to mobilize to survive the impact of rising sea levels.You are invited to join the voyage and discover new ways to lead and work with colleagues. Time is running out to proactively respond to the impact of global warming.

An anthology from Wordcrafters in Eugene Writers in the Schools program. Fiction Fantastic-a project of Wordcrafters' Writers in the Schools youth programming-is one of the few opportunities for students in Lane County, Oregon, to showcase their writing, learn their craft, and engage with other writers.

The Writers in the Schools (WITS) program provides creative writing opportunities and instruction to Lane County students. Through National Author Visits, Youth Workshops, College Essay Mentorship, Creative Writing Camps, and the Young Writers Fiction Contest, students have the opportunity to learn their craft and engage with other writers.

In this eighth offering by L. Wade Powers, readers will be tantalized by a kaleidoscope of stories, essays, and poems, including the titular "The Gristmill Mistress," a tale of a scandalous affair between an apprentice mill worker and the married son of a Virginia town founder during the 1800s. In "The Game is On," a one-act play set at a poker elimination tournament, the stakes are higher than the players can possibly imagine, and in "Cat-a-Rack" role playing can be fun, educational, and dangerous, especially when the setting is a dungeon. Let the charming professor and beautiful librarian show you how the game is played. "Dance Like the Greeks" is a travel memoir set on Evia, where dancing is the key to a long and happy life. Opa! Do you believe in dragons? You will, you will. These and many more delights in The Gristmill Mistress are your ticket to a flight of fancy: tales of imagination and everyday relationships, accounts of daring doings, and predictable failures.

FBI agents Annie Caden and John McNeil are thrust into life-and-death challenges when they concoct a plan to hunt for Americans held hostage in war-torn Iraq. John is reassigned from Baghdad to a British base in Basra and embedded with US Army Green Berets. Annie has the unenviable mission of fighting the real battle-keeping the project alive. Donovan, a National Security Agency (NSA) Analyst becomes an integral part of the team searching for the hostages. British intelligence and back-channel meetings along with frequent rocket attacks add to the complicated navigation and intrigue of wartime hostage events. The American hostages are held in the most abysmal conditions and their chances of rescue are dwindling along with their weight and health. Just Kill the Hostages is a fictionalized account of a world known only to insiders with raised-level government clearance. The characters are inspired by real-world operators in dangerous environments; unpolished realities of how government work gets done in a war zone form a story you will not soon forget.

In the year 2042, megacities are ruled by women, the International Progressive Gynocracy (IPG), after a global pandemic sterilizes over 98 percent of the men. Selected fertile men reside in sequestered androdomes or male harems. Freemen groups living outside of SurrogaCity support reproductive freedom and resist the IPG with the help of artificial humans. Political conflicts within the IPG result in military confrontations. Artificial insemination and the prospect of parthenogenetic reproduction threaten the future existence of human males.

The Brown Boy Crisis takes educators, graduate students, scholars, and policymakers inside the minds of a group of learners who fail to overcome the racial barriers schools often have in place to stumble their academic success. Thought to be monolithic learners, African, Hispanic, and Native American males-the brown boys-have the highest dropout rates. They are the most disproportionately under-served students in our schools. Yet, they are the first to be suspended, disciplined, medicated, micromanaged, held back a grade level, and assigned to special education classes. The school experiences of brown boys have metastasized into a national crisis. The Brown Boy Crisis describes the enormous diversity among these three groups of male learners. It explores the hidden agendas of school culture and misinformation that fuels their higher retention and dropout rates.

Wordcrafters is pleased to present the winners of the 2020 Fiction Fantastic contest in this anthology. The creativity and use of plot and characterization in the stories dazzled our judges. The Writers in the Schools (WITS) program provides creative writing opportunities and instruction to Lane County students. Through national author visits, youth workshops, college essay mentorship, creative writing camps, and the Fiction Fantastic short fiction contest, students have the opportunity to learn their craft and engage with other writers.

"Born in a tiny village in the Libyan Sahara, Ed Elhaderi was fortunate to survive his childhood. Excelling academically, he won a scholarship that took him to the United States, where his horizons opened and he began encountering people from vastly different backgrounds. Nomadic Soul tells the remarkable story of how one man discovered meaning, depth, and community in Judaism. His story serves as a compelling reminder that no matter our circumstances, we each have the capacity and possibility for transformation, for spiritual fulfillment, and for creating a life beyond our wildest dreams."--