Lead with Literacy – Book
by Mandy Ellis Lead with Literacy: A Pirate Leader’s Guide to Developing a Culture of Readers Readers are leaders. Leaders are readers. Literacy impacts every aspect of life – from schoolwork and test scores to the way we relate to others and to the career paths we and our students pursue. But learning to read…
Playing the Game – Book
by Paul Remack Playing the Game: Create Your Legacy and Preserve Your Estate for Future Generations Personal wealth isn’t the only purpose of hard work and investment; it’s also important to be able to pass wealth on to one’s children and grandchildren. Wealth transfer and distribution is a game, and if played poorly―or if it…
Manual Labor – Book
by Dick Van Scyoc and Jan Bogle Manual Labor: Feet and Shoulders Square, Elbows In, Eyes On the Target, Follow Through Dick Van Scyoc was a high school basketball coach at Peoria Manual High School in Peoria, Illinois (the hotbed of Illinois basketball) for 28 years. He taught and coached in Illinois for 45 years…
The Eye of the Reporter – Book
edited by Bill Knight and Deckle McLean This is a collector’s item from 1997 An Essays in Literature Book “This lively collection is about the positive impact of journalism on some of American’s finest writers. With penetrating research and provocative analysis, a diverse band of journalism scholars retraces the often-surprising journeys from reporting to fiction…
Peoria People – Book
edited by Bill Knight and others This is a collector’s item from 1988 Peoria People: Observations, Articles, and Insight About Central Illinois by dozens of area journalists Dozens of articles, essays, interviews, illustrations, and photographs in this anthology help document the life and charm of Central Illinois. Herein are Jack Brickhouse and Dan Fogelberg, the…
Video Almanac – Book
by Bill Knight This is a collector’s item from 2003 Video Almanac is a 112-page trade paperback described as a “do-it-yourself film festival guide for home viewers [with] hundreds of capsule reviews for dozens of themes — for every week of every year.” From films about Labor to Boxing movies, Medical Dramas to Shakespeare, the…
Fair Comment – Book
by Bill Knight Fair Comment: Essays On The Air – Book In more than 100 essays from Midwestern publications and airwaves, where they’ve been featured for more than 14 years, award-winning journalist Bill Knight writes about labor and baseball, war and religion, corporations and the press, rural life and family.
Horse Shoe Bottoms – Book
by Tom Tippett, edited by Bill Knight Decades after its publication, Tom Tippett’s “Horse Shoe Bottoms” is once more available in this new edition, with a new introduction by Peoria area journalist Bill Knight, who edited this version. Tippett was an Illinois coal miner, union activist, journalist, New Deal bureaucrat, and educator. His only novel,…
Unremembered – Book
by Ken Zurski Tales of the Nearly Famous & the Not Quite Forgotten A nonfiction collection of historical events and figures written by Ken Zurski. Zurski a broadcaster, speaker and author whose books recreate the past. This book casts a spotlight on several dozen personalities and shares their contributions to society and progress. A grand and…
Mr. Fuzzy Ears – Book
by Donna Carr Roberts The Adventures of Mr. Fuzzy Ears: Searching for a Furry Friend One dog’s search for a friend gets him into troubled places. He looks for Mr. Mouse and gets stuck in the cupboard. He is turned away from Mrs. Chipmunk and is then hit on the head with an acorn from…