Taking Leave W.E. Higgins was kidnapped as a child

was kidnapped as a child in his native land before being abandoned by a ship along the Appomattox River

social and emotional learning (SEL)

this resource reinforces existing knowledge and provides a foundation for developing additional skills

victims of the United States' mass incarceration of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II were kept from understanding their experience by governmental cover-ups

Social phobia (or social anxiety disorder) -- In the past few years

Taking Leave W.E. Higgins was kidnapped as a childDeborah Kapchan's Taking Leave is a lyrical memoir that encompasses journeys both inner and outer, physical and spiritual. Taking readers from New York, Paris, and Casablanca to Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi while exploring her Christian childhood, Jewish lineage, and the release she found in Islam, Kapchan examines the extent to which we can take leave of who we are to live between categories. She meditates on absence, presence, and the sublime to weave an