Kindle Edition Amazon The Path of the Wind Category:  Mainstream Publisher: Square One Publishers, Inc. N.Y. ISBN-10:  075700444X Type: Fiction Pages: 304 Copyright: March 15, 2017 ISBN-13: 9780757004445 Price: $10.99 (eBook) A first year teacher is hired into a dying school district by a controlling Superintendent. He must find a way to educate his students without losing his job or his marriage, or both. Miles Foster is excited about his first teaching job in a small mill town in central Oregon. He and his new wife, Ellie, drive into Tammarack, Oregon on the day of the funeral for three students killed in an auto accident on the outskirts of town. The death's put a pall on the opening of school where Miles meets the other teachers and the parents and public. Miles strikes up a friendship with the schoo janitor, the mill superintendent, and various ranchers in the hills around the town. Their contribution and support help as the school year moves along and as the gully between the administration and Miles widens. Clashes with the state education department, the school board, and other authority figures blunt Miles' enthusiasm for teaching, but the students and their parents keep the fire in his heart. As the animosity builds between Miles and the education system, he must find a path to educate the students without losing his job, or his marriage, or both.

Midwest Review
The Path of the Wind
James A. Misko
Square One Publishers
115 Herricks Road, Garden City Park, NY 11040
www.squareonepublishers.com
9780757004445, $17.95 PB, 304pp, www.amazon.com

Miles Foster is a newly minted teacher who dreams of getting a teaching job in the highly respected and financially stable Portland, Oregon school system where everything is available, and where he and his wife call home. But the only opening for his talents is in a remote lumber mill town in central Oregon, two hundred miles away. It is a poor school with forty students, and is controlled by a jealous superintendent and school board who tolerate no thinking outside the box and who conspire to destroy his teaching career. Miles must find a way to educate students who have been passed along regardless of what they learned, and defeat the damaging control of the school board and superintendent without losing his marriage or his job, or both. A truly gifted novelist with a genuine flair for creating deftly crafted and memorable characters, James A. Misko’s "The Path of the Wind" is a consistently entertaining and highly recommended addition to community library General Fiction collections. For personal reading lists it should be noted that "The Path of the Wind" is also available in a Kindle format ($10.99).


Ray Hoen
“End Impression…First thought, I want another 300 pages (Right Now)
I was hooked from page one, enjoyed the hours reading until 2 AM
in the morning not wanting to put it down. One Damn fine book.
Explaining how much I liked the book is like trying to describe the feelings in watching a most fantastic sunrise or sunset. A short period of time, but the memories live forever. And it would make a great movie.”


Nancy Arehart
“Got The Path of the Wind read and it turned out just terrible. It was terrible that I didn't get the house cleaned. It was terrible I let the laundry pile up. It was terrible that I wanted us to have "take out" for dinner every day. My goodness!

I related to it on so many levels. First, we lived in that neighborhood of Oregon for 3 years. Second, the music....... Played in the band and sang in the chorus from 5th grade through graduation and got to attend summer Allstate that lasted 3 weeks back in the 60's at the University of Nebraska. The last year, the last concert for the public was outside, and the last song we sang was The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Yes, you had me in a 5 tissue crying gig on that page.

Floods of memories I had long forgotten.

Terrible, just terrible. Love it! Absolutely will tell the 2 book clubs about it and hope they read it this year. So many of the ladies are like me with bands and chorus and living in small towns. “