In her novel Departures, Adrienne Bellamy introduced a cast of unique, unforgettable characters. Now she brings them back in Connecting and adds a whole new crew to the mix Sheila has finally gotten her nursing degree. Emily and Jared are back togetherfor now, at least. And seventeen-year old Amber is on the verge of womanhood, looking forward to the future. There are plenty of reasons for the women of this Philly neighborhood to celebrateespecially as they conquer new worlds by moving out to the suburbs. But life always has new surprises (and problems) in storeand even as they enjoy their reunion, these feisty ladies find they still need one anothers support to make it through. From shopping addict ions to restraining orders, from the challenges of finding love in the golden years to the tricky quest to tame a passionate, mysterious Scorpio, the adventures just keep on going. And, with a few newcomers joining inlike the handsome Dr. Purdy and the secretive blond bombshell Stefanathe party is just getting started No matter what the girls troubles are, theyre going to make it. As long as they dont lose sight of whats important: having a good sister to lean on Praise for Departures A candid and gritty voyage into the colorful and turbulent lives of several streetwise and unpredictable characters. --Tracie Howard, Author of Never Kiss and Tell ADRIENNE BELLAMY was born and raised in Philadelphia. Her passion for writing began at age six when she wrote her first poem. Since then she has written everything from song lyrics to television commercials. She is the mother of two daughters. Adrienne is also the author of Lust, Lies and Two Wives, The Bitch Tried to Steal My Husbands Body and Arrivals.
In Arrivals, Greer, is a woman with THE master plan. After the painful death of her husband and one true love, this successful graphic artist has decided to take a walk on the wild side and date whoever she wants, whenever she wants and will not allow a small thing such as marital status to deter her. Her rules are strict, organized, definitely self-serving and well worth the trouble. Greer has all her bases covered until she meets a man who challenges her game plan. Reba and Doug are happily married but their joyful and peaceful life is interrupted by a mischievous teenager and an ex-husband who won't stay gone. When Reba's ex-husband Johnny threatens to disrupt their happy home, one of Reba's sister friends comes to the rescue with a plan of her own. Her exposure enables Reba and Doug to maintain their blissful existence and ultimately survive the challenges of blending two families. Terri has hired a new housekeeper, Harvey. When she signed on to hire Harvey she had no idea she was also inheriting his drinking problem, his landlord and his incessant phobias. Harvey thinks he's a hot gay blade who has a fantasy that includes exterminating Terri's home of imaginary creatures. Harvey's landlord is clearly taking advantage of him—that is until Terri decides to teach her who the master manipulator really is. Lenora, whom you adored in Bellamy’s novel, Departures has a new occupation. She has founded the Life After Death program for death row inmates who wish to donate their organs. The convicts are all interesting characters in and of themselves—however, their stories are both surprising and shocking. Alas dear Amber has become a typical teenager. When Amber finds out she is in line to inherit a sizeable amount of money, she becomes hell-bent on circumventing her adopted father Horace's involvement and obtaining the money directly. Her plan is to live large and flex a little "bling-bling,” regardless of Horace's objections. Amber misjudges the consequences of going it alone and of course, pays a price she never would have expected. The folks of Departures and Connecting are at it again, but this time with added characters who are just as funny, realistic and down to earth as the originals.
Lust, Lies and Two Wives While out of town for the Thanksgiving holiday, on Black Friday, Denise Garner listened to the words on the other end of the phone. It was Lennys cousin. Listen, Denise, you need to come home. Lenny died of a heart attack yesterday." Denise immediately smelled a rat named Carolyn Monroe. She had never trusted that trollop her husband had been shacked up with for the past fourteen years. Did Lenny indeed have a heart attack or did his bitch Carolyn have a smart attack? After all, he was worth a lot more to that wench dead than alive, so Denise estimated. In this fiction caper, through author Adrienne Bellamy, the character Denise Garner will dazzle you. She will erupt your emotions, all of them. She has infused this book with mystery, facts, humor and intrigue, thus causing you to laugh out loud or seethe with anger. Her sheer energy alone in the investigation of the case will fascinate you. Bellamy navigates Denise step by step and blow by blow as she interrogates funeral directors, insurance claims adjusters, city officials, detectives, forensic experts, hospital personnel, pharmacists, paramedics, attorneys. You name them, she was there with her files determined to uncover facts proving that her husband was murdered. Denise, a dynamically clever trained paralegal, a thorough researcher and a true bloodhound is a one-woman show, hell bent on going after the bitch Carolyn and teaching her the following lessons, more specifically: If hes got a wife, dont make him your life; A marriage license holds a lot of weight; Not with my husbandyou wont; Dont be the mistressthat could hurt; The married mandont bank on him; Hes not yourshes married; Disasterhook up with my husband; What the mistress gets in the end is a catastrophe; Do the wrong thingand bring on your dilemma; So you want my husbands bodytake your best shot before I crush you; Theres a thin line between love and stupidity; The Turkey and the marriage license; How NOT to steal a womans husband; and; Let the court sayI winCheckmate! This Novel Was Formerly Published as The Bitch Tried To Steal My Husbands Body and is the identical story
These Philly women will have you cheering them on or shaking your head in DEPARTURES by Adrienne Bellamy They have a recipe for keeping things spicy inside the kitchen and the bedroom. Make sure you turn the heat way up high. Add a dollop of passion and a dash of deceit. Create a stir and sprinkle on some love (optional): Meet the women of DEPARTURES Amber, a feisty yet innocent young girl, has a mother with only three priorities: men, money, and how to get more of both. Luckily, there are other women in her Philadelphia neighborhood to look up to women who better value their time between the sheets for all the right reasons. There is Sheila, who, instead of mourning her no-good dead husband, digs him up and gives him the biggest backlash he has ever seen in his life or afterlife. Reba, who finds love in all the right places outside of Philly. But how will she fit love into her busy schedule as a mother of six not to mention how to handle that whole sticky issue of her husband? And Lucy, who's searching for the real deal, someone who is marriage material and deserves a successful woman like herself if such a man exists. The unique and always interesting women of DEPARTURES will have you cheering them on or shaking your head. Either way, they will touch your soul as, alone and together, they learn that breaking free doesn't mean losing ground.
Lust, Lies and Two Wives While out of town for the Thanksgiving holiday, on Black Friday, Denise Garner listened to the words on the other end of the phone. It was Lennys cousin. Listen, Denise, you need to come home. Lenny died of a heart attack yesterday." Denise immediately smelled a rat named Carolyn Monroe. She had never trusted that trollop her husband had been shacked up with for the past fourteen years. Did Lenny indeed have a heart attack or did his bitch Carolyn have a smart attack? After all, he was worth a lot more to that wench dead than alive, so Denise estimated. In this fiction caper, through author Adrienne Bellamy, the character Denise Garner will dazzle you. She will erupt your emotions, all of them. She has infused this book with mystery, facts, humor and intrigue, thus causing you to laugh out loud or seethe with anger. Her sheer energy alone in the investigation of the case will fascinate you. Bellamy navigates Denise step by step and blow by blow as she interrogates funeral directors, insurance claims adjusters, city officials, detectives, forensic experts, hospital personnel, pharmacists, paramedics, attorneys. You name them, she was there with her files determined to uncover facts proving that her husband was murdered. Denise, a dynamically clever trained paralegal, a thorough researcher and a true bloodhound is a one-woman show, hell bent on going after the bitch Carolyn and teaching her the following lessons, more specifically: If hes got a wife, dont make him your life; A marriage license holds a lot of weight; Not with my husbandyou wont; Dont be the mistressthat could hurt; The married mandont bank on him; Hes not yourshes married; Disasterhook up with my husband; What the mistress gets in the end is a catastrophe; Do the wrong thingand bring on your dilemma; So you want my husbands bodytake your best shot before I crush you; Theres a thin line between love and stupidity; The Turkey and the marriage license; How NOT to steal a womans husband; and; Let the court sayI winCheckmate! This Novel Was Formerly Published as The Bitch Tried To Steal My Husbands Body and is the identical story
In her novel Departures, Adrienne Bellamy introduced a cast of unique, unforgettable characters. Now she brings them back in Connecting— and adds a whole new crew to the mix . . . Sheila has finally gotten her nursing degree. Emily and Jared are back together . . . for now, at least. And seventeen-year old Amber is on the verge of womanhood, looking forward to the future. There are plenty of reasons for the women of this Philly neighborhood to celebrate . . . especially as they conquer new worlds by moving out to the suburbs. But life always has new surprises (and problems) in store—and even as they enjoy their reunion, these feisty ladies find they still need one another’s support to make it through. From shopping addictions to restraining orders, from the challenges of finding love in the golden years to the tricky quest to tame a passionate, mysterious Scorpio, the adventures just keep on going. And, with a few newcomers joining in—like the handsome Dr. Purdy and the secretive blond bombshell Stefana—the party is just getting started . . . No matter what the girls’ troubles are, they’re going to make it. As long as they don’t lose sight of what’s important: having a good sister to lean on . . . Praise for Departures “A candid and gritty voyage into the colorful and turbulent lives of several streetwise and unpredictable characters.” –Tracie Howard, Author of Never Kiss and Tell ADRIENNE BELLAMY was born and raised in Philadelphia. Her passion for writing began at age six when she wrote her first poem. Since then she has written everything from song lyrics to television commercials. She is the mother of two daughters. Adrienne is also the author of Lust, Lies and Two Wives, The Bitch Tried to Steal My Husband’s Body and Arrivals.
In Arrivals, Greer, is a woman with THE master plan. After the painful death of her husband and one true love, this successful graphic artist has decided to take a walk on the wild side and date whoever she wants, whenever she wants and will not allow a small thing such as marital status to deter her. Her rules are strict, organized, definitely self-serving and well worth the trouble. Greer has all her bases covered until she meets a man who challenges her game plan. Reba and Doug are happily married but their joyful and peaceful life is interrupted by a mischievous teenager and an ex-husband who won't stay gone. When Reba's ex-husband Johnny threatens to disrupt their happy home, one of Reba's sister friends comes to the rescue with a plan of her own. Her exposure enables Reba and Doug to maintain their blissful existence and ultimately survive the challenges of blending two families. Terri has hired a new housekeeper, Harvey. When she signed on to hire Harvey she had no idea she was also inheriting his drinking problem, his landlord and his incessant phobias. Harvey thinks he's a hot gay blade who has a fantasy that includes exterminating Terri's home of imaginary creatures. Harvey's landlord is clearly taking advantage of him—that is until Terri decides to teach her who the master manipulator really is. Lenora, whom you adored in Bellamy’s novel, Departures has a new occupation. She has founded the Life After Death program for death row inmates who wish to donate their organs. The convicts are all interesting characters in and of themselves—however, their stories are both surprising and shocking. Alas dear Amber has become a typical teenager. When Amber finds out she is in line to inherit a sizeable amount of money, she becomes hell-bent on circumventing her adopted father Horace's involvement and obtaining the money directly. Her plan is to live large and flex a little "bling-bling,” regardless of Horace's objections. Amber misjudges the consequences of going it alone and of course, pays a price she never would have expected. The folks of Departures and Connecting are at it again, but this time with added characters who are just as funny, realistic and down to earth as the originals.
These Philly women will have you cheering them on or shaking your head in... DEPARTURES by Adrienne Bellamy They have a recipe for keeping things spicy inside the kitchen and the bedroom. Make sure you turn the heat way up high. Add a dollop of passion...and a dash of deceit. Create a stir—and sprinkle on some love (optional): Meet the women of DEPARTURES Amber, a feisty yet innocent young girl, has a mother with only three priorities: men, money, and how to get more of both. Luckily, there are other women in her Philadelphia neighborhood to look up to—women who better value their time between the sheets...for all the right reasons. There is Sheila, who, instead of mourning her no-good dead husband, digs him up and gives him the biggest backlash he has ever seen in his life...or afterlife. Reba, who finds love in all the right places—outside of Philly. But how will she fit love into her busy schedule as a mother of six—not to mention how to handle that whole sticky issue of her husband? And Lucy, who’s searching for the real deal, someone who is marriage material and deserves a successful woman like herself—if such a man exists. The unique and always interesting women of DEPARTURES will have you cheering them on or shaking your head. Either way, they will touch your soul as, alone and together, they learn that breaking free doesn’t mean losing ground.
Negative Emissions Technologies for Climate Change Mitigation provides a comprehensive introduction to the full range of technologies that are being researched, developed and deployed in order to transition from our current energy system, dominated by fossil fuels, to a negative-carbon emissions system. After an introduction to the challenge of climate change, the technical fundamentals of natural and engineered carbon dioxide removal and storage processes and technologies are described. Each NET is then discussed in detail, including the key elements of the technology, enablers and constraints, governance issues, and global potential and cost estimates. This book offers a complete overview of the field, thus enabling the community to gain a full appreciation of NETs without the need to seek out and refer to a multitude of sources. Covers the full spectrum of technologies to underpin the transition to a negative emissions energy system, from technical fundamentals to the current state of deployment and R&D Critically evaluates each technology, highlighting advantages, limitations, and the potential for large scale environmental applications Combines natural science and environmental science perspectives with the practical use of state-of-the-art technologies for sustainability
Help young writers learn to engage and invite their reader's thinking with five key thinking strategies - connect, question, visualize, infer, and transform.
From mid-twentieth-century films such as Grand Hotel, Waterloo Bridge, and The Red Shoes to recent box-office hits including Billy Elliot, Save the Last Dance, and The Company, ballet has found its way, time and again, onto the silver screen and into the hearts of many otherwise unlikely audiences. In Dying Swans and Madmen, Adrienne L. McLean explores the curious pairing of classical and contemporary, art and entertainment, high culture and popular culture to reveal the ambivalent place that this art form occupies in American life. Drawing on examples that range from musicals to tragic melodramas, she shows how commercial films have produced an image of ballet and its artists that is associated both with joy, fulfillment, fame, and power and with sexual and mental perversity, melancholy, and death. Although ballet is still received by many with a lack of interest or outright suspicion, McLean argues that these attitudes as well as ballet's popularity and its acceptability as a way of life and a profession have often depended on what audiences first learned about it from the movies.
This biography tells the story of Alice May, a touring prima donna in the nineteenth century who took part in pioneering performances of the popular light operas of the day, including the first production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer.
An impressive new volume. . . . Rich's admirers will recognize the complex symbiosis between the activist and the maker of new language, each propelling, describing, provoking the other's words."—Publishers Weekly "Look: with all my fear I'm here with you, trying what it means, to stand fast; what it means to move." In these astonishing new poems, Adrienne Rich dares to look and to extend her poetic language as witness to the treasures—the midnight salvage—we rescue from fear and fragmentation. Rich's work has long challenged social plausibilities built on violence and demoralizing power. In Midnight Salvage, she continues her explorations at the end of the century, trying, as she has said, "to face the terrible with hope, in language as complex as necessary, as communicative as possible—a poetics which can work as antidote to complacency, self-involvement, and despair. I have wanted to assume a theater of voices rather than the restricted I. To write for both readers I know exist and those I can only imagine, finding their own salvaged beauty as I have found mine." "In her vision of warning and her celebration of life, Adrienne Rich is the Blake of American letters."—Nadine Gordimer
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana} At the height of the Arts and Crafts era in Europe and the United States, American ceramics were transformed from industrially produced ornamental works to handcrafted art pottery. Celebrated ceramists such as George E. Ohr, Hugh C. Robertson, and M. Louise McLaughlin, and prize-winning potteries, including Grueby and Rookwood, harnessed the potential of the medium to create an astonishing range of dynamic forms and experimental glazes. Spanning the period from the 1870s to the 1950s, this volume chronicles the history of American art pottery through more than three hundred works in the outstanding collection of Robert A. Ellison Jr. In a series of fascinating chapters, the authors place these works in the context of turn-of-the-century commerce, design, and social history. Driven to innovate and at times fiercely competitive, some ceramists strove to discover and patent new styles and aesthetics, while others pursued more utopian aims, establishing artist communities that promoted education and handwork as therapy. Written by a team of esteemed scholars and copiously illustrated with sumptuous images, this book imparts a full understanding of American art pottery while celebrating the legacy of a visionary collector.
The collected works of Adrienne Rich, whose poetry is "distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity" (New York Times). A Finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation and one of our most important American poets. She brought discussions of gender, race, and class to the forefront of poetical discourse, pushing formal boundaries and consistently examining both self and society. This collected volume traces the evolution of her poetry, from her earliest work, which was formally exact and decorous, to her later work, which became increasingly radical in both its free-verse form and feminist and political content. The entire body of her poetry is on display in this vast volume, including the National Book Award–winning Diving Into the Wreck and her prize-winning Atlas of the Difficult World. The Collected Poems of Adrienne Rich gathers and memorializes all of her boldly political, formally ambitious, thoughtful, and lucid work, the whole of which makes her one of the most prolific and influential poets of our time.
Australia is now the only major Anglophone country that has not adopted a Bill of Rights. Since 1982 Canada, New Zealand and the UK have all adopted either constitutional or statutory bills of rights. Australia, however, continues to rely on common law, statutes dealing with specific issues such as racial and sexual discrimination, a generally tolerant society and a vibrant democracy. This book focuses on the protection of human rights in Australia and includes international perspectives for the purpose of comparison and it provides an examination of how well Australian institutions, governments, legislatures, courts and tribunals have performed in protecting human rights in the absence of a Bill of Rights.
Heritier, Kerwer, Knill, Lehmkuhl (all with the Max Planck Project Group, Common Goods: Law, Politics, and Economics), Teutsch (European Union Department of the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs), and Douillet (Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan) combine efforts in this study to develop a theoretical and conceptual framework for studying the impact of European policies on member states. The authors argue that the influence of EU policies on each member state depends on each state's preexisting policies and institutional capacity to change. The study focuses on transport policy, presenting case studies from Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands to demonstrate differences in the impacts of EU policies. The text concludes with a comparison of the differences in responses of member states to identical European policy demands and similar external and internal conditions. c. Book News Inc.
On a hot July night on Cape Cod, at the age of 14, Brodeur became a confidante to her mother's affair with her husband's closest friend. Malabar came to rely on her daughter to help, but when the affair had calamitous consequences for everyone involved, Brodeau was driven into a precarious marriage of her own, and then into a deep depression. In her memoir she examines how the people close to us can break our hearts simply because they have access to them, and the lies we tell in order to justify the choices we make. -- adapted from jacket
This book argues that there is an inherent relationship between EU fundamental rights and EU citizenship: they both have the same objective of guaranteeing protection for the individual. This is underpinned by the development of case law in the field by the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU). Here, however, the author proposes that that relationship has weakened in recent years as the CJEU has entered increasingly sensitive territory in regard to the protection of citizenship rights and fundamental rights. Writing in the post UK–EU referendum environment, the author argues that this decline is attributable to increasing Euroscepticism, which has worsened since the Eurozone crisis and even more so in light of Brexit, and arguments made that leaving the EU would reduce immigration. This argument is particularly important to note given the rising fears of immigration that underlie much of the dissatisfaction with the EU project: a feeling prevalent not only in the UK. The chapters look at the rights of migrant EU citizens in Member States other than their own, and the guarantees that exist as a matter of protecting their fundamental human rights, which are present alongside rights enjoyed as part of being an EU citizen.
Being Rita Hayworth' considers the ways in which this actress has been treated by film scholarship over the years to accomplish its own goals, sometimes at her expense.
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