Once upon a time a teenage girl granted a wish...Willow Vaugh grants wishes. She granted one just the other night but something is wrong.The world feels wrong. Willow knows her world has changed but how? Cynical and self-reliant, suddenly she feels out of her depth to help herself. She's going to have to find someone who knows more about wishes before it's too late and she's trapped in a world where she doesn't belong.One Bad Wish is a novella in the Teenaged Fairy Godmother series which features snarky, spunky Willow Vaughn.
The poet Elizabeth Bishop is said to have a prismatic way of seeing. In this companion to her poetry, making connections between modern art and modern poetry, Bonnie Costello aims to give a sense of the poet and her ways of seeing and writing.
Even the gods hire Barringer and Associates when they need a PI. Hired by Pele to find her lost dog, Meg Barringer's office gets to do what the goddess can't. Pele presses local earth spirit Peter Eresh into service as well. Gods lack patience. They also lack power when it comes to dealing with a master criminal from another world. Working with Zari A, a cat who is not a cat, Meg and her companions search for clues to Pele's missing dog. Can they find the dog before it's too late? Little Dog Lost involves a quest from the gods with villains, cats, plenty of suspense, and more romance than Meg is ready for.
When an emotional Abraham, Lincoln took leave of his Springfield neighbors, never to return, his moving tribute to the town and its people reflected their profound influence on the newly elected president. His old neighborhood still stands today as a National Historic Site. The story of the life Lincoln and his family built there return to us through the careful work of authors Bonnie E. Paull and Richard E. Hart. Journey back in time and meet this diverse but harmonious community as it participated in the business of everyday living while gradually playing a larger role on the national stage. Book jacket.
Local history of the portion of Elk Creek beginning at Shaffers Crossing and heading north up Elk Creek Road through Staunton State Park, scenic Elk Falls and Lion's Head. In this seemingly quiet stretch of water, one might assume that nothing much has happened, but this is far from the truth. From the Ute Indians to stage coaches, bandits, and buried treasure, to ranchers and homesteaders in the early 1900s, to current residents and visitors, everybody who has passed through has left a mark. Some very interesting "secrets" are revealed, but some of the mysteries remain subject to speculation. A nudist society, sanatorium, buried car and treasure, spirits, and activities of clandestine societies are among the secrets discovered and revealed. The book features many photographs, the majority of which were taken by the author and her husband."--back cover.
Traci lives in fear. Attacked long ago at a rest stop, she escaped by pure chance. Or so she thought. Though she's moved across the country and built up all sorts of coping mechanisms, terror still strikes on a regular basis. When another woman dies at a rest stop while Traci is there, she knows she has to go back and confront the terror of her past. But will she survive.
The Plural of Us is the first book to focus on the poet’s use of the first-person plural voice—poetry’s “we.” Closely exploring the work of W. H. Auden, Bonnie Costello uncovers the trove of thought and feeling carried in this small word. While lyric has long been associated with inwardness and a voice saying “I,” “we” has hardly been noticed, even though it has appeared throughout the history of poetry. Reading for this pronoun in its variety and ambiguity, Costello explores the communal function of poetry—the reasons, risks, and rewards of the first-person plural. Costello adopts a taxonomic approach to her subject, considering “we” from its most constricted to its fully unbounded forms. She also takes a historical perspective, following Auden’s interest in the full range of “the human pluralities” in a time of particular pressure for and against the collective. Costello offers new readings as she tracks his changing approach to voice in democracy. Examples from many other poets—including Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, and Wallace Stevens—arise throughout the book, and the final chapter offers a consideration of how contemporary writers find form for what George Oppen called “the meaning of being numerous.” Connecting insights to philosophy of language and to recent work in concepts of community, The Plural of Us shows how poetry raises vital questions—literary and social—about how we speak of our togetherness.
Whisper isn't the only place mountains move Meg arrives amid typical Las Vegas chaos, but not all of it is normal. She thinks a local mountain has moved. Her ties to Peter severed so she can heal, Meg investigates on her own. Back in Whisper, a murderer tangles Rain in her web. Barringer and Associates works harder than they ever expected examining clues to what is happening to Rain and to Meg. No amount of investigation stops a would-be murderer, though. Isolated in Las Vegas, Meg draws upon her own abilities to rescue herself. To succeed, she'll need friends she didn't even know she had, Secrets Not Whispers is the ninth exciting installment of the Whisper series, wrapping up the plot that began in A Haunting Whisper. Don't miss it.
- An engaging introduction to the skills of ethnographic research. Chapters introduce students to various aspects of field research -- cultures, texts, people, places, language -- by explaining ethnographic research skills and offering short writing assignments that let students practice their skills. Students can work on a single large field study or a series of shorter fieldwork assignments; in either case, the writing they do can become part of a research portfolio. FieldWorking can be used for field research in a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, cultural studies, and more.- A wide range of examples from both professional and student writers. FieldWorking includes 36 readings from different disciplines and genres and reflects a range of voices (Horace Miner, Gloria Naylor, Maxine Hong Kingston, William Least Heat-Moon, Oliver Sacks). Almost half of the readings are new to this edition. There are now five complete student research essays as well as numerous shorter studentexamples.- Writing skills in every chapter. Two chapters are devoted entirely to the writing process. Chapter Two shows students at the initial fieldnotes stage how the rhetorical concepts of self, audience, and voice are integrated to their research, and Chapter Eight guides students from rough draft to final, polished product. In addition, every chapter features "FieldWriting, " a discussion of writing strategies central to the chapter's focus.
From the award-winning picture book biographer of Woody Guthrie comes the inspirational story of Nellie Bly. Born in 1864, during a time in which options were extremely limited for women, Nellie defied all expectations and became a famous newspaper correspondent. Her daring exploits included committing herself to an infamous insane asylum in New York City to expose the terrible conditions there and becoming the first American war correspondent of either sex to report on the front lines of Austria during World War I. In 1889, Nellie completed her most publicized stunt, her world-famous trip around the world in just 72 days, beating the record of Jules Vernes’ fictional hero in Around the World in 80 Days. With an informative text and pen-and-ink illustrations reminiscent of the graphic style of the late 1800s, The Daring Nellie Bly captures the independent spirit of America’s first star reporter, Nellie Bly.
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