Secrets are revealed. Lies are exposed. And in order to have a future, William and Eva will have to delve into the past. William Templeton, widower and police chief of Eden, North Carolina is working the scene of a local woman's drowning when the body is found with an old gold coin in her pocket – identical to a coin that was discovered on Catherine's body, his estranged wife, over a year ago. Catherine's case, originally deemed a tragic accident, has been reopened, forcing William to step down as police chief. Historian and Blackbeard expert, Eva Knightly, is brought into the investigation to help identify the coins and can't understand why her good friend Catherine never mentioned anything about it. When more coins surface at a local church, Eva and William know it's more than mere coincidence. With the entire town whispering about Blackbeard, cursed coins, and lost treasure, it becomes hard to separate what is true and what is a myth. The Seafarer's Secret is a thrilling cinematic mystery featuring the exigent slow-burning romance between William and Eva as they work together to reveal the secrets and lies of Eden, North Carolina. Though, in order to have a future, they'll have to look deep into the past to keep from being a modern-day killer's next victim.
Life doesn't come with a manual. As one reaches the upper register of our earthly human cycle, often unexpected challenges present themselves. At age 89, Sister Carol Ann reflects on some of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual changes that have transpired in her own geriatric journey. She offers wisdom and perspective in the hope of helping others traverse their unique personal pathways to the end-of-life transition.
Find out how the beginning and the end equal the same in this fun-filled story about kids who are very special just by the nature of their birth given names. It's a backwards and forwards adventure as Ava and Bob discover they are Palindrome kids. Join them as they set out to find other Palindromes to join their brand new club. The first in a series of fun-with-words books, The Palindrome Kids will delight as well as educate children as they begin to discover the unique and interesting patterns of words.
A second edition of this school dictionary, based on extensive teacher research and with numerous extra features to promote success in all subjects in secondary school. Every spelling is shown in full with clear straightforward defining language. There are helpful examples of each word in use and simple pronunciations for difficult words plus similar words for vocabulary building, spelling tips and reminders, grammar boxes, and interesting word histories.
Find out how the beginning and the end equal the same in this fun-filled story about kids who are very special just by the nature of their names. It's a backward and forward adventure as Ava and Bob discover they are "palindrome kids." Join them as they set out to find other "palindromes" to join their brand-new club. The first in a series of fun-with-words books, The Palindrome Kids will delight as well as educate children as they begin to discover the unique and interesting patterns of words.
This volume, edited by Kim Golombisky, applies an intersectional lens to advertising, focusing on gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, age, class, and nationality. Intersectional feminist perspectives on advertising are rare in the advertising industry, even as it faces pressure to reform. This anthology focuses on advertising messaging to follow up the professional practices covered in Feminists, Feminisms, and Advertising, edited by Kim Golombisky and Peggy Kreshel. In this new collection, contributors write from a variety of perspectives, including Black, African, lesbian, transnational, poststructuralist, material, commodity, and environmental feminisms. The authors also discuss the reproductive justice framework, feminist disability studies, feminist ethnography, feminist discourse analysis, and feminist visual rhetoric. Together, these scholars introduce big ideas for feminist advertising studies. The first section, titled “Historicize This!,” includes work dealing with historicized analyses of advertising, ranging from more than a century of stereotypes about black women to early twentieth-century white women purchasing automobiles, all contextualized with women’s complex relations with technologies from cars to Twitter. The second section, “Advertising Body Politics,” groups work on topics related to body politics in advertising, including lesbians, disabled women, aging women, and Chinese “promotion girls.” The third section, “Media Reps,” revisits advertising representation in novel ways from operational definitions of race and advertising news about gay men to advertising twenty-first-century masculinities in Ghana and the United States. The last section, “Reproduction and Postfeminist Empowerment,” ends the book with a selection of case studies on the advertising industry’s cooptation and commodification of feminism, particularly in regressive postfeminist ideologies about women’s reproductive health and mothering.
Harlequin Presents brings you four new titles for one great price! Escape with these four stories by USA TODAY bestselling authors. This Presents bundle includes To Defy a Sheikh by USA TODAY bestselling author Maisey Yates, Protecting the Desert Princess by USA TODAY bestselling author Carol Marinelli, The Valquez Seduction by USA TODAY bestselling author Melanie Milburne and The Russian's Acquisition by Dani Collins. Look for 8 new exciting stories every month from Harlequin Presents!
The clothes we wear tell stories about us—and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States. The clothing artifacts documented here have been or are now regularly worn by Americans as everyday clothing, fashion, ethnic or religious identifiers, or style statements. They embody the cultural history of the United States and its peoples, from Native Americans, white Anglo colonists, and forcibly relocated black slaves to the influx of immigrants from around the world. Entries consider how dress items may serve as symbolic linkages to home country and family or worn as visible forms of opposition to dominant cultural norms. Taken together, they offer insight into the ethnic-based core ideologies, myths, and cultural codes that have played a role in the formation and continued story of the United States.
Find out how the beginning and the end equal the same in this fun-filled story about kids who are very special just by the nature of their names. It's a backward and forward adventure as Ava and Bob discover they are "palindrome kids." Join them as they set out to find other "palindromes" to join their brand-new club. The first in a series of fun-with-words books, The Palindrome Kids will delight as well as educate children as they begin to discover the unique and interesting patterns of words.
Leap of Reason is the product of decades of hard-won insights from philanthropist Mario Morino, McKinsey & Company, and top social-sector innovators. It is intended to spark the critically important conversations that every nonprofit board and leadership team should have in this new era of austerity. The authors make a convincing case that the nation's growing fiscal crisis will force all of us in the social sector to be clearer about our aspirations, more intentional in defining our approaches, more rigorous in gauging our progress, more willing to admit mistakes, more capable of quickly adapting and improving--all with an unrelenting focus on improving lives.
This popular core nursing pharmacology textbook provides unique coverage of nursing interventions for drug therapy with related rationales. Highly praised for its organized and readable presentation, the text explains the "why" behind each nursing action and emphasizes how drugs work differently in different patients. New to the Ninth Edition is an Evidence-Based Nursing feature that builds on the previous edition's Research Briefs and highlights the nursing implications of current research. Chapter openers now include key terms with definitions. Other highlights include a comprehensive glossary, a revised art program, and thoroughly revised end-of-chapter NCLEX-style questions.
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