Experience the warmth of holiday love and the enchanting world of historical romance in these new stories from nine of your favorite USA Today and Bestselling authors. Authors in this collection include: Heather Boyd Elizabeth Cole Bronwen Evans Caroline Linden Eliza Lloyd Suzanna Medeiros Barbara Monajem Ella Quinn Lana Williams There’ll be no cold snap these holidays.
Appealing to those who made thirtysomething such a success, Any Day Now presents Kate Buchanan, a Boston trial lawyer who suddenly finds herself reunited with a love from her past. But Kate and Nick have both changed over the years, and Kate must fight for a love--and a man--more complex than she expected.
After an esteemed Russian botanist is murdered, Wild American Society investigator Lauren Maxwell is shocked when her own gun turns up at the crime scene, and she must outmaneuver an assassin while trying to prove her innocence.
Beloved authors Julia Quinn, Elizabeth Boyle, Laura Lee Guhrke, and Stefanie Sloane deliver the stories of four friends from Mrs. Rochambeaux’s Gentle School for Girls who find an old sixpence in their bedchamber and decide that it will be the lucky coin for each of their weddings . . . “Something Old” Julia Quinn’s prologue introduces her heroine, Beatrice Heywood, and the premise for Four Weddings and a Sixpence. “Something New” In Stefanie Sloane’s unforgettable story, an ever-vigilant guardian decrees that Anne Brabourne must marry by her twenty-first birthday. But love finds her in the most unexpected of ways. “Something Borrowed” Elizabeth Boyle tells the tale of Cordelia Padley, who has invented a betrothed to keep her family from pestering her to wed. Now she’ll need to borrow one to convince them she’s found her true love. “Something Blue” In Laura Lee Guhrke’s story, unlucky Lady Elinor Daventry has her sixpence stolen from her and must convince the rake who pilfered the coin to return it in time for her own wedding. “ . . . and a Sixpence in Her Shoe”
Anchorage-based investigator for the Wild America Society Lauren Maxwell arrives on Alaska's Prince of Wales Island to prevent the capture of wild orcas. But when her friend is murdered she must turn her attention from killer whales to a deadly mystery.
From the mid-1930s to 1978 Elizabeth Bishop published some ninety poems and thirty translations. Yet her notebooks reveal that she embarked upon many more compositions, some existing in only fragmentary form and some embodied in extensive drafts. Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box presents, alongside facsimiles of many notebook pages from which they are drawn, poems Bishop began soon after college, reflecting her passion for Elizabethan verse and surrealist technique; love poems and dream fragments from the 1940s; poems about her Canadian childhood; and many other works that heretofore have been quoted almost exclusively in biographical and critical studies. This revelatory and moving selection brings us into the poet's laboratory, showing us the initial provocative images that moved Bishop to begin a poem, illustrating terrain unexplored in the work published during her lifetime. Editor Alice Quinn has also mined the Bishop archives for rich tangential material that illuminates the poet's sources and intentions.
Drawing on international comparative research, this book explores the access and success of under-represented groups in tertiary education through the lens of 'first generation entrants'. It considers the participation and success of targeted equity groups in higher education internationally.
It's time to tell the story of the Empire from the perspectives of peoples who were colonised. Understand the nuances of the British Empire in different periods and places as you examine this complex, controversial history with respect and rigour. b” Explore differing experiences around the world. b” Look at the Empire like a real historian. b” Diversify your KS3 curriculum. /bDesigned to be used flexibly, the book contains short enquiries that can be slotted into iany /ischemes of work that you follow. Structured into three key periods, it empowers you to teach the Empire in a way that suits you and your pupils, whether that's chronologically, geographically or thematically.brbrb” Benefit from the insight of 11 authors. /bOur diverse author team comes from across the UK, bringing a richness of perspectives and lived experiences to the narrative. Together, they have a shared commitment to changing and improving what pupils learn about the Empire.brbrb” Trust the academic seal of approval. /bThe authors have worked with 25 historians from the very start of the project, who have reviewed the content to ensure that the historiography is accurate and up to date.brbr---brbrA NEW FOCUS ON...brbbrThe textbooks that belong in your classroom.brThe people and stories that belong in your curriculum./bbrbrLook at topics through a different lens, see the past from many perspectives and question traditional narratives.
Although fictional—and often fantastic—representations of nature have been a distinguishing feature of Latin American literature for centuries, ecocriticism, understood as the study of literature as it relates to depictions of the natural world, environmental issues, and the ways in which human beings interact and identify with their natural surroundings, did not emerge as a field of scholarly interest in the region until the end of the twentieth century. This volume employs an ecocritical lens in order to explore and question the use of the river imagery in Latino and Latin American literature from the colonial period to our modern world, creating a space in which to examine both its literal and figurative meanings, associated as much with processes of a personal nature as with those of the collective experience in the region. The slow, meandering streams of nostalgia, the raging currents of conflict or the stagnant waters of social decay are just a few of the ways in which the river has become an important symbol and inspiration to many of the region’s writers. This book offers a diverse collection of writings that, through a trans-historical and trans-geographical perspective, allows us, from the vantage point of the twenty-first century, to reflect on the rich and dynamic image of the river and, by extension, on the vital context of Latin/o America, its people and societies.
This document is the artist's statement, "Notes on a Lover's Field Guide." The document analyzes the formal and content decisions made during the writing of the manuscript, "A Lover's Field Guide." It includes a brief description of literary influences as well.
This handsome palm-size volume presents a chorus of voices filled with jubilation, with memorable quotes from black writers, poets, athletes, entertainers, philosophers, and leaders. A treasury of African-American wisdom, observations, and proverbs, its contributors range from Coretta Scott King and W.E.B. Dubois to Satchel Paige.
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