At six years old, Kayla Jones begins her journey as a writer. Poverty and a broken home are part of the adversity she endures and overcomes. Her family moves to Pinckard, Alabama, where they begin a new life. Growing up in the country had its advantages. Kayla could compare nature to obstacles in her everyday life. Having this insight, mixed with her talent to write, produces a very vivid imagination that grabs her readers and leaves them with stirred emotions, lingering thoughts and a renewed sense of self being. Will she pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a published author or will she be hindered by a new lovea love other than pen and paper? Does she really need a pen to convey her feelings and paper to hold her emotions or will the new love of her life do that for her?
Brace yourself for an emotional roller coaster ride. This novel consists of humor and suspense and is definitely a tear jerker. It tells of a married man who falls in love with a single younger woman. Fate brings them together and carries them through the obstacles life offers. Rose, abused by her ex-husband, finds a way out of her marriage. Darren, a middle-aged farmer, denies his feelings for Rose. Two lovers bound together in spite of what they can or can't have. Darren's wife, Marlyana, has a deep dark secret of her own. If the truth were revealed, it would change everything between Darren and Rose. She discovers Marlyana's secret and buries it deep inside, saving it for a rainy day. Rose doesn't realize that rainy day never comes until it is too late! For better or for worse? You be the judge.
Plant based eating is a simple and healthy alternative. Learn the steps to success through real life experience, helpful tips and valuable information. This book will offer a detailed account of what happens when you stop eating meat, why it's important to try it and how to sustain the lifestyle. You will experience this book differently from other books about plant based eating. I wanted to write a book that is straightforward and contains "real talk." My goal is to offer a simplistic approach and eliminate the guesswork for a smooth transition. Even if you are not certain that plant based eating is for you, this book can help you eat a more balanced, wholesome diet.
Cowgirl Dorothy and her horse, Toto, are taking the Yellow Dust Road on the way to the Great Wiz Kid's Emerald Circus of Oz for auditions, and along the way she meets Tinny, Crow, Leo, and Strega West who are also looking to audition--but in the morning Strega has disappeared, along with Dorothy's lucky silver spurs, and Dorothy must summon her inner courage to perform her best at the audition.
THIS BOOK HAS SOME ACTIONS YOU CAN DO WHILE READING. 1. When you read the word GRUMPY, read it with a deep voice, while you laugh together with your child. 2. Answer the questions with your little one. This is an opportunity to learn about those you love (or use your child's name). 3. Enjoy this book with love and care. God bless you! DANS CE LIVRE, VOUS POUVEZ EFFECTUER CERTAINES ACTIONS PENDANT QUE VOUS LISEZ. 1. Lorsque vous lisez le mot GRINCHEUSE, lisez-le d’une voix grave pendant que vous riez avec votre enfant. 2. Réponds aux questions. C’est l’occasion pour vous d’apprendre au sujet des gens que vous aimez (ou même de votre enfant). 3. Prenez plaisir à lire ce livre avec amour et soin. Que Dieu vous bénisse!
Praise for The House of Gathering: Using words as wands, the wildly talented artist, performer, visionary, mystic and magic maker Erica Sarzin-Borrillo offers a feast of life in all its stages and surprises. Here is truth telling wrought in poetic images and stunning cadence. The Goddess takes up residence in this potent book and the reader is never the same. - Jean Houston, PhD, author of The Possible Human Erica Sarzin-Borrillos mystical poetry awakens us to our divine essence. It inspires, consoles, and invites us to come home to the Eternal Lover and be the resurrection of this world. As with the passionate verses of Hafiz and Rumi, here is expression of the ecstatic love affair, rich with depth, humor, mystery and inspiration. This is poetry which is not created or manufactured, but birthed. In The House of Gathering you will experience fire, longing, benediction, and forgiveness, and you will want to plunge into these inviting depths again and again . . . - Jane Smith Bernhardt, author of We Are Here: Love Never Dies and The Sweet Conversation: A Guide to Spiritual Listening Ms. Sarzin-Borrillo has the most extraordinary gift of being able to describe the souls journey. Her poetry comes closer to expressing it than any writing I have ever experienced. Each piece is like looking at one of a thousand lights of the soul, each stimulating an inner sense that bring us closer to the truth of our own essence. We are lifted on word-wings that guide us inward to the awakening of our own soul-self. This poetry jump-starts that inner journey for those who have forgotten and for those who need reminding. - Robert Stempson, co-author of The Sixth Sense, Founder and Director of Programs for Human Development (PHD) and www.CTPsychics.com.
Second Time Shame on MeMeet the girls of "Club on the Mile."Sydni Jamieson is a single mother working her way through school as a bartender at a popular club in Detroit. She is a stickler for not mixing business with pleasure...that is until she meets Mike Dennison, a high roller used to getting what he wants and when he wants itBlake Morris is a mother of two, married to a man several years her senior. While fighting the "Battle of the Bulge," she soon learns that her husband's drug addiction may call for her to lose an extra 205 pounds...HIM!Ariel Adams has it all, a beautiful daughter, a comfortable apartment, a job with growth potential and now she has found the man of her dreams...or has she?Mya McPherson is a beautiful girl hiding a terrible secret from her friends but they are closing in quick. She is determined not to disappoint them again and would rather die trying not to.Second Time Shame on Me is a story about the problems that many women have personally experienced or know someone who has. The four women use their powers of true friendship, loyalty and love to help each other make it through the tough times. Sydni the main character is so committed to her friendships that she often finds herself entangled in a web of all their problems, while trying to balance the troubles of her own. This story will have you crying, laughing and cheering for these four women in their on-going efforts to attain true happiness.
Early modern English thinkers were fascinated by the subject of animal rationality, even before the appearance of Descartes's Discourse on the Method (1637) and its famous declaration of the automatism of animals. But as Erica Fudge relates in Brutal Reasoning, the discussions were not as straightforward—or as reflexively anthropocentric—as has been assumed. Surveying a wide range of texts-religious, philosophical, literary, even comic-Fudge explains the crucial role that reason played in conceptualizations of the human and the animal, as well as the distinctions between the two. Brutal Reasoning looks at the ways in which humans were conceptualized, at what being "human" meant, and at how humans could lose their humanity. It also takes up the questions of what made an animal an animal, why animals were studied in the early modern period, and at how people understood, and misunderstood, what they saw when they did look. From the influence of classical thinking on the human-animal divide and debates surrounding the rationality of women, children, and Native Americans to the frequent references in popular and pedagogical texts to Morocco the Intelligent Horse, Fudge gives a new and vital context to the human perception of animals in this period. At the same time, she challenges overly simplistic notions about early modern attitudes to animals and about the impact of those attitudes on modern culture.
From the pet that we live with and care for, to news items such as animal cloning, and the use of various creatures in film, television and advertising, animals are a constant presence in our lives. Animal is a timely overview of the many ways in which we live with animals, and assesses many of the paradoxes of our relationships with them: for example, why is the pet that sits by the dinner table never for eating? Examining novels such as Charlotte’s Web, films such as Old Yeller and Babe, science and advertising, fashion and philosophy, Animal also evaluates the ways in which we think about animals and challenges a number of the assumptions we hold. Why is it, for example, that animals are such a constant presence in children’s literature? And what does it mean to wear fake fur? Is fake fur an ethical avoidance of animal suffering, or merely a sanitized version of the unacceptable use of animals as clothing? Neither evangelical nor proselytizing, Animal invites the reader to think beyond the boundaries of a subject that has a direct effect on our day-to-day lives.
This book offers the first full examination of the legal role of public guardianship in 25 years, comparing current conditions to those when the last study was published in 1981. Public Guardianship: In the Best Interests of Incapacitated People? is written to advance public understanding of what happens to disabled and elderly adults when no family member or friend is available to be a caregiver or guardian should it become necessary. It is the first major study on this critically important issue since 1981. Conducted by experts in gerontology, social work, public policy, and public health, it finds that, although progress has been made, guardianship programs around the country still are hampered by limited staff and resources. Public Guardianship analyzes the full range of state statutes governing guardianship, including guardian eligibility, investigation, due process, rights, powers, costs, and monitoring. The authors report their case studies of public guardianship programs, marshaling and comparing field data from their surveys of stakeholders in ten states. The book concludes with a variety of recommendations for improving guardianship programs, including the authors' Model Public Guardian Act.
In this “high adventure of love’s triumph over twisted obsession” from a New York Times bestseller, a woman confronts her abusive past (Publishers Weekly). A mother’s ultimate sacrifice . . . A brother’s dark obsession . . . And one woman’s desperate fight for survival . . . Something dark and dangerous had long shadowed Skye Dearborn’s life. She had seen the fear of it in her mother’s eyes. It was there, locked in her memories of blood spilling across a gleaming floor. In the sound of her own screams. And in the terror she’d felt the night her mother disappeared. Then fortune smiled on Skye. With help she was able to put the horror behind her and look to the future. But now that same fortune is leading her into the arms of danger—and back into the nightmare of her past. For the evil that has haunted her dreams has a human form—a man obsessed with Skye since her birth. A man who alone knows who Skye Dearborn really is. And now that he has found her, he will do anything to keep her.
Harry Bogart Richardson told stories to his granddaughters about his exciting career in the Secret Service catching counterfeiters in Denver. Everything indicated that he was a businessman in downtown Chicago selling insurance or bonds. The Secret Service records in the National Archives revealed Harry did work for the Secret Service from 1907-1909 -- the second year catching counterfeiters in Denver. Read all about the life of a Secret Service Operative catching counterfeiters in Denver.
*Shortlisted for the 2022 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize* This book is the first, full-length scholarly examination of British women’s involvement in equestrianism from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, as well as the corresponding transformations of gender, class, sport, and national identity in Britain and its Empire. It argues that women’s participation in horse sports transcended limitations of class and gender in Britain and highlights the democratic ethos that allowed anyone skilled enough to ride and hunt – from chimney-sweep to courtesan. Furthermore, women’s involvement in equestrianism reshaped ideals of race and reinforced imperial ideology at the zenith of the British Empire. Here, British women abandoned the sidesaddle – which they had been riding in for almost half a millennium – to ride astride like men, thus gaining complete equality on horseback. Yet female equestrians did not seek further emancipation in the form of political rights. This paradox – of achieving equality through sport but not through politics – shows how liberating sport was for women into the twentieth century. It brings into question what “emancipation” meant in practice to women in Britain from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries. This is fascinating reading for scholars of sports history, women's history, British history, and imperial history, as well as those interested in the broader social, gendered, and political histories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and for all equestrian enthusiasts.
Drawing on an extensive body of literature, The Rehabilitation of Partner-Violent Men presents an historical account of the policy changes that have led to rehabilitation programmes for male perpetrators of intimate partner violence within the criminal justice system. Presents a review of the current state of male partner-violence theory and related intervention programmes in the UK Draws on both national and international literature within the field Provides an overview of the theoretical foundation behind current approaches to the rehabilitation of partner-violent men Offers an appraisal of the effectiveness of current practices and directions for future advances in intervention and evaluation science
Through nine historical romance adventures, readers will journey along with individuals who are ready to stake a claim and plant their dreams on a piece of the great American plains. While fighting land disputes, helping neighbors, and tackling the challenges of nature the homesteaders are placed in the path of other dreamers with whom romance sparks. And God has His hand in orchestrating each unique meeting.
In this wide-ranging study, Erica Sheen explores the various ways in which Shakespeare, or the idea of Shakespeare, was entangled in literary, cultural, political and diplomatic, legal, and economic attempts to articulate the tensions and opportunities of the early Cold War period.
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