RESIST ME IF YOU CAN Kat Comstock was quite an eyeful…just perfect for dating! But while Sheriff J. D. Ryan was certain the new schoolteacher would fall at his feet—just like every other single gal in town—he had a sneaking suspicion that she would play for keeps…and J.D. intended to stay single. Kat wanted to start a new life, not get involved with a man who thought he was the greatest thing since sliced bread! And she wasn't about to succumb to J.D.'s considerable charm. No, this lawman needed a lesson in humility…and she was just the woman to teach it!
Arguably the most gifted artist of her generation, Amy Winehouse died tragically young, aged just twenty-seven. With a worldwide fan base and millions of record sales to her name, she should have had the world at her feet. Yet in the years prior to her death, she battled with addiction and was frequently the subject of lurid tabloid headlines. Amy's mother, Janis, knew her in a way that no one else did. In this warm, poignant, and at times heartbreaking memoir, she tells the full story of the daughter she loved so much. As the world watched the rise of a superstar, then the free fall of an addict to her tragic death, Janis simply saw her Amy: the daughter she'd given birth to, the girl she'd raised and stood by despite her unruly behavior, the girl whose body she was forced to identify two days after her death--and the girl she's grieved for every day since. Including rare photographs and extracts from Amy's childhood journals, Loving Amy offers a new and intimate perspective on the life and untimely death of a musical icon."--Front dust jacket flap.
More than a decade ago, in 2002, al-Qaeda declared their cyber-aspirations: “We strongly urge Muslim Internet professionals to spread and disseminate news and information about the jihad through e-mail lists, discussion groups and their own Web sites (...). The more Web sites, the better it is for us. We must make the Internet our tool.” Social media is part of today ́s battlefield. Over the past decade the Internet has become increasingly important to the loose and decentralized jihadist movement. This book illustrates that Jihadism online has had tremendous significance within the global jihad movement and no doubt its importance will rise in the future, as improved bandwidth, increased functionality, and the fast growing number of users will make the Internet a far more vital nerve than it is today. Salafi-Jihadist websites and social media spaces legitimate the actions of Islamic terrorists and encourage readers to support the Jihad wherever they can. Social media has offered new ways in which to promote terrorism or Jihad, and thus facilitated its intensification. Today everyone can be a part of a radical movement, anywhere. Due to the availability of propaganda material online, the Internet has not only changed the process of radicalization but influenced the nature of terrorism: the autodidactiv terrorist has become the new threat to Western security services.
OPPOSITES… Gavin Marshall was good-looking, carefree and the most irritating man shy Anna Collins had ever met. But he was trying to bail her brother out of trouble. So she had to put up with her uninvited houseguest until her missing sibling turned up. And she didn't like it one bit. Well, maybe just a little…maybe a lot. …ATTRACT Straitlaced women like Anna just weren't Gavin's type. They were too darn serious about life—and about love. But now that these temporary roommates were forced to play house together, Gavin was having very grown-up thoughts about his buddy's sister. And Gavin had never thought he needed love—until Anna.
AWARD WINNING BOOK!! GIVEN 5 STARS ***** BY MICHAEL JACKSON HIMSELF!! Assisted By Motown Records Jeffery Scott Beasley Given Great Reviews By Hollywood Entertainment Reporter & BET TV April Sutton This Book is One of the Only books Authorized by Michael Jackson himself before his untimely passing. Michael Jackson loved this book, because the Author Really knew him for over 20 years, and is not based on research alone, but on the actual knowledge, of knowing him. This is about a real everlasting friendship, full of Surprises about Michael, you will love discovering. Friendships are not always happy, there are ups and downs, misunderstandings but true friendship endures the test of time. Michael Jackson loved this book and it was dear to his heart, because it Captured him the way he really was, and he wanted to share it with the World. Michael, also sold this Book in his very own Michael Jackson International Fan Club for many years. The Author captures some Rare, and beautiful precious, and of course Thrilling Moments here. It gives a look at Neverland never told before; and her trip to Japan as a VIP Guest of MJJ Productions brings Backstage, and Behind-the-Scenes Insight you won't get from any other Author who writes about Michael. Many will write about Michael Jackson, but few were close enough, to really Capture the true Kid that would be King Of Pop! This Author has also put great photo's into this Diamond Edition, and the Never-Before-Seen Photos, make this more like watching a Great Action movie, we all know a picture is worth a thousand words. The Author has been Interview by 100's of Radio Show's, TV talk show, and Magazines around the World, All with 5 Star Reviews. Judge for yourself, don't believe the hype, because many people were jealous of this True and Lasting Friendship, the kind you don't see everyday, and some even went so far as to create lies to try and destroy this one of its kind friendship and Love, between Michael and Janis which was built on Respect, trust and lots of L.O.V.E. This Book is Loved in the USA, Japan, UK, Canada, France, Saudi Arabia and Many other Countries World Wide, because Michael Jackson being the International King of Pop, and he always knew a Great Song when he wrote, and Sang it; and he knew a Great Dance when he created it; and of course he knew a Great Book when he sat down and Read it! "I love this Book, this Book is Wonderful!!" Quote by Michael Jackson GIVEN 5 STARS ***** BY MICHAEL JACKSON HIMSELF!! Join the Facebook Page below, and keep up with Current Michael Jackson Everything, and interact with MJ Fans World wide! WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/THRILLINGMOMENTS
Now retired from teaching creative writing at two Oklahoma high schools, Janis Cramer is finally publishing her own showcase portfolio, a compilation of her readers' favorite pieces. Inside are "Kissy Kay," "2001, A Gorilla Odyssey," "Happybottom," and "Bob Dylan and Me," to name a few. The writings are followed by personal reflections about the experiences and a description of the process Janis went through in writing the piece.Each vignette is a memoir of Janis's life, growing up in 1950's Muskogee, Oklahoma, and carrying through her life as a teacher and her retirement as a writer and traveler. Each memory in some way shaped the person Janis was to become. Janis chose this format for her book because it was the way she required her students to showcase their writing at the end of the semester or school year. Good writers revise and reflect on their writing. For years, her students complained that she should be making her own portfolio, too, but she was always too busy grading their papers! From the first story--a memoir about the first time she purposefully disobeyed--to her experience meeting Bob Dylan--to her climb up a mountain in Rwanda to see gorillas--to her role as hospice nurse to her mother--she hopes the stories will bring about a sense of nostalgia and nudge a belly laugh out of the reader at least once in each chapter.For her audience, Janis hopes to find long-lost family members; old classmates; teacher friends; and other Oklahoma Writing Project teacher consultants. She hopes that each of those people will share the book with at least one more person, so that the books become earmarked and worn."Really, this is a perfect book for the bathroom. Just let it fall open where it wants to. Or choose a long or a short story, depending on how much time you have. The order of the stories doesn't really matter," Janis says. "Just enjoy the storytelling.
Jan is a woman of faith who has a desperate longing for another child. She is married to a terrific guy who is a good husband and a great dad to their two young boys, but he is content with their family just as it is and has no desire for another child. As Jan struggles with this dilemma, she surrenders her desire to God and sees him work in mighty ways. When the desire of her heart is finally met with a precious daughter, Jan and her husband name her Joy as a tribute to God’s glory. They loved her wholeheartedly, but they were unprepared for the difficult path that lay before them. Their daughter was born with multiple medical issues. She had jaundice, ear and sinus infections that didn’t respond to antibiotics, and significant breathing difficulties all within the first month of life. As the story unfolds and more medical complications are discovered, this family struggles to meet one challenge after another. Jan’s faith is challenged again and again as she desperately tries to meet her daughter’s needs for the best medical care and fulfill her obligations as a wife and mother to her other two children. In the midst of turmoil, Jan learns how to rely on God for the strength and wisdom she needs to make difficult decisions and juggle responsibilities. Her honest account of her personal struggles to hang on to God’s promises as the world around her shifts and crumbles allows the reader to see how God can use our circumstances to stretch us, mold us, and create something beautiful out of the chaos.
Life’s sweetest moments happen when you least expect them . . . When Ruby McMillan’s husband announces one morning that he’s dumping her for another woman, she’s unable to decide which indignity stings the most: the dissolution of their eighteen-year marriage or the deflation of her white-chocolate soufflé with raspberry Grand Marnier sauce. Without a good-bye to their two teenaged children, Walter leaves Ruby to cope with her ruined dessert, an unpaid mortgage, and her failing bakery. With only royal icing holding her together, Ruby still manages to pick herself up and move on, subsidizing her income with an extra job as a baking instructor, getting a “my-husband’s-gone” makeover, and even flirting with her gorgeous mortgage broker, Jacob Salt. For as long as she can remember, Ruby has done what’s practical, eschewing far-fetched dreams and true love in favor of stability. But suddenly single again at the age of forty-four, she’s beginning to discover that life is most delicious when you stop following a recipe and just live.
Though our roots are in the Colonial South, we Crackers are essentially just another American fusion culture, and our table and our stories are constantly expanding -- nearly as fast as our waistlines. We aren't ashamed of either, and we're always delighted with the prospect of company: someone to feed and make laugh, to listen to our hundred thousand stories of food and family and our long American past. Crackers, rednecks, hillbillies, and country boys have long been the brunt of many jokes, yet this old Southern culture is a rich and vibrant part of Amer-ican history. In The Cracker Kitchen, Janis Owens traces the root of the word Cracker back to its origins in Shakespeare's Elizabethan England -- when it meant braggart or big shot -- through its proliferation in America, where it became a derogatory term to describe poor and working-class Southerners. This compelling anthropological exploration peels back the historic misconceptions connected with the word to reveal a breed of proud, fiercely independent Americans with a deep love of their families, their country, their stories, and, most important, their food. With 150 recipes from over twenty different seasonal menus, The Cracker Kitchen offers a full year's worth of eating and rejoicing: from spring's Easter Dinner -- which includes recipes for Easter Ham, Green Bean Bundles, and, of course, Cracklin' Cornbread -- to summer's Fish Frys, fall's Tailgate Parties, and winter's In Celebration of Soul, honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. Recounted in Owens's delightful and hilarious voice, the family legends accompanying each of these menus leap off the page. We meet Uncle Kelly, the Prince of the Funny Funeral Story, who has family and friends howling with laughter at otherwise solemn occasions. We spend a morning with Janis and her friends at a Christmas Cookie Brunch as they bake delectable gifts for everyone on their holiday lists. And Janis's own father donates his famous fundamentalist biscuit recipe; truly a foretaste of glory divine. The Cracker Kitchen is a charming, irresistible celebration of family, storytelling, and good old-fashioned eating sure to appeal to anyone with an appreciation of Americana.
(Vocal Selections). Janis Joplin burst onto the music scene in 1967 and, with her distinct and emotional voice, became the queen of rock and roll. This musical journey celebrates Janis and her influences legends like Etta James, Nina Simone, and Aretha Franklin. Our vocal selections from the Tony Award-nominated musical includes 18 songs: Ball and Chain * Cry Baby * Down on Me * I'm Gonna Rock My Way to Heaven * Kozmic Blues/I Shall Be Released * Little Girl Blue * Maybe * Me and Bobby McGee * Mercedes Benz * Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out * Piece of My Heart * Spirit in the Dark * Stay with Me * Summertime * Tell Mama * Today I Sing the Blues * Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) * Turtle Blues.
Imagine for a moment that you're a college professor in Portland, Maine. You've just buried your father, whose sudden death has rocked his family and friends alike, as he was in seemingly perfect health. And now you've inherited the family home, located in the idyllic small town of Timber Falls, Maine, where everyone knows everyone and neighbors still look out for one another. It is a place where strangers are noticed and violent crime does not exist. At about the same time, you are approached by a representative of a development group interested in buying the house and the land, an extensive tract of wooden property with river access. But the owner of the company cannot guarantee that the house will not be destroyed. Knowing that your father put his heart into restoring the homea Victorian beauty that has been in your family since the 30'syou refuse to sell. But now people are dying on your property. People you've known your whole life. People you love. What do you do? If you're Emma DuValle, you fight. Together with the help of the authorities, she does just that. And along the way, she discovers something that she thought she had lost. Strength...determination...and the will to put the pieces of her life back together and carry on. Emma is helped and hindered along the way by a diverse cast of characters. There is the Russian crime boss in Chicago who wants her land, the agent he employs to get it, and the cold-blooded killer hired to drive her from her home. And there is the local sheriff and the FBI agent who will stop at nothing to uncover the killer and prevent further loss of life. In the end, no one expects what they will findthat the person theyre looking for is right under their noseshiding in plain sight.
Trains, and boats and the Mississippi River are the things that defined young TJ Kearney of southeast Arkansas. At 107-years old, he has seen it all, and lived to tell it...and, tell it, he does. The 107-year old TJ Kearney has spent his lifetime sharing the stories of his life with family, friends and passersby who happened to stop by, on Varner Road. Born just 40 years after Lincoln's Abolition of Slavery, in the atypical southern town of Lake Village, Arkansas; TJ's life was defined by struggles, losses and miracles. The wanderer-turned family patriarch was first introduced in Janis F. Kearney's award winning memoir, -Cotton Field of Dreams,- in 2004. Now, just months after he passed in 2013, the author reintroduces TJ to old and new acquaintances.
TIS THE SEASON… FOR LOVE When her best friend was nominated for a Bronze Star one year after her death, Amy Galloway went to Tribute, Texas, to support her friend's widower—and children. Never one to put down roots, Amy was surprised by the warm welcome she received from builder Riley Sinclair and his adorable daughters. But Amy hadn't expected to be attracted to handsome Riley. Nor had she expected the girls to treat her almost like…well, like a mom. And as the Sinclairs drew her further into their circle of love, Amy began to realize that Tribute might just be the home she'd been searching for all her life…. Tribute TEXAS Where heroes are made…
If you like thought-provoking murder mysteries, you'll elnjoy FOR A MOTHER'S LOVE. Drew Conover is on death row awaiting his scheduled execution for the murders of two students and a teacher from his high school, fourteen years ago. His defense suspects the murders were committed by the school janitor, who suddenly disappeared, but they were never able to locate him. All three victims were beaten to death with the same blunt instrument but the object has never been found or even identified. Is Derek executed for crimes he didn't commit? Where is the missing janitor? Just how much will someone do "For A Mother's Love?
Lucy and Elton are neighbors—but not very neighborly... He's jealous of his wife's friendship with Lucy, and she thinks he's an overbearing ruffian, but when her friend suddenly dies, Lucy agrees to marry Elton—but only for the sake of the children. Lucy is still grieving her own loss and is steadfast in her faith, while Elton is an unbeliever, bitter over his wife's death and the murder of his parents by natives. When Elton is elected by Mossy Ridge residents to oversee the native relocation program, he finds himself protecting those he once despised. With Lucy's help, he uncovers a secret plot to incite violence against the natives, and takes a journey toward forgiveness that leads him to the Lord. Just when Lucy dares to love again, Elton makes a confession that breaks her heart. Will love cause him to stay? Or, cause him to go?
My family could have been the prototype for a '50's TV sitcom. So it was quite a surprise to hear my 87-year-old father swapping recollections with his 82-yearold brother about all the wild adventures they'd had growing up during the '20's and '30's in the small southeast Kansas town of Chetopa. Relatives I'd only heard about now became colorful characters with a whole spectrum of eccentricities. The yarns were wild and so, apparently, were my relatives! I wrote down their tales and spun the stories just as they'd swapped them. Dad swears they are all true! So this is where and WHO I come from!
Newly appointed academic managers are expected to conduct and lead a wide variety of meetings. Often, however, these managers lack the skills needed to lead meetings that get meaningful results. The Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator's Guide to Meetings is specifically designed to help managers understand how to conduct successful meetings that accomplish specific objectives as efficiently as possible. This helpful resource includes practical guidelines and information that can be put into place immediately to help ensure that meetings run effectively.
In Are You Mixed?, Sonia Janis explores the spaces in-between race and place from the perspective of an educator who is multi-racial. As she reflects on her own experiences as a seventh grade student up to her eventual appointment as a school administrator, she learns of the complexity of situating oneself in predetermined demographic categories. She shares how she explores the intricacies of undefined spaces that teach her to embrace differences, contradictions, and complexities in schools, neighborhoods and communities. Exploring the in-betweenness (Anzaldua & Keating, 2002; He, 2003, 2010) of her life as a multi-race person problematizes imbedded notions of race, gender, class, and power. The power of this memoir lies in its narrative possibilities to capture the contradictions and paradoxes of lives in-between race and place, “to honor the subtleties, fluidities, and complexities of such experience, and to cultivate understanding towards individual ... experience and the multicultural/multiracial contexts that shape and are shaped by such experience” (He, 2003, p. xvii). This memoir creates new ways to think about and write about in-between experience and their relevance to multicultural and multiracial education. Janis challenges educators, teachers, administrators, and policy makers to view the educational experience of students with multiracial, multicultural, and multilingual backgrounds by shattering predetermined categories and stereotyped classifications and looking into unknown and fluid realms of the in-betweenness of their lives. This challenge helps create equitable and just opportunities and engender culturally responsive and inspiring curricular and learning environments to bring out the best potential in all diverse schools, communities, neighborhoods, tribes and societies.
Poetry book on love, loss, pain, optimism, and everything in between. This book is a piece of me, a glimpse into my heart, my mind. It is a skim thru my diary, if you may. I am giving you more than I've given those who have been next to me in bed. The truth. Unadulterated...Unapologetic. And that is the true accomplishment I feel in my work. That's what I would hope people grasp...The way I've pushed my heart out for all to see. Thank you for taking the time to join me in my journey. The 20's are hell, right? Nah, I can't say it was all hell. I must say, I enjoyed many of these moments. Even the pain--to be honest...I do love to revel in self-pity sometimes. I think, in some ways, pain defined me, gave me a purpose and meaning. But, now I am in a new place with new worries and new joys, feel free to take the journey with me...
Every once in a while an author arrives with the rare talent to combine reality with romance. This is Janis Reams Hudson." —RT BOOK REVIEWS As soon as Maggie Randolph sets eyes on Alex Dillon, she knows she wants nothing to do with him. Being all too familiar with the life of a bull rider in the rodeo, she resists the undertow of temptation drawing her ever closer to the handsome cowboy. After just one look at green-eyed Maggie, Dillon realizes there may be some advantages to being stuck in Deep Fork, Oklahoma, since his injury temporarily put him out of the rodeo. But he quickly learns that her late husband was also in the rodeo and after he lost his life to a raging bull, Maggie vowed to never fall in love again, especially with another bull rider. Determined to tear down the wall shielding her fragile heart, Alex sets out to claim Maggie’s affections. But will he let go of a career he’s trained his whole life for to be with the woman he loves?
Florist Bretta Solomon's hopes for a peaceful day off are ruined when she and her father stumble across a dead body and find themselves drawn into the bizarre investigation.
AWARD WINNING BOOKThis book is one of the only books actually Authorized by Michael Jackson, himself before his death. "Thrilling Moments," The book that reads like a Movie. A true story about Janis Dasilva's weeks, months and years spent with Michael Jackson the kid that would be King; and with the grown up King of Pop, Michael Jackson, after they both grew up. After reading this book Michael Jackson called the Author up by telephone; and set the wheels in motion to sell this book in his very own International Fan Club for years. "Thrilling Moments" will take you for a ride in a Frist Class Limo guarantee right into Michael's Magicial world for a Behind-The-Scene Look at the King Of Pop you won't want to miss. Packed with excitement, thrills and L.O.V.E. Each page results in a rare and up close look at Michael Jackson. Loved and Collected by Millions of Michael Jackson Fans Worldwide with Proven Satisfaction, to Everyone that owns a copy. Easy to read with pictures every step of the way, make this book read just like watching a movie (so don't forget your Popcorn).***Customer Testimonial ~ Wendy S. Pettinato Gesell ~ I L.O.V.E. this book! I give it (4**** Stars), because It takes you to places you'll never hear about anywhere else. It's very detailed and you'll feel like you are with Michael the whole way through the book!
Inside the covers of this book you will find poetry and lyrics inspired by religion. Step inside and view the author's thoughts on God and Christianity.
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