A grieving woman is drawn to a land-locked lighthouse where she meets a party of lost souls in need of a guide. She must face death in order to start a new life. The temporary caretaker of a lighthouse finds the perfect hideaway for safeguarding her secret, never expecting to encounter a murder and an unlikely partner in crime. While visiting a deep space navigational beacon to conduct routine maintenance, two space adventurers encounter a self-aware AI computer that has her own plans. Queensland, 1887. A lighthouse keeper’s daughter is missing, presumed dead. Is she another victim of the Spectre or something even more terrifying? A voice from one woman’s past echoes a secret up the lighthouse stairs. The only person who can give her the answers, is the last person she ever wants to see again. The estranged daughter of a lightkeeper returns home to South Solitary Island as WWII looms and finds her world upended by her father’s dying request: marry his successor. Lighthouses: beautiful, mysterious, dangerous, remote – the perfect setting for this genre fiction anthology – a collection of fantasy, sci-fi, romance, crime, historical fiction, dystopian and paranormal short stories from established and emerging Australian authors.
Can love mend what life has broken? In small town Kentucky, Scarlett has spent the last five years caring for her nephew, Ben, while trying to grow her baking business. Life has never been easy for Scarlett, but it takes a complicated turn when she loses her biggest client and gets behind on her rent. And to make things worse, Scarlett’s sister goes missing at the same time Ben's estranged father suddenly demands custody, leaving Scarlett to find a way to keep Ben. As she tries to keep her life from falling apart, Scarlett crosses paths with Tristen, a musician struggling to revive his career while embroiled in a paternity suit with a girlfriend he hasn’t seen in years. Sparks fly immediately, but Tristen is planning to leave town and needs to focus on his career. It wouldn’t be fair to get involved with Scarlett. And yet, he can’t stop thinking about her… Will love be the key ingredient to overcoming their obstacles, or will the pressures of family and ambition tear them apart? Discover a heartwarming tale of love, trust, and redemption where the sweetest moments can mend the deepest scars. Will Scarlett and Tristen find the strength to let love in?
Dozens of different pies on restaurant menus from the Delta to the Ozarks await hungry diners, and almost every delectable creation is a masterpiece of southern baking. Join food writer Kat Robinson on a tour through an Arkansas culinary tradition. Kat has traveled the state, sampling more than four hundred different varieties and absorbing stories along the way. Learn where fried pie is king and why a pie called possum should be the official state pie. Meet the North Little Rock man who made and sold one hundred different pies in a single day, and discover the new and innovative pie-making methods of chefs in Fayetteville and Hot Springs. It's all here in this mouthwatering and informative collection.
A cunning thief. A stolen fae. Can a shunned faerie rescue her friend before the thief uses his prize for a devious end? Bobbin is losing everything. Abandoned by her mentor and banned from her trade, the young Spindle Faerie’s best friend is now gone. But when she discovers the thief’s true intentions, she is compelled to disobey faerie law or risk losing her friend forever. Hoping to stop the nefarious plot, Bobbin joins forces with unexpected allies. But the greed for magical things soon places all their lives in peril. Can Bobbin succeed in saving her friend and ceasing the thief’s mischief, or will her failure result in the end of the Spindle Faeries? Bobbin and the Magic Thief is the first book in the faerie tale adventure series The Spindle Faeries.
WHERE THERE'S SMOKE… Gabriel Raines still has a pair of cowboy boots in his closet, even though he's now a successful real-estate developer in Texas. And he continues to live by the same Wyoming values that he and his brothers were raised by—hard work, determination and fairness. But when two of his projects are set on fire, Gabe realizes he's crossed dangerous lines. The police suspect the arsonist is a troubled teen. But Mattie Baker, who's been working with the teen, doesn't believe he's responsible. She has to convince Gabe that someone else is targeting him… She just didn't expect Gabe to be quite so rugged. As things between Gabe and Mattie heat up, they race to find the true arsonist…before he finds them. FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME! Outlaw Lawman by USA TODAY bestselling author Delores Fossen Caitlyn Barnes unexpectedly shows up at Texas marshal Harlan McKinney's ranch—with a killer on her trail. To survive, they must trust each other, but can Harlan trust himself around his ex?
Kat D. Williams traces Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez’s life from her childhood in Cuba, where she played baseball with the boys on the streets of El Cerro, to her reinvention as a professional baseball player and American citizen. Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez gives the reader a look into Alvarez’s young life in Cuba during the turbulent years leading up to Castro’s revolution, as political differences tore families apart. Alvarez came to the United States at fifteen, speaking no English, and experienced the challenge of immigration as her mother pushed her to become a professional athlete in her newly adopted country. Through all the changes and upheaval, Alvarez found acceptance and success as a player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, where she was called “the Rascal of El Cerro.” After the league ended, Alvarez struggled with an undiagnosed learning disability that limited her options. She persevered and reinvented herself as a factory worker but later battled alcoholism and depression until baseball returned to her life and she was able to reconnect with her former teammates and become part of the active community of former players. Alvarez’s life story illustrates the struggle and strength of a young Latina immigrant and the importance of sport to her transition to her new country and her enduring identity.
Focussing on The Times, this monograph uses corpus linguistics to examine how suffrage campaigners' different ideologies were conflated in the newspaper over a crucial time period for the movement - 1908 to 1914, leading up to the Representation of the People Act in 1918. Looking particularly at representations of suffrage campaigners' support of or opposition to military action, Gupta uses a range of methodological approaches drawn from corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and CDA. These include: collocation analysis, examination of consistent significant collocates and van Leeuwen's taxonomy of social actors. The book offers an innovative insight into contemporary public understanding of the suffrage campaign with implications for researchers examining large, complex protest movements.
High-stakes accountability and the growing move towards standardized testing are placing teacher knowledge and assessment skills under ever-increasing scrutiny. Teachers know what is going on in their classrooms and have first-hand reliable evidence of what their students can accomplish. They can be the major factor in student assessment and help their students better demonstrate what they have learned. Smart Tests shows educators how to create well-structured evaluation tools that match assessment tasks to the purpose and content of instruction. Teachers learn how to relate testing directly to classroom goals and activities and make assessment an integral part of learning and teaching, not just the end result. They will find the information they need to build assessment tasks that give students in grades K-8 the opportunity to succeed. These tasks encourage students to apply new knowledge, reflect and defend their thoughts and opinions, and connect what they learn the world beyond the classroom.
Make glass-enclosed gardens using creatively repurposed containers—includes extensive photos and two dozen projects to try. Add style, nature and a touch of whimsy to your home with one-of-a-kind terrariums. Terrariums Reimagined shows how to make and maintain arid deserts, flowering jungles, and lush landscapes in unique containers, such as: • Milk Bottles • Mason Jars • Tea Pots • Wine Bottles • Whiskey Bottles • Light Bulbs • Glass Soda Bottles • Decorative Vases Artist and gardener Kat Geiger’s unique approach to designing mini gardens in glass makes it easy to turn imaginative ideas into stylish showpieces, blooming décor, and fabulous gifts. This book provides everything you need to know about making terrariums, whether you’re a novice or an expert, including step-by-step photos, helpful gardening advice, and tips and tricks on how to find the perfect repurposed vessels for your creations.
A fan-favorite from New York Times bestselling author Kat Martin, originally published in 2011. You can’t fight what you can’t see. And Gabriel Raines can’t be sure just who’s setting the fires in his new real-estate development. When two fires hit back-to-back, he knows it’s personal, but any number of competitors or ex-employees could be the arsonist. The police suspect Angel Ramirez, a local teen who’s been in trouble before. But Mattie Baker, a volunteer at the Family Abuse center, just can’t believe the kid she’s been working with would go back to his delinquent ways. Determined to convince Gabe that she’s right, Mattie must get close to him and find out who’s putting their neighborhood in jeopardy. And just as the arsonist’s flames continue to burn, they find a heat developing between them. It might just turn into a full-fledged fire…if they can survive long enough.
Newcastle, London, America. You can go anywhere, it's still the same old shit. People just getting by, in any way they know how. But I tell you what they don't have, they don't have a £1 Thursday! 17-year-old Jen and Stacey are best friends. Since forever. Stacey always dreamed of being a dancer. And she's actually got the talent for it. Only her school career advisor hasn't even been to London, let alone heard of Urdang. Jen is smart. Like Oxbridge smart. But all 'smart' gives her is the ability to see that there's no use trying to change the story prewritten for her, growing up in an underfunded and forgotten Bradford in the 2010s. They only have one place they can escape to... Club Ocean on a Thursday night. Freedom for Jen and Stacey. A beautiful and hilarious coming-of-age story, Kat Rose-Martin's £1 Thursdays captures and celebrates the trials and tribulations of what it means to be young, Northern and working class, when for one Vodka-blurred second, you're allowed to forget everything and just dance. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at London's Finborough Theatre in November 2023.
WORLDBUILDING: Videospiele und Kunst im digitalen Zeitalter untersucht die Beziehung zwischen Gaming und zeitbasierter Medienkunst. Es ist die erste generationenübergreifende Ausstellung dieser Größenordnung, die einen Überblick vermittelt, wie sich zeitgenössische Künstler*innen weltweit Ästhetiken und Technologien aus dem Videospielbereich für ihre Praxis aneignen. Das Projekt präsentiert Arbeiten von mehr als 50 Künstler*innen, darunter Rebecca Allen, Cory Arcangel, LaTurbo Avedon, Meriem Bennani, Ian Cheng, Harun Farocki, Cao Fei, Porpentine Charity Heartscape, Pierre Huyghe, Rindon Johnson, KAWS, Sondra Perry, Jacolby Satterwhite, Sturtevant und Suzanne Treister. Der Katalog zur Ausstellung ist als zukünftiges Standardwerk konzipiert. Neben Werktexten renommierter Theoretiker*innen, Kurator*innen und Kritiker*innen, vermittelt eine Reihe neu in Auftrag gegebener Beiträge unterschiedliche Perspektiven auf das Verhältnis zwischen Gaming und Medienkunst. Dieser spielerisch gestaltete Band hat abgerundete Ecken, einen PVC-Schutzumschlag mit Siebdruck und Aufkleber mit verschiedenen digitalen Avataren.
Magic. Mystery. Mayhem. Dive into the pages of this alluring anthology and enter a world of mystery and adventure. Stalk the streets of sprawling metropolis' and hunt terrifying creatures. Explore towering cities where the supernatural is everyday and magic is as common as coffee. Devour 13 all-new urban fantasy stories from debut and best selling authors. Pick up your copy of Beyond Midnight today and join the adventure. Stories Included in this anthology: Go With The Flow by Stefan M. Nardi & Jacob S. Nardi Le Petit Rouge by Steve Wetherell Dawn Of Night by F.F. John The Metal Girl by Michael W. Huard Ghostly Magic by Devyn Jayse One Night Standoff by JR Castle Goat Sucker Fun Bus by EM Kaplan The Accidental Summoner by RE Carr Hell-Bent by Rick Gualtieri Do Not Go Gently by Jonathan Yanez Beauty Bewitched by Sharon Stevenson A Wind in The Weather by Kat Zaccard You Only Live Once by M J Christopher
The Happy Campers is an inspirational and practical guide to 'happy camping.' Packed full of practical tips and brilliant ideas from where to go and how to find a good campsite to how to set up your camp and build a campfire, this book will also show you the magic of camping. With chapters on delicious recipes that have been invented, collected and cooked over years of camping, how to entertain yourselves at camp, the wild world around us and even some soulful moments like a star gazer map to help you identify those constellations and a meteor shower calendar to spot a falling star. Shunning the survival techniques and high-tech equipment that camping has become all too well known for, this book takes a more spontaneous, relaxed and eco friendly approach. Whatever your level of camping expertise this inspiring book will accompany you from coffee table to wilderness on your own unforgettable journeys. This beautifully produced, informative book will be THE camping book for the ever increasing hordes who love sleeping under canvas.
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