Left behind in childhood by her would-be movie star mother, Casey Maywood finds her feelings of abandonment revived by an unfaithful boyfriend, emotions that prompt a visit to Hollywood, where she uncovers redemptive truths and learns the importance of letting go. Original. A first novel.
This true story is a must-read for believers and non-believers alike. It is about one man's spiritual journey to be with the Lord. In Floating Between Hospice and Heaven, Kate Benson gives readers a true, eyewitness account of her father's passing. With love, courage and unapologetic honesty, Kate opens her heart and tells of her father's heartbreaking, uplifting tale. From his conversations with someone on the other side to his apparent visit with Satan, his eerie psychic knowing and his final words, Bert's story reveals the truth about life after death. At the age of 80 Bert finds his life at a fork in the road. One path leads to open-heart surgery, the other leads to spending the rest of his life in bed. Bert decides there is a third choice. He chooses to go up.
Despite the velocity and scale of the cumulative changes of immigrant integration and receptivity infrastructures in fast growing regions of the United States, less research has focused on the new and evolving experiences in these regions in recent years. Editors Paul N. McDaniel and Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez and the contributors in Integration and Receptivity in Immigrant Gateway Metro Regions in the United States fill this gap through case studies of different types of immigrant gateway metro areas. They provide insight into how immigrant settlement, integration, and receptivity processes and practices within each metro area have continued to evolve beyond the nascent experiences documented in the early 2000s. This interdisciplinary volume examines ongoing processes in not only well-established immigrant gateways, but also in previously overlooked regions. This book is a resource for researchers, students, and practitioners to contextualize the ongoing changes in new destination metropolitan regions in the United States and to learn from the challenges, opportunities, and best practices emerging from different metropolitan regional contexts.
Over the course of her career, Elizabeth Robertson has pursued innovative scholarship that investigates the overlapping domains of medieval philosophy, literature, and gender studies. This collection of essays, dedicated to her work, examines gender as a construct of language, a mode of embodiment, and a critical framework for thinking about the past. Its eleven contributors approach the figure of the gendered body in medieval English writing along several axes: poetic, philosophical, material-textual, and historical. The volume focuses on the ways that the medieval body becomes a site of inquiry and agency, whether in the form of the idealized feminine body of secular and religious lyric, the sexually permissive and permeable body of fabliau, or the intercessory body of religious devotional writing. The essays span a broad range of medieval literary works, from the lais of Marie de France to Pearl to Piers Plowman and the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer, and a broad range of methodological approaches, from philosophy to affect and manuscript studies. Taken together, they celebrate the scholarly career of Elizabeth Robertson while also presenting a coherent and multifaceted investigation of the intersections of gender and medieval literary practice.
Morals have eroded. Your kids are out of control.Skybound's new teen horror anthology is going to teach them alesson. Thisvery special collection includes four standalone cautionary tales soaked inblood and tears. Anxiety. Teen pregnancy. Behavioral disorders. Group think. Theworld seems like a frightening place. We're here to show you just how muchthat's true. Remember: the good die young, but the bad diebetter. CollectsSKYBOUND PRESENTS AFTERSCHOOL #1-4.
A collection of short, sharp essays exploring the value of shared and accessible public knowledge in the face of its erosion. The Death of Public Knowledge argues for the value and importance of shared, publicly accessible knowledge, and suggests that the erosion of its most visible forms, including public service broadcasting, education, and the network of public libraries, has worrying outcomes for democracy. With contributions from both activists and academics, this collection of short, sharp essays focuses on different aspects of public knowledge, from libraries and education to news media and public policy. Together, the contributors record the stresses and strains placed upon public knowledge by funding cuts and austerity, the new digital economy, quantification and target-setting, neoliberal politics, and inequality. These pressures, the authors contend, not only hinder democracies, but also undermine markets, economies, and social institutions and spaces everywhere. Covering areas of international public concern, these polemical, accessible texts include reflections on the fate of schools and education, the takeover of public institutions by private interests, and the corruption of news and information in the financial sector. They cover the compromised Greek media during recent EU negotiations, the role played by media and political elites in the Irish property bubble, the compromising of government policy by corporate interests in the United States and Korea, and the squeeze on public service media in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and the United States. Individually and collectively, these pieces spell out the importance of maintaining public, shared knowledge in all its forms, and offer a rallying cry for doing so, asserting the need for strong public, financial, and regulatory support. Contributors Toril Aalberg, Ian Anstice, Philip Augar, Rodney Benson, Aeron Davis, Des Freedman, Wayne Hope, Ken Jones, Bong-hyun Lee, Colin Leys, Andrew McGettigan, Michael Moran, Aristotelis Nikolaidis, Justin Schlosberg, Henry Silke, Roger Smith, Peter Thompson, Janine R. Wedel, Karel Williams, Kate Wright
It’s seven books in one, with appliqu�, beading, cross-stitch, mini-quilts, painted wood, and so much more: a crafter can have endless fun with the variety of techniques and projects in this absolutely huge, color-filled collection. With everything from bars of soap embellished with bay leaves or orange slices to bottles of baby dill and chili pepper vinegar to painted planter pots, there’s something for everyone to make and the instructions, drawings, photos, and designs to explain how. Sew up a happy Halloween appliqu� with a smiling jack-o’-lantern and black cats. Fashion French wire earrings with freshwater pearls, purple crystals, or goldstone beads. Stitch seasonal samplers, and gather a beautiful bouquet or air-dried long-stemmed leaves and flowers. No crafter’s bookshelf is complete without this.
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