Boyd Richards has traveled endless paths since the end of the Civil War. In this sequel to Home Always Beckons, Lana Lynne reunites the reader with the most complex character from her first novel. Boyd has been sent by Shanghai Pierce to the Kennedy ranch to assist in a cattle drive to Kansas on Chisholm's trail. In the days before leaving on the dusty journey Boyd is intrigued by two very different women he meets: Lucy Kennedy, the daughter of his new boss, and Hallie Price, a soiled dove working in the town saloon. Lucy Kennedy, a spunky reporter, introduces Boyd to the town with an article in the local newspaper. Bitter from losing his wife and son while away at war and preferring to avoid attention, Boyd is none too happy at Lucy's actions and is relieved to leave before he gets to know either woman. The cattle drive yields encounters with many new people and challenges. These events trigger unexpected changes for Hallie Price and Lucy Kennedy. But the journey takes Boyd further than he ever expected to go when he encounters James Hawkins, who opens his heart to the Scriptures and his eyes to the challenges of others.. Healing the wounds of the past, Boyd strives to build a new life. Lana Lynne's encouraging novel of redemption shows what can happen when one man pursues Trails of Change.
Home Always Beckons is an historically poignant story filled with characters that will capture the hearts of teens and adults alike and emerges in the shadow of a war's end as lives are rebuilt and the treasure of enduring love is found.
Lieutenant Edward Rigby could not deny the echo of his best friend's life as he traveled to Washington D.C. Others would consider his arrival as a long delayed homecoming, but home was an illusion to him. The streets were his home from the age of eleven until he met a Harvard student, James Hawkins, when he was nineteen. He lived with the Hawkins family until the war started. The unlikely friends served side-by-side throughout the turmoil until James sustained a paralyzing injury during a battle. Then after the war, Eddie found himself traveling to a fort in Indian Territory as an army corporal under the command of James's father. His now wheelchair bound friend was at the fort working as a consult on Indian affairs. They were stationed there until orders sent him to Kansas and the Hawkins family returned to the nation's capital. The haze of events from the telegram bringing him to his friend's deathbed in 1869 still seemed surreal. He could still see Hallie kneeling in the snow beside his friend's grave. It was now 1874 and time to move forward. Reconciling with his sister was his first priority. Then, there are promises to keep. Hallie Price Hawkins still felt and heard James everywhere. She took pride in the achievements of the women taking refuge in the shelter of Hallie's House. James named the home for her because of her once limited choices and because of her more recent accomplishments. However, becoming his wife was the most unexpected and treasured. Losing him still devastated her heart. She lacked fulfilling only two of her final promises to James. Once she finished the official nursing program in Boston, only the hardest remained. Lana Lynne reunites readers with beloved characters from her first two novels (Home Always Beckons: A New Sunrise) (Trails of Change: A New Sunset) and introduces an array of intricate new ones in the completion of her post-Civil War trilogy."— Back cover.
From Chapter 2: Nothing terrified Mama more than a storm. The familiar pattern of left step . . . hop . . . right step . . . hop . . . stumble took over Bo Jack's feet as he struggled to keep up with her rapid pace across the field to his aunt's storm cellar.The first time he could recollect her waking him at the height of a storm, his heart hammered against his ribs in a mixture of fear and the thrill of adventure. He'd been many times before, but this time his five-year-old brain took in everything.The wooden doors covering the deep and damp cellar looked huge. Mama struggled to open them in the downpour. A shadowy figure beside his uncle's smokehouse caught his eye right before Mama pulled him into the depths of the dark cavern.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________A young boy finds adventure growing up amidst the sorrows and turmoils of a family and country emerging from the Great Depression, into the Second World War, and beyond. Times are hard, but for Bo Jack, every day holds unexpected discoveries. What's next? Join him.
The world was at war when a junior-grade naval lieutenant first laid eyes on the love of his life. In December 1944, after his return from naval service in Europe, Lieutenant (jg) Charles E. Felder met Mary Kosko Felder in New York City. Although Mary was engaged to another and 'Chuck' was preparing to deploy to the Pacific, the certainty of their destined connection made them willing to face any challenges that would come. With the entire country making sacrifices for the war effort, they found strength, resilience, and 'Life between the Letters.' 'Mary, what in the world took you so long?' asked Kay. Mary finished shrugging into her coat. 'A nice lieutenant gave me some change for the phone. After calling Grace's house, I visited with him for a few moments. He was in the Normandy Invasion on Omaha Beach. It turns out he went to school with your brother-in-law, Kay.' 'Well, I'll be. That's a coincidence,' said Kay. 'He just arrived in New York. Why don't we ask him if he'd like to go out and eat, see a movie, or just walk around a little?' Kay and Grace looked at each other. 'Why not? We didn't have anything all that special planned.' The world was at war when a junior-grade naval lieutenant first laid eyes on the love of his life. In December 1944, after his return from naval service in Europe, Lieutenant (jg) Charles E. Felder met Mary Kosko Felder in New York City. Although Mary was engaged to another and 'Chuck' was preparing to deploy to the Pacific, the certainty of their destined connection made them willing to face any challenges that would come. The unbreakable commitment of nineteen-year-old Mary and the surprising maturity of twenty-four-year-old Chuck are a testament to the 'Greatest Generation,' and hold lessons for this generation. With the entire country making sacrifices for the war effort, they found strength, resilience, and Life between the Letters.
Boyd Richards has traveled endless paths since the end of the Civil War. In this sequel to Home Always Beckons, Lana Lynne reunites the reader with the most complex character from her first novel. Boyd has been sent by Shanghai Pierce to the Kennedy ranch to assist in a cattle drive to Kansas on Chisholm's trail. In the days before leaving on the dusty journey Boyd is intrigued by two very different women he meets: Lucy Kennedy, the daughter of his new boss, and Hallie Price, a soiled dove working in the town saloon. Lucy Kennedy, a spunky reporter, introduces Boyd to the town with an article in the local newspaper. Bitter from losing his wife and son while away at war and preferring to avoid attention, Boyd is none too happy at Lucy's actions and is relieved to leave before he gets to know either woman. The cattle drive yields encounters with many new people and challenges. These events trigger unexpected changes for Hallie Price and Lucy Kennedy. But the journey takes Boyd further than he ever expected to go when he encounters James Hawkins, who opens his heart to the Scriptures and his eyes to the challenges of others.. Healing the wounds of the past, Boyd strives to build a new life. Lana Lynne's encouraging novel of redemption shows what can happen when one man pursues Trails of Change.
Home Always Beckons is an historically poignant story filled with characters that will capture the hearts of teens and adults alike and emerges in the shadow of a war's end as lives are rebuilt and the treasure of enduring love is found.
Powerful narratives of suffering, love and hope that inspire both personal and collective transformation. "Our spiritual stories are full of missteps and unabashed celebration. They are narratives of suffering and of hope; lessons in shedding fear and learning to love ourselves. Ours are embodied stories that begin with emptying so that we can glimpse the Holy Other, this Light who appears in ways unplanned, unexpected and unsettling. Our lives are the surprise that begins with the response, 'Let it be.'" —from Part 1 In Birthing God, forty women relate Spirit-filled moments: a grieving pastor walks a labyrinth and rediscovers the Rock of her existence; a human rights advocate re-encounters Allah in an intensely visceral moment in the sun; an educator, moved by an ancestral vision, launches a global tree-planting project to heal the wounds of slavery; a revolutionary awakens from a coma and realizes that all of life is infused with Spirit; a peasant woman under fire discovers within herself the God who gives her courage; and a disabled doctor, embraced by Shekhinah, turns her heart to rabbinical studies. Grounded in raw experience and ideal for spiritual seekers and leaders of all faiths, these engaging and powerful stories invite you to consider the origins of your own spirituality and to deepen your relationship with God.
Numerous states have passed gender integration legislation permanently admitting women into their military forces. As a result, states have dramatically increased women’s numbers, and improved gender equality by removing a number of restrictions. Yet despite changes and initiatives on both domestic and international levels to integrate gender perspectives into the military, not all states have improved to the same extent. Some have successfully promoted gender integration in the ranks by erasing all forms of discrimination, but others continue to impede it by setting limitations on equal access to careers, combat, and ranks. Why do states abandon their policies of exclusion and promote gender integration in a way that women’s military participation becomes an integral part of military force? By examining twenty-four NATO member states, this book argues that civilian policymakers and military leadership no longer surrender to parochial gendered division of the roles, but rather support integration to meet the recruitment numbers due to military modernization, professionalization and technological advancements. Moreover, it proposes that increased pressure by the United Nations to integrate gender into security and NATO seeking standardization and consistency on the international level, and women’s movements on the domestic level, are contributing to greater gender integration in the military. Winner of the 2015 ERGOMAS "Best Book in Civil-Military Relations" Award.
In 1976, with the US trade embargo against Cuba underway, Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau visited the island nation, befriended his counterpart, and exclaimed publicly "Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro!" During the past half-century of communist rule in Cuba, Canada's policy of engagement with the country has contrasted sharply with the United States' policy of isolation. Based on a series of interviews conducted in Havana, Washington, and Ottawa, Perceptions of Cuba moves beyond traditional economic and political analyses to show that national identities distinct to each country contributed to the formation of their dissimilar foreign policies. Lana Wylie argues that Canadians and Americans perceive Cuba through different lenses rooted in their respective identities: American exceptionalism made Cuba the polar opposite of the United States, while Canada's self-image as a good international citizen and as 'not American' has allowed the country to engage with the Cuban government. By acknowledging that competing national identities, perceptions, and ideas play a major role in foreign policies, Perceptions of Cuba makes a significant contribution to our understanding of international relations.
Untangle Indecision with Answers on a String Embrace your inner wisdom and confidently navigate important choices with the empowering swing of a pendulum. These portable personal assistants translate your intuitive wisdom into yes or no movements that offer guidance and clarity, for all decisions, big or small. Discover how to select or make your own pendulum, care for it (and yourself), and get your practice started. Explore a wide variety of uses for pendulums, learn how to troubleshoot uncertainties, and enjoy insightful stories from life coaches Karina Muller and Lana Gendlin. Filled with user-friendly exercises and resources, Pendulums & Intuition shows you how to ask your heart for guidance, whether your goals are for business, relationships, money, or health. This book helps you use a pendulum to access your intuition, achieve success, and live a decisively good life. Features a four-page, color insert with Karina and Lana's original pendulums Includes a foreword by Shelley A. Kaehr, PhD, author of The Goddess Discovered
From first kisses to missed kisses, stolen kisses, the chemistry of kisses, around-the-world kisses, silver-screen kisses, Freudian kisses, lipstick kisses and record-breaking kisses, this eclectic collection of facts, figures, quotes and curiosities has everything you've ever wanted to know—and more—about that most deceptive, delightful and indispensable gesture: the kiss.
What does it mean to live with life-threatening illness? How does one respond to loss? Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects attempts to answer these questions and, as such, illuminates the vulnerabilities of the human body and how human beings suffer harm. In particular, it examines how cancer disrupts feelings of bodily integrity and agency. Employing psychoanalytic theory and literary analysis, Lana Lin tracks three exemplary figures, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, poet Audre Lorde, and literary and queer theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Freud’s sixteen-year ordeal with a prosthetic jaw, the result of oral cancer, demonstrates the powers and failures of prosthetic objects in warding off physical and psychic fragmentation. Lorde’s life writing reveals how losing a breast to cancer is experienced as yet another attack directed toward her racially and sexually vilified body. Sedgwick’s memoir and breast cancer advice column negotiate her morbidity by disseminating a public discourse of love and pedagogy. Lin concludes with an analysis of reparative efforts at the rival Freud Museums in London and Vienna. The disassembled Freudian archive, like the subjectivities-in-dissolution upon which the book focuses, shows how the labor of integration is tethered to persistent discontinuities. Freud’s Jaw asks what are the psychic effects of surviving in proximity to one’s mortality, and it suggests that violences stemming from social, cultural, and biological environments condition the burden of such injury. Drawing on psychoanalyst Melanie Klein’s concept of “reparation,” wherein constructive forces are harnessed to repair damage to internal psychic objects, Lin proposes that the prospect of imminent destruction paradoxically incites creativity. The afflicted are obliged to devise means to reinstate, at least temporarily, their destabilized physical and psychic unity through creative, reparative projects of love and writing.
How to create a healthier, happier, smarter baby?the breakthrough pregnancy diet and lifestyle plan based on cutting-edge genetic science Whether you're planning for pregnancy or are already pregnant, this essential prenatal guide draws on the latest genetic research to give you a complete program of specific nutrition and environmental lifestyle changes that can help you have a better baby. The book is based on the emerging science of epigenetics and shows how the environment interacts with your genes, affecting which genes are expressed or "turned on". It shows you the important steps you can take to improve preconception nutrition and reduce toxins in your home and body to consciously help your child be healthy, smart, and strong. Leverages the latest epigenetics research to help you produce a healthier, smarter, and happier baby with a lower risk of allergies, asthma, and developmental issues Shares a specific prescriptive program based on four principles: eating the right foods; taking the right supplements; detoxifying before, during, and after pregnancy; and minimizing stress Shows how a woman's health and her environment during pregnancy may have a much bigger impact on her child than was previously thought Includes the authors' compelling personal story of developing the Better Baby Plan shared in the book as they had their own better babies
This volume in The SAGE Reference Series on Disability explores education issues for people with disabilities and is one of eight volumes in the cross-disciplinary and issues-based series, which examines topics central to the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families. With a balance of history, theory, research, and application, specialists set out the findings and implications of research and practice for others whose current or future work involves the care and/or study of those with disabilities, as well as for the disabled themselves. The concise, engaging presentational style emphasizes accessibility. Taken individually, each volume sets out the fundamentals of the topic it addresses, accompanied by compiled data and statistics, recommended further readings, a guide to organizations and associations, and other annotated resources, thus providing the ideal introductory platform and gateway for further study. Taken together, the series represents both a survey of major disability issues and a guide to new directions and trends and contemporary resources in the field as a whole.
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