Sassy foodie Becca Stone is over her job taking reservations in one of London's most successful restaurant empires. So when she is unexpectedly catapulted into working as PA to celebrity chef Damien Malone, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. Becca is quickly caught up in an exciting whirlwind of travel, reality TV and opening nights, and even her usually abysmal love life takes a turn for the better. But as Becca is slowly consumed by the chaos of life in the spotlight, she begins to lose touch with her friends, her heart and even with reality. Working with Damien has its challenges and she is soon struggling with his increasingly outrageous demands and sleazy advances, all while managing the ridiculous requests of his self-centred wife. It takes a disastrous trip to Italy for Becca to realise that she may have thrown away exactly what she's been looking for all along. Inspired by real-life adventures, this deliciously funny and romantic story reveals a tantalising glimpse of the trendy restaurant scene: a world where chefs are treated like rock stars, and cooking isn't all that goes on in the kitchen. 'Lisa Joy has ticked all the boxes in her debut novel, so settle in for some effortless escapism, it's the real deal . . . Delicious.' Townsville Bulletin
Lisa Joy Walters is a revered expert in the field of Special Education. For over 25 years she has served as an excavator of the inherent strengths and abilities of children within the spectrum of special needs. Lisa Joy has built a bridge for each unique child to grow beyond “labeled deficiencies” used in our diagnostic system, to emerge and flourish as shining members of their own families and communities. With her own spirited blend of quality therapeutic and educational services, Lisa Joy incorporates leading edge teachings, beneficial to the many children and families who will be ensured with the greatest opportunities for success. Lisa Joy has a long history of leading children and families by the hand to very bright futures. Development beginning in early intervention, parent training, one to one in homes and emerging families into the world, Lisa Joy has trusted intuitive guidance for the highest good of all involved.
Vince & Joy are both looking for something . . . In their teens, in family holidays and bathroom mirrors. In their twenties, in messy London flats and messy London relationships. In their thirties, in marriages that appear stable - and feel anything but. Seventeen years ago Vince and Joy met, parted and never said goodbye. And soon they're going to have to ask themselves- could it be that they had already found what they've both been looking for, back in the mid-eighties, in a holiday park by the sea?
Sacred & Delicious is an award-winning vegetarian cookbook, a primer on Ayurveda (India’s ancient wellness system), and a gorgeous food memoir that celebrates the healing power of food. Author Lisa Mitchell writes inspiring and clear prose about the power of the Ayurvedic system to sustain good health and reverse chronic health problems, recounting her own recovery. The book includes 108 recipes and more than 60 full-page color photos. Most of the dishes include vegan options, and all but two are gluten-free. Only ten of the recipes reflect traditional Indian cooking. The rest demonstrate how to apply the balancing principles of Ayurveda and the creative (yet subtle) use of spices to modern Western cuisines that many Westerners prefer. Mitchell shares the Vedic perspective on why food is sacred and how cooks can bring a sacred intention to their kitchen labors to approach food preparation as spiritual practice. Traditional blessings for food from various cultures are sprinkled throughout the book. In April 2019, Sacred & Delicious won silver medals in two prestigious book industry awards competitions: the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards (in the Body, Mind, Spirit category) and the Nautilus Awards (in the Food, Cooking, and Healthy Eating category). It also won the cookbook category in the Body, Mind, Spirit Book Awards and is a finalist in the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (to be announced in June).
Lisa Joy Pruitt offers a new look at women's involvement in the mission movement, with a welcome focus on the often overlooked antebellum era. Most scholars have argued that the emergence of women as a dominant force in American Protestant missions in the late nineteenth-century was an outgrowth of nascent feminist activism in the various denominations. This new contribution suggests that the feminization of the later mission movement actually stemmed in large part from images of the "degraded Oriental woman" that popular evangelical literature had been circulating since the 1790s, and that the increasing focus on and involvement of women was supported by male denominational leaders as an important strategy for reaching the world with the Christian gospel. In the late eighteenth through the early nineteenth-centuries, popular evangelical literature began circulating descriptions of women of the "Orient" designed to illustrate the need of those women for the Christian gospel. Such powerful and widely disseminated images demonstrated to young American women their relatively privileged position in society and, throughout the nineteenth-century, led many to support the cause of missions with their money and sometimes their lives. A belief in the desperate need of "Oriental" women for salvation and social uplift was largely responsible for feminizing the American Protestant foreign mission movement. "A Looking-Glass for Ladies": American Protestant Women and the Orient in the Nineteenth Century traces the creation and dissemination of images of women who lived in that part of the world known to nineteenth-century Westerners as the "Orient." It examines the emotional power of those images tocreate sympathy in American women for their "sisters" in Asia. That sympathy catalyzed many evangelical women and men to argue for vocational roles for women, both married and single, in the mission movement. The book demonstrates the ways in which assumptions about the condition and needs of "Oriental" women shaped American evangelical women's self perceptions, as well as the evangelizing strategies of the missionaries and their sending agencies.
A toast to the places and people who make up the author's roots and base. Appalachian at its root, it tells a universal story about what grounds and keeps us, even as we move in cities and circles far from home. This item is Returnable Additional Information BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American | General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Death, Grief, Loss - Poetry | Women Authors INGRAM Categories: - Topical | Death/Dying - Sex & Gender | Feminine - Topical | Women's Interest Physical Info: 0.21" H x 9.0" L x 6.0" W (0.3 lbs) 86 pages Carton Quantity: 82 Number of Units in Package: 1 Worth Considering Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. Review Quotes: As haunting as the Irish ballad for which it is named, The Parting Glass is a book of searing elegies and unforgettable odes to moments of joy shared in tranquil places. Whole worlds emerge and collide in these poems, experiences as rich as the black bread offered by the Ukrainian neighbor to the "Hillbilly Transplant" in New York City. Many of us from Appalachia will relate to her fish-out-of-water adventures and heartbreaks, missing family back home but also feeling the electric thrill of subway rides and all-night restaurants. Lisa J. Parker has created a deep and nuanced book that would have made the late Arthur Smith proud, and I cannot imagine a more worthy first entry for the poetry award named in his honor. I have felt tears welling in the corners of my eyes more than once when I come to the lines, "the surreality of that meager box / with its pewter top, your name punched into it." The Parting Glass offers enormous heart and soul in the face of unbearable grief, survivable only through a sense of belonging to a place and its people and by committing to words those memories that affirm what we have lost.-Jesse Graves, author of Merciful Days and Said-Songs: Essays on Poetry and Place Lisa Parker possesses the perceptive eye of a photographer and the truth-telling, visionary voice of a poet. From the orange trumpet vines and sycamore trees of northern Virginia to the "crushed velvet walls" of the Metropolitan Opera, each precise, wondrous image in The Parting Glass transports the reader. As Parker shows us how to look at these beautiful, sometimes broken, sometimes aching landscapes, she tells an important story about the places we call home, the terrible weight of grief, and love-always love.-Carter Sickels, author of The Prettiest Star These are poems of loss, displacement, and deep grief, yet they are shot through with light, in particular the illumination that comes with beautiful writing. There is not one wasted word in this moving, intelligent, and timely collection of poems that stand perfectly on their own yet sing even louder as an entire gathering. The Parting Glass is a marvel of a book.-Silas House, New York Times bestselling author of Lark Ascending Publisher Marketing: The Parting Glass, like the old Irish song, is a toast to the places and people who make up the author's roots and base. However Appalachian at its root, it tells a universal story about what grounds and keeps us, even as we move in cities and circles far from home. At its core, this book brings the thread of downhome with its voices and song, to the cities and cultures the author moves through. The poems raise a glass to those still at the table and to those already gone, to homecomings and deployments, to the navigation of love and grief. Contributor Bio:Parker, Lisa J Lisa Parker is a native Virginian, a poet, musician, and photographer. Her first book, This Gone Place, won the 2010 ASA Weatherford Award and her work is widely published in literary journals and anthologies. Her photography has been on exhibit in NYC and published in several arts journals and anthologies. She has worked in the Department of Defense for nearly twenty years, worked as a first responder for 15 years, and currently serves as a crisis and disaster response volunteer with Team Rubicon. Some of her work may be found at www.wheatpark.com. Email other people about this product detail Separate multiple addresses with semicolons. Mail to: Copy me on this email: Subject: Message: SendReset Qty 1 Add to Quick Order View/Edit Cart Ships when available * DC On Hand On Order TN This is your PRIMARY Distribution Center 89 0 IN This is your SECONDARY Distribution Center 0 0
The International Bestseller The 'feel good' book of the season… Boo’s story reminds all of us that life is full of possibilities and that hope often arrives wagging a tail. —Best Friends magazine The dunce of obedience class with poor eyesight and a clumsy gait, Boo was the least likely of heroes. Yet with his unflappable spirit and boundless love, Boo has changed countless lives through his work as a therapy dog: inspiring a six-year-old boy to speak for the first time in his life, coaxing movement from a paralyzed girl and stirring life in a ninety-four-year-old nun with Alzheimer’s disease. But perhaps Boo’s greatest miracle is the way he transformed Lisa Edwards’s life, giving her the best gift of all: faith in herself. This is the inspiring true story of how one woman and one dog rescued each other, a moving tribute to hope, resilience and the transformative power of unconditional love.
Biography Lisa Taylor is a 25-year veteran of the Ohio State Highway Patrol. She began her career in 1983 and retired in 2008. During her tenure with the Patrol, Lisa served in various positions throughout the State of Ohio. In her final position with the organization, she was promoted to the rank of major and commanded the Patrol's Office of Finance and Logistics Services. In that position, she and her staff oversaw the finance, fleet, facility, and procurement needs for the entire division. She also served on the Patrol's 11-member senior staff-assisting with the development of policy, as well as leading, guiding, and directing the overall operations of the organization. She was and remains the highest-ranking female officer to serve with the Ohio State Highway Patrol. Lisa is currently a partner in Stars Consulting, LLC, and works in the area of crash reconstruction-providing traffic crash reconstruction consulting services to victims of traffic accidents. She also serves as an adjunct instructor, teaching law enforcement technology courses at a local university. Lisa is an advocate for victims of impaired drivers and routinely volunteers to speak at civic organizations, driver's education classes, and has offered her services to Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). She offers a unique perspective-not only has she arrested multitudes of impaired drivers throughout her career-she, herself has been a victim of an impaired driver. Lisa currently holds a master's degree in business and leadership from Franklin University, a bachelor's degree in religion with a focus on management and ethics from Ohio Christian University, as well as an associate's degree in individualized studies from Ohio University. Lisa currently resides in Grove City, Ohio.
Lisa J. Shannon had a good life—a successful business, a fiancé, a home, and security. Then, one day in 2005, an episode of Oprah changed all that. The show focused on women in Congo, the worst place on earth to be a woman. She was awakened to the atrocities there—millions dead, women raped and tortured daily, and children dying in shocking numbers. Shannon felt called to do something. And she did. A Thousand Sisters is her inspiring memoir. She raised money to sponsor Congolese women, beginning with one solo 30-mile run, and then founded a national organization, Run for Congo Women. The book chronicles her journey to the Congo to meet the women her run sponsored, and shares their incredible stories. What begins as grassroots activism forces Shannon to confront herself and her life, and learn lessons of survival, fear, gratitude, and immense love from the women of Africa.
Getting your life’s affairs in order doesn’t need to be grim. The Bottom Drawer eBook is a modern, colourful, and informative After Death Action Plan and funeral planning tool, helping you prepare for the inevitable with quirky but practical tips and information. You'll need a pen and a notepad because The Bottom Drawer eBook encourages you to write down your responses to a series of questions and actions. Your answers will become a memento of you and what’s important in your life, written in your handwriting, your doodling, your wit, your ideas, and your life’s reflections. Written by Australian journalist Lisa Joy Herbert and illustrated by Phil Judd, this eBook guides you through things to consider with humour and levity, like: Traditional, religious funeral or celebration of life? Hymns or pop songs? Cremation, burial, or compost? A champagne wake or cordial and cake? The contents of its 64 pages include types of burial, cremation, emerging technology, living wills, organ donation, the digital afterlife, social media, embalming, coffins and caskets, donating your body to science, themed funerals and their soundtrack, what to wear, the eulogy and the funeral itself, and lots more, plus some bad puns and dad jokes. There is also lots of room for personal reflection, giving your loved ones the opportunity to grieve and celebrate the real you and your honest story – knowing it’s just what you would have wanted. Making your wishes known will ensure that, when your time eventually comes, everything that needs to be done will be done, your send-off is how you’d like it, and it’ll make things easier for your grieving friends and family. A note on regulations and terminology: Government regulations and terminology relating to all things death, dying and funerals vary greatly between states and countries. While The Bottom Drawer eBook: The After Death Action Plan was written for the Australian reader, most of its content remains relevant worldwide. Because of the awesome illustrations and the practical actions given, The Bottom Drawer eBook: The After Death Action Plan has been published as a fixed layout ePub file. This is the second eBook edition and reflects the fourth edition of the paperback version.
A good story without violence or profanity; an upbeat romance with a happy but believable ending; a novel that makes you feel good about life--you'll want to leave this lying around for your kids to find. The characters talk like real people, have real needs, make mistakes, learn hard lessons. They grow in their faith and in their relationships with each other, and set an example for those around them...and for you and your family. Melissa, an artist from California, takes a vacation with her kids to the coast of Maine, hoping for some quality family time at a turning point in their lives. They meet Kraig, a writer from Oregon, walking on the beach with his guide dog. He's slightly younger, articulate, gentlemanly, deeply intuitive...unlike any other man she's known. Neither is looking for love--but life has other plans. What happens when Melissa realizes she might have to choose between her lifelong dream of living in Maine...and being with Kraig?
In The Joy of Parenting, two acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) experts provide parents with the tools they need to cope with disruptive and oppositional behavior, acknowledge that they don't have to be perfect, learn to recognize normal childhood transitions, and alleviate their own anxieties to become more responsive, flexible, effective, and compassionate parents.
A grandchild’s observation, “Mom-mom, your belly is squishy…” A memory that seems to be on permanent leave… A heart that needs monitoring… A sandwich generation who deals with stinky laundry on one end and toe fungus on the other. A body likened to a leaky tent… Friends and family that keep you laughing and leaking… It’s all part of becoming a quinquagenarian—that magical, problematic age between fifty and sixty. Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. (Proverbs 31:25 ESV) Although Lisa J. Radcliff has not felt particularly strong or dignified as she entered the quinquagenarian season, she has found it to be a time to laugh. The inevitable effects of aging, coupled with her natural klutziness, friends who find humor in everything, and knowing God is sovereign allowed her to laugh through the ups and downs of this season of life. Now Lisa is sharing those funny moments of her fifties in a new devotional, A Time to Laugh. It is sure to provide a smile, if not a full-on belly laugh, along with spiritual encouragement. If you’re in that same season of life, you’ll find Lisa’s stories familiar and comforting. You are not alone in wondering what has happened to your memory or your flat stomach. Why not laugh about it together? The highlight of this season for Lisa is her grandchildren. They never disappoint in the things they say, keeping their mom-mom laughing. Their quotes are sprinkled throughout the book with some being turned into heartwarming cartoons. Grandparents will relate to their precious voices, and those awaiting the “grand” season will laugh at the possibilities to come. In A Time to Laugh, Lisa J. Radcliff shares the funny side of this season through true stories of her changing body and mind, the lessons learned in over fifty years, the shenanigans of family and friends, and the antics of kids and grandkids. Even with all the issues that come in the quinquagenarian season of life, it can also be “a time to laugh.”
Author Lisa McGrath is passionate about her faith, and it has been her lifeline through all the trials and tragedies she and her family have endured. The JOurneY Between Us tells the inspiring story of how Lisa’s faith guided her through several unthinkable events that shook her world to its core. That same faith allowed her to grow as she learned to trust God’s plan and perfect timing. In their darkest hours, she and her family turned to God, and that has made all the difference on their path together. Now she recalls the experiences of her life and reveals the ways that she has been blessed through friends and family with the support and strength she needed to persevere and find hope, peace, love, and especially joy in her journey. This testimony shares the personal narrative of one woman’s faith walk and how she and her family overcame grief and built a new life together.
It seems the elegant, rising star of poet, Lisa J. Smallwood, has everyone talking. First to take notice was New Black Hollywood Magazine, followed by the Los Angeles Million Women March and now the NAACP. Smallwood's collection is unabashed, deeply introspective and, oh so articulate. Drawn from real-life experience, Smallwood has the rare ability to take us on a journey of splendid persuasions, ranging from the quiet moments of a misty morning in her garden, to the soul's deepest contemplation of despair. Her epic 'Abuse 101' sounds the alarm for female empowerment, while her now, well-known 'Sisters My Sisters' completes her anthology to poetic stardom. With ghostly images that transcend each page, her most recent piece, 'Why Travyon Why?' reflects today's under-current of outrage after the verdict. 'Trayvon' is course, raw, superb. Smallwood's collection makes an excellent gift for anyone in need of stillness and soothing.
Driven by her family's devastating losses, Congolese expatriate Francisca Thelin embarks, with human rights activist Lisa J. Shannon, on a perilous journey back to her beloved homeland, now under the shadow of one of Africa's most feared militias -- Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army. With gunmen camped at the edge of town, Francisca is forced to face a paralyzing clash between her life in America and her family's rapidly evaporating world -- and the reality that their rush to her family's aid may backfire. Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen weaves Francisca's journey with stories of the family's harrowing encounters with gunmen and tales from their past to create a vivid, illuminating portrait of a place and its people. We hear of Mama Koko's early life as a gap-toothed beauty plotting to escape her inevitable fate of wife and motherhood; of Papa Alexander's empire of wives, each of whom he married because she cooked and cleaned and made good coffee; and of Francisca's idyllic childhood, when she ran barefoot through the family's coffee plantation gorging herself on mangoes and fish that "were the size of small children." Offering compelling testimony to the strength of the human spirit and the beauty of human connection in the darkest of times, Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen also explores what it means and requires to truly make a difference in an unjust and often violent world.
Whether you are dealing with hurts from childhood or from just last night, this is the opportunity to allow God to restore your life. Why settle for where you are when you can give God the chance to change things for the better? Bible teacher Lisa Davis has written twelve short, easy-to-read stories of life principles, in which she shares from the experience of this unnamed woman how to move beyond a wounded past to healed life.
Crazy Creek, Wyoming saves Leah Hanes's life. Running on fumes and bald tires, she thanks heaven for the Wimmers who recommend her to the Rocking J Ranch as a winter cook. Leah arrives to discover the ranch and the people need more than a cook. Noel Johansen, heir of the Rocking J, happily left for the big city years ago. When he loses his family in a terrible accident, the best thing for everyone is to sell the place, ditch the memories, and move on. But his brother-in-law has other plans, and the beautiful new cook they've hired for the season threatens Noel's desire to remain detached. The ranch represents Noel's future and selling it becomes more important than ever when one more tragedy leaves him with nothing. But memories can't be bought and sold, nor can a broken conscience heal itself. Home, heart, and future are irrevocably tied in Crazy Creek.
Bridges the gap between today's entertainment-focused “pop psychology” on television and the dry academic research that is published in journals. A primer on human behavior and psychology. The Handy Psychology Answer Book helps answer why humans do what we do through accurate scientific data presented in a lively, accessible, and engaging way. It covers the fundamentals and explains the psychology behind how people deal with money, sex, morality, family, children, aging, addiction, work, and other everyday issues. It takes a journey through the history and science of psychology and showing how psychology affects us all. Fully revised to reflect the latest scientific research—such as the current DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association); the latest neurobiological theories; and the changing face of marriage—this timely reference has expanded to include information sections on the biology and evolution of emotions; technology and adolescence; bisexuality; optimism; autism; as well as a full section on the law, eyewitness testimony and police shootings. Featuring more than 1,500 answers to questions concerning how the human mind and the science of psychology really work, this fascinating guide delivers the real facts of modern psychology, along with fun factoids and thought-provoking insights into what motivates human behavior. This intriguing exploration provides insights into the current science of the mind by answering questions such as: How have other cultures addressed psychological issues? Why was Freud so focused on sex? How do twin studies help illuminate the role of genetics? How can I maintain a healthy brain? Why do some people hear voices that aren’t really there? Why do children see monsters in the closet at night? How have recent changes in technology affected adolescent development? Why does time seem to speed up as we age? Is it normal to argue during marriage? Does religion make people happier? How do we reduce social prejudice? How has morality changed over the course of history? What are the personality traits of people who succeed in their professions? Why do so many politicians get trapped in scandals? Does genetics play a role in voting behavior? Which therapies are best for which kinds of problems? How might the stress of police work affect decision-making in high stress situations? The Handy Psychology Answer Book also includes a helpful glossary of terms, complete reference sources for topics discussed, and an index. With a wide range of information suitable for everyone, this is the ideal source for anyone looking to get a better understanding of psychology. It provides clear answers on the history, basic science and latest research, and psychology behind everyday situations and at different stages in life.
A young Dumplin’ meets Melissa in this joyful and energetic middle grade novel about a twelve-year-old girl living her life to the fullest, celebrating her love for sports and fighting for her right to cheer. Joy, a twelve-year-old trans girl, just moved to Texas with her mother and older brother. Her family has accepted Joy as the girl she is early in her transition, with little fuss, leaving Joy to explore her love of sports, competition, teamwork, school spirit, and worship. But when she is told she’s off the cheerleading team, Joy wants to fight for her right to cheer. As her battle with the school board picks up momentum, Joy attracts support from kids all around the country . . . she even gets the attention of her hero, trans activist Kai Shappley. Inspired by Kai’s own life, Joy, to the World is a timely story of living life to the fullest, celebrating and centering trans joy, courage, and resilience.
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