When a first grade sweetheart looses her innocence and must fight for her life, the question was why? Years later after growing into a beautiful young woman who set her trauma aside, the question was "Suicide or Murder?" As a communications giant, Grant Templeton finds himself a small voice against the rock and roll machine of death metal and satanic forces real and otherwise. Follow the trail of tears as he tries to answer that very question, and find peace for his daughter's soul. Will he be able to follow the music to find what his lost Sarah was thrown into? Or will the music play out before he gets the answers that hold him a prisoner in his own life? This is a concert like none you will ever forget and the story of lost souls you will always remember. Or These two lives were not diverged by yellow wood, but by fate and each girl had to stay her path, for in the end, it made all the difference After Twilight Comes A Glint In The Dark
George and Virginia High are husband and wife, having been married since 1968. When this racist investigation began in 1990, the Highs had assets in excess of 4 million dollars, and had an ownership interest in Georgia Home Improvement Company Inc., High-Five Ltd., Shareholders in Bal, Inc. and owner/operators of Highs Realty Inc. in which George Sr. was Broker and Virginia, Eric and George W. High, Jr. along with 30+ other people were all licensed real estate agents. The second superseding indictment against the Highs alleged that they used these businesses as "fronts" to structure currency transactions and laundry money that was illegally obtained through the trafficking of narcotics. George and Virginia High pled not guilty to all charges and have maintained their innocence throughout the trial and subsequent proceedings. I will prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the United States of America and its surrogates engaged in a pattern of Racketeering in that we were the victims of a government frame-up and racist conspiracy. A conspiracy (simply put) is a corrupt agreement of two or more individuals to do something, which the law forbids. In carrying out the conspiracy, members of the conspiracy performed different functions, each of which was significant to the achievement of the objective of the conspiracy. The objective of the conspiracy was to deny Virginia and George High the equal protection and due process of law as guaranteed by the fourteenth amendment of the United States Constitution. We were also deprived of our rights as guaranteed by the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Thirteenth amendments of the United States Constitution. George and Virginia High had a sham trial before a Kangaroo Tribunal, which was tantamount to a Judicial Lynching.
Lori Wick's bestselling series The Californians (more than 500,000 copies sold) has a fresh new cover design to delight avid Lori Wick fans and readers just introduced to Lori's beloved fiction. When an angry snowstorm forces Marcail Donovan to seek shelter for the night at the town doctor's house, the pretty new schoolteacher is thrust into a scandal that threatens her career. The unfortunate but innocent circumstances bring harsh condemnation to Marcail, but the compassionate bachelor doctor offers her a way to remain the town's teacher. Now she must face an inner turmoil worse than any storm. Is Donovan's Daughter willing to give up her own dreams to bring God's love to the children she teaches?
The world can be a difficult place when one does not fit in. There are groups, cliques, gangs, couples, and clubs. What if you found that you could not fit in. What if the reason that you do not fit in is that your own brain tells you that you are different, strange, weird and perhaps not worthy. People who suffer from Social Anxiety experience this. Negative self-talk exists in an extreme form. Social anxiety causes the sufferer to see themselves as different from anyone else on the planet. The author, Lori, has suffered from an extreme form of social anxiety for the past 23 years. She has managed to overcome most of it although it lingers in her life from day to day. Her story is laid out in a series of poems, anecdotes, and stories. See her journey from square peg trying to squeeze into the circular slot, to square and proud. Enjoy the journey.
As a successful political strategist, Jake Sumner is always prepared for disaster, ready to spin on a dime to meet any challenge. Until a stranger knocks on his door and announces he's the father of a five-year-old girl he never knew existed. Reeling from the news and trying to connect with his daughter, he returns to his hometown of Canyon Creek, Colorado, hoping his rowdy family can help him make sense of the chaos that surrounds him. What he never counted on was falling in love... with his daughter, with his small town, or with Lina Bianchi“--Provided by publisher.
An innovative historical romance anthology of interrelated stories about babies -- a theme near and dear to the heart of every romance reader -- penned by three beloved romance writers. Unable to care for a child on her own, a young mother tearfully leaves her baby girl on a stranger's doorstep. Susan Kay Law writes lovingly about how that baby brings together a lonely widower and the pretty woman next door whom he'd never noticed. In the meantime, the mother flees west to escape her painful memories and build a new life for herself. Cassie Edwards depicts her adventures and romance with a Blackfoot chief who needs her help in raising his orphaned infant nephew. Ultimately, through the magical pen of Lori Copeland, the two babies grow up and meet to form their own lasting connection.
The last time Rod Poitra saw his old friend, the mage Derrick Lashan, Lashan was, literally, insane. As in, tied-to-the-bed, screaming crazy. So, when Lashan shows up on Rod’s doorstep two years later, the former pipe-carrier is just happy Lashan knows his own name. But then Rod gets a visit from the otherworldly being Sebastian Strange, who warns Rod that Lashan isn’t nearly as together as he seems. Can an emotionally-burned-out pipe-carrier stop Lashan from destroying himself and everyone else on the res? The things you do for your friends!
Lori Emerson examines how interfaces—from today’s multitouch devices to yesterday’s desktops, from typewriters to Emily Dickinson’s self-bound fascicle volumes—mediate between writer and text as well as between writer and reader. Following the threads of experimental writing from the present into the past, she shows how writers have long tested and transgressed technological boundaries. Reading the means of production as well as the creative works they produce, Emerson demonstrates that technologies are more than mere tools and that the interface is not a neutral border between writer and machine but is in fact a collaborative creative space. Reading Writing Interfaces begins with digital literature’s defiance of the alleged invisibility of ubiquitous computing and multitouch in the early twenty-first century and then looks back at the ideology of the user-friendly graphical user interface that emerged along with the Apple Macintosh computer of the 1980s. She considers poetic experiments with and against the strictures of the typewriter in the 1960s and 1970s and takes a fresh look at Emily Dickinson’s self-printing projects as a challenge to the coherence of the book. Through archival research, Emerson offers examples of how literary engagements with screen-based and print-based technologies have transformed reading and writing. She reveals the ways in which writers—from Emily Dickinson to Jason Nelson and Judd Morrissey—work with and against media interfaces to undermine the assumed transparency of conventional literary practice.
An RCMP sting caught Nicole Doucet (Ryan) trying to hire a hitman to kill her ex-husband. It was supposed to be an open-and-shut case. It wasn’t. No Legal Way Out details the process, the media coverage, and the legal implications of R v Ryan, all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. The outcome of the case limited the legal options for women seeking to escape abuse and had a damaging impact on public perceptions of domestic violence. This unabashedly feminist analysis explains why the court, the police, and the media let down all women trapped by intimate partner terrorism.
Katherine Taggert—nicknamed "Rusty" for her curly red hair—shines like a ray of sunshine at her aunt and uncle's orphanage. Unaccustomed to traveling alone in the pioneer West, Rusty is accompanied on her first orphanage placement trip by the kind but reserved widower Chase McCandles. When Chase offers Rusty a position in his stately home as a companion for his young son, Quintin, Rusty accepts. But when she realized how little time Chase spends with Quintin, Rusty's heart is torn. How can she convince Chase that his son desperately needs a father? And can Chase learn to trust God to help him demonstrate his love and affection for Quintin—and for Rusty? A heartwarming story of love, trust, and family.
The title says it all…whether you like your romances small-town sweet, hot and steamy, or with a bit of danger, we have what you're looking for. Inside ALL ROMANCE, ALL THE TIME, you'll get a taste of 13 stories by some of our most popular and bestselling authors, at least one of whom is guaranteed to become your new romance go-to. So no matter if your toes curl for Regency rogues, wounded warriors, chiseled cowboys or the classic guy-next-door, prepare to lose yourself between the covers. Featuring titles from The Closer you Come by Gena Showalter, The Devil Takes a Bride by Julia London, Unfaded Glory by Sara Arden, Flirting with Disaster by Victoria Dahl, Wild Horses by B.J. Daniels, First Time in Forever by Sarah Morgan, One Wish by Robyn Carr, Holding Strong by Lori Foster, Part Time Cowboy by Maisey Yates, In Your Dreams by Kristan Higgins, When We Met by Susan Mallery, Wild Iris Ridge by RaeAnne Thayne, and The Tea Shop on Lavender Lane by Sheila Roberts.
This collection of new essays seeks to define the unique qualities of female heroism in literary fantasy from Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in the 1950s through the present. Building upon traditional definitions of the hero in myth and folklore as the root genres of modern fantasy, the essays provide a multi-faceted view of an important fantasy character type who begins to demonstrate a significant presence only in the latter 20th century. The essays contribute to the empowerment and development of the female hero as an archetype in her own right.
An important new approach to the study of laboratories, presenting a practical method for understanding labs in all walks of life From the “Big Science” of Bell Laboratories to the esoteric world of séance chambers to university media labs to neighborhood makerspaces, places we call “labs” are everywhere—but how exactly do we account for the wide variety of ways that they produce knowledge? More than imitations of science and engineering labs, many contemporary labs are hybrid forms that require a new methodological and theoretical toolkit to describe. The Lab Book investigates these vital, creative spaces, presenting readers with the concept of the “hybrid lab” and offering an extended—and rare—critical investigation of how labs have proliferated throughout culture. Organized by interpretive categories such as space, infrastructure, and imaginaries, The Lab Book uses both historical and contemporary examples to show how laboratories have become fundamentally connected to changes in the contemporary university. Its wide reach includes institutions like the MIT Media Lab, the Tuskegee Institute’s Jesup Wagon, ACTLab, and the Media Archaeological Fundus. The authors cover topics such as the evolution and delineation of lab-based communities, how labs’ tools and technologies contribute to defining their space, and a glossary of key hybrid lab techniques. Providing rich historical breadth and depth, The Lab Book brings into focus a critical, but often misunderstood, aspect of the contemporary arts and humanities.
Abusive Head Trauma in Infants and Children combines all aspects of abusive head trauma cases into one complete reference for clinicians, investigators, prosecutors, and social workers. The text details the application of medical science to the investigation and prosecution of these cases, as well as issues of long-term outcome, developmental and educational needs, and strategies for community-based education and prevention.More than 600 clinical photographs illustrate inflicted head injuries with case studies and multidisciplinary analysis, including discussions of shaken baby syndrome, shaken impact syndrome, differential diagnoses, forensic analysis, autopsies, prosecutorial issues, long-term care of survivors, and the role of social services.This single-volume edition combines the best clinical writing with high-quality photographic content found in color atlases - a wealth of knowledge bound in one concise edition.""The Abusive Head Trauma CD-ROM"" depicts how head injuries occur using 3-D images and animation developed from actual forensic analysis of victimized children. This product is valuable for explaining the complex biomechanics of abusive head injury to investigators, and mandated reporters. Clear up confusion about what is and is not shaken baby syndrome with exacting animations developed by an objective and esteemed pathologist.
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