Maggie Weston makes her Harlequin debut with this spicy Victorian romance “May I ask a favor? I would like for you to bed me.” Widowed duchess and virgin Isabelle must prove her loveless marriage was consummated or face losing her title and stepson! Her plan? Seek out a notorious rake to bed her! Her first stop is the famously indecent Lord Ashworth, who reluctantly agrees, to save her from the more debauched rogues on her list… Despite their fiery encounter making her feel wanted for the first time, Isabelle resolves never to seek him out again. Yet when their worlds collide once more, she’s hiding a secret that would bind them forever… From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past. Widows of West End Book 1: One Night with the Duchess
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD In 1960, Harvard’s sister college, Radcliffe, announced the founding of an Institute for Independent Study, a “messy experiment” in women’s education that offered paid fellowships to those with a PhD or “the equivalent” in artistic achievement. Five of the women who received fellowships—poets Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin, painter Barbara Swan, sculptor Marianna Pineda, and writer Tillie Olsen—quickly formed deep bonds with one another that would inspire and sustain their most ambitious work. They called themselves “the Equivalents.” Drawing from notebooks, letters, recordings, journals, poetry, and prose, Maggie Doherty weaves a moving narrative of friendship and ambition, art and activism, love and heartbreak, and shows how the institute spoke to the condition of women on the cusp of liberation. “Rich and powerful. . . . A love story about art and female friendship.” —Harper’s Magazine “Reads like a novel, and an intense one at that. . . . The Equivalents is an observant, thoughtful and energetic account.” —Margaret Atwood, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
On the Sofa with Jane Austen is a collection of essays that first appeared in the Regency World magazine. They celebrate the quirkiest corners and cleverest contrivances of Jane Austen's art. The twenty-one topics range from coiffure to crime, from gossip to grandmothers. The title comes from the first essay, but it is also an invitation to spend time with a well-loved author in a relaxed and intimate way. The essays are: On the Sofa; The Hair was Curled; Lady Bertram's Fringe; A Very White World; The Silence of Mr Perry; Plump Cheeks and Thick Ankles; Reading Aloud; Arms and Legs Enough; November in the Novels; Words Overheard; Home Comforts; Shoelaces and Shawls; The Freshest Green; Neighbourhood Spies; She is Pretty Enough; Small World; Devoted Sisters; Theft and Punishment; Heroes and Husbands; Only a Grandmother and finally, Dear Mary. This will be of interest to all Jane Austen enthusiasts, especially undergraduates and those studying English Literature at A-level, as well as History and Economics.
Young, beautiful and fabulously wealthy, the widowed Lady Easterling has decided to capture the love of London’s notoriously elusive bachelor, Lord Carlin. But milady is a hoyden with a vocabulary from the stables, and it’s Sara Valentine’s task to prepare the highly capricious Jaisy for her entry into Polite Society. Even when her charge flouts every society rule and is nicknamed “Fair Fatality.” Regency Romance by Maggie MacKeever; originally published by Fawcett Coventry
Julie Wynne expects to end on Tyburn gallows, hanged as a thief. Ned expects he to die on the battlefields of the Peninsula, hanged as a spy. But when Julie takes on the trappings of a lady, and Ned unexpectedly becomes an earl, they become players in a deadly game that will take them from the heights of London society to the depths of the Regency underworld. Regency Romance/Adventure by Maggie MacKeever; originally published by Vintage Ink Press
Miranda is determined not to wed, lest she make a scandal like her mama and grandmama and her great-grandmama, all of whom had shocking weaknesses for charming scoundrels. But then Fate places in her pathway the very rakehelly Lord Baird. Regency Romance by Maggie MacKeever; originally published by Belgrave House/Regency Reads
Jemma believes she'll find peace leading trail rides and doing carpentry on her parents' Appalachian dude ranch in the NC Triplett Valley. A series of minor crimes escalates to arson and murder, and Jemma's diversion as an amateur CSI puts her in danger.
Lady Sherris Childe is a celebrated writer who thinks the execution of Captain Toby, the notorious (and handsome) highwayman, will inspire her next novel. When Captain Toby escapes, forcing Sherry at gunpoint to help him, there’s no doubt of it! But that’s just the beginning of their escapades… Regency Romance by Maggie MacKeever; originally published by Fawcett Crest
Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES Rookie K-9 Unit by Lenora Worth Army medic David Evans has one goal: track down his late comrade's sister and fulfill his promise to look out for her. But he?s shocked to find Whitney Godwin's a single mother and a K-9 rookie cop…with a drug ring's target on her back. SEASIDE SECRETS Pacific Coast Private Eyes by Dana Mentink Navy chaplain Angela Gallagher and army doctor Dan Blackwater are tied together by the tragedy that took the life of Angela's bodyguard. So when their fallen comrade's twin brother is in trouble, they rush to help him—and thrust themselves into danger. TACTICAL RESCUE by Maggie K. Black When Rebecca Miles is kidnapped by criminals seeking the computer decryption program her stepbrother stole, she's rescued by her former sweetheart, special ops sergeant Zack Keats. But as they investigate her brother's treason, they realize that nothing is quite as it seems.
This book explores Alan Moore’s career as a cartoonist, as shaped by his transdisciplinary practice as a poet, illustrator, musician and playwright as well as his involvement in the Northampton Arts Lab and the hippie counterculture in which it took place. It traces Moore’s trajectory out from the underground comix scene of the 1970s and into a commercial music press rocked by the arrival of punk. In doing so it uncovers how performance has shaped Moore’s approach to comics and their political potential. Drawing on the work of Bertolt Brecht, who similarly fused political dissent with experimental popular art, this book considers what looking strangely at Alan Moore as cartoonist tells us about comics, their visual and material form, and the performance and politics of their reading and making.
Bringing together cutting-edge feminist research, this collection uses participatory, inclusive and narrative methodologies to highlight the lived experiences of women involved with the criminal justice system.
Angelica Millikin has little time to mourn her spinster’s fate, for she must try to curtail the follies of her more beautiful siblings. Lovely as they are to look upon, Rosemary, Fennel and Lily threaten to turn even the most practical of sisters into a raving Bedlamite. But then a charming, green-eyed rogue happens to look Angelica’s way… Regency Romance by Maggie MacKeever; originally published by Fawcett Coventry
A Selection of The Next Big Idea Club! "Maggie Jackson’s incisive and timely book is a provocative exploration of the surprising benefits of not knowing. . . and shows how this state of mind can jolt us from intellectual complacency and foster creativity, resilience, and mutual understanding. Uncertain is a triumphant ode to the wisdom of being unsure.” – Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Power of Regret, Drive, and When "With cutting-edge science and insights both surprising and practical, Uncertain shows how cultivating an open and unsettled mindset can help us to spark curiosity, compassion, and creativity." – Gretchen Rubin, New York Times-bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Life in Five Senses "…remarkable and persuasive…" —Library Journal A revolutionary guide to flourishing in times of flux and angst by harnessing the overlooked power of our uncertainty. In an era of terrifying unpredictability, we race to address complex crises with quick, sure algorithms, bullet points, and tweets. How could we find the clarity and vision so urgently needed today by being unsure? Uncertain is about the triumph of doing just that. A scientific adventure tale set on the front lines of a volatile era, this epiphany of a book by award-winning author Maggie Jackson shows us how to skillfully confront the unexpected and the unknown, and how to harness not-knowing in the service of wisdom, invention, mutual understanding, and resilience. Long neglected as a topic of study and widely treated as a shameful flaw, uncertainty is revealed to be a crucial gadfly of the mind, jolting us from the routine and the assumed into a space for exploring unseen meaning. Far from luring us into inertia, uncertainty is the mindset most needed in times of flux and a remarkable antidote to the narrow-mindedness of our day. In laboratories, political campaigns, and on the frontiers of artificial intelligence, Jackson meets the pioneers decoding the surprising gifts of being unsure. Each chapter examines a mode of uncertainty-in-action, from creative reverie to the dissent that spurs team success. Step by step, the art and science of uncertainty reveal being unsure as a skill set for incisive thinking and day-to-day flourishing.
Until the age of twelve, Georgia Lee Kay-Stern believed she was Jewish — the story of her Cree birth family had been kept secret. Now she’s living on her own and attending first year university, and with her adoptive parents on sabbatical in Costa Rica, the old questions are back. What does it mean to be Native? How could her life have been different? As Winnipeg is threatened by the flood of the century, Georgia Lee’s brutal murder sparks a tense cultural clash. Two families wish to claim her for burial. But Georgia Lee never figured out where she belonged, and now other people have to decide for her.
Barbary Dennison is through with men. First her scoundrel of a husband ran off with an opera dancer. Then her most recent admirer jilted her for an heiress. She flees to the safety of Paris, and her lookalike cousin Mab. Alas, Mab has troubles of her own, not least among them the handsome Duc she’s just knocked unconscious with a frying pan… Regency Romance by Maggie MacKeever; originally published by Fawcett Crest
Can you really die from laughing too hard? Between 1870 and 1920, hundreds of women suffered such a fate—or so a slew of sensationalist obituaries would have us believe. How could laughter be fatal, and what do these reports of women’s risible deaths tell us about the politics of female joy? Maggie Hennefeld reveals the forgotten histories of “hysterical laughter,” exploring how women’s amusement has been theorized and demonized, suppressed and exploited. In nineteenth-century medicine and culture, hysteria was an ailment that afflicted unruly women on the cusp of emotional or nervous breakdown. Cinema, Hennefeld argues, made it possible for women to laugh outrageously as never before, with irreversible social and political consequences. As female enjoyment became a surefire promise of profitability, alarmist tales of women laughing themselves to death epitomized the tension between subversive pleasure and its violent repression. Hennefeld traces the social politics of women’s laughter from the heyday of nineteenth-century sentimentalism to the collective euphoria of early film spectatorship, traversing contagious dancing outbreaks, hysteria photography, madwomen’s cackling, cinematic close-ups, and screenings of slapstick movies in mental asylums. Placing little-known silent films and an archive of remarkable, often unusual texts in conversation with affect theory, comedy studies, and feminist film theory, this book makes a timely case for the power of hysterical laughter to change the world.
Using case studies and analytical overviews this book explores the relationship between broadcasting and the intimate domestic sphere into which it is broadcast. It focuses on the period from the 1920s, when broadcasting was established in the UK, to the present day when both domesticity and broadcasting have become areas of anxiety and contestation. The entry of the 'wireless', and later television, into the home changed men and women's experience of domesticity, offering education and reducing isolation. But broadcasting did not merely change domestic leisure patterns, it actively intervened in constructing domesticity. The supposedly natural relationship between femininity and domesticity has structured the nature of broadcasting, and also the discourses which have emerged concerning the consumption of broadcast media. Contemporary broadcasting continues to be obsessed by domesticity, both in an idealised sense as well as portraying the domestic world as one of turmoil and crisis. This volume demonstrates that the relationship between broadcasting and domesticity is a key, and often neglected, feature of the cultural history of Britain in the last 100 years.
“If anyone ever offers you bodily harm, petite, it will be because you have poked your nose into what you should not.” So spoke Merrie’s guardian, the maddening Mephisto. But what else is a girl to do but investigate when there are so many curious matters surrounding her, not least concerning the handsome fortune hunter who holds her heart? Regency Romance by Maggie MacKeever writing as Grace South; originally published by Fawcett Coventry
Sarah Kincaid is a widow with a knack for charms and herbs. Her marriage left her disillusioned. The last thing she needs is for an annoying green-eyed man to interfere with her peace of mind. Andrei Torok is a warrior with a demon mistress and an unrelenting headache. He doesn’t need a quick-tempered, sharp-tongued lass in his life. Moreover, Andrei is vampir. And Sarah is not. Book II of The Edinburgh Vampires. Regency Paranormal Romance by Maggie MacKeever; originally published by Vintage Ink Press
As an increasingly significant aspect of primary teaching, Creative Approaches to Teaching Primary RE is the essential companion to help bring creativity to life in the classroom. The text begins with a discussion of creative education and the value of Religious Education, moving on to reflect on the cross-curricular nature of the subject, exploring ways of introducing creativity to the classroom, through the medium of Religious Education. Each chapter provides ideas and activities demonstrating how pedagogy and theory can be applied in practice within a school setting. The inclusion of case studies will help you consider how to develop creative approaches in all curriculum areas. This book invites you to ask questions such as: · What is Creative Education? · Why should RE be included in the ever-changing curriculum? · How can I use Religious Education to generate a more creative environment in the classroom?
It is estimated that forty percent of new marriages are remarriages, but the survival rate of second marriages is alarmingly low. Many remarrying couples set out with a sense of optimism, a belief that this marriage will usher in a life of happiness and family unity. But complicated family dynamics can often strain new partnerships to the breaking point. The challenges of remarriage are pervasive, but little guidance has existed until now. Based on more than a decade of candid, revelatory interviews, this book provides a crucial framework for the obstacles to re-marriage and the secrets to overcoming them. The author plumbs the everyday workings of shared life to illuminate the emotional preconceptions, social pressures, and perpetuated fantasies that confound re-marriage. Through cautionary tales and stories of hope, the author offers guidance for handling everything from children who reject the new family dynamic to the thorny issue of money. Loaded with practical wisdom and searing accounts, this is a definitive roadmap to a happy, thriving, integrated household.
The complete Edinburgh Vampire Series together in one volume. Follow the Regency Edinburgh characters through tall medieval buildings and narrow, twisty streets. Ominous preternatural beings. And oh, those Edinburgh vampires. Now complete in one volume: Ravensclaw, Vampire, Bespelled, and A Judgement of Vampires
Love Inspired Suspense brings you three full-length stories in one collection! Enjoy action-packed stories in the Rocky Mountain K-9 Unit series featuring K-9 crime-stoppers solving thrilling mysteries that will keep you on the edge of your seat! This box set includes: EXPLOSIVE REVENGE by USA Today bestselling author Maggie K. Black After a string of attacks, Sergeant Tyson Wilkes is determined to protect his Rocky Mountain K-9 Unit—especially against an unknown assailant with a taste for explosives. He’ll need Denver police detective Skylar Morgan to help him find the link between the mysterious sabotage and the dangerous drug case she’s investigating. With his K-9 partner, can Tyson and Skylar disarm this volatile killer before the next bomb goes off? RESCUE MISSION by USA Today bestselling author Lynette Eason With a baby still missing after months of searching, K-9 handler Lucas Hudson and his furry partner must protect the only witness to the abduction as she recovers from amnesia. But the kidnapper wants Kate Montgomery silenced—permanently. Now hiding in the icy Montana mountains might be the key to their survival and to triggering Kate’s memories of the night baby Chloe Baker disappeared… CHRISTMAS K-9 UNIT HEROES by New York Times bestselling author Lenora Worth & Katy Lee With veterinarian Sydney Jones being targeted, officer Gavin Walker and his K-9 partner must stand between her and certain death in Lenora Worth’s Hidden Christmas Danger. And the clock is ticking in Silent Night Explosion by Katy Lee—but can Jodie Chen trust the newest K-9 officer, Victor Abrams, and his dog to find a bomb and keep her alive…before it detonates on Christmas? Look for the complete Rocky Mountain K-9 Unit series! Previously published. Look for the complete Rocky Mountain K-9 Unit series! Book 1: Detection Detail by Terri Reed Book 2: Ready to Protect by Valerie Hansen Book 3: Hiding in Montana by Laura Scott Book 4: Undercover Assignment by Dana Mentink Book 5: Defending from Danger by Jodie Bailey Book 6: Tracking a Killer by Elizabeth Goddard Book 7: Explosive Revenge by Maggie K. Black Book 8: Rescue Mission by Lynette Eason Book 9: Christmas K-9 Unit Heroes by Lenora Worth and Katy Lee
Answering the eternal question... WHAT TO WATCH NEXT? Looking for a box set to get your adrenaline racing or to escape to a different era? In need of a good laugh to lift your spirits? Hunting for a TV show that the whole family can watch together? If you're feeling indecisive about your next binge-watching session, we've done the hard work for you. Featuring 1,000 carefully curated reviews written by a panel of TV connoisseurs, What To Watch When offers up the best show suggestions for every mood and moment.
The indomitable Baroness Bligh packs up her friends and family, along with her pets and the Chief Magistrate of Bow Street, for a relaxing country Christmas, which — as often is the case with Dulcie — turns out to be nothing of the sort. Ghosts, murder, forbidden trysts and romantic misunderstandings: what can a lady do but try and set things right? A Dulcie Bligh Adventure. Regency Romance by Maggie MacKeever; originally published by Vintage Ink Press
When lovely, lethargic Jynx Lennox invites Viscount Roxbury to join her in a marriage of convenience, he agrees. Alas, their pathway to the altar is fraught with pitfalls, including gaming hells and card debts and misplaced betrothal rings and the onslaught of true love; and above all the viscount’s most recent flirt, the notorious—and notoriously bird-witted—Lady Bliss. Regency Romance by Maggie MacKeever; originally published by Fawcett Coventry
A thrilling novel of military lives—and loves—as USAF pilots ignite the engines of their F-15 Eagles and take to the skies. They are intoxicating seductresses willing to do anything—absolutely anything—for love; however, these women can't rival the military aspirations of their men. The women try to fill the holes left in their hearts, but how much longer can they survive loneliness and rejection? How do they take possession of their men's hearts, hearts that only have room for the liberating expanse of the sky? The only way they can reach their stuck-in-the-clouds men is to use illicit affairs, sinful seduction, and murder—to fly like EAGLES.
This dazzling new historical collection delivers a trio of heroes who are bold, dashing, and unforgettable in every way. . . "Beauty and the Brute" by Virginia Henley"How to Seduce a Wife" by Kate Pearce"Not Quite a Courtesan" by Maggie RobinsonSensible bluestocking Prudence Thorn has been too busy keeping her cousin Sophy out of trouble to experience any adventures of her own. But when Sophy begs Prudence's help in saving her marriage, Pru encounters handsome, worldly Darius Shaw. And under Darius's skilled tutelage, Pru learns just how delightful a little scandal can be. . .
Torn between love and duty... Following a disastrous marriage to a miner, Karen has devoted herself to a nursing career. Rising to the challenge of caring for the wounded soldiers returning home from the Great War, she has resigned herself to putting her vocation before any hope of a romantic life. However, she finds herself drawn to handsome, troubled Patrick Murphy. But Patrick is also a Catholic priest. Dare Karen risk scandal and her position by falling for the one man she cannot have...?
Athletic career woman meets good-ole-boy for a five-day backpacking trek in the rugged North Carolina mountains. Appalachian born Wes triggers Suzanne's resentment and her desire amongst boars, bears and Girl Scouts. Suzanne's pack and old hurts lighten as Wes' easy charm helps her truly see the hope and allure of spring flowers, love and forgiveness.
A dictionary containing 3500 biographical entries, each representing a composer whose work has been used within the worship of the church in Britain and Ireland.
The Media and Body Image draws together literature from sociology, gender studies, and psychology; brings together new empirical work on both media representations and audience responses; and offers a broad discussion of this topic in the context of socio-cultural change, gender politics, and self-identity.
Build your students' confidence and enhance the math skills they use in everyday situations! Each of the six books in the Practical Math in Context presents topics students are likely to encounter in everyday life. Mastery of practical math skills is the overarching goal of the series. Each book includes problems that involve estimation, equations, mental math, calculators, and critical thinking. Each book includes additional concept-specific skills such as graphing, averages, statistics, ratios, and measurement. The series is appropriate for use with small groups, a full class, or by independent learners. The lessons are self-explanatory, freeing the teacher for individual instruction.
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