Drawing upon an extensive collection of private papers, the author brings to life the colourful story of Taylor, Canada's premier geographer. He founded Canada's first Department of Geography at the University of Toronto, and Australia's first Geography Department at Sydney University. Taylor also had the distinction of being chief geologist on Scott's historic 1910-1912 Antarctic Expedition.
It has been ten years since Kelli Callahan became Mrs. Michael Winslow, the wife of a sailboat captain seventeen years her senior. One minute she was living a fairytale life aboard her majestic forty-foot sailboat in Key West, and the next she is having doubts about her choices in men and life in general. It has also been ten years since Bryan Danforth, the man who stole her heart at the age of nineteen, had been sent to prison for white collar crimes. With Kelli's marriage falling apart at the seams and the world in general struggling to survive the worst recession in global history, some dramatic changes are about to take place. Ghosts from the past, both spiritual and physical, are about to make re-entry into Kelli's life one by one. Add to that, three hurricanes that are on a collision course toward Southeast Florida, and you have one exciting cliffhanger of a romance of the strangest kind.
An Edinburgh police detective is summoned to the island of Malta, in this gripping and atmospheric murder mystery set in the Victorian era. It is the summer of 1880, and DI Sam McQueen has been called away from the gray, damp streets of Edinburgh to investigate a case on the oppressively hot Mediterranean island of Malta. The local police chief is distinctly unwelcoming toward the interloper—but has no choice in the matter, since Admiral Collingwood’s wealthy widow insists that her husband’s fatal fall from the roof of their villa was no accident. Fortunately, McQueen gets help from a police physician and the resourceful daughter of a newspaper editor—support he will need as he tangles with local aristocrats, unearths secrets and conspiracies, and is faced with more suspicious deaths that may or may not be connected to the late admiral . . .
I wrote this book for several ratios (meaning reasons in Latin), but one main ratio in particular; I wrote Lonya's liberations, of course, to address major problems or challenges that our youth in particular are facing. Far too many of our youth are not being taught valuable lessons by the 'responsibles' in their lives. With that, I would also have to add that many of our youth don't even have a single 'responsible' period. These valuable lessons, which one can get from reading my thoughts within this piece of artwork, are understanding how to critically think and developing self-esteem and essential life-skills for a promising future"--Introduction by author
HOLLYWOOD AUTHOR HAS GONE SHORTS CRAZY JOYCE'S SHORTS is an odd collection of Taylor's short stories, commentaries and creative writing challenges covering a wide range of topics. You will read about her dreams and fantasies, current events, and most everything else in between. Get ready for a wild ride because Taylor will make you laugh, think, ponder and question most all your beliefs. Perhaps, in the end, she'll even have you agreeing with her that life can indeed be all-out crazy sometimes.
From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Popular Front produced a significant era in African American literary radicalism. While scholars have long associated the black radicalism of the Popular Front with the literary Left and the working class, Christin Marie Taylor considers how black radicalism influenced southern fiction about black workers, offering a new view of work and labor. At the height of the New Deal era and its legacies, Taylor examines how southern literature of the Popular Front not only addressed the familiar stakes of race and labor but also called upon an imagined black folk to explore questions of feeling and desire. By poring over tropes of black workers across genres of southern literature in the works of George Wylie Henderson, William Attaway, Eudora Welty, and Sarah Elizabeth Wright, Taylor reveals the broad reach of black radicalism into experiments with portraying human feelings. These writers grounded interrelationships and stoked emotions to present the social issues of their times in deeply human terms. Taylor emphasizes the multidimensional use of the sensual and the sexual, which many protest writers of the period, such as Richard Wright, avoided. She suggests Henderson and company used feeling to touch readers while also questioning and reimagining the political contexts and apparent victories of their times. Taylor shows how these fictions adopted the aesthetics and politics of feeling as a response to New Deal–era policy reforms, both in their successes and their failures. In effect, these writers, some who are not considered a part of an African American protest tradition, illuminated an alternative form of protest through poignant paradigms.
In order to prove his innocence in a monumental business scandal, a man must enlist the help of the woman who stole his job and broke his heart. Jerry Dobbs, a twenty-year veteran of A.N.T., the #2 Internet software company in the world, has just been fired for stealing and re-selling company secrets to a competitor. Framed by an unknown foe, he sets out to find the perpetrator and enlists the help of his former assistant, Maria Bowers.
Hester Beasley left her home in Tennessee to nurse the wounded of the union army at Gettysburg. It was unusual for a southern woman to serve the northern cause, but Hester was an unusual woman. She was the daughter of Easter, featured in the previous novel of this series. She meets other women and men who play an integral role in the war and shares her homespun knowledge of healing with those who need her help. She departs Tennessee with her brother Ethan, her aunt, Awinta and her dog Yona, facing tremendous challenges along the way. Hester and her brother vow to help anyone who needs healing during the war. Awinta, Easter's half sister, who is of African and Cherokee descent, heads west with her long-time love, Atsadi, only to find herself in the middle of the Battle of Honey Springs and other conflicts.
Spiritually, mountaintops can represent grandeur, majesty, protection, and a safe place from all storms. But what describes the climb up the mountains? Difficulties, adversities, setbacks, injustices, betrayals, deceit, conspiracies just to name a few. There are hidden complexities for the mountain climber: hidden vice-covered ravines, slippery slopes, crags and crevices, venomous snakes, unstable weather, little to no vegetation to feed upon. Sometimes sprained ankles, broken bones, and being just too tired to go on! Compare that to what can happen when mustard-seed faith collides with adversity time and time again. Thats the story of the journey of Cami Marie Taylor whose blind faith eventually led her to the very footstool of God at the top of her own, personal mountain. You will be wasting your time reading this book if youve never had to face a way out of impossible situations with seemingly no answers. But then again, you just might be interested in how Cami was led and strengthened to climb her mountains of adversity! Inspirational reading intermixed with practical Christianity best describes Cami Marie Taylors journey during the 1970s--1980s while it also records the great outpouring of the Holy Spirit who accompanied her on her unchartered mountain-climbing expedition!
Published in 1892 by Marie Hansen Taylor, Letters to a Young Housekeeper provides advice and support to a young woman beginning her married life. In a warm, encouraging tone Taylor offers the young woman the benefit of her experience, providing household tips, recipes, and information designed to help the young woman thrive in her domestic obligations.
We had come by train, carrying our kitbags—two orphans, fourteen and fifteen—evacuated from a war zone in 1944 and sent to the countryside deep in Sussex. We had not thought much about our destination nor the reasons that others must have had to send us en route. We were naïve children to be servants dispatched from an orphanage. So we went where we were sent. We were too young to understand, or for that matter, to have choices.' Following her previous memoir, Matron's Garden, we find Anne—a child raised in a government orphanage and accustomed only to its rigid rules and pecking order—is free from the orphanage's clutches at last. Anne, along with her companion, Aggie, is suddenly transferred into service to a country gentry manor. There she is introduced to the English social strata, a harsh world full of upper class and lower class rules, where forgetting to curtsy can cost her a job. Yet there are advantages; the Martins, a husband and wife who serve as cook and butler, and her employers, Madam and the squire, become her first family. Will Sussex be a welcome refuge from the cruel life of the orphanage? Or will Anne find that the manor house is yet another tough world she has to learn to survive? Read on as Anne recognizes new opportunities, discovers a culture she's never known, and steps out on the pathway to adulthood in Marie Taylor Thomas's second memoir, The Maid Who Forgot to Curtsey.
Kelli Ann Callahan is in for the ride of her life when a chance meeting at a beachside Hollywood bar thrusts her into a whirlwind romance with a wealthy Dallas businessman. As often as she tries to deny it, she knows that Bryan Danforth is too good to be true. Will she follow her instincts to avoid certain heartache lurking in the wings, or will she give in to the passion of a storybook romance? As quirky as they are, her two best friends, Sally and Pierre, offer plenty of advice and support along the way, as well as humorous moments that will leave you doubled over in laughter. Join the parade of characters and get lost in the twists and turns of this enchanting novel of romance and mystery.
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Living at 1998 Main Street in small town San Argle was not what Melissa had in mind for her future. Marrying Joe Schmo and having a houseful of Schmo babies with runny noses was not what she desired, either. California was where the action was and Melissa wanted to be in the thick of it. Can a small town girl find peace, love and happiness in the big city? Melissa Jones thinks so. A daring move to fabulous Los Angeles, where the sun is always shining, the men are hunkalicious, and dreams are there for the taking, is about to explode in a winding tale of love, loss and reality, California style!
Immortal Jurian Locke is haunted by ancient memories as he walks the road toward London to enter King Edward’s last tournament of the season. Cursed by a jealous enchantress in distant times, Jurian is bound to await his soul mate’s rebirth and respond to her need in times of danger. Lady Elena Gregory blames her lame leg for her lack of suitors. As the Earl of Hawthorn’s only daughter, she has received only two unacceptable marriage proposals. Somehow, she must appear less damaged and more desirable at the Yule tournament. No easy task when the simple act of crossing a broken field is almost more than she can accomplish. In a time when acts of valor and chivalry are rewarded, can a simple man-at-arms hope to gain enough favor to be deemed worthy of an Earl’s daughter, and the only woman he can ever love.
Proven, brain-based techniques that build social and emotional intelligence and problem-solving skills For a child to thrive in school today and succeed in life tomorrow, there's no more important quality than social and emotional intelligence. Since children's brains are still developing during the K-12 years, educators can positively influence students' development, including strengthening essential skills such as empathy, self-management and problem-solving. Dr. Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin, one of the world's leading experts on children and brain development, shares award- winning techniques that connect with students' lives and concerns. Readers will find: A research-based approach refined through ongoing work in public schools Classroom exercises grouped by age, but adaptable for all grade levels Lively activities that keep students engaged Valuable content for anti-bullying initiatives and counseling programs This new guide is an essential resource for teachers, counselors and other K-12 educators, helping them to positively shape classroom dynamics and school culture.
What safer way could there be to find your soulmate in the 20th Century, but to search anonymously on the Internet? Kitty Polowski soon discovers the Internet is not so anonymous. After a barrage of frightening e-mails, she is certain someone is stalking her, or is she? In the midst of menopause, she finds that, at times, she cannot distinguish between reality and paranoia, as the stalker gets closer. People she knows are dying. Is it merely coincidence or has she finally lost her mind? Everyone is suspect, especially John, whoever he may be.
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