The brand new novel from queen of the saga and No. 1 bestselling author, Maureen Lee. In times of trouble, family is all you need... Liverpool, 1950. They say you can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family. Yet when Violet Duffy is asked to give a home to the orphaned children of a distant relative, it is precisely the choice she must face. Abby and Will have had young lives full of tragedy. Life with Violet offers love and safety. But as they grow up, their past won't let them be. Will they choose Violet, or the lure of bigger cities and new horizons? Private passions, tough choices, lost loves and second chances pull them in different directions, but wherever life takes them, Violet's door is always open - after all, it's love that makes a house a home.
From USA TODAY bestselling author Maureen A. Miller comes this exciting young adult adventure. The day after Aimee Patterson’s high school graduation, her dreams of college and becoming an engineer are interrupted. On an early evening walk, her cocker spaniel charges into the woods, and Aimee follows. In the stillness of the forest, the unthinkable happens. She becomes paralyzed and watches in horror as her hands vanish before her eyes. She wakes to find she's been kidnapped and is now far from home. A group of human-like aliens fleeing an epidemic travels the galaxies seeking an antidote, and Aimee is mistakenly taken during one of their missions. Now, Aimee must navigate the advances of an awkward young scientist who seems intent on dissecting her as her own fascination turns to the exotic young warrior, Zak. Having fallen in love with Zak, she faces a difficult choice: return to Earth or live beyond the stars.
Never Too Young to Lead offers faith communities resources and strategies to develop leadership qualities and skills in young adolescents. This manual includes six themes on Christian leadership: leadership styles, listening skills, conflict resolution, trust and responsibility, leadership and discipleship, and planning and strategy. The sessions found in Never Too Young to Lead provide a broad overview of leadership with the aid of scriptural images, and include activities for training youth in essential leadership skills and qualities. The manual also offers strategies for using the sessions to create daylong, weekend, or weeklong training programs for young adolescents.
Harrow and Arty are hares and first season Border Patrollers. Their warren is within a large city. On a cool winter evening, on patrol, Harrow and Arty discover that humans have built something terrible. A massive fence has been built around the Eastside Warren’s vegetable gardens. Long ago the Eastside Warren claimed these gardens as their own and each summer the hares gather enough food for the upcoming winter. This fence has been built with one purpose...and that purpose is to keep hares out! The young patrollers soon find them selves on a dangerous mission. Accompanied by a senior patroller, the three hares are sent to enlist the help of the Big River Beavers who live far to the west, across the inner city. This senior patroller, however, has plans of her own. The mission may be doomed before it even has a chance.
This text is an exploration of the interplay between employment and domestic relations within a specific group of young women, which includes single working women without children and working mothers. It is based on actual experiences, as related in interviews, and uses longitudianl data to chart the experience of young adult women living a contradiction between work and family. The text also employs social theory to interpret interview data showing the interdependence of young women as active agents, and the constraints and opportunities of the social structure. The main conclusion is that the social structuring of women as primarily mothers who also work is falling away, but that it is left to individuals to work their way through the contradictory system facing them.
There is no getting away from the past ... A breathtaking novel from Maureen McCarthy, spanning generations, that will be devoured by young women, their sisters, friends, mothers and grandmothers.
The “mesmerizing . . . daring and important”* story of a risk-taking girlhood spent in a working-class prison town *Andre Dubus III For Maureen Stanton’s proper Catholic mother, the town’s maximum security prison was a way to keep her seven children in line (“If you don’t behave, I’ll put you in Walpole Prison!"). But as the 1970s brought upheaval to America, and the lines between good and bad blurred, Stanton’s once-solid family lost its way. A promising young girl with a smart mouth, Stanton turns watchful as her parents separate and her now-single mother descends into shoplifting, then grand larceny, anything to keep a toehold in the middle class for her children. No longer scared by threats of Walpole Prison, Stanton too slips into delinquency—vandalism, breaking and entering—all while nearly erasing herself through addiction to angel dust, a homemade form of PCP that swept through her hometown in the wake of Nixon’s “total war” on drugs. Body Leaping Backward is the haunting and beautifully drawn story of a self-destructive girlhood, of a town and a nation overwhelmed in a time of change, and of how life-altering a glimpse of a world bigger than the one we come from can be.
Immerse yourself once again in the wonderful world of The Eastside Warren with Sunny, Arty, Marcus One-Ear, Samuel Strongtooth and more. The Eastside Warren is a fairly typical warren, except for one thing...the hares live right in the heart of a Small-Ear (human) city. Featuring quotes from "Sunny and the Border Patrol, color all your favourite characters and learn interesting facts about our urban wildlife.
This book is designed to help teachers, particularly in the upper primary and lower secondary levels, address a number of situations that, at some stage, may involve the lives of some or all of their students. The activities provide a framework for literacy-based, worthwhile discussion and sharing of thoughts and ideas. -- p. iii.
Young & Wicked is the story of William Flannelly and his "girl" Polly Sexton. Willie and Polly started down the wrong path early and spent (more properly "misspent") their youth slaloming down the slippery slope of petty criminality and anti-social behavior. They fled their homes in Jersey City to escape arrest and with the intention of disappearing into the shadows of Manhattan's Bowery district. In the end, they not only disappeared, they lost themselves, one in body and the other in soul.
The international legal framework for valuing the carbon stored in forests, known as 'Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation' (REDD+), will have a major impact on indigenous peoples and forest communities. The REDD+ regime contains many assumptions about the identity, tenure and rights of indigenous and local communities who inhabit, use or claim rights to forested lands. The authors bring together expert analysis of public international law, climate change treaties, property law, human rights and indigenous customary land tenure to provide a systemic account of the laws governing forest carbon sequestration and their interaction. Their work covers recent developments in climate change law, including the Agreement from the Conference of the Parties in Paris that came into force in 2016. The Impact of Climate Change Mitigation on Indigenous and Forest Communities is a rich and much-needed new contribution to contemporary understanding of this topic.
Provencher teaches older teens how to pray the rosary. Included are Scripture references, the prayers used in the rosary, and a detailed outline of the beads.
A guide for the young at heart of all ages by an American family that has lived in France and knows how to guide their friends through Paris. They now share their advice with you in this unique guide. Come to love Paris by understanding the stories behind its sights and neighborhoods. See Paris as it should be seen for a fun and affordable learning experience: * 7-Day Step-by Step Tour of Paris based on its history -- the Romans, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the French Revolution, Napoleon I, la Belle Epoque -- the monuments, the kings, the artists -- set forth in a colloquial chronology and presented with advice on the best sights to see to enhance your knowledge. Plus, not-the-same- old-suggestions for Additional Days in Paris for travelers of all ages * Unique ideas for entertaining excursions: learn about Impressionist art as you play the Musee d'Orsay Challenge, enjoy the highlights of the Louvre without making it a marathon, pretend you are James Bond in Paris, and more * Realistic restaurant and lodging recommendations for an enjoyable and affordable visit * Specific shopping routes for all ages and budgets * Insights into French culture, etiquette, and language to smooth your way, including truly practical visitor vocabulary -- essential menu French and real-life expressions * Separate entertaining history section (Daily Dose of French history) for travelers who want to know more about the 2000 years that have created the spectacular city of Paris * Recommendations of Additional Resources for adults and children for before and after your trip -- books, movies, computer games, and theater * Planning an affordable trip using the Internet -- best Web sites
In their revolutionary approach to healing the sick and tired body and soul, the authors bring together and interpret the work of prominent researchers and offer an elegantly simple, practical program for the restoration of health.
Young & Wicked: The Death of a Wayward Girl" is the true story of first generation Irish-Americans William Flannelly and his "girl" Polly Sexton. Born into poverty and growing up on the gritty streets of Lower Manhattan and Jersey City in the 1870s, this lesser "Bonnie & Clyde" took the wrong path early on, as child criminals, and continued down the slippery slope of petty criminality and anti-social behavior first as individuals and then as a star-crossed couple. They fled their homes and families to escape arrest and with the intent of disappearing into the shadows and fast times of the 1890s Bowery neighborhood in Manhattan. In the end, they not only disappeared, but lost themselves one in body and the other in soul.
Two hundred and fifty years ago, John Baylor wrote to his friend George Washington, "as the brave Harry y. 5th told his soldiers that Victory was not so much owing to Numbers as to the Conduct & Courage" of those in the field. The quote remained with me throughout these years of research and came to mind each time I found another story of 'conduct and courage.' As I gathered my heritage close about me, I realized the truth of Henry V's statement. Our history was written by men of courage, men of principle; men and women whose selfless conduct and far-reaching vision still touch us today. Ten years of research revealed a tight weave of great military leaders bound to each other through marriage. The Hunter women, noteworthy for their beauty, united names found in the military journals of their time: Major Samuel Appleton, in charge of all the forces on the Dedham Plain; Lt. Col. George Armistead, Defender of Baltimore; Col. John Baylor of Newmarket, who was with Washington at Winchester. Any student of American history will enjoy learning about the other side of their hero -- their personal lives and fortunes, the journey that brought them into a position of prominence and power. Fully documented, this work gives the reader the background that drove their success and the home life that supported their careers. A companion book, A Tapestry of Colonists, covers the years 1730-1767.
What could they possibly have in common? She's old enough to be his mother. I just don't see how it could ever work. Have you ever been confronted with one of these statements because you're with someone younger? You are about to embark on a journey that will change your mind about May/December relationships. So many times in life people make judgments about one another based solely upon the traditions of the sect of society in which they were raised. More times than not their judgments are wrong, simply because they've chosen to base them on incomplete information. Once they have all the pertinent information concerning that subject their perception changes drastically. Changing people's perceptions is precisely why we wrote this book. Our hope is that once people read this book about our lives they will see that love truly does conquer all. Society says it's OK for a much older man to date a much younger woman. Yet when it comes to a much older woman dating a much younger man the double standard is revealed. Love truly transcends all of our societal misinformation. Love does not look at age, appearances, wealth, health, or any of the other ridiculous limitations that humans have put on relationships. Love knows no boundaries. It's not limited by our finite thinking. Love is the pure essence of two souls merging to become one. This is our story of two souls becoming one.
During the last 50 years, the survival rate of the newly born infant has increased five fold, due to the increasing understanding of the normal working of the close relationship between the mother and infant before it is born - its physiology. from conception to birth. Brief but comprehensive, it tells the story of the way in which the mother's circulation and metabolism respond to her visitor. The early embryological development of the foetus is first described. The function of the placenta is then explained, both in relation to the development of the foetus as a whole, and in its peculiar role as the interface between two separate living organisms. The nutritional aspects of maternal adaptation to foetal requirements are explored, and special attention is given to the way the foetal body develops. The reader is then introduced to the more common obstetrical problems encountered in pregnancy. Pregnancy in animals is briefly examined, illustrating how different species have adapted to meeting the challenges posed by different environments and nutritional needs.
New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson weaves a delicate tale of murder and mystery in the first book of a striking new series, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and E. Lockhart. Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. “A place,” he said, “where learning is a game.” Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of murder, signed with the frightening pseudonym “Truly, Devious.” It became one of the great unsolved crimes of American history. True-crime aficionado Stevie Bell is set to begin her first year at Ellingham Academy, and she has an ambitious plan: She will solve this cold case. That is, she will solve the case when she gets a grip on her demanding new school life and her housemates: the inventor, the novelist, the actor, the artist, and the jokester. But something strange is happening. Truly Devious makes a surprise return, and death revisits Ellingham Academy. The past has crawled out of its grave. Someone has gotten away with murder. The two interwoven mysteries of this first book in the Truly Devious series dovetail brilliantly, and Stevie Bell will continue her relentless quest for the murderers in books two and three.
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