Love is the most important thing in a person's life. We know that babies thrive when they receive touch and caresses and the warmth of other people. This also applies throughout our lives. Touch and warmth are essential for our wellbeing, and so is Real Love. If love can be said to be a sense of personal freedom, then everybody needs Real Love. Real Love seeks to liberate. Real Love is the ultimate expression of a free individual; freedom to imagine, freedom to create, freedom to enjoy. When we are free love emerges and we create a space for each other to enjoy all the delights life has to offer. In this Little Guide Megan and Keith invite you to ask the really good questions that help you to relate to yourself and stimulate your creativity so that you can enjoy more Real Love in your life.
Love is the most important thing in a person's life. We know that babies thrive when they receive touch and caresses and the warmth of other people. This also applies throughout our lives. Touch and warmth are essential for our wellbeing, and so is Real Love. If love can be said to be a sense of personal freedom, then everybody needs Real Love. Real Love seeks to liberate. Real Love is the ultimate expression of a free individual; freedom to imagine, freedom to create, freedom to enjoy. When we are free love emerges and we create a space for each other to enjoy all the delights life has to offer. In this Little Guide Megan and Keith invite you to ask the really good questions that help you to relate to yourself and stimulate your creativity so that you can enjoy more Real Love in your life.
As she seeks the truth about a long-ago murder case, a woman wonders: Can confidentiality become a cover-up? Caitlin Shaw hasn’t set foot in her hometown since her girlfriend Livy was accused of killing her mother and committed to a secure psychiatric hospital. But now, as a grown woman and a parent herself, Caitlin is forced to return to care for her ailing mother. But Livy’s mother’s murder hangs over Caitlin like a cloud. And she feels like she’s being watched. When Caitlin learns that Livy has recently been released, it compounds her fear and guilt, and she is forced to address what happened all those years ago. Caitlin’s father had been Livy’s therapist before the murder, and he uncovered a history of abuse—so when he was dragged into the investigation, Caitlin was stunned he didn’t do more to help. But now her father is dead, and Caitlin has more questions than answers. Why did Livy murder her own mother? Could the truth be closer to home than she realizes?
“A delightfully weird and very queer reimagining of 90s YA nostalgia.” —Autostraddle "Queer dynamite." —Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things Finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction Meet Margaret. At age twelve, she was head detective of the mystery club Girls Can Solve Anything. Margaret and her three best friends led exciting lives solving crimes, having adventures, and laughing a lot. But now that she's entered high school, the club has disbanded, and Margaret is unmoored—she doesn't want to grow up, and she wishes her friends wouldn't either. Instead, she opts out, developing an eating disorder that quickly takes over her life. When she lands in a treatment center, Margaret finds her path to recovery twisting sideways as she pursues a string of new mysteries involving a ghost, a hidden passage, disturbing desires, and her own vexed relationship with herself. Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body reimagines nineties adolescence—mashing up girl group series, choose-your-own-adventures, and chronicles of anorexia—in a queer and trans coming-of-age tale like no other. An interrogation of girlhood and nostalgia, dysmorphia and dysphoria, this debut novel puzzles through the weird, ever-evasive questions of growing up.
In Contemporary Mormon Pageantry, theater scholar Megan Sanborn Jones looks at Mormon pageants, outdoor theatrical productions that celebrate church theology, reenact church history, and bring to life stories from the Book of Mormon. She examines four annual pageants in the United States-the Hill Cumorah Pageant in upstate New York, the Manti Pageant in Utah, the Nauvoo Pageant in Illinois, and the Mesa Easter Pageant in Arizona. The nature and extravagance of the pageants vary by location, with some live orchestras, dancing, and hundreds of costumed performers, mostly local church members. Based on deep historical research and enhanced by the author's interviews with pageant producers and cast members as well as the author's own experiences as a participant-observer, the book reveals the strategies by which these pageants resurrect the Mormon past on stage. Jones analyzes the place of the productions within the American theatrical landscape and draws connections between the Latter-day Saints theology of the redemption of the dead and Mormon pageantry in the three related sites of sacred space, participation, and spectatorship. Using a combination of religious and performance theory, Jones demonstrates that Mormon pageantry is a rich and complex site of engagement between theater, theology, and praxis that explores the saving power of performance.
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