GLASS. Fragile, stained, reflective...bullet-proof Glass." -- "Glass Dreams," GLASS. Leah Michelle Hamilton's 12 original scores for guitar, vocal, and keyboard are songs inspired by a diverse range of genres, including rich country, lively pop, blues and gospel. If you're a fan of country songwriter Waylon Jennings, this is the music book for you. It features Jeff Hale, Waylon Jennings' former drummer, as artist and producer on every song. Glass offers an energetic take on the classic twang of old school country. You'll experience the melodic talent of A-list Tennessee musicians in each song score, including Dave Spak, Doug Kahan, and Dennis Wage. Transcription talents of Roc McNaughton.
Our past influences our future and all generations. The emotional trilogy series “Lies, Lies, Lies” is the first of a 3 part series of emotional healing workbook. As the title indicate it’s about the effect of lies in a family that changed a once happy home. The characters are fictional however the summary of the first act of betrayal shattered the once happy home of Annie represents a real-life experience. Annie’s early life experiences did not dictate her choice to desire a happy home and her dreams were realized in Jack. As trust was eroded it leads to bitterness, unforgiveness, and years of resentment. As Annie searched for answers for healing and a failed marriage it brought mental and emotional anguish. The chapters following Annie’s “Trauma” begins with the biblical dissection and exploration of the origin of the first “Lie”. It explores the emotional desire that leads to the fall of heavenly and earthy beings and the mutagenesis of lies affecting all generations to date. The health connection follows which discusses how our human nature and desires affects our physical biochemistry. This thus results in illnesses such as anxiety disorders, gastrointestinal and metabolism issues. Many experiences line the path of success and failure and thus any emotional trauma should lead to healing. The book then transitions to give the reader an opportunity to write a chapter. The open-access allows the reader to journal an event or events which has resulted in emotional pain as a result of lies they have been told and/or lies they have told to others. This provides the reader the opportunity to make a choice that leads to the path of healing from the past. The next step provides steps in forgiveness included as a worksheet. The Author indicates that forgiveness only takes one person and can allow the reader to reclaim their future through reframing the past. In addition, the book provides an Emotional Quotient Test for each reader to do a self-assessment and provides steps to improve EQ Score as needed. The book provides the reader with a choice that can change the reproduction of a pattern of deception/lies in a family in order to preserve healthy relationships and families.
In 1862, in the midst of a bloody civil war, President Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary, suffered unspeakable heartache when their young son died. To combat her grief, First Lady Mary Lincoln became a devotee of Spiritualism making the White House a center for Washington, D.C.'s Spiritualist community. For decades historians have maintained that President Lincoln only attended a few seances in an attempt to protect his mentally unstable wife. This narrative is incorrect, using a host of previously neglected primary sources, historian Michelle L. Hamilton documents the numerous seances President Lincoln attended and the interest he had for the religion. Michelle L. Hamilton's "I Would Still Be Drowned in Tears" sheds new light onto the Lincolns' interest in Spiritualism and proves that Mary Lincoln might not have been the only Spiritualist in the White House. "Perhaps now we can frankly admit, without ridicule or condemnation, the role Spiritualism played in the lives of Abraham and Mary,"--William Weeks, Ph.D., San Diego State University
Emma McCordick, a reclusive computer science teacher from Arizona, has always preferred scaling the side of a mountain to social situations. Awkward but beautiful, Emma fills her days with volunteering at the local orphanage where she was raised and dealing with her college students' exam papers. But with one phone call, her sedate and isolated life shatters, pulling her into a world of espionage, intrigue and murder. In a place where your best friend can be your enemy, Emma is unsure whom to trust until she meets Jozef. He's a mercenary and a thief, and she's an assassin for the NSA, but they must join forces in order to save their lives. They are in a race against time, terrorists and betrayals that could either ignite the roaring passion ricocheting between them or tear them apart.
In Beyond Faith: Belief, Morality and Memory in a Fifteenth-Century Judeo-Iberian Manuscript, Michelle M. Hamilton sheds light on the concerns of Jewish and converso readers of the generation before the Expulsion. Using a mid-fifteenth-century collection of Iberian vernacular literary, philosophical and religious texts (MS Parm. 2666) recorded in Hebrew characters as a lens, Hamilton explores how its compiler or compilers were forging a particular form of personal, individual religious belief, based not only on the Judeo-Andalusi philosophical tradition of medieval Iberia, but also on the Latinate humanism of late 14th and early 15th-century Europe. The form/s such expressions take reveal the contingent and specific engagement of learned Iberian Jews and conversos with the larger Iberian, European and Arab Mediterranean cultures of the 15th-century.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW WITH A NEW WORKBOOK Deena Kastor was a star youth runner with tremendous promise, yet her career almost ended after college, when her competitive method—run as hard as possible, for fear of losing—fostered a frustration and negativity and brought her to the brink of burnout. On the verge of quitting, she took a chance and moved to the high altitudes of Alamosa, Colorado, where legendary coach Joe Vigil had started the first professional distance-running team. There she encountered the idea that would transform her running career: the notion that changing her thinking—shaping her mind to be more encouraging, kind, and resilient—could make her faster than she’d ever imagined possible. Building a mind so strong would take years of effort and discipline, but it would propel Kastor to the pinnacle of running—to American records in every distance from the 5K to the marathon—and to the accomplishment of earning America’s first Olympic medal in the marathon in twenty years. Let Your Mind Run is a fascinating intimate look inside the mind of an elite athlete, a remarkable story of achievement, and an insightful primer on how the small steps of cultivating positivity can give anyone a competitive edge.
I was on a bus full of sociopaths. The trouble was I had volunteered to be here. Had I only known, I lamented for the hundredth time since I'd boarded this small bus emblazoned with the Real War Games Inc. logo at the Denver International Airport, I never would have gotten off my plane from New York, never would have registered online six months ago, never would have followed through with this harebrained idea in the first place. But I had, thinking that somehow I would be able to understand, to discover the answer to the question that had begun to consume me more than a year ago when my twin brother had died in Iraq: What need had driven Brian to join the army - a decision that had resulted in his death? So I was here in order to understand. And hopefully find some way of moving on with my life. Although I couldn't imagine how to that without Brian. But somehow instead I'd ended up not on a bus with the other participants in this game but with sociopaths. Where had I gone wrong?
A flamboyant beauty who once partied with the Prince of Wales and who now, in her seventh decade, has "gone native" in a Ceylonese jungle. A proud, Oxford-educated lawyer who unwittingly seals his own professional fate when he dares to solve the sensational Hamilton murder case that has rocked the upper echelons of local society. A young woman who retreats from her family and the world after her infant brother is found suffocated in his crib. These are among the linked lives compellingly portrayed in a novel everywhere hailed for its dazzling grace and savage wit -- a spellbinding tale of family and duty, of legacy and identity, a novel that brilliantly probes the ultimate mystery of what makes us who we are.
Set in the early stages of World War II in Europe, spirited archaeology student Kate Bowen experiences within two weeks both the thrilling rush of love and the devastating grief of death. The love is Alex Wolfe, a military pilot fighting not only the Germans but also his past. The death is of her beloved yet increasingly estranged family. Kate soon learns the death of her family is not an accident but an act of murder related to an incident from her childhood. With the help of smugglers, French Resistance fighters and, unexpectedly, Alex, Kate faces a war-torn country, submarine-infested waters and an unnamed killer to discover the truth.Itâs a story of self-realization, of adventure, strength and, above all, love. It is a story that takes you through Scotlandâs moors, Londonâs back alleys and Franceâs landmines in a harrowing adventure of one womanâs search for truth.But, can she face the truth once she discovers it?
Tincture Journal is a quarterly literary journal based in Sydney, Australia and collecting interesting new works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction from Australia and the world.
FELICITÁ - GLÜCK AUF ITALIENISCH von REID, MICHELLE Antonias Schönheit verschlägt Marco Bellini, Milliardär aus Mailand, immer wieder den Atem. Obwohl sie bereits seit einem Jahr zusammen sind, ist ihr Leben ein Feuerwerk der Leidenschaft. Doch dann taucht Antonias Ex auf, und das gemeinsame Glück scheint plötzlich bedroht ... ICH BRAUCHE DEIN LACHEN von GRAHAM, LYNNE Ein Märchen wird wahr: Die mittellose Holly wird die Geliebte des reichen Unternehmers Rio Lombardi! Aber warum verwöhnt er sie, warum besteht er sogar auf einer Heirat? Das erfährt Holly in ihren Flitterwochen auf den Malediven. Doch jetzt ist es zu spät, um zu fliehen ... LIEBESTRAUM IN DER TOSKANA von HAMILTON, DIANA Wie im Paradies fühlt sich Portia in der prächtigen Villa Fontebella. Lucenzo, der attraktive Bruder ihres Exgeliebten, hat sie in die Toskana zu seiner Familie, den mächtigen Verdis, gebracht. Und nun wünscht sich Portia sehnlichst, dass Lucenzo sie bittet zu bleiben ...
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