Easy summer reading by award-winning author Patricia Simpson. Choose a love story from three of Patricia Simpson's novellas that have not been available in print before. From an Egyptian shape-shifter, to a young woman bucking the system in dystopian London, to a medieval sorceress hunting a French gargoyle, you'll find something to entertain you.
Veronique Dunn has lived on the streets of Londo City since she was eight years old—an orphan in constant danger of being arrested. Three days before her eighteenth birthday, she sees an audition announcement for a new Citizen Symphony. This is her big chance. She might be a rag-tag street rat, but she can play the piano like an angel. And in three days, she will be able to step out of the shadows. But staying out of trouble for three days is a real challenge. Her mentor is murdered. She discovers an agent of the Overseers is looking for her. Then thugs accost her, and mysterious Roman Brandt intervenes. He opens his opulent home to her, but forbids her to audition. He warns her that the audition could be a trap. Veronique must decide what to do. Give up her dream? Or remain in the only real home she has ever known, with a man who might be the biggest threat of all? Her heart says stay. Her head says run...
The Play World chronicles the history and evolution of the concept of play as a universal part of childhood. Examining texts and toys coming out of Europe between 1631 and 1914, Patricia Anne Simpson argues that German material, literary, and pedagogical cultures were central to the construction of the modern ideas and realities of play and childhood in the transatlantic world. With attention to the details of toy manufacturing and marketing, Simpson considers prescriptive texts about how children should play, treat their possessions, and experience adventure in the scientific exploration of distant geographies. She illuminates the role of toys—among them a mechanical guillotine, yo-yos, hybridized dolls, and circus figures—as agents of history. Using an interdisciplinary approach that draws from postcolonial, childhood, and migration studies, she makes the case that these texts and toys transfer the world of play into a space in which model childhoods are imagined and enacted as German. With chapters on the Protestant play ethic, enlightened parenting, Goethe as an advocate of play, colonial fantasies, children’s almanacs, ethnographic play, and an empire of toys, Simpson’s argument follows a compelling path toward understanding the reproduction of religious, gendered, ethnic, racial, national, and imperial identities, emanating from German-speaking Europe, that collectively construct a global imaginary. This foundational and deeply original study connects German-speaking communities across the Atlantic as they collectively engender the epistemology of the play world. It will be of particular interest to German studies scholars whose research crosses the Atlantic.
She felt the beast watching her... After street rat Veronique Wilder's mentor is killed, she has nowhere to go. She lands a job playing piano in a gentleman's club, just to get by until her audition for the new Citizen Symphony. If she is chosen for the symphony, she will never be cold or hungry again. When thugs accost Vernonique after her first public appearance, she is taken under the wing of mysterious Colonel Brandt. He believes her life may be in danger and cautions her to not to play in public again. He also claims the symphony competition is a ruse. Veronique doesn't want to believe Roman. Her dreams will be dashed. But what if he's right? Can she trust him? He's the strangest man she's ever met. He looks young but seems much older. And he was there the night her mentor was killed. Her head tells her to run. But her heart longs for the music that only Roman can play.
Marissa Quinn, a Montana rancher with a serious independent streak meets her match when a botched time-travel experiment threatens the life of her sister and transports a domineering warrior from ancient Gaul into modern day Seattle.
Two short older children stories that link together to complete one.The first is about a young man's deadly obsession with a young girl, stalking her every where till he succeeds in getting her but not in the happy way she would desire. But as the story unwinds she does escape leaving him alone to repent and regret his actions...The second short story is about a young couple who go into the woods on a sunny afternoon to picnic, but with drinking too much wine they both fall fast asleep to wake up under pitch black skies in a thunderstorm...lost in the woods they make there way out to come upon a deserted house...What happens?Read the book... you will be thrilled and delighted at the outcome...This is a very intriguing story that Pat delightedly turns around from the dark to let love and light shine through and for love and happiness to be found......
In post-Wall Germany, violence—both real and imagined—is increasingly determining the formation of new cultural identities. Patricia Anne Simpson’s book focuses on the representation of violence in three youth subcultures often characterized by aggression as they enact a rivalry for supremacy on the new German “street”—the author’s operative metaphor to situate the cultural discourse about violence. The selected literary texts, films, and music exemplify the urgent need for a sustained debate about violence as an aspect of both social reality and the national imaginary. Simpson’s study discloses the relationship between narratives of violence and issues of immigration, ethnic difference, and poverty. Her lucid readings examine the ways in which violence is grounded in the asphalt of Germany’s new street. This interdisciplinary study identifies the motivations, decisions, and consequences of violent acts and the stories that convey them. Simpson draws examples from popular genres and subcultures, including punk, hip hop, and skinhead sounds, styles, and politics. With theoretical sophistication and analytical clarity, the author locates the contested territory of the street within larger European contexts of violence while paying careful attention to the particularities of German history. She reveals new insights into the construction of citizenship, masculinity, and contemporary ethics. In addition, Simpson demonstrates the importance of concepts embedded in the representation of violence, including revised definitions of heroism, community, and evolving ideas of fraternity, family, and home.
This is the twelfth book in this most wonderful teaching collection by the "Alliance Stylists" Within this collection you will also find some newly created styles of today that the poets have learned and excelled at. Many of which may be in print for the first time as they have been newly created by one of the "Stylist's themselves.
In this captivating follow-up to Mystic Moon, Patricia Simpson once again delivers a complex, romantic tale involving other worldly events in the Northwest. Evaline, a young Native-American woman, must confront her own ghosts in order to embrace lasting love.
From award-winning author Patricia Simpson, described by Romantic Times as "one of the premier writers of supernatural romance", comes a tale of other worldly seduction. When independent Olivia Travanelle is hired to redesign the gardens of the historic Charleston estate, she falls under the spell of her reclusive employer, a man of irresistible, seductive power. Original.
In this book you will find many poems that first came into Patâs mind as a simple muse of thought that she soon developed into a poem to portray it to others in her usual rhyming way...It is titled a bundle because it is full of varied themes covering life as Pat knows it today, plus her love and belief in God and the promise he gave us all of spiritual life to follow.There are poems all people will relate to at sometime or other as they really do cover all the emotions we have to face in lifeâ¦Be they sad through loss and pain or happy with the great joy of children and family life, the beauty of the world and all its lovely creatures that we share it with......Pat says that if just one of her poems helps another person reading to be inspired by the portrayal of her love for God or helped through understanding to find peace in their hearts then to her the book is successful.
A Book of poetry published to portray my muse to you in the hope that you will relate and hopefully be inspired by allthe creative poetry styles shown with full glossary details ...
The story of Flick begins at birth when born the runt of the litter gets rejected by his Father who is the farmers prize boar, this leads to him being badly tormented and teased by his brothers. But through the love of his Mother and sister Julie he lives to triumph and overcome all his set backs. Then with new found confidence he turns what was once an embarrassing feature into an asset.Without giving the story away Flick is a very unusual pig that does eventually become admired by all to end up making friends with a wonderful wild Hare a great character who after being helped by Flick becomes his best friend...These two then as the story evolves strike up a very strong friendship with a Beaver named Bodger.All wonderful characters that make this a story book for all kids to enjoy and delight in...
A book of limerick poems, full of variety in humour and life done not only to tease, tantalise and amuse but to touch upon also the more serious issues of life...making this a poetry book that is full of variety both with poems by the two authors but also by their most esteemed guests...
Simpson shows that the order faced great resistance from the male church hierarchy despite the fact that the pioneer society depended on the work of the Congregation. The order was particularly important in assuming the guardianship of many filles du roi - young women sent to New France under royal auspices to be married to the men of the colony. Simpson also examines the many difficulties the Congregation faced, which included natural disasters and the dangers faced in trying to reach women and children in settlements throughout New France, as far away as Acadia.
A book of poetry that touches upon all emotions in life especially the love of God, Spirituality and earthly life in all forms...Lots of poetry inspired from challenges so all in book is suitable for all reader age groups to enjoy and hopefully relate to...
A poetry book that is full of inspired poems given to Pat (who herself a Spiritual Healer) by her Spiritual Guiding Teachers above. It is a book written to let God's light shine through in her words to give much joy to Christians and hopefully inspire other's to see The Light! The Light of God above that shines down always to guide and protect us...so that one day we will be light enough with love in our Souls to rise with it to Heaven above.
When Marissa learns that her sister Leslie has disappeared, she suspects that a Seattle scientist may be behind the mystery. Leslie worked for Dr. Kyle Woodward, an eminent researcher conducting ancient Druid time-travel rituals. She soon discovers that his latest experiment has trapped a glorious Celtic warrior in the modern world. . . .
What is the role of aesthetic expression in responding to discrimination, tragedy, violence, even genocide? How does gender shape responses to both literal and structural violence, including implicit linguistic, familial, and cultural violence? How might writing or other works of art contribute to healing? Art from Trauma: Genocide and Healing beyond Rwanda explores the possibility of art as therapeutic, capable of implementation by mental health practitioners crafting mental health policy in Rwanda. This anthology of scholarly, personal, and hybrid essays was inspired by scholar and activist Chantal Kalisa (1965-2015). At the commemoration of the nineteenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, organized by the Rwandan Embassy in Washington DC, Kalisa gave a presentation, "Who Speaks for the Survivors of the Genocide against Tutsi?" Kalisa devoted her energy to giving expression to those whose voices had been distorted or silenced. The essays in this anthology address how the production and experience of visual, dramatic, cinematic, and musical arts, in addition to literary arts, contribute to healing from the trauma of mass violence, offering preliminary responses to questions like Kalisa's and honoring her by continuing the dialogue in which she participated with such passion, sharing the work of scholars and colleagues in genocide studies, gender studies, and francophone literatures.
The highly-anticipated third book in the Forbidden Tarot series by award-winning author Patricia Simpson introduces the Oracle of Avaris--the only being capable of stopping an ancient god bent on the destruction of modern civilization.
A book of poetry that covers all styles, emotions and the situations we all face at times in life...Featuring many of today's most respected poets who happily portray their own personal favorite poems...
First a deafening computer surge, then a burst of lasers, then he appears. Is he a hologram or a man? Or is he, as Jamie fears, the ghost of Hazard McAllister, legendary Scots bluebeard, incarnate?
Carter Greyson was an outcast and a loner--until a brush with death alters his mind and his appearance. Arielle was a naive college student until a wise and honorable man gave her life new meaning. When their paths cross, Carter and Arielle discover a dangerous plot that threatens the very foundation of an Indian tribe to which they are both irrevocably linked.
Five wonderful different stories are in this book each one very different from the other yet all wonderful tales that will excite the children thst read, written in rhyme in Pat's usual style and portrayed with charming pictures to delight and enhance the prentation of the book, This is a book that will give children a wonderful read and at same time show them some good old fashioned morals...
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