While trying to prove the innocence of her client--and lover--Stoney Copeland, who has been accused of murder, defense attorney Kiley Johnson must find her nephew, who holds the key to solving this case and clearing Stoney's name. Original.
When her ex-husband returns to win her back, Charlotte Ann Brown, vowing to transform herself into the sophisticated woman she knows he wants, asks her best friend Steve Parker to help her, but when unexpected passion flares between her and Steve, she is forced to choose between them. Original.
Spring is the season to celebrate the women who give readers the precious gift of life--and the irreplaceable love that sustains them through the years. Now, readers can cherish the power of a mother's love--and a mother in love--with these heartwarming tales: "The Gamble" by Roberta Gayle, "The Preacher's Wife" by Anna Larence, and "What the Heart Knows" by Ronda Shepard.
When Dorinda Fay enters the reception hall alone at her twin sister's wedding and realizes that four ex-boyfriends and their significant others are also guests, her dismal love life flashes before her eyes. Then her first true love, Matt Cooper, comes back, and Dorinda must decide whether to walk away again, or to risk opening her heart to him, letting go of the past, and walking down the aisle.
When she inherits her Great Aunt Becky's house in Richlandtown, Pennsylvania during Christmas, linguist Maddie Davis turns to her husband Warner Davis for help and soon finds their marriage of convenience turning into something more, forcing them both to take stock of their current situation. Original.
Journalist Kate Ramsey has the perfect source for her hard-hitting piece on corruption in Manhattan's construction industry. Independent contractor Brant Fuller is smart, honest, and well-connected. Mistrustful of the media, Brant only agrees to work with Kate to stop her from destroying an innocent man. Never has he met a woman so pushy--or sexy.
In this delightful romance, an assistant producer working on her first reality show is forced to step in as a contestant--and finds herself losing her heart. Original.
One of Boston's most successful attorneys, Eliza Taylor had her life under perfect control. But then an old friend asked her to help his handsome brother, Ely, keep custody of his son. Suddenly Eliza finds herself in the middle of a case loaded with legal curves -- and falling for a man who ignites her deepest hungers.
When she inherits her Great Aunt Becky's house in Richlandtown, Pennsylvania during Christmas, linguist Maddie Davis turns to her husband Warner Davis for help and soon finds their marriage of convenience turning into something more, forcing them both to take stock of their current situation. Original.
When her ex-husband returns to win her back, Charlotte Ann Brown, vowing to transform herself into the sophisticated woman she knows he wants, asks her best friend Steve Parker to help her, but when unexpected passion flares between her and Steve, she is forced to choose between them. Original.
While trying to prove the innocence of her client--and lover--Stoney Copeland, who has been accused of murder, defense attorney Kiley Johnson must find her nephew, who holds the key to solving this case and clearing Stoney's name. Original.
Contemporary sacred text scholarship has been stimulated by a number of intersecting trends: a surging interest in religion, sacred texts, and inspirational issues; burgeoning developments in and applications of literary theories; intensifying academic focus on diverse cultures whether for education or scholarship. Although much has been written individually about Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur’an, no collection combines an examination of all three. Sacred Tropes interweaves Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur’an essays. Contributors collectively and also often individually use mixed literary approaches instead of the older single theory strategy. Appropriate for classroom or research, the essays utilize a variety of literary theoretical lenses including environmental, cultural studies, gender, psychoanalytic, ideological, economic, historicism, law, and rhetorical criticisms through which to examine these sacred works.
In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New Yorks ''master builder'' Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic. and demolition-heavy ways. Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. New York City, Gratz argues, recovered precisely because of the waning power of Moses. His decline in the late 1960s and the drying up of big government funding for urban renewal projects allowed New York to organically regenerate according to the precepts defined by Jane Jacobs in her classic, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and in contradiction to Mosess urban philosophy. As American cities face a devastating economic crisis, Jacobss philosophy is again vital for the redevelopment of metropolitan life. Gratz who was named as one of Planetizens Top 100 Urban Thinkers gives an on-the-ground account of urban renewal and community success.
Beautifully told with exceptional skill, "The Midwife of Venice" brings to life a time and a place cloaked in fascination and mystery and introduces a captivating new talent in historical fiction.
Political, economic and social barriers among Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada are giving way to global forces and the "global dreams" they inspire. This collection of original articles and essays examines popular culture, literature, theatre, belief systems, indigenous practices and questions of identity, exile and alienation. The interconnectedness and distinction of cultural production throughout the Americas, "transplanted" interests, the mediation of African and European influences, and the expression of shifting identities, all reflect the development of a new American neighbourhood.
Over twenty years after the publication of her groundbreaking work, Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children’s Novels, Roberta Seelinger Trites returns to analyze how literature for the young still provides one outlet in which feminists can offer girls an alternative to sexism. Supplementing her previous work in the linguistic turn, Trites employs methodologies from the material turn to demonstrate how feminist thinking has influenced literature for the young in the last two decades. She interrogates how material feminism can expand our understanding of maturation and gender—especially girlhood—as represented in narratives for preadolescents and adolescents. Twenty-First-Century Feminisms in Children’s and Adolescent Literature applies principles behind material feminisms, such as ecofeminism, intersectionality, and the ethics of care, to analyze important feminist thinking that permeates twenty-first-century publishing for youth. The structure moves from examinations of the individual to examinations of the individual in social, environmental, and interpersonal contexts. The book deploys ecofeminism and the posthuman to investigate how embodied individuals interact with the environment and via the extension of feministic ethics how people interact with each other romantically and sexually. Throughout the book, Trites explores issues of identity, gender, race, class, age, and sexuality in a wide range of literature for young readers, such as Kate DiCamillo’s Flora and Ulysses, Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming, and Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park. She demonstrates how shifting cultural perceptions of feminism affect what is happening both in publishing for the young and in the academic study of literature for children and adolescents.
An opulent, riveting, and suspenseful continuation of the thrilling historical novel The Midwife of Venice set in medieval Constantinople. AN OPULENT, CAPTIVATING, AND SUSPENSEFUL HISTORICAL NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE THRILLING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THE MIDWIFE OF VENICE The Imperial Harem, Constantinople, 1578. Hannah and Isaac Levi, Venetians in exile, have overcome unfathomable obstacles to begin life anew in the Ottoman Empire. He works in the growing silk trade, and she, the best midwife in the capital, tends to the hundreds of women in Sultan Murat III’s lively and infamous harem. One night, Hannah is unexpectedly summoned to the extravagant palace and confronted with Leah, a Jewish peasant girl who was violently abducted. The sultan favors Leah as his next conquest and wants her to produce his heir, but if the spirited girl fails an important test, she faces a terrible fate. Taken by Leah’s tenacity, Hannah risks everything to help her. But as Hannah agonizes over her decision, an enchanting stranger arrives from afar to threaten her peaceful life with Isaac, and soon Leah too reveals a dark secret that could condemn them both. Filled with adventure and vivid detail and peopled with memorable characters, The Harem Midwife showcases Roberta Rich’s boundless talent for capturing readers’ imaginations.
Spring is the season to celebrate the women who give readers the precious gift of life--and the irreplaceable love that sustains them through the years. Now, readers can cherish the power of a mother's love--and a mother in love--with these heartwarming tales: "The Gamble" by Roberta Gayle, "The Preacher's Wife" by Anna Larence, and "What the Heart Knows" by Ronda Shepard.
This book examines current archaeological approaches for studying the organizational structure of prehistoric societies in the American Southwest. It presents the historical background of the divergent theoretical models that have been used to interpret Southwestern socio-political organizations.
We discuss existing shortfalls and inequalities in the accumulation of human capital—knowledge, skills, and health. We analyze their immediate and systemic causes, and assess the scope for public intervention. The broad policy goals should be to improve: the quality, and not just the quantity, of education and health care; outcomes for disadvantaged groups; and lifelong outcomes. The means to achieve these goals, while maximizing value for money, include: focusing on results rather than just inputs; moving from piecemeal interventions to systemic reform; and adopting a “whole-of-society” approach. Reforms must be underpinned by a robust evidence base.
Using nine recent theatrical and cinematic productions as case studies, it considers the productive contradictions and tensions that occur when contemporary actors perform the gender norms of previous cultures. It will be of interest to theatre practitioners as well as to students of early modern drama, of performance, and of gender studies.
One of Boston's most successful attorneys, Eliza Taylor had her life under perfect control. But then an old friend asked her to help his handsome brother, Ely, keep custody of his son. Suddenly Eliza finds herself in the middle of a case loaded with legal curves -- and falling for a man who ignites her deepest hungers.
In this delightful romance, an assistant producer working on her first reality show is forced to step in as a contestant--and finds herself losing her heart. Original.
As a young girl, Sylvia Hatchell longed to play little league baseball and, later, high-school basketball, but both were closed to her because she was a girl. In college, her world shifted when she discovered a passion for coaching that would lead her to become a Naismith Hall of Fame coach of women's basketball at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In this book, Coach Hatchell's life story unfolds against the backdrop of Title IX and women's struggle for equal opportunities in athletics. She celebrates triumphs (such as winning the 1994 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament) and weathers sadness and failure (such as the loss of her parents, surviving cancer, and being forced to resign from her dream job in 2019).
Synergy for Clinical Excellence: The AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care, Second Edition is a unique text that encompasses the history and development of the nurse and patient characteristics inherent in the Synergy Model. Based on a decade of work by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), it can be used as the theoretical framework for the curriculum for universities, the model of practice for hospitals seeking Magnet status, the main theory behind AACN certifications, the framework for dissertations and DNP projects, and part of the foundation for the Consensus Model for Advanced Practice Nursing. The Second Edition includes new chapters on integrating the Synergy Model in the perioperative and ambulatory settings, applying the Synergy Model in practice, and tying the Synergy Model to the APRN Consensus Model. Completely updated and revised, it also provides sample test questions, practical examples, and the latest information to help prepare exam candidates.
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