Dawson Burke recognizes a bright, beautiful, and totally unrealistic woman when he sees one. He is happy to tell Jen-Jen a thing or two about how she’s wasting her time trying to save a reality show from sliding toward destruction. Jen-Jen Puffney is so done with staying quietly in the background. Sure, this reality show has a few little problems, but she knows she’s the one who can step in and make it a success. But as a determined Jen-Jen rolls up her sleeves to get to work and ignore Dawson’s valuable advice, he finds himself hopelessly drawn to her, despite her impractical plans. Of course, nothing can save the show, and he and Jen-Jen will soon be thrown out of their jobs. But if he sticks around and ‘helps’ her, he may just have a real chance to win her heart.
Who Killed Ty Conn is the brilliant investigative work of Linden MacIntyre and Theresa Burke, the current host and producer respectively of the CBC's the fifth estate. It tells the tragic story of Ty Conn's life of crime and misfortune. Originally published by Viking Canada in 2000, the book has been updated and reissued with a new afterword from the author and a new foreword by author and criminologist Elliott Leyton. A classic in the literature of true crime, Who Killed Ty Conn portrays a man coming to terms with a life of rejection - and the social system that failed to save him.
This concise volume addresses the question of whether or not language, and its structure in literary discourses, determines individuals’ mental ‘vision,’ employing an innovative cross-disciplinary approach using readers’ drawings of their mental imagery during reading. The book engages in critical dialogue with the perceived wisdom in stylistics rooted in Roger Fowler’s seminal work on deixis and point of view to test whether or not this theory can fully account for what readers see in their mind's eye and how they see it. The work draws on findings from a study of English and Dutch across a range of literary texts, in which participants read literary text fragments and were then asked to immediately draw representations of what they had seen envisioned. Building on the work of Fowler and more recent theoretical and empirical language-based studies in the area, Klomberg, Schilhab and Burke argue that models from embodied cognitive science can help account for anomalies in evidence from readers’ drawings, indicating new ways forward for interdisciplinary understandings of individual meaning construction in literary textual interfaces. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in stylistics, cognitive psychology, rhetoric, and philosophy, particularly those working in embodied cognition.
Dawson Burke recognizes a bright, beautiful, and totally unrealistic woman when he sees one. He is happy to tell Jen-Jen a thing or two about how she’s wasting her time trying to save a reality show from sliding toward destruction. Jen-Jen Puffney is so done with staying quietly in the background. Sure, this reality show has a few little problems, but she knows she’s the one who can step in and make it a success. But as a determined Jen-Jen rolls up her sleeves to get to work and ignore Dawson’s valuable advice, he finds himself hopelessly drawn to her, despite her impractical plans. Of course, nothing can save the show, and he and Jen-Jen will soon be thrown out of their jobs. But if he sticks around and ‘helps’ her, he may just have a real chance to win her heart.
Heading west to the Oregon Territory and an arranged marriage, Dorie Primfield never dreamed that a handsome stranger would kidnap her and claim her as his wife. Part Indian, part white, Dorie's abductor was everything she'd ever desired in a man, yet she wasn't about to submit to his passionate embrace without a fight. Then by a twist of fate, she had her captor at gunpoint and at her mercy, and she found herself torn between escaping into the wilderness--and turning a captive legacy into endless love.
This Scottish historical romance has it all: “Passion, intrigue, a falsely accused witch and a tormented mercenary hero” (Brenda Joyce, New York Times–bestselling author of A Sword Upon the Rose). Twice a widow and now suspected of witchcraft, Sorcha MacIver must find a man who can overcome the curse that haunts her—or burn at the stake at the hands of her own clan. Mercenary Ian Hunter thought marrying Sorcha would be easy money and a way to escape Scotland and his treacherous brother who stole his first bride. But neither counted on Sorcha being a pawn in a deadly play for the throne of Scotland by King James’s cousin. Witch hunts are only the beginning, and a trial judged by the king himself might be their ultimate demise . . .
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