A young Amish woman defies her family and their traditions to leave her small community in search for musical stardom. The naive woman quickly learns that all that glitters is not gold and thinks about returning home when some encouraged words from a new found friend makes her reconsider. A chance meeting causes the Amish woman to cross paths with an aspiring female rock band performing at an Italian Restaurant in NYC. The band gets their first chance at stardom when a flashy concert promoter puts them on a cross country tour. Trouble looms this rock band as a bitter sweet mix of success and tragedy makes them think about what's really important. Together they learn a lesson in family values, true friendship and unconditional love. The young Amish woman achieves her dream and returns home with more respect for her lifestyle and herself. The paths she's taken and persons she's met along her journey will always stay in her heart. {www.wix.com/tomjamesh/my-books} {www.wix.com/tomjamesh/my-scripts}
One of our most enduring national myths surrounds the men and women who fought in the so-called "Good War." The Greatest Generation, we're told by Tom Brokaw and others, fought heroically, then returned to America happy, healthy and well-adjusted. They quickly and cheerfully went on with the business of rebuilding their lives. In this shocking and hauntingly beautiful book, historian Thomas Childers shatters that myth. He interweaves the intimate story of three families--including his own--with a decades' worth of research to paint an entirely new picture of the war's aftermath. Drawing on government documents, interviews, oral histories and diaries, he reveals that 10,000 veterans a month were being diagnosed with psycho-neurotic disorder (now known as PTSD). Alcoholism, homelessness, and unemployment were rampant, leading to a skyrocketing divorce rate. Many veterans bounced back, but their struggle has been lost in a wave of nostalgia that threatens to undermine a new generation of returning soldiers. Novelistic in its telling and impeccably researched, Childers's book is a stark reminder that the price of war is unimaginably high. The consequences are human, not just political, and the toll can stretch across generations.
The typical story of the adolescent years of boy-meets-girl/teen troubles. Though it's a predictable but touching story, the characters come alive through emotional depth. Michael Marino had just moved to a small town in Pennsylvania. Dealing with the recent death of his mother and a hard core Marine Sergeant father, he finds it hard to make new friends. He soon hooks up with a couple of older boys and gets the reputation of a neighborhood trouble maker. Michael befriends a junkie, Rich, who sees Michael's future better than Michael sees it himself. Rich is a particularly powerful character who blurs the good boy/bad boy line. Eric is the well drawn best friend characters who's innocents gives support to Michael. Jane transcends the usual teen heroine with her unconditional love and support for Michael through her good sense. Michael's relationship with his father and their reconcile is perhaps the most touching of the story. {www.wix.com/tomjamesh/my-books} {www.wix.com/tomjamesh/my-scripts}
Eighteen year old Elizabeth receives an unexpected phone call from an old friend, Michael, who she knew in high school and had since moved away, inviting her to a wedding. Although her father forbids her to go, she packs for a weekend trip to New York. Before she leaves her home in Pennsylvania, her father tells her, if she leaves, don't even think about coming home again. Despite her troubling mind, Elizabeth has a good time meeting Michael's family and is treated like a new addition, which ruffles the feathers of the new Brides. Michael and Elizabeth experience their first sexual encounter that night and Michael knows he can not let this girl walk out of his life and asks Elizabeth to live with him. Knowing she can not go home, and falling in love with Michael, she accepts. The young couple begins a journey through a new life together. www.thomasjh.com
Canadian Geography: A Scholarly Bibliography is a compendium of published works on geographical studies of Canada and its various provinces. It includes works on geographical studies of Canada as a whole, on multiple provinces, and on individual provinces. Works covered include books, monographs, atlases, book chapters, scholarly articles, dissertations, and theses. The contents are organized first by region into main chapters, and then each chapter is divided into sections: General Studies, Cultural and Social Geography, Economic Geography, Historical Geography, Physical Geography, Political Geography, and Urban Geography. Each section is further sub-divided into specific topics within each main subject. All known publications on the geographical studies of Canada—in English, French, and other languages—covering all types of geography are included in this bibliography. It is an essential resource for all researchers, students, teachers, and government officials needing information and references on the varied aspects of the environments and human geographies of Canada.
In this reference volume, more than 200 fictional feature-length movies with a primary focus on an athletic endeavor are discussed, including comedies, dramas, and biopics. Brief summaries and credit information are provided for an additional 200 films, and appendixes include made-for-teleivion movies and documentaries.
Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology presents actual clinical cases, providing developmental histories essential to appropriate diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. This text presents 23 distinct case studies, applying abstract theoretical research to real-world situations. Each study describes the clinical problem, demonstrates the formulation and implementation of a treatment plan, and discusses evidence of potential causes and prevalence. This comprehensive examination includes cases ranging from psychotic and personality disorders including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder to those concerning child development and aging such as attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder. Coverage of sometimes controversial subjects including dissociative identity disorder, gender dysphoria, autism spectrum disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder ensures contemporary relevance. Suitable for undergraduate and graduate study of abnormal psychology, this book presents an honest and unbiased view of the limitations and benefits of various treatment plans. Discussions of alternative methods including medication, electroconvulsive therapy, and psychosurgery, augment primary cognitive-behavioral approaches, allowing students a solid foundational knowledge of the subject.
A unique series of cases based on a fictional family selecting and using a health plan is presented and a glossary is provided which defines basic concepts frequently encountered in the managed care field.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, the men of the 30th North Carolina rushed to join the regiment, proclaiming, "we will whip the Yankees, or give them a right to a small part of our soil--say 2 feet by 6 feet." Once the Tar Heels experienced combat, their attitudes changed. One rifleman recorded: "We came to a Yankee field hospital ... we moved piles of arms, feet, hands." By 1865, the unit's survivors reflected on their experiences, wondering "when and if I return home--will I be able to fit in?" Drawing on letters, journals, memoirs and personnel records, this history follows the civilian-soldiers from their mustering-in to the war's final moments at Appomattox. The 30th North Carolina had the distinction of firing at Abraham Lincoln on July 12, 1864, as the president stood upon the ramparts of Ft. Stevens outside Washington, D.C., and firing the last regimental volley before the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.
In 1905 Lawrence Peter Hollis went to Springfield, Massachusetts, before beginning his job as the secretary of the YMCA at Monaghan Mill in Greenville, South Carolina. While there, he met James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, and learned of the fledgling game. Armed with Dr. Naismith's rules of the game and a basketball he bought in New York, Hollis returned to the mill and changed the face of athletics in South Carolina. Lawrence Peter Hollis was one of the first to introduce basketball south of the Mason-Dixon line, and the game quickly gained popularity in the textile mill villages throughout South Carolina. In 1921 Hollis and others organized a tournament to determine the best mill team, and thus the southern Textile Basketball Tournament was born. Over the years, some of the south's top cage talent played in the tourney, including "Smokey" Barbare, Lucille Foster Thomas, Bert Hill, Earl Wooten, Billy Cunningham, Pete Maravich, Sue Vickers and Tree Rollins. Decade-by-decade, the history of one of the longest running basketball tournaments is provided, along with profiles of many prominent participants. Full rosters for all teams in all tournaments are given in the appendices, along with all-tournament selections and members of the Southern Textile Athletic Hall of Fame.
This book provides an inspiring, positive approach to what some call the negative truths of Scripture and presents a timeless but contemporary look at faith's real attributes of sacrifice, selfless love, and discipleship at a time when society, and even the Christian community, is focused on blessing and comfort.
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