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Lark Warren can never stay one person for too long, so when her past starts to catch up to her, she hops the first bus out of DC, steals a new name, and goes deep into hiding in New Orleans. Unfortunately, all it takes is the wrong set of eyes to blow her cover. Enter Vaughn—the man she once let get too close to her real self. Ex-Navy SEAL Vaughn Wilde has one objective: drive Lark back to DC to face charges for identity theft—which would be easier if he could forget the three lust-filled weeks he shared with her before she disappeared. With each passing mile, he can’t ignore the heat still sparking between them...or the fact he has led her enemies right to her. Lark can’t stay with Vaughn, not when it will put him in the crosshairs of the dangerous man she’s spent the last five years running from. But Vaughn is determined to keep her safe—even if it means she’ll run off with his heart all over again. Each book in the Wilde Security series is a standalone story that can be enjoyed out of order. Series Order: Book #1 Wilde Nights in Paradise Book #2 Wilde for Her Book #3 Wilde at Heart Book #4 Running Wilde Book #5 Too Wilde to Tame
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For the Love of Language: An Introduction to Linguistics is an engaging introduction to human language and the role of linguistics in understanding its fundamental design, acquisition and functions. Replete with case studies and examples from Australia, New Zealand and around the world, this text offers a thorough introduction to core topics, including the structure and meaning of words, the systems that organise language, strategies for learning about language, the evolution of language and the function of language as a complex social resource. The second edition includes extensive new content across the entire text, including the areas of orthography, syntax, corpus linguistics, language acquisition and multilingualism. Each topic is accompanied by a wide array of pedagogical resources designed to consolidate student understanding, including examples and exercises. Each chapter ends with a research project, providing readers with an opportunity to build on fundamental skills and engage more thoroughly with each topic.
This is the true story of a woman who prevailed against the most heinous accusations imaginable. Tonya Craft, a Georgia kindergarten teacher and loving mother of two, never expected a knock on her door to change her life forever. But in May 2008, false accusations of child molestation turned her world upside down. The trial that followed dragged her reputation through the mud and lent nationwide notoriety to her name. Tonya's life spiraled into a witch-trial nightmare in which she was deemed guilty before her innocence could be determined by a jury. Her children were taken away without even a goodbye, and her own daughter was forced to take the stand against her in a courtroom. The situation seemed hopeless, and Tonya was shell-shocked and heartbroken. But that didn't keep her from finding the strength to fight. Over the course of two terrifying years, Tonya rallied to take charge of her own defense, flying across the country and knocking on doors on a desperate quest for answers, and defying her own lawyers on more than one occasion. Tonya's goal was not only to avoid conviction; it was to clear her name, and, most of all, regain custody of her children. Accused is about more than Tonya's shocking trial and fight for justice. It is the story of a mother's extraordinary love, the faith that sees her through it all, and the forgiveness that sets her free.
African Americans were present in Davidson County long before it was officially formed from Rowan County in 1822. The exact time or place of settlement remains in question. They served not only in the stereotypical roles of farm laborers and house slaves but also as skilled traders, blacksmiths, furniture makers, and artisans. From Petersville, Southmont, Thomasville, Midway, Lexington, Belltown, Reeds, Churchland, and tiny areas in between, great men and women found a sense of stability. They made a life out of the scraps that were left behind. This collection of historical photographs is a textured look at African Americans in Davidson County. Images of community notables like A. B. Bingham, Charles England, Rev. A. T. Evans, and Etta Michael White and iconic structures like St. Stephen United Methodist Church, Dunbar High School, and the Hut, these photographs weave together stories that outline the African American journey.
This book advocates for a new model of describing the practices of language revitalization, and decolonizing the research methods used to study them. The volume provides a comprehensive treatment of the theoretical and methodological foundations of working with communities revitalizing their languages. It lays out the conceptual framework at the heart of the project and moves into a description of the model, based on a seven-year research process working with Aboriginal communities in eastern Australia. Six case studies show the model’s application in language revival practice. The book critically engages with the notion of revival languages as emergent and ever-transforming and develops a holistic approach to their description that reflects Aboriginal language practitioners’ understandings of the nature of language. It seeks to demonstrate how the conceptual tools developed from this approach can support efforts to develop deeply collaborative research, highlight the diversity of language revitalisation practice and map between the realms of old and new, local and global, and the social, cultural, and textual dimensions of language, making this an ideal resource for researchers and scholars in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, education, cultural studies, and post-colonial studies.
Welcome to a library where the ghosts aren’t in the books – they are right next to you in the halls and rooms, looking over your shoulder as you pick a title from a shelf. This is the Earle W. Webb Jr. Memorial Library, built on haunted ground with a legacy of pirates and German U-boats, and is jam-packed with spirits. Join veteran paranormal investigators Joey and Tonya Madia as they take you on a mind-bending tour of every shadowy corner of the library and its spooky and colorful spectral residents who do not hesitate to let visitors know they are around. The Madias present a textbook case for how to conduct a paranormal investigation, involving observation, equipment, psychic mediumship and historical research. How creepy can an old, haunted library get? The answer is extremely creepy. And then some, too! In the pages of this book our fearless investigators cross paths with supernatural shadow entities, with the notorious and dreaded Men in Black, with dark and dangerous energy-based entities, and with supernatural things guaranteed to provoke terror and mayhem. Watch Out for the Hallway is a book to read on the proverbial dark and stormy night. – Nick Redfern, author, The Black Diary Tonya and Joey share such an amazing experience through their journey. They discuss their lives together as a family amongst entities that could be disruptive and feared. They lost themselves to time and energy shifts in an unexplored universe. Spiritual entities helped, hindered and taught them much about paranormal research. This book is a must for those who wish to learn more about communicating with those you are investigating. Every soul has a mind of its own. – Carole Bromley, Psychic Medium
A hilarious first novel that provides a peek into the world of the super-rich, super-connected African Americans in Manhattan. Lauren is trying to be an independent woman, starting her own documentary film company, but it's difficult when you're married to Ed Thomas, one of the wealthiest African-American businessmen in the country -- and particularly when he seems to have a roving eye. Manny is an up-and-coming gay real estate agent who arrived in Manhattan from Alabama with only the clothes on his back. He's made his way to the top of his profession--yet he still wants more. Tandy is one of the "ladies who lunch" -- but she's desperate to reinvent herself and find a new source of cash flow. As we follow these three and other characters in this compelling first novel, we see the fascinating world of New York City's upper-crust African American society with all their scandals, foibles and skeletons in the closet revealed.
Cover -- title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Curtis Robbins -- No Rhythm, They Say -- Empty Ears -- Solo Dining While Growing Up -- Learning Up Front -- About the Tale of an Old Bay Fisherman -- Hand Tied -- Melissa Whalen -- The Noisy House -- Christopher Jon Heuer -- The Hands of My Father -- Bone Bird -- Diving Bell -- Holiday -- Corresponding Oval -- Listening for the Same Thing -- Carmen Cristiu -- Leaves on the Water -- Is It a Sin? -- My Mother -- Gaynor Young -- My Plunge to Fame -- John Lee Clark -- Q -- Exuberance -- Carl Wayne Denney -- Borrowed Time -- Sibylle Gurtner May -- "if I could wish to hear well"--Sotonwa Opeoluwa -- The Victim of the Silent Void -- Douglas Bullard -- Yet: Jack Can Hear! -- Pamela Wright-Meinhardt -- When They Tell Me ... -- Silent Howl -- A Letter to C.F. -- Kristi Merriweather -- Be Tellin' Me -- Remember -- It Was His Movin' Hands -- Raymond Luczak -- How to Become a Backstabber -- Depths of the River -- Justine Vogenthaler -- Between Two Worlds -- Cicadas Roar -- 2 Triple Ought -- Willy Conley -- Every Man Must Fall -- Salt in the Basement -- The Cycle of the X-Ray Technician -- The Perfect Woman -- Tonya Marie Stremlau -- A Nice Romantic Dinner
Giles County was founded on November 14, 1809, and is known as the land of milk and honey. The county is home to over 30 National Register properties, Civil War skirmish sites, a varied cultural heritage, and intersecting Trail of Tears routes (Benge's and Bell's). It is also the beginning place for many well-known African Americans, such as noted architect Moses McKissack, founder of McKissack and McKissack. Giles County is a place where many ancestral lineages return home to their roots for research or to discover their rich African American history and heritage.
Realize your full potential. You were born with everything you need to take life to the limits. Living the Intuitive Life will show you how to awaken your natural intuitive powers and abilities with ease so that you can achieve your goals, overcome obstacles, enjoy more energy and health – and have fun! Don’t let perceived limits stand in the way of your abundance, love and beauty. Tonya Madia shares the life wisdom she has been teaching her students for years. Inside you will find inspiring stories, down-to-earth advice, and helpful exercises to start enjoying life to the fullest. Part wildly creative treatise, part playful workbook, part intimate memoir, Living the Intuitive Life will stir the magic sleeping within you and set your life on a wide-awake, joyful path. -- L.S. Gribko, author, Giving Voice to Dawn I am a third-generation psychic medium and I do my very best to live by and walk with Spirit. Through this writing I have reached a deeper level of awareness and I feel it will touch many lives along the way. I will recommend Living the Intuitive Life throughout my practice and know you will enjoy learning from it as much as I have. -- Josette Berardi-Saginario, author, I'm Not Dead, Am I? and The Man at the Foot of the Bed The blend of science and metaphysics in Tonya Madia’s book is refreshing and energizing! She writes with knowledge and power. -- Jodi Livon, author of The Happy Medium® book series
From birth to adulthood, children now find themselves navigating a network of surveillance devices that attempt to identify, quantify, sort and track their thoughts, movements and actions. This book is the first collection to focus exclusively on technological surveillance and young people. Organised around three key spheres of children’s day-to-day life: schooling, the self and social lives, this book chronicles the increasing surveillance that children, of all ages, are subject to. Numerous surveillance apparatus and tools are examined, including, but not limited to: mobile phones, surveillance cameras, online monitoring, GPS and RFID tracking and big data analytics. In addition to chronicling the steady rise of such surveillance practices, the chapters in this volume identify and problematise the consequences of technological surveillance from a range of multidisciplinary perspectives. Bringing together leading scholars working across diverse fields – including sociology, education, health, criminology, anthropology, philosophy, media and information technology – the collection highlights the significant socio-political and ethical implications of technological surveillance throughout childhood and youth.
From acclaimed author Tonya Bolden comes the story of a teen girl becoming a woman on her own terms against the backdrop of widespread social change in the early 1900s. Savannah Riddle is lucky. As a daughter of an upper class African American family in Washington D.C., she attends one of the most rigorous public schools in the nation--black or white--and has her pick among the young men in her set. But lately the structure of her society--the fancy parties, the Sunday teas, the pretentious men, and shallow young women--has started to suffocate her. Then Savannah meets Lloyd, a young West Indian man from the working class who opens Savannah's eyes to how the other half lives. Inspired to fight for change, Savannah starts attending suffragist lectures and socialist meetings, finding herself drawn more and more to Lloyd's world. Set against the backdrop of the press for women's rights, the Red Summer, and anarchist bombings, Saving Savannah is the story of a girl and the risks she must take to be the change in a world on the brink of dramatic transformation.
At the funeral of his son, Robert, Julian Manchester saw something in his grandson, Bobby, which made him invite Bobby to move back to their home town after he graduates from college. Bobby has not been close to Gran'pa Julian or his grandmother, Mava Lou, since his mother died when he was three years old, and his grief-stricken father moved him and his older brother, Mark, to the city. Julian and Mava Lou are getting older, and Bobby decides to come home and get to know them before it is too late. He applies for a job at a local accounting firm and is hired. His decision has far-reaching effects on, not only his own life, but on the lives of several other people. "Home Is Where You Least Expect It" is the wonderfully funny and touching story of how one event can change the direction of many lives, for better or worse.
Technology has introduced dramatic new efficiencies to supply chain design, management, and control--but only to those who can open their minds to these new methods and strategies. This book presents innovative articles from eighteen of today's top young Ph.D. scholars, each based on discussions at the 2000 Frank Batten Young Leaders Forum of the College of William and Mary. These ""rising stars"" from the country's most prestigious operations management programs each take a fresh perspective on current practices and future directions in supply chain management and overall business strategy. Provocative yet valuable questions are asked--and answers provided--on subjects including: * Development of effective performance metrics * Techniques to streamline the order management cycle * Methods to leverage product design and manufacture to reduce supply chain costs * Ways to share knowledge throughout an organization concerning forecasts, manufacturing and sourcing plans, and distribution.
Marti Lumbard Johnson is a 35-year-old schoolteacher from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who—after his father committed suicide twenty years ago—changed his name from Martin to Marti because he did not want to bear the name of a man who he believed was a coward. Yet Marti has spent much of his life subscribing to lessons and views instilled in him by his father, one of which is his questioning the existence of God. When his co-worker of nearly four years, Leslie Mitchell, turned best friend, and consequently, the woman with whom he has fallen in love, yet who has never expressed any romantic notions toward him, comes back from summer vacation a Christian, Marti is forced to confront his own spirituality. However, he first finds distraction in the lovely Sasha, a beautiful woman who is ten years his junior. Marti is the story of divorce and estrangement and forgiveness and most especially, love, the need and desire for love—the love of a good woman, love of family, and the love of God.
A tantalizing web of seduction and adventure , a group of teenagers from the historic town of Lewisburg, West Virginia come face to face with their family's secrets, their friends' betrayal, and the truth about their own hometown. Someone, or something, has targeted Rachel, the youthful , spunky, new kid . A loner by nature, she is found unconscience, in an abandoned farmhouse. One of her rescuers, Cole, takes interest in his newly found treasure. Trying to understand why she would be at one of the most haunted sites in Lewisburg, her new friends are compelled to let her in on a few secrets of their own. Nate, the third aspect of the triangle, throws sparks of his own compelling her to choose between the paths that lie before her. Only one will lead to the truth. Lewisburg is more than just the Coolest Small Town in America , it is also a network of underground tunnels , a hub for conspiracy and years of family lies, and a resting place for souls trying to find their way.
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