I am but a flower withering in the soil in which I have been planted......... Rose Stanley does not seem to fit into her prominent family with their lavish style and high society galas. She does not care to marry the wealthy Astor Boyle that her mother has chosen for her. She would much rather be in the kitchen up to her elbows in flour learning how to cook or down at the old slave quarters teaching a young mute boy the gift of communication. She sees nothing wrong with spending time with a boy she has befriended, even if he is just a stable boy. Her idea of happiness was much different from her mothers But, there is a secret at the Plantation. A deep, dark secret being kept from Rose. Some seem to hate her for it, some will do anything to protect her from it, but it seems to surround her. What will happen when the secret is revealed and what will be found Where the Rose Petals Fall...?
Valerie Rose is an ordinary, middle-aged, middle-class, working woman whose willingness to share her own oppositional view on faith, religion, the world's filth, and building a relationship with God in the midst of it all is real, raw, inspiring, and encourages others to do the same. She is a daughter, sister, cousin, aunt, wife, mother, stepmother, nana, and friend whose passion is to inspire others to turn their frowns upside down and embrace God's love through all life's trials and tribulations. Using her own personal struggles in building a relationship with God, Valerie shows how recognizing God's love for her in the midst of anger, agony, awkwardness, abandonment, alcoholism, and abuse helped her to replace hatred with healing. She overcame abuse and abandonment, fears, hurts, and other hang-ups to go on teaching and encouraging others to learn and grow. Valerie offers life-transforming insights not only about how to overcome hatred, hurts, hang-ups, and painful circumstances many identify with, but also how to heal, grow, and embrace God's love from those experiences and then help others to do the same. Her personal stories will inspire you to see your own hatred, hurts, and hang-ups that have built barriers around your heart and will help you to begin seeking healing, grace, and love; to recognize God loves all of you and He is there for you.
A New York reporter, Toni Miracle, attends a rose festival in Pennsylvania's Amish country and stumbles on a series of murders, each of which is accompanied by a rose. As she investigates, the town's age old secrets emerge.
Rose Rock—child advocate, educator, and mother of ten-plus children, including comedian Chris Rock—shares her heartfelt and no-nonsense advice on parenting Uber-mom Rose Rock raised ten children and seventeen foster children. She did it by never shying away from hard conversations and by not being afraid to present strong ideas about boundaries, discipline, choices, and consequences. In short, Rose Rock tells it like it is. In Mama Rock's Rules, Rock shares the funny and highly practical lessons she learned both as a parent and an educator, while offering strategies for teaching children to be self-reliant. Her advice—delivered with a dose of wit and homespun humor—will inspire you to teach your kids right, whether your brood is one child or ten.
Sex and World Peace is a groundbreaking demonstration that the security of women is a vital factor in the occurrence of conflict and war, unsettling a wide range of assumptions in political and security discourse. Harnessing an immense amount of data, it relates microlevel violence against women and macrolevel state peacefulness across global settings. The authors find that the treatment of women informs human interaction at all levels of society. They call attention to the adverse effects on state security of sex-based inequities such as sex ratios favoring males, the practice of polygamy, and lax enforcement of national laws protecting women. Their research challenges conventional definitions of security and democracy and common understandings of the causes of world events. The book considers a range of ways to remedy these injustices, including top-down and bottom-up approaches to redressing violence against women and the lack of sex parity in decision-making. Advocating a state responsibility to protect women, the authors campaign against women’s systemic insecurity, which threatens the security of all. Sex and World Peace has been a go-to book for instructors, advocates, and policy makers since its publication in 2012. Since then, there have been major changes in world affairs, including the #MeToo movement, as well as advances in both theoretical and empirical literature surrounding the subject. This second edition, which adds coauthors Rose McDermott and Donna Lee Bowen alongside Valerie M. Hudson and Mary Caprioli, revises and updates the book for a new generation. The book retains its foundational overview of the relationship between women’s oppression and war, enhanced by fresh data and new material covering recent developments for global women’s rights and analysis of additional examples of gender and conflict throughout the world.
Theodore McNeil had everything, loving parents, a beautiful home, wealth and a promising future although he always felt like he wanted something more. He loved his father but did not want to take over the family business. There had to be more and he was willing to leave his family, home and wealth to find it. Louisiana was not a place Theodore would have traveled; it would have never been his choice to stay in a cabin locked away from the world with his cranky old uncle. And he would have certainly never stayed working for a man like Astor Boyle. But when he met her everything he ever knew about himself ceased to exist. Rose Stanley was different than other girls; she was wildly beautiful and headstrong. Theodore was attracted to her right away but he was warned to stay away. How would he break the bond that held her to a man that she was promised to? Would his heart lead him to disaster? What is it that keeps him from walking away from the PROMISED ROSE
Fred Rose's life takes us through rip-roaring tales from Australia's northern frontier to enthralling intellectual tussles over kinship systems and political dramas as he runs rings around his Petrov inquisitors. More than any other injustice, the abuse of Aborigines leads him into the Communist Party in 1942. His move to academic life in what he insisted on calling the German Democratic Republic made him a dissident against anthropological orthodoxies in the Soviet Bloc as he had been in Australia. Those final three decades also see his informing on his children to his Stasi handlers. Out of relentless research, Peter Monteath and Valerie Munt present an engrossing portrait of the short twentieth century from Rose's birth during the Great War to his death in Berlin shortly after the Wall comes down. The result is unputdownable for its sweep of events while causing us to reflect on how someone can be heroic and horrendous, appalling and admirable.
100 page journal to share between mother and daughter. Document things you love like movies, books, adventures, plans you have, recipes, things to do, and much more. 6x9 size fits easily on a nightstand or in a purse or backpack. Makes a great gift for mom or daughter.
Expert, Diabolical, Extremely Hard - you name it. The main point is - this Sudoku Puzzle Book is not for a beginner. Features: - instructions (just in case) - 8.5 x 11 inches - 110 pages - 2 puzzles per page - solutions - white paper - softcover If you are ready for this challenge, don't hesitate and order a copy today!
Expert, Diabolical, Extremely Hard - you name it. The main point is - this Sudoku Puzzle Book is not for a beginner. Features: - instructions (just in case) - 8.5 x 11 inches - 110 pages - 2 puzzles per page - solutions - white paper - softcover If you are ready for this challenge, don't hesitate and order a copy today!
Eine Dreiecksgeschichte vor dem Hintergrund von New Orleans. Ein Buch der Irritationen, der Angst vor Trennung und Verlust und auch ein Buch über Zärtlichkeit, ein Buch der halben Enthüllungen und des ganzen menschlichen Desasters. (Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)
Unusual twins Sam and Tay Trianglehead, after discovering the travel vacation plans of their friends, the Ovalheads and Diamondheads, inform their parents that they do not want to go to their family reunion because they instead want to go on a real vacation. The two learn that the family reunion is not only a real vacation, but also much more. Beautifully illustrated, this book uniquely and simultaneously, educates kids on geometric shapes, colors, numbers, geography, culture, family and productive problem resolution.
My Mamma called it the white man's dream, a life that was never meant for people like us. Being born into captivity, I was not allowed to play. I had no toys, no books, no schooling. I was born to serve, tied and chained, bought and sold. My life was not my own. When tragedy struck and I was taken from the people that I loved, I had to get used to a whole new way of life. But with all the heartache that followed me a budding rose grew through the devastation and the white man's dream was before me. But would I be strong enough to trust the son of the man that owned me and accept The Given Rose
Examines the impact of the Renaissance on European culture and society. Includes questions, source materials, and suggestions for activities. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.
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