In this sequel to "Obsession," Megan McKenna lies comatose under a dark spell. Her twin sister, Candra Bowen, finally has everything she's ever wanted by posing as Megan. But Candra is about to learn that her dalliance with the black arts has awakened a sinister force. Original.
In this spellbinding tale of horror, two young women--twin sisters separated at birth--discover their powers of white and black magic. Soon, both are drawn into a world of fear and terror. Reissue.
Pearls of wisdom and downright funny lines are bountiful in Dick Enberg's Humorous Quotes for All Occasions. Public speaking tops the list of things people fear most--above fear of snakes, falling, or even death. But Dick Enberg has the antidote. With 28 general subjects to choose from, you're bound to find just the right line to loosen your tongue and break the ice on any occasion. As baby boomers increasingly are faced with occasion for public speaking--graduations, weddings, retirement parties, anniversaries of all sorts--Dick Enberg's book will no doubt become the book of choice. Laced with humorous personal anecdotes about Enberg's own public speaking experiences throughout the years, the book is both an entertaining read and a resource of humorous material for specific occasions. It also includes technical tips on how to quickly and efficiently put together a successful humorous talk. Dick Enberg's Humorous Quotes for All Occasions will pave the way toward making the speaker and his or her audience perfectly at ease and ready for a good time.
Two former college classmates share little in common. Patience Magee is a free-spirited, rebellious, and ambitious editor. Jace Hoffman is logical, unflappable, and boring. Now as they walk down the aisle--she as a bridesmaid, and he as her escort--they begin to realize that opposites do attract.
Childhood learning is made up of memorable experiences. During those happy, carefree days, we played hopscotch, tag, jacks, cowboys and Indians, Red Rover and hide-and-seek. Thus, begins the story of Penelope Poole. Each summer she visits her Aunt Melissa, makes new friends and forms a club called The Merry Tots. The girls start a newspaper called The Tots’ Tattler. Not selling many newspapers, however, creates a problem for them. How will they solve this problem? Will they be successful? What life values will they learn?
Eleven Authors/Poets have chosen to compile a collection of their original work. This book notates soulful reveries and heartfelt experiences, amazing and wise observations on life. Become empowered and enlightened by these poetic displays of creativity. Come and join the Conversation!
From her witty take on post-modern real estate to her loved friend's asthma 'growling its animal notes', Morgan's poems show the intensity of language and insight alike... While this poet doesn't shy from difficulty, there's much to enjoy and savour in the language. The intellectual and the physical worlds interleave in a satisfying way: ideas and images ripple across each other and take on new forms." - Susan Hampton.
Her husband's violent treachery forces Olivia to take her young son and flee in the middle of the night. Now, living under an assumed name in a small town, Olivia rescues two young children from drowning. She suddenly finds herself in the media spotlight--and irresistibly attracted to the twins' mysterious father.
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History A New York Times Notable Book A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A Providence Journal Best Book of the Year Winner of the Organization of American Historians Merle Curti Award for Social History Finalist for the Harriet Tubman Prize Finalist for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize "This book is an original achievement, the kind of history that chastens our historical memory as it makes us wiser." —David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Widely hailed as a “powerfully written” history about America’s beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound fundamentally changes the story of America’s seventeenth-century origins. Building on the works of giants like Bernard Bailyn and Edmund S. Morgan, Wendy Warren has not only “mastered that scholarship” but has now rendered it in “an original way, and deepened the story” (New York Times Book Review). While earlier histories of slavery largely confine themselves to the South, Warren’s “panoptical exploration” (Christian Science Monitor) links the growth of the northern colonies to the slave trade and examines the complicity of New England’s leading families, demonstrating how the region’s economy derived its vitality from the slave trading ships coursing through its ports. And even while New England Bound explains the way in which the Atlantic slave trade drove the colonization of New England, it also brings to light, in many cases for the first time ever, the lives of the thousands of reluctant Indian and African slaves who found themselves forced into the project of building that city on a hill. We encounter enslaved Africans working side jobs as con artists, enslaved Indians who protested their banishment to sugar islands, enslaved Africans who set fire to their owners’ homes and goods, and enslaved Africans who saved their owners’ lives. In Warren’s meticulous, compelling, and hard-won recovery of such forgotten lives, the true variety of chattel slavery in the Americas comes to light, and New England Bound becomes the new standard for understanding colonial America.
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often worked to distort the public discourse on important policy issues. Pope John Paul II's pronouncements on stem-cell research, the constitutional controversies regarding faith-based initiatives, the emerging participation of Muslims in American life-issues like these require political journalists in print and broadcast media to cover religious contexts that many admit they are ill-equipped to understand. Put differently, these news events reflect subtle theological nuances and deep faith commitments that shape the activities of religious believers in the public square. Inasmuch as a faith tradition is an active or significant participant in the public arena, journalists will need to better understand the theological sources and religious convictions that motivate this political activity. The current national discourse has brought faith and its relationship to public policy to the forefront of our daily news. Since 1999, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, through the generosity of the Pew Charitable Trusts, has hosted six conferences for national journalists to help raise the level of their reporting by increasing their understanding of religion, religious communities, and the religious convictions that inform the political activity of devout believers. This book contains the presentations and conversations that grew out of those conferences.
Tocuaro: a Mexican village" is aimed at key stage 2. It explores the geography, history and environment of the village through the eyes of three generations of the Horta family.
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