Emily Alice Eliza O'Shea regrets to inform you- she's sorry to say- that she'll not be joining the play today! Why not? Well, she has her fancy clothes on, so she can be the Queen of the Playground. But that, of course, has some drawbacks in this uniquely illustrated children's picture book. Pam Adams Katz is an artist living in New Hampshire.
A highly regarded study of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe's epic nineteenth-century novel which helped educate the American public about the evils of slavery. Written by a leading scholar, this introduction links Stowe's ideas with modern philosophical and political resistance movements, including Marxism, liberation theology, existentialism, and cultural feminism. The author finds Stowe's treatment of the problem of evil still timely in the twenty-first century."Both teachers and students will be pleased."-Choice
A city where magic can lead to murder.A company of adrenaline-addicted motorcycle couriers.A dark occult conspiracy. These threads converge in Blessed and Cursed Alike, an occult murder mystery set in a mythic urban landscape.
Starting with the unity of humanity from across the world, Recovery journeys through bountiful nature as well as Dark Gray Days, healing mantras, kite surfing, internet disfunction. Sacred islands turn into painful injury, women's rights violated, sexual searches frustrated. This odyssey addresses the Sputnik space race, old age, and the need for action on climate change.
Ditty and her dog, Mac, go on a nature adventure!!My love of nature and the outdoors was instilled in me by my parents at an early age and has been a positive force throughout my life. My hope is to awaken curiosity and creativity in young children by introducing them to nature through a variety of interactive programs designed to stimulate their senses. Children are encouraged to participate and explore. What starts as a walk becomes a journey for a lifetime. Everyone deserves a Ditty Day!
Reprint of a classic study by a leading Jewett scholar, this widely cited book provides a lucid overview of all of Sarah Orne Jewett's work, with an emphasis on her progressive treatment of gender issues and ecological concerns. An invaluable introduction for the general reader."Provides refreshing insights" --American Literary Realism
Gather 'round as storyteller Emilie Spaulding tells you about eleven fascinating strangers she has encountered here and there. Each one has lessons to share, if we are willing to listen."Hello, I'm a writer. I can't figure out who you are. Would you please tell me, and put me out of my misery?!"Everyone has said, YES!Maya Angelou, a Chinese architect, and the guy who runs the dump. Everyone has stories for us to learn from!
Ranging from hot nearly naked boys to Grampy's enduring love, Three Perch Swimming voyages through Nor'easter storms, worms, and prayer flags. Internet love searches, mental health, insurance battles and a letter to Vladimir Putin chart twenty-first century horrors."In her provocative, insightful and slyly delightful tapestries of words, Bedell Philips constructs fresh understandings of the tenderness and violence in today's world." --Ellen BensonBedell Phillips is a widely published prize-winning writer. Her poem "Thinking About the Violence" was nominated for Best of the Net by Gravel Magazine in 2013. Around the Bend, her novel, received the NANO Writers Award for Fiction in 2018. She is politically active, committed to the environment, and loves blazing new trails in both the outdoors and in literature. Bedell lives in Florida and New Hampshire.
Which NFL coach, with the Super Bowl in hand, managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory? And with a single boneheaded call! And the World Cup? Who managed to throw that away by pulling one of the world's best strikers off the field when he could have taken a penalty kick for a win? Who was the ACC basketball coach whose team was trailing an undefeated 19 and 0 opponent late in the fourth quarter, needed scores, and won by switching tactics-at the defensive (!) end of the floor? And who was the ACC soccer coach whose team, in the last four games of the NCAA National Tournament, scored a total of three goals (fewer than one goal per game) and won the National Championship? How was that done? And what was the strategy Napoleon used most frequently to win his battles? As Sir Alex talks, he roams into these and other examples of blunders and brilliance as he explores the cerebral side of sports.
A violent death. A flamboyant pretender. An elusive hermit.A stolen baby. A network of shadows.A circle of sisters. Gifted with second sight-an intuitive ability to see things not accessible through ordinary perception-Margaret Meader is both an integral part of her Maine community and an outsider. Margaret's story (introduced in Other Wise) continues in This Other Way of Knowing.As the wheel of the year turns, October brings an early snowfall. When a body is found in the snow, Margaret works with Detective Jay Horner and his enigmatic partner, Cynthia Green, to help solve the murder. Her visions and dreams offer images, messages, and sudden insights-some more confusing than helpful. When the harsh light of media attention focuses on her and "this other way of knowing," Margaret revisits the pain of rejection that darkened much of her early life. In deciphering the echoes from her past, she finds succor in the many circles of connection woven into her present.Disparate elements draw Margaret into an ever-expanding mystery in book two of the series.
In this book, author Carl Arthur Henlein brings over 50 years of experience as a Mass Torts lawyer to bear on the problems of our civil courts. He explains the central problems with the system and illustrates them by relating the facts of some of his most famous cases, leaving no doubt that we have become a nation of lawers, not laws.
Growing up in a small town in the west of Ireland in 1972 Jimmy Doyle at 16 has everything going for him, but things change quickly when his father passes away in a car accident. An excellent student and soccer player, Jimmy gets the chance to attend New Castle Prep in Portsmouth, N.H. a long way from home. Prior to leaving Jimmy is torn, learning about the details of his father Seamus' death from his grandfather Leo. The family later discovers from Leo's long time IRA compatriot that Seamus was murdered. Jimmy settles in easily at New Castle not knowing that there has been a group of IRA members including Leo and his brother Sean planning to avenge the murder of his father up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. While Jimmy is across the Atlantic enjoying New Castle, the IRA-led group heads north to Belfast to face Seamus' killer. The fallout from this event will help determine Jimmy's future as he leaves New Castle and attends Harvard. Determined to help find peace in Ireland, Jimmy must decide his own path forward.
A story of girlhood friendships, Why Don't We Just...? is a look backward to a decade that began over sixty years ago. Janet Ruth and I were born towards the end of World War II. We tip-toed through the Korean War, came of age during the Eisenhower years, participated in the beginnings of school integration, sowed seeds of a lifetime friendship through girlhood antics, and were both married with a child by the end of that decade. In those ten years, as unmarried women, we missed Title IX, birth control pills, the Sexual-Revolution, the Civil Rights movement, the Women's Movement, legalized abortion, and drugs, (well, we did try diet pills). We adopted our parent's generation faster than what was to follow us. With no organized girls' sports and a lot of energy, ideas and freedom to wander, Janet Ruth and I, along with other friends, got busy creating the adventures and misadventures of these stories. We were privileged not so much with the wealth of means, but with the wealth of belonging, and built a lifetime of memories together. As Janet Ruth once wrote me, "We were our childhoods. I cannot remember mine without recalling yours."
Actress, switchboard operator, model, encyclopedia sales-girl, wife, mother. Patricia Herd's life in 1960s California was unusual, but she was a "good girl" with dreams of stardom. Married to a struggling actor and raising a newborn, Herd saw her own dreams of being an actress stifled. Deep within her was an attraction to the dangerous and the wild, an attraction that would break free and lead Patricia into the counter-culture of the period - a world filled with Junkies, Hookers, and Dykes. But this is also the story of Patricia's Texas childhood, and she delves deep into the unhappy lives of her parents and how that relationship shaped her own life, personality, and decisions. Junkies, Hookers, Dykes ... And Others I Have Known is a unique snapshot of mid-20th Century America, told with humor and insight.
"Black cats are not as everyone believes them to be. They are not unlucky; they are lucky. Black cats are lucky...until they die. Once they die, they give you a year of nothing but bad luck. The weird thing about my cat is that he always seems to be the same one, and yet this can't be true. In truth it is safer not to own a black cat. But in my world, they become your protectors, and every girl is given one on their thirteenth birthday - at least in my family..."- from "Black Cats"
"I talked with an older woman who has been married almost fifty years and asked her secret. 'Choose your battles,' she said, 'and know when to keep your mouth shut.' Good advice I thought, but that is only one answer. The trick is to work at it always. You can never rest from working at your marriage. Just as you accept the fact that you are a parent forever, you must believe this marriage is also forever . . .So I offer this book, no, I dedicate this book to anyone who has the curiosity, the courage, and the desire to stay married. Read it for yourself, not because I am rich or famous or remarkable in any way. Read it because I am just like you; doing the best I can, wanting to do it all better and believe that after all Love really is the answer.In the end I hope you'll say to yourself: 'If she can do it, so can I.' And you know what? You can."- Carol Hrehovcik
This is it.It's 1973 and Alva Parsons is about to begin her final year of college. After three years at the same university, Alva doesn't expect much to change in terms of her studies, but one thing is very different. For the first time since coming to the university, Alva moves out of her aunt and uncle's house and into The Cottage, an all women's dorm on campus.After growing up with a strict family, Alva is finally on her own. She's ready to grow and become the person she wants to be, but it isn't long before Alva realizes that she has much to learn when it comes to the reality of living among other college students.Luckily, Alva meets Sandra (the young woman across the hall), who is not afraid to guide Alva into a world she's never experienced before. At first Alva assumes that she is the only one who benefits from their friendship, but, as it deepens, it becomes clear how much these two young women need each other.
A trip to the magical islands, captured in pencil and watercolor. Sue Anne Bottomley brings a colorful and whimsical eye to the amazing views and creatures of the Galapagos Islands. Each page features a short description of part of her journey. Sue Anne Bottomley is a native of New Hampshire, and a graduate of the University of New Hampshire. She loves traveling, sketching on site, and putting her impressions into books: a sort of permanent exhibit that you hold in your hand. This is her fourth book.
Do you know what it's like to love to dance? More than anything?It's 1959 and in a small town in New Hampshire, 12-year-old Jo is a diligent ballerina in Mrs. Evans's Saturday morning dance class. She dreams of becoming a professional ballerina, but isn't sure it's possible, due to a birth defect that resulted in a drooping eyelid.Things only become worse when Jo's best friend, Laura, abandons her for another dancer, explaining that Jo isn't pretty enough to keep as a friend. Jo is devastated and begins wondering if she wants to dance at all.It isn't long before she finds new friends who encourage her passion, as well as a slew of adults who support her dream. Over the course of a year, Jo starts to realize that maybe she is a talented dancer, and maybe she's perfect just the way she is.
Oh no! Tim's mom isn't feeling well. Is there anything he can do to help?Join Tim as he learns all about the fascinating world of bacteria.What is bacteria and where did it come from?Why is there so much of it inside our body and what does it do there?Can bacteria be used to make us healthier?Find out!
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