An empowering guide to creative renewal and change, rooted in the belief that crafting can return us to our shared humanity and ignite a quiet revolution shaped by our own two hands.“This radiant handbook is hope made doable.” —Mari Andrew, New York Times bestselling author and illustratorIn a world that demands so much more of us than we can possibly give, where social, political, and technologica...

A 52-week interactive devotional that helps families and friends discover God enfleshed in the world.Seasons of Wonder is designed to allow you to gather together weekly with your loved ones and expand your understanding of divinity, specifically the radical but faithful idea that everything is sacred. This devotional is designed around weekly contemplative activities as well as interactive and transformative practices that connect us to surprise, awe, and...

Our Holy HelperGet to know your helper, the Holy Spirit. He is all-powerful, loves you, and wants to give you an abundant life.

In a social and cultural study of nineteenth-century bourgeois women in northern France, Bonnie Smith shows how the advent of industrialization removed women from the productive activity of the middle class and confined them to a largely reproductive experience. Out of this, she suggests, they created their own world, centered on domesticity, family, and religion. To understand these women, the author argues, it is necessary to examine their world on its own terms as a coherent wh...

Women in World History brings together the most recent scholarship in women's and world history in a single volume covering the period from 1450 to the present, enabling readers to understand women's relationship to world developments over the past five hundred years.Women have served the world as unfree people, often forced to migrate as slaves, trafficked sex workers, and indentured laborers working off debts. Diseases have migrated through women's bodies and women thems...

Tales of our Boys showcases our four-footed, furry family members and neighborhood critters! Once unwanted adopted Humane Society boys and their friends provide constant joy and adventure with their incomparable personalities. They are always ready to lend a paw, a lick, a cuddle, or a voice in the safe, fur-ever place we all call home. Simply. Always. Love.

Women and Gender in Postwar Europe charts the experiences of women across Europe from 1945 to the present day. Europe at the end of World War II was a sorry testimony to the human condition; awash in corpses, the infrastructure devastated, food and fuel in such short supply. From Soviet Union to the United Kingdom and Ireland the vast majority of citizens on whom survival depended, in the postwar years, were women. This book charts the involvement of women in postwar reconstructio...

For this anthology, Muddy Backroads: Stories from off the beaten path, the editors asked for stories that moved away from the norms of daily life to explore the side roads that take us away from the known. What do your characters do when they step away from what’s seen as normal or usual? What happens when they find themselves in unexpected situations or locations? What if nothing about their lives is what most consider typical? When a character takes a “muddy backroad,” he, they or she mo...

Toulouse-Lautrec's iconic Parisian poster stars come to life in these full-cast dramas, set in 19th-century Montmartre1889, Paris. When Charles Zidler's extravagant pleasure palace, the Moulin Rouge, opens in bohemian Montmartre, he commissions local artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to create a series of posters to promote it. The striking lithographs Henri produces will make his name - and launch the careers of the performers he portrayed.This sparkling co...

Christmas: a time of family, friends, joy, merriment, and gifts. Especially gifts!Unwrap these 20 Christmas tales and find a wealth of Christmas delights. From action to urban fantasy,science fiction to women's fiction, crime to romance, bitter-sweetness to silly fun, you will find a Christmas tale for all occasions.Give yourself the gift of reading these Christmas stories and have a Very Merry Christmas!Table of Contents"North Pole Panic" by Re...

Ever wonder what would happen if an alien ate someone’s homework?No? Neither did we.Do the ten wild and crazy stories in this volume by fantastic authors pretend to answer the question? Not really. But aliens do show up. A good thing in science fiction stories.Ten fantastically entertaining stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine that will make you forget about an alien eating homework, let alone burping?

THEY OWN THE ICE AND NOW THEY OWN MEI was the quiet girl with the perfect GPA and a future mapped out in ink. Then Gunner Cline forced his way into my life. He is the captain of the hockey team and a god at the rink. To save his failing grades and his toxic image, I have to play his wholesome fake girlfriend. I thought I was the one in control of the classroom, but he made it clear that he owns every inch of me.The game turned lethal when he brought his pro...