After a fatal accident takes place in their backyard, Susan and Brian decide to try, one last time, to start a family. Against the backdrop of unsettling signs and omens, Susan bonds with her unborn child, recording her hopes for him in the diaries she has been keeping since childhood. When the pregnancy ends in tragedy, Susan struggles to keep memories of her son alive, but in doing so sacrifices the relationship she was meant to have with her daughter. Thirty years later, her daughter mu...

Maternal Narratives in Public Contexts: Shaping Perspectives and Enacting Identities brings together critical research on the construction and enactment of mothering and motherhood in public spheres. The book is divided into two parts – in the first part, authors examine how prevailing ideals of motherhood influence twenty-first century culture by exploring iterations of maternal identity in various media forms, from Dr. Spock’s self-help guide to film and small-screen entertainme...

The Specter and the Speculative: Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora engages in a critical conversation about how historical subjects and historical texts within the African Diaspora are re-fashioned, re-animated, and re-articulated, as well as parodied, nostalgized, and defamiliarized, to establish an “afterlife” for African Atlantic identities and narratives. These essays focus on transnational, transdisciplinary, and transhistorical sites of memory and haunting—text...

This book includes 12 easy to follow riding exercises complete with written instructions and diagrams. Great for warm-ups and giving you and your horse some new challenges. These exercises incorporate Classical and Western Dressage Elements. Table of Contents Pattern 1 Dancing with Cones and Logs Pattern 2 Trotting on the Oval Pattern 3 Moving with Style Pattern 4 Squares and Loping Pattern 5 Staircase Leg Yield Pattern 6 Backing on the “L”

With assistance from Michele Maltseff, artist Walter T. Foster shows you how to render a variety of different horse breeds in pencil, with tips on adding touches with charcoal, crayon, and brush and ink. In this step-by-step book, he explains not only a number of drawing techniques and special effects but also his own method of developing a drawing to its fullest. You will learn about various breeds and their proportions, starting with their heads and then progressing to full bodies. And i...

Romance is candlelight on cheekbones, blurring gazes and the press of heels on strange sheets. But what happens a year later? You’re sharing bath towels and bickering over who forgot to buy a light bulb. There is beauty in a familiar hand on the nape of your neck. There is love in waking up under a shared blanket. In Our House by the Sea is about the romance of domesticity.“Kirsty is one of the best and brightest . . . when I read her stuff I feel like I could taste it, ch...

In the near future, 'father' takes two boys to cut some fire wood. The highway they ride the wagon on is empty of cars, but the have to be careful because the world is still a very dangerous place.

Humorous version of the age-old battle of keeping bird feeders squirrel-free! If you're a bird lover, you've been there!

This is a true story of a boy and his family celebrating Christmas in the early 1940's. Through the years the story was told to his children and grand children and they have encouraged him to have the story published so others might enjoy this heartwarming account of his most special Christmas. This Story takes you back to your own childhood when Christmas's were more than gifts. This is a story to read to your own children while you tell them about your personal special Christmas memories...

“Tales of The Friendly Forest” is a colorfully illustrated collection of fairy tales for children. The book contains ten instructive fairy stories about the adventures of kind and funny inhabitants of the forest: the traveling Hedgehog, the hare Turbo, the wolf Straight Tail and other great beasts. These tales teach the children friendship, humanity and respect to each other, the ability to perceive everything in positive manner and create good mood.

If you have rats or mice in your home, you need to get rid of them as quickly as possible. Apart form the noise that they make, they can do a great deal of damage by chewing on electrical cables, water pipes, and pulling away insulation materials.Unfortunately, getting rid of them is easier said than done, and many people often spend huge sums of money on professional pest control firms, sometimes without the result that they wanted.I live in a very rural area and have had ...

They live all over North America. There may even be one living in your house! How much do you know about these wily creatures? Do you know:Do people eat raccoons?How many babies does a raccoon mother have?Where do raccoons live?Can a raccoon reach up and turn the knob to open a door?Find out what a raccoon looks like, where it lives, what it eats, what eats it, how babies are born, and other fun facts.All measurements in American and metric....