Bernice and her family was ostracized from their small town community when she was just a child, but no one ever talked about why. As a teenager she became involved with a man twelve years older than her. They had two kids before Bernice was twenty years old. She did her best to conform to the traditional role of mother and housewife. She became a member of the church and community. But in contrast to some 1950s housewives, she was forced to be self-reliant. For more than a decade she work...

When Dorothy Burnett joined the library staff at Howard University in 1928, she was given a mandate to administer a library of Negro life and history. The school purchased the Arthur B. Spingarn Collection in 1946, along with other collections, and Burnett, who would later become Dorothy Porter Wesley, helped create a world-class archive known as the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and cemented her place as an immensely important figure in the preservation of African American history. We...

Sylvain Neuvel's Until the Last of Me is a darkly satirical first contact thriller, as seen through the eyes of the women who make progress possible and the men who are determined to stop them.Always run, never fight.Preserve the knowledge.Survive at all cost.Take them to the stars.Over 100 identical generations, Mia’s family has shaped earth history to push humanity to the stars, making brut...

Horror writers have crafted a wondrous selection of short stories for your night's reading. There is horror for every taste in this anthology.Derik CavignanoDevin James LeonardTim JeffreysMykhaylo RusetskyRobert JohnstonBenjamin SperdutoFelicia CarparelliThomas FolskeJennifer ChristensenGordon GriceSamantha BryantJoshua DyerJason A. WyckoffNicole WalshRachel Redman

Georgia has played a formative role in the writing of America. Few states have produced a more impressive array of literary figures, among them Conrad Aiken, Erskine Caldwell, James Dickey, Joel Chandler Harris, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Jean Toomer, and Alice Walker.This volume contains biographical and critical discussions of Georgia writers from the nineteenth century to the present as well as other information pertinent to Georgia literature. Organized in alphabetica...

Day Breaks Over Dharamsala is an intimate, insightful and inspiring journey through the landscape of the mind as well as the landscape of northern India. Along the way, this book is funny, wise, helpless, and triumphant, a testament to spirit, to India, to taxi drivers, and to that which gets us there on time when we have no idea where we are going. The trip begins in Delhi, in 2004, and winds its way through a month-long pilgrimage through Tibetan India as well as through a life-long sear...

The National Service Framework for mental health aims to provide uniformly good systems so that mental health problems are detected and therefore treated early. This book sets out how learning more about mental health and reviewing current practice can be incorporated into a personal development plan or practice learning plan. It shows how to integrate quality improvements into everyday work and bridges the gap between theory and practice. Doctors nurses and practice managers can build up ...

Nourish Your Mindset • Reclaim Your Body • Transform Your Life!Are you an emotional eater?Are you tired of having several sizes of clothes in your closet?Are you ready to stabilize your weight once and for all?If you are overweight, it's likely you're already an expert on weight loss. You've probably tried a number of weight loss programs, too. And chances are you've lost and then gained back, more pounds than you care to think about. So you know that the issu...

14 women authors write about love, desire, heartbreak, sex, longing and guilt. Happy and sad, funny and fierce, they include stories of marriage, first love, affairs, what might have been, and all the messy joy and pain of human relationships. Some of these stories are new from some of Wales's best women writers; others are Welsh-language stories available in English for the first time. The writing is beautiful, modern, human and honest.

When the going gets tough, the tough...make lemonade.At least that's what author Janet Thomas did. She had her share of life's lemons, from sexual abuse to clinical depression to obesity and beyond. She could have just decided to pitch her tent in the citrus section of life's grocery store and succumbed to the sour - but she didn't. Instead she turned her life around, then examined what she learned and turned to help others. The power of Janet's presence in these written words awak...

This is the first book to use teachers' experiences to understand how prenatal drug exposure affects children's' development , and how social construction of the problem influences perceptions within schools.

Life can be full of unexpected challenges—those "lemons" we never see coming. Whether it's personal setbacks, emotional pain, or obstacles that seem insurmountable, we all encounter moments when things go sour. Lemons, Lemonade & Life: Practical Steps for Getting the Sweetness Back When Life Goes Sour offers practical, compassionate guidance for transforming life's challenges into opportunities for growth and empowerment.Using the simple yet powerful metaphor of making lem...