Looking for a great read? Love a good—no, GREAT—cozy mystery? Ever tried one without a traditional murder at its center? Love a great romance? Love history? Love a comfy cozy quilt? Love learning without even realizing it because you’re so involved in an edge-of-your-seat suspenseful mystery? Never seen all of this together in one place? Welcome! In the first book of the series, The Wandering Quilt, stitches on a lovely quilt Camille finds in a thrift store keep mysteriously coming undone,...

For tens of thousands of years humans have found answers to life's greatest mysteries through the contemplation of their relationships with the wild creatures in our lives. Today, where so much of our lives takes place in cities, or in buildings insulated from the natural world, it is often through our companion animals--dogs, cats, even reptiles and fish--that we experience the sacred connections with life's great Mysteries. In this book the author, a noted writer, teacher and spiritual a...

"Whether you're religious or agnostic, this beautifully raw collection of stories has something to resonate with every heart."- Megan Grisolano, Nashville PBSReligion leaves almost everyone with wounds because its systems often create the very trauma they claim to heal. Faith, however, can open a path toward mending what spiritual abuse has broken. It's tragic what the institutional Church has done "in the name of God." Yet this unlikely g...

Leadership and Musician Development in Higher Music Education informs, challenges and evaluates the central practices, policies and theories that underpin the preparation of future music leaders and the leadership of music in higher education. In higher education, it is often presumed that preparing for professional work is the responsibility of the individual rather than the institution. This anthology draws on the expertise of music practitioners to present the complexities surr...

This volume offers educators, higher education institutions, communities and organizations critical understandings and resources that can underpin respectful, reciprocal and transformative educative relationships with First Peoples internationally. With a focus on service learning, each chapter provides concrete examples of how arts-based, community-led projects can enhance and support the quality and sustainability of First Peoples’ cultural content in higher education. In partnership wit...

Everyone craves approval, but when that desire becomes an addiction where nothing is ever good enough, it is time to step off the hamster wheel of people pleasing and seek the only approval you really need -- God's.There is a difference between being someone other people like and being defined by what others think. Some people are so addicted to approval that their lives spiral out of control creating discontent, depression, and alienation. Recovering approval addict Dawn Owens identifies ...

Community Music in Oceania: Many Voices, One Horizon makes a distinctive contribution to the field of community music through the experiences of its editors and contributors in music education, ethnomusicology, music therapy, and music performance. Covering a wide range of perspectives from Australia, Timor-Leste, New Zealand, Japan, Fiji, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Korea, the essays raise common themes in terms of the pedagogies and practices used, pointing ...

The daughter of a wounded, book-addicted mother and a bipolar, alcoholic father, Dawn Bennett Robson documents her haphazard, often poverty-stricken, and at times wickedly funny Southern childhood. Part coming-of-age memoir, part family saga, the book chronicles the secrets, foibles, and struggles of the author, her parents, her grandmother, and other relatives-generations of unique characters for whom trauma was just another day ending in Y.From a pink trailer in North Carolina to...

“A mosaic mystery told in vignettes, cliffhangers, curious asides, and some surreal plot twists as Raffel investigates the secrets of the man who changed infant care in America.”—NPR, 2018's Great ReadsWhat kind of doctor puts his patients on display? This is the spellbinding tale of a mysterious Coney Island doctor who revolutionized neonatal care more than one hundred years ago and saved some seven thousand babies. Dr. Martin Couney's story is a kaleidoscopic rid...

Duck Dynasty's Uncle Si, this book is packed full of pictures and stories. See pictures of Si's wife and kids and of course America's favorite uncle, Si Roberson of Duck Dynasty. Get provocative insight into the life and thoughts of Uncle Si. Everyone who watches the show knows Uncle Si tells it like he sees it. Find out why with this fun book on Uncle Si.  

In Australia, a ‘tribe’ of white, middle-class, progressive professionals is actively working to improve the lives of Indigenous people. This book explores what happens when well-meaning people, supported by the state, attempt to help without harming. ‘White anti-racists’ find themselves trapped by endless ambiguities, contradictions, and double binds — a microcosm of the broader dilemmas of postcolonial societies. These dilemmas are fueled by tension between the twin desires of equality a...

From climate change to GM foods, we are increasingly confronted with complex, interconnected social and environmental problems that span disciplines, knowledge bases and value systems. This book offers a transdisciplinary, open approach for those working towards resolving these 'wicked' problems and highlights the crucial role of this 'transdisciplinary imagination' in addressing the shift to sustainable futures. Tackling Wicked Problems provides readers with a framework and practical exam...