The holidays can be a difficult and lonely time, especially for those who might be estranged from the family and faith traditions of their youth. Reconstructing Christmas recognizes and holds space for that pain, while also seeking to offer hope, acceptance, encouragement, and love to LGBTQ+ Christians who might be facing similar estrangements this Christmas season.The 160 page collection features poetry, sermons, devotional reflections, and short stories from 15 different...

Everyone, has a story to tell, I've just been contemplating if the world was ready to hear mine. You would be surprised by who will try to stop you from telling your story, as if it will affect them. Where were those so-called "loved ones" when I was killing myself on the streets looking for love? I am here only by the grace of God. I have scars, and they cover me from head to toe. Isn't it funny how, in the midst of your darkest hours of life and sin, darkness tries to make you laugh? It ...

The works of the Swiss children’s writer Johanna Spyri are renowned for their psychological insight, endearing humour and the author’s inimitable ability to enter into childish joys and sorrows. The beloved novel ‘Heidi’ has achieved fame across the world and was inspired by Spyri’s childhood summers near Chur in the Swiss Alps. This comprehensive eBook presents Spyri’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informati...

Everyone, has a story to tell, I’ve just been contemplating if the world was ready to hear mine. You would be surprised at who will try to stop you from telling your story as if it will affect them. Where were those so-called family members when I was killing myself on the streets looking for love? I am here only by the grace of God. I have scars and my scars cover me from head to toe. Isn’t it funny how in the midst of your darkest hours of life and sin that darkness tries to make you lau...

Johanna Louise Spyri was a Swiss author of novels, notably children's stories, and is best known for her book "Heidi".The works of Johanna Spyri are renowned for their psychological insight, endearing humour and the author's inimitable ability to enter into childish joys and sorrows. The believed novel 'Heidi' has achieved fame across the world and was inspired by Spyri's childhood summers near Chur in the Swiss Alps.Contents:HeidiHeimatlosThe Story of Ri...

Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other explores the varied representations of Otherness in romance novels and other fiction with strong romantic plots. Contributors’ approaches range from sociolinguistics to cultural studies, and the texts analyzed are set on four continents, with particular emphasis on Caribbean and Atlantic islands. What all the essays have in common is the exploration of representations of the Other, be it in an inter-racial or inter...

In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names—Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney, and the like—carried enormous public value. These women were the media darlings of their day because of the extravagance of their costume balls and the opulence of the French couture clothes, and they leveraged their social celebrity for political power, turning women's right to vote into a fashionable c...

The Gifting Logos: Expertise in the Digital Commons provides an extensive analysis of knowledge and creativity in twenty-first century networked culture. Analyzing massive projects like the Wayback Machine, the Internet Archive, and the Creative Commons licenses, The Gifting Logos responds to a fundamental question, What does it mean to know something and to make something? With the idea of a gifting logos, Hartelius integrates three habits of a rhetorical epistemology: t...

This monograph introduces the reader to the increasingly popular topic of computable metric structure theory, a subject which unifies methods from effective analysis and computable algebra into one coherent framework. Computable structure theory had been constrained to the algebraic and discrete realms, but in the past 10 years or so, much work has been done in extending this topic to structures from analysis such as metric spaces, Banach spaces, and operator algebras. This book is the fir...

Author and journalist H.H. Johanna's debut novel is a captivating and erotic love story – with an unusual twist.This imaginative tale begins when Jacqui St. John leaves northern California looking for a new home, and cruises into the seemingly ordinary town of Kulshan. Seeing the lilac bushes blooming along the roadside, she suddenly remembers the recurring dream that has been tantalizing her for months – a dream of a house full if women, radiating warmth and welcome, and of one spe...

Johanna Spyri (12 June 1827 - 7 July 1901) was an author of children's stories, and is best known for Heidi. Born Johanna Louise Heusser in the rural area of Hirzel, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers in the area around Chur in Graubunden, the setting she later would use in her novels. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Jimmy, Gerald, and Cathy hope to find adventure when they set off to explore the woods, but they get far more than they bargained for when they discover the Enchanted Castle. At first, they seem to be in a fairy tale come true, until a friend turns invisible, thanks to a magic ring she can’t remove. Adventure follows adventure as they seek to control the magic—but the magic has a will of its own, and it is all they can do to keep up. Faced with sleeping princesses, magic rings, and moonlit...