It's not hard to get your feelings hurt. Managing to keep the love you have is a difficult task. How do you maintain your relationship exciting and evolving despite the challenges, disagreements, and plain old dullness of day-to-day life?This is a sure copy for all your answers.

While racism continues to be a persistent and pervasive issue in our schools nationwide, the professionals charged with creating safe and nurturing educational environments have few resources available to address racism directly. Racialized Schools is on the leading edge of books that do just that and includes the latest research and praxis to help school personnel confront racism in a professional manner. A national qualitative survey of students, school counselors, teachers, and...

In the third and final book of Jess Smith's autobiographical trilogy, Jess traces her eventful life with Dave and their three children, from their earliest years together. Their adventures and achievements are interspersed with stories of her parents' childhood, her father's 'tall tales' and the eerie echoes of ghosts and hauntings that she has heard from gypsies and travellers over many years. Fans of Jess Smith will not be disappointed with her latest memoir, full of more unforgettable c...

Tales from the Tent continues Jess Smith's story from the first book in the series, Jessie's Journey. Jess has left school, and after a miserable spell working in a paper-mill, she abandons the settled life and takes to the roads once more. The old bus has gone, to be replaced by a caravan and campsites. Times are changing, and it is becoming harder and harder for travellers to make a living by doing the rounds of seasonal jobs like the berry-picking. Conscious that the o...

Propulsive and erotic, searching and incisive, Jess Smith's debut collection Lady Smith explores the overlap between private and public violence. These poems investigate the troubled relationship between control and intimacy and deconstruct the messaging women receive about their bodies, starting in childhood. Lady Smith resists the urge to offer a tidy healing narrative, instead revealing the way victims absorb violence and try to live with the long shadows of c...

What if peace isn’t something you find… but something you remember?For as long as she can remember, Jess Smith lived on edge — trapped in cycles of fear, panic, and relentless health anxiety. Her fear, also complicated by emetophobia (fear of vomiting).From sleepless childhood nights to the exhaustion of trying to “fix” herself as an adult, she spent decades believing peace was something other people had.But through years of breakdown, awakening and gentle spiritual in...

The Capes is about four friends of different backgrounds and varying levels of success and failure. They suddenly find themselves dressing up as comic book superheroes and interacting with the children and their parents at a hospital. The majority of the children start to get better. The four friends had no idea how much it would change them. An angel named Sam occupies the background and helps out where he can, the four cope with loss, tragedy, success, and acts of amazement that can only...

What if the very things you feared were never yours to carry?In UNMASKED: How the COVID Control Agenda Set Me Free, Jess Smith strips away the lies we were told-about safety, authority, and what it means to be "good." Through censorship and a culture drenched in fear, she chose something radical: to trust herself.This is not a book about viruses or vaccines. It’s about what we lost when we gave up our sovereignty and what we reclaim when we remember who we are.Raw, ...

Written in 2007, Lost On The Limbus has remained unpublished until now. Mostly unedited from its original version, it is the prequel to Life On The Limbus (2014) and Love On The Limbus (2015). The Limbus Collection covers:WTF! How Am I "Related" To This Celebrity And What Has The Illuminutty Got To Do With It? (in Life ...)What Do Extraterrestrial And Ultraterrestrial Intelligences And Other Absurdities H...

This book provides an original and compelling analysis of registration as a dynamic process which makes and unmakes legal identities.Critical legal and socio-legal scholarship tends to assume that registration is a textually mediated act of statecraft which governs through the technology of writing. Taking a different approach, this book develops movement as socio-legal method to illustrate the legal, social, and bureaucratic layers of movement which unfold in everyday engagements ...

Introducing Sookin' Berries, her collection of stories for younger readers, Jess Smith writes: 'I have been a gatherer of tales for most of my life, and I suppose it all began when I was a wee girl. I shared a home with parents, seven sisters and a shaggy dog. It could be said that I lived a different sort of life from most other children, because 'home' was an old blue bus. We were known as tinkers or travellers, descendants of those who have wandered the highways and by ways of ...

A three generational epic saga of the lives and loves of a family entangled with three supernatural brotherhoods in conflict and in battle for humanity as seen through the eyes of a hypnotherapist and brother of an esoteric order. Touches of 50 Shades of Grey and the pacing of a Dan Brown thriller. Books 1,2,3,+ of The Renegade Series.