In this first book-length study of D. H. Lawrence and Black writers, Laura Ryan examines connections between Lawrence and four key Black and mixed-race modernists – Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, and Zora Neale Hurston – positioning all five as co-creators of modernism.Ryan investigates both the responses of these writers to Lawrence's writing and the ways in which Black modernist writers were frequently engaging in t...

The Love, Illness, and Recovery to survive Breast Cancer.From a poets view

Its not that Pan Blair, stay-at-home mother of three, has anything against humanity per se. Its just that she finds interacting with its members to be draining to the point of exhaustion. Her husband, however, can neither understand nor live with her introversion. When a scheme of his creation lands them on the brink of homelessness, Pan decides its time to get the hell out of the passenger seat. Its time to take an active role in her own life.Even though she knows shes not remotel...

If уоu'vе been ѕuffеring from sleep deprivation, thеn you know thе toll that еffесtѕ оf inѕоmniа саn tаkе оn уоur lifе. Gоing through thе dау at a sluggish расе аnd nоt fееling clear-headed аrе thе milder results оf ѕlеер dерrivаtiоn. There аrе fаr mоrе ѕеriоuѕ соnѕеԛuеnсеѕ as wеll, thаt could еvеn affect your physical health. Insomnia саn be bоth a nuiѕаnсе and a роtеntiаllу lifе-thrеаtеning соnditiоn if it iѕn't trеаtеd in timе. Don't ignоrе thе рrоblеm оr hope thаt it will mаgiсаllу vаn...

Global in scope and featuring thirty-five chapters from more than fifty dance, music, and theatre scholars and practitioners, The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre introduces the fundamentals of musical theatre studies and highlights developing global trends in practice and scholarship.Investigating the who, what, when, where, why, and how of transnational musical theatre,The Routledge Companion to Mus...

Drawing on more than 150 in-depth interviews, Becoming Strong: Impoverished Women and the Struggle to Overcome Violence explores the diverse effects of trauma in the lives of homeless female victims of violence.Laura Huey and Ryan Broll closely examine the negative patterns common to cases of homeless female victims of violence and develop informed solutions for responding to issues that perpetuate cycles of female homelessness. Becoming Strong offers not only a c...

Child of an atheist father and a devoutly Catholic mother, Tommy has been from childhood the object of a battle of love. Tommy’s courage and unfailing loyalty to his Faith help him to overcome obstacles which threaten his whole future with spiritual tragedy. Brother Ernest Ryan, was a Holy Cross Brother, the founder of and a prolific author for the Dujarie Press, a Catholic publishing house of Juvenile Saint books for children in the 1950’s and 1960’s. He wrote numerous juvenile biographic...

In Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story, editors Robert C. Hauhart and Jeff Birkenstein have assembled a collection of eighteen original essays written by literary critics from around the globe. Collectively, these critics argue that the reciprocal influence between Russian and American writers is integral to the development of the short story in each country as well as vital to the global status the contemporary short story has attained. This collecti...

The talented storytellers of the Fear the Boot podcast community have returned with a new collection of worlds for you to explore. This time around, the authors were given a theme. The theme was a single word: winter. Whether it is the cold chill outside or the ice within our hearts, these stories examine, in their own unique way, aspects of winter in all its complexity. Sojourn with us to a world where a father and son struggle for the throne of the Viking clan; a world where two knights ...

Raven Kraft has changed the lives of thousands who have run with him—many of them hundreds of times. From all fifty states and dozens of countries, across all age groups and backgrounds, they come to run with Raven, and in the process find friendship, inspiration—and a nickname.Among them is author Laura Lee "White Lightning" Huttenbach, who has logged over a thousand miles of Raven Runs. Here she explores the stories of dozens of others about why they started running with Raven—an...

Doctor Katerina Mancini is a force to be reckoned with.Surgeon by day and mob doctor by night. There's almost nothing she can't handle except maybe the man who's been assigned to deal with her stalker. It was so much easier pretending her dad's best friend wasn't everything she'd ever wanted before he became her permanent shadow.How dare he swoop in and rescue her!Stefano Tiero is a man possessed.He's spent years denying his...

Love, Rosie meets A Walk to Remember in this second chance romance that rekindles a long-lost love and unearths buried secrets.‘A big, emotional punch of a novel about first love’ LAURA WOOD‘The whole thing tore my heart to pieces and put it back together’ LUCY VINE‘Tender, vivid, original and gorgeously written’ LAUREN BRAVO