The '80s were a decade of musical change. As the '70s disco stranglehold was broken, rock, gay, dance and pop music competed with funk and soul, romantic ballads and political protest, computerised music and controversy.The glamour of costume, greasepaint and cross-dressing was put to good use by New Romantic groups like Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Soft Cell, Culture Club and the Human League, while the world also looked to Britain for the most exciting pop acts such as the multi-...

The seventies witnessed great changes not only in dress style but also in music. The psychedelia of the late sixties had mutated into glam rock by the early seventies, while the latter half of the decade is best remembered for the punk and disco explosions which gripped both Britain and America.The number-one singles of the decade are recalled in Every Chart Topper Tells a Story: The Seventies, from artists as diverse as Gary Glitter, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Diana Ross,...

It was among the most notorious criminal cases of its day. On August 11, 1921, in Birmingham, Alabama, a Methodist minister named Edwin Stephenson shot and killed a Catholic priest, James Coyle, in broad daylight and in front of numerous witnesses. The killer's motive? The priest had married Stephenson's eighteen-year-old daughter Ruth to Pedro Gussman, a Puerto Rican migrant and practicing Catholic. Sharon Davies's Rising Road resurrects the murder of Father Coyle and the trial o...

The glorious sixties were a decade for the young and rebellious, of cultural freedom and of sexual liberation. The British music scene had never been so adventurous, taking even the American charts by storm.Every Chart-Topper Tells a Story: The Sixties takes a look at the number-one hit singles of the decade in Britain from artists such as The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Dusty Springfield, Ken Dodd, Cilla Black, The Supremes, Cliff Richard and Helen Shapiro...

It was among the most notorious criminal cases of its day. On August 11, 1921, in Birmingham, Alabama, a Methodist minister named Edwin Stephenson shot and killed a Catholic priest, James Coyle, in broad daylight and in front of numerous witnesses. The killer's motive? The priest had married Stephenson's eighteen-year-old daughter Ruth to Pedro Gussman, a Puerto Rican migrant and practicing Catholic. Sharon Davies's Rising Road resurrects the murder of Father Coyle and the trial o...

Juliette's life was like any other eighteen year olds; friends, clothes, music, fighting with her brother, insecurities and moments of darkness, but there were things she couldn't explain: her muscular, lean body, her unsettling sixth sense and the increasing feeling of being unwell since her eighteenth birthday.Something was wrong......Could it have something to do with her father's death or the arrival of a beautiful stranger that Christmas? And why is she so strangely dr...

Sharon Davis VandenHul grew up in the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota. She currently resides in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where bears, deer, rabbits, birds, squirrels, raccoons, coyotes and even bobcats visit her backyard. A former teacher, Sharon currently manages several Victorian homes. As a two-time survivor of breast cancer, Sharon encourages people with cancer to never give up, as nothing lasts forever, not even winter.

Recovering from the trauma of sexual and domestic violence is a process that can lead you to find your own strength. Shaped by a faith identity incongruent with her reality as a survivor of sexual and physical abuse, Ellis Davis became intimately familiar with domestic violence and the church's reluctance to intervene. Then, using marriages as a touchstone for self-discovery only led her into increasingly violent relationships. Even while navigating the process to wholeness as a woman poli...

Have you ever felt like the world in your mind and the reality of your life are so out of sync that you are almost split in two? That the dreams and hopes you've harbored for a lifetime are floating away while the day-to-day ness of life weighs you down? You are not alone! Where is the balance between what is and what could be? These short stories and poems show glimpses of that balance. Investigate and celebrate the small connections hidden between the moments of dreaming and living in th...

No Rats in School is a lively classroom tale about fourth graders who get not one but two mischievous class pets: rats! While some students quickly grow fond of their furry companions, Victoria is less than thrilled. Convinced rats are dirty plague-spreaders, she firmly declares her disgust--and she's not alone. Even the school cook insists, "No rats in school!"The rats' escapades begin in earnest, from Buck enjoying an unexpected sleepover in Rubio's desk (and nibbling his math as...

My name is Mertyle. Yeah, thats right. I said Mertyle. Thanks to my parents terrible taste in names, the kids at my school call me Mertyle Turtle. This is why I go by Mertie.

The ancient market town of Rayleigh is rich in both its history and in the historians who have told the tale. Limelight Lantern lectures were first shown in 1884, when the population was just over 1,000, the railway had not yet arrived, and the roads were at best comprised of compacted earth with granite chippings and had no drainage. That tradition continues today as historians continue to explore Rayleigh through slideshows, lectures and books. During the ensuing 128 years, the stories o...