When Matt Reid sets out to find the truth about his biological father, he doesn't expect to find family entanglements or the strange and unpredictable Australian woman whom he can't seem to erase from his memory.
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Dr Jack Fallon is good at his job. He just wants to be left alone to do it. But that's not going to happen, not with people like Tristan Richards calling the shots. Now, Jack is in a race to uncover a global conspiracy, and prevent an unimaginable catastrophe.
Magdalena von Herff barely knows what name to use before men begin to exploit her beauty, intelligence, and talents, but she soon realises that none are there to help her, except perhaps one--her enemy. Becoming Helen is a 1930s tale of deceit, disillusionment, and retribution after a British Intelligence Officer compromises a young German girl into spying on her own country, expecting her to lie, cheat and bed chosen German military targets for the Allied cause. Set in Europe when the world was tilting toward total war, the novel asks what choices did Magdalena have other than to become Helen?
Running in Circles: A Memoir of 12 Marathons and the Journey to Empowerment, is an inspiring story of one woman's journey to overcome the challenges of life and menopause through the transformative power of running.Gillian Stapleton shares her personal journey of taking up running at the age of 47 and training for and completing 12 marathons, to date. Along the way, she shares the struggles and triumphs that she encountered as she pushed herself to achieve her goals, both on the road and in life.Through her candid and heart-warming storytelling, Gillian encourages women of all ages to take up running as a way to improve their physical and mental well-being, and to find strength and purpose in the face of the challenges of life and menopause.Whether you are an experienced runner or a complete beginner, Running in Circles will inspire you to lace up your running shoes and hit the road. Discover the joy and fulfilment that running can bring. Let Running in Circles be your inspiration as you take your first steps towards a healthier, happier, and more fulfilling life.
Three best friends, each facing a life-altering dilemma. A long road trip from Los Angeles to Miami turns into the stuff of nightmares. At 35, after years of IVF treatments, Virginia is finally pregnant with twins, but her happiness is cruelly cut short when she discovers that her husband is having an affair.Dianne seemingly has it all: head of the cheerleading team of the Los Angeles Dodgers and dating their star pitcher. Between her stunning beauty and his high-profile popularity, their lives are very public and tangled up in the trappings of celebrity status. Gabby is ready to move on from her loveless marriage and the bank job she finds stifling. But an opportunity to teach at a yoga center leads to a close involvement with her mysterious yoga teacher and mentor, with whom she has an electrifying connection.A criminal plot, greed, lies, and deceit put lives at risk, and the girls are torn between old loyalties and risky new alliances. Share their journey through the dusty desert of Arizona, the seedy and bustling streets of New Orleans, the outward calm of Tallahassee, and finally Miami, crime central, as Gabby and Dianne are stalked by two jailbirds chasing a deadly cargo. Discover how love and betrayal can go hand in hand.
If you've ever experienced change in your life, you'll know it can be an unorganised, confusing, and overwhelming beast. Sometimes it's exhilarating and exciting, sometimes it's heartbreaking and sad. Whether you instigate the change, or it finds you, it's something you can never truly plan for because every change is different. You may be in a different life stage, the stakes might be higher or lower, and your readiness for the change can vary from one extreme to the other.The moment of awareness that something needs to change, or has changed dramatically, can be overwhelming and confusing, painful and debilitating. Questions, fears, anger, stress, and uncertainty rush to the front of your mind, clouding your usually logical, clear thinking, and bringing any forward action to a grinding halt. Instead, your mind is filled with questions such as: What do I do now? How could this have happened? How do I make this better? Can I make it better? Am I a bad mum? How come I'm the only one not coping? The GPS provides guidance on: where to start with change and how to get a handle on what's just happened;when to take action and when to step back and allow nature to take its course;the steps you can take to understand change and work with it, instead of against it; andwhat you can do to influence change in your world.Take a systemised way through life's challenging, confusing, and overwhelming moments - and get back some reassurance when everything else seems out of control.
What made the United States what it is began long before a shot was fired at a redcoat in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1775. It began quietly in homes and schoolrooms across the colonies in the reading lessons women gave to children. Just as the Protestant revolt originated in a practice of individual reading of the Bible, so the theories of reading developed by John Locke were the means by which a revolutionary attitude toward authority was disseminated throughout the British colonies in North America that would come to form in the United States. Gillian Brown takes us back to the basics to understand why Americans value the right to individual self-determination above all other values. It all begins with children.Locke crucially linked consent with childhood, and it is his formulation of the child's natural right to consent that eighteenth-century Americans learned as they learned to read through Lockean-style pedagogies and textbooks. Tracing the Lockean legacy through the New England Primer and popular readers, fables, and fairy tales, Brown demonstrates how Locke's emphasis on the liberty--and difficulty--of individual judgment became a received notion in the American colonies.After the revolution, American consent discourse features a different prototype of individuality; instead of wronged children, images of seduced or misguided women predominate postrevolutionary culture. The plights of these women display the difficulties of consent that Locke from the start realized. Individuals continually confront standards and prejudices at odds with their own experiences and judgments. Thus, the Lockean legacy to the United States is the reminder of the continual work to be done to endow every individual with consent and to make consent matter.What emerged in America was a new and different attitude toward authority in which authority does not belong to the elders but to the upcoming generations and groups. To effect this dramatic a change in the values of humankind took a grassroots revolution. That's what this book is about.
Volcanoes around the world have their own legends, and many have wrought terrible devastation, but none has caught the imagination like Vesuvius. We now know that immense eruptions destroyed Bronze Age settlements around Vesuvius, but the Romans knew nothing of those disasters and were lulled into complacency--much as we are today--by its long period of inactivity. None of the nearly thirty eruptions since AD 79 has matched the infamous cataclysm that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum within hours. Nearly two thousand years later, the allure of the volcano remains--as evidenced by its popularity as a tourist attraction, from Shelley and the Romantics to modern-day visitors.Vesuvius has loomed large throughout history, both feared and celebrated. Gillian Darley unveils the human responses to Vesuvius from a cast of characters as far-flung as Pliny the Younger and Andy Warhol, revealing shifts over time. This cultural and scientific meditation on a powerful natural wonder touches on pagan religious beliefs, vulcanology, and travel writing. Sifting through the ashes of Vesuvius, Darley exposes how changes in our relationship to the volcano mirror changes in our understanding of our cultural and natural environments.
Bringing a provocative perspective to the poetry wars that have divided practitioners and critics for decades, Gillian White argues that the sharp disagreements surrounding contemporary poetics have been shaped by “lyric shame”—an unspoken but pervasive embarrassment over what poetry is, should be, and fails to be.Favored particularly by modern American poets, lyric poetry has long been considered an expression of the writer’s innermost thoughts and feelings. But by the 1970s the “lyric I” had become persona non grata in literary circles. Poets and critics accused one another of “identifying” with lyric, which increasingly bore the stigma of egotism and political backwardness. In close readings of Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Sexton, Bernadette Mayer, James Tate, and others, White examines the social and critical dynamics by which certain poems become identified as “lyric,” arguing that the term refers less to a specific literary genre than to an abstract way of projecting subjectivity onto poems. Arguments about whether lyric poetry is deserving of praise or censure circle around what White calls “the missing lyric object”: an idealized poem that is nowhere and yet everywhere, and which is the product of reading practices that both the advocates and detractors of lyric impose on poems. Drawing on current trends in both affect and lyric theory, Lyric Shame unsettles the assumptions that inform much contemporary poetry criticism and explains why the emotional, confessional expressivity attributed to American lyric has become so controversial.
An illustrated collection of traditional Russian tales including "Vassilissa the Beautiful," "The Frog Princess," and "The White Duck"
A richly illustrated history of embroidery and needlework, showcasing the glorious range of styles, motifs, and materials used around the world Embroidery is one of the world’s most widely shared forms of creative expression—and one of its most varied and diverse. It can be found in every region, yet its visual languages, themes, and techniques vary greatly: some are marked by unique styles and others show influences from neighboring cultures. The Atlas of World Embroidery examines many distinctive embroidery styles and traditions found across the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia. From the quillwork and birch boxes of Indigenous North America to the decorative matyo style of Hungary, the zardozi embroiderers of India, and the satin stitches of Han Dynasty China, Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood provides a comprehensive history of embroidery, describing its materials and tools, its designs and symbols, and its uses and makers. Emphasizing the visual aspects of embroidery across cultures, the atlas features an unprecedented array of color images celebrating the art form. Organized geographically by region and country, and focusing on hand needlework with relevant examples of machine forms, The Atlas of World Embroidery is a beautiful and authoritative exploration of this ancient craft. Lavishly illustrated throughout in full color with more than 300 images Features full and close-up images of embroidered fabrics, including household items and clothing, along with insightful analysis Includes sections on the Americas; Europe; Sub-Saharan Africa; the Arabic World; Turkey, the Iranian Plateau, and Central Asia; the Indian Subcontinent; East Asia; and Southeast Asia and Australasia—with subsections on individual countries, cultures, and kinds of embroidery Contains a directory of design motifs depicting patterns from around the world
Unchained Child of the Most High God: Let God Free the Captive and Redeem the Conqueror in You.
Gillian Herman-Davis
Grace Sufficient Publishing
2015
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Are you on a Christian spiritual journey but have many unanswered questions? Want a road-map for deeper meaning of your life? Find it in the book that will transform your mind, body and soul: Unchained Child of the Most High God.Author Gillian Herman-Davis teaches us that the best way to have a life worth living is by loving God and learning to live for him, as taught by Jesus Christ. She gives us key strategies to living spiritually victorious, such as studying God's Word, believing in his power, and developing an effective prayer life.Every soul comes to Earth with a treasure. Herman-Davis shows us how we often lose touch of that treasure by not living up to our full potential. We let the illusions of the physical world guide us rather than see the world around us through spiritual eyes-ones focused on the gift of eternity with Christ.Unchained Child of the Most High God is for all readers, but especially for those struggling with depression or whose main priority in life is to lead their growing family down the "right" path. It serves as a guide for seekers wanting to know the deeper meaning of life as well as those struggling with it.Life is full of hope if we give God full control. Herman-Davis shows us how to find this hope in her uplifting book of how to live abundantly in God's kingdom.
Yet its populous river, its timbered streets, fashionable ladies, old St Paul's, the devestation of the Fire, the palace of Whitehall and the meadows of Islington live on for us in his etchings. Drawing on numerous sources, Gillian Tindall creates a montage of Hollar's life and times and of the illustrious lives that touched his.
The ecstatic face of a disco dancer in Berlin; a rural panorama in Derry, where a country road has been made into a Pollock-like canvas of red, white and blue; an ashtray, framed by a lacy spray of blood in a Barcelona toilet. Paul Graham uses and abuses classic genres of photography - the portrait, the landscape, the still life - to map a cultural topography. His jewel-like colours and unsettling compositions reveal how social relations and political trauma are inscribed in the everyday. This book brings together for the first time all of Graham's successive series, from his journey along the A1 in Britain to intimate studies of Japan. Graham's work has been celebrated in exhibitions around the world, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Tate Britain, London.Art historian Andrew Wilson has written extensively on contemporary European art and is the author of Gustav Metzger: Damaged Nature, Auto-Destructive Art. He charts the development of Graham's most significant series as defined by the journeys the artist has taken, weaving relations between an emerging aesthetic and the specifics of time and place. In the Interview, Paul Graham speaks with British artist Gillian Wearing, internationally renowned for her photographs and videos that explore the imaginary worlds of ordinary people. Focusing on a triptych from the New Europe series is the celebrated American writer Carol Squiers, Senior Editor at American Photo magazine and editor of The Critical Image: Essays on Contemporary Photography. In juxtaposition with this work, Graham has chosen texts by Japanese authors Kazuo Ishiguro and Haruki Murakami. A series of notes by the artist and an interview with Lewis Baltz provide further insight.
‘Long before her retirement, Judge Gillian Hussey had been conferred with the status of “legend of the bench”. This book gives a wonderful insight into the complex demands and balances that confronted her day in, day out. It’s a fascinating and informative read that will hold your attention to the very end.’ John Lonergan, author and former Governor of Mountjoy Prison When Gillian Hussey started out in Bridewell District Court in 1984, little did she realise that she would deal with some of the most notorious criminals in Ireland, including the Kinahans, the Cahills, ‘The Monk’ and John Gilligan. As one of Ireland’s first female judges, Gillian was very much a woman in a man’s world. Unafraid to look beyond the courtroom, she always sought to better understand the human – not just the criminal – who stood before her in the dock. Through her work, Gillian spent a lifetime learning about people, society and herself. This fascinating insight into the career of a trailblazing woman reveals the inner workings of Ireland’s criminal courts, explores the changes in Irish society and shares some timeless truths learned from almost 20 years on the bench.
Humankind has always been fascinated by the world in which it finds itself, and puzzled by its relations to it. Today that fascination is often expressed in what is now called ‘green’ terms, reflecting concerns about the non-human natural world, puzzlement about how we relate to it, and anxiety about what we, as humans, are doing to it. So called green or eco-criticism acknowledges this concern.Greenery reaches back and offers new readings of English texts, both known and unfamiliar, informed by eco-criticism. After considering general issues pertaining to green criticism, Greenery moves on to a series of individual chapters arranged by theme (earth, trees, wilds, sea, gardens and fields) which provide individual close readings of selections from such familiar texts as Malory’s Morte D’Arthur, Chaucer’s Knight’s and Franklin’s Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Langland’s Piers Plowman. These discussions are contextualized by considering them alongside hitherto marginalized texts such as lyrics, Patience and the romance Sir Orfeo. The result is a study which reinvigorates our customary reading of late Middle English literary texts while also allows us to reflect upon the vibrant new school of eco-criticism itself.
Humankind has always been fascinated by the world in which it finds itself, and puzzled by its relations to it. Today that fascination is often expressed in what is now called ‘green’ terms, reflecting concerns about the non-human natural world, puzzlement about how we relate to it, and anxiety about what we, as humans, are doing to it. So called green or eco-criticism acknowledges this concern.Greenery reaches back and offers new readings of English texts, both known and unfamiliar, informed by eco-criticism. After considering general issues pertaining to green criticism, Greenery moves on to a series of individual chapters arranged by theme (earth, trees, wilds, sea, gardens and fields) which provide individual close readings of selections from such familiar texts as Malory’s Morte D’Arthur, Chaucer’s Knight’s and Franklin’s Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Langland’s Piers Plowman. These discussions are contextualized by considering them alongside hitherto marginalized texts such as lyrics, Patience and the romance Sir Orfeo. The result is a study which reinvigorates our customary reading of late Middle English literary texts while also allows us to reflect upon the vibrant new school of eco-criticism itself.
Josie Price has given up much of her life for the sake of the wealthy Haddeley family. She works with them, lives with them and knows their secrets. So when a young man, Luke, appears and claims, shockingly, to be the son of Kit Haddeley's late wife Alice, Josie tries to help the Haddeleys come to terms with the family ghosts they hoped had been laid to rest. But Luke's arrival casts shadows on both the past and the future. Above all it is the ghost of Alice Haddeley which hangs most heavily over the family. Through Luke, she seems to demand to be both mourned and revenged. With her intimate knowledge of the family past, it is Josie who holds the key to the mystery of Alice, and it is Josie, beset by guilt, who must resolve the destructive inheritance which Luke brings in his wake.
Sin was a profitable commodity in a mining town like Motherlode. Lust made money for the madam, wrath and avarice created targets for the manhunter, and the newspaperman was greedy for stories. 'He had no right to take you against your will.' When a prostitute is raped during the robbery of the Motherlode stage, Jonah Durrell seems to be the only man who cares. The handsome manhunter can never resist a damsel in distress. He is determined to get justice for Miss Jenny's girl, and recruits Robinson, an enthusiastic newspaperman who witnessed the attack. The women are not meek and passive though. They are willing to take matters, and guns, into their own hands to survive in a tough world. Together, with Durrell and Robinson, they begin to uncover the layers of lust, avarice and envy in town, bringing down the wrath of their enemies. Can the women of sin get the justice they deserve?