Second Edition (updated 2022)2020 MIDWEST BOOK AWARDS FINALIST IN BUSINESS from the Midwest Independent Publishers Association (MIPA)A twelve month business planner for indie authors, including guided planning exercises and periodic assessments to help you stay on track and reach your goals. There are annual, quarterly, monthly, and weekly planning pages, and some dotted bullet journal style pages spread throughout to allow you to customize your planner to suit your own individual needs.
This first collection of poetry by Delia LaJeunesse moves through the cyclical nature of coming into deeper knowledge about ourselves and the world around us. This is explored through the revivification of the feminine, the dark places love takes us, and finding intimacy with the spaces in between.
"The g ira slides kish-kish-kish. The accordion stretches wah-wee-wah." This bilingual English-Spanish book explores merengue instruments and the fun and sometimes silly sounds that they make. The musicians also practice their lefts and rights while marching in the band with friends. Vamonos Learn about merengue instruments and their sounds in English and Spanish. Children, caretakers, and educators will love the rhythmic text paired with bright and colorful illustrations showcasing characters of diverse backgrounds and abilities.
"ONE invitation to a salsa dance. TWO dancing shoes to make a pair." This bilingual English-Spanish book teaches how to count to 10 using salsa. Vamonos Learn to count with salsa in English and Spanish.Children, caretakers, and educators will love the rhythmic text paired with bright and colorful illustrations showcasing characters of diverse backgrounds and abilities.
"May I please dance with you? Yes, thank you for asking." This bilingual English-Spanish book teaches common manners through a dance class setting. The dancers also practice consent, learning how to say no and set boundaries with others. Vamonos Learn to use manners with cumbia in English and Spanish. Children, caretakers, and educators will love the rhythmic text paired with bright and colorful illustrations showcasing characters of diverse backgrounds and abilities.
Delia, one of eight children, grew up during the Hippie Era in a dysfunctional family, for whom emotional and physical abuse was a normal occurrence of her childhood. Her marriage further deteriorated what little self-esteem she retained from her childhood.These torments are what made her desperately seek God and a personal relationship with Him. When her marriage fell apart, she rose to the challenge of raising three sons alone. With the help of God - and sheer determination - Delia managed to instill positive self-esteem and a love for God into the hearts of the next generation.As you read this book, may you also find hope in the midst of your storm, and may God bring you from turmoil to peace.
Fast Forward and Other Stories is an extraordinary collection of deftly crafted prose and subtle dialogue by Canadian short story writer and literary anthologist, Delia De Santis. In this suite of short fiction, we have the over-arching theme of emotional hunger and longing.Love's redemption and the attendant hunger evoked by a love unrequited is the theme of the story "Talk about Roses", a brief tale of Vincent, a working-class anti-hero, betrayed by his fianc , who is carrying another man's child, but for whom he still has a great deal of affection. Baffled by love's betrayal and overwhelmed by the brutal fact that just being nice and good will get you nowhere, least all near his heart's desire, he comes to this sad, resigned epiphany: "What can one do in life. Sometimes it's like that. Just out of your grasp... try to harness life... try to steer it down a rosy path. Try to shape it into a form. It just goddamn goes all over the place... hurting you as it drags slowly on top of you, like a bulldozer."It is in the mastery with which De Santis evokes, suggests, and hints that the characters in her work acquire life and dimension.
He is the very essence of my life, the guiding star of my universe, and the eternal object of my desires.Haunted by my past, I found solace in running away. That's how I ended up in Boston. Here, I, Ivy McAlister, have everything I need: a caring boyfriend, Mike, who wants me to move in with him; a spot in the Harvard MBA program that I have worked hard to secure; and life away from Manhattan, where I can sleep without being tormented by my nightmares. My needs are met, but my wants are not...The problem? The man of my dreams and my boyfriend are two different people.Nick was unattainable then, and he is unavailable now. Nevertheless, he is a force of nature, the very essence of my life, the guiding star of my universe, and the eternal object of my desires. He has the power to make me whole again or break me into pieces. I ran away from him the day I was going to confess my feelings to him. He let me go and never came after me...until now.
I hated Nick with all my might, but I had loved him with the same passion, too. His dominion, his lies, his deception. I needed time to heal with love and hate battling for supremacy...and I could only have one of them in my heart.Fans of Sylvia Day's Crossfire and K.A. Tucker's Wolf Hotel series will find their next irresistible binge right here. Five days is all it took me to change the trajectory of my life and move back home to New York City. With cautious optimism and a hopeful countenance I, Ivy McAlister came here to be with the man of my dreams, Nicholas Branson. Did I make a hasty decision? Maybe I did...with Nick behaving erratically and bordering on the bizarre. Sadly, my perfect world with Nick has started to unravel with the realization that everything was not as rosy as I had imagined it to be. As the lines between dreams and reality blurred, I was left to navigate the labyrinth of deception and truth to ascertain if Nick, the billionaire CEO and the most eligible bachelor in Manhattan, and the one I thought was my one true love, is indeed the one that I can truly find happiness with.
When Shelba Rook's home burns down, he realizes he has nothing left. What's a jobless, homeless private detective to do? He's feeling more than a little lost.Shelba Rook's "home" was in fact a room in a Harlem flophouse. Not only does the catastrophic fire at Auberge Rouge take the few items he could call his earthly possessions; it ends up killing an innocent woman.As Rook struggles to find a job, his thoughts keep returning to the woman at the Auberge Rouge. Who was she? Did someone set the fire intending to kill her? As Rook ponders these mysteries, he stumbles on one of Harlem's best-kept secrets-the Ross Agency.The detective agency, run by the magnanimous Norment Ross and his far more practical daughter, Sabrina, takes tiny neighborhood cases the police are too busy to solve. They're looking for a new agent, and Rook knows a job is a job. Rook may look down on the types of cases Norment and Brina take, but the two will prove to be invaluable allies as he searches for an arsonist and a murderer. From tiny cases to huge investigations, the Ross Agency is ready for anything
Delia Bacon was an American author and playwright who is best know today for her theory that William Shakespeare's plays were actually written by a group of British men, including Francis Bacon (no relation), Sir Walter Raleigh and others. In 1857, with Hawthorne's help, book The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded was finally published. Hawthorne generously wrote a foreward for the book, in which he stated that he did not believe her theory. In her book Delia alleged that Shakespeare could not have written the plays because he was ignorant and unschooled. The book was harshly criticized and a commercial failure. Later on, Mark Twain claimed to be impressed by it, and Walt Whitman, Henry James and others came to believe her theories, but it was too late.
POEMAS E SONHOS Quando se usa a linguagem do amor, tudo ao redor se traduz em poesia. Assim sentir-se- o leitor ao ter contato com os poemas da escritora D lia Porto. Em versos que se podem sentir o perfume das rosas, o arfar de asas de borboletas, a singeleza da brisa que acaricia o rosto, ao sabor da vida temperada com o sal das ondas do mar. Tendo ainda o cora o aquecido com as palavras de f e paix o, enquanto os olhos inebriam-se com o cintilar das estrelas em noite de ver o, que tanto encantam os enamorados. Dir-se-ia ainda, que diante de tanta responsabilidade, com enorme satisfa o que apresento esse valioso tesouro, t o repleto de bons sentimentos, energia positiva e muita f . Resultado de experi ncias vividas, transformadas em versos e rimas. Profa. M rcia Porto Vieira, Especialista em Planejamento Educacional, Supervis o Escolar, psicopedagoga e Mestre Educa o. Categorias: pera, Jazz, Dan a, Poesia, Natureza, M sica Palavras-chave: amor, poemas, poesias, poetas
Toni Littlebird believes God has created someone especially for her. When she meets him, she'll know he's The One, and she will love him. But that's before Dax Hendrick roars into Hummingbird Hollow on a noisy, crippled Harley, spitting stinky filth into the air and scaring away Toni's beloved hummingbirds. Dax sports over-long hair, an unkempt beard, and a condescending attitude toward her ancestral home. Toni takes one look into his mesmerizing blue-green eyes and...she knows. This uncivilized creature is "The One." She'd been right about knowing him, but wrong about something far more important: She will never love him. Why God sent Dax to this beautiful place is a mystery, and it's clear he can't expect any answers from the lovely but unsympathetic owner of Inn the Hollow-a haphazardly constructed dwelling that goes against every professional rule in Dax's area of expertise. He hopes to get the green light on getting out of there before the uneven corners, crooked floor slats, and random construction wither his architectural creativity. Is it possible that, between God's gentle leading and a lesson or two from the fascinating hummingbirds that populate the hollow, Dax and Toni will open their hearts to each other? Or will their stubborn wills ruin God's beautiful gift of love?
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING PHENOMENON--NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE More than 18 million copies sold worldwideA Reese's Book Club PickA Business Insider Defining Book of the Decade "I can't even express how much I love this book I didn't want this story to end "--Reese Witherspoon "Painfully beautiful."--The New York Times Book ReviewFor years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life--until the unthinkable happens. Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.
Une qu te initiatique, un amour impossible, un destin captivant. Quel rapport existe-t-il entre une ligue secr te d'assassins au Bouthan, un s duisant et myst rieux sorcier londonien et le tr ne usurp d'une lointaine plan te, Hidara ? Une jeune femme amn sique s'engage dans une qu te effr n e pour comprendre son pass . Chaque r v lation branle ses certitudes, red finissant son identit et son r le dans un conflit o les luttes de pouvoir se m lent aux enjeux personnels. Tiraill e entre un h ritage crasant et des sentiments interdits, elle devra affronter des ennemis redoutables, mais aussi ses doutes. Saura-t-elle d passer les preuves qui jalonnent sa route sans renoncer ses valeurs ? Bienvenue dans un univers o magie et intrigues politiques s'entrecroisent, o trahison et d sir s'opposent, et o une h ro ne d termin e se bat pour crire son propre destin.
