The critically acclaimed, bestselling author of News of the World and Enemy Women returns to Texas in this atmospheric story, set at the end of the Civil War, about an itinerant fiddle player, a ragtag band of musicians with whom he travels trying to make a living, and the charming young Irish lass who steals his heart.In March 1865, the long and bitter War between the States is winding down. Till now, twenty-three-year-old Simon Boudlin has evaded military duty thanks to his slight stature, youthful appearance, and utter lack of compunction about bending the truth. But following a barroom brawl in Victoria, Texas, Simon finds himself conscripted, however belatedly, into the Confederate Army. Luckily his talent with a fiddle gets him a comparatively easy position in a regimental band.Weeks later, on the eve of the Confederate surrender, Simon and his bandmates are called to play for officers and their families from both sides of the conflict. There the quick-thinking, audacious fiddler can't help but notice the lovely Doris Mary Dillon, an indentured girl from Ireland, who is governess to a Union colonel's daughter.After the surrender, Simon and Doris go their separate ways. He will travel around Texas seeking fame and fortune as a musician. She must accompany the colonel's family to finish her three years of service. But Simon cannot forget the fair Irish maiden, and vows that someday he will find her again.Incandescent in its beauty, told in Paulette Jiles's trademark spare yet lilting style, Simon the Fiddler is a captivating, bittersweet tale of the chances a devoted man will take, and the lengths he will go to fulfill his heart's yearning."Jiles' sparse but lyrical writing is a joy to read. . . . Lose yourself in this entertaining tale." -- Associated Press
Now a Major Motion PictureIt is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence.In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna’s parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows.Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act “civilized.” Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forging a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land.Arriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember—strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become—in the eyes of the law—a kidnapper himself. Exquisitely rendered and morally complex, News of the World is a brilliant work of historical fiction that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.
Now a Major Motion Picture In this National Book Award finalist set in the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trustIt is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence.In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna's parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows.Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act "civilized." Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forging a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land.Arriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember--strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become--in the eyes of the law--a kidnapper himself. Exquisitely rendered and morally complex, News of the World is a brilliant work of historical fiction that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.
Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post–Civil War frontier seeking redemption in this fearless novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of News of the World. Union soldier John Chenneville suffered a traumatic head wound in battle. His recovery took the better part of a year as he struggled to regain his senses and mobility. By the time he returned home, the Civil War was over, but tragedy awaited. John’s beloved sister and her family had been brutally murdered.Their killer goes by many names. He fought for the North in the late unpleasantness, and wore a badge in the name of the law. But the man John knows as A. J. Dodd is little more than a rabid animal, slaughtering without reason or remorse, needing to be put down.Traveling through the unforgiving landscape of a shattered nation in the midst of Reconstruction, John braves winter storms and confronts desperate people in pursuit of his quarry. Untethered, single-minded in purpose, he will not be deterred. Not by the U.S. Marshal who threatens to arrest him for murder should he succeed. And not by Victoria Reavis, the telegraphist aiding him in his death-driven quest, yet hoping he’ll choose to embrace a life with her instead.And as he trails Dodd deep into Texas, John accepts that this final reckoning between them may cost him more than all he’s already lost…
This book helps you make every event a smashing success in seven simple steps. Whether you're organizing a company party, a product launch, or a fund-raising gala, planning a major event can be a daunting task. Now the industry leaders who've organized major events for the 1996 Olympics and for several Fortune 500 companies make it easy for anyone to plan a successful function - in seven timesaving steps: Determine the Five 'W's and, Always, 'How', Who, What, Where, When, Why, and 'How big is your budget?'; Take Care of the Nuts and Bolts - A surefire system to choose the perfect time and place; Create a Project Blueprint - The smart way to keep track of contacts, guest lists, menus, staff, sound, decor, security, etc. in one book; Design Your Event - Harness your creativity with looks and ideas to suit any venue; Envision Your Event - Hints to achieve an overall look, sound, and feel; Finish the Unseen Details - Tips and techniques to help pull off the event as smoothly as possible; and, Post Event Follow-Up - Following through with cleanup, expenses, and thank you notes. 'My experience working with Paulette and Jodi Wolf has been an incredible one' - Preston Bailey, author of "Preston Bailey's Design for Entertaining". 'The team of Paulette and Jodi Wolf represents the very best in the special event business' - Lisa Hurley, Editor, "Special Events Magazine". 'This book will provide great insight as to how to organize your important events' - Deloris Jordan, President, Michael Jordan's Family Foundation. "Event Planning Made Easy" is perfect for: corporate parties; fund-raising galas; product launches; weddings and receptions; destination conventions; family reunions; award banquets; holiday parties; church events; fashion shows; athletic events; dedications and groundbreakings; and, much more. Planning an event for your company, club, charity group, or family? Learn the secrets of the pros. No matter what the scale, budget or occasion, event planning can be an immense challenge. There's a reason why companies often hire outside specialists to handle the task. These specialists know what they're doing. But there's no reason you can't use the proven secrets of professionals to plan your own successful events. Written by Paulette Wolf and Jodi Wolf - the industry's top leaders in corporate event production - this simple comprehensive guide takes you through every step of the party-planning process, from early conceptualization, sourcing and contracting, to last-minute details and follow-ups. By taking advantage of their years of experience, you can easily sidestep stress, balance the budget, anticipate problems - and create a smoothly run event that makes a positive, lasting impression. These time-tested tricks of the trade will help you to: choose the right venue at the best price; create an organized event book; develop an ideal menu and theme; book entertainment, staff, and caterers; manage behind-the-scenes operations and security; and, make every event a smashing success. "Event Planning Made Easy" takes the guesswork out of party organization - so you have more time to focus on the creative and social aspects of the job. This book even includes all the fill-in sheets and forms you'll need to keep track of everything. Event production may be work, but when you know the secrets of the pros, you'll be surprised at how fun and rewarding it can be. Paulette Wolf and Jodi Wolf are founders and presidents of Paulette Wolf Events & Entertainment (PWEE). Nationally recognized as industry leaders in corporate event planning, they have provided services for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Fortune 500 corporate launches, McDonald's, Disney, American Red Cross, Cirque du Soleil, VH1, USA Today, and many others. Their talent list includes Tom Brokaw, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bill Cosby, and Oprah Winfrey, and they were recently featured in "Ladies' Home Journal".
Danu arrives on Exterra wanting only to stay on her ship until its time to move on again. She's fed up with her crew members and her life. When she meets a very old, very skilled vampyr at the Pleasure Fair she surcomes to her curiosity. What follows is a very different kind of love story in which Danu learns to love herself as well as some irresistible faeries and the lifeforces of two planets. But first she has to survive her various honeymoons She has to shed her unexamined beliefs about sexuality and where it can go. This story has implied as well as detailed sexual. content. It is written through the viewpoint of Danu as she finds her power sexually as well as many other ways.
Danu arrives on Exterra wanting only to stay on her ship until its time to move on again. She's fed up with her crew members and her life. When she meets a very old, very skilled vampyr at the Pleasure Fair she surcomes to her curiosity. What follows is a very different kind of love story in which Danu learns to love herself as well as some irresistible faeries and the lifeforces of two planets. But first she has to survive her various honeymoons She has to shed her unexamined beliefs about sexuality and where it can go. This story has implied as well as detailed sexual. content. It is written through the viewpoint of Danu as she finds her power sexually as well as many other ways.
Tout d'abord, l'auteur de ce livre doit vous dire que cette tude consacr e la vie et la spiritualit de trois grands saints, peut tre consid r e comme la troisi me partie de l' tude g n rale concernant l' cole Fran aise de Spiritualit . En effet, le livre intitul L' COLE FRAN AISE DE SPIRITUALITE (1566-1716) comporte deux parties qui nous ont appris qu'apr s les v nements culturels majeurs qui se sont produits au XVI si cle, la Renaissance, d'une part, et la r forme protestante d'autre part, l' glise catholique tout enti re devait se r former. Oui, mais comment? Les moyens mettre en place pour r aliser ce gigantesque travail de fond furent, en grande partie, d finis par les d crets du Concile de Trente.
"And behold, a woman that had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years; and she was bowed together, and could in no wise lift herself up."Most of the time when someone is attacked with this spirit, in this age and time we now live in, we don't see it as clearly as with this women! I believe we can live like this in the spiritual realm for years, and we need discernment more than ever. In the Kingdom of God, there are many people suffering from this spirit and they do not even know they are under attack with this spirit of infirmity.
The tremendous universal appeal of Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale took the book world by storm. With her third novel finally earning her the recognition and respect she richly deserved, Terry McMillan followed up with How Stella Got Her Groove Back, which continued to attract new and loyal fans from all walks of life. In this critical work Richards places these inspirational works, as well as McMillan's earlier writings, in their deserved cultural and literary context. Richards offers an insightful analysis of McMillan's narrative technique, which, while having roots in the blues aesthetic, has created a voice that sings out to readers across the lines of sex and race. McMillan's stories are inhabited by strong, dynamic African American women, yet these characters have universal lessons of life and love to share with all readers who appreciate good fiction.A richly drawn biographical chapter examines the life of McMillan and the influences her own personal experiences have exerted on her writings. In the following chapter, Richards discusses McMillan's place in the literary tradition in which such writers as Zora Neale Hurston paved the way and inspired McMillan to write realistic, yet humorous accounts of the African American romantic experience. Richards devotes a chapter to each of McMillan's first four novels; Mama (1987), Disappearing Acts (1989), Waiting to Exhale (1992), and How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1996). She discusses each novel in terms of plot, narrative style, character development, thematic issues, historical and cultural context, and alternative critical perspective. The comprehensive bibliography, including a list of reviews and index, covers the movie adaptations as well as the books.
A revisit of the staff development model of Teacher Expectations and Student Achievement (TESA). This book describes my experiences as a teacher and supervisor of pre-service and in-service teachers, what I have observed in classrooms in the past and present. Also included are recommendations of how to implement the interactions as a classroom teacher or a supervisor of teachers.
How to Read Architecture is based on the fundamental premise that reading and interpreting architecture is something we already do, and that close observation matters. This book enhances this skill so that given an unfamiliar building, you will have the tools to understand it and to be inspired by it. Author Paulette Singley encourages you to misread, closely read, conventionally read, and unconventionally read architecture to stimulate your creative process. This book explores three essential ways to help you understand architecture: reading a building from the outside-in, from the inside-out, and from the position of out-and-out, or formal, architecture. This book erodes boundaries between the frequently compartmentalized fields of interior design, landscape design, and building design with chapters exploring concepts of terroir, scenography, criticality, atmosphere, tectonics, inhabitation, type, form, and enclosure. Using examples and case studies that span a wide range of historical and global precedents, Singley addresses the complex interaction among the ways a building engages its context, addresses its performative exigencies, and operates as an autonomous aesthetic object. Including over 300 images, this book is an essential read for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of architecture with a global focus on the interpretation of buildings in their context.
How to Read Architecture is based on the fundamental premise that reading and interpreting architecture is something we already do, and that close observation matters. This book enhances this skill so that given an unfamiliar building, you will have the tools to understand it and to be inspired by it. Author Paulette Singley encourages you to misread, closely read, conventionally read, and unconventionally read architecture to stimulate your creative process. This book explores three essential ways to help you understand architecture: reading a building from the outside-in, from the inside-out, and from the position of out-and-out, or formal, architecture. This book erodes boundaries between the frequently compartmentalized fields of interior design, landscape design, and building design with chapters exploring concepts of terroir, scenography, criticality, atmosphere, tectonics, inhabitation, type, form, and enclosure. Using examples and case studies that span a wide range of historical and global precedents, Singley addresses the complex interaction among the ways a building engages its context, addresses its performative exigencies, and operates as an autonomous aesthetic object. Including over 300 images, this book is an essential read for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of architecture with a global focus on the interpretation of buildings in their context.
Does European integration influence national cultures and social policies? Is Europe’s fabled cultural diversity diminishing? Paulette Kurzer examines these important and topical questions by comparing the Irish abortion ban, Finnish and Swedish drinking restrictions, and Dutch drug decriminalization. Employing a synthesis of constructivist and institutionalist theories, Kurzer demonstrates that domestic shifts in values and attitudes, spurred along by the impact of EC/EU market integration, are in fact bringing about a convergence in European morality norms. Alcohol control policies are forced to liberalize, the Irish abortion proscription is being redefined, and Dutch drug toleration is pushed into a more punitive direction. Markets and Moral Regulation argues that a crucial agency is European law and its role as a market regulator: as market forces invade these cultural and moral spheres, protective barriers disintegrate. The result is that cultural and social domains are increasingly exposed to the influence of market competition.
Does European integration influence national cultures and social policies? Is Europe's fabled cultural diversity diminishing? In this book, Paulette Kurzer examines these important and topical questions by comparing the Irish abortion ban, Finnish and Swedish drinking restrictions, and Dutch drug decriminalization. Employing a synthesis of constructivist and institutionalist theories, Kurzer demonstrates that domestic shifts in values and attitudes, spurred along by the impact of EC/EU market integration, are in fact bringing about a convergence in European morality norms. Alcohol control policies are forced to liberalize, the Irish abortion proscription is being redefined, and Dutch drug toleration is pushed into a more punitive direction. Markets and Moral Regulation argues that a crucial agency is European law and its role as a market regulator: as market forces invade these cultural and moral spheres, protective barriers disintegrate. The result is that cultural and social domains are increasingly exposed to the influence of market competition.
Awarded Third Place by the NATIONAL Federation of Press Women Communications Contest, 2021 for Non-fiction for Adult Readers, Autobiography or MemoirAwarded FIRST PLACE by Virginia Professional Communicators, 2021, for Non-fiction for adult readers, Memoir-.South Carolina, 1940s. A farmer's daughter marries her father's hired hand and the two of them have Paulette, a child who will grow up on her own. In an era when divorce was rare, Paulette's mother was married three times and struggled to care for her daughter, working at a drugstore by day and a bar by night. Paulette spent nights alone in their apartment leafing through her mother's True Confessions magazines and listening to 78 rpm records, dancing with her shadow.In this collection of expressive free verse, Whitehurst shares the memories of her upbringing. When the author was a toddler, her mother left her in the home of strangers for four years and removed her from that home at age six bringing her into a world of poverty and poor choices. This is the true story of her mother's trial-and-error approach to parenting, her choices, and the ways they affected her daughter. When her mother married for the third time, security and a better life seemed to be within reach, but Whitehurst realized that her mother viewed her as an obstacle to happiness. The author lived a childhood of loneliness and emotional abuse until she found her voice and the road to her future as an influential, award-winning teacher. When she was sixteen, she had never read a book cover to cover until her English teacher encouraged her with a few kind words. Another English teacher encouraged her to write when she was seventeen and her history teacher encouraged her to think for herself and to speak her mind. Her powerful, honest, yet loving memoir demonstrates the power of a teacher's words and their effect on a young life.
Paulette C. Johnson-Elliot is a highly-skilled chef and caterer who founded a catering company that produces mouth-watering entr es every day. After obtaining her culinary license from Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, NC, she created Paulie's Love Catering. Elliott has exhibited the same passion and devotion she has for her family within the industry by investing in the lives of others who look to follow in her footsteps.After working as an HIV counselor for 28 years, Paulette needed an escape and found it in cooking. Ms. Elliot is a firm believer that when done in love, food has the ability to speak to people in ways that others can not. Because of her dedication, Paulette has created her first cookbook, Paulie's Love Catering Presents Taste the Love: Ordinary Foods with Extraordinary Flavors. A successful business owner and culinary professional, Elliot's knowledge of the culinary arts has expanded her business brand and has been shared with chefs nationwide. As a culinary entrepreneur, Paulette has committed to making every client a happy client one lovingly crafted dish at a time.
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