This is a story about love, friendship, and relationships among women. It shares the lives of seven adults and how they intertwine as they pursue relationships, dreams, and work through the everyday adversities of life from the unique perspective of their own minds. Enjoy the writing style of Enough to Keep You in the first book from the "Conflicted: The Love Diaries" series. I welcome you into this realm filled with perspectives unknown to most and unspoken of frequently. This is your opportunity to explore it openly.Every person has a tale. If you listen close enough, you can hear it for yourself. You are invited into the deepest recesses of the mind to read a story about light and darkness, hope and defeat, beginnings and endings, and the endless proverbial search for happiness.
Every child should be able to enjoy the fun of reading and writing poetry. This inspirational book gets them going. Teaching children to write great poetry is a gift of a book - written by a teacher, with many successful years of teaching children to enjoy writing poetry - for teachers. It's packed with great ideas to get their creative juices flowing. Metaphors, similes, alliteration, rhymes and onomatopoeia - they're all there - proving there's nothing like poetry for inspiring a love of literacy. From the joyful daftness of nonsense poems and nursery rhymes to the challenge of narrative poems and cautionary tales, it smoothes the way, with lesson plans, support sheets and a starburst of creative ideas. Just watch their enthusiastic response to its well-structured fun. Acrostics, list poems, kennings, enjambment and shape poems are all included with suggestions of topics which start with the interest of the child. Pupils' confidence will grow with their success, as they respond enthusiastically to the hilarity of limericks and clerihews, and grasp the skill of writing succinctly to create haikus and cinquains. Each chapter gives examples of the type of poem and a plan to guide pupils to recognize its characteristics and brainstorm ideas to create a class poem. This practice gives children the confidence to plan and create their own poetry. To empower your less able poets, there are carefully planned writing frames to encourage them to succeed. Poetry writing also brings about improvement in creative writing. This book guides teachers to teach the skills of choosing interesting vocabulary, creating their own similes and metaphors. This will spill over into their story writing. Children will learn to use their senses to enhance their descriptions and creating vivid pictures in the readers minds. Watch the children s enthusiasm for surfing the net to find the origins of nursery rhymes, creating imaginative haikus and cinquains for their own Christmas cards, and miming the actions of their cautionary tales for their class assembly.
Julie Teston was in a hurry to join her extended family for a relaxing weekend at their home at River's Bend. Looking for a temporary escape from her hectic life, she knew she would find good food, good company, and mental and emotional rest there. But she didn't know she would also find fear, suspicion, and...murder. After a record period of heavy rain, the river exceeded flood stage and thirteen people are stranded together at River's Bend. No one expected that one of them would be murdered. Julie is a young housewife with courage, grit, and lots of curiosity. Join her as she figures out what happened and "whodunit". RIVER'S BEND is a riveting mystery novella. It is Hazel Davis Megahee's second book.
Timid but tough Sophia Chambers has finally found the perfect job for her strange ability. As a private detective's assistant, she trails and photographs people with ease, because she can make herself unseen. But when she stumbles into the arms of Dominic Berrett, she finds she no longer wants to hide.Though Dominic's stunning looks could easily make him a model, he's the farthest thing from it. As a warlock and captain in the Magus Corps, he's been deployed to bring Sophia into a witchcraft fold that she doesn't even know exists. Despite his five-hundred years as an immortal, he discovers something unexpectedly captivating in the beautiful but shy young woman.But when her deadly past catches up to her and an ancient enemy of witchcraft emerges, Sophia and Dominic's intense feelings for each other surface in ways that neither could have foreseen. As passion explodes and desires are unleashed, each will make choices from which there is no return.
Nicolette Erling is a survivor, hiding in plain sight. As she moves from city to city, disguised as a psychic in a traveling circus, her real Wiccan ability remains hidden-from everyone except Sebastian.Major Sebastian Corcoran of the Magus Corps has made Nicolette his private project. Though he's determined to bring the beautiful rogue into the safety of the Wiccan community, he's unprepared for the fiery passion that erupts between them. Desperate to remain on her own and unable to leave the brutality of her past behind, Nicolette can't let herself fall for Sebastian. When duty calls him back to the Corps, they must both learn a bitter truth. Love isn't fighting to hold on tightly, but finding the strength to let go.
Caitlin Monroe is used to taking care of herself, thank you very much. After witnessing the grisly death of her parents, she'll do anything to make sure that she and her sister are safe. But a witch with the rare and powerful gift of seeing the future can't stay under the radar forever. Although General Logan MacCulloch finds Caitlin dealing cards in a casino, her gift of prophecy is no match for his of luck. But as he gets to know her, he realizes they're both struggling with similar wounded pasts. Not only does he vow to bring her into the Wiccan fold, he can't help but want to make her his own.But a chance brush of their hands suddenly shows Caitlin their sensual and heated future. Confused and frightened, she can only think to run from him, straight into the waiting arms of his arch enemy.
