Jessica Rosenberg

This contemporary companion to the Jewish year cycle is not only a bellwether for radical Jews who want their lives and practice to be rooted in their political commitments but also an educational resource in Jewish tradition, holidays, and ritual. With a chapter for each month of the Hebrew calendar, For Times Such as These offers spiritual practices and holiday rituals rooted in movements for racial justice, decolonization, feminism, and queer and trans liberation. Each chapter opens with an invocation by liturgist and healer Dori Midnight and illuminated by artist Sol Weiss. Highlighting each month's spiritual and cultural qualities, Rabbi Ariana Katz and Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg summarize and provide commentary on Torah readings; examine the texts, histories, and contemporary customs of Jewish holidays; and offer questions to reflect on and engage spiritually with the month. This work provides a guide for creative action and ritual making throughout the seasons, an exploration of anti-Zionist Judaism, and spiritual-cultural invitation to embody and expand decolonial, anti-racist, queer, and feminist Jewish practice.

The stakes are higher in real life than fiction. Then again, so are the rewards.Juliette just wants to run her bookshop, recommend great reads, hunt for treasures at estate sales, and savor quality time with her family and friends.Her magic has other plans.The emerging magical ability to return lost things to their owners has thrown her a curveball. She can't communicate with someone who's dead...or can she?As she races against time to reunite lost loves and right tragic wrongs, Juliette is handed the power to finally overcome her chronic anxiety and debilitating panic attacks. But at what cost?Will the help of a familiar fortune teller, her closest friends, and found family be enough for Juliette to battle the entity threatening her happiness? Or is she destined to be on her own forever?Juliette once again dives into an adventure she used to only read about in Spelled With a Kiss. Book 2 in the Wyrd Words & Witchcraft Paranormal Women's Fiction series is set in the same quaint beach town as Jessica Rosenberg's delectable Baking Up a Magical Midlife series.

How much courage does it take for a sidekick to become a main character?Juliette has always longed for everything she experiences in her beloved books-grand adventures, heroic deeds, passionate love, and making a meaningful difference. She wants it all. Yet, despite her found family, her dream bookshop, and a burgeoning connection with a sweet man, chronic anxiety keeps her tethered to a safe and predictable routine.Until her life is upended when an unexpected magical ability surfaces.Now gifted with the power to locate lost things, Juliette's world becomes a blend of wonder and anxiety. Along with her ability to help clients find misplaced belongings, certain items compel her to reunite them with their owners. As her powers grow, so do the panic attacks lurking at every turn, threatening to overwhelm her.Amidst the chaos, an infuriatingly arrogant and seductive man repeatedly challenges her. As she navigates her own fears and doubts, the stakes become higher than ever. The longer it takes her to reunite lost items with their owners, the more the magic hurts. However, there are ethical dilemmas surrounding the potential misuse of magical objects.As her internal conflict mounts, will Juliette muster the courage to step out of her comfort zone and embrace her true potential as a heroine?Magic Hidden, Magic is the first book in Wyrd Words & Witchcraft, a new paranormal women's fiction series set in the same world as the delectable Baking Up a Magical Midlife series.Join Juliette as she steps into a world where magic intertwines with the ordinary and dreams have the potential to become reality in this cozy paranormal women's fiction magical realism story that will make you feel like you're having coffee with your best friend.

How much heat can Cassie take before she's forced out of her kitchen?Now that her father has moved in, her daughter is finally settled, and her bakery is everything she dreamed it could be, Cassie should be able to sit back and enjoy her new life as a magical baker. But a string of disasters are disrupting business, her magic is going wonky, and her burgeoning relationship with the deputy sheriff is threatening her already shaky stability.With her dream life at risk, her magic misbehaving, and a nemesis on the rampage, Cassie once again has to rely on her friends and family for help. But this time, when everything goes up in flames, she's not the only one poised to lose everything.Sweet and Sour Spells, is book 4 of the five-star Baking Up a Magical Midlife Paranormal Women's Fiction series.Grab a cup of coffee and settle in to keep Cassie and her friends company as they fight to hold on to the lives they love.

Life would be so much sweeter if the oldest witch in town didn't have it out for her. Over the course of six months, Cassie has gotten divorced, inherited a magical bakery, discovered she's a witch, gotten stuck in a secret passage, gotten kidnapped, rescued her daughter from the worst of all horrors (a stuffy all girl's boarding school), and has made the best friends anyone could ever ask to have. She's well overdue for a break. It's too bad that the oldest witch in town is determined to make her life as challenging as possible, in the most annoying ways imaginable. Or that a fortune teller has foretold someone from her past is coming to shake everything up.Standing her ground and fighting for what she wants is not only the hardest thing Cassie has ever done, it might cost her everything she loves. Dive deeper into Cassie's magical new life as she tackles the vindictive town matriarch and reclaims her power in Bitter Sweet Magic, book 3 of the five star Baking Up a Magical Midlife Paranormal Women's Fiction series.

During the middle years of Queen Elizabeth's reign, the number of books published with titles that described themselves as flowers, gardens, or forests more than tripled. During those same years, English printers turned out scores of instructional manuals on gardening and husbandry, retailing useful knowledge to a growing class of literate landowners and pleasure gardeners. Both trends, Jessica Rosenberg shows, reflected a distinctive style of early modern plant-thinking, one that understood both plants and poems as composites of small pieces—slips or seeds to be recirculated by readers and planters. Botanical Poetics brings together studies of ecology, science, literary form, and the material text to explore how these developments transformed early modern conceptions of nature, poetic language, and the printed book. Drawing on little-studied titles in horticulture and popular print alongside poetry by Shakespeare, Spenser, and others, Rosenberg reveals how early modern print used a botanical idiom to anticipate histories of its own reading and reception, whether through replanting, uprooting, or fantasies of common property and proliferation. While our conventional narratives of English literary culture in this period see reading as an increasingly private practice, and literary production as more and more of an authorial domain, Botanical Poetics uncovers an alternate tradition: of commonplaces and common ground, of slips of herbs and poetry circulated, shared, and multiplied.

Living your dream shouldn't be this challenging.She owns a magical bakery and has the greatest friends, so why isn't Cassie enjoying life as much as she thought she would?It could be because her daughter is miserable and plotting ways to go back to Georgia to live with her dad. Or it could be because she's working so hard she can't enjoy the fruits of her labor let alone find time to connect with her kid.There's also the magic. Between the pre-teen drama and the bakery, she's barely had time to come to grips with being a witch, forget about mastering her growing magical powers.If she weren't so tired, she could probably find a way to get this dream life back on trackIf she weren't so tired, she might have noticed the dream is about to turn into a nightmare.Will quick thinking, friends, and magic be enough for Cassie to hold tight to what matters most? Or will it take something she hasn't even considered?Join Cassie as she grapples with everything her new life throws at her in Bread Coffee Magic, book 2 of the Baking Up a Magical Midlife paranormal women's series.

Midlife transformation has never been more magical or delicious.At best, she's expecting a kitschy candy dish, at worst a beloved taxidermied pet, so when Cassie-newly divorced, single mom with zero prospects-discovers she's inheriting a fully stocked bakery along with a beautifully furnished apartment from a great aunt she'd never even heard of, she's convinced she must be dreaming.The apartment bizarrely adapting itself to her whims and the friendly neighbor floating fireballs in the air aren't helping.Cassie has two choices. She can hightail it out of this bewildering town and figure out a way to support her pre-teen daughter. Or she can stay and live the life of her dreams in this unsettling place where the rules of physics don't seem to apply, and people are suspiciously friendly and welcoming.When Cassie and her daughter agree to give this new place a trial run (the fantastic pet shop next door is a helpful draw), she's not convinced they've made the right choice. That hesitation just might cost her the fantastic life she and her daughter deserve.Butter Sugar Magic is the first book in the tantalizingly delicious new Baking Up a Magical Midlife Paranormal Women's Fiction series by Jessica Rosenberg.

Perfect setting for the perfect wedding? Check. The best friends a girl could ask for? Check Perfect groom? Well...that's a little more complicated. What happens if, the day you arrive at the swanky resort where you're going to renew your wedding vows to your gorgeous husband, you run into the man who broke your heart and pretty much left you for dead? Well, if you're Jo, you panic, especially since you haven't told your husband that your first wedding wasn't legit and that instead of a vow renewal ceremony, you're actually in Hawaii to marry him for real. Crash landing into her past just as she's trying to figure out her future is going to force Jo to make some big decisions. It might even force her to grow up. Luckily she doesn't have to do any of it on her own; her two best friends are there to hold her hand and make sure she heads down the right path--when they aren't nursing hangovers or figuring out their own lives. One way or another, Jo is determined to walk down the aisle to say "I do" to the man who completes her. But will the wedding that takes place be the one Jo's mother planned? Or will it be something much, much better? If you're looking to dive into a fun beach read, Aloha Also Means Goodbye is the ultimate friendship fiction escape story. This award winning novel will transport you to Hawaii and beyond as you ride the wave of emotions, romance, and unexpected twists and turns. Aloha Also Means Goodbye, winner of a Silver Independent Publisher Book Award in 2013. Recognizing excellence in independent publishing.

After graduating, students in social work are faced with the daunting and stressful decision of choosing their specialty from the many that are available to them. JessicaRosenberg has designed this guidebook to make this process easier, providing students with real world and practical information about what it is really like to work as a social worker. Each chapter covers a different practice setting, such as child welfare, gerontology, and addictions, and follows the same format. The Field Overview and Forecast describes the social worker’s role, scope of services, and emerging issues and employment trends. The Critical Issues section consists of an interview with an established professional in his or her chosen field, offering a look into their personal journeys as they progressed through their careers. A vignette written by a practitioner in their area of specialty makes-up the First Person Narrative, providing the reader with a look at the joys and challenges of working in that particular field. Each chapter then concludes with helpful resources to learn more, such as books and websites, as well as information about specialty credentials and educational programs and centres. Those entering the social work field will find this an indispensible guide as they select their specialty and begin their career.

After graduating, students in social work are faced with the daunting and stressful decision of choosing their specialty from the many that are available to them. JessicaRosenberg has designed this guidebook to make this process easier, providing students with real world and practical information about what it is really like to work as a social worker. Each chapter covers a different practice setting, such as child welfare, gerontology, and addictions, and follows the same format. The Field Overview and Forecast describes the social worker’s role, scope of services, and emerging issues and employment trends. The Critical Issues section consists of an interview with an established professional in his or her chosen field, offering a look into their personal journeys as they progressed through their careers. A vignette written by a practitioner in their area of specialty makes-up the First Person Narrative, providing the reader with a look at the joys and challenges of working in that particular field. Each chapter then concludes with helpful resources to learn more, such as books and websites, as well as information about specialty credentials and educational programs and centres. Those entering the social work field will find this an indispensible guide as they select their specialty and begin their career.