![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() ![]() Amy lives north of Atlanta with her husband, Brian, and son, Watson. In a previous life, Amy was a certified public accountant for Ernst & Young and holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Baylor University and a master's degree in accounting from the University of Alabama. Amy's father is a longtime senior pastor. Author Amy Fenton Lee offers easily referenced guidance for: Caring for parents beginning the diagnosis process Vital stats/info regarding special needs and. In 2012, Amy served as the special needs columnist for Children's Ministry Magazine and is a frequent speaker at conferences for church ministry leaders.Īmy has served as a volunteer leader in virtually every type of children's and preschool ministry environment, including Sunday morning small groups, Wednesday night programming, Vacation Bible School, and summer camp. ![]() Amy has written extensively on the subject of special needs inclusion in children's ministry environments and has been published in dozens of in-print publications, journals, and on the web, including her own blog,. Amy Fenton Lee is the special needs consultant to The reThink Group, Inc. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() But when a beautiful elf, long considered the enemy of the dragons, comes bursting into his world, Silas is awakened to passion and desire in a way he’s never felt before. Silas has no way of curing the family he’s loyally served for years. She’s been raised never to trust a dragon, but never did making a deal with the devil feel so good… How to Tame a Beast in Seven Days A Novel of the Embraced The Embraced (Volume 1) Author: Kerrelyn Sparks Read Excerpt About This Book In order to save her family, Luciana must marry a terrifying brute known as the Beast, a man whose touch can kill. But when she meets the smoldering General Silas Dravenko, they strike a bargain-save the country from its cursed illness, and he will return the kidnapped girl. When the kidnapping of a young girl thrusts Gwennore into the very heart of the realm of the dragons, she discovers not only a place of power and magic, but also a haunted land, plagued by an ancient curse that all but ensures extinction to the royal family. How to Tame a Beast in Seven Days by Kerrelyn SparksJill Tanner Audiobook Listen to a sample Listen to a sample Description Creators Details The first book in a bold new fantasy romance series by New York Times bestselling author Kerrelyn Sparks. An Elf able to track down the cause of an illness and heal it, she’s a valuable asset to her people. From the brilliant imagination of Kerrelyn Sparks comes a bold new fantasy romance series in which passion and magic collide. ![]() ![]() ![]() Already flinching at every rumble from the earth, Maya’s overcome with a sense of helplessness and hopelessness. But Maya still can’t help feeling paralyzed with terror, and each aftershock that ripples out in the days that follow makes her fear all over again that her luck could change in an instant.Īs word of the devastation elsewhere grows increasingly grim-tens of thousands have perished-it all seems so huge, so irreparable. Her family didn’t lose their home, their lives, or each other. In the aftermath of the natural disasters that have struck her country, eleven-year-old Maya is luckier than many. ![]() ![]() In the spirit of A Place to Belong, this remarkable novel-in-verse examines the aftershocks of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in 2011 through the eyes of a young girl who learns that even the smallest kindness can make a difference. ![]() ![]() ![]() The latter preferred motor bikes and dressed like Marlon Brando in The Wild One. The former were middle-class and educated they wore hip clothes and rode motor scooters. But now the novel has been re-made and shifted to 1964, when Brighton and the genteel south coast of England was beset by riots (tame by today’s standards) between Mods and Rockers. The novel was filmed in England in 1947, with a twenty-four-year-old Richard Attenborough giving one of the best performances of his life as the monstrous Pinkie Brown. ![]() The novel is dipped in cruelty, wrapped up in bogus debates over faith and guilt (the Roman kind), and it is about as entertaining as being trapped in a corner by a cobra and feeling you must stare it down to avoid the venomous strike. Graham Greene published his novel Brighton Rock in 1938 and over the years he categorized it as one of his “entertainments.” Nobody should fall for that coyness. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After everything they’ve been through, Joss is sure that their love can survive even her worst fears. But when things start moving faster than she anticipated, she finds herself panicking over something Braden can’t understand. ![]() He’s got it all planned-the passionate proposal, the dream wedding, the sexy Hawaiian honeymoon-even the perfect family they’ll start.Īfter trying to flee from her painful past, Joss is finally allowing herself to embrace the future. But now that he has her, he’s never letting go. He also could not have anticipated how difficult it would be to convince her to give in to love. Now, in a romantic new novella, they’ll discover what comes after the happy ending…īraden Carmichael never imagined he’d fall as hard and as fast as he did for Jocelyn Butler. In the New York Times bestselling novel On Dublin Street, Joss and Braden fought for their happily ever after. ![]() ![]() ![]() They liked a structured society in which higher class were the ones taking control. In the article “Anthropology by gaslight: Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle and the anthropology of detection at the Victorian fin de siècle,” John McNabb posits, “The threat of change and social unrest in the 1830s and 1840s had to be resisted in order to maintain the sanctity of the status quo. Whereas Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories can be a depiction of his century, Most of the foreign characters are always perceived as a disturbance to the amicable British population.Ĭitizens of the Victorian era seemed to be afraid of change. Throughout the short story of The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle involved different representation of race such as the murder of the butler and the gypsies. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s writings were not generally made for the modern era, they were meant for the consumption for people during the Victoria Era. ![]() ![]() British Literature during that time contained different racial, social, and moral standards compared to now. European racism during the Victorian Era was solely based on science, religion, class, colonial conquest and ties to slavery. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was the first Black woman to be a senior editor there. Morrison graduated from Howard University in 1953, earned an MA from Cornell, then worked as an editor for a textbook company before moving to the fiction department at Random House. The day before the show opened, I was still adding things and taking things away, much to the joy of the archivists." "I really do believe that archives and collections are always telling us new stories. ![]() "There are over 400 boxes of material," Womack says of Morrison's archives. (The first, Nell Painter, had been hired only the year before.) Now, Autumn Womack, who is also a Princeton professor of literature and African American Studies, works in Morrison Hall, a building named after her. When Morrison was hired at Princeton - in 1989 - she was the second Black woman faculty in the university's history. The exhibition commemorates the 30 th anniversary of that achievement. Toni Morrison remains the sole Black female recipient of a Literature Nobel. Princeton University Library Digital Imaging Studio Toni Morrison Papers, Special Collections, Princeton University Library ![]() ![]() ![]() Levison's expedition will take in ancient Mayan ruins still lying unexplored in the jungles of Guatemala and Honduras, the incredible wildlife diversity in Costa Rica's cloud forests, Nicaragua's active volcanoes, the Panama Canal and the Darien Gap on a sometimes brutal journey.Īs well as exploring the spectacular landscapes, Levison will spend time with the people living throughout the region – in both its modern cities and areas of the countryside where traditional life for farmers and indigenous tribes remains largely unchanged. ![]() ![]() Walking the Americas, co-produced by October Films and GroupM Entertainment, will see Levison return to Mexico, where he lived for three months and Belize - where he trained as a soldier with the British Army - before stepping into a part of the world he’s never visited before and some of the most diverse, beautiful and unpredictable regions on earth. ![]() Walking the Nile and Walking the Himalayas explorer’s next challenge: to trek 1700 miles along the spine of the Americas from Mexico to Colombia.Ĭhannel 4 today announces its third major series with explorer Levison Wood, as he follows up his treks along the entire length of the Nile and the length of the Himalayas.īeginning in the north-eastern tip of Mexico, Levison will walk the entire length of Central America, through eight countries before attempting to cross the treacherous Darien Gap into Colombia and South America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even the romance part of the story relies on a tried and true plot formula for the genre. Maggie is a bit like Stephanie in that she doesn't conform to the norm for women-Stephanie doesn't want to get married and be a housewife-instead she's a bounty hunter Maggie isn't so sure about marriage herself but mostly she wants to fulfill her promise to write a book based on her Aunt Kitty's diary-and to get away from her mother, aunt, and the other ladies of Riverside who want to put her into a mold.Įvanovich claimed this to be a "screwball romance"-I didn't see it as particularly screwball. ![]() Elsie and Grandma Mazur do have some similarities: both don't always have verbal filters and both have a tendency to carry large, loaded guns in their purses. I prefer Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series to this earlier book, but after reading other reviewer's comments I now see some parallels between her Plum characters and this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.īrightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. ![]() There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. Wars were fought for them, and won by them. It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter. ![]() Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. ![]() Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Book One of the Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion. ![]() |