When a young girl learns there is more to life than inner city Chicago, a child of Polish immigrants sets out to create her own American dream with one question in mind-what does it take to be extraordinary?Gerda Barker finds art, marries a rock star, and becomes one of few female criminal defense lawyers in Chicago.Along the way she will find if she has what it takes to follow her American dream.

This handbook gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists to compile the latest thinking about archaeological theory. The authors provide a comprehensive picture of the theoretical foundations by which archaeologists contextualize and analyze their archaeological data. Student readers will also gain a sense of the immense power that theory has for building interpretations of the past, while recognizing the wonderful archaeological traditions that created it. An ext...

A brilliantly funny picture book about two best friends who just can't agree!Hank and Hoog are best friends - they do EVERYTHING together.Until one morning, when a single, crisp, brown leaf falls to the ground...Hank is so annoyed! Falling leaves mean winter is coming, and Hank definitely does not like winter. BRRRRRRR!But Hoog is overjoyed!

When is cold-blooded murder justified?New Orleans Detective Nikki Mayeaux has decided it’s when a technicality sets a serial rapist free.Jaded and frustrated, this latest injustice brings her to a boiling point. She arrives at the monster’s home intending to end his reign of terror, only to find someone else got there first. His throat slit, his lifeless body left in the front seat of his car.Only one person wanted him dead more than her - his final victim - a girl ...

Weird Fiction Quarterly does Folk Horror!Once again we bring you the finest in our now-signature 500 word flash fiction and exquisite poetry contributions, featuring over 60 writers from all around the globe and a dubious burlap sackful of color illustrations by our own Sarah Walker!Visit a strange, quaint village where the yearly festival is Everything.Call on the cunning woman or the witch doctor for a cure that might cost your very soul....

We're all grown up right? Or are we? Do things in the night still make you wanna cry to Mama? Well you can't anymore, she's not around. Time to face your demons, man or woman. Mama ain't here, but all she ever wanted was to hear your laughter, and to know you're safe. You're not safe. It's just you now. But you won't let Mama down, right? Did Mama tell you if you did that thing with your face it would freeze that way? Or that pop rocks and cola would make your stomach explode? Or that if y...

I love this book! Dianne tackles a serious problem with humor, warmth, and practical advice, using scriptural principles and hilarious personal stories.Debora M. Coty, humorist, speaker, and authorDiannes book is an encouraging and uplifting book that helps organize our lives and homes, releasing the stuff that doesn't matter for the life that does.Angela Breidenbach, speaker, coach, and authorDianne shares secrets of letting go for disorganized hoarders and p...

Garland's magnificent facsimile series of the manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in the Bodleian Library, Oxford ( The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts , 22 volumes, 1986-1997) is now made complete by the publication of its Index-volume. Volume XXIII provides the key to the contents of the Shelleyan notebooks and papers in all their complexity: poems, prose, translations, fragments, calculations, drawing and doodles, addresses and other miscellaneous jottings. ...

As either realist or romancer, Henry Lawson was described in his own lifetime as the 'first articulate voice of the real Australia', later to become fondly known as the 'bard of the bush'. His death in 1922 left Australia with a wealth of literary works unequalled by any artist. In this selection of short stories, accompanied by classical music, Lawson captures the true Australian spirit of his fellow countrymen.

I Can Jump Puddles is Alan Marshall’s story of his childhood - a happy world in which, despite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides and laughs. His world was the Australian countryside early last century: rough-riders, bushmen, farmers and tellers of tall stories - a world held precious by the young Alan Marshall.