John McConnell Jr. was the famed founder and visionary of Earth Day. McConnell's vision was one of creating a day of remembrance, solitude, and action to restore the broken human relationship to the land. Little acknowledged are McConnell's religious convictions or background. McConnell grew up in a Pentecostal home. In fact, McConnell's parents were both founding charter members of the Assemblies of God in 1914. His own grandfather had an even greater connection to the origins of Pentecos...

IN A WORLD WHERE IMMORTALS entertain themselves by killing those who die forever, the only chance at survival for Mila and her Mortal tribe is to stay hidden.But when her sister is wounded and abducted by Immortals, Mila realizes the only way to save her is to enter the one place she knows she should never go: the Immortal City.And there is more going on there than anyone realizes. Unfortunately, the Immortals are looking for HER too. And with infinite live...

Eleven years ago, Lydia Hale walked away from her family without a word.Now she's back.Ben Hale was a baby when his mother disappeared. Raised by his father and stepmother, he's grown up in a quiet village where questions are discouraged and the past is carefully avoided.When Lydia returns, she believes she's reclaiming what was always hers.Mark believes he's protecting his children from a woman who abandoned them.And Ben just wants answers.T...

The immortals have taken Mila’s sister.Mila is determined to save her, despite the risks to the only life she's has ever known. She'll have to face her fears, her insecurities, and her stupid crush on the boy who friend-zoned before they overwhelm her.Because if Mila can’t save her sister and the secrets she carries, the Immortals will take her tribe, her family, and everything it means to be human.BUY NOW to see what readers are calling "beautifully written", and "...

With numerous approaches to choose from, knowing where to start when doing qualitative data analysis (QDA) can be a challenge. This book gives you direction with an accessible and thorough introduction to nine different approaches to QDA, written by a multi-disciplinary team with years of experience teaching and analysing data using these methods.With a clear focus on the ‘how to’ of QDA, each chapter includes:•Step-by-step descriptions of how to apply each approach in your ...

This authoritative, state-of-the-art reference work builds on its first edition to provide a cutting-edge systematic review of the relationship between race/ethnicity and educational inequality. Studying 25 different national contexts drawn from every inhabited continent on earth and building upon material from the earlier edition, the work analyses educational policies, practices and research on minority students, immigrants and refugees. The editors and contributors explore principal res...

As general manager for Erwin, Tennessee-based Clinchfield Railroad, Thomas D. Moore found an eighty-six-year-old vintage 4-6-0 ten-wheeler steam engine--the Clinchfield No. 1. Miraculously, the engine had escaped the cutter's torch when, in the mid-1950s, the railroad retired its steam fleet, shuttered passenger service and embraced the diesel era. Moore wanted the No. 1 fully restored and its long life on the rails--which had included being the first train to reach the victims of the 1889...

New York Times Bestseller“This is a devastating book, heartbreaking in how familiar and relatable each story is—yet there’s power and solidarity in it, too.” — ShondalandEdited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays from writers including Gabrielle Union, Bra...

Seven strangers. One mission. Infinite horror.A man awakes on a boat at sea with no memory of who or where he is. He's not alone - there are six others, each with a unique set of skills. None of them can remember their names. All of them possess a gun.When a message appears on the onboard computer - Proceeding to Point A - the group agrees to work together to survive whatever is coming.But as the boat moves through the mist-shrouded waters, division...

Take only pictures. Leave only bones.This trip is going to be Dylan’s big break. Her geologist friend Clay has discovered an untouched cliff face in the Kentucky wilderness, and she is going to be the first person to climb it. Together with Clay, his research assistant Sylvia, and Dylan’s boyfriend Luke, Dylan is going to document her achievement on Instagram and finally cement her place as the next rising star in rock climbing.Seven months later, three bod...

The Larkin siblings are known around the small town of Wofford Falls. Both are artists, but Peter Larkin, Lark to his friends, is the hometown hero. The one who went to the big city and got famous, then came back and settled down. He's the kind of guy who becomes fast friends with almost anyone. His sister Betsy on the other hand is more . . . eccentric. She keeps to herself.When Lark goes to deliver one of his latest pieces to a fabulously rich buyer, it seems like a regular trans...

Maybe this is a ghost story . . .Andrew Larimer has left his past behind. Rising up the ranks in a New York law firm, and with a heavily pregnant wife, he is settling into a new life far from Kingsport, the town in which he grew up. But when he receives a late-night phone call from an old friend, he has no choice but to return home.Coming home means returning to his late father's house, which has seen better days. It means lying to his wife. But it also means reuni...