This hilariously uplifting memoir follows an Arab American woman's merry life as she shimmies her way from getting dumped by her tattoo-artist boyfriend to coming to grips with being single, ample, and 30. Feeling lost and heartbroken, Anne Thomas Soffee moves back home to Richmond, Virginia. Against the wishes of her extended family and friends, she enrolls in a belly dancing class hoping to heal her heart and reconnect with her Lebanese roots. Her life is never the same after she discove...

This hilarious peek into the early years of the hair-band era reveals the hierarchy of fishnets, bustiers, and chicks with the Holy Grail—a backstage pass. After college, Anne Thomas Soffee journeyed to Los Angeles to start a career as a rock journalist and small-time heavy-metal flack. A taste for other people's prescriptions and too much beer edges her freelance journalism work right off her schedule. She struggles with not being thin enough, pretty enough, or cool enough when, in the mi...

Equips practitioners to solve real-world ethical challenges and strengthen their ethical reasoning skills across OEHSEthical Decision-making in Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety offers a comprehensive and practical guide to ethics in the occupational and environmental health and safety (OEHS) professions. By comparing professional codes of ethics across disciplines and integrating a structured decision-making algorithm, it equips readers wit...

How do children learn to spell and what kinds of teaching support them most effectively?Based on a three-year longitudinal study of children's spelling in different primary classrooms, Olivia O'Sullivan, Assistant Director of the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education and Anne Thomas, the former Inset Director of the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, pose a number of important questions:what kinds of knowledge are ...

Author Mary Anne Thomas delves into the mystifying world of twenty-something year old dating with her first book Kissing Frogs. Told with raw vulnerability and complete lack of sugar coating, Mary shares her lessons, blessings, and notes-to-self as they pertain to each of her dating misadventures. Mary talks to the reader like a best girl friend and through the pages, the reader will find themselves laughing and crying along with her. While on the surface it is a tale of a young love repea...

This volume in the popular Ignatius Catholic Study Bible series leads readers through a penetrating study of The First and Second Books of the Maccabees using the text itself and the Church's own guidelines for understanding the Bible.Ample notes accompany each page, providing fresh insights by renowned Scripture scholars Matthew and Leeanne Thomas as well as time-tested interpretations from the Fathers of the Church. These helpful study notes provide rich historical, cult...

Thrown in a cage and stripped of my dignity, I was auctioned to the highest bidder, but I never imagined that I'd end my night in the home of Killian DeLorenzo—head of the Romanian Mafia and the most powerful man in the country.To know him is to fear him, and I just became his newest possession.Pleasing him comes easily, but what I didn't expect was the effect he would have on my heart.This world is no place for a girl like me, and navigating it mig...

A young woman forced to live with ghosts in a mansion frozen in time must decide between forbidden love and the price of freedom in this gothic fantasy where Jane Eyre meets The Haunting of Bly Manor, perfect for fans of Starling House.At Thorne Hall, a grand estate nestled in the Berkshires, fifteen restless spirits roam, bound within the mansion’s walls since the Gilded Age. Elegy Thorne bears the weight of her family’s curse to preserv...

One of the foundational metaphysical thinkers and writers of the New Thought and self help movement, Troward introduces us to the natural opulence of the universal spirit of creation, out of which all life and creation flows. He explains how, by aligning ourselves with this hidden power within ourselves and within all of the universe, we can fashion positive, life-affirming experiences including financial success, healing of the body, and positive relationships, both personal and professio...

Next to the death of a loved one, the ending of a relationship is the most painful experience most people will ever go through. Coming Apart is a first aid kit for getting through the ending. It is a tool that will enable you to live through the end of your relationship with your self-esteem intact.Originally published in 1987, and continuously in print since then, Coming Apart has been an important resource for hundreds of thousands of readers experiencing the pa...

Victorian Women Defying Convention – 3 Classic Feminist Tales presents a dynamic collection that interrogates the boundaries of gender norms through the incisive lenses of 19th-century literature. The anthology encapsulates the rich tapestry of Victorian narratives, offering an enlightening amalgamation of social critique and profound personal insight. Each piece in this collection — a narrative of resistance and empowerment — challenges the societal expectations imposed on women during th...

The January/February 2015 issue of Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu), Sam J. Miller, Amal El-Mohtar, Richard Bowes, and Sunny Moraine, classic fiction by Ann Leckie, essays by Jim C. Hines, Erika McGillivray, Michi Trota, and Keidra Chaney, poetry by Isabel Yap, Mari Ness, and Rose Lemberg, interviews with Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu) and Ann Leckie, by Deborah Stanish, a cover by Julie Dillon, and an editoral by Lynne M...