One night.A chance encounter.Chemistry hot enough to melt the ice.Eavie Adams' hard work has finally paid off when she is offered the promotion she has been working towards for the last few years with the Toronto Royals, her city's professional hockey team. She's never been more ready to take on the next stage of her career, and there's nothing she would allow to stand in the way - especially not the team's hot captain Jax Morghan....

Aspiring doctors have medical school. Karate students have belts of different colors. Pianists have scales and arpeggios. But what system do writers have for getting and staying "in shape," to help them focus, practice, and make progress?A Writer's Workbook is Caroline Sharp's ingenious collection of exercises to inspire, encourage, warm up, and jump-start anyone who writes. A wise and funny friend who will cheerlead you through even your darkest can't-write days and "every...

William Sharp, known by his pen name Fiona Macleod, was a prominent Scottish writer whose works captured the essence of Celtic mythology and spirituality. His wife, Elizabeth A. Sharp, compiled a memoir that offers a glimpse into his life, thoughts, and creative process. The memoir not only highlights his literary achievements but also delves into his personal struggles and triumphs. Through Elizabeth's perspective, readers gain insight into the man behind the words, revealing the depth of...

Turn your interest in foundation paper-piecing into a full-blown love affair. Learn about every stage of the process—from piecing technique to pattern design—in this comprehensive guide. Start with the basics of sewing on paper, then explore the author's open-ended design exercises to create your own patterns or follow along with the author's take to sew her graphic interpretations of the prompts. With an annotated overview of the author's favorite FPP methods, countless tips, and over thi...

One night.A chance encounter.Chemistry hot enough to melt the ice.Eavie Adams' hard work has finally paid off when she is offered the promotion she has been working towards for the last few years with the Toronto Royals, her city's professional hockey team. She's never been more ready to take on the next stage of her career, and there's nothing she would allow to stand in the way - especially not the team's hot captain Jax Morghan.If...

Re-Imagining the City: Art, Globalization, and Urban Spaces examines how contemporary processes of globalization are transforming cultural experience and production in urban spaces. It maps how cultural productions in art, architecture and communications media are contributing to the reimagining of place and identity through events, artefacts and attitudes. This book recasts how we understand cities – how knowledge can be formed, framed and transferred through cultural production ...

"Humane, amusing, touching, and very satisfying."―Phillip Lopate, author of To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction“Captivating and evocative and original.”―Grace Dane Mazur, author of The Garden Party“In the wise and funny essays that make up Awake with Asashoryu, Elisabeth Sharp McKetta asks vital questions about what it means to forge an adult life of one’s own.”―Lynn C. Miller, author of ...

Evil has a new address...For over a century, evil has dwelled in the house on Red Lane, or Red Dead Lane as the locals call it. As one family after another meets with misfortune inside the aging Victorian, it has fallen into disrepair. Forgotten. Waiting.When the Maxwell family moved in, they were running from a long string of bad decisions. But their hope is quickly squashed by the evil. When police are summoned one summer night, all they find is violence and mysteries. Ca...

An inspiring guide to focusing on what matters most in life—and hitting delete on what doesn’t.Life is noisier, messier, and more complicated than ever. In our quest to keep up, we can lose sight of what we care about most, and instead try to do it all—with mixed results.In this beautiful call to examine and edit our lives, writer Elisabeth Sharp McKetta shares eight simple ways to cut through the clutter, drama, and overwhelm of modern life to live with mor...

What does later life look like when it is lived in the companionship of other species? Similarly, how do other species age (or not) with humans, and what sort of (a)symmetries, if any, are brought to light around how we understand and think about aging? So far, aging has been investigated in the social sciences in purely human terms. This is the first collection of original work that considers aging as taking place in relation to other species. This volume aims to start a conversation abou...

"When someone is ill, many old cultures say that they have lost their story. I believe that reading the stories in What Doesn't Kill Her will help each of us to trust and tell our own." - Gloria Steinem"I am inspired. This treasury of stories by women of courage is an important and necessary book. What Doesn't Kill Her will make all of us stronger. - Barbara Morgan, NASA Astronaut (ret.)"What Doesn't Kill Her is a unique window into many brave women's lives. Their life stor...

This third volume of a successful mini-series examines the German Infantryman in the latter part of World War II. Despite being constantly in retreat, often short of equipment, sometimes hungry, cold and wet, and the overwhelming numbers of Soviet troops and armour facing him, the German Infantryman's resistance was always fierce, and although constantly moving back towards Germany, his defensive withdrawals cost the Russians dearly. During this period defensive tactics involved close arti...