Finalist for the Readings Prize for New Australian FictionFor readers of Everything I Never Told You and When I’m Gone, a profoundly moving, heartwarming debut about family, relationships, and what we leave behind.Jean Harley-wife, mother, lover, dancer-is a shining light in the lives of those who know and love her, full of boundless energy, compassion, and joy. When she's hit by a truck while riding her bicycle and the un...

Inheritance is a black sensorium, a chapel of color and sound that speaks to spaciousness, surveillance, identity, desire, and transcendence. Influenced by everyday moments of Washington, DC living, the poems live outside of the outside and beyond the language of categorical difference, inviting anyone listening to listen a bit closer. Inheritance is about the self’s struggle with definition and assumption.

In this lecture, Cho-Nyon Kim explores his spiritual journey in the Korean religious environment, in which Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and Christianity have all influenced cultural practices and been integrated into daily life.

Sixteen-year-old Natalie's grandmother, suffering from dementia and confined to a wheelchair, lives in a nursing home and rarely recognizes Natalie. But one Halloween night, she tells her a shocking secret that only she and Natalie's mother know. Natalie is the product of a one-night stand between her mother, who is a college English teacher, and another professor.After some research, Natalie learns that people with dementia often have vivid memories of past events. Still not wanti...

When Eve went to her high school senior prom, she wore a red dress that her mother had made for her. That night, after dancing with the boy of her dreams, she caught him in the act with her best friend. Months later, Eve, a freshman in college, is bullied into giving the dress to her roommate. After her mother finds out, their relationship is never the same again.Twenty-five years later, Eve, a bestselling author, is happily married with three children. Although her mother suffers ...

In September of 2005, Abbie Johnson married Bill Taylor. She was in her mid−forties, and he was nineteen years older. Three months later, Bill suffered the first of two strokes that paralyzed his left side and confined him to a wheelchair. Abbie Johnson Taylor, once a registered music therapist, uses prose and poetry to tell the story of how she met and married her husband, then cared for him for six years despite her visual impairment. At first, there was a glimmer of hope that Bill would...

You can discover your true identity based on the Word of God. Man may have an opinion of your, but God is the final authority. Who did God create you to be? You are not defined by your past, nor by the words that have been spoken over you nor by what has happened to you. You were created in THE IMAGE of God. You are His handiwork, and He made you for His glory and His purpose. God has already placed everything in you that you will need to fulfill His purpose in the earth. Chose to believe ...

Are you frustrated with life? Do you feel like every time you make one step forward you get pushed back two? Life may have knocked you down, but God sends His Word to heal us. Join Bible teacher Dr. Evelyn Johnson-Taylor as she shares seven hindrances to your blessing. You can live a victorious life. In Seven Blessing Blockers she gives you the keys to unlock the door to the blessings in your life!

As defined in the first story, living vicariously means living your life through someone else's. You're invited to live vicariously through the lives of the people in these stories. There's the lawyer who catches his wife in the act with a nun. A college student identifies with a character in a play. A young woman loses her mother and finds her father. And a high school student's prudish English teacher strenuously objects to a single word in her paper.In Wyoming, as in any other s...

Told with the perfect mix of humour and tragedy, this is a tale for all families who have ever questioned how well a relative can really ever know another.It is customary to bring gifts to a wedding. But as daughter Luna prepares to marry her dream husband, the Smith family instead have in tow their own idiosyncratic brands of emotional baggage. Her father, Graham, struggles to write his own own obituary; her mother, Velma, attempts to negotiate her mid-life crisis with a lover seve...

Esports continue to captivate audiences worldwide, but few understand the unique demands placed on the athletes. Conditioning for Esports: A Guide to Training and Performance is the first resource of its kind to explore the specific training needs of serious gamers. Written by top experts in the esport field, it applies evidence-based knowledge to real-world scenarios that will help you understand the science—and the necessity—of training the body to sustain the repetitive stress ...

I remember the moment I walked away from what I thought my dream was--from a mission that was for others--but somehow happened to be centered around me, my glory, and my accomplishments. I remember the feeling of shame, guilt, and disappointment that came over me from losing that title. God pulled me into isolation out of the limelight, and it was in that dark yet illuminated season that He spoke to me, "Daughter, write." Through this time, God was reinventing me through an awakening to ma...