A makers' guide to sourcing and harvesting foraged plants to make natural cordage and baskets.Making with our hands is a fundamental human activity; connection with the natural world and the feeling of belonging to place are basic human needs. A counterbalance to our digitalised lives is the wish to connect with the simple joy and satisfaction of creating beautiful and useful objects, tapping into ancestral skills and wisdom and taking care of our world by reducing...

Funny and poignant, Amanda Panitch's new middle-grade novel The Two Wrong Halves of Ruby Taylor is an exploration of mixed families, identity, hundred-year-old curses, and the terrifying challenge of standing up for yourself against your loved ones.Of her two granddaughters, Grandma Yvette clearly prefers Ruby Taylor's perfect—and perfectly Jewish—cousin, Sarah. They do everything together, including bake cookies...

A new spooky and heartwarming middle-grade novel about a young Jewish girl who must battle a wandering spirit and her own identity.Of her two granddaughters, Grandma Yvette clearly prefers Ruby Taylor's perfect cousin Sarah. Ruby suspects Grandma Yvette doesn't think she's Jewish enough.So when Sarah starts acting out—and getting in trouble—Ruby can’t help but be pleased.Yet, when Sarah takes things too far, Ruby's afraid that Sarah might b...

In 1910, women could not vote. The romance of the western frontier still lured many people to adventure and the quest for wealth in the prairies. Homesteaders were enticed to settle the lands with the goal of civilizing the west. Miss Ruby Taylor, school teacher joined this flood of new settlers to the South Dakota plains. She took her chances in a land lottery. Money was a constant worry for her with her modest teacher's income. Living in the family of one of her students was a challenge ...

This Book is about my struggle with my own sexuality after I was molested and raped. It’s hard to understand why things happen to us in life. What do you do when you don’t understand why and how to change it? Is what society teach us really true? How do we deal with that unknown part of us? Do we know what we really want in a sexual relationship? This book will touch many areas in women lives that they may be afraid to address, or do not have anyone to talk to about their issues. It addres...

‘Tis the season for midlife love…Ruby Ward is ready for her happily-ever-after. And when her ex-husband invites her for lunch at the restaurant where he proposed, it can only mean one thing: he has realized his mistake and wants her back.She is more than willing to have him.Instead, he announces he is marrying her younger and sexier neighbour. Next Week! Which would be devastating enough, but the honeymoon is in Mexico during the holidays, and he is...

À l’Institut du Crime Organisé, les héritiers des plus grandes familles mafieuses du monde apprennent à manipuler, tuer et régner. Ekaterina Morozova, vingt ans, fille du chef de la Bratva, entame sa dernière année avec un objectif : devenir l’assassin officiel de son clan et gagner le respect d’un père impitoyable.Mais son avenir semble compromis lorsqu’une série de meurtres éclate au sein de l’académie, et que les étudiants qui devaient prendre la tête des différents clans à la f...

In the timber camps of North Florida in the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston, a famous African-American anthropologist and author, discovered the unwritten segregationist law allowing a white man to force a white woman to have his children. Dr. Ellis coined the term "paramour rights" and attributed it to Hurston's character in this novel. Twenty years later, she received an assignment from the Pittsburgh Courier to cover the murder trial of Ruby McCollum, a wealthy colored woman accused of slayin...

Abolitionist thought visualizes a world without prisons – or a radical reduction or transformation of prisons and punishment. This fascinating book explores the abolitionist ideas of key early socialists and anarchists, writing from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. It considers how these radical thinkers can provide insights into our present condition, both by highlighting the harms of punishment and by pointing to inspiring alternatives to current policy and practice.By ...

When I went to my neighbor's apartment to investigate strange sounds, I never expected to fall through a portal into another world. Yet here I am, a stranger in an even stranger land . . . and I'm stranded. In this world, might makes right, men carry swords, and gods walk the earth. Within minutes of arriving, I'm enslaved.The one person that might be able to help me is also the one person I want to throttle most. Aron, Lord of Storms, Butcher God of Battle, is my new companion. Or...

This book is a step by step guide to loving yourself. It is simple and easy to listen to and comes with guided meditations to open your heart to receive self-love. The author; Ruby Rose Taylor is a specialist in her field as a healer and works in the blissful town of Byron Bay. She says, "Many visitors come to Byron Bay to witness the magical landscape and experience the majestic whales and dolphins but they also come for healing. The Byron Bay region has always been known for its sacred a...

Twenty five gems to help you develop as a leader. Dr. Ruby's Tuesday Gems is a leadership motivational ebook. The ebook allows the busy leader to take a moment of their time to read a motivational gem before starting their busy day. If you find a gem that you need to improve on for yourself, start working on it. I recommend that you start again at the beginning after getting through Day 25 or the 25th Gem. You may find something else among the gems to help develop the leader inside.