Tenure is a pivotal decision for the academy. If it is earned, it provides security and permanence, creating further academic freedom to pursue research and interests important to the institution and to society. If it is not earned, then the peer review process provides clarification for why it has not been earned. This book brings together lived experiences of academics around the time of the tenure decision. While the book is stand-alone, it has the same collection of authors who wrote a...

You know what they say...when it rains, it pours. But in Friendship Harbor, Maine, when it snows, it blizzards, and when there's a white-out, anything can happen… even murder.Sophie is thrilled her life is going so well. Her pub is (mostly) financially secure. She's dating her hunky pub manager. Her best friend, Oliver, is visiting from California and she's rented out her macabre guesthouse to a group of skiers on holiday. She's even handling the cold weather with aplomb.

AN AMAZON TOP 30 BESTSELLER#1 Bestseller in Medical Romance#1 Bestseller in Billionaires & Millionaires RomanceCode blue in the ER. That's how I end up in his hospital. In my brother's best friend's care.Dr. Blake Morrison starred in every fantasy I’ve had since sixteen. Now he’s the only one who believes something’s truly wrong with me—the only one who can save me.But with each pass...

Doodlebug, through alliteration, rhythm and rhyme, raps his way over an ABC picnic blanket. Learning his alphabet and creating an interactive learning experience for parent/teacher and child, he waits for you to join him and repeat his adventures! A donation with the purchase of each book goes to goforthecity.org/the-pink-house, a ministry that serves underprivileged people undergoing chemo and radiation in San Jose Costa Rica.

Bayne Harris has lost everything she holds dear in her life. Her husband and children are dead. She was the one who caused the accident—the one behind the wheel. She cannot escape that night as it continuously haunts her thoughts.     A year after they’re gone, nothing has changed. The memories are still unbearable. She can’t breathe. She can’t function. She needs to get away.     View Top Mountain provides the perfect escape. No one will bother her ...

You know what they say...when it rains, it pours. But in Friendship Harbor, Maine, when it snows, it blizzards, and when there’s a white-out, anything can happen… even murder.Sophie is thrilled her life is going so well. Her pub is (mostly) financially secure. She’s dating her hunky pub manager. Her best friend, Oliver, is visiting from California and she’s rented out her macabre guesthouse to a group of skiers on holiday. She’s even handling the cold weather with aplomb.Th...

This is a collection of poems woven together with the threads of belonging that bind us to one another and to our memories of the past. It is true that poetry does something that no other kind of writing can do. E.E. Cummings wrote that, Poetry is the algebra of the heart. For many of us, poems answer questions and solve mysteries in a distinct way. Kathys poems are no different; they reveal a soulful journey, a mapping out of her childhood and her life that many can surely relate to. She ...