Her heart is broken.His is off-limits.Sometimes love is a lesson in letting go.University senior Tessa Givens shuffles through the day to day grind of existence as if it’s an obligation rather than her chance to live her best life. While her fellow students embrace their freedom and youth, Tessa feels nothing but crushing guilt for the mistake that led to a tragedy she can’t bring herself ...

A compelling exploration of how socio-political factors like inequality and poverty exacerbate pandemics.In a world where millions perish from preventable diseases amid unprecedented wealth and technological advancement, Pandemics, Poverty, and Politics illuminates a central paradox of our times. This compelling work by a seasoned physician and global health leader unravels the complex web of social, political, and economic factors driving pandemics and ot...

They weren't perfect, but they were perfect for each other. Or so Tessa thought. Now she's left picking up the pieces of her shattered heart, doing the one thing she should've done all along, avoid the local rock god at all costs.As Jax struggles over his decision, he prepares for the most important job of his life. Can he handle all that life is throwing at him, or will old demons return to consume him?Meanwhile, a darkness almost forgotten threatens to overshadow and bury...

First published in 1948, English Literature Between the Wars sets out to answer a question: to what extent did the years between the two wars constitute a period in literature? Its exploration leads the author to assess the changes in the reading public, and in the movement of taste. He is led to the conclusion that in the inter-war period some writers were aware that a crisis in civilization was taking place and that these were the more genuinely creative writers.Apart fr...

In the Malabar Empire, young people can be bonded to Legendary Beasts and gain their powers. They are called Seekers.There are Seekers of tigers, lions, monkeys–all the creatures under the sun. But a Seeker of the Dragon? Such hasn't been seen for centuries.Until Jaden of Lessertown.Jaden dreamt of his Legendary Beast on the morning his life changed forever. Enlisted to become an Imperial Seeker and serve the cruel Emperor, he is thrown into an init...

THE author of this work makes no pretense of originality in the telling of these stories of olden times. They have been gleaned from many sources, and are the common heritage of all who love to write them anew and hear them again. Only the words belong to the story teller; the story itself is as old as the race. In the lapse of years and with the much telling of these stories there is no longer a line between fact and fiction. How much is true and how much is false does not matter; the sto...

MISSING DOG MYSTERIESWhat happened to Ozzy Osbournes pet Pomeranian, Little Bit or where is Jessie Simpson pet Maltipoo, Daisy? Is Elvis hound dog still around? Where is Paul McCartney's English Sheep Dog, Martha or Miley Cyrus's Husky, Floyd or her Yorkie, Lila? Did Jack the Rippers Doberman really kill a hundred female dogs? There is also a huge question about Patti Pages -Doggie In The Window- where is that doggie? How many Lassies were in the Lassies movies and where are they? ...

The story of the Five Little Sisters is a true one. The sisters grew up on a Texas farm picking cotton during the Great Depression. The sisters were Jean, Pod, Lessie ,Bessie and Low. They lived in a two-room shack without electricity, running water, or sewer. They walked a mile to a school that was warmed by a pot belly stove and only had windows for light... The sisters wore hand-made flour sack dresses to school. They were poor but their mother Mary Belle always made sure her girls were...

A dynamic collective contribution to the field of critical feminist food studies.Over the last two decades, feminist food studies has grown significantly. Culinaria carves out new lines of intersectional and transnational analysis in this evolving field. In nineteen original essays, contributors from across the continental United States to South Africa and Pakistan show how gender, race, class, geography, and religion all shape the ways women use food. At ...

What would you do if you had four wishes? Being that I am Zoe and Bella's granddad I would wish for the sister to have a long and happy life . But what would my grand daughters wish for,? Bella whispered "Papa "I wish to be a princess living ion the top floor of a castle overlooking the ocean,The top floor would be full of my art work. and people would come from miles to look at my art. Zoe was more into the preforming art.s "I would wish to be like Julia Roberts winning an Oscar and being...

11 year old Bella loved Elvis. Her one wish was to go back in time and meet The King. The only thing that could help her with that wish was Bella's Magic Willow Tree. That might sound easy just climb in the tree ,make a wish and away you go to see Elvis. Unfortunately it was anything but easy. Her mom was sure Bella was sick. Her mom knew Elvis was long gone and Bella's crazy idea of climbing into her tree and seeing Elvis only did one thing-PUT HER IN BED.! Bella was confined to her bed u...

It's Christmas and Zoe&Bella have just moved to a new house two hundred miles from their old one.They no longer have friends or close relatives. There will be no Christmas Dinner or presents at grannie and papa's house. They were sad.Their dad cheered them up by taking the sisters on a Christmas Tree cutting trip in the Cascade Mountains. Only the trip turned into a snow blizzard nightmare. Stuck on a mountain pass Zoe&Bella's dad must leave them in the truck while he struggles thr...