Arborophobia, the latest collection by award-winning poet Nancy Holmes, is a poetic spiritual reckoning. Its elegies, litanies, and indictments concern wonder, guilt, and grief about the journey of human life and the state of the natural world. When a child attempts suicide and western North America burns and the creep of mortality closes in, is spiritual and emotional solace possible or even desirable? Answers abound in measured, texturally intimate, and often surprising ways. The title s...

Developed from the established traditions of print and radio journalism, television journalism has often failed to reach its potential to develop away from these other media. However, because of the synthesis of words, pictures, and sound, television journalism has the ability to shift from simply reporting the news to weaving stories. In Fascination, veteran television journalist Nancy Graham Holm incorporates years in the field and extensive teaching experience to produce an instructive ...

How do we learn to be where we live? How can a 21st-century mind, saturated with the culture and metaphors of contemporary life, connect to the natural world that surrounds us? In Nancy Holmes’ new book of poetry, these questions are asked of her home, the Okanagan valley in the southern interior of British Columbia. In these poems, as Holmes comes to terms with personal grief, she tries to find consolation in the place she shares with other beings. Holmes’ poetry looks for relati...

The Sixth Amendment was not generated and ratified in a day. The process took many years, starting with the Bill of Rights and ending with how it applies today. This guide to the rights of the accused discusses the history of this important right, the court cases that shaped it, the historical figures who gave it prominence, and those who it has affected.

Three women scholars. Three lives changed. And a dash of romance.Blessing in Disguise by Sarah M. Eden1858, DublinFred Fitzsimmons will soon graduate Trinity College. With only a few weeks, he must continue safeguarding the enormous secret he’s been keeping throughout his time in Dublin: that he is actually Winnifred, a woman in disguise. The medical degree she is a breath away from claiming would allow her to save her beloved village...

In this European collection, the poetic romance of foreign lands is woven throughout all six sweet historical romance novellas by best-selling authors.In War of Hearts, Annette Lyon’s exciting novella, Anna, a journalist, is desperate to escape the magazine where Pete, her now-former boyfriend, also works. Heartbroken and still in love with him, Anna snags an assignment to cover the Winter War in Finland. She arrives at a snowy Finnish battlefront only to discover that Pet...

Mothers of Adult Children elucidates what happens when children come of age and leave home, creating new lives in the realms of work and relationships. Mothers from around the world learn that this is the point in which their relationships with their children must drastically change. Mothers often come to terms with the changes by accepting differences and providing moral and emotional support when needed. However, the evolutionary nature of mothers’ roles throughout the course of their ch...

Three brand new Regency Romance novellas by Sarah M. Eden, Annette Lyon, and Heather B. MooreA MATCH FOR PRINCESS POMPOUS by Sarah M. EdenMatchmaker Adelaide Northrop may be embarking on her greatest challenge yet. Miss Odette Armistead has been dubbed “Princess Pompous” by Society’s elite, and Odette’s parents are desperate to see her married off to a respectable gentleman. When Adelaide first meets Odette, she is expecting a young lady who fits the pompous description. In...

She longed for rescue. He arrived as a storm. And somehow—they both found peace. Countess Alexandra Winters doesn’t believe in fairy tales anymore. Not after years in a cold marriage, not after watching love bloom everywhere but in her own heart. Yet on a moonlit Norfolk beach, she meets a stranger whose gaze stops time. Whose name is spoken like prophecy. Whose heart, like hers, has waited too long.He followed a whisper. She answered with her soul.

Enter an era of dashing dukes in disguise, secret-keeping viscounts, and earls trying (and failing) to resist temptation! This special collection of novels and novellas from RITA-nominated, USA Today bestselling author Anthea Lawson is full of spicy (and a few sweet) delights.FORTUNE'S FLOWER - To claim his family estate, James Huntington embarks on an expedition to find his grandfather's missing journals. He's constantly at odds with his fellow traveler, the well...

From the author of Lord Haven’s Deception comes a Regency romance celebrating the witty and romantic world that fans of Georgette Heyer have fallen in love with.“Simpson excels at imbuing her realistic characters with subtle depths!”—John Charles, American Library AssociationScarred and hardened by the betrayal of his late wife and his latest mistress, the Duke of Alban decides to withdraw from the depressing swirl of London for a trip to the north...

For an innkeeper's daughter, a discreet volume of courtship wisdom may help discern the intentions of a mysterious newcomer in this Regency romp.Beauty, wit, and charm may catch a gentleman's eye, but nothing attracts suitors quite like property . . .. as beloved, award-winning author Kate Moore reveals in this delightful novel.Lucy Holbrook has recently inherited her father's south London inn, the place she's always called home. Now her fashionabl...