Two sisters embark on a pilgrimage to trace their family's roots, a journey that unravels the hidden truths of their ancestry. What begins as a quest for heritage soon transforms into a profound exploration of faith, love and forgiveness.As they uncover secrets long buried by deception and betrayal, they must confront the untold stories that have shaped their lives and learn to restore the broken order of life that has eluded them ...

Thirteen plus one short tales by nine different Appalachian authors, an uprooting of tradition with another just for fun. A strong mix of history, speculation, and, perhaps, a wee bit of fear. These hills are listenin', child, so come sit a spell. You'll hear tales you ain't before; dark yahoos, wishes gone wrong, veil walkers, and someone's head might well roll. Ain't nothin' really, just a few new stories you can take back to the holler and share with you and yours. Maybe they'll shiver....

An invaluable, easy-to-follow guide for growing and maintaining an organic garden with information on 200 popular plants, including flowers, vegetables, trees, shrubs, and fruits, as well as preventative measures and treatments for common ailments.One of the rewards of organic gardening is developing a balanced ecosystem, in which plants naturally defend themselves against pests and diseases and where you’ll seldom have to intervene. But if trouble does make its wa...

Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening has been the go-to resource for gardeners for more than 50 years, and the best tool novices can buy to start applying organic methods to their fruit and vegetable crops, herbs, trees and shrubs, perennials, annuals, and lawns. This thoroughly revised and updated version highlights new organic pest controls, new fertilizer products, improved gardening techniques, the latest organic soil practices, and new trends in garden design.

To enhance therapeutic treatment of body image, this book examines the multi-factors involved in body image as well as the neuroscience of body image, that is the role of the brain in body image development. Examining the social, cultural, psychological and environmental implications of body image, readers are guided through various problems, clinical populations, treatment settings, art therapy approaches, best practices, and clinical case examples.Content is divided in to categori...

Clean Break is a British theatre company set up in 1979 by two women in prison. It exists to tell the stories of women with experience of the criminal justice system and to transform women's lives through theatre.Over 40 years, Clean Break has commissioned some of the most progressive and brilliant women writers to write ground-breaking plays, alongside developing the writing skills of the women they work with in its London studios and in prisons. This is a collection of monologues...

When the brain suffers an injury, the effects can be delayed and unpredictable. Cerebrospinal fluid can slowly build up, causing dangerously high levels of intracranial pressure (ICP), and the brain tissue can be displaced into adjacent compartments, resulting in cerebral herniation syndrome (CHS). Within the burgeoning field of neurocritical care, experts are just beginning to understand the nuanced, sometimes counterintuitive relationship between ICP and CHS.Written by leading re...

Forward by Author and Actress Bever-leigh Beinfield and a collection of Women in Ministry business owners sharing their words of motivation and inspiration to remind the listener that whatever they are going through that they can make it through. Most of all that one should trust the process and continue on their journey to their destiny because they Got This.

When the mighty and cruel must be brought low, it's the killers and the schemers who emerge from the shadows. As plans twist and change, and our protagonists are foiled and beaten, one thing remains true: no matter the cost, the king must fall.The King Must Fall is a dark fantasy anthology featuring 19 titans of the dark and grimdark fantasy genres writing about rogues, assassins, mages, blackguards, and warriors on quests to kill their kings, rulers, captains, and leaders....

The Marshall family lives on the beautiful Eastern Shore of Virginia. This entrepreneurial family has started many businesses, the latest being Cape Charles Brewing Company. The matriarch of the family is Deborah or more often called Mimi and says she could not have raised six children without peanut butter and Mac and Cheese. It became Mimi’s Mac and Cheese with the arrival of grandchildren and great grandchildren. It is even on the menu at the brewery. Artistic talent also runs in the fa...

This landmark volume brings together some of the titans of social movement theory in a grand reassessment of its status. For some time, the field has been divided between a dominant structural approach and a cultural or constructivist tradition. The gaps and misunderstandings between the two sides-as well as the efforts to bridge them-closely parallel those in the discipline of sociology at large. This book aims to further the dialogue between these two distinct approaches to social moveme...

Becoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words.Some were widowed young, while others were married for decades. Some cared for their late partners through long terminal illnesses, while others lost their partners suddenly. Some had male partners, while others had female partners. Yet ea...