Do you ever wish you were in an 80s movie, where the guy always gets the girl, and the girl always goes through hell but end result is perfect? Yeah well, my life is nothing like that.My name is Abigail GreenwoodI live on the wrong side of the tracks. I don't hang with the cool kids, and I actually have to work for the stuff I want. My cokehead mother won't do shit and my father, well, he works to pay the bills. Today is just one more day before I get out of this shithole t...

Hey you, remember me? Yeah, I'm that girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Yes, that one with two lovers. Sheesh is that all I'll ever be known as now? Last you heard from me I was moving in with one of my lovers. Remember how I said my life wasn't like an 80's movie? I was kind of wrong because I did find my knight only mine came in two.My life now is not all pizza and beers for our little triad. As per usual, my jacked-up past has come calling back at me. Yeah, you know the one...

Tap, Tap, Tap. Anyone there? Oh, there you are! Last you saw me, my life went down the drain, and it's still much of the same. However, now I have a newsecret I don't want my boys to know. Want to know whatit is? Sorry, I can't tell you that'd ruin the story.Just know we're all a little mad down here.

In a mystical world of hidden caves and magical creatures, two girls meet and their worlds collide. On a normal day in a quiet mountain territory a massive earthquake hits, setting off a chain of events that disrupts the peace. Scout, a Terra girl with a mountain lion for a companion, discovers an injured creature. Mar, an Erta girl, is lost in a strange new world. The girls form an unlikely friendship that results in adventures ranging from surviving the elements to making new discoveries...

Rethinking Disaster Recovery focuses attention on the social inequalities that existed on the Gulf Coast before Hurricane Katrina and how they have been magnified or altered since the storm. With a focus on social axes of power such as gender, sexuality, race, and class, this book tells new and personalized stories of recovery that help to deepen our understanding of the disaster. Specifically, the volume examines ways in which gender and sexuality issues have been largely ignored in the e...

U.S. Foreign Policy: Back to the Water’s Edge is based on the old idea that despite domestic differences and party politics, Americans should unite “at the water’s edge” and present a cohesive front to a hostile world. The fifth edition explores this theme through coverage of the Trump administration, its early policies, and how Trump’s initiatives fit into the broader historical patterns of foreign policy in the United States.More compact than most of its competitors, the fifth ed...

The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina. Five years after the storm, its profound impact continues to be felt.This new edition explores emerging themes, as well as ongoing issues that continue to besiege survivors. The book has been updated and revised throughout-from data about recovery efforts and environmental cond...

Presidents often assemble ad hoc groups of advisers to help them make decisions during foreign policy crises. These advisers may include the holders of the traditional foreign policy positions--secretaries of state and defense--as well as others from within and without the executive branch. It has never been clear what role these groups play in the development of policy. In this landmark study, Patrick Haney examines how these crisis decision groups were structured and how they performed t...

Called back to for her father's funeral Daria Hanson finds that from the corner grocery store to the gossiping biddies at the salon little has changed in Steel Ridge, Montana. All she wants is to pay her respects and hop the next plane back to her life in Connecticut before her past catches up to her.Ambushed by the reading of the will she must settle the life she left behind. The man she left behind.Twelve years ago Seth Dixon was head over heels in love with the ...

Hadley:I'm out. Done. Packed and running.After years of abuse, my husband Andrew finally crossed the line and laid hands on my baby girl. I'm terrified, but if we don't go now, we may never.When an accident leaves us in a ditch and I find myself surrounded by people I do not know and have no choice but to trust I find that kindness seems to exist but it comes in the form of a man who I can only hope means what he says and that the road to freedom will not become a c...

A holistic view of human development that rejects the conventional stages of childhood, adulthood, and old ageWhen we talk about human development, we tend to characterize it as proceeding through a series of stages in which we are first children, then adolescents, and finally, adults. But as James Bernard Murphy observes, growth is not limited to the young nor is decline limited to the aged. We are never trapped within the horizon of a particular life stage: child...

A holistic view of human development that rejects the conventional stages of childhood, adulthood, and old ageWhen we talk about human development, we tend to characterize it as proceeding through a series of stages in which we are first children, then adolescents, and finally, adults. But as James Bernard Murphy observes, growth is not limited to the young nor is decline limited to the aged. We are never trapped within the horizon of a particular life stage: child...