My eight-step approach to changing your financial future really works. In more than thirty years as a Financial Advisor and Certified Financial Planner, I’ve guided many people on the path away from fear and led them to a secure, free, joyous, and peaceful money life. I’ve also learned so much in my own life, not only as a professional, but as an athlete, entrepreneur, mother, wife, friend – and survivor. I’ve dealt with a crushing, life-changing accident, struggled with infertility and da...

A Kirkus Best YA Book of 2020 About Finding Inner StrengthWisconsin Library Association Outstanding Children's Book By a Wisconsin Author for 2021
Seventeen-year-old Rose Hemmersbach aspires to break out of small town Sparta, Wisconsin and achieve her artistic dreams, just like her aunt Colleen. Rose’s love of Frida Kahlo fuels her paint brush and her dreams to attend a prestigious art school. Painting is Rose’s escape from her anno...

Groundbreaking Debut: Described as The Carnival at Bray meets West Side Story, Sarah Carlson writes in the alternating perspectives of two 17-year-olds, Danny and Fiona, torn apart by family loyalties in this powerful tale of love, violence and the long shadow of history.Culturally Current: Focuses on the current religious conflict in Northern Ireland, providing a raw and impactful look into what it’s like to live in a country div...

Most of the world is aware of the tragic events surrounding the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans. Most are also aware of the resulting political controversy in Washington. But few know what happened next in Libya. While said controversy in Washington subsided, the volatility in Libya escalated—threatening the brave men and women who remained behind to continue the U.S. mission.In this dramatic retelling of dangerous attacks threatening the U.S. mission in...

Obsession is the deadliest viceCarrera.A word whispered in fear.A name to avoid at all costs.Until I come face-to-face with it.Abducted.Held against my will.Prisoner of a war I know nothing about.Captive to a ruthless cartel prince who wants more than my freedom...He wants me.I should hate him…But the deeper Valentin drags me into his bloodstained world the harder it becomes to resist.Until that...

What is well-being? Is it a stable income, comfortable home, and time shared with family and friends? Is it clean drinking water and freedom from political oppression? Is it finding Aristotle’s Golden Mean by living a life of reason and moderation? Scholars have sought to define well-being for centuries, teasing out nuances among Aristotle’s writings and posing new theories of their own. With each major technological shift this question of well-being arises with new purpose, spurring schol...

A CIA officer's inside account of how Libya's descent into rampant violence precipitated the harrowing overland evacuation of the entire US mission from Tripoli after being trapped in the city for weeks.Most of the world is aware of the tragic events surrounding the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans. Most are also aware of the resulting political controversy in Washington. But few know what happened next in Libya. While said controversy in...

Defining Sport: Conceptions and Borderlines is not about the variations of usage of the term “sport.” It is about the concept, the range of activities in the world that we unite into one idea—sport. It is through the project of defining sport that we can come to understand these activities better, how they are similar or different, and how they relate to other human endeavors.This definitional inquiry, and the deeper appreciation and apprehension of sport that follows, is the core ...

Disruptive pedagogies for archival researchIn a cultural moment when institutional repositories carry valuable secrets to the present and past, this collection argues for the critical, intellectual, and social value of archival instruction. Graban and Hayden and 37 other contributors examine how undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric, history, community literacy, and professional writing can successfully engage students in archival research in its many form...

The purpose of Communicating in the Anthropocene: Intimate Relations is to tell a different story about the world. Humans, especially those raised in Western traditions, have long told stories about themselves as individual protagonists who act with varying degrees of free will against a background of mute supporting characters and inert landscapes. Humans can be either saviors or destroyers, but our actions are explained and judged again and again as emanating from the individual. And yet...

In Blood, the Civil War, the most dramatic moment in this nation's history, also produced some of our greatest literature. From tragic charges to prison escapes to the desolation wrought on those who stayed behind, Blood is an extraordinary collection of reminiscences, fiction, and excerpts from diaries and letters by an array of soldiers, writers and observers that includes Abraham Lincoln, General George Pickett, Walt Whitman, Ulysses S. Grant and Stephen Crane. In The War, no one knew i...

In 2007 a symposium was held at Texas A&M University to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Texas A&M University Press’s publication of the first volume reporting the Yassiada shipwreck site. Seventeen papers from that symposium featured in this book broadly illustrate such varied topics as ships and seafaring life, maritime trade, naval texts, commercial cargoes, and recent developments in the analysis of the Yassiada ship itself.