Susan Farrell's evocative account of what it was like to grow up in rural Armagh and Tyrone, a world rooted in tradition and in the seasons.Beginning with her grandparents, Susan uses food to trace the legacy of her upbringing: Nanny Wylie, 'quick as a magician', making bread; her aunts cycling twenty miles to the Irish border to buy butter, dried fruit and sugar for her parents' wedding cake; food remedies and broths; and the endless supply of home-made apple pies, jam and soda fa...

Choosing a book to read or perhaps discovering an enthralling short story to enjoy to pass the time is akin to standing in a candy store and choosing just one candy? Contained within these pages is a collection of tales of love, fear, achievement and adventure. I invite you to dip into this treasure trove of stories and to lose yourself in the adventures hidden within.

War has often been seen as the domain of men and thus irrelevant to gender analysis, and American writers have frequently examined war according to traditional gender expectations: that boys become men by going to war and girls become women by building a home. Yet the writers discussed in this book complicate these expectations, since their female characters often take part directly in war and especially since their male characters repeatedly imagine domestic spaces for themselves in the m...

Eddy and Liz participate in a relationship study for extra cash and learn that they don’t share the same opinions about sex, fidelity, career or truth. In fact, they don’t understand each other. Eddy tries. Liz tires. Basement Suite is provocative and sexy – a saucy look at another side of love and relationships.

Being homeless in one’s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related attempts at assimilation that disrupted Indigenous practices, languages, and cultures—including patterns of housing and land use—can be seen today in the disproportionate number of Indigenous peopl...

Breaking the Silence: Siblings Speak Out Against Alleged Abuse is a powerful and moving account of courage and resilience. This book captures the heart-wrenching stories of siblings who, after years of suffering in silence, have found the strength to speak out against the abuse they endured. Their voices break through the darkness, shedding light on the trauma and the journey towards healing and justice.Benefits of reading this book:Firsthand Accounts: Gain deep insight int...

Banned, burned, and censored, Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five is widely regarded as one of the greatest (and most controversial) novels of the twentieth century. Fusing vivid biography with popular history and close textual analysis, *Vonnegut's War*tells the fascinating story of the making of a modern classic and the writer that created it.New archival discoveries and recen...

The voice on the radio saved his life.But when he discovers who she is…it just might cost him everything.Axel Mulligan was built to be a Coast Guard rescue swimmer. He could swim faster, endure longer and became a miracle for those in peril in the sea. Until a tragedy destroyed him and sent him home, to Alaska.Now, three years later, he’s not going to let the past repeat itself, so as an Air One rescue swimmer, he’l...

Why do students feel that mastering academic English is difficult?Is it really so different from other types of English? The authors present academic English as a particular type of English that is not necessarily better, fancier, or harder; rather, it is simply a different kind of English that is usually learned in scholastic settings after general English has been acquired. This easy-to-follow guide shows how learning academic language can be achieved by developi...

Find. Save. Protect. Meet the Heroes of the Last Frontier.When country music star Oaken Fox joins survivalist Mike Grizz's new adventure show in the Alaskan wilderness, he just wants to boost his fan base. But when tragedy strikes, and Air One Rescue must save them, Oaken just wants to quit. Too bad his producer has other plans—signing him on with Air One Rescue as a recruit and making a reality show...EMT Boo Kingston did not join Air One Rescue to train a...

Verbal Communication Through Telling Stories“…learn how to bring your own stories to life on the page, on the stage, around a campfire, or a dinner table.” —Mary Jo McConahay, award-winning journalistWinner 2020 Indie Book Award for Non-Fiction Writing/PublishingCIBA I&I (Instructional & Insightful) Non-Fiction Awards Finalist#1 New Release in Writing Researching & Publishing GuidesThe art of...

In the world of Fae the rules are different. Someone needs to be in control, someone needs to know when to speak and when not to. Travel through the stories of these authors as they take us inside the Fae world. Will they be looking for power, fighting for the power that is rightfully theirs? Finding the strength they didn't know they had and a family to stand by them.