One night.A chance encounter.Chemistry hot enough to melt the ice.Eavie Adams' hard work has finally paid off when she is offered the promotion she has been working towards for the last few years with the Toronto Royals, her city's professional hockey team. She's never been more ready to take on the next stage of her career, and there's nothing she would allow to stand in the way - especially not the team's hot captain Jax Morghan....

"Humane, amusing, touching, and very satisfying."―Phillip Lopate, author of To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction“Captivating and evocative and original.”―Grace Dane Mazur, author of The Garden Party“In the wise and funny essays that make up Awake with Asashoryu, Elisabeth Sharp McKetta asks vital questions about what it means to forge an adult life of one’s own.”―Lynn C. Miller, author of ...

Lyra Celtica is a sweeping anthology of Celtic poetry, edited by E. A. Sharp and J. Matthay with an introduction and notes by William Sharp. Drawing on Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Breton, Cornish, and Manx traditions, it gathers ancient legend, devotional song, lament, love poetry, nature verse, and modern Celtic revival writing into one vivid literary map. The volume ranges from early laments for Deirdrê and Ossian to modern voices such as W. B. Yeats and George Meredith, tracing recurring th...

William Sharp, known by his pen name Fiona Macleod, was a prominent Scottish writer whose works captured the essence of Celtic mythology and spirituality. His wife, Elizabeth A. Sharp, compiled a memoir that offers a glimpse into his life, thoughts, and creative process. The memoir not only highlights his literary achievements but also delves into his personal struggles and triumphs. Through Elizabeth's perspective, readers gain insight into the man behind the words, revealing the depth of...

Do you work with angry children? Are you wondering why young people don’t listen when they are angry? Are you exhausted from trying to understand angry behaviour? Are you having difficulty finding specialist help as soon as you need it?Anger Management is a practical guide that will help you to stay calm in the face of angry outbursts from children and young people, and support them in learning to manage their anger better. Written by chartered psychologists with extensive experien...

Turn your interest in foundation paper-piecing into a full-blown love affair. Learn about every stage of the process—from piecing technique to pattern design—in this comprehensive guide. Start with the basics of sewing on paper, then explore the author's open-ended design exercises to create your own patterns or follow along with the author's take to sew her graphic interpretations of the prompts. With an annotated overview of the author's favorite FPP methods, countless tips, and over thi...

"None of us is likely to forget the 'virustime,' but feisty, funny, resourceful, creative Arden (along with her quirky family and motley crew of rescue dogs) is a comforting and inspiring reminder that the worst of times can bring out the best in us. Ark will help young readers see how they, too, kindled their own light to find their way through a dark time."—Lauren Wolk, author of Echo Mountain"Infectiously hopeful."—K...

An inspiring guide to focusing on what matters most in life—and hitting delete on what doesn’t.Life is noisier, messier, and more complicated than ever. In our quest to keep up, we can lose sight of what we care about most, and instead try to do it all—with mixed results.In this beautiful call to examine and edit our lives, writer Elisabeth Sharp McKetta shares eight simple ways to cut through the clutter, drama, and overwhelm of modern life to live with mor...

Re-Imagining the City: Art, Globalization, and Urban Spaces examines how contemporary processes of globalization are transforming cultural experience and production in urban spaces. It maps how cultural productions in art, architecture and communications media are contributing to the reimagining of place and identity through events, artefacts and attitudes. This book recasts how we understand cities – how knowledge can be formed, framed and transferred through cultural production ...

Energy recounts the life of Dr. John J. McKetta Jr., a first-generation Ukrainian American coal miner who worked his way up from the mines to become the world’s foremost energy expert, a university dean, an encyclopedia editor, and one of the most widely known and respected professors in his field. To honor his one hundredth birthday in 2015, thousands of his former students raised more than $25 million to celebrate his contributions to their lives and to chemical engineering at t...

"I’ve always admired the writing of Elisabeth Sharp McKetta, and her beautiful, ambitious first novel demonstrates why. She Never Told Me about the Ocean is a heroine’s journey through forgiveness, birth and rebirth, all the while treading the line between honoring the dead and feeling paralyzed by them. She has offered us a complicated portrait of mothers and daughters, cupped inside one another like nesting dolls."―Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha"She Never Told Me Ab...

An inspiring guide to focusing on what matters most in life—and hitting delete on what doesn’t.Life is noisier, messier, and more complicated than ever. In our quest to keep up, we can lose sight of what we care about most, and instead try to do it all—with mixed results.In this beautiful call to examine and edit our lives, writer Elisabeth Sharp McKetta shares eight simple ways to cut through the clutter, drama, and overwhelm of modern life to live with mor...