A powerful, provocative, and genre-bending literary memoir that grapples with victimhood, recovery, and resilienceIn the before, Jesse James Rose is happy. She has a beautiful boyfriend with melty glacier eyes, she’s on a euphoric journey of gender exploration, and New York City is perfect.In the after, she’s single, making dinner for her grandfather, and wondering if he’s going to forget her name today. Except, in the before, her first-grade music teacher ...

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Who knew building a medieval fantasy kingdom would involve feeding two starving nations?With the mining dungeon crisis behind us, I thought Aldric and I could focus on expanding Norsewood and maybe enjoying our newfound love. Just as things are going smoothly with our first Christmas celebrations underway, the elves and dwarves we rescued come to us with a desperate plea: their ancient nations are starving.Launching the largest relief effort this w...

Life in a medieval fantasy world is never dull, especially when your husband has a score to settle with a dragon.Living in Norsewood Lodge—the only modern building complex in this entire world—is like running a five-star resort for people who've never seen indoor plumbing. And yes, they consider the entire lodge sacred ground.But just as I'm settling into my role as the miracle-working countess—and trying to figure out why my gorgeous husband runs ...

"How would you like to star opposite the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood?"Enticed by these words, brunette leading lady Fay Wray dyed her hair blonde and accepted the role of Ann Darrow in King Kong—and stayed with the project even after learning that her "leading man" was a 50-foot ape.King Kong is a 1933 landmark black-and-white monster film about a gigantic gorilla named "Kong" and how he is captured from a remote lost prehistoric isl...

The story was perfect until I rewrote it. Now I have to choose: stick to the script, or write my own happy ending.I thought I knew exactly how this story would end. The villainess wife gets her comeuppance, the hero finds his true love, and everyone lives happily ever after.Except I've gone completely off script.As Victoria Everett, I was supposed to be Manhattan's ice queen, the woman Jason needed to divorce to find his destiny. Instead, I...

Elevate your business communication and secure your competitive advantage with "How to Hear YES More Often." Authored by Certified Persuasion Specialists, this book reveals the science and art of ethical persuasion, ensuring long-term success without compromising integrity.Discover the Secrets of Ethical Persuasion:Real-World Examples: Gain insights from real-world scenarios and experiences that demonstrate the effective application of persuasion principles.Scientifi...

Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures analyzes folk horror by looking at its recent popularity in novels and films such as The Ritual (2011), The Witch (2015), and Candyman (2021). Countering traditional views of the genre as depictions of the monstrous, rural, and pagan past trying to consume the present, the contributors to this collection posit folk horror as being able to uniquely capture the anxieties of the twenty-first ce...

This book traces the development of the understanding of symbols and their formation and use in its historical context, and discusses their clinical significance in psychoanalysis. It will be of relevance and use in the practical sense as well as the theoretical.

This is a book which seeks help those going through the process of mid-adolescence - either from the point of view of the adolescent or their families - it attends to the serious strains that may have to be borne if the picture portrayed is to have any realism. 'Youth culture' may idealize the adolescent and vilify parents; but, as we shall see, the paradoxical expectations placed on both adolescents and their parents arise from the creative tension between the desire to progress and the d...

This book is about how we can deepen our understanding of subjectivity through the use of the concept of triangulation. Fundamentally, this book seeks to address the question of how we can be objective about subjectivity. If psychology, as a scientific discipline, is concerned with the study of human experience, which is essentially subjective; then we are faced with the problem of how apply the scientific method, as it is commonly understood. If experience is essentially unique to the exp...

A new edition of a classic textThis new edition of Human Development has been thoroughly revised and updated to incorporate recent developments in the field. New material is introduced on the development of a sense of self, the social self and moral development.Beginning with a discussion of birth and childhood, the reader is lead through each of the crucial stages in human development. The authors reveal the intricate interplay between physical, emotional and psyc...