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Hotel Magnifique is hiring. Pack a bag for Elsewhere & prepare to depart by midnight. A deliciously decadent, enchanting YA fantasy about the disturbing secrets lurking in the legendary Hotel Magnifique - perfect for fans of Caraval and The Night Circus The legendary Hotel Magnifique is like no other: a magical world of golden ceilings, enchanting soirées and fountains flowing with champagne. It changes location every night, stopping in each place only once a decade. When the Magnifique comes to her hometown, seventeen-year-old Jani hatches a plan to secure jobs there for herself and her younger sister, longing to escape their dreary life. Luck is on their side, and with a stroke of luminou...
Join artist and educator Emily Taylor on a creative journey through the process of making a collage quilt! Emily explains through step-by-step photos and illustrations how to make four beautiful projects.
Raising Mediators explores how parents can implement mediation principles to teach their children collaborative problem solving, perspective taking, and empathy skills.
Emily Harris doesn't know what to do about the girls who tease her at school, especially Taylor Carey. The only place she ever finds happiness is on the back of her horse, Bella. When a storm frightens the cattle on their ranch, Emily decides that she wants to help her father find them, against his wishes. Wanting to prove her worth to her father, Emily rides into the valley on Bella, her beautiful quarter horse, in search of the missing cattle. What she finds on her journey tests not only her strength and trust in Bella, but also her compassion. Will she be able to get herself, her horse, and the cattle home? Or will she succumb to the storm? The Adventures of Emily and Bella the Horse is the heart-warming story of a girl and her horse as they fight for their lives!
Journey into the world of textile collage with collage quilt artist & educator Emily Taylor! In her second book, Emily demonstrates how to make a collage quilt, embroidered wall art and a decorative pillow with six bird templates included in the book. Bird templates included are a Crane, Duck, Owl, Quail, Raven and Swallow, along with complementary elements. Over 100 step-by-step photos & illustrations open up a world of creative fun with fabric as Emily shares her new & innovative method of textile collage. Emily also explains in simple terms how to apply color theory to the selection of fabric, how to create a pleasing composition, and the recommended supplies for success.
'A sincere, poignant and moving story of a group of teenage girls coming to terms with the world they've inherited' Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones and the Six An all-girls boarding school in a hilly corner of Connecticut, Atwater is a haven for progressive thinking and feminist intellectuals. The students are smart, driven and worldly; they are also teenagers, learning to find their way. But when they arrive on campus for the start of the fall term, they're confronted with startling news: an Atwater alumna has made a troubling allegation of sexual misconduct against an unidentified teacher. As the weeks wear on and the administration's efforts to manage...
This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural history of parasitology and its relationships with the literary and historical imagination between 1885 and 1935. Emilie Taylor-Pirie examines a wealth of archival material including medical lectures, scientific publications, popular biography, and personal and professional correspondence, alongside novels, poems, newspaper articles, and political speeches, to excavate the shared vocabularies of literature and medicine. She de...
Sex in the Heartland is the story of the sexual revolution in a small university town in the quintessential heartland state of Kansas. Bypassing the oft-told tales of radicals and revolutionaries on either coast, Beth Bailey argues that the revolution was forged in towns and cities alike, as "ordinary" people struggled over the boundaries of public and private sexual behavior in postwar America. Bailey fundamentally challenges contemporary perceptions of the revolution as simply a triumph of free love and gay lib. Rather, she explores the long-term and mainstream changes in American society, beginning in the economic and social dislocations of World War II and the explosion of mass media and...
Sadness is something everyone experiences in their life and Taylor Dorhety doesn't fall short in that life's aspect. This Story is a fiction book aimed at teens and anyone who has had struggles in their lives. The book is set in South Boston beginning in 1995 when Taylor is eight and continues on till she is a junior in high school. During the story you listen to Taylor talk about her struggles with abandonment, death, drugs, bullying and many other struggles teens find themselves trying to overcome.