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Calling Home
From an extraordinary new voice in fiction comes a haunting, powerful novel about mothers and daughters, choice and regret, the mistakes we make and the ones we hope we can correct before it's too late. Nothing much ever happens in Falling Rock, Kentucky. So when Virginia Lemmons' husband takes off in his Trans Am to take up with a beautician, there's not much to do but what people in rural Kentucky have always done--get on with it. Now, overwhelmed and unsure, Virginia's got her hands full trying to keep it together, body and soul, while raising her two teenage kids--eighteen-year-old son, Will, and her spirited fourteen-year-old daughter, Shannon. But Shannon has her own ideas for breaking...
Anonymity
Lorelei is street smart, elusive and manipulative. She’s a teenage survivor, always on the move. Always one step ahead of the danger in her past. Emily’s a hard-partying bartender in downtown Austin with problems of her own. When she meets a handsome reporter looking for a photographer, Emily volunteers her camera skills. As she follows him into the sordid world of gutter punks, Emily finds an unexpected friendship that will redefine her life. But Emily realizes too late that each of her attempts to help only puts her new friend in ever increasing peril. Can she unravel the mystery of Lorelei’s past and find a way to protect her? Or would the girl be better off unknown and on her own?
The Ocean Inside
"A beautifully crafted, mesmerizing read which I highly recommend." --Cassandra King, author of The Sunday Wife Life changes in an instant. One day, Emmett and Lauren Sullivan's biggest worries revolve around the escalating taxes on their gorgeous Victorian beach house on Pawley's Island, South Carolina. The next, they're facing a devastating crisis. "It's impossible to not be touched by the honesty and courage the novel--and the author--portrays." --The Sun News (Myrtle Beach, SC) Emmett and Lauren have always been a team, working together to raise their two daughters. But lately, with all their attention focused on nine-year-old Ainslie, they barely notice as their older daughter, Sloan, drifts further away from them and toward a reckless path that could tear their family apart. . . "A thought-provoking story that will linger in the reader's imagination." --The Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, VA) "A vividly drawn love letter to coastal South Carolina. McMahan's descriptions of the Lowcountry and its unique climate and customs jump off the page." --Publishers Weekly "The story is gripping and the characters all too real." --Booklist
Handbook of Research on Literacy and Digital Technology Integration in Teacher Education
With widespread testing and standards-driven curriculum and accountability pressure in public schools, teachers are expected to be highly skilled practitioners. There is a pressing need for college faculty to prepare current and future teachers for the demands of modern classrooms and to address the academic readiness skills of their students to succeed in their programs. The Handbook of Research on Literacy and Digital Technology Integration in Teacher Education is an essential academic publication that provides comprehensive research on the influence of standards-driven education on educators and educator preparation as well as the applications of technology for the preparation of teachers. Featuring a wide range of topics such as academic success, professional development, and teacher education, this book is essential for academicians, educators, administrators, educational software developers, IT consultants, researchers, professionals, students, and curriculum designers.
The Steady Way to Greatness
Use intuition and psychic development to master the law of attraction and manifest the life you truly desire. The Steady Way to Greatness is filled with new and groundbreaking techniques for achieving success in love, work, finances, relationships, and spirituality. Organized into a progression of fifty-two weekly practices, intuitive counselor Melanie Barnum guides you with affirmations and simple exercises designed to help you: • Build confidence • Explore positive and negative attitudes? • Open yourself to the intuitive senses? • Work with your strengths and weaknesses? • Discover the power of goal setting • Uncover the magnificence that lives within • Create and live your d...
Flavors from Home
Each year, the United States legally resettles tens of thousands of refugees who have fled their homelands. Refugees, unlike economic migrants, are forced to leave their countries of origin or are driven out by violence or persecution. As these individuals and their families struggle to adapt to a new culture, the kitchen often becomes one of the few places where they are able to return "home." Preparing native cuisine is one way they can find comfort in an unfamiliar land, retain their customs, reconnect with their past, and preserve a sense of identity. In Flavors from Home, Aimee Zaring shares fascinating and moving stories of courage, perseverance, and self-reinvention from Kentucky's re...
Garden of Bliss
Garden of Bliss begins on the French Riviera, where Moffitt, despite her glamorous European lifestyle, feels empty. Realizing that financial success doesn't necessarily equate to happiness, she looks inside herself and decides to make some changes. The message of her journey is simple: bliss is a destination that exists within all of us. Using the metaphor of a secret garden, Moffitt encourages her readers to manifest this space in the physical world and connect with the divine feminine through nature.
Calling Home
While trying to keep it together after her husband leaves her for another woman, Virginia Lemmons, raising two teenagers alone, must find a way to stop her reckless, wild-child daughter from making the same tragic mistakes in an attempt to break free of their small town. Original.
Appalachian Journal
A regional studies review.
Carpenter Connections
Jonathan Carpenter was born ca. 1755 in Virginia. He was the son of William Carpenter who moved from the Shenandoah Valley (near Winchester) Virginia and settled in North Carolina ca. 1800. Jonathan married Mary (surname unknown) sometime prior to the year 1773. They lived in Rutherford Co., North Carolina and were the parents of eight children. Descendants lived in North Carolina, Tennessee, Illinois, Texas, South Carolina and elsewhere.
