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Sara’s abusive marriage has finally ended. She now must get out of the Kansas City area before Paul, her ex-husband, finds out she is pregnant with his child and tries to prevent from her leaving the city. She is sitting at her favorite spot in the city, taking one last look before she leaves this city forever. She has money from the sell of their house in the bank and a new job waiting for her in Colorado. She is ready to leave for the train station when her ex-husband shows up and points a gun at her head. He tells her he knows about the baby and that they will be remarried as soon as possible. Sara is terrified of this man; the last thing she wants is to remarry him. Suddenly, Sara is t...
In English disparate means “different” or “miscellaneous”—apt descriptors of these essays by Patrick Madden. In Spanish, however, disparate means “nonsense,” “folly,” or “absurdity,”—words appropriate to Madden’s goal of undercutting any notion that essays must be serious business. Thus, in this collection, the essays are frivolous and lively, aiming to make readers laugh while they think about such abstract subjects as happiness and memory and unpredictability. In this vein, Madden takes sidelong swipes at weighty topics via form, with wildly meandering essays, abandoned essays in honor of the long tradition of essayists disparaging their own efforts, and guerrilla...
Reflecting on Montaigne, Virginia Woolf remarked, "The most common actions-a walk, a talk, solitude in one's own orchard-can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind." In Quotidiana, Patrick Madden illuminates these common actions and seemingly commonplace moments, making connections that revise and reconfigure the overlooked and underappreciated.
Lucy has vitiligo. She finds beauty in the patterns on her skin. She also finds beauty in the patterns she notices out in nature. Follow Lucy as she goes on a walk through nature, admiring everything she sees.
After being raised by her grandparents for 12 years, everything changes for Missy Lou Button the day she turns thirteen. It is her first birthday without her beloved grandpa. Now, Missy Lou and her grandma Sweet Betty Sue struggle to live without him. But Missy Lou’s thirteenth year brings unexpected adventures with her best friend, C.E. Zog, who secretly wishes he was Superman. All Missy Lou wants to do is protect him from the bullies at school, read comics, fish at the creek, find out more about her mother, and try to forget that her father abandoned her when she was a little girl. While she struggles to come to terms with the information she finds out about her life, she saves a puppy from a storm, realizes what it truly means to be a hero, and finally understands that she will always have her grandpa in her heart.
Tallulah Froom lives in a magical world, similar to our own world. She finds magic in words and the unexpected and believes that being unusual is a good character trait. Mixed with the whimsy of Pippi Longstocking, the gentle animal world of Charlotte’s Web, and the unexpected magic of Matilda, Tallulah Froom embodies all the imagination of unusual fancies we all wish our world offered. There is magic for everyone in Tallulah’s world, including childhood mishaps and family members we all recognize. Welcome to the world of Tallulah Froom.
Tallulah Froom lives in a magical world, similar to our own world. She finds magic in words and the unexpected and believes that being unusual is a good character trait. Mixed with the whimsy of Pippi Longstocking, the gentle animal world of Charlotte's Web, and the unexpected magic of Matilda, Tallulah Froom embodies all the imagination of unusual fancies we all wish our world offered. There is magic for everyone in Tallulah's world, including childhood mishaps and family members we all recognize. Welcome to the world of Tallulah Froom.
This book is intended as a conceptual roadmap to show how some of the numerous pieces of complex coastal systems intersect and might interact under changing future environmental regimes. It is addressed to a non-technical but environmentally literate audience that includes the lay public, policy makers, planners, engineers and academics interested in the causes and consequences of global changes as they are likely to affect coastal systems. The book also outlines some strategies for anticipating and responding to the challenges that lie ahead. The purpose is not to offer a technical treatise on how to build better numerical models or to provide the cognoscenti with new scientific details or ...
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Centers arranged geographically by states. Each entry gives center name, address, contact person, and telephone number, as well as codes indicating operation status, poverty area designation, and kind of grant. No index.