Swirling


Book Description

The first handbook on navigating the exciting, tricky, and potentially disastrous terrain of interracial relationships, with testimony and expert tips on how to make the bumpy ride a bit smoother. The first handbook on navigating the exciting, tricky, and potentially disastrous terrain of interracial relationships, with testimony and expert tips on how to make the bumpy ride a bit smoother.




Finding Your Prince in a Sea of Toads


Book Description

"The guys I like, are not interested in me. The guys who are interested in me, I don't like." "I'll never keep a boyfriend unless I sleep with him." If these comments sound like echoes from your heart, you're not alone. Many women feel just like you do, disillusioned by the seeming scarcity of good marriage prospects or disappointed by their own naive decisions made in an effort to save a shipwrecked relationship. You want to find your Prince Charming, but all you experience is a sea of toads. Do not despair. Finding Your Prince in a Sea of Toads provides specific advice that will swing the odds in your favor to find a quality man and a lifetime marriage without a load of emotional baggage. As you read Dr. Ryan's straightforward talk and unpredictable illustrations, he will uncover such topics as: . Communication, your most important skill, . Creative dating, . The beauty curse, . The perils of trying before you buy, . Your crockpot nature, . And much more.




Amy Inspired


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Amy Gallagher is an aspiring writer who, after countless rejections, has settled for a career as an English professor in small-town Ohio just to pay the bills. All her dreams suddenly start to unravel as rejections pile up--both from publishers and her boyfriend. But just as Amy fears her life is stuck in a holding pattern, she meets the mysterious, attractive, and unavailable Eli. She struggles to walk the fine line between friendship and something more with Eli, even as staying true to her faith becomes unexpectedly complicated. When secrets, tragedy, and poor decisions cause rifts in Amy's relationships, she must come to terms with who she's become, her unrealized aspirations for her life, and the state of her faith. Can she dare to hope that she will find love and fulfillment despite it all?




The Witch Must Die


Book Description

A psychoanalytic approach to fairy tales that examines how children can project their own internal struggles onto the opposing characters.




The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction


Book Description

Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc.




The Prince of the Pond


Book Description

Who is that handsome green stranger? None of the pond dwellers has ever seen the peculiar new frog before. They found him sitting in a pile of human clothes outside the hag’s house. What a strange frog he is! He gets his feet tangled when he tries to jump, he refuses to eat bugs, and he can’t tell a toad from a frog. He calls himself “De Fawg Pin,” and he’s about to turn pond life topsy-turvy! “The frog prince motif has inspired many books, but few as original as this novel.”—Booklist “An animal fantasy that fairy tale readers will relish.”—Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, starred review




Fairy Tale Land


Book Description

Fairy Tale Land is a large-format gift book filled with classic fairy tales and exquisitely illustrated maps for children to pore over.




To the Sargasso Sea


Book Description

Playwright Andrew MacAllister finds his recent behavior mystifying and shameful. He endures this crisis with the help of patient friends and associates on a trip to Bermuda.




Jake's Bones


Book Description

Jake McGowan-Lowe is a boy with a very unusual hobby. Since the age of 7, he has been photographing and blogging about his incredible finds and now has a worldwide following, including 100,000 visitors from the US and Canada. Follow Jake as he explores the animal world through this new 64-page book. He takes you on a world wide journey of his own collection, and introduces you to other amazing animals from the four corners of the globe. Find out what a cow's tooth, a rabbit's rib and a duck's quack look like and much, much more besides.




Spaces Between


Book Description

This compelling story opens at the height of the 1990s mining boom as Laura moves to Perth to work for a mining company. When she discovers her father’s precious old camera, she embarks on a photographic expedition. The creativity she experiences through the camera is intoxicating and she falls under the spell of the Western Australian bush and the photographer Frank. Her love for him is shattered when he viciously abandons her after discovering she works for the company he believes is exploiting the land and the Aboriginal people living on it. Laura has to find her path through pain and grief and the excitement and seduction of the heady days of greed, corruption, deceit and misogyny. Her relationships with her charming yet unpredictable boss and the respectful, trustworthy head of the mine site, force Laura to find the strength to dramatically take a stand. Can the redemptive power of love support her to risk her career for the Aboriginal people she has come to respect and the men she cares for?