Losing Charlotte

Losing Charlotte
Author: Heather Clay
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2010-03-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307593037

Raised on their parents’ Kentucky horse farm, Charlotte and Knox Bolling grow up steeped in the cycles of breeding, foaling, weaning, and preparation for sale that the Thoroughbreds around them undergo each year. As sisters, they are as tightly connected within that vast and beautiful landscape as their opposing natures—and the subtly shifting allegiances within their close family—allow. When Charlotte leaves Four Corners Farm, marries Bruce, and moves to Manhattan’s West Village, the sisters’ feelings for each other remain as intense and contradictory as ever, despite the distance between them. But nothing will solder their lives more fatefully than Charlotte’s pregnancy and the day on which she delivers twin boys, then dies of complications following their birth. Together, Knox and Bruce—sister- and brother-in-law in name, but strangers in every other respect—take up the work of caring for Charlotte’s two motherless boys. In their mourning, and in the joy and desolation that flood in as their love for the children deepens, Bruce and Knox confront the ways in which their bonds to Charlotte have shaped them and struggle to define the tentative bond they are forming with each other as they navigate their exhausting, emotional daily rounds. A gripping, powerfully affecting debut novel from a stunning new writer.

Another Vagabond Lost to Love

Another Vagabond Lost to Love
Author: Charlotte Eriksson
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2015-05-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781511497831

A young writer's search for a place called home, what it means to be an artist, and finding peace with a restless heart. The follow up to Charlotte Eriksson's first book "Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps", is the continued self-exploring quest of a young artist. Poetry, travel stories and journals that brings you in to this young girl's journey. ---------------- The journals and poetry explore the dreamer's fate of leaving and arriving, love and loss, and learning to go on on your own. It captures the city of Berlin, where I somehow ended up. The broken concrete, conversations with strangers, small moments of ache or clarity. The stories leads to the chapter of my Album Journals "Learning What It Means To Be An Artist," which is a series of journals and letters behind what came to be my second album "I Must Be Gone and Live, or Stay and Die". The album and this book go hand in hand and the lyrics and quotes blend into one another. The reader will find the book as a world of its own, and the listener of the album will find the musical world expanded into reality.

Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health

Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health
Author: Dawn R. Norris
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2016-06-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0813573815

Our jobs are often a big part of our identities, and when we are fired, we can feel confused, hurt, and powerless—at sea in terms of who we are. Drawing on extensive, real-life interviews, Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health shines a light on the experiences of unemployed, middle-class professional men and women, showing how job loss can affect both identity and mental health. Sociologist Dawn R. Norris uses in-depth interviews to offer insight into the experience of losing a job—what it means for daily life, how the unemployed feel about it, and the process they go through as they try to deal with job loss and their new identities as unemployed people. Norris highlights several specific challenges to identity that can occur. For instance, the way other people interact with the unemployed either helps them feel sure about who they are, or leads them to question their identities. Another identity threat happens when the unemployed no longer feel they are the same person they used to be. Norris also examines the importance of the subjective meaning people give to statuses, along with the strong influence of society’s expectations. For example, men in Norris’s study often used the stereotype of the “male breadwinner” to define who they were. Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health describes various strategies to cope with identity loss, including “shifting” away from a work-related identity and instead emphasizing a nonwork identity (such as “a parent”), or conversely “sustaining” a work-related identity even though he or she is actually unemployed. Finally, Norris explores the social factors—often out of the control of unemployed people—that make these strategies possible or impossible. A compelling portrait of a little-studied aspect of the Great Recession, Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health is filled with insight into the identity crises that unemployment can trigger, as well as strategies to help the unemployed maintain their mental strength.

Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder

Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder
Author: Miranda A. Green-Barteet
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2019-06-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1496823095

Contributions by Emily Anderson, Elif S. Armbruster, Jenna Brack, Christine Cooper-Rompato, Christiane E. Farnan, Melanie J. Fishbane, Vera R. Foley, Sonya Sawyer Fritz, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Anna Thompson Hajdik, Keri Holt, Shosuke Kinugawa, Margaret Noodin, Anne K. Phillips, Dawn Sardella-Ayres, Katharine Slater, Lindsay Stephens, and Jericho Williams Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond offers a sustained, critical examination of Wilder's writings, including her Little House series, her posthumously published and unrevised The First Four Years, her letters, her journalism, and her autobiography, Pioneer Girl. The collection also draws on biographies of Wilder, letters to and from Wilder and her daughter, collaborator and editor Rose Wilder Lane, and other biographical materials. Contributors analyze the current state of Wilder studies, delineating Wilder's place in a canon of increasingly diverse US women writers, and attending in particular to issues of gender, femininity, space and place, truth, and collaboration, among other issues. The collection argues that Wilder's work and her contributions to US children's literature, western literature, and the pioneer experience must be considered in context with problematic racialized representations of peoples of color, specifically Native Americans. While Wilder's fiction accurately represents the experiences of white settlers, it also privileges their experiences and validates, explicitly and implicitly, the erasure of Native American peoples and culture. The volume’s contributors engage critically with Wilder's writings, interrogating them, acknowledging their limitations, and enhancing ongoing conversations about them while placing them in context with other voices, works, and perspectives that can bring into focus larger truths about North American history. Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder examines Wilder's strengths and weaknesses as it discusses her writings with context, awareness, and nuance.

Religion and Media in America

Religion and Media in America
Author: Anthony Hatcher
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2018-05-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1498514456

Covering topics ranging from the Moral Monday movement to Christian films and performers, Religion and Media in America is a qualitative study of the ways in which religion has been woven into American popular and civic culture. This book explores how Christianity both adapts to and is affected by new media forms. Its six chapters address religious activism; government imposition of religiosity into secular culture; religious entertainment; Bible translations marketed as consumer goods; and how religious satire comes from both religious and secular sources. Recommended for scholars and students interested in media studies, film studies, religion, communication, American history, American studies, political science, and popular culture.

Worlds Apart

Worlds Apart
Author: Gayle Katz
Publisher: In Your Face Publishers
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2020-09-29
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

With the annihilation of humanity looming, can one brave explorer finally defeat the evil forces threatening Earth? Discovering that her half-alien blood gives her special abilities, a desperate Charlotte struggles to know how best to save the human race and is terrified of misusing her powers. But with the wicked otherworldly aliens planning an Earth-ending war, she is dead set on mastering her skills until the abduction of her best friend leaves her shaken. Torn between her alien heritage and her human roots, Charlotte seeks peace through diplomacy. But all attempts at a truce are thwarted when she is also taken. While the aliens begin her assimilation, the distressed young adventurer strives to embrace her powers to save all of humankind and herself from ruin. Will she save humanity? Or will she witness the destruction of everything she holds dear? Worlds Apart is the riveting third book in the Tears of Venus YA sci-fi adventure series. If you like alien worlds, captivating plots, and do-or-die action, then you’ll love Gayle Katz’s thrilling finale!

Charlotte's Homecoming

Charlotte's Homecoming
Author: Janice Kay Johnson
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2010-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426860633

Marrying a local guy and settling in her hometown has never appealed to Charlotte Russell. She's got a good job in the city…until a crisis forces her return to the family farm. She's not back long before the well-laid plans for her future fall apart. And she holds Mayor Gray Van Dusen responsible. In fairness, the gorgeous man hasn't deliberately messed up her plans. But his very active pursuit of her is sparking all kinds of strange urges. Such as the urge to abandon her urban life. The urge to see where these intense feelings between them could lead. And the strangest urge of all: to have a white picket fence in the last place she'd ever thought to settle.

All the Lost Voices

All the Lost Voices
Author: Anthony Morelli
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2004-03-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1414005768

All the Lost Voices is a first-person narrative that vacillates between the narrator’s present condition in a Mexico City brothel and his past experiences growing up fast and frightened in the unforgiving landscape of his hometown, Paterson, New Jersey. The parallel story lines are artfully interwoven creating a sometimes furious, sometimes apologetic exposition that encompasses not only a glimpse into the current psychosis of the protagonist, Tony De Felice, but a rearward view of the process that has brought this madness to surface. Alcoholism, violence, thieving, murder, exile, the imprisonment of his father, the loss of a fragile youth—all are addressed in drunken rants and gentle, often philosophical appeals to the reader, a tempestuous marriage of form and content offset by unexpectedly funny bits of wisdom and hilarious scenes of youthful indiscretion. The novel advances in several directions at once, from Nuevo Laredo to Mexico City to Tuxpan in the present tense, and from Paterson to Florida to Oregon to any and all points of the American map in the past tense, via car, train, plane, and bus. Yet in spite of this motion, the narrator remains emotionally frozen, bound to his past and locked within the parameters of his mind, feverishly writing his way towards an elusive understanding of himself.

Burgundy Hart: The Complete Series

Burgundy Hart: The Complete Series
Author: Lucy True
Publisher: Persephone Press
Total Pages: 426
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Burgundy Jane Hart is Rock Grove’s librarian and witch-in-training. Life in a supernatural town is pretty good for Burgundy and her quirky neighbors… until Burgundy is forced to face the unexpected. From a mythological menace bent on wrecking romantic havoc to witches placing the town under martial law, Burgundy gets more than she bargained for when the secret of her parentage is revealed. Soon, instead of enjoying small-town movie nights and pining for the woman she loves, our heroine is on the run. Will Burgundy ever learn how to use her powers, save her beloved town, and – oh, yeah – get the girl? Find out what it takes for an outlawed paranormal race to make a stand in this compilation of the complete Burgundy Hart series! Welcome to Rock Grove, a supernatural storybook town where one sassy small-town librarian/witch finds herself dealing with more than just overdue books! Search terms: lesbian paranormal fantasy, lesbian fiction, lesbian small-town fantasy, lesbian paranormal romance, lesbian urban fantasy, lgbt paranormal fantasy, lgbt fiction, lgbt paranormal romance, lesbian witches, witches, warlocks, paranormal fantasy, contemporary fantasy, small-town fantasy, paranormal romance

Just Desserts

Just Desserts
Author: Charlotte Ree
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2021-03-23
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0762473320

This charming little book will teach you everything you need to know–from cookies to bundt cakes—so you can make the most exciting recipes and be the best baker in town. This pocket-sized baking book is awash in charm, color, and smart puns for bakers: you can have your cake and eat it too! Thirty recipes range from chocolate brownies, shortbread caramel slice, and chocolate chip cookies to layered berry pavlova and chocolate ganache bundt. Its compact size makes it unintimidating and also a perfect gift, even if it's just for yourself. In Charlotte's own words, You'd butter believe this is the only baking book you'll need.