The PReP Diaries

The PReP Diaries
Author: Evan J. Peterson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2016-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781590215791

The term PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) has become part of our dialogues with not only personal physicians but friends and lovers. Readers of The PrEP Diaries will enjoy Peterson's stories about sex, intimacy, and the wild new frontiers of queer life in an increasingly PrEP-savvy world.

A Dog's Tales and Woes

A Dog's Tales and Woes
Author: Cynthia M. Peterson
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2013-09
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 9781478704980

Sonnets From a Dog's Perspective... Thousands of animals are neglected, lost, abandoned, and abused every day. Some are lucky enough to be rescued from their abusers, but many others meet a far different fate. The struggles these terrified animals face are heartbreaking, and their injuries are incomprehensible. A Dog's Tales and Woes captures the true-life experiences and emotions of dogs the author has encountered throughout her life. Beautifully illustrated, these sonnets will tug at your heartstrings-and make you laugh in recognition of their antics. Hopefully they will encourage you to be a hero for these animals by taking them into your home, becoming a volunteer at a shelter, or making donations. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to rescue organizations to help support their efforts in raising awareness of the needs of animals who can't speak for themselves. We can all do our part and make a huge difference in the lives of these faithful, loyal, and loving creatures. "She is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are her life, her love, her leader. She will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of her heart. You owe it to her to be worthy of such devotion." Unknown

Saving Schools

Saving Schools
Author: Paul E. Peterson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2010-03-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674050112

In this book Peterson interprets the history of American schools by placing major educational reformers in the context of their times and relates their thinking to our own era by scrutinizing the often unanticipated consequences of their commitments and ideas. These extraordinary individuals provided the critical ideas and articulated the ideals that motivated many others to search for ways to save the schools from the limitations in which they were embedded: Horace Mann, John Dewey, Martin Luther King, Al Shanker, William Bennett, and James S. Coleman. The drive to centralize was pervasive despite repeatedly expressed reform desire to customize education. Peterson argues that education has become an increasingly labor intensive industry that must reverse direction and become more capital intensive or it will descend in quality. Fortunately, technological change is making it possible radically alter the way in which education services are delivered, providing a new chance to save our schools.

Life in a Field

Life in a Field
Author: Katie Peterson
Publisher: Omnidawn
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2021-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781632430908

This is a comedy about climate change, in which a girl and a donkey become friends, then decide to marry time. A lyric fable, Life in a Field intersperses Katie Peterson's slow-moving, cinematic, and sensual writing with three folios of photographs by Young Suh. Introspection, wish, dream, and memory mark this tale, which is set in a location resembling twenty-first-century California--with vistas and orchards threatened by drought and fires. This is also a place of enchantment, a fairy-tale landscape where humans and animals live as equals. As the girl and the donkey grow up, they respond to the difficulties of contemporary civilization, asking a question that meets our existential moment: What do you do with the story you didn't wish for? A narrator's voice combines candor with distance, attempting to find a path through our familiar strife, toward a future that feels all but impossible, and into what remains of beauty and pleasure. Life in a Field tries to reverse our accelerating destruction of the natural world, reminding us of "the cold clarity we need to continue on this earth."

The Music Teacher's First Year

The Music Teacher's First Year
Author: Beth Peterson
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2011-07-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1574631934

(Meredith Music Resource). From a first-year teacher whose instruments were stolen before entering his building, to a teacher who received "hate mail" before her first day, to a teacher whose sensitivity, flexibility and insight gained her the respect of her ensemble in only weeks, this collection of true stories from first-year teachers is a delightful description of their real world. In addition, each chapter includes discussion questions for pre-service and young teachers as they prepare for their teaching future.

The Baja Adventure Book

The Baja Adventure Book
Author: Walt Peterson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1998
Genre: Automobile travel
ISBN: 9780899972312

Rather than simply recycling readily available tourist information, The Baja Adventure Book makes many original contributions to the knowledge about the peninsula. You'll investigate the lava tubes on Isla San Martin; climb El Trono Blanco, Baja's magnificent 1,600-foot big wall; hike to Tinaja de Yubay; backpack in the Sierra de la Laguna and to Arroyo Grande; and explore, fish, and dive the Midriff region, the "Mexican Galapagos." You'll discover the wrecks of the great sailing ship John Elliott Thayer, the paddlewheel steamer Golden City, and the US submarine H-I -- almost-forgotten incidents in Baja's history. Exact locations are provided for Marisla Seamount, the most famous scuba diving location in the Sea of Cortez, and to many other lesser-known locations like Ben's Rock and the Islas de San Benito. Book jacket.

Dancer

Dancer
Author: Shelley Peterson
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1996-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780889841772

Hilary James (`Mousie') is sixteen when she wins The Fuller Trophy jumping with her horse Dancer at the Royal Winter Fair. Her triumph is rewarded with an invitation to perform in England for Queen Elizabeth, but she has also attracted the unwanted attention of the evil Samuel Owens who plots to acquire Dancer for his niece, Sara. Thwarted in his initial attempt to purchase the horse, Owens has his hired man, Chad Smith, try to steal it. Mousie has a dream in which a beautiful blond horsewoman warns her of impending danger. She wakes to discover Chad Smith, syringe in hand, in Dancer's stall. Chad Smith is killed in the ensuing scuffle and his employer comes under suspicion. Dancer is flown to Highgrove, the country home of Prince Charles, and Mousie arrives with her mother Christine at `Clusters' -- an English manor, once the home of Arabella, the second wife of the Duke of Dewbury, now both long dead. Mousie finds an antique lady's hunting whip which she feels certain must have belonged to Arabella, and later discovers a portrait of her riding side-saddle. It is the same woman who appeared in Mousie's dreams.

The Xenotime Chronicles

The Xenotime Chronicles
Author: Casper Hutchinson
Publisher: Casper Hutchinson
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2024-11-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Vesper Reynolds is heir to House Reynolds—greatest of the seven noble families that serve the Selwyns, the galaxy’s ruling house that’s controlled it for generations. Vesper is also strikingly handsome, an accomplished knight on his home world, Cornill, and is engaged to be married to Bethaney—the beautiful heir to the Von Wincott household. Vesper has secrets, though, that could ruin everything: He is not really in love with Bethaney. He loves someone he is forbidden by law to be with, Sill Selwyn—the son of the Queen of Xenotime and Vesper’s knight in training—with whom he has carried on an illicit affair for years. Vesper hopes not to have to wed Bethaney until it comes time for him to inherit the throne of Cornill. But when a jealous Bethaney learns of Vesper and Sill’s relationship, she exposes it at a royal gala attended by the eight ruling families. Vesper’s father, Alfred, attempts to gloss over the scandal by forcing him to marry Bethaney and forbidding him to see Sill again. Vesper will not accept these things, however. Rather than spend a lifetime of unhappiness with someone he despises, Vesper decides to throw away everything he has ever known and hoped for. He takes Sill and flees Xenotime with him in his starship, promising to marry him rather than Bethaney. Calisti—the ruthless Queen of Xenotime—will not tolerate Vesper and Sill’s actions, though, and pursues them across the galaxy with a garrison of her best knights, intending to execute them as traitors to the kingdom…

Yours Cruelly, Elvira

Yours Cruelly, Elvira
Author: Cassandra Peterson
Publisher: Hachette Books
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0306874369

The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story filled with intimate bombshells—told by the bombshell herself. On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the nearest hospital in Manhattan, Kansas, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water. Third-degree burns covered 35% of her body, and the prognosis wasn't good. But she survived. Burned and scarred, the impact stayed with her and became an obstacle she was determined to overcome. Feeling like a misfit led to her love of horror. While her sisters played with Barbie dolls, Cassandra built model kits of Frankenstein and Dracula, and idolized Vincent Price. Due to a complicated relationship with her mother, Cassandra left home at 14, and by age 17 she was performing at the famed Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas. Run-ins with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Tom Jones helped her grow up fast. Then a chance encounter with her idol Elvis Presley, changed the course of her life forever, and led her to Europe where she worked in film and traveled Italy as lead singer of an Italian pop band. She eventually made her way to Los Angeles, where she joined the famed comedy improv group, The Groundlings, and worked alongside Phil Hartman and Paul "Pee-wee" Reubens, honing her comedic skills. Nearing age 30, a struggling actress considered past her prime, she auditioned at local LA channel KHJ as hostess for the late night vintage horror movies. Cassandra improvised, made the role her own, and got the job on the spot. Yours Cruelly, Elvira is an unforgettably wild memoir. Cassandra doesn't shy away from revealing exactly who she is and how she overcame seemingly insurmountable odds. Always original and sometimes outrageous, her story is loaded with twists, travails, revelry, and downright shocking experiences. It is the candid, often funny, and sometimes heart-breaking tale of a Midwest farm girl's long strange trip to become the world's sexiest, sassiest Halloween icon. Instant New York Times Bestseller, Los Angeles Times Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller, Publishers Weekly Bestseller A New York Times Best Books to Give This Season selection