Kitchen Dance

Kitchen Dance
Author: Maurie Manning
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780618991105

A little girl and her brother hear inviting noises from the kitchen and discover their parents dancing and singing. There's music in the air in this ideal bedtime story, with lyrical text that changes from pop ballad to a hot tango to a cozy lullaby. Full color.

Unless We Dance

Unless We Dance
Author: Mary Grace Osteen
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2012-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466964596

Shoshana is the daughter of Bella, a black house slave at Tanner Plantation. After Shoshana turned sixteen years of age, her owner, Eli Tanner, made arrangements to sell her to a neighbor plantation owner. His wife, Clara, a staunch abolitionist, makes arrangement for Shoshanna to be taken to Florida until the underground railroad opens up again, and she can get to Philadelphia, to freedom. Flying Eagle, a young Seminole warrior, steals her heart, and she happily settles into life with the Seminoles. Meantime, Eli has offered a large bounty for Shoshana's return. Whitey, a slave bounty hunter, and his partners kidnap Shoshana and take her back to the plantation in Georgia. In 1835, the Second Seminole War begins and after many heartbreaking years of death and hunger, Flying Eagle leads Seminole women, children, and old men deep into the Pahay-okee. (Florida Everglades). Chickees are built, and the women scratch for food much like the wild animals that share the harsh, wet wilderness. Their lives are hard, but they know it is the only way to survive and remain on their homeland. In Pahay-okee, the children would be safe and learn to laugh again. They could teach them to respect the Great Breath Giver's gift of earth, and they could hear the beat of the drums and dance. There, in the swamps of South Florida, where the white man was afraid to venture, they survived, and they never surrendered to the United States.

Bone Broth Secret

Bone Broth Secret
Author: Louise Hay
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2016-01-05
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1401950086

When a forgotten, time-honored traditional food is rediscovered for its health and beauty benefits, we all pay attention. In this one-of-a-kind culinary adventure, internationally renowned self-help pioneer Louise Hay and "21st-century medicine woman" Heather Dane join together to explore a fresh and fun take on the art of cooking with bone broth, as well as the science behind its impressive curative applications. Chock-full of research, how-tos, and tips, this inventive cookbook offers a practical, playful, and delicious approach to improving your digestion, energy, and moods. With over 100 gut-healing recipes for broths, elixirs, main dishes, breads, desserts—and even beauty remedies and cocktails—Louise and Heather will show you how to add a dose of nourishment into every aspect of your diet. You’ll also get entertaining stories along the way that remind you to add joy back onto your plate and into your life. Plus, you’ll find out how Louise not only starts her day with bone broth, but uses it as an ingredient in many of her meals as well—discovering why it is one of her secrets to vibrant wellness and longevity. "Wherever I go, I’m asked, ‘How do you stay so healthy and young?’ Or I’m complimented on how beautiful my skin, hair, and nails look. I always say that the key is positive thoughts and healthy food. For many years, the staple of my diet has been bone broth. My doctors keep pointing out that my blood tests and other health-test results are better than people half my age. I tell them, ‘I’m a big, strong, healthy girl!’ Then I talk about bone broth. I want everyone to know about it because I believe it is an integral part of my health, energy, and vitality."— Louise Hay

When You Dance With the Devil

When You Dance With the Devil
Author: Gwynne Forster
Publisher: Dafina Books
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780758213082

The Thank The Lord Boarding House is a place where lost and wandering souls come to settle down and find themselves. Neither Sara Tilman nor Craig Radcliff ever expected to be there - nor yet to find themselves drawn to each other once they are. And when they discover how important they have become to each other their quest for happiness they realise they may truly find out who they really are.

Tingleville

Tingleville
Author: Oliver Barkley
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2012-07-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 147712344X

Tingleville is a transformational romantic love story about two young adults. Joe is a dynamic lawyer who is recovering from the pain of a failed marriage. His ex-wife Mary Ellen was a sexual connoisseur who kept Joe so whipped that he was blind to her adulterous ways until she was able to replace him with a richer man. After a two-year vengeance filled sexual rampage through many of the most desirable ladies of Richmond, Joe realizes that he will never find love between silken sheets. Only by facing his fears and being semi-celibate, can he hope to find the perfect person to love. Lucy, an assistant professor of law at Richmond University, is also recovering from a failed marriage. Her pain was both physical and mental because her marriage to her high school sweetheart ended by annulment while she was still recovering from the first and last beating her husband gave her. After two years as an associate at a major Chicago law firm and another couple in private practice, she abandoned the courtroom for the classroom. The loud ticking of her biological clock and the emptiness of her life has her thinking of finding someone to love. A conference that neither wanted to attend resulted in their paths crossing and becoming intertwined. After a slow start, they race to see if the emotions they feel are real. One slow dance was enough to ignite fires of passion and put both of them on a quest for understanding. Joe hoped to find a woman to love that would love him exclusively, and be as skilled in the arts of love as his former wife was. He sees potential in Lucy. Lucy s mother told her that sex was as natural an act for a woman as washing dishes or doing the laundry. According to Mrs. Bishop, sex was a chore. It was a woman s obligation to please her man and take her pleasure from the happiness of her husband. She assured Lucy that the act was more pleasurable for men than women. Lucy s first sexual experience and subsequent ones proved her mom correct. One dance with Joe proved her mom wrong and set her on a quest for the paradise named Tingleville.

Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore
Author: Lorrie Moore
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Total Pages: 778
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0375712380

A beautiful hardcover edition of the collected stories of one of America's most revered and admired authors. BBC Culture’s Best Books of the Year Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, Best Short Fiction Collected here for the first time in one volume are forty stories by Lorrie Moore—originally published in the acclaimed collections Self-Help, Like Life, Birds of America, and Bark and including three additional stories excerpted from her novels. Moore is one of America’s most revered writers, and this career-spanning collection showcases her exceptional talent for leavening tragedy with humor, for blending sorrow with subversive wit. Her keenly observed stories are peopled by a variety of lost souls—husbands, wives, lovers, tourists, professors, students, even a ghost—who are often grappling with pain or disappointment: a divorced man obsessed with self-help books, a washed-up Hollywood actress living in a hotel, a woman with a terminal illness. But however lovelorn or dislocated the characters—from the wisecracking wedding guest in “Thank You for Having Me” to the self-deluded musicians in “Wings” to the complicated parent-child pairs in “How to Talk to Your Mother (Notes)” and “The Kid’s Guide to Divorce”—their stories are always grounded in insight and compassion. Moore’s portraits of the parents of a seriously ill child in “People Like That Are the Only People Here” and of a woman haunted by guilt over the death of her friend’s baby in “Terrific Mother” achieve a notably unsentimental and yet quietly devastating power. Whether moving or darkly funny, all of these pieces channel the messiness of the human condition through Moore’s characteristically knowing, wry voice, and together they confirm her as a master of the short story.

Birds of America

Birds of America
Author: Lorrie Moore
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012-03-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307816885

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the bestselling author of A Gate at the Stairs: A collection of twelve stories that’s “one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability" (The New York Times Book Review). A volume by one of the most exciting writers at work today, the acclaimed author of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Self-Help. Stories remarkable in their range, emotional force, and dark laughter, and in the sheer beauty and power of their language. From the opening story, "Willing"—about a second-rate movie actress in her thirties who has moved back to Chicago, where she makes a seedy motel room her home and becomes involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea of who she is as a human being—Birds of America unfolds a startlingly brilliant series of portraits of the unhinged, the lost, the unsettled of our America. In the story "Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People" ("There is nothing as complex in the world—no flower or stone—as a single hello from a human being"), a woman newly separated from her husband is on a long-planned trip through Ireland with her mother. When they set out on an expedition to kiss the Blarney Stone, the image of wisdom and success that her mother has always put forth slips away to reveal the panicky woman she really is. In "Charades," a family game at Christmas is transformed into a hilarious and insightful (and fundamentally upsetting) revelation of crumbling family ties. In "Community Life,"a shy, almost reclusive, librarian, Transylvania-born and Vermont-bred, moves in with her boyfriend, the local anarchist in a small university town, and all hell breaks loose. And in "Four Calling Birds, Three French Hens," a woman who goes through the stages of grief as she mourns the death of her cat (Anger, Denial, Bargaining, Häagen Dazs, Rage) is seen by her friends as really mourning other issues: the impending death of her parents, the son she never had, Bosnia.

Avoidance, Drugs, Heartbreak and Dogs

Avoidance, Drugs, Heartbreak and Dogs
Author: Jordan Stephens
Publisher: Canongate Books
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2024-08-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1838858091

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Brutally honest as well as poetic' DOLLY ALDERTON 'Necessary, urgent and totally original' AFUA HIRSCH 'Essential reading for men of all ages' CALEB FEMI Someone once asked me how I'd want to be remembered. I said, 'As the boy who grew.' Love is a gift, isn’t it? From our early childhood years to growing up and pairing off, it’s a feeling we chase knowing we’re better off with it. But what if love is claustrophobic and conflicting? And what if at the same time we’re chasing addictions to drugs, drink, sex and chaos? Diagnosed twice with ADHD, Jordan Stephens found his teens and twenties a whirl of career success and nurturing friendships but also a brutal pattern of self-harm, hedonism, destructive coping mechanisms and heartbreak. When he tried to live up to his own damaged expectations and his world exploded, he stepped away from his previous existence completely and allowed himself to explore the pain he’d repressed his entire life. Unsparingly digging into the fear, tenderness and trauma he carried in his body and mind, and the confusing assumptions of what a young man should be, Jordan Stephens discovers what it means to be a modern man, why we should all open ourselves up to life, and how the price we pay for love in all its forms is worth it.

Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture

Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture
Author: Catherine M. Roach
Publisher: Berg
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857850946

Moving from first hand interviews with dancers and others, this book broadens into an accessible examination of the popularity of "striptease culture," with sex-saturated media imagery, and stripper aerobics at your local gym. It aims to scrutinize the truth of a industry whose norms are increasingly at the center of contemporary society.