Bücher von Kate Smith

Hurdle after hurdle, everyone's experiences are their own. This memoir's filled with some of mine. Mixed with a bit of poetry and some spicy language, this was written to help you divide and conquer your trauma. This memoir may get a little too descriptive, but this is a complex topic that needs to be addressed, and societal changes need to be made. Trauma affects people to their core; no matter what has hurt you, we have all had to endure something that has negatively affected us. This book won't be the magical fix for everyone, but if it helps at least one person, I've done my job. Yes, there will be some triggers in this story, so read with caution. Please enjoy as I open up about some of the lowest and highest points in my life; this wasn't easy, but it's a topic that needs to be discussed. It's time to make people uncomfortable until changes are made. No one should feel like they can't walk the streets, grab a drink, travel alone, or do everyday life basics because others can't control their "urges." We've addressed it enough that people should finally feel safe by now, but they don't. Society needs to do better.

Bringing together two core areas of the curriculum, play and literacy, this book offers an innovative approach to examining literacy and language development within the context of children's play.

Three simple words. Words Savannah longs to say, but doesn’t dare. She’s made that mistake once already, at great risk to her fragile heart. Brandon seems perfect; the attractive, driven, medical resident with a bright shining future. But nobody is truly perfect, and the rough edges and his reluctance begin to show. Hold on? Or cut him loose? Savannah is torn between the messages from her heart and the logic ruling her head.Three little words. Words Brandon vows to hold in his heart for that someone special. He’s never said them; not to anyone. His imperfect home life has taught him the value of caution. He has issues, and he knows it. But a chance meeting with Savannah may just force him to confront them. This young woman might be his perfect fit; if he’d met her five years in the future.Their future seems uncertain, but fate intervenes, drawing them closer together. Hard choice arise. Or are they choices at all? Repeat the past? Or break the cycle? Three deceptively simple little words. They just might be everything we dream.

Summer at the beach house. Alex’s favorite season and place. Except this year, nothing seems right.As Alexis struggles to manage their young son, her husband, Joel, spends an increasing amount of time away, commuting to his law office in Chicago, pursuing his dream of a partnership and a better life for their family. Or so she believes, until she discovers a series of texts exchanged with his ex-girlfriend.Joel faces his own hurdles. His office becomes an escape from the demands of his wife and toddler, but mostly from the burden of guilt he carries after the near-death of his closest friend. Nobody understands or sympathizes with his pain besides Crystal. She has become his confidant and biggest supporter during these troubled times.As their relationship crumbles, Alexis and Joel must fight for forgiveness, for understanding, for their family, and for their marriage. Will their love be enough?                                            When your world turns upside down... How do you make it right? 

 A devastating loss. A faded photo. A fateful meeting.Two years ago, Savannah lost her adoptive mother in a tragic accident, leaving a gaping hole in her life and a single clue to finding her birth mother. She longs for answers that may never be found, but a journey to Chicago presents an opportunity to pursue her dream. What she finds will forever change her world.When Savannah, a teenage girl from Portland, ends up in Aiden’s emergency room, he experiences déjà vu, picturing the woman he once loved and the child he never knew. The meeting stirs memories of his own troubled childhood… memories of devastating loss and deep secrets he’s kept hidden even from his closest friends.One chance encounter…One unexpected moment…The second chance that changes everything…Some memories are lost forever... 

A wedding… Two exes… What could go wrong?All promises come at a cost, and Aiden has made many he cannot break. Especially the one made to a man on his deathbed. Take care of our Savannah. Now he must learn to parent a teenage daughter he barely knows… without the benefit of the woman he loves. Once he navigates the two weekends at his best friend’s wedding, he intends to embrace the future. Without Emily.Emily may have regrets, but she also has a career and life in Chicago and refuses to pursue a man to another state, no matter how perfect he seems. After watching the implosion of relationships around her, she’s learned the art of self-preservation. If she could avoid Aiden, life would be so much easier, but first she has to get through her bridesmaid’s duties in her friend’s wedding. One where her ex-boyfriend is the best man and his ex-wife is the maid of honor.Both vow to be on their best behavior to avoid ruining their friends’ extravagant dream wedding. But saying that final might be harder than they imagined.What would you sacrifice for love? 

This study investigates the symbolic role of the domestic dog in Iron Age and Roman Britain through contextual analysis of their faunal remains and interpretation of their representations in iconography. Previous studies have highlighted linkages between the species and ideas about death, healing and regeneration. Although these connections clearly did exist in the cosmologies of Britain and the Western provinces of Rome, this detailed examination of the evidence seeks to identify reasons why this might have been so. The work also highlights previously unnoticed patterns in the dataset that might add a further dimension to our understanding of how the domestic dog was perceived at a symbolic level. It has been established for some time that dogs appear instatistically significant numbers, compared to other species, in the special animal deposits that are a feature of certain Iron Age pits. Dramatic evidence for ritual practice involving animals found at a Romano-British temple complex in Springhead, Kent, and comparable finds from both sacred and secular sites, suggest that domestic dogs were also a favoured sacrifice during this period. As well as analysing such archaeological evidence, this study draws on anthropological, psychological and historical writings about human relationships with the domestic dog in an attempt to forward our understanding of religious expression during antiquity.