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In the day's dying light, Lady Timandra Lotterby peered out the coach window at thedark and shuttered house and wished she had never offered to accompany her friend, ElizaTilbury, to Perfidious Brambles. A cold shiver crept up her spine, and she squiggleduncomfortably on the padded seat cushion. Eliza's trembling hand slid over hers, and Timandrafelt instant shame. She was here to support her friend, not give way to silly, baseless fears. Yes,the estate grounds appeared unkempt, and the house foreboding, but an old man living on hisown might find little need to keep up appearances.

A Puget Sounder by birth, Judith Barker Kvinsland presents a collection of fifteen, inter-related personal essays that invite readers to accompany her through the twists and turns that disturbed the calm of an otherwise, ordinary life. Her memoir, told in memorable, lyrical prose, is a recollection of the time in post-World War II America, as well as a remembrance of place, while growing up in rural South Kitsap County in northwest Washington state. She reminds us how the memories of significant persons and specific places can impact us and be relied upon to give us strength, inspiration, and insight as we maneuver through turning points in our lives.Kvinsland concludes her memoir with present-day realities that continue to disturb the calm in adulthood, events that readers may have already experienced, or may eventually face: empty nests; new, unfamiliar living locations; serious illness; aging parents; loss and painful grief; and ultimately, the joys of grandparenting.“Disturbing the Calm: A Memoir of Time and Place,” is an honest, often humorous, heartfelt telling of a life that will stir readers to reflect upon their own lives and say, “I know just how she felt.”

When a fishing trawler out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean hauls in its largest load in weeks, the crew is ill-prepared for the unveiling of their catch an automobile painted-up like a military jet, with a body inside wearing a U.S. NAVY flight suit. The circumstances surrounding the scene are almost too much to comprehend how is such a scenario possible? Investigators have their theory, but even they could not foresee the overriding mystery behind this crime ties to an event that occurred on the Aircraft Carrier USS ENTERPRISE over 30 years prior; and they are not coincidental.

This is a story about one familys journey with an autistic family member, Steven; as told by his mother. It is also Stevens story from birth to the present as a man in his early 40s.It is an engaging and emotional story. At the same time, it is an honest portrayal of what it is like to live with autism on a daily basis.Cindy Rasmussen wrote this story for her children to help them understand what happened in their family when they were growing up, from the perspective of a Mom. Her eldest son, Mark, was only 19 months old when her autistic son, Steven, was born and only 2 1/2 when the first serious problems began. Steven was six years old when Geoffrey was born. So although they were there for most of the journey, they have little memory or understanding of the most difficult years for their family. It is her hope that as adults they can read her account and gain a deeper insight and understanding into things that took place in their childhoods and that this knowledge might help them as they go forward in their own lives.Cindy says: If you are the parent of an autistic child, I also want to share our story with you so that you know that you are not alone. Your journey will be different than ours because every child is an individual and every family is unique. Our story does not have a ';happily ever after' ending, but it is a story of hope and encouragement. We have found no perfect solutions, and we made many mistakes along the way, but we have found ways to overcome the obstacles and to find joy and fulfillment in knowing and loving our autistic child. It is my hope that our story will encourage you to also find a rewarding journey in life.For all who read this Cindy would like to leave the message that autism is not just a scary label, it has a face and a personality. She wants you to meet Steven, to get to know him as she and her family do and to learn why they love him and why he brings such joy to their lives and the lives of others. There are many ';Stevens' out there, they are not all alike, but by knowing Steven through this story, Cindy hopes to help readers have a greater understanding and acceptance of others like him.

This book features original work written by teens and compiled by 8th-grade teacher Josh Morton. These stories are driven by a variety of topics, which range from dysfunctional upbringing, individuality, poverty, death, faith, divorce and absentia, negative influences, insecurity, and self-image.

Slaughter County; the name conjures up all sorts of disturbing images. In reality, nothing noteworthy ever happens in this quiet hamlet not if youre a homicide detective anyway.Not until that fateful autumn evening ...The midnight sky was pitch-black, save for a sliver of a crescent moon overhead. Off in the distance emanated the lights of the city, oblivious to the darkness of this deed.A face suddenly appeared upon the reflection of the glass as the flame was lit it was the face of vengeance the face of evil.A phone call was made just as the match ignited its means to an end. A groggy, barely audible Hello reverberated through the phone.Click and the phone met its fate in the fledgling fire.As the inferno began to spread a single act remained ...

A book for all business leaders who want to maximize their unique potential, realize their full talent and live a more rewarding and enriched life. Just as an unleashed dog can more fully attain freedom by escaping its yard, leaders can also become Unleashed from the often self-inflicted restrictions to their potential. By accomplishing this, they set the stage to create similarly Unleashed cultures in their own organizations, thus affecting many others.Unleashed is a comprehensive guide to and resource for enhancing skills, radically improving employees' abilities to overcome obstacles, and creating a strategic plan to sustain the zeal for pursuing new opportunities. Regardless of the stage of your career, this book will provide tactics to leverage employee skills and do more than you have ever imagined.You'll Learn How To Rapidly build your self-confidence as a leader and the self-confidence of those around you. Guide and mentor others to maximize their talents and skills. Improve organizational performance and results. Enhance your most critical leadership skills: language, public speaking, influence, conflict resolution, time management, life balance, and effectively dealing with a diverse group of people. Implement strategies for improving organizational culture, employee morale, and employee engagement. Create internal and formal programs for mentoring, coaching, and accountability. Leverage technology to enhance relationships, increase discretionary time, and add valueto your career and life. Sustain momentum and success personally, professionally, and for the organization.

Sam is an ordinary teenage girl. She is going to high school and hanging out with her loving family when world war three breaks out. This war is not a conventional war, where two nations are fighting one another for land, or superiority. It is a war made and planned out by all world leaders. Not to take control, but to save the planet. What they did not expect was something to go wrong. Sam and her family got stuck in the middle, and not everyone will make it. Can Sam overcome the losses? Can she become the hero the world needs?

When Anthony C. West's first collection, River's End and Other Stories, appeared, the reviewer in the Oxford Mail (August 11, 1960) described reading it as "quite an experience. Like a kick in the guts from a jack-booted leprechaun." The image is apt. West powerfully united violence, decay, and corruption with natural, fanciful, poetic, and spiritual beauty. The combination is the complex, contradictory texture of life itself, of course, and West had a genius for making the reader see and feel it. Through the senses, he reached for the head and the heart. Like his literary countrymen Bernard Shaw, W. B. Yeats, and Sean O'Casey, West offered a complete world view. Parts of that view were esoterically Christian; all of it was socially munificent, and most of it was ahead of its time in being ecologically responsible. Receiving highest praise, his work was in print for fifty consecutive years: The Native Moment, Rebel to Judgment, The Ferret Fancier, As Towns with Fire, miscellaneous poems, essays, and a dozen or more short stories. For recent decades, however, it has seen neglect. Attempting to repair this loss, Eyler explores West's critical reception, his auto-fictive method, and other mysteries about his writing life. She has discovered among his papers other novels, promised but never published, and she brings to light his surprisingly feminist magnum opus, The Lady Actaeon, which occupied him over six decades.West's remarkable life (1910-1988) became the material for his ever-developing art: his childhood spent between big house and peasant fields in Down and Cavan, his hobo years in the United States during the Great Depression, his Royal Air Force Pathfinder navigating in the bombing of Germany, his experiments in communal farming, his role as father of eleven children, and his own spiritual development. This narrative he steadily mined for his separate but cohering fictions. Through the fiction-especially through Actaeon-and through his letters and interviews, Eyler investigates the special proximity of West's life to his fiction and finds a way to let the writer tell his own amazing story of fidelity to his art.