Quinn, the Rottweiler
Quinn, the Rottweiler

Author: Maryly Turner

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2009-11

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1440174938

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Returning home, exhausted and empty-handed from a day trip to the Sacramento SPCA, she was leafing through her local paper, when her eye lit upon this ad: "ADULT MALE ROTTWEILER FREE TO A GOOD HOME." The last year had been a crummy one for her. She had to put down her last Rottweiler. She had undergone chemotherapy for breast cancer and had been missing the companionship of a Rottie. For the last twenty-five years, there had always been one in her life. A year had gone by since she had put the last one down, and at the same time finished her chemo treatments. This was not the kind of ad she saw everyday and she felt that this was a special message to her. "I will call first thing in the morning," she thought. This is the beginning of Quinn's story, a truly remarkable dog, who changed her life as much as she changed his. He became part of a new family and met many, many new people who became part of his life. He faced an enormous challenge through which he both taught and learned the meaning of love and trust. This story will appeal to anyone who has ever loved a dog.

Thunderbird
Thunderbird

Author: Jack McDevitt

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2016-07-26

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0425279200

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The Nebula Award–winning author of the Alex Benedict novels and the Priscilla Hutchins novels returns to the world of Ancient Shores in a startling and majestic epic. A star gate more than ten thousand years old has been discovered on a Sioux reservation in North Dakota. Travel through the gate currently leads to three equally mysterious destinations: (1) an apparently empty garden world, dubbed Eden; (2) a maze of underground passageways; or (3) a space station with a view of a galaxy that appears to be the Milky Way. The race to explore and claim the star gate quickly escalates, with those involved dividing into opposing camps who view the teleportation technology either as an unprecedented opportunity for scientific research or a disastrous threat to security. In the middle of the maelstrom stands Sioux Chairman James Walker. One thing is for certain: Questions about what the star gate means for humanity’s role in the galaxy cannot be ignored. Especially since travel through the star gate isn’t necessarily only one way...

The Maternal in Creative Work
The Maternal in Creative Work

Author: Elena Marchevska

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-12-11

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1351209825

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The Maternal in Creative Work examines the interrelation between art, creativity and maternal experience, inviting international artists, theorists and cultural workers to discuss their approaches to the central feminist question of the relation between maternity, generation and creativity. This edited collection explores various modes and forms of art practice which look at mothers as subjects and as artists of the maternal experience, and how the creative practice is used to accept, negotiate, resist or challenge traditional conceptions of mothering. The book brings together some of the major projects of maternal art from the last two decades and opens up new ways of conceptualizing motherhood as a creative and communicative practice. Chapters include intergenerational discussion of art practices in the 20th and 21st centuries, representations of breastfeeding and infertility in creative projects, the notion of the ‘unfit mother’ and childlessness, together with the experiences of women and men that take on maternal identities through many forms of kinship and social mothering. The Maternal in Creative Work will be essential reading for interdisciplinary students and scholars in cultural studies, gender studies and art theory and will have wider appeal to audiences interested in maternity, childcare, creativity and psychoanalysis.

Breezy Friends and Bodies (A Raina Sun Mystery)
Breezy Friends and Bodies (A Raina Sun Mystery)

Author: Anne R. Tan

Publisher: Rusty Chicken Books

Published: 2015-12-13

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13:

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A chilly breeze...and another dead body. Raina Sun thought cleaning her grandma's house in San Francisco to prepare for Chinese New Year would be a breeze. Instead, she finds her deceased grandfather’s secret journal and ends up French kissing the train tracks in a mugging incident. After putting the move on her grandma, her grandfather’s BFF took an elevator ride straight to the Heavenly Gates. And the second time Raina ends up flat on her back without a man in sight, she suspects the Year of the Monkey would leave her skulking in cold damp places where family secrets are better off dying with the dead. Join Raina for Chinese New Year--get your copy of Breezy Friends and Bodies today! For readers who like fun cozy mysteries, quirky characters, and a dash of humor. Keywords: For readers who like fun cozy mysteries, quirky characters, and a dash of humor. Keywords: cozy mystery, amateur sleuth, traditional mystery, mystery, small town mystery, female protagonist mystery, murder mystery, cozy mysteries, interracial, female sleuth, humor, series, college, funny, female protagonist, novel, secret, suspense, Christmas mystery, holiday, Xmas, holiday mystery, Chinese-American literature, Chinese culture, Chinese New Year, San Francisco mystery, Chinatown mystery, mystery detective stories, mystery humor, mystery romance books clean, mystery romance suspense, mystery suspense murder, mystery with women, mystery women books, mystery romance

Seasoned
Seasoned

Author: Tom Zink

Publisher: Off The Common Books

Published:

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13:

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Tom Zink was born in a blizzard in 1947, a child of winter. Seasoned: A Memoir of Grief and Grace is the story of Tom’s unwitting grief journey of five decades that begins when his older brother Steve is hit by a car and killed while on the paper route the two boys shared. It’s the story of a conservative German Lutheran family and the ways in which the parents and surviving children protect each other in loss with a silent acceptance that does not serve them in the long run. Tom buries his grief along with his brother so he can carry on with his life. His career after high school takes him around the world, across the country, and back again. It is only after Tom is married and a father of two teen-aged sons that, in a moment of profound grace, he realizes the depth and importance of his loss. His faith and new-found desire as an adult to process Steve’s death take Tom full circle back to his brother’s grave. But this is not merely a story of grief and recovery; it is also a tender and lighthearted look at humor and laughter, winning and losing, and doubt and faith.

Short Stories and Poems from the Heart
Short Stories and Poems from the Heart

Author: Beverly W. Bolivar

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2011-05-02

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1456894137

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I started this book in 1950s while in High School; wrote several poems and started some stories. Later in life I wrote more and have put together a collection of short stories, poems about family, life in general, trips and children’s poems and stories. I hope you will enjoy my thoughts of family, love, and country. Beverly Bolivar

Papa Was a Pastor, and Mama Was a Minister
Papa Was a Pastor, and Mama Was a Minister

Author: Nancy McDaniel

Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2021-04-22

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1098061039

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Curl up in a cozy corner with a collection of experiences from a preacher's kid (PK) viewpoint. These stories have simmered for over twenty years in scribbled form, squeezed out between life's more pressing responsibilities. Papa always thought if he could not do the job at a church in two years, it was time to move to another church. So we girls had many fresh adventures and met many different kinds of people in the ten churches he served while we were growing up. Our parents taught us biblical principles by their example in life situations. They walked the talk before it was a popular phrase. They demonstrated the fruit of the Spirit in their daily lives. Sit back and experience life adventures through the eyes of a PK.