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"The Blackout Book Club is a fabulous novel that will warm the
hearts of readers everywhere. Amy Lynn Green gives us a poignant
look at life on the home front during WWII and how comfort and
camaraderie can be found in the shared love of books. This will be
a wonderful book club read!"--MADELINE MARTIN, New York Times
bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London In 1942, an
impulsive promise to her brother before he goes off to the European
front puts Avis Montgomery in the unlikely position of head
librarian in small-town Maine. Though she has never been much of a
reader, when wartime needs threaten to close the library, she
invents a book club to keep its doors open. The women she convinces
to attend the first meeting couldn't be more different--a wealthy
spinster determined to aid the war effort, an exhausted mother
looking for a fresh start, and a determined young war worker. At
first, the struggles of the home front are all the club members
have in common, but over time, the books they choose become more
than an escape from the hardships of life and the fear of the
U-boat battles that rage just past their shores. As the women face
personal challenges and band together in the face of danger, they
find they have more in common than they think. But when their
growing friendships are tested by secrets of the past and present,
they must decide whether depending on each other is worth the cost.
Includes a book club discussion guide and The Blackout Book Club
book list "A salute to the power of books and of
friendship!"--SARAH SUNDIN, bestselling and award-winning author of
Until Leaves Fall in Paris "The Blackout Book Club is an engaging
story that illustrates the power of books to unite and encourage us
in trying times. . . . A wonderful read."--LYNN AUSTIN, author of
Long Way Home
Readers will get 8 crochet hat patterns from up-and-coming
independent pattern designers. These designers are re-making the
projects using yarn that is carried by JoAnn's. *8 projects at a
reasonable price *Independent pattern designers share their
patterns with the JoAnn's audience for the first time *Variety of
designers=variety of patterns *Uses yarns available at Joann's
A WWII novel of courage and conviction, based on the true
experience of the men who fought fires as conscientious objectors
and the women who fought prejudice to serve in the Women's Army
Corps. Since the attack on Pearl Harbor, Gordon Hooper and his
buddy Jack Armitage have stuck to their values as conscientious
objectors. Much to their families' and country's chagrin, they
volunteer as smokejumpers rather than enlisting, parachuting into
and extinguishing raging wildfires in Oregon. But the number of
winter blazes they're called to seems suspiciously high, and when
an accident leaves Jack badly injured, Gordon realizes the facts
don't add up. A member of the Women's Army Corps, Dorie Armitage
has long been ashamed of her brother's pacifism, but she's shocked
by news of his accident. Determined to find out why he was harmed,
she arrives at the national forest under the guise of conducting an
army report . . . and finds herself forced to work with Gordon. He
believes it's wrong to lie; she's willing to do whatever it takes
for justice to be done. As they search for clues, Gordon and Dorie
must wrestle with their convictions about war and peace and decide
what to do with the troubling secrets they discover.
Headstrong Johanna Berglund, a linguistics student at the
University of Minnesota, has very definite plans for her future . .
. plans that do not include returning to her hometown and the
secrets and heartaches she left behind there. But the US Army wants
her to work as a translator at a nearby camp for German POWs.
Johanna arrives to find the once-sleepy town exploding with
hostility. Most patriotic citizens want nothing to do with German
soldiers laboring in their fields, and they're not afraid to
criticize those who work at the camp as well. When Johanna
describes the trouble to her friend Peter Ito, a language
instructor at a school for military intelligence officers, he
encourages her to give the town that rejected her a second chance.
As Johanna interacts with the men of the camp and censors their
letters home, she begins to see the prisoners in a more sympathetic
light. But advocating for better treatment makes her enemies in the
community, especially when charismatic German spokesman Stefan
Werner begins to show interest in Johanna and her work. The longer
Johanna wages her home-front battle, the more the lines between
compassion and treason become blurred--and it's no longer clear
whom she can trust.
This guide shares best practice for delivering mental health
support and treatment digitally. Part One considers aspects
relevant to all digital mental health interventions, such as
therapeutic alliance, risk, safeguarding, working with complexity,
and what people are looking for from digital support. Part Two
focuses on specific therapies and models, including CBT, ACT, DBT,
CFT, CAT and EMDR, and how they can be adapted for digital
delivery. Whatever technology is available to you, this book will
support you in taking your practice onto whichever digital
platforms both you, and your clients feel comfortable with. With
top tips from a wide range of practitioners, this book opens a
conversation about the benefits, challenges and best practice for
delivering mental health therapies using digital platforms.
Discusses process variation, model accuracy, design flow and many
other practical engineering, reliability and manufacturing issues
Gives a good overview for a person who is not an expert in modeling
and simulation, enabling them to extract the necessary information
to competently use modeling and simulation programs Written for
engineering students and product design engineers
Discusses process variation, model accuracy, design flow and
many other practical engineering, reliability and manufacturing
issues
Gives a good overview for a person who is not an expert in
modeling and simulation, enabling them to extract the necessary
information to competently use modeling and simulation programs
Written for engineering students and product design
engineers
Eating disorders comprise a range of physical, psychological and
behavioural features that often have an impact on social
functioning and can invade most areas of the sufferer s life.
Although eating and weight disorders are common in children and
adolescents, there is a scarcity of practical guidance on treatment
methods for eating disorders in young people.
In this book, Simon Gowers and Lynne Green bring together
up-to-date research, clinical examples and useful tips to guide
practitioners in working with young people, as well as helping
families of children and adolescents to deal with their
difficulties. Eating Disorders provides the clinician with an
introduction about how CBT can be used to challenge beliefs about
control, restraint, weight and shape, allowing young people to
manage their eating disorder. Chapters cover:
- preparing for therapy
- a CBT treatment programme
- applications and challenges.
This practical text will be essential reading for mental health
professionals, paediatric teams and those in primary care working
with children and adolescents with eating disorders. It will
benefit those working with both sufferers themselves and families
who have difficulty understanding the disorder.
Follow these easy step by step instructions and you'll be
crocheting in no time Twelve lessons start with yarn basics and
move through the different crochet stitches, increases and
decreases, and learning to read a pattern. Projects include 4
dishcloths, 2 pot holders, 1 scarf, 1 purse, 2 hats, 1 ornament,
and 1 vest.
British abstract painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004) played
a key role in the development of modern abstract art in Britain.
This new paperback edition of Lynne Green's classic monograph
completes the story of the artist's life and work with a new Coda
covering Barns-Graham's final years, which draws for the first time
on the artist's personal diaries and notebooks. Born in Fife,
Scotland, for over sixty years Barns-Graham lived and worked in St
Ives, at the heart of the avant-garde group of artists who made the
town internationally famous. Arriving in Cornwall just months after
the modernists Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Naum Gabo,
Barns-Graham was quickly absorbed into their inner circle. She was
subsequently one of the Crypt Group of young moderns, and a founder
member of the breakaway Penwith Society of Arts. In what is an
important contribution to the history of British art, Lynne Green
examines the importance of Barns-Graham's national tradition and of
her teachers at Edinburgh School of Art, particularly the Scottish
Colourists William Gillies and John Maxwell. Barns-Graham's
developing commitment to abstraction is discussed in detail: never
afraid to experiment, her work is revealed as embodying many of the
issues central to post-war abstract art. Barns-Graham continued to
work right up to her death with the energy and enthusiasm usually
associated with the young. Towards the end of her life her art
started to attract the attention it deserved, but this was not
always the case. Lynne Green's insightful text restores Wilhelmina
Barns-Graham to her rightful place in the story of the St Ives
School, establishes her personal achievement as a painter, and by
implication the importance of her wider contribution to
twentieth-century art. Since her death at the age of 91
Barns-Graham's work has enjoyed an increase in attention, not least
in the auction rooms. It has also and most importantly, been the
subject of re-appraisal through a series of exhibitions and
publications. This book remains, however, the only in-depth
biographical study of an artist who, despite often being unjustly
overlooked, had the courage and determination to pursue her own
path, and with spectacular and breathtaking success. In the last
decade of her life Barns-Graham's creative invention blossomed and
her output dramatically increased, not least because of her
enthusiastic adoption of cutting-edge contemporary screenprinting
techniques. In these years she worked with a new sense of urgency
and creative freedom, in which risk-taking became a central theme.
The result was some of the most exhilarating, joyful, and
life-affirming work ever produced by a British artist.
There is a subtle little twist of the knife with the statement that
my husband is "sober" for x months now. It sounds so dry, and
constrained and deprived. Sorry in advance to anyone successful
with AA, if that's hurtful. Now the incredible luxury of exploring
all our capacity for pleasure together is "sober"? My ex said a few
times, "I know the only healthy sex is with you" and "I know it's
more constructive to come to you instead of them (his harem of
courtesans)" and "I want our family, so I'll just be with you." I
am now the granola instead of the caviar? I am the spirulina
smoothie instead of the French pastry? I am the prescribed fiber of
physicality, the creamy butter is not allowed? Hell no. In the
early days of our marriage, I made the naive mistake of describing
the marriage bed as a banquet of pleasures. Ironically enough, this
was actually at the end of a discussion Reese initiated, saying he
wished that the grocery stores didn't put those seductive magazine
covers at a grocery checkout, it was like soft porn Maybe he was
fishing to see if I knew yet. I said then I always wondered why a
virile man would choose to use porn, why would he be satisfied with
an appetizer like that, just a tease? How little I knew, right?
Reese, of course, spouted off his scripted line that porn was a
travesty and the men who viewed it were supporting an abusive and
immoral industry. This is vanity on my part, maybe. No couple is
enthralled with each other sexually forever. But, to have access to
my sensuality and sexuality in the same category as being "on the
wagon" for the rest of his life, I would never, ever feel the same
about making love again. I didn't. I couldn't. Knowing that my
husband was STRUGGLING his entire life to only make love to me
absolutely crushed my libido. I am vain enough to be unable to
accept that. Whether that is wrong or right I don't know. But, it
hurts me to hear the "sobriety" comment for any of us. Damn it,
we're goddesses, and being our partners is a privilege beyond
compare. In my world, the sexual "oops" is getting caught in the
office with your husband. Being late for work too many times
because you just couldn't leave the bedroom. A "toy" falling out of
the luggage on your way to an exotic vacation. I fully intended for
us both to be completely and totally intoxicated. None of this
"sobriety" will do. This is my story . . . .
Sympathetic Leadership Cybernetics deals with the attitudes and
actions of managers working with positional authority and those
functioning in organizational leadership roles primarily through
personal influence. It is designed to stimulate the interest of
serious students in a particular aspect of management and
leadership required in the nonprofit sector. A Syllabus/Study Guide
is included.
This book deals with how to choose a mate, learn from mistakes,
stay married, and teach others to beak the cycle of dysfunctional
relationships. The present dating/mating/marriage system is not a
spouse trap; it is a dating/mating game. Part of the difficulty
with failed marriages is that the participants soon feel trapped.
When the dating game is over and they are tired of the old party
time, they want out. They start looking elsewhere for sensual
excitement, but there are children and financial obligations that
are not easy to evade. The more trapped they feel the worse the
relationship becomes. One more marriage relationship has been
sundered. There must be a better way
Hello My name is Erin and once upon a birthday my Aunt Gail was
getting ready to bake a birthday cake. I had an idea Why not make
soup. This book is a result of that idea. Why not join me in this
new tradition: make some birthday soup. You will "wove" it.
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