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Discover the joy of being your true self in this uplifting and empowering picture book about Benny, who looks like a bat but knows that he really is a butterfly. Benny may look like a bat, but Benny doesn't like flying at night, or eating bugs, or hanging upside down. Benny does like sunshine and fluttering and colorful wings. On the inside, Benny knows he is a butterfly!"I want my outside to match who I am inside!" With the help of some butte...

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New York City native Dina Paulson-McEwen's debut poetry collection, Parts of love, (Finishing Line Press, 2018) was a 2017 finalist in the Finishing Line Press New Women's Voices Chapbook Competition. Parts of love explores interstices in loving, delving into themes of relationships, living, the body, and desire, and includes prose and lyric poems. "Paulson-McEwen plays with paradox, excavating moments of hope amongst the seeming ruins, "that ...

When it opened to traffic in 1952, the William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge--simply called the Chesapeake Bay Bridge--was the third-longest bridge in the world. The four-mile long span was constructed over the Chesapeake Bay in a dramatic 2.5-year period of progress that became known to the workers as "Operation Link, " because it would be the first physical connection between the two widely separated parts of Maryland. The new bridge tran...

Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, came to power in January 2017 after defeating opponent Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. His online public diary on Twitter describes his daily thoughts about political happenings, opinions, and plans. He tells of misdeeds by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and call out the Fake News. If you ever wanted to really get to know the president, this is the book to read. Here is the pr...

Add Rocket Fuel to Your Business with These 37 "Must-Learn" Strategies Want to start or grow a business, but aren't getting any traction? Entrepreneurship is a hard game to play, but it doesn't have to be as hard as many people make it out to be. Matthew Paulson outlines the business growth hacking and personal development shortcuts that multi-millionaires use to get ahead of the game in Business Growth Day by Day. Whether you haven't made you...

‘A profound and moving book’ Woman’s WeeklyIn the end they drew lots to decide who would choose first:A wishbone, A tanner, A reel of pink cotton . . .France, 1918. In the final weeks of the First World War, a disparate group of British soldiers shelters in an abandoned farmhouse. To while away the time, they place bets using the few precious objects they still possess. But as the soldiers become restless awaiting their orders, tensions rise. ...

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A music prodigy, head of her class, and well-liked in school, Emily Paulson decided early that embellishment paved the road to success. As she grew up, she figured out how to make the picture look even better - with a successful husband, five beautiful children, and all the required accompanying accoutrements.Then along came social media, where those pictures of the perfect life grew her a following of women who believed that everything about ...

Als Paulo McComen den Jackpot knackt, ist das der Anfang vom Ende seines beschaulichen Dachdeckerlebens. Der gigantische Gewinn bringt ihm die Erfüllung seiner größten Wünsche und stürzt ihn gleichzeitig in seine tiefste Lebenskrise. Er verliert sukzessive den Kontakt zur Außenwelt und schließt eine unheilvolle Freundschaft mit dem Alkohol. Eine Reihe mysteriöser Träume gibt ihm zudem scheinbar unlösbare Rätsel auf und treibt ihn in eine inner...

Showcasing a discussion of the experimental process and a review of basic statistics, this volume provides methodologies to identify general data distribution, skewness, and outliers. It features a unique classification of the nonparametric analogs of their parametric counterparts according to the strength of the collected data. Applied Statistical Designs for the Researcher discusses three varieties of the Student t test, including a comparis...

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When beatnik sailor Bill Caxton waded ashore near Manzanita in 1958, he encountered an extraordinary local woman. Forty years later, he's searching for the son they conceived. But the eccentric detective he's hired must also solve a murder.

A long-ago desert war. A child's disappearance. And now, a dead witness.Grace Rampling and her lover, Sgt. Adam Davis, escape for a weekend to a Canadian lake in the pristine wilderness. What should be a peaceful holiday suddenly erupts into chaos, when in the middle of the night, an arsonist's fire shocks them out of their love nest.They rush across the dark water to make a hideous discovery: an Indigenous veteran is dead. He had once protect...

In this study of the English Augustan satirists, and the Roman and subsequent authors who were their models, Professor Paulson shows how rhetoric relates to imitation, persuasion to presentation, and the imitation of the satirist to the imitation of the satiric object. He illustrates the tendency of the satirist to invade his own fiction and imitate not the prime object of his satire but the satiric persona, which consequently takes on a life ...