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Soap operas have captured loyal, often lifelong viewers since the first daytime serial debuted in 1949. In this collection of 29 new and five classic essays and recollections, authors and soap opera insiders delve into the passion for television melodrama that compels viewers to "tune in tomorrow”.

Winner of the 2015 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, This Angel on My Chest is a collection of unconventionally linked stories, each about a different young woman whose husband dies suddenly and unexpectedly. Ranging from traditional stories to lists, a quiz, a YouTube link, and even a lecture about creative writing, the stories grasp to put into words the ways in which we all cope with unspeakable loss.

Ellen Emerson was only four years old on May 31, 1889, when twenty million tons of water decimated her hometown of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Thousands perished in what was the worst natural disaster in US history at the time. As we witness in The Johnstown Girls, the flood not only changed the course of history, but also the individual lives of those who survived it.

Annie Corrigan is an on-air personality and producer for WFIU Public Radio and the host of the Earth Eats radio show.Daniel Orr is the owner of FARMbloomington Restaurant and author of several cookbooks, including FARMfood: Green Living with Chef Daniel Orr.

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Paperback edition of the biography of the Dr Feelgood frontman, published with the blessing of his widow, Shirley. Includes stories, memories and unseen drawings and images. From the author of "Barbed Wire Kisses".

Favourite themes and songs from such films as Star Wars, Frozen, Hunger Games, How To Train Your Dragon and Twilight, plus pieces from the Harry Potter film series and "Mia and Sebastian's Theme" from La La Land. Arranged for the intermediate pianist.

Don't believe everything you're told about food-most of it is highly misleading or completely untrue. Written by a farm and food advocate, this book identifies marketing half-truths and guides you through the aisles of the grocery store to simplify smart food shopping and restore your freedom to enjoy food. What is the only "food" on your dinner table that does not contain hormones? How can animals raised for food also be treated with respect?...

This second edition, with a greater focus on game theory, attempts to unify recent developments in economic theories of uncertainty and information for students.

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Kara-lee MacDonald is a survivor. These poems are sophisticated explorations of anorexia and bulimia, from within and in retrospect, as the semiautobiographical narrator faces and overcomes her complex drives and compulsions. Through a variety of poetic forms, she explores the deep structures of body images and societal pressures that create and promulgate eating disorders and the culture of shame surrounding them. The poems will strike a chor...

Anna Andreeva challenges the twentieth-century narrative of Shinto as an unbroken, monolithic tradition. By studying how and why religious practitioners affiliated with different religious institutions responded to esoteric Buddhism's teachings, this book demonstrates that kami worship in medieval Japan was a result of complex negotiations.

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This book contains the thoughts of a young, black, conscious woman.

On 3 September 2010, the RCMP in Grande Prairie, Alberta, received a 911 call from Mat Crichton about a shooting on a local farm. Seconds later, miles from home, Holly Crichton got a shocking call from her son. "I just shot Dad, " Mat told her. The violent end to a violent situation came as no surprise to the community, Holly and her sons had been living in terror from the abuse of her husband for many years. Surprisingly, when Holly and her y...

Gently to Nagasaki is a spiritual pilgrimage, an exploration both communal and intensely personal. Set in Vancouver and Toronto, the outposts of Slocan and Coaldale, the streets of Nagasaki and the high mountains of Shikoku, Japan, it is also an account of a remarkable life. As a child during WWII, Joy Kogawa was interned with her family and thousands of other Japanese Canadians by the Canadian government. Her acclaimed novel Obasan, based on ...

This esteemed reference work and professional resource, now substantially revised, integrates classic and cutting-edge research on how children and adolescents make meaning from text. The comprehension tasks and challenges facing students at different grade levels are explored, with attention to multiple text types and reading purposes. Preeminent researchers offer a range of perspectives--cognitive, neuroscientific, sociocultural, pedagogical...

This work represents the definitive account of the Jewish community in central Africa. It tells the story of the coming of the first Jews to the area in the late 19th century, the heyday of the Jewish community in the mid-20th century, and its decline since Zambian independence. Dealing primarily with the Jewish traders in Zambia who flourished in the face of both anti-semitism and their own acute social dislocation, Macmillan explores a numbe...

Do you believe in life after life? Meet Ross Bartlett, Earth Angel, the young psychic who is dedicating his time on this earth to proving the existence of the afterlife and healing those who are left behind. Ross has an extraordinary gift that few people share. This is the story of his incredible psychic talent and his rapid progression as a medium - from his first vision at the tender age of five to becoming the youngest known professional me...

From the beginning of the Church prayer has been a central part of Christian living and Church life. Praying with beads is a very simple way of finding a rhythm and creating space for personal prayer, wherever you are. The Anglican rosary is inspired by the traditional rosary but is more flexible and adaptable to the seasons of the Church calendar. This is a helpful way of praying that can lead you into reflection on your personal journey thro...