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Harriet has a passion and true talent for handling hair and crafting creative styles. She even passes on playtime during recess to cornrow or cut her friends' tresses. An unexpected boost in her popularity as a hairstylist leads to a busier schedule, boss moves, and a bit of best friend trouble. Sure Harriet can manage hair...but can she manage doing it all?

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In her sparkling debut collection, MK McWilliams meditates on the spaces and times and spacetimes that collide with the human nervous system. Environment and body, the body environment, personal space and the personable space. The manufacture of a moment, a when, the location of where, a person, a who, all intertwined with the spontanaeity and briefness that is the main side-effect of mortality. The human being as a membrane through which time...

David Hanlon's Spectrum of Flight is a chapbook of poetry about accepting your identity, overcoming homophobia and learning to love yourself in the face of hatred. This is a journey of healing, of acceptance, and of knowing your worth. These poems will sting, illuminate, confront, and ultimately heal.

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The Lord's prayer has widely viewed as a guide to communicating with God and a model as to how Christians should pray. But if we dig deeper into the prayer, as Jennifer Chamberlain has so aptly done, we will find that the Lord's prayer is a model for how we are to live our lives in relationship with God. Each chapter takes parts of the prayer and turns them into lessons we can apply to our daily lives. It can be used as a daily devotional or a...

The compelling story of how HireHer® a technology company was founded by a black woman who overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to launch her business. Get a rare glimpse into the personal life of the founder who walks us through her experiences in the tech start-up ecosystem as well as her time as a high-ranking government official during both the Obama and Trump Administrations. Learn how her faith in the grace of God sustained her through...

Lavender Skies follows Charles Dalton, a gay mannavigating life in early 1900's London. As he discovers more about himself and what he wants, he must alsofly under the social radar. He experienceslove and loss: learning what it means to lovesomeone with your entire heart, then to accept when you no longer can. He learns to love andaccept himself and build his family along the way. Lavender Skies was written by a queer author with the goal to c...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived. Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid. Tom dirties his clothes in a fight and is made to whitewash the fence the next day as punishment. He cleverly persuades his friends to trade him small treasu...

Robinson Crusoe is an Englishman from the town of York in the seventeenth century, the youngest son of a merchant of German origin. Encouraged by his father to study law, Crusoe expresses his wish to go to sea instead. His family is against Crusoe going out to sea, and his father explains that it is better to seek a modest, secure life for oneself. Initially, Robinson is committed to obeying his father, but he eventually succumbs to temptation...

Thérèse Raquin, née à Oran en Algérie, est l'enfant d'une union entre un capitaine de l'armée française en Algérie et d'une mère née en Afrique du Nord, une femme indigène d'une grande beauté 1, 2. Sa mère meurt et à l'âge de deux ans, Thérèse est confiée à sa tante - Madame Raquin, la soeur de son père - pour qu'elle s'occupe d'elle. Madame Raquin a un fils, Camille, fragile et souvent malade. Les deux enfants vont grandir ensemble.Quand Thér...

Doctor Marigold is a novella by the famous Victorian novelist Charles Dickens that tells the story of a "Cheap-Jack" who sells inexpensive articles to the poor in popular fairs.Doctor Marigold, named for the man who delivered him, is a "cheap-jack" who hawks sundries from a traveling cart. His lonely fortunes reverse when he adopts a deaf and mute girl whose mother is dead and whose stepfather, owner of a traveling circus, beats her.After losi...

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES IS A 1908 NOVEL BY CANADIAN AUTHOR LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY (PUBLISHED AS L.M. MONTGOMERY). WRITTEN FOR ALL AGES, IT HAS BEEN CONSIDERED A CLASSIC CHILDREN'S NOVEL SINCE THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY.Set in the late 19th century, the novel recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl, who is mistakenly sent to two middle-aged siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who had originally intended to adopt a boy ...

Want to write like an elf, but not learn a language?Welcome to General Use Tengwar, a mode Tolkien developed for using his Elven letters to write English. He used it to write the text on the title page of The Lord of the Rings, Christmas greetings to friends, and even secret messages to his fans. After J. R. R. TolkienÕs passing, many pieces of his essays and notes on his languages and writing systems were published, as well as some of his gor...

One of the English language's most popular and frequently quoted books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was the creation of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), a distinguished scholar and mathematician who wrote under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll. Intended for young readers but enjoyed equally by adults, the fantastic tale transformed children's literature, liberating it from didactic constraints.The story is deeply but gently satiric, en...

ALCOOLS GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE : poésie surréaliste ou Modernité poétique ?(BAC FRANÇAIS 2019-2020)NOUVELLE EDITION 2020 CONFORME AU PROGRAMME DU BAC DE FRANÇAISAlcools est un recueil de poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire, paru en 1913.Ce recueil de poésies, qu'Apollinaire mit 16 ans à élaborer, annonce la quête de modernité de la poésie, de jeu avec la tradition, de renouvellement formel de la poésie de l'auteur. Alcools est un recueil qui explor...