The loss of her husband and soul mate Eddie devastated Elaine Brazda. After three months of isolating herself away from her family and friends, Eddie’s death haunted her. His sweet daily romantic gestures that once made Elaine smile are now used to torment her. Elaine left her home in Pinehurst, Texas, and reopened a bakery that her grandmother, Annie, left her in Newark, New Jersey. Eddie and Elaine always dreamed of opening a bakery, so she kept the name they decided on, Eddie and Elaine’s Sweet Treats. After a month of renovations and hiring her bakery crew, it was the day that she’s been dreaming of, Grand Opening Day. That was also the day Elaine’s dream quickly ended, and the series of frightening supernatural events began. Elaine’s grandmother, Annie, left a hot pink rotary phone on the wall that Elaine kept in memory of her. An old colorful character by the name of Mrs. Gulley knew the history of the phone. She told Elaine that the phone belonged to an old voodoo queen in New Orleans, Louisiana. Elaine liked Mrs. Gulley, but there was more to her than meets the eye! Was the phone magical or cursed? Elaine soon found out that true love never dies. The promise that Eddie had engraved on the gold locket was real, and Eddie always kept his promises! https://www.facebook.com/AuthorCarolACampbellGhostStories/

In his powerful autobiography, Reflections of Challenges and Triumphs, first-time author Lincoln Wallace offers an introspective glance into his life’s journey from suffering to triumph. Living an emotionally impoverished childhood, filled with self-abnegation and doubt, Lincoln could have gone on a downward spiral. Instead, paying heed to his own inner voice and holding fast to his dreams, he lifted himself out of the toxicity of negative beliefs and erroneous misconceptions about his personhood and his destiny - which, he ultimately discovered, only he could define. Latching on to his natural gift for the martial arts, Lincoln learned the art of respectful self-defense. Through seeking – and encountering - the best part of himself, he continuously reaches out as a guide and mentor to his admiring family members and students. He especially wants the disenfranchised, marginalized youth of our society to understand that they can lift themselves up – even if circumstances aren’t ideal or they don’t have role models to emulate, and even if they are told that they are not good enough. Such heartless criticisms – outright falsehoods - were meted upon Lincoln by his mother, who berated and downgraded him. Nonetheless, he pursued – and achieved – his objective of “becoming someone,” enriching lives in the process. “I want kids to know that if I did it, they can do it, too. What good is having experiences and gaining knowledge, if lessons can’t be shared?” the author observes. His story demonstrates that, no matter how downcast a heart may be, hope inheres in self-belief, holding one’s head high, having faith in a brighter dawn, and knowing, with every breath, that such will come.

Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career—an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives. It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn did for his. Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Seeker are as unforgettable a clutch of junkies, rude boys, and psychos as readers will ever encounter. Trainspotting was made into the 1996 cult film starring Ewan MacGregor and directed by Danny Boyle (Shallow Grave).

Morgan Stark Hanlon is introduced to love in the ticket office at the University of Tulsa. Addison Paine, her lover, leaves for law school in the Northeast and life becomes very difficult for Morgan but she handles it as best she can. Eight years later Addison Paine appears outside the doorway of a classroom at TU where Morgan is teaching. After some discussion, Morgan and Addison can't seem to help themselves. Before long, they are back in that very same room behind the ticket office doing what they used to do. A STADIUM KING OF LOVE is a gripping story of how two confused, misinformed people find each other and finally learn to trust their love for each other once again. And no...it's not about football at all. Sex and romance are the only things that go on in the TU stadium with these two folks.

What's Next in Love and Sex is a comprehensive examination of contemporary academic findings relating to all matters of the mind, body, and heart. Inspired by questions asked by students, the book covers cutting-edge topics so new that they are rarely addressed in current sexuality texts, providing insight into modern trends such as hookup culture, virtual pornography, robots, apps, and online dating as they evolve in this day and age. Written by one of the pioneers of love and sex research, Elaine Hatfield, along with historian Richard Rapson and social psychologist Jeannette Purvis, this book uses contemporary scientific findings to provide an updated and relevant explanation for why we do the things we do when we're in love, searching for love, making love, or trying to keep a faltering relationship together. Combining rigorous scholarship with an accessible and entertaining style, no other book will give college students and academics alike such a developed understanding of contemporary love and sex.

This book explores the poetics of “fancy” in the works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, a term often paired with imagination in well-known Romantic poetics. It sheds new light on this concept, which is described positively in Hopkins’s poetics and later becomes the essence of his idiosyncratic concept of “inscape”, as shown here. Chapter One discusses the influence of Coleridge and Ruskin on Hopkins’s poetics of fancy, Hopkins’s experiments in the language of inspiration produced by fancy before his conversion to Catholicism, his idea of inscape as revealed by fancy, and the relation between his fancy and the aesthetics of Romantic poets such as Keats and Wordsworth. Chapter Two focuses on the concept of fancy in Hopkins’s predecessors, William Shakespeare and Alfred Lord Tennyson, who, along with Coleridge and Ruskin, had a major influence on the writer, leading him to pen the play “Floris in Italy” and the sonnet series “The Beginning of the End” in order to experiment with the language of inspiration which he argued only fancy could produce. This chapter also discusses Hopkins’s interest in J. E. Millais and the impact of the Pre-Raphaelites in the development of his poetics of fancy, Hopkins’s fancy as metalanguage, the contrast between his fancy and the impressionism of Walter Pater, and the role of fancy in Hopkins’s sonnets. Chapter Three treats Hopkins’s conversion to Catholicism and his views on Catholic art, including his interest in William Butterfield and the Gothic Revival, as well as the abrupt parallelism between Christ and fancy in “The Wreck of the Deutschland”. Hopkins’s poetic diction is a condensed evocation of art and nature with fancy as the source of his inspiration. His metaphors are not ordinary figures expressing the attributes of things, but are autonomous and have their nature within themselves. Hopkins’s poetic idiosyncrasy is generated by the parallelism between distinctive and autonomous images which repeat the surprise and ecstasy of the poet contemplating art and nature. He endeavoured to achieve the poetry of inspiration with his emphasis on fancy as the basis of his poetic diction so as to reinstate it as the source of a “new Realism”. Hopkins’s fancy foregrounds the discontinuous nature of a new poetic diction, which demonstrates unfettered combinations between autonomous images and signs in metalanguage in advance of semiotic literary theories.

“We can achieve an experience of love that is beyond anything we can imagine: a universal love..." Relationships give us some of our best moments...and also our worst. It’s no wonder we’re so preoccupied with them—whether it’s fantasizing aboutg your ideal partner or trying to save a marriage, pacifying a difficult colleague or struggling to control a rebellious child. There are thousands of books promising to reveal the secret of how to improve your relationships. A course in Miraclestakes a unique approach, teaching that relationships are the classrooms in which we learn to awaken to our true nature, which is only love. In From Loving One to One Love, Discover that: We don’t “get” love from a partner nor do we have to give up anything in order to get it We don’t search for it out there in the world The love comes first, from within, then infuses all of our relationships To be open to this love, we release our judgments and grievances about others—”forgiveness”—and free ourselves! By applying the Course’s principles, discover how to achieve an experience of love that shines on all alike through the eyes of love—to love as God loves.

After her wife’s murder, Elaine takes a cruise on a passenger starliner. Of course, someone wants to kill her too. But Elaine’s alien-tech AI companion, Ricky, offers her more affection—and protection—than a “real” woman ever has. Are Ricky’s feelings for her truly artificial?

The city of Monroe, Wisconsin, is shaken when two murders occur four days apart. Police chief Brandon Johns and detective Samantha Gates are at a loss when their investigation takes them to a series of frustrating dead ends. Did the two victims know one another? Was there a connection? The citizens are upset and anxious, demanding answers. One of the victims, a woman, had left Monroe over forty years earlier to pursue a singing career in Chicago during the Prohibition Era. Did the key to solving these double murders lie in her past? Detective Gates goes to Chicago to find answers, and she gets more than she bargains for. Would the mystery be solved?