Today's teens are dealing with adult issues and problems that previous generations did not encounter. With little power to control or to affect outcomes, many teens feel overwhelmed, making stress and stress-related problems widespread among today's young people. Stress Relief: The Ultimate Teen Guide makes eliminating stress an art form. Written in a style that appeals to a teen audience, this accessible volume is not about managing stress, but rather about preventing and avoiding it--and eliminating the feelings it causes.
Today's teens are dealing with adult issues and problems that previous generations did not encounter. With little power to control or to affect outcom...
A haunting, evocative novel. In Prodigals, Mark Powell depicts a lost American landscape the small towns and logging camps of the South during World War II, with their subculture of fugitives and transients. I can't get the desperate hero out of my mind. Cary Holladay, author of Mercury In the late summer of 1944, fifteen-year-old Ernest Cobb flees into the dense forests of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Behind him, in his South Carolina hometown, the girl he thought he had impregnated is being buried. Her shooting death was not Ernest s doing, but Ernest fears that he will be implicated in it...
A haunting, evocative novel. In Prodigals, Mark Powell depicts a lost American landscape the small towns and logging camps of the South during World W...
Set in the South Carolina foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the late summer of 1970, Blood Kin tells the story of the Burden family and the community of outcasts that surrounds them. James Burden is the eldest son in the Burden family. A Korean War veteran and former prisoner-of-war, he struggles with inner demons and drug addiction. He has returned home after almost two decades of absence to find his family members consumed with struggles all their own. His former wife is haunted by her thoughts of an unborn child. His brothers, both Vietnam veterans, are troubled by their experiences...
Set in the South Carolina foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the late summer of 1970, Blood Kin tells the story of the Burden family and the com...
'You set yourself up as judge, jury, and executioner, Pamela had said, but that was wrong: you set yourself up as angel, and await the word of God. Luther Redding lost his job, and almost lost his wife, Pamela, and teenaged daughters Katie and Lucy, when the real estate bubble burst in Florida. Now he pilots a Reaper drone over the mountains of Afghanistan from a command center in the bowels of Tampa s MacDill Air Force Base, studying a target s pattern of life and awaiting the command to end that life. Meanwhile Bobby Rosen has returned home from his tours in Iraq to a broken marriage...
'You set yourself up as judge, jury, and executioner, Pamela had said, but that was wrong: you set yourself up as angel, and await the word of God.
Here is a collection of some of the best fiction writers dealing with Appalachia today. The stories are ripe with awareness, characters, turning plots. Edited by Larry Smith and Charles Dodd White. Authors include: Meredith Sue Willis, David Joy, Marie Manilla, Matt Brock, Darnell Arnoult, Mesha Maren, Taylor Brown, Jacinda Townsend, Carrie Mullins, Charles Dodd White, Jon Sealy, Savannah Sipple, Rusty Barnes, Mark Powell, Chris Holbrook, Chris Offut
Here is a collection of some of the best fiction writers dealing with Appalachia today. The stories are ripe with awareness, characters, turning plots...
This book explores and demonstrates the transformative learning experiences that organizations and their leaders can derive from the arts. It is through the arts that we have always explored our humanity: through dance and music; art and sculpture; theatre and poetry. The arts allow us to explore our own selves and our relationship to others and to the world around us. This central role of the arts is commonly accepted in everyday life, but the implications of this are not typically extended to the world of business.The authors argue strongly that, to the contrary, the methodologies and...
This book explores and demonstrates the transformative learning experiences that organizations and their leaders can derive from the arts. It is throu...
Four people's lives converge as they re consumed by the dangers of world, both real and imagined Mark Powell has been hailed as "one of the best novelists of his generation" by Ron Rash and "a writer on the verge of greatness" by Pat Conroy. For fans of Adam Johnson's Fortune Smiles and Denis Johnson's The Laughing Monsters Echolocation tackles big questions of our time through characters who are startlingly real Tess is a stay-at-home mother who has developed an odd obsession: watching terrorist ransom videos online. In particular, she's become fixated on an American...
Four people's lives converge as they re consumed by the dangers of world, both real and imagined Mark Powell has been hailed as "one of the best ...
