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Judith Kirwan Kelley provides a unique lived perspective on growing up in Dorchester, Massachusetts, during tumultuous socio-political times. Deeply impacted by the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the decade of the 1960s dramatically shaped the contexts of living in America. The changing family as well as the social movements for Civil Rights, Women's Rights, Gay Rights, Rights of the Disabled, the sexual revolution, among other forms of cultural upheaval, all played their part in the life of one Originally from Dorchester (OFD).
Written with humor and pathos, the stories are based on the author's experiences, backed up by a comprehensive investigation of written sources which explore the complex history of mandatory school desegregation in Boston, and other cultural phenomena occurring at the time. Kirwan Kelley's detailed elaborations of family, neighborhood, and complex cultural dynamics are reflective of both the consistency and unpredictability of life.
Intended to inform as well as to entertain, Kirwan Kelley clearly demonstrates appreciation of having come of age in Dorchester. She is, and always will be, a Dorchester Girl at heart.
... An impeccable guide that makes planning an adventure elopement not just approachable, but utterly irresistible....
- Nick Edmundson, Founder, Wandering Weddings
Sherry's step-by-step guide enables couples to navigate every aspect of elopement planning with confidence and ease ... inspiring a totally different version of the perfect wedding day....
-Cat Ekkelboom-White, Founder, European Elopement Guide
This comprehensive elopement guide illustrates how eloping has nothing to do with sacrifice. It's for free-spirited, unconventional, and adventurous couples who want to buck traditional wedding ideas, enjoy taking risks and trying new things, and combine their love of travel and exploration with their wedding day.
Written as an inspirational planner and guide, it prioritizes planning a full day of unforgettable experiences and is for the brides unafraid of getting their wedding dress dirty. It's for the couple who dreams of dumping a traditional venue for an epic beach, mountain, waterfall, or glacier setting. It's for those who hear adventure elopement and their hearts skip a beat. Is that you?
From the enchanting Faroe Islands to the sun-drenched shores of Costa Rica, this complete adventure elopement guide is brimming with modern elopement insights, practical planning advice, and inspirational travel ideas. Featuring breathtaking imagery and planning details from jet-setting flight attendants who have eloped, it weaves together a tapestry of adventure elopements that have taken place all over the world.
For more information, please visit Sherry's author website:
SherryMartinPeters.com
Is extreme justice the mirror image of extreme injustice? Has a historic Christian knight, the likes of Dracula, victimized his enemies with such blood-curdling cruelty to become the greatest pariah of all times? Yesterday's answers are diced and spliced by today's most brilliant researchers. Team Vermandois in France-Mickey, Suzanne, Clarisse, Douglas, and Loni assist Team Romania-Russell, Holman, and Danno as all strive to resolve this moral conundrum. These two teams must dodge the sharpened talons of three battling rogue Dragon orders, mired in a brutal kidnapping, leaving a blood-crumb trail of ghastly murders.
About the Series:
Haman the Amalekite must steal key components of the Relic of Power (RoP), the world's most powerful weapon of mass destruction (WMD), which has existed since biblical times. Tracked by Loni Peronne, an agent of the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency), a mission known as the Missing Art Project has been functioning to find and secure all components of the RoP. Initially waylaid by a murder at the Leaning Tower of Niles in Chicago (Novel 1), Loni becomes mired within the Leaning Tower affair. Novel 2 opens with Loni and husband Mickey on vacation where their path intersects Haman's, leading to a cornucopia of problems requiring immediate attention.
Responding to this dilemma, Mickey Peronne assembles his trusted medical colleagues into a team within the Vermandois. This team discovers that Loni's psyche has bizarrely locked onto the persona of a 14th century French king. Through subsequent psychic encounters, Loni accesses other historical characters such as Vlad Tepes (Novel 3), Guidobaldo II della Rovere (Novel 5), and Duchess Anne Geneviève de Bourbon (Novel 7), among many others. Each stand-alone novel engages a new historic character, moving the evolving mission of the modern-day protagonists from a French maternity hospital ever eastward towards the Levant. An eventual faceoff is unavoidable in order to mitigate the destructive power of that WMD crafted in 1400 BC.
Judith Kirwan Kelley is the author of Dorchester Girl (SDP Publishing, 2021). In her second book, Since Dorchester, Kirwan Kelley continues her journey, only persuaded to get in the car or we're moving without you! by extreme familial pressure to leave her beloved Dorchester birthplace behind when her family moved to Boston's South Shore in 1968.
This is a memoir-but one infused with historical, sociopolitical, and economic background that molded the family's choices. Possessing academic degrees, including a bachelor's degree from Boston State College and a Doctor of Philosophy from Brown University, Kirwan Kelley brings theoretical perspectives from numerous fields to her book. The stories presented in Since Dorchester show us Kirwan Kelley growing up as a city girl in tumultuous social times, the causes and consequences of frequent moves, and the effects of rapid social change on family structure and society as a whole from women's rights, civil rights, the sexual revolution, and dynamic political changes. Enjoy!
SARAH MICHAUD'S CO-CRAZY BEGINS WITH a chronicle of growing up in a family with alcoholism that eventually led to a harrowing journey and downward spiral into drug and alcohol addiction. Her inspiring recovery is deeply authentic, and Michaud's vivid descriptions are both heartbreaking and illuminating. Co-Crazy encourages a path to recovery and is for anyone who also struggles with addiction and codependency. Michaud offers her own life-changing story as a backdrop to her no-nonsense advice, tips, and case studies. The author's comprehensive prescription for recovery is outlined in a step-by-step guide that will assist readers to combat, and perhaps defeat, one of the most pervasive and insidious problems in our culture.
If you are suffering in a relationship where you want someone to be different and you feel stuck, this book will help you. If you discover that your partner or loved one is using drugs or alcohol, this book will help you. If you feel it is difficult to stand up for yourself and set healthy boundaries, this book will help you. If you are overwhelmed by the people you love and care for because you feel responsible for their unhealthy behavior, this book will help you.
Co-Crazy identifies what unconscious feelings are running our lives without our even knowing it. It will give you the tools to begin to speak for yourself and learn how to tolerate your feeling states. Finally, Co-Crazy is about facing your truth and embracing your new life.
The MECE Muse is a 2018 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Winner in the Non-Fiction - Business/Finance genre.
Award - Winner in the Business: Careers category of the 2018 International Book Awards
The MECE Muse is a Bronze Winner of the 2017 Wishing Shelf Independent Book Award and a playbook of how you too can become a great world-class business consultant
Great consultants possess a je ne sais quoi that are equal parts confidence, passion, technical acumen, purpose, and charisma. Great consultants are authentically imperfect; they take life by the reins and forge ahead with certainty no matter how complex a situation is, in an almost effortless way. Great consultants are humble yet make everyone around them step their game up. Great consultants take care of their people. Clients thank good consultants; clients are wowed by great consultants.
Management consultant Christie Lindor has quietly been on a mission to be the mentor she wishes she had earlier in her consulting career. With 15+ years of experience working at top management consulting firms, Christie is now sharing secrets of great consultants in this new consulting business book.
Christie conducted research by connecting with over 50 top consulting partners across 27 consulting organizations on what makes a great consultant, including thought leadership from 8 out of the top 10 consulting firms in the world. The MECE Muse is an insider's guide to consulting, providing invaluable insights and practical knowledge including unwritten rules, career strategies, in addition to interviews from top industry consulting leaders who relate their personal experiences and offer unique perspectives on building and maintaining a successful consulting career.
What you learn from The MECE Muse, an insider's guide to great consulting
Purchase The MECE Muse because it is an insider's guide to consulting, providing you with invaluable insights and practical knowledge including unwritten rules and career strategies on building and maintaining a successful consulting career.
Salty is a young seagull tired of the hustle and bustle of the harbor. He's looking for his place in the world. When he sees a kind fisherman with a bright, sunny boat he hopes he has found his special place. As the fisherman allows Salty into his life, he realizes that this wonderful bird may just be taking him under his wing.
Salty is a beautiful story about finding friendship in unlikely places.
Twelve-year-old Mia Dubois and her family face the power of Hurricane Reggie, a storm that blows down a pine tree that causes damage to their Plymouth, Massachusetts home and puts her elderly neighbor's life in danger.
With school canceled for a couple of weeks as the town recovers from the hurricane, Mia visits her uncle in Chicago, where she learns about climate change and that not all communities are treated the same when it comes to having a clean environment. She and her friends start an afterschool club that becomes involved in standing up for the often-overlooked residents of a city a thousand miles from home. In the process, Mia learns important lessons about climate change and climate justice, as well as organizing and friendship. Most of all, she discovers that with hard work and dedication to a cause, the voice of an individual can make a real difference.
A Zoo Full of Rhymes is a collection of whimsical rhymes about creatures, familiar and unusual. When you come to this zoo, you will find exuberant, playful animals, birds, fish, and insects. You'll meet an agile agouti, learn where the dugong lives and discover how a dik-dik stays cool on a hot African day. You'll find out what the paca wishes he could eat. In all, there are 38 rhymes to enjoy.
This book is for all ages. Read it to younger ones and watch older readers giggle at the shrike's antics. You can even leave it in the guestroom for Aunt Adelaide. (She'll thank you politely, just like the wild boar.) Best of all, visit the zoo yourself and fall under the spell of these lovable and humorous creatures.
Our favorite seagull turned fisherman, Salty, is back with a new adventure He and his best fisherman friend are passing the day at sea, when a sudden storm arises and a faulty lighthouse threatens to leave them in the dark Salty uses quick thinking, and the help of a new land bound friend, to save the day.
The second book in the Salty series from Jenny Montgomery teaches young readers that friends look out for one another
Wouldn't it be great if relationships came easy? What if we all just knew intuitively what to do to make our marriages and committed partnerships the absolute best and deepest that they could be?
But the reality is that none of us are pros, and even our best relationships can go deeper. We often use love and sex as measurements for how developed our relationships are, but in reality, the glue between us is being intentional with one another, and learning to use curiosity as a strategic relationship tool.
Couples by Intention lets you eavesdrop on a handful of intrepid couples as they engage in twelve intense weeks of group counseling. As you listen to their stories, you'll learn how to stay interested in your partner in the good times, how to communicate in the stressful seasons, and how to keep your love alive in the normalcy of everyday life.
Come join and explore how to make your relationship last for the long haul
Hirschsprung disease (HD) affects thousands of children and families worldwide. This is the story of Henry, who has HD, told from the perspective of his older brother Peter. With beautiful illustrations, readers will learn all about HD, including diagnosis, medical and home treatment, how it affects families, and much more in this useful and charming book.
It's the mid-fifties in Boston, and the world is slowly changing. Jobs are disappearing, friends have moved on. Life is becoming a struggle. Just when things seem the darkest, one man finds his faith.
Heaven's Window is a story of one man's journey from surviving the war in the Pacific to coming home to a life he becomes lost in. Along the way, he finds his best friend, a stray dog he calls Sunshine. The adventures they embark on make their bond unbreakable.
He battles the demons of depression, booze, and coming to terms with losing his job, home, and everything he holds dear in his life. Begging takes a toll on his soul, and he struggles to survive as he searches for a connection to God. With Sunshine's help, though, he finds connections to the world around him that give him hope through that struggle, until he finally comes to the day when he can put the fight-all of the fights-behind him for good.
All author proceeds will be used to help the homeless.
DNR is a work of fiction based on facts encompassing conditions in large city hospitals as they existed in the 1970s and '80s. During that period patients who appeared brain-dead without any signs of recovery were left on mechanical ventilators and feeding tubes. They were treated to sustain life but at times lacked the dignity due to them as human beings.
A great conflict developed regarding the issue of not resuscitating these patients should they stop breathing independently or become pulseless. DNR attempts to describe one such case. As John West's life story unfolds, it traverses the multiple challenges, complexities, and ethical issues that occur too frequently in hospital settings as he is caught up in a moral, ethical, and political conundrum.
In 1999, Chiufang Hwang tried out for the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders on a whim, and the experience was an epiphany. That day in Texas Stadium, I finally understood what I had missed out on in high school and college growing up as the eldest daughter of Taiwanese immigrants. I felt so special. I felt included. I felt more like a teenage girl than when I actually was one. But mostly, I felt so American.
Since then Hwang has participated in more than ten Cowboys Cheerleader tryouts, becoming a fixture at the annual auditions. Besides loving competition, pushing her limits, and reveling in the camaraderie of those pursuing sideline glory, Hwang hopes to inspire others.
I want to empower women of all ages to pursue their own impossible dream. Maybe the novelty of a fifty-year-old Chinese-American psychiatrist--who has still never even seen a football game--trying out to be an NFL cheerleader will spark them to think: Why not?
American Sweetheart: Still Not Making the Team recounts Hwang's unique perspective of American pop culture and her place in it with humor, poignant insight, and unexpected candor.
Death occurs once or not at all. So thought Adolph Hitler in war-torn Germany. In current day Poland, a bulldozer cracks the foundation of a secret underground Nazi biochemical lab. The papers found there reveal profound anachronistic medical research. Additionally, an odd connection is found to exist with nine of the twenty-three leaning towers in present-day Europe. What was once hidden now lies uncovered, presenting a new reality that is wrapped around previously vanquished villains and secret Templar societies.
For the investigative US Army physician-scientist team of Mickey Peronne, Russell Lange, and Suzanne Coletrane, danger and intrigue hide in every leaning tower as the lines defining friends and enemies become blurred. As the world clock ticks, the race resumes between good and an old evil. Can the evil of the past be again shackled in defeat? If so, what must good sacrifice to ensure it?
From author Susie Rich comes a tale of friendship and adventure, told through the story of a great, blue whale and a lost, little duck on the shores of Massachusetts. The whale quickly befriends the duck, and agrees to help him and his family at Martha's Vineyard. Along the way, the pair encounters all types of friendly folks, both human and aquatic. With adorable illustrations from Randy Jennings, The Whale, the Ocean, the Duck, and the Pond is an endearing New England picture book that highlights the importance of helping others.
Now that Tommy knows the full impact of the cursed Gasparilla coin, he plans to return it and end the curse forever. But he soon realizes that the coin is missing, and his troubles begin anew! In Bruce Rougraff's third young adult novel, the finale of the Gasparilla Curse Trilogy, it takes the help of his brothers, his sister, and their neighbor Ed to try to recover it. Finding the coin becomes more of an adventure than Tommy or his family anticipates. They encounter ruthless criminals, modern-day pirates, swindlers, and skeptics who stand in Tommy's way at every turn. To add to their troubles, the world has changed since he first met Captain Gasparilla. Tommy knows where the coin must be buried, but now it is impossible to return it as he was instructed. This unforgettable cast of characters must survive hurricanes, overwhelming odds, and-more than anything-self-doubt, to end the Gasparilla Curse once and for all. Does Tommy have the motivation it takes to overcome all these obstacles, or will his family be cursed forever?
Henrietta is the story of a curious and resourceful woodchuck. Her curiosity leads her into several scary situations, but she is so clever that she finds a way to overcome her difficulties and earn the admiration of humans. With its delightful illustrations, children will enjoy Henrietta's adventures as she conquers the problems that face her. Everyone will admire the little woodchuck's courage and bravery. This is a perfect book to read to your youngest children, and early readers will enjoy discovering Henrietta for themselves. The surprise ending will delight everyone!
Should one change the past lives of historical people? Hardly. The problem is well understood to be a butterfly effect. However, can past historical personalities change lives in the present? Mickey and Loni Peronne need to find the answer to that question ... immediately.
Reeling in the aftermath of the Leaning Tower affair, Mickey and Loni stumble into something totally unexpected. They link into a bizarre time bridge six hundred years into France's medieval past. For unknown reasons and in an unclear manner, this past has gripped onto present day Europe, revealing gems that history books have never recorded. Nonetheless, the question remains: what happens tomorrow when yesterday's secrets are revealed today?
About the Series:
Haman the Amalekite must steal key components of the Relic of Power (RoP), the world's most powerful weapon of mass destruction (WMD), which has existed since biblical times. Tracked by Loni Peronne, an agent of the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency), a mission known as the Missing Art Project has been functioning to find and secure all components of the RoP. Initially waylaid by a murder at the Leaning Tower of Niles in Chicago (Novel 1), Loni becomes mired within the Leaning Tower affair. Novel 2 opens with Loni and husband Mickey on vacation where their path intersects Haman's, leading to a cornucopia of problems requiring immediate attention.
Responding to this dilemma, Mickey Peronne assembles his trusted medical colleagues into a team within the Vermandois. This team discovers that Loni's psyche has bizarrely locked onto the persona of a 14th century French king. Through subsequent psychic encounters, Loni accesses other historical characters such as Vlad Tepes (Novel 3), Guidobaldo II della Rovere (Novel 5), and Duchess Anne Geneviève de Bourbon (Novel 7), among many others. Each stand-alone novel engages a new historic character, moving the evolving mission of the modern-day protagonists from a French maternity hospital ever eastward towards the Levant. An eventual faceoff is unavoidable in order to mitigate the destructive power of that WMD crafted in 1400 BC.