Prison Diva

From the outside, Eden Kelley appeared to be living the life most women would envy. The talented wife of a music minister and mother of three boys, she had a nice home and was married to the man of her dreams. But soon after her marriage, her faith in God would be severely shattered when her dream becomes a nightmare. Prison Diva shares Edens journey from abuse to finding Gods grace. As a young girl raised in a Christian environment, her beautiful home and the marriage she dreamed of would become a prison from which she could not escape. Through her own diary entries, Eden reveals how an abusive marriage and years of neglect would result in a string of events that lead her down a path of self-destruction. The diary becomes her best friend, and she is able to record her innermost thoughts, frustrations, and desires as she navigates the confines of a man and a marriage beset by dysfunction and abuse. A true story of a womans desperate search for Gods help as she tries to escape from the cold, dark prison of abuse, addiction, and sin, Prison Diva chronicles Edens courageous journey back to Godand it stands as a testimony to his grace and forgiveness.

The tantalizing trio is spying down to Rio! They're shaking their groove things in Brazil's spiciest clubs while dishing the dirt on a major drug-smuggling operation. Only Diva, the hip, young owner of Rio's hottest nightspot, can help the Spy Girls get around in the underground. But she's also the daughter of the man who killed Jo's father! Jo wants justice by any means necessary, even if it destroys the mission -- and Diva's world. When her thirst for revenge turns deadly, will Jo be forced to go solo?

Some Anemones Are Blue is the third book in the Pagosa Cliffs Anemones Series. It continues the story of Cake Artist Milli Haywood. After opening the Wild Anemone bakery, Milli settled in Pagosa Cliffs, raising her sister's daughter. But the past followed her there too, and Vegas' Valtinin Mafia pulled her back into the old world of danger. Milli now faces the terrifying choice—spend the rest of her life in the shadow of the Valtini Mafia, or overcome her fear and fight against them by helping the CSI Katy Huson to bring them down. Would she be able to survive the battle, or the monster of her past be taking her down with them? And how would she be able to deal with love knocking at her door? Warning: “This book contains references to alcohol consumption, violence, abuse, or assault

After years of working behind a desk, Holly Morris had finally had enough. So she quit her job and set out to prove that adventure is not just a vacation style but a philosophy of living and to find like-minded, risk-taking women around the globe. With modest backing, a small television crew, her spirited producer-mother, Jeannie, and a whole lot of chutzpah, Morris tracked down artists, activists, and politicos–women of action who are changing the rules and sometimes the world around them. In these pages, Morris brings to life the remarkable people and places she’s encountered on the road while filming her PBS series Adventure Divas and other programs. We meet Assata Shakur, a former Black Panther and social activist and now a fugitive living in exile in Cuba; Kiran Bedi, New Delhi’s chief of police, who revolutionized India’s infamously brutal Tijar Jail with her humanitarian ethic; New Zealand pop star Hinewehi Mohi, a Maori who reinvigorates her native culture for a new generation; and Mokarrameh Ghanbari, a septuagenarian painter and rice farmer who lives in the tiny village of Darikandeh on the Caspian plains of Iran, where her creative talents run counter to the government’s strict stance on art. Along the way, Morris herself becomes a certified Adventure Diva, as she hunts for wild boar with Penan tribesmen in the jungles of Borneo, climbs the Matterhorn short-roped to a salty fourth-generation Swiss guide, and memorably becomes the first woman ever to enter the traditional camel race of the Saharan oasis town of Timia. Intelligent, phenomenally funny, and chock-full of rich and telling details of place, Adventure Divas is a pro-woman chronicle for the twenty-first century. In a pilgrimage fueled by curiosity, ideology, and full-on estrogen power, Holly Morris has paved the way for all of us to discover our own diva within and set out on our own adventures.

Expertly trained by a top-secret organization as spies, a trio of anything-but-average girls is tasked with protecting the world from danger and disasters. This bind-up contains "Spy Girls Are Forever, Dial V for Vengeance, " and "If Looks Could Kill."

Through a series of case studies, this book provides an understanding of the practice of ethnographic fieldwork in a variety of contexts, from everyday settings to formal institutions. Demonstrating that ethnography is best viewed as a series of site-specific challenges, it showcases ethnographic fieldwork as ongoing analytic engagement with concrete social worlds. From engagements with boxing and nightlife to preschooling and migratory encampments, portrayed is a process that is anything but a set of pre-packaged challenges and hurdles of simple-minded procedural tropes such as entrée, rapport, and departure. Instead, ethnography emerges as what it has been from its beginnings: a rough-and-ready analytic matter of seeking understanding in unrecognized and diverse fields of interaction. Crafting Ethnographic Fieldwork will appeal to scholars and students across the social sciences with interests in the practice of participant observation and related questions of research methodology.

A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity Today’s narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people’s lives. Before We Were Trans illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present, whose experiences of gender have defied binary categories. Blending historical analysis with sharp cultural criticism, trans historian and activist Kit Heyam offers a new, radically inclusive trans history, chronicling expressions of trans experience that are often overlooked, like gender-nonconforming fashion and wartime stage performance. Before We Were Trans transports us from Renaissance Venice to seventeenth-century Angola, from Edo Japan to early America, and looks to the past to uncover new horizons for possible trans futures.