Sharon Davis: 17 books
Issy and Wuzzy
There's a Bear over There!
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Sharon Davis VandenHul grew up in the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota. She currently resides in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where bears, deer, rabbits, birds, squirrels, raccoons, coyotes and even bobcats visit her backyard. A former teacher, Sharon currently manages several Victorian homes....
80s Chart-Toppers
Every Chart-Topper Tells a Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The '80s were a decade of musical change. As the '70s disco stranglehold was broken, rock, gay, dance and pop music competed with funk and soul, romantic ballads and political protest, computerised music and controversy.
The glamour of costume, greasepaint and cross-dressing was put to good...
Every Chart Topper Tells a Story
The Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The glorious sixties were a decade for the young and rebellious, of cultural freedom and of sexual liberation. The British music scene had never been so adventurous, taking even the American charts by storm.
Every Chart-Topper Tells a Story: The Sixties takes a look at the number-one hit singles...
Every Chart Topper Tells a Story
The Seventies
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The seventies witnessed great changes not only in dress style but also in music. The psychedelia of the late sixties had mutated into glam rock by the early seventies, while the latter half of the decade is best remembered for the punk and disco explosions which gripped both Britain and America.
The...
by Sharon Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008
Dusty Springfield is a pop music legend. Goddess of the sixties, reluctant recluse of the seventies, enigmatic icon of the eighties and nineties, she attracted a passionate following that has remained loyal to this day. She crossed the line into soul music, her first love, but never turned her back on...
by Joshua Palmatier, Gini Koch, Seanan McGuire
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
What might we run into as we expand beyond Earth and into the stars? As we explore our own solar system and beyond, it seems inevitable that we’ll run into aliens … and what they’ve left behind. Alien artifacts: what might they reveal about us as we try to unlock their secrets? ...
Bomb
The Author Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Thirty years of interviews that offer “a window into the minds and the writing processes of some of the world’s best practitioners of poetry and prose” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Since 1981, the quarterly magazine Bomb has been the gold standard for artist-on-artist interviews,...
We Beat the Street
How a Friendship Pact Led to Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
Growing up on the rough streets of Newark, New Jersey, Rameck, George,and Sampson could easily have followed their childhood friends into drug dealing, gangs, and prison. But when a presentation at their school made the three boys aware of the opportunities available to them in the medical and dental...
Leading Women to the Heart of God
Creating a Dynamic Women's Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Building a vibrant, God-honoring women's ministry is an enormous challenge. There are so many issues to consider and points of view to incorporate. Moody Press offers Leading Women to the Heart of God, a comprehensive compilation of articles by leading Christian women addressing key areas of women's...
by Lisa Fetchko, Laurie Baker, Piyali Bhattacharya
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited.
The...
Queering Elementary Education
Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1999
Queering Elementary Education is not about teaching kids to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or straight. ItOs not part of a sinister stratagem in the Ogay agenda.O Instead, these provocative and thoughtful essays advocate the creation of classrooms that challenge categorical thinking, promote interpersonal...
by Sharon Alker, Leith Davis
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
While recent scholarship has usefully positioned Burns within the context of British Romanticism as a spokesperson of Scottish national identity, Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture considers Burns's impact in the United States, Canada, and South America, where he has served variously as a site...
The Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook
A Guide to Understanding, Exploring & Living a Spiritual Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
What is “Jewish Spirituality”? How do I make it part of my life?
Today’s foremost spiritual leaders share their ideas and experience.
Whether you are just curious, intently searching for greater personal meaning, or actively seeking ideas, information, practices and inspiration to enrich...
Real Sister
Stereotypes, Respectability, and Black Women in Reality TV
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
From The Real Housewives of Atlanta to Flavor of Love, reality shows with predominantly black casts have often been criticized for their negative representation of African American women as loud, angry, and violent. Yet even as these programs appear to be rehashing old stereotypes of black women,...
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