Children with a history of trauma don’t always respond well to traditional “talk therapy.” For many of these children, animals can be the bridge, taking them from distress, disconnection and discouragement to a place of connection, restoration and healing. Much like art, music or dance therapy, animal-assisted therapy engages children through their senses, rather than through words. For the child who is reluctant to talk to adults, an animal can be a great listener. Written by an expert in the areas of foster care and child trauma, this booklet introduces the idea that animal-assisted therapy might be the key to unlocking a child’s heart and beginning the healing journey.
A Servant’s Heart:
Supporting Adoptive Families in Your Community
Adoption itself may be a singular event, but the path toward healing for both a child and the family is ongoing. With support and care from those around them, adoptive families can truly thrive. A Servant’s Heart helps individuals and churches understand how to rightly care for the adoptive and foster families in their community.
Handbook on Thriving as an Adoptive Family
Real-Life Solutions to Common Challenges
David & Renee Sanford
Adoption is a high calling from God, and the Christian home is primary soil for planting seeds of faith. But how will post-adoption challenges affect this growth? Most agencies do not prepare you for unexpected challenges like an adopted child fighting with his new siblings, not wanting to be touched or showing signs of reactive attachment disorder (RAD). Packed with practical advice, ideas and resources, this distinctively Christian book is the only parenting resource that provides comprehensive, topical, Bible-based solutions for the inevitable challenges after adoption.
Wait No More
One Family’s Amazing Adoption Journey
Kelly & John Rosati
Kelly and John Rosati never expected to adopt four children from the U.S. foster care system. But God’s plan for them turned out to be even more extraordinary than they could have planned. Follow Kelly and John in their amazing journey through the child welfare system. You’ll be inspired by the story of how God brought their family together, and challenged by their honest and revealing look at the desperate need of children still waiting for families. The Rosati’s story is one of hope amid challenges, beauty from ashes, and faith that sustains. It’s a beautiful picture of what family truly looks like.
Wrapping Around Adoptive Families
How to Provide Support to Those Called to Adopt
There are many different ways to minister to God’s orphan children and to the adoptive families that have welcomed these children home. This booklet from Focus on the Family makes it clear that struggling adoptive families need their church families to support them during times of trials. While the suggestions in this booklet may not apply to all situations, they represent a general “cry of the heart” of adoptive families who welcomed home an emotionally wounded or struggling child. The goal is to provide practical guidance for churches seeking effective ways to support adoptive families.
Attachment in Adoption
The parenting of children from hard places can be a challenge for many adoptive parents – but there is hope for even the most complex situations. “Attachment in Adoption” gives adoptive and foster parents in-depth insights into why their child may have difficulty adapting to life in a new family – and gives them hope for success.
This positive and informative booklet will show you how your child has formed his or her current behavior and offers tips and resources for overcoming their past and building a bond that is rewarding for both you and your child.
Hope & Healing for Sensory Deprivation
Many adoptive families struggle with some of the behaviors of their children. At times, that is due to a lack of knowledge about sensory processing disorder and how it impacts children. This booklet gives some practical ways families can identify the signs of sensory processing disorder as well as ways to help their child heal.
Closer is a topical resource to aid adoptive and foster families to help their children heal, trust, and grow. These relational family activities are written in an age-appropriate, trauma-informed manner designed to bring about holistic healing. Each topical unit has resources to equip the parent, four short active lessons incorporating play and art therapy, and an Integrity Shout Praises Kids song. Topics include Anger Management, Healthy Grieving, God is with Me, and Safety and Personal Boundaries.
The Connected Child
For Parents Who Have Welcomed Children
Karyn B. Purvis, Ph.D., David R. Cross, Ph.D., Wendy Lyons Sunshine
The adoption of a child is always a joyous moment in the life of a family. Some adoptions, though, present unique challenges. Welcoming these children into your family—and addressing their special needs—requires care, consideration, and compassion. Written by two research psychologists specializing in adoption and attachment, The Connected Child will help you:
- Build bonds of affection and trust with your adopted child
- Effectively deal with any learning or behavioral disorders
- Discipline your child with love without making him or her feel threatened
Karyn B. Purvis, Ph.D., is director of Texas Christian University’s Institute of Child Development, which hosts the Adoption Project and its Hope Connection camp.
How We Love Our Kids
The 5 Love Styles of Parenting
Milan & Kay Yerkovich
Based on years of research in the area of attachment and bonding, How We Love Our Kids shows parents how to overcome the predictable challenges that arise out of the five love styles and helps parents cultivate a secure, deep connection with a child of any age. Retool your reactions and refocus on how you love. Start today. Watch your kids flourish and thrive as they receive what was missing in your love.
Where Hearts Meet
Dr. Karyn Purvis
This interactive small group study is designed to help you and your child build a lasting, loving connection. You will be encouraged and equipped with practical help based on Biblical truths and research-based interventions specifically developed for adoptive or foster care families.
Other Helpful Links:
The Post-Adoption Life: Supporting Adoptees, Birth Parents, and Families After Adoption
Ways to Help Your Child Learn New Behaviors
Empowered to Connect Video Resources
Adjusting to Life After an Adoption
Your Child’s Adoption Life Story


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On Sunday, June 23, 2013 from 12:00 – 3:00 pm, Andrews Construction helped the Pease Public Library kick off their summer reading program at the Plymouth Municipal Airport. The theme was “Dig into Reading” and many local groups participated by bringing equipment that the children could climb in and explore. Andrews brought a dump truck and a loader. There were also planes, race cars, police cars, tractors and a fire truck. It seemed like everyone who attended was enjoying the event and it was an excellent afternoon in support of the library’s summer reading program.


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The Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis/Strategic Action Programme (TDA/SAP) approach is a highly collaborative process that has proven to be a major component of GEF International Waters projects over the last 16 years.
The Project Management Manual is a reference source and a guide for managing GEF IW projects. It contains a checklist to consider at every stage from inception to project closure, and gives guidance important topics such as monitoring and evaluation and financial considerations.
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Welcome to GEF IW:LEARN guidance for projects on climate change and variability. The guidance is designed to assist GEF IW projects with the GEF V requirement to take climate change and variability into consideration in the implementation of IW projects.
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This book is a collection of James T Murray’s recent, personal images. As a counterpoint to the perfection of his commercial work, Elucidate/Vol1 is a collection of visceral images of Murray’s experiences in New York and other metropolitan cities over the past few years.
Recognized as one of Spain’s most important artists, Manolo Valdés contributed to the majestic beauty of the New York Botanical Garden with seven monumental pieces. In partnership with the prestigious Marlborough Gallery, this title presents stunning imagery of Valdés’s sculptures during the Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer of 2012/13 with original photography by James T Murray.
James was commissioned by the publishing house of Assouline to produce images of the sculpture installation by the renowned European artist Manolo Valdes. The exhibit of 16 monumental sculptures lined a one hundred block stretch of New York’s Broadway in late 2010.
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I recently finished this auto biography by Brad Paisley with David Wild. It is an interesting book that recounts how Paisley got to where is it today. It is a lot of memories from his youth in West Virginia, and a lot of praise for his country idols. It was a little bit of guitar talk but no where near the scale I like, which to be fair is not the reason he wrote the book. However, he did include a great story about a guitar he got from Gruhn’s Guitars, but I won’t give it away. A lot of the memories are reminiscing about his grandfather who introduced him to the guitar and his band in wheeling comprised mainly of senior citizens who knew how to play. I didn’t know much about his back story so it was cool to see how he got started, but the biography took a while to get going. He fills the ends of chapters out with quotes from other musicians who are talking about him.
Brad Paisley tells a lot of heartfelt stories, but it can’t help but seem like the beginning to another volume. He takes a long time detailing his early life, but then speeds through the end. Now, I can only hope that he will write a sequel or maybe something more in depth about his Nashville years and current career. It was nice to get an insight into how Brad thinks and sees himself.


Students in Distress
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I take back my earlier status update. About 5 pages later I figured it out and I no longer wanted to bang my head against the wall. These Things Hidden tells the story of a teenage girl accused and sentenced to prison for killing her newborn daughter. The story starts with Allison and alternates POV's with three other characters. My biggest complaint was in fact the alternating POV's. Usually i don;t mind that in a book but in this one it didn't bode well with the plot or flow of the story- especially towards the end of the book. Chapter by chapter we are given small bits of information about the night that Allison gives birth. This was a quick read and I would recommend it to anyone looking for something along the lines of Diane Chamberlains work.


1. The Holy Prophet Elias.
A man who saw God, a wonderworker and a zealot for faith in God, Elias was of the tribe of Aaron, from the city of Tishba, whence he was known as 'the Tishbite'. When Elias was born, his father Sabah saw angels of God around the child, swaddling it with fire and feeding it with flames. This was a foreshadowing of Elias's fiery character and his God-given fiery powers. He spent his whole youth in prayer and meditation, withdrawing often to the desert to ponder and pray in tranquillity. At that time, the Jewish Kingdom was divided into two unequal parts: the Kingdom of Judah consisted only of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, with its capital at Jerusalem, while the Kingdom of Israel consisted of the other ten tribes, with its capital at Samaria. The former kingdom was ruled by the descendants of Solomon, and the latter by the descendants of Jeroboam, a servant of Solomon's. The prophet Elias came into the greatest conflict with the Israelite king, Ahab, and his evil wife Jezebel, for they worshipped idols and turned the people from the service of the one, living God. On top of this, Jezebel, being a Syrian, persuaded her husband to build a temple to the Syrian god, Baal, and appointed many priests to the service of this false god. Elias performed many miracles by the power of God: he closed the heavens, that no rain should fall for three years and six months; called down fire from heaven to consume the sacrifice to his God, while the priests of Baal were unable to do this; brought rain from the heavens at his prayers; miraculously multiplied corn and oil in the widow's house at Zarephath, and restored her dead son to life; prophesied to Ahab that the dogs would lick up his blood, and to Jezebel that the dogs would devour her - which came to pass; and performed many other miracles and foretold many events. He talked with God on Horeb, and heard His voice in the calm after the great wind. At the time of his death, he took Elisha and appointed him his heir as a prophet; he parted the Jordan with his mantle and was finally borne to heaven in a fiery chariot drawn by fiery horses. He appeared together with Moses, to our Lord Jesus Christ on Tabor. At the end of the world, Elias will appear again, to break the power of antichrist (Rev. 11).
Author's note: In the Greek Lives of the Saints, the following miracle of the holy prophet Elias is recorded: a certain Paisius, abbot of the monastery of St Elias in Jerusalem, went to Constantinople and from Constantinople to Belgrade at the time that Patriarch Paisius was staying there. At that time, there was an Orthodox Christian living in Belgrade, married to a Latin wife. On St Elias's day, the wife planned to make bread, but her husband said to her: 'You must not work.' His wife replied that the feast had been two days earlier (according to the Roman Calendar). And so a dispute arose between them. The stubborn woman kneaded the dough, but then a marvel! The dough became stone in her hands! At that, the neighbours gathered round, and each of them took a piece of the stone. Paisius took a piece of it, as a witness to God's miracle, and took it with him to Jerusalem. He laid this piece of stone in front of the icon of the holy prophet Elias in his monastery. (This is recorded in Dositheus Book XII, Ch. 11, Para. 2, p. 1192.)
2. St Elias, Patriarch of Jerusalem, and St Flavius, Patriarch of Antioch.
Great zealots for the Faith and defenders of Orthodoxy, they both died in exile, driven there by the heretical Emperor Anastasius. They foresaw precisely the death of Emperor Anastasius and their own deaths. They wrote to each other at the same time from widely different places: 'Anastasius the Emperor is dying today; let us go to God's judgement with him.' After two days, both these holy hierarchs died, in the ear 518.


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Title: Embrace of the Daimon: Healing through the Subtle Energy Body: Jungian Psychology and the Dark Feminine
Author: Sandra Lee Dennis
Print Publisher: West County Press, 2013; Nicolas-Hayes, 2001
ISBN: 1939812038, 978-1939812032
Length: 266 pages
Kindle Publisher: West County Press, 2012
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SANDRA LEE DENNIS, PhD, is an author, teacher and explorer of the interplay of depth psychology and spiritual experience. She has been on the faculty of six universities, as well as the C.G.Jung Institute of San Francisco. Sandra currently lives and works in the Bay Area.
SANDRA LEE DENNIS, PhD, obtained her B.A. and M.A. in from the University of Michigan, and her doctorate in Integral Studies/ Psychology and Religion, from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is an author, teacher and explorer of the interplay of depth psychology and spirituality. She has been on the faculty of six universities, as well as the C.G.Jung Institute of San Francisco. Her practices of mindfulness, inquiry, yoga, and core energetics inform her writings and her work.
Sandra’s writings have emerged from immersion and inquiry into the depths of interior life. Bridging the world of scholar and visionary, her call has been to navigate and bring light to the shadowlands—those subtle interior spheres that defy description and often appear obscure, painful, or unreal to the logical mind. In her work, she tracks and translates difficult personal experiences to archetypal truths about human nature. Her deep-diving explorations and research have helped many to name and to heal their suffering.
In her first book, Embrace of the Daimon, Sandra pioneered in exploring primeval spaces of the unconscious psyche and their relation to a developing feminine spirituality. Using a Jungian framework, she traces a rare account of a spontaneous eruption of taboo, wild stories and monstrous characters from the underground of the psyche. In the descending spirituality that emerges, she presents a practical method for healing the dangerous split between body, soul and spirit that afflicts our times. Cultural historian, Richard Tarnas described her work as a “significant contribution to the phenomenology of altered states of consciousness.”
In her latest book Love and the Mystery of Betrayal Sandra dives again into dark recesses of the psyche that traditionally resist description, his time to explore abandonment, trauma, pain and heartache. Casting betrayal as a profound initiation of the heart, she shares her own story while taking us through the classic stages of a dark night passage. She puts flesh on the bones of existing theories about betrayal, trust and forgiveness to help those journeying through such an ordeal and those who would help them navigate these deep waters. Meditation teacher, Tara Brach calls it “A powerful book that will serve many.”
Sandra currently lives and works in the Bay Area.
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Praise for Embrace of the Daimon:
“Sandra Dennis has written a courageous, important book. In Embrace of the Daimon, she moves psychology into a fuller engagement with the uncharted depths of archetypal, imaginal reality embedded in bodily experience. In this pioneering work, she forges a bridge between the worlds of the scholar and the visionary, and in so doing makes a significant contribution to the phenomenology of altered states of consciousness. Her prose is eloquently descriptive, precise, at times compactly poetic. Her first-person accounts are moving, often searing, in realms that traditionally resist description. Our era needs to hear her call for descent into dark recesses of the psyche that can reunite body and soul.”
—Richard Tarnas, Passion of the Western Mind and Psyche and Cosmos: Intimations of a New World View
“While I served as Dean of the School of Holistic Studies at JFK University several years ago, I came across a copy of Embrace of the Daimon and immediately read it. I was stunned. Not only because I deemed it the most honest work on the psychoid/imaginal realms since Corbin, but also because I never heard anyone speak of it. “How was that possible,” I asked? I am very glad that it shall be republished. I was stirred by the head-on engagement with these archetypal invasions, more like Jung in the Red Book than the scholarly Corbin. I shared it with a colleague at JFKU, who also praised it, and we would discuss it after hours.”
—Peter Rojcewicz, PhD.,Vice President, Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty, Antioch University Seattle
“This book is different in that it is truly sensitive to the soul. It is refreshing to trace the dynamic whereby we give soul earthly reality instead of psychologizing experience into the bodiless ether of pure reflection. I am especially drawn to this book for the many passing insights that are expressed so beautifully and tersely. I will cut them out and make them my appendix, my guidelines for dealings with the Devil.”
—Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul and Dark Eros
Awards and Endorsements for Love and the Mystery of Betrayal


Darcy on the Hudson
By Mary Lydon Simonsen
Mary Simonsen definitely did her homework on Darcy on the Hudson. There is an incredible amount of history woven through out the story. The story begins in the summer of 1811. Mr. Darcy, his sister Georgianna and Mr. Bingley are on there way to visit America. While there they meet the Bennet family. Of course sparks fly between Elizabeth and Darcy but there American/British differences keep them apart. It is a turbulent time between the two countries.
A pleasant surprise in this story is Mrs. Bennet. I loved her! She is much more firm with Lydia and Kitty. She believes her girls should be capable to take care of themselves, they were taught to cook and do chores. She was wise, had common sense and her husband was proud of her.
Something else I found interesting, there are similar quotes as in the original Pride and Prejudice, but are said by different people.
Darcy on the Hudson is an excellent story! I enjoyed it very much.


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There are thousands of ancient manuscripts (hand-written copies) of parts or all of the Holy Injil. Below is a link to a photo showing a page from one of those manuscripts. The page contains Luke 24:23-53 in the Greek language, from which was translated The Holy Injil in Modern English: The Good News According to Luke. The Greek manuscript containing the page of Luke is called Codex Sinaiticus. It is dated to the 4th century A.D., meaning it was written sometime between 300 and 400 A.D.


Who is Smriti Mandhana Boyfriend?More About The Star Cricketer and Her Personal Life!!
Smriti Mandhana, the renowned Indian cricketer, has not only made a name for herself on the cricket field but has also piqued the curiosity of her fans regarding her personal life. Born on July 18, 1996, in Mumbai, India, Smriti Mandhana has carved a niche for herself as a talented athlete.
Beyond her cricketing prowess, her love life and relationship with Bollywood singer Palak Muchhal’s brother, Palash Muchhal, have become topics of interest. In this biography, we delve into Smriti Mandhana’s life, her cricketing journey, and her blossoming relationship.
Early Life and Cricket Career
Smriti Mandhana’s journey in cricket began at a tender age. Born into a family of cricketers, she was destined to embrace the sport. Smriti’s father, Shrinivas Mandhana, was a former district-level cricketer. Her brother, Sharavan Mandhana, also followed the family tradition and pursued cricket as a passion.
It was through her family’s connection to the sport that Smriti’s fascination with cricket began. She started playing cricket when she was just 5 years old. Smriti’s talent quickly became evident, and she earned a place in the Maharashtra Under-15 team at the district level when she was only 9 years old.
Her dedication and determination led to her inclusion in the Maharashtra Under-19 Cricket team in 2007, a remarkable achievement considering her young age of 11 at the time. Smriti Mandhana’s rise in the cricketing world was swift. At the age of 16, she made her debut for the Indian women’s cricket team, showcasing her exceptional skills and promising future.
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Smriti Mandhana’s Love Life
Smriti Mandhana’s personal life has sparked the curiosity of her fans, particularly her romantic relationship.
- Private About Relationships: While Smriti Mandhana is open about her cricketing achievements, she maintains a private stance regarding her personal life, especially her romantic relationships. Despite her high-profile status as a cricketer, she prefers to keep her personal affairs away from the spotlight.
- Dating Palash Muchhal: It has been reported that Smriti Mandhana is in a relationship with Palash Muchhal, a prominent figure in the music industry. Palash Muchhal, the younger brother of Bollywood singer Palak Muchhal, is a music composer and film score composer. Although the couple has not publicly acknowledged their relationship, subtle hints have surfaced on social media.
- SM Tattoo: A significant clue regarding their relationship came to light when Palash Muchhal shared a video on his Instagram profile. In the video, he was seen playing with a puppy, but what caught the attention of fans was a tattoo on his arm that read “SM18.” Fans speculated that “SM” referred to Smriti Mandhana, and “18” possibly represented her jersey number.
- Instagram Posts: Smriti Mandhana has also contributed to the speculation around their relationship by posting and promoting Palash’s songs on her Instagram profile. She even congratulated him on the success of his web series “Ardh,” where he ventured into writing and directing. Palash Muchhal received the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke Excellence Award for Best Debut Direction for “Ardh.”
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- Is The Kalashtar Song Release Date On The Horizon?
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Palash Muchhal’s Birthday Surprise
On Smriti Mandhana’s 27th birthday, her rumored boyfriend, Palash Muchhal, decided to make it a special occasion:
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- Birthday Surprise: To mark her birthday, Palash Muchhal traveled to Bangladesh, where Smriti was playing a cricket match. He shared a heartfelt post on Instagram, capturing a beautiful moment between the two. The post quickly went viral on the internet.
- Social Media Presence: Both Smriti and Palash share glimpses of their moments together on social media, allowing fans to catch a glimpse of their bond:
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Who Is Palash Muchhal?
Palash Muchhal, the rumored boyfriend of Smriti Mandhana, is a prominent figure in the music industry.
- Music Composer and Singer: Palash Muchhal is a music composer and singer known for his contributions to Bollywood music. Some of his famous songs include “Party Toh Banti Hai” from “Bhoothnath Returns” and “Tu Hi Hai Aashiqui” from “Dishkiyaoon.”
- Acting Career: In addition to his music career, Palash Muchhal has ventured into acting. He appeared in the film “Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey” as Jhunkoo, a film directed by Ashutosh Gowariker and starring Abhishek Bachchan and Deepika Padukone.
Smriti Mandhana’s Cricketing Journey: Smriti Mandhana’s career in cricket has been nothing short of remarkable.
- A Role Model: Smriti Mandhana’s success on the cricket field has made her a role model for aspiring female cricketers. Her dedication and achievements have inspired many young girls to pursue a career in cricket.
- Awards and Honors: In recognition of her outstanding contributions to Indian cricket, the Government of India conferred the Arjuna Award upon Smriti Mandhana on 25 September 2018.
- Challenges: Despite her achievements, Smriti Mandhana has faced challenges on the field, including recent struggles with her form. However, her resilience and determination continue to shine, making her an asset to the Indian women’s cricket team.
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Smriti Mandhana’s journey as a cricketer and her intriguing personal life have captivated the hearts of many. While she maintains a private stance on her romantic relationship with Palash Muchhal, their subtle hints on social media have fueled speculation.
Regardless of her personal life, Smriti Mandhana remains a cricketing sensation and a source of inspiration for aspiring athletes, proving that dedication and passion can lead to remarkable success both on and off the field. As she continues to shine in the world of cricket, fans eagerly await updates on her personal life, hoping for more glimpses into the love story of this talented cricketer.


The Steamy East for every taste
By William Wetherall
People are people, and fiction is fiction. But as there are different kinds of people, there are different kinds of fiction -- and genres are as controversial as races.
Publishers, like governments with race boxes, label fiction as though the boundaries of the genres were clear. Mostly this is to make life easy for marketing and display -- money being something else that genres and race have in common.
Writers, readers, and critics, though, are not as certain about the distinctions between genres. And there are endless possible combinations, crossovers, and mixtures.
"Steamy East" as super genre
Genres reflect specific interests in theme and exposition. Every genre is typically constrained by subjects and techniques that result in formulae, patterns, structures, and conventions peculiar to the genre.
"Steamy East" is a "super genre" consisting of subsets of other genres. The "Steamy East" subsets of "Crime" and "Historical Romance" and other genres of fiction are defined by settings, characters, and themes having something to do with Asia and/or Asians. Most, but not all, are told through putatively "non-Asian" or "Asian" eyes -- as though the authors believe such viewpoints are possible.
Many genres overlap or cut across each other. Familiar genres change and new genres emerge as publishers determine what labels are most attractive in their niche markets for entertainment, escapist, pot-boiler, popular, mass, or just commercial fiction.
Or "trash", as my mother called them.
"Where did you get that trash?" she would say when catching me reading a pulp pocketbook with a racy cover. In the 1950s all pocketbooks were pulp. Most had covers suggesting things that never happened in the stories, not that I was able to imagine what adults were supposed to imagine.
"From Mr. Mathiesson," I would said. And usually it was true.
Theodore Mathieson (1913) was my 9th grade English teacher in 1955-1956. He was the first teacher to really make an English class come alive. He would show us films like "The Maltese Falcon". And pass out pulp novels to students who got lucky on his quizzes, as I sometimes did.
That year he got a short story published in "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" and quit teaching to write. During the late 1950s and 1960s, quite a few of his stories appeared in EQMM, and a few came out in "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine" and even "Shell Scott Mystery Magazine".
He also published a few novels and some non-fiction, but by the 1970s he appears to have tappeared off. Some of his stories were anthologized in the 1980s and 1990s. And recently, on the Internet, I discovered a long list of stories that had been translated for Japanese editions of EQMM and related mystery magazines in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
I have often wondered if somewhere down the line Mr. Mathiesson didn't have to find another day job. Of course it would have been teaching English. And he would have shown scratchy 16mm Humphrey Bogart flicks and passed out pulp trash.
Here you will find Steamy East titles that do not easily fall into a genre, regardless of whether they will ever be found on MFA program English lit reading lists.
Critics and even publishers commonly differentiate "light fiction" from "serious fiction". The former facilitates escape, sublimataion, and catharsis. The latter lends insight and inspires thought about life and death.
Some people refrain from calling lighter fiction "novels" or even "literature". Light fiction is mostly published as "mass paperbacks" and shelved in bookstores under "Fiction", and unsold copies are destroyed like magazines. Most serious fiction is published in "quality paperbacks" that are shelved under "Literature", and unsold copies can be returned to publishers for resale or remaindering.
In the past, original paperbacks were typically thinner and literally "lighter" than hardcover fiction. Today, many works of light fiction have more pages than literary novels, and even their paperback editions can be quite monstrous and heavy.
The more "general" types of fiction that may be found here include bildungsroman (novel about the growth and development of a fictional individual in a certain society), biographical (a novel about the life of an actual individual), sagas about families or clans or nations, nouveau roman (avant-garde novel that departs from conventions), psychological novel (a novel that reveals character in an introspective manner), roman a clef (a novel which needs a "key" in the form of knowledge about an event or personality to fully understand and appreciate the story) -- among many, many others.
A lot of Steamy East fiction of the "action-adventure" or "adventure romance" genres are of, by, and for closet Indiana Joneses and Rambos. Some titles of the "Action" and/or "Adventure" genres may also be classified as "Thrillers".
"Action" here will mean mostly spying, espionage, insurgency, counterinsurgency, and other kinds of covert operations, and mercenary soldiering and other forms of military adventure. Inevitably, most such stories are of the "men's action" or "men's adventure" sort -- though a few feature macho babes armed to their gills and kicking butt.
"Adventure" stories make up an important genre of Steamy East fiction. The genre overlaps with both "Action" and "Thrillers".
Here, though, "Adventure" will mean mostly stories about archaeological exploration, treasure hunting, finding a lost paradise, or surviving on a tropical island after a shipwreck -- but also the occassional work about sailing, hunting, mountain climbing, and other such outdoor adventure.
"Adventure" will also include "backpack fiction" and other "travel adventure" in which tourists from any country encounter the unexpected while traveling to an unfamiliar country. This, in some sense, is what Steamy East fiction really amounts to for most of its writers and readers.
Crime figures hugely even in novels that might not be classified as "Crime" by genre. Any Steamy East or related novel in which a crime and its investigation are central to the plot will be reviewed here.
Crime novels are stories of mystery and detection about crime. Most crime fiction involves detectives and law enforcement. Stories about crimes solved by police detectives are usually police procedurals. Crimes in PI novels are solved by private investigators or private eyes.
In other crime fiction, crimes are investigated by medical examiners, psychological profilers, forensic artists and anthropologists, and other such professionals. Or they are solved by amateurs.
Most crime novels are of the "whodunit" type and involve murder, sometimes disguised as suicide or accident, sometimes coincident with robbery or rape, sometimes serial. A few crime novels, though, are about other kinds of crimes. "Caper stories" are usually about clever bank robberies, jewelry heists, or art thefts and the like.
In "detective" fiction, a police or private detective solves the crime. In "mystery fiction" involving a crime, the protagonist is usually an amateur. Mystery fiction not involving a crime or law enforcement is classifed under "Mystery" in the more general sense of "Suspense".
Novels featuring courtroom dramas involving law enforcement people, such as public prosecutors or defense attorneys in criminal cases, will be covered here. Stories involving attorneys in other situations are treated as "Legal thrillers" under "Thrillers".
While "Steamy East" may suggest ardent, burning, passionate, torrid sex in a humid cauldron of humanity somewhere in Asia -- and while sex is rarely absent in Steamy East fiction (or in any literature, for that matter) -- very few Steamy East novels qualify as "Erotica".
Erotic fiction, as a genre, features stories that focus on sexual encounters. Portrayals of sexual behavior run from non-explicit and sensual to more passionate and pornographic -- but whatever the plot, is is mostly wrapped around sex -- not the other way around.
The sex can be committed, casual, purchased, or coerced. It can be consensually or unilaterally violent. And it can range from boringly normal to shockingly abnormal.
Hardcore "adult" erotic fiction runs the entire gamut of "normal" acts and "deviant" fetishes. There are subgenres for every taste -- heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, swingers, and BDSM. The more violent subgenres include rape (sometimes by stalkers or kidnappers) and torture (usually by male captors of female prisoners-of-war). The most deviant themes, in the sense that they violate the strictest taboos or are simply repulsive, are scatology, incest, bestiality, and necrophilia.
A number of Steamy East novels are of the "Historical fantasy" or "Futuristic fantasy" variety. The twain sometimes meet where the line between "Fantasy" and "Science fiction" is fuzzy or where these two genres overlap. "Science fiction" titles that involve more fantasy than science will be found here.
Fiction labeled "Fantasy" is usually just that. There is no attempt to explain "fantastic" phenomena in scientific or even pseudoscientific terms. One simply believes in magic or angels or dragons or whatever.
Attempts to draw a sharp line between "Fantasy" and "Science fiction" require differentiating "fantasy" not only from "science" but also from fiction". This semantic trap becomes all the more difficult to escape when "science" itself is regarded as a foundation for "faith" or "belief".
Both "Fantasy" and "Science fiction" are speculative fiction -- "speculation" meaning something conjectured, supposed, guessed, or imagined as opposed to something known for certain to be real. Here, too, the semantics become convoluted, as ultimately one has to believe in the certainty that some things are real or true.
Writers imagine they know things and believe they can convey what they think they know to readers. In this sense, all fiction -- and perhaps non-fiction as well -- is fantasy.
Different kinds of unfamiliar worlds
"Fantasy" and "Science fiction" transport us into somewhat different kinds of unfamiliar worlds.
"Science fiction" is supposed to be based on the laws of nature that govern science, and account for scientific knowledge and understanding, in the familiar world. Fictional gravity is still gravity. It may work differently, according to an extrapolated, possibly very far-fetched version of present-day gravitational theory. But fictional gravity will still be accountable to scientific thinking, however fictional or pseudo.
"Fantasy", though, can behave according to its own laws of nature. Divination, supernatural forces, and even divine intervention are possible. Paranormal and occult phenomena abound. Scientific explanations are eschewed if not unwelcome. Survival in the world of fantasy requires suspension or even rejection of scientific thinking. The currency of pure fantasy are romantic faith and belief.
There is some tendency, especially among people disenchanted with science and technology, to embrace beliefs in paranormal phenomena and other elements of fantasy as having a scientific basis. Consequenty, some categorical "Science fiction" has more fantasy than science.
See "Science fiction" for further comments about distinctions between "Fantasy" and "Science fiction".
While every genre could have historical, contemporary, and future sub-categories, under "Historical" fiction we will include any general fiction set in the past.
Most fiction set in the future will be under "Fantasy" or "Science fiction". Speculative historical fiction, involving alternative outcomes of war, is under "War". General fiction set in the future is under "General fiction".
"Historical romance" is under "Romance". And any fiction with a "Western" feel to it, including "Western Romance", will be under "Western".
Historical fiction related to a particular country will be classified under the country by period. In Japan this will be Jomon, Heian, Edo and the like. In China this will be Qin, Han, Tang, Ming, Qing and the like. China, Korea, and Japan all have "warring states" periods. Labels like "ancient" and "medieval" also cut across geographical classifications.
"Victorian" as a metaphor
"Victorian" fiction is set in roughly the time of Queen Victoria, who reigned from 1837 until her death in 1901. This period is roughly contemporaenous with the last three decades of the Edo (1600-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912) periods.
British Victorian society had an impact on life in other parts of the world, including India, Hong Kong, and Japan in the late 19th century. Hence "Victorian" might also serve as a metaphor for works of Steamy East fiction set in such places in late 19th century.
"Plantation" fiction dealing with interracial romance in the slave states of the United States will be under "Romance". Fiction involve live on plantations in Asia, including Hawaii, will be found here.
Not many Steamy East titles are of the "Horror" or "Horror fantasy" variety. Horror stories are meant to keep readers constantly on edge with fear of encountering ghosts, the walking dead, vampires, and all manner of monsters associated with a place or occassion.
The terrifying creature could be a human incarnate of evil itself. Or might be just a passive host of an evil spirit that requires exorcising. Haunted houses, graveyards full of restless and revengeful souls, and supernatural forces that possess and destroy, are a must.
Not many Steamy East novels will qualify for review here. A few, though, have plots that are heavily inspired by Buddhist, Christian, New Age, or other views of life of a religious or quasi-religious nature.
Martial arts series, and standalone works in which martial arts figure in the plot as opposed to being merely instrumental in action, will be reviewed here. The proximity of this genre to "Inspirational" is not to be taken lightly, as martial arts are often presented as philosophies and ways of life.
Mysteries involving crimes, whether solved by police or private investigators or by amateurs, are under "Crime". All other mysteries are here.
"Romance" probably leads the pack of popular fiction genres in terms of new titles if not total sales -- judging from catalogs of new paperback releases and the shelves of bookshops that sell and exchange used paperbacks. There are many subgenres, and most have one or two Steamy East titles, but the steamiest are probably those with "Historical romance" on the spine.
Steamy East "Western Romance" novels, though "Romance" in the sense that they are written mostly about women, by and for women, have been put under "Western" because they. All other "Romance" subgenres, however, will be found here.
Romance no longer romantic
"Romance" has come a long way since medieval tales like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, written by an unknown author during the 14th century, or Le Morte D'Arthur, another work of Arthurian literature, by Sir Thomas Malory (c1405-1471). Luo Guanzhong's saga Sanguo yinyi (14th century) is also appropriately translated as Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Ivanhoe (1819) by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is an early modern classic romance. Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) recevied the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for Gone With the Wind (1936), which also qualifies as a "romance" in the earlier sense of the word -- in reference to stories that are quixotic and sentimental in the way they narrate history and portray the human condition -- particularly chivalrous heroes who rescue women in distress.
Definitions of "relationship"
During the 20th century, the term "romance" was hijacked by publishers of fiction that focused on female relationships, mostly with men, sometimes with other women. The shortest definition of "relationship" is "sex". A somewhat longer defition is "what one has to endure before, during, and after sex".
Changes in the "before" and "after" over the years possibly account for the tendency of titles of "Regency" and "Historical" and "Western" romance to be longer than "Contemporary" titles. Elaborate 18th, 19th, and even early 20th century courting rituals have been simplified to lines like -- "Hey, what are you doing tonight?" -- she said.
"Contemporary" romance blossomed with the popularity of Harlequin romances of the 1960s and 1970s. Today, many publishing companies put out series in which a new title is released every month or bi-weekly, even weekly. Series titles are generally on the thin side, usually fewer than 200 pages -- whereas general "Historical" and "Western" romance titles run twice as long and are less likely to be parts of numbered series.
The roots of darker "Gothic romance" go back to the 17th century. "Gothic romance" is really an oxymoron, as writers of "gothic" fiction set out to replace the brighter hope of "romance" with a darker more macabre vision of life.
A good mid-19th century example is Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Written in 1846 and first published in 1847 under the male pseudonym Currer Bell, its drama unfolds in an old castle in northern England in the early 19th century, and the castle ends in ruins.
Regency romance traces its ancestry to early 19th century novels like Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, written between 1796 and 1813 and first completely published in 1813. The story in set in England around the time of the English Regency -- politically 1811-1820, though in present-day parlance "Regency" alludes to the social and cultural conventions of the period from the 1790s to the 1820s.
The bolder more adventuristic sort of early 20th century historical romance descended from 18th and 19th century "bodice rippers" in which plump women were ravished by lovers at least once between the covers, sometimes in a chair or under a tree, or on a pirate ship in the Caribbean. All concerned parties, especially the reader, were too impatient to wait for the petticoats and corsets to come off.
Most early romances of this kind seem to have been written by men, and were probably read as much by men as by women -- as the hero could just as well be a surrogate for the male reader with fantasies of conquest. From the middle of the 20th century, however, the genre was revived as a form of fiction of, by, and for women -- in which the heroine was clearly a surrogate for readers with fantasies of surrending to muscular hunks with passionate eyes only for them.
As some students of romance fiction have pointed out, the most conspicuous difference between the stories then and now, is that then readers got a little sex between all the swash, whereas now they get a little swash between all the sex. The writing today is probably no worse, if one takes into account changes in the standards of editing and reading.
Whatever the merits of "Romance" as a category of "women's fiction", publishers make it easy for fans to find in bookstores. Booksellers have no trouble recognizing such fiction, in order to keep it at least an aisle away from real "Literature" or "Fiction" or "Novels".
Genji as a prototype Steamy East romance
The Tale of Genji, written in the 11th century, may qualify as a "romance" in both the classical and present-day sense of the word. It is an epic generational saga, full of relationships, laughter and tears, love sweet and bitter.
The swash and sex in Genji are suggested, sensual, and seamless. The encounters between Genji and his lovers, and the rivalries between Genji's son and grandson, were narrated by Murasaki Shikubu -- possibly inspired by personal or rumored encounters in her own life. And the prose and poetry that flowed in cursive script from the tip of her brush told stories she imagined other women would like to read.
"Science fiction" and "Fantasy" overlap as genres of imaginative or speculative fiction. Some people are fans of both, and some writers cross or mix the genres. Some Hugo and Nebula awards for sci-fi have gone to fantasy works. Some people even prefer to say "SF" to "sci-fi" since it can mean "science and fantasy" fiction or "speculative fiction".
Science fiction usually features imaginary advances of science and technology in the future, though some stories are set in the present or past, or the action moves between one and another time zone. Since stories typically portrary the condition of human life in their fictional times and settings, the genre has been popular as a vehicle for political and social criticism.
Novels that involve speculative science and technology and their effects on the human condition, or the imagined effects of actual science or technology on a real or imagined society, will be treated here. Stories with plots in which paranormal abilities like mind-reading or transporting are attributed to science or quasiscience will also be included here.
However, stories with plots which depend too heavily on the reader simply believing in paraphenomena like miracles or angels or fabulous beasts, or esp, remote viewing, channelling or other psychic powers, will be found under "Fantasy". See "Fantasy" for further comments about distinctions between "Fantasy" and "Science fiction".
Any fictional work that presents page after suspenseful page of fast-paced action could be called a "Thriller" regardless of whether its characters lack development. Some thrillers are called simply "Suspense" -- but all literature -- all writing -- is supposed to induce sufficient tension and anticipation to compel readers to read until the end.
Many works with other genre names, or simply "Fiction" or "Novel" on their spine, are also "Thrillers". All works here, though, present thrills not specifically related to "Crime" or "War" or "Romance" or other such genres.
Steamy East novels involving economic or industrial espionage, or political intrigue, are found here -- as are those featuring lawyers (legal thrillers), doctors (medical thrillers), or scientists in some sort of suspenseful, action-packed plots.
Techno-thrillers are found here. Forensic and serial killer thrillers are found under "Crime". Intellectual spy and espionage novels are found here, but the "male action" variety of such stories are under "Action", as are most "military thrillers". Romantic thrillers of the "Romantic Suspense" and "Historical romance" variety are under "Romance".
Steamy East novels related to actual or fictive wars on Earth, involving only human nations, will be found here. Novels about wars involving invasions of Earth by aliens, or wars between planets or galaxies, will be found under "Science fiction".
Actual wars not having their own section are under "Other wars". Novels set in POW camps are under "Prisoners of war". Novels speculating what would have happened "if" an actual war had ended differently are under "Alternative history". Novels about World War III and other imaginary wars, most of which are set in the future, are under "Fictive wars".
Here is a short list of the civil wars, revolutionary wars, regional wars, and world wars that been stages for Steamy East fiction.
Taiwan Expedition -- 1874
Sino-Japanese War -- 1894-1895
Spanish-American War -- February-December (April-June) 1898.
Russo-Japanese War -- 1904-1905
The Great War -- 1914-1918
-- Later called "World War I"
East Asian War -- 1931-1945
-- Also called "Second Sino-Japanese War"
-- Also called "Greater East Asian War"
-- Also called "Fifteen-year War
World War II -- 1939-1935
Chinese Revolutionary War -- 1945-1949
Pacific War -- 1941-1945
Korean War -- 1950-1952
Vietnam War -- 1964-1972
Most "Westerns" are set in territories that are now part of the western United States, though some are partly staged in western Canada or in parts of Mexico along the border with the United States.
"Westerns" have never been only about "cowboys and Indians". Many feature conflicts involving other settlers, including Orientals, in western North America.
The peopling of the Americas
All humans, in all countries, are settlers. The only issue is who came first, and the politicization of this issue has effected the "political correctness" of "Westerns", including "Western Romance".
It is clear that "Indians" represent the people who first came to, and settled in, the Americans, from Asia and the Pacific. However, this does not explain how the Americas came to be occupied as they were when "discovered" by Europeans.
Calling Indians "Native Americans" does not explain how, over several millennia, numerous peoples already settled in the Americas continued to migrate, and clash with the elements and each other, until -- by the time Europeans came to stay in the late 15th century -- they consisted of thousands of tribes, territorially niched, speaking a few hundred languages, and engaged in intermittent if not continual conflict with neighboring tribes.
There is substantial evidence of transatlantic migration to the Americas before Columbus, though the political, religious, and demographic invasion of the New World by Europeans didn't really begin until after his "discovery". While some Africans freely migrated to the New World, most were brought as slaves.
There is more speculation than incontrovertible proof that some Jomon people, from what is today Japan, made early crossings to North America. And many books have argued, again with not a great deal of unequivocal evidence, that a number of Chinese made pre-Columbian crossings to the Americas.
Historically, though, the first Orientals in the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) and Westcoast of the Americas were fishermen and others brought by the European or American ships which had rescued them at sea. Later, especially during and after the Gold Rush in California, Chinese and Japanese steamed into San Francisco and other North American ports, from which they migrated and settled throughout the United States and Canada.
Chinese migration to the Americans begins much early than this, however. Chinese and Filipinos apparently reached Mexico on ships of the Manila galleon in the 1600s. And in the 1830s, there were Chinese "sugar masters" in Hawaii and Chinese sailors and peddlers in New York.
Orientals in westerns
Steamy East "Westerns" typically involve Chinatown in San Francisco, or railroad towns, mining camps, and other settlements where Chinese immigrants or migrants worked and lived. The few Japanese who appear in "Westerns" are mostly samarai inspired by the role Mifune Toshio played in "Red Sun" (1972), or a geisha who has somehow strayed into a western town.
Classic "Westerns" are about the romance of life on a western frontier, through the eyes of a man who possessed little more a saddle, spurs, and a six-shooter or two, and who mostly slept with his horse. Not a few titles in the genre today are full of sexual romance, not just suggested but graphically related in ways that would have made most real cowboys blush.


Libraries in Blaenau Gwent continue to achieve the 12 core entitlements set out by the Welsh Public Library Standards.
Councillors at Blaenau Gwent Council’s Cabinet Meeting welcomed a report into the service’s performance which also shows both the number of active borrowers and books issued have increased.
Aneurin Leisure Trust is commissioned by the Council to run the Library Service across Blaenau Gwent and there are libraries in Abertillery, Ebbw Vale, Blaina, Brynmawr, Cwm and Tredegar plus the mobile service which supports the whole county. Under the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 it is a statutory duty for every library authority (local authorities) in Wales to provide a ‘comprehensive and efficient library service for all persons desiring to make use thereof’.
The Welsh Public Library Standards comprises of 12 core entitlements and a range of quality indicators. This framework provides a mechanism to enable services to plan provision, set standards and demonstrate their value within local communities. It also enables Welsh Government to assess performance of library services on a national level.
Councillor Sue Edmunds, the Council’s Cabinet Member for People & Education says:
“Libraries in Blaenau Gwent have been revitalised and really are at the heart of our communities, offering much more than just books. They are also home to the Council’s Community Hubs, bringing help and support with our services closer to the people who need it.
“The Cabinet welcomes this report and are appreciative of all the hard work going on to make libraries and their services attractive to people of all ages.”
Tracy Jones, Library Services Manager Blaenau Gwent Libraries (Aneurin Leisure Trust) added:
“The team has worked hard to ensure that everyone has a warm welcome at the libraries, and we are particularly delighted to see so many people of different ages coming through the libraries’ doors. This reflects the many services we offer and the initiatives we have put in place such as the sports libraries, the new Welsh group and the many different activities that we run.
“We continue to look at new ways that we can support the community and have many ideas that we’re exploring to enhance our service.”


Michigan in the World
Michigan in the World let undergraduates dive deep into archives and share their findings with the public.
Working with a faculty expert and graduate student coordinator, students engage in extensive original research and present their findings in digital exhibits designed for public and classroom audiences. This public history program is a partnership with the Bentley Historical Library and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
Photo: 2018 Michigan in the World team members (from left) Severina Scott, Bryan Foster, Chelsea Vergiels, Taniya Moore, Brittany Simmons, and Lakyrra Magee.


I have worked in the East Village for much of my adult life. My first job was as a parking lot attendant in the lot that used to be across the street from the Central Library. It was a great job for a student but it also offered a great opportunity to observe the life of this community (I stared more that I studied). I was blown away by the built heritage of the area as well. Buildings came down and went up with amazing speed but there always remained those hidden gems, like St. Francis Church, tucked in between the tall towers, like the old hotels, the Cecil, the Louis, the Regis and York and the beautiful old Eddy. The Convention Centre had not been built so all those old buildings that lined 8th Avenue were still standing. And I loved them all because each of them had a story to tell, a line to contribute to the story of what is now the East Village.
I want to tell the story of one such building and include some of the stories of the structures that went before. The building sits unobtrusively across the street from The Cecil Hotel. It is a warehouse building, dating from about 1956 and it has been home to at least two restaurants and a number of other important Calgary businesses. 316 3rd Street SE is little harder to get to now. The flyover has cut it off from the rest of the East Village and road improvements have turned a once through road into a cul-de-sac, but at one time, this area was the hub of Calgary’s mercantile district.
Early in the century, this was a street like any other. There were two houses at 312 and 314 in 1910. By 1912, however, the area at 3rd Avenue and 3rd Street East was the site of a bustling new public market. The idea of a public market was not new in the city of Calgary. There had been a place for farmers to sell their products as early as 1885 when a bylaw was enacted to establish a public market and weigh scales. First set up on Drinkwater Street (2nd Street E), near the town hall, it moved to Atlantic Avenue (9th) in 1887. The Public Market that was established on the site of what is now Booker’s was conceived by the Women’s Consumers’ League which was founded in response to rising food prices and the ensuing financial pressures. Annie Gale, who would later become the city’s first female council member, was one of the most vocal members of the group. She was appalled at the cost of produce that, in her opinion, was fit only for cattle feed. So in 1912, a market was established at the corner of 4th Avenue and 4th Street E.Calgary Public Market, Postcards from the Past, PC 1375, Calgary Public Library
In 1914, a building was built to house the market and by 1915 it had been made a public utility supported by taxes in addition to revenue generated by sales. All available space was taken, even after an addition was built shortly after the building was completed. It was a very popular idea and Women’s Consumers’ League worked hard to keep it successful. But for Mrs. Gale, that was not enough. Her idea was that the city would participate directly in the marketplace. To this end, the city had a stall from which it sold produce, which had been purchased directly from the producer, at reduced rates. She even suggested the city purchase its own dairy herd to provide milk. Her ideas were not popular with local merchants and the politicians whom they supported so after Mrs. Gale resigned her position as Market Advisor, the Public Market was allowed to languish. By 1925 it was no longer listed as a public utility in the Municipal Manual.
The site continued to be used as a marketplace and a quick scan of the Henderson’s City Directories shows a number of businesses operating from the old market building over the years. Sam Sheinin, who had been manager of the Public Market, purchased the site in 1946. From there he operated a number of his own businesses such as Sheinin’s Live and Dressed Poultry, Calgary Cold Storage and Home-Del Food Products. Hook Signs had a shop next door at 320 3rd St. SE. Sam operated his business out of the old market building until it was razed by fire on Christmas Eve, 1954.
The blaze that leveled the building was a four-alarm fire, according to accounts in the papers. When the tanks of ammonia in the refrigeration units exploded, two firemen were thrown 15 feet but were not seriously injured. Losses were estimated at $400,000 but, much to the relief of customers who had meat in storage at the plant, firemen recovered most of what was in the freezers, much of it still frozen. Sheinin built a new warehouse on the site in 1956 and it is this building that houses Booker’s today. Sam continued to operate his business from 316 3 St SE until 1959. In 1960 the Alberta Poultry Marketers Co-Operative moved in and stayed there for 10 years.
By 1972, the warehouse had seen the last of the chickens. Starting in 1972, the building would be occupied by another iconic Calgary business. Any woman who lived in this city in the 1970s will remember the Betty Shops. Their purple shopping bags with “Betty Shop” in modern script were ubiquitous in malls across the city. They catered to the average gal, nothing too fancy or too expensive. The warehouse for these shops, which would eventually number 40 throughout western Canada, was at 316 3rd Street SE.
The Betty Shops were founded by Lena Hanen, the daughter of a Rabbi, the wife of a successful business man and the mother of the man who gave us the Plus 15 System. She was trained as a teacher, but gave that up after a year, when she married her husband Samuel. After her marriage she helped in the family dry goods business. In the late 1940s she became the manager of a dress shop and by 1950 she was the owner of her own store, The Betty Shop. Lena was an astute business woman and, by all accounts, a very caring boss. By the time of her death in 1979, she employed nearly 1000 people in forty stores in Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
The Hanen’s appear to have kept the warehouse space for the Betty Shop until about 1985 when Kingfisher Fish Market and Café opened. The Kingfisher became famous throughout Canada, partly because of its colourful proprietor, Sandy Cruikshank, known as “The Pirate,” and partly because of the famous speakers he attracted for his “Tuesdays with Webster” lecture series. Jean Chretien mounted the soapbox at the Kingfisher and Tom Axworthy said he would pay his own airfare to Calgary if he could debate the journalist of his choice. Kingfisher was described by Alan Fotheringham as similar in spirit to London’s Hyde Park Speakers’ Corner, high praise indeed from someone who thought Calgary was the spot where the “snakeskin cowboy boot was the elixir of culture.”(Macleans November 3, 1986, p76) The Kingfisher eventually changed hands and was moved by the new owners to the Dragon City Mall. The place became Booker’s BBQ and Crab Shack in July 1999.
If you are interested in the history of building in the East Village or, really, anything to do with the history of the city, please come and visit us in the Community Heritage and Family History collection on the 4th Floor of the Central Library. And check out our website for blog entries on things historical and for our Community Heritage and Family History Digital Library, where we have digitized photographs and postcards relating to the history of our beautiful city. You can find us on the web at www.calgarypubliclibrary.com. Click on Blogs to find the Community Heritage and Family History webpage.
(With thanks to City of Calgary Archives)
“A time to drink – and a time to talk” Alan Fotheringham Macleans November 3,1986 p. 76
“ Lena Hanen and the conflicts of leadership in the Twentieth Century” by Eliane Leslau Silverman in Unsettled Pasts: reconceiving the west through women’s history edited by Sarah Carter, Lesley Erickson, Patricia Roome and Char Smith. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005. pp 341-354
“Speakers are not fishy”
Financial Post November 2, 1985 p. 28 accessed December 17, 2009 through ProQuest http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=262144911&sid=3&Fmt=3&cli_entld=58921&RQT=309&VName=PQD


123 counting in Twi is a fun introduction to learning Twi accompanied by colourful illustrations
123 Counting In Twi - By Barbara Acheampong
123 counting in Twi is a fun introduction to learning Twi accompanied by colourful illustrations.
About the author
Author Barbara Acheampong has always had a strong connection to Ghana. Although born there, she was raised in the UK where she lived with her parents and younger siblings.
Even though living in the UK, she was still growing up in a very Ghanaian household. Her parents ensured that all their children knew where they were from and could not only understand, but speak their mother tongue, Twi which is one of the many dialects spoken in Ghana. When at home they always communicated in Twi, something her father especially insisted on, as he explained that no matter where they were in the the world, language rooted them to their identity and heritage.
Sadly in 2019, Barbara’s father passed away and even after more than forty years in the UK, he was still a proud Ghanaian man. The gift of language he had given to her, which she was starting to teach her own daughter, inspired her to create a series of books to introduce children to the wonderful, vibrant languages of Ghana.


Salem Witch Trials in History and Literature
An Undergraduate Course, University of Virginia
Spring Semester 2001
Best remembered in popular lore as the 'rampant hag' described
by Cotton Mather, modern historical studies demonstrate that Martha
Carrier was a victim of Salem's outbreak of witchcraft accusations.
Carrier was accused of being in league with the devil by the circle
of "afflicted" girls, neighbors and even her own children, and
hanged as a witch on August 19, 1692. Like many of accused witches,
Carrier was a poor, disagreeable woman, for whom this was not the
first accusation of witchcraft.
Born Martha Allen, daughter of one of the original founders of the
Massachusetts town of Andover, in 1674 Martha married below her
station to a young Welsh servant and father of her illegitimate
child, Thomas Carrier. Living for a few years in Billerica, the
couple returned to Andover in the 1680's with very little money and
four children. Martha's independent spirit and lack of deference
seem to have quickly alienated her from the rest of the community.
The turning point came in 1690 when a smallpox epidemic erupted in
the town. Although her family, particularly the men, accounted for
7 of the 13 who died of smallpox in the town, the community of
Andover blamed Martha for the tragedy.
Carrier's reputation as a witch found new expression two years
later when the outbreak in Salem began. As the testimony of the
circle of accusing girls reflected, the Salem community was well
aware of Andover's gossip. Susan Sheldon, Mary Walcot, Elizabeth
Hubbard and Ann Putnam screamed before the court that they could
see the 13 ghosts of Andover. Other neighbors accused her of
maleficium, testifying that after harsh words from her, evil
things like sick or dead animals or strange illnesses befell them.
During her courtroom examination, however, Carrier stood her ground
and boldly asserted that those who accused her lied. Asked if she
could then look upon the girls, seemingly possessed, without their
writhing in pain, she said she would not, for "they will dissemble
if I look upon them." Later, she admonished the magistrates, saying
"it is a shamefull thing that you should mind these folks that are
out of their wits."
Accusations of witchcraft extended beyond Martha to the rest of her
family. Her sons Richard and Andrew, ages 18 and 15 respectively,
were tied neck to heels until blood was ready to come out of their
noses. Under such intense pressure, Martha's own children,
including seven-year-old Sarah and ten-year-old Thomas, Jr.,
testified against her and confessed themselves to be witches. Young
Sarah told the court that she had been a "witch Ever Since She was
Six years Old that her Moth'r brought a red book to her and She
touched it." The assistant minister Thomas Barnard who was
responsible for these confessions, managed to get confessions from
all but two of accused witches, including Martha, who were also
members of his congregation.
One explanation for the targeting of the Carrier family depends
upon a conspiracy theory that holds that the motive of the Andover
accusations was to punish and remove political power and social
influence from the founding families of Andover. According to the
originator of this theory, Enders Robinson, (see his book, Salem
Witchcraft) a group of ten accusers were in league with
Andover's assistant minister Rev. Thomas Barnard in order to gain
control over the town's affairs by discrediting the senior
minister, Rev. Francis Dane, and the leading families through
witchcraft accusations. Robinson points to the concentration of
Andover accusations within families were either related to Rev.
Francis Dane or to the powerful founding families. Although the
correspondence he finds between these groups is interesting, there
is no strong evidence supporting such a conspiracy.
An alternative explanation, put forward by Carol Karlsen in her
book ,I The Devil in the Shape of a Woman, blames the disruption to
the existing socio-economic order that women inheriting a
significant amount of money or property would cause. Karlsen argues
that a sizable group of accused women were not the typical
marginalized women, but wealthy and prominent members of the
community, who shared an unusual place within society as primary
heirs to money and property. Although Martha might have inherited
some property after the majority of her male relatives died in the
smallpox epidemic of 1690, such an inheritance would have been
minimal. More likely, Martha's established reputation as a witch
and as a disagreeable woman made her a target once the momentum of
accusations got out of control in Salem.


Meet 'Bella the Brave.'
Rebel Wilson has written a children's book!
The Aussie star wrote the book for ages 3+ which is based on her own childhood experiences and is beautifully illustrated by Annabel Tempest.
The first book in the series is about overcoming shyness.
Bella has so much to say, but she's just too shy. If only she could be more like her confident sister, Stella. Then one day Bella's mum brings her to the local choir. Could it finally be Bella's time to shine?
BELLA, BE BRAVE.
TIME TO MAKE A CHOICE.
BELLA, BE BOLD.
TIME TO FIND YOUR VOICE.
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Rebel also caught up with the team from 7s Sunrise on Tuesday to chat about her book, and also touched on her amazing year of health, and upcoming movie Cheerleaders.


There is a fire burning within.
Fire burns in the bowels of the earth, igniting strange fire upon the earth.
It threatens to burn.
A twist of events from those threatened to burn.
Fire burns within . . .
There is a fire that burns in the heart of My prophets–refuses to be quenched!
It is a Holy Fire–Will you listen?
Man has rejected, turned away–stopped the ears; yet the earth trembles with Fire–
For I cannot–‘will not’ be quenched!
Will you listen?
Watch and see, for the burning begins . . .
“The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire. Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them. Then the channels of water were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.” Psalms 18:13-15 KJV
“The Lord reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad! Clouds and thick darkness are round about him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. Fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries round about. His lightnings lighten the world; the earth sees and trembles. The mountains melt like wax before the Lord, before the Lord of all the earth. The heavens proclaim his righteousness; and all the peoples behold his glory.” Psalms 97:1-6
“The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. . .”
“Lift up your heads, O ye gates: and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.” Psalms 24:1-2, 7-10 KJV
“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? . . .I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living! Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; yea, wait for the Lord!” Psalms 27:1, 13-14


Frederick Douglass in Talbot County
The celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Frederick Douglass has inspired a desire in Talbot County, Maryland, for deeper understanding of his formative years and the mark he left on this place. In his book My Bondage and My Freedom, Douglass remarks on how important it is to understand where a man is born and raised.
“It is always a fact of some importance to know where a man is born, if, indeed, it be important to know anything about him.”
The “fact of some importance” about Frederick Douglass is his 1818 birth on Tuckahoe Creek in Talbot County (pronounced TALL-but). Born to an enslaved mother who named him Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, he was part of the sixth generation of Baileys in Talbot County – a lineage that continues today. Of his father, he knew nothing, though he heard rumors that his father was a white man and probably his master.
In Talbot County, young Frederick Bailey endured the slave system’s many cruelties in breaking families and crushing the spirit. Still, he had deep roots here with lifelong family and friendship ties. He escaped from Maryland and claimed his new name in 1838 at age 20. His lifework involved retelling his story; central to his tale are the Talbot County years (1818-1826 and 1833-1836).
Talbot County’s formative influence on Douglass lasted throughout his 77 years. His searing impact on the county began when he told of his bondage, self-emancipation, and transformation from slave to abolitionist orator in his 1845 autobiography, an immediate international bestseller. Using actual names and deeds of Talbot Countians — a first for the slave narrative genre — he made shocking examples of Talbot County citizens, which focused the world’s attention on the American chattel slavery system’s inhumanity, immorality, and unconstitutionality.
Douglass’s effect on Talbot County has been lasting. From slave to fugitive to agitator to local hero, Talbot County formed Douglass and Douglass’s resistance and ideals changed Talbot County. His words continue to inspire his many local descendants and their fellow citizens.
February 14, 1818
September 3, 1838
December 12, 1846
February 20, 1895


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It was a seminal moment in American history: the inauguration of the first Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869, in Promontory, Utah.
The day marked a profound transformation. A dangerous journey that once took months could now be completed in a week, revolutionizing the fractured country’s economy.
The leaders of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads came together to celebrate the joining of the tracks, and Leland Stanford, the business tycoon and political leader who founded Stanford University, drove a ceremonial golden spike into a tie to unite them.
But many of the workers who had built the railroad were all but invisible at the ceremony, and in its retelling for many years afterward. They included about 15,000 Chinese immigrants — up to 90% of the workforce on the Central Pacific line — who were openly discriminated against, vilified and forgotten.
Now those workers are being written back into the history of the railroad, thanks to the dogged efforts of their descendants and of scholars. At the 150th anniversary of the golden spike ceremony on Friday, and at associated events held last week in Utah, thousands gathered to recognize a more complete picture of the monumental feat.
“I felt such elation,” said Connie Young Yu, a San Francisco-based author and historian with the Chinese Historical Society of America. In her speech at the ceremony on Friday, Yu paid tribute to the Chinese laborers’ courage and sacrifice.
Yu’s great-grandfather helped build the railroad, and her mother was the only descendant of the Chinese workers at the 100th celebration of the golden spike ceremony in 1969. The centennial was a bitter disappointment for the descendants of the Chinese railroad workers, she said. The president of the Chinese Historical Society was nudged off the list of speakers, and the transportation secretary, John A. Volpe, failed to mention the Chinese workers.
“Who else but Americans could have laid 10 miles of track in 12 hours?” he famously asked.
In fact, it was Chinese and Irish workers who achieved that feat. In the years that followed, the Chinese workers would face rising anti-immigrant sentiment and violence, and would be barred from citizenship by the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
At a ceremony on Friday, Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao, the first person of Chinese descent to hold the position, paid tribute to the diverse workforce. In addition to Chinese workers, there were many Irish immigrants, Civil War veterans, Mormons, African-Americans and Native Americans, Chao said.
Native American communities, of course, were also forcibly displaced by the railroad and the westward expansion it enabled. An exhibit on the Chinese workers, on view at the Smithsonian through next year, also highlights the experiences of Native Americans.
Chao said that the achievements of the Chinese workers were poignant because many did not have the opportunity to become citizens, and so little record of their existence survived.
Yet the engineering feat they undertook was “every bit as consequential as the digital revolution that binds the world” today, she said.
The renewed focus on the contributions of the Chinese workers is due in large part to Gordon H. Chang, a historian at Stanford University, who has spent decades researching the workers’ history and codirects the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project.
Chang noted that for many descendants of railroad workers, the 150th anniversary events marked the culmination of a lifelong effort to recover the history of their families and communities. But for him, it’s also a beginning.
“I’m quite enthusiastic that because of the attention to this history, more people are going to come forward to contribute bits and pieces and documentation,” he said.
The Chinese workers took on some of the most dangerous and difficult work, including cutting across the Sierra Nevada mountain range, Chang has written. Hundreds are believed to have died. But their experiences were largely unrecorded.
Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin, a professor of English and the humanities at Stanford, carried out painstaking research to fill that gap, drawing on historical photographs and material objects, interviews with descendants of the workers, newspaper accounts and business records.
That the research center is at Stanford University is notable. Leland Stanford — a key investor in the Central Pacific line — had disparaged Chinese immigrants, calling them “an inferior race,” years before he employed thousands of them.
They were paid lower wages than white workers, even as they worked longer hours, took on the most treacherous stretches of track and became renowned for their work. Leland Stanford would come to greatly admire them, Chang has written.
“I am painfully aware that Leland Stanford became one of the world’s richest men by using Chinese labor,” Chang wrote in an opinion piece published Friday in The Los Angeles Times. “But I also try to remember that Stanford University exists because of those Chinese workers.”


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Transpartisan Values and Practices: The Golden Rule is at the core. Karen Armstrong, TGR and the Charter for Compassion.
The Transpartisan Alliance made a breakthrough presentation at the Engaging the Other conference last November which in turn was supporting the launch of the Charter for compassion. Be you conservative, liberal, religeous or not the golden rule makes sense. Walt
“Weeks from the Charter for Compassion launch, Karen Armstrong looks at religion’s role in the 21st century: Will its dogmas divide us? Or will it unite us for common good? She reviews the catalysts that can drive the world’s faiths to rediscover the Golden Rule.”
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Look what’s cooking in the old white cabin. Pumpkin Soup, the best you ever tasted, made by the Cat, the Squirrel and the Duck, who scoops up a pipkin of salt and tips in just enough.
The first in this series – Pumpkin Soup – was published in 1998, won the Kate Greenaway medal and went on to be a bestseller worldwide.
It was followed in 2004 by A Pipkin of Pepper and then by Delicious! in 2006, all to great critical acclaim.
Winner 1998 Kate Greenaway medal
Shortlisted: Kurt Maschler Award
Guardian Book of the Week
Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month
Ottakar’s Children’s Book of the Month
“A steamy mouth-watering triumph of a book.” THE GUARDIAN
“Glorious.” THE SCOTSMAN
“A spectacular sequel to Pumpkin Soup. . . . close the covers, and then hear the cries for more.”
JANE DOONAN, THE TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT
Pumpkin Soup was published in 1998, and is the first story about Cat, Duck, and Squirrel, who live deep in the woods in an old white cabin. Everyone has their own jobs to do when they cook, so cosy mayhem ensues when Duck wants a turn at stirring the pumpkin soup.
Off goes Duck in a dreadful huff, all alone into the wild woods, while Cat and Squirrel are left to consider what really matters to them. Eventually, after more cooking and rather a mess, they learn to compromise….or do they?
A Pipkin of Pepper followed in 2004 – the further adventures of Cat Duck and Squirrel with a lost in the city theme. It describes their shopping expedition in a pepper-pot metropolis, and the resulting fiasco when one of them goes missing. Would there be ever be pepper for their pumpkin soup?
Delicious – 2006 – explores the trials and tribulations of tasting unfamiliar food. The bugs who have featured in the first two books take more of a central role as they comment on the wasted food in the old white cabin and do something about it. The story will be both a comfort to faddy eaters like the duck, while giving just a little insight into how it feels for others to cook for one. It comes with a delicious recipe.
The Pumpkin Soup books celebrate pumpkins, and cooking, and family life. Full of scrumptious colour and a riotous array of vegetables, they encourage an appetite for cooking and discovering new foods, whilst also exploring different character traits and how we all get along. All three have been highly acclaimed, and translated into many languages.
Pumpkin Soup won the 1998 Kate Greenaway medal.


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Spring is the time of plans and projects. And, as he came out into the farmyard, Levin, like a tree in spring that knows not what form will be taken by the young shoots and twigs imprisoned in its swelling buds, hardly knew what undertakings he was going to begin upon now in the farm work that was so dear to him. But he felt that he was full of the most splendid plans and projects. First of all he went to the cattle. The cows had been let out into their paddock, and their smooth sides were already shining with their new, sleek, spring coats; they basked in the sunshine and lowed to go to the meadow. Levin gazed admiringly at the cows he knew so intimately to the minutest detail of their condition, and gave orders for them to be driven out into the meadow, and the calves to be let into the paddock. The herdsman ran gaily to get ready for the meadow. The cowherd girls, picking up their petticoats, ran splashing through the mud with bare legs, still white, not yet brown from the sun, waving brush wood in their hands, chasing the calves that frolicked in the mirth of spring.李宗瑞全集在线播放万人彩票平台