Curious Cathy’s Quirky Questions: A Quest to Discover the Story of Her Family History
Curious Cathy is a little girl with a big imagination and even bigger questions about her family history. Join her in a heartwarming conversation with her grandfather into her family’s past. Through her quirky questions and his stories, Cathy learns about the inspiring people who came before her—her ancestors—and discovers just how special her family truly is.
Be sure to check out My Family History Journal. Inspired by Curious Cathy’s Quirky Questions, this fun and easy-to-use journal helps kids dive into their family history. With guided prompts and space to draw, write, and insert photos, this journal makes discovering your roots an exciting adventure.
My Family History Journal
Inspired by the children’s storybook, Curious Cathy’s Quirky Questions, this fun and easy-to-use journal helps kids dive into their family history. With guided prompts and space to draw, write, and insert photos, My Family History Journal makes discovering your roots an exciting adventure.
Be sure to check out Curious Cathy’s Quirky Questions as she shares a heartwarming conversation with her grandfather about their family’s past. Through her childlike curiosity and his cherished stories, Cathy uncovers the remarkable lives of her ancestors and discovers how truly special her family is.
Rethinking Media Economics
Rethinking Media Economics emphasizes how this field of study is affected by rapid changes in the media industry due to technology, regulation, globalization, and consumer preferences. Alan B. Albarran takes the reader through major economic events from the 1950s onwards to highlight how technology in the 21st century has completely changed the relationship between media, media content and audiences through digital platforms and streaming services.
The Media Economy
This fully updated third edition analyzes the media industries and their activities from macro to micro levels, using concepts and theories to demonstrate the role the media plays in the economy as a whole.
This textbook breaks new ground through its analysis of the rapidly changing and evolving media economy from two unique perspectives. First, the book explores how media industries function across global, national, household, and individual levels of society. Second, it assesses how key forces such as technology, globalization, regulation, and consumer aspects are constantly evolving and influencing media industries. This new edition incorporates thoroughly updated theory and research as well as expanded case studies that include examples from international markets such as Asia, Europe, and Latin America. It builds on the contributions of the previous edition by providing new references and current data to define and analyze today’s media markets and offers a more expansive assessment of streaming business models as well as the effects of Covid-19 on the media economy.
Written in an accessible style and presenting a holistic global perspective of the role of media in the global economy, the textbook provides crucial insights for students and practitioners of media economics, media management and media industries.
Heart Lines: Poems About Love, Loss, and Trying to Make Sense of It All
Heart Lines is a love story. It is a story about wanting love, losing love, forgetting what love feels like, and rediscovering love and all the lessons it has to teach us along the way. It is a drama, a comedy, and a mystery. It’s mostly a non-fiction collection, but there’s a bit of fantasy included, as well. At times it’s a scary story, for who among us hasn’t been scared by falling in or out of love?
Above all, however, Heart Lines is a story of hope, and how important it is to never let the inner light of hope flicker out within your heart.
Life Lines: More Stories from the Heart
Life Lines is a series of short stories in poems and prose. It’s about people and places and life events that have provided inspiration or opportunities for reflection. It is a companion piece to the author’s first book, Heart Lines. You need not know all the people and places described in this collection to relate to the heartfelt feelings in the stories.
Life Lines is for those who enjoy poetry and short stories that speak from the heart and soul. It provides a glimpse into one person’s life postcards and reminds us all to keep hope in our hearts and to reflect back on others the love and light that’s within us. It’s also a reminder to live your dreams, for our inspirations and aspirations are our precious “life lines.”
Wisdom: Things I Wish I Knew at Twenty-Two
Wisdom is a collection of life lessons for teenagers, young adults, and everyone who is twenty-two at heart. With insights gathered from women and men who have experienced different elements of life’s journey, this book dispenses wisdom in practical, easy-to-digest morsels, such as:
- Becoming effective at work
- Achieving work-life balance
- Assuming leadership roles
- Identifying values and setting goals
- Dealing with matters of the heart
- …and other practical life lessons
Whether you are a teenager seeking wisdom that does not come from a schoolbook, a young adult striving to be successful, or an older adult looking for a good mental tune-up, let the messages in Wisdom enlighten and inspire you as you pursue your dreams.
Fortitude: Preserving 400 years of an American family’s faith, patriotism, grit and determination
Fortitude is an action-packed journey through history via the eyes of a family that lived it. From ancient ancestral roots in England to over four hundred years in America, Fortitude brings our predecessors alive as it immerses the reader in the historical context in which they both struggled and thrived.
Fortitude is a family history narrative. It’s a story of steadfast courage, perseverance and resilience. Although it’s a story of a Spaulding family’s ancestral history, it’s a story typical of any family that’s been part of the fabric of America since its inception. From 1600 to 2020, Fortitude gives the reader an appreciation of the faith, patriotism, grit and determination of this truly American family and a front-row seat to the history of the nation they helped form, defend and cherish.
So let the story of your past come alive by visualizing your family’s ancestors in Fortitude’s journey through history.
Sharing Hunter
Some girlfriends share everything. Why not a boyfriend?
Rachel and Chloe have been best friends since childhood. When the senior class’s dream guy suddenly becomes a free man, it’s open season on Hunter Mills. Both wanting to take their shot, Rachel and Chloe concoct a win-win plan—sharing a boyfriend.
No jealousy. No strings attached. Just two best friends trading off days with the same guy.
Getting Mr. Good Guy to agree is the first step, but once they overcome that hurdle, they can make their unconventional relationship work.
At least, that was the plan.
Daring Charlotte
What dare would you take to fulfill a dream?
High school drama geek Charlotte Romero loves the stage, but not her stage fright. Instead, she works theater tech and dreams of one day seeing a show on Broadway.
When her teacher announces a drama class trip to New York, the price is way too high for her cash-poor family. But not for drama queen Deedra, a rich classmate offering $5,000 to the student who best completes her nine dares.
Charlotte pushes past her performance anxiety and enters the contest. Soon, she’s got an unwanted spotlight, a crush on a competitor, and increasing panic that she can’t possibly win the prize.
From award-winning author, Julie Glover comes another YA novel with a quirky premise, lighthearted humor, emotional depth, and memorable characters.