About the Book Just Another Love Story centers around Brian, recently divorced, who is looking for a fresh start. Looking to start over in a new town in a house with no furniture with no guidance for his future, he heads to a hardware store to fix a broken toilet. There, he finds a woman named Janie, the complete opposite of his ex-wife in every way, who helps him with his plumbing issue as well as his lack of direction. He starts to fall hard for Janie, but she has her own history that she must face. Will they overcome all the barriers that their past hurt has put in their way and become Just Another Love Story?

Kirk Daniels has just completed his third year at the University of Maryland. In addition, Kirk plays middle linebacker on Maryland's football team. His coach has arranged a summer job at Elk Neck State Park, located on the Northern Chesapeake Bay.Kirk will certainly have a different summer, and the superintendent's daughter, Sharon, makes things very interesting. After meeting her Kirk thinks to himself, I don't believe in love at first sight but girl sure grows on you in a hurry Enter C.J., he can't quite be explained, but you'll just love the guy You will live Kirk's final football season as they meet major college opponents, plus, a completely new cast of characters.Kirk and Sharon... well theirs is not just another love story.This is a classical romance story with fun and action packed between the pages.Not Just Another Love Story will make you laugh, tear up in places and have you fall in love with a wonderful cast of characters.

Stephen Sondheim is an artist with many contradictory facets: he is an avant-garde composer and lyricist working in the populist art form, an apparently dry and acerbic critic who captures all the ambivalent pain of passion, an intellectual whose work contains some of the funniest bawdy lines on the Broadway stage. He has chosen to confront an audience that is usually looking for escapist literature with the very issues it has fled to the theatre to avoid. This collection of original essays takes particular pains to present Sondheim's diversity in a chronological plan that illustrates how each new work grew out of the previous one. Some of the topics covered are the evolution of Sondheim's female characters, who take us far beyond the usual sweet ingenues; the Roman farce antecedents of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and the resemblances between Sondheim's chorus and the chorus in ancient Greek drama; Sondheim and the concept musical; and Sondheim's maturing philosophy. All students of the modern theatre and the modern musical will want to read this book.

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Life is the most precious gift on earth and everyone wants to live to the fullest since the span is limited. The cycle of life and death is inevitable but what transpires during the journey from the womb to the graveyard truly makes it unique for each one of us. Some of it is driven by our actions and the rest as we realize sooner than later – destiny. The author makes an attempt to reminisce Rupa (his strength for life) and the timeless journey both of them embarked upon hand in hand, dating back to Aug 2000. As they say, life must be lived in all its vicissitudes, and this love story, which started on a magical note, had its own share of success and trials too. For Rupa, her faith was bigger than her fears, her simplicity was too pure to be blemished, her flaws were even more beautiful than her perfections, her love for life far exceeded the pessimism around and nevertheless, her zeal to overcome odds outweighed the challenges life had to offer. But true to its nature, life took a U-turn when Rupa was diagnosed with cancer. What unfolded thereafter is Stage 4, where death failed to win over because the spirit for life continues to live on and inspire the world around. Flip through the pages and fall in love with the captivating story of a couple whose love stood the test of time and triumphed over the ultimate reality – death. Written in an autobiographical format, Stage-4 sings about the tale of life and death in the most heartrending manner…

Stephanie has grown tired of feeling neglected by her husband’s attachment to the streets. Though they have been married for years, she feels that he would much rather prefer to be on his own. With the children grown, Stephanie feels that it is the right time to start a new chapter in her life without her husband. Jaryl loves Stephanie with everything inside of him and regrets every moment he spent breaking her down. With Stephanie determined to divorce him, he is even more determined to win her back. Stephanie and Jaryl forms a friendship they never had before they got married and realizes that if God is for them who could ever be against them.

Sophism was the single most important movement in second century literature: prose of that period came to be written as entertainment rather than confined to historical subjects. Graham Anderson shows how the Greek sophists' skills in public speaking enabled them to perform effectively across a variety of activities. As he presents the sophists' roles as civic celebrities side-by-side with their roles as transmitters of Hellenic culture and literary artists, a co-ordinated view of the Second Sophistic as a complex phenomenon emerges.

Thirty-year-old Linda Masters is shocked to her core when she first begins hearing haunting voices in her head. As a beautiful, devout Catholic virgin she is used to receiving admiring glances. She begins to panic when the voices accuse her of deviant acts with men. As she attempts to learn the source of the nasty voices, Linda has no idea she has just been given the challenge of a lifetime. After the voices become progressively worse, Linda visits a psychiatrist who diagnoses her with paranoid schizophrenia and prescribes medicine with unwelcome side effects. Still determined to pursue her dream of becoming a nurse, Linda enlists in the Army where she attempts to lead a normal life until her condition is discovered and she is discharged. After a failed marriage she returns home. Her voices get worse. One day Her concerned father finds disturbing notes penned by her and commits her to a mental health facility. As she undergoes treatment by a remarkable, caring psychiatrist, Linda learns to control the voices. But will she ever be able to find a soul mate who will love her despite her past trauma and the challenges that lie ahead? In this poignant tale based on a true story, a young woman diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia must find a way to survive and love while the voices in her head battle for control.

Two high school sweethearts get a second chance at their perfect ending in this charming new romance by Kerry Winfrey, author of Very Sincerely Yours. Once upon a time, Sandy Macintosh thought she would have her happily ever after with her high school sweetheart, Hank Tillman. Sandy wanted to be an artist, Hank was the only boy in town who seemed destined for bigger things, and they both had dreams to escape town together. But when Sandy’s plans fell through, she stayed in their small town in Ohio while Hank went off to Boston to follow his dreams to be a musician, with the promise to stay together. Only that plan fell through, too. Fifteen years later, Sandy runs a successful greenhouse while helping her parents with their bed and breakfast. Everything is perfect…until Hank rolls back into town, now a famous alt-country singer with a son in tow. She’s happy with the life she’s built by herself, but seeing Hank makes her think about what might have been. There aren’t enough cliché love songs in the world to convince Sandy to give Hank another chance, but when the two of them get thrown together to help organize the town’s annual street fair, she wonders if there could be a new beginning for them or if what they had is just a tired old song of the past.

In this groundbreaking collection, Dr. Jenna Ng brings together academics and award-winning artists and machinima makers to explore the fascinating combination of cinema, animation and games in machinima (the use of computer game engines to produce animated films in cost- and time-efficient ways). Book-ended by a preface by Henry Lowood (curator for history of science and technology collections at Stanford University) and an interview with Isabelle Arvers (machinima artist, trainer, critic, and curator), the collection features wide-ranging discussions addressing machinima not only from diverse theoretical perspectives, but also in its many dimensions as game art, First Nations media art, documentary, and pedagogical tool. Making use of interactive multimedia to enhance the text, each chapter features a QR code which leads to a mobile website cross-referencing with its print text, integrating digital and print content while also taking into account the portability of digital devices in resonance with machinima's mobile digital forms. Exploring the many dimensions of machinima production and reception, Understanding Machinima extends machinima's critical scholarship and debate, underscoring the exciting potential of this emerging media form.