A burning desire to pursue their dreams, a group of friends sees themselves in hurdles. A few personal problems make them fear future... And then they change.

Glimpses of the past; many times those flashbacks of yesteryear will spin threads of wishful contemplation for our tomorrows. Some images of the past we want to forget, while most of them we treasure in our memories. Those memories are foundations for launching the dreams which can carry us onward toward a great destiny. DreamWeaver Storybook is a collection of true-life short stories from various facets of life from humor to the unexplained. Little cowboys, dinosaurs, guardian angels, the hereafter, animals, heroes, ghosts, life and death, lost at sea, UFOs, and dreams coming true are but a few of the story topics from life contained within this book. All of them being true will grasp the mind for wanting more tales of yesteryear, for lacing the present with better dreams of tomorrow. Embedded within every story are valuable principles needed for traveling this pathway called life. Even though some of stories contain humor and oddities of reality, ethics surprisingly shine through within the flow of story lines. Journey with the author through the many stories within this book, and discover that its pages can lift the spirit for a brighter tomorrow. Between the covers of this book, its stories will transport readers to perhaps the farthest reaches of their dreams for improving life and accomplishing their destinies.

Murder hits the stacks when literary agent Allie Cobb investigates a fatality in the local library... Allie Cobb returns home from a book conference armed with hugs for her cat and her boyfriend, and dreams of a long, hot bath. She’s also getting ready to take the plunge by hiring an intern for her expanding literary agency. But it’s one for the books when Allie finds the town’s librarian—and her longtime role model—seconds away from death on the library floor. Who would want to poison Vicky Napier—one of Rushing Creek’s most beloved citizens—on the eve of her retirement? But it seems there were toxic people in her life, like the handyman with an obsessive crush, and a wood carver with a hair-trigger temper. The list of suspects includes Allie’s boyfriend, Brent, who’s in the running to take over as town librarian. Avenging her friend’s murder could be a trap as she goes up against a killer determined to write Allie’s epitaph . . .

A comparative media analysis of the representation of the U.S.–Mexico border Border tunnels at the U.S.–Mexico border are ubiquitous in news, movies, and television, yet, because they remain hidden and inaccessible, the public can encounter them only through media. Analyzing the technologies, institutional politics, narrative tropes, and aesthetic decisions that go into showing border tunnels across multiple forms of media, Juan Llamas-Rodriguez argues that we cannot properly address border issues without attending to—and fully understanding—the fraught relationship between their representation and reality. Llamas-Rodriguez reveals that every media text about border tunnels, whether meant for entertainment, cable news, video games, or speculative design, implicitly takes a position on the politics of the border. The examples laid out in Border Tunnels will teach readers how to look differently at the border as it is commonly presented in various forms of media, from ABC’s Nightline and CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360º to reality TV, propaganda videos, and even digital effects in Hollywood action films. Llamas-Rodriguez examines how creative decisions in the production, promotion, and distribution of these media texts either emphasize or downplay issues such as border security, racial dynamics of migration, and sustainability of the borderlands. Focusing on tunnels to show how media representations can influence all kinds of audiences—even those physically near the border—Border Tunnels helps us make sense of this pressing social issue, ultimately advancing understanding of the U.S.–Mexico border in all of its complexity and precariousness.

For educated poets and readers in the Renaissance, classical literature was as familiar and accessible as the work of their compatriots and contemporaries – often more so. This volume seeks to recapture that sense of intimacy and immediacy, as scholars from both sides of the modern disciplinary divide come together to eavesdrop on the conversations conducted through allusion and intertextual play in works from Petrarch to Milton and beyond. The essays include discussions of Ariosto, Spenser, Du Bellay, Marlowe, the anonymous drama Caesars Revenge, Shakespeare and Marvell, and look forward to the grand retrospect of Shelley’s Adonais. Together, they help us to understand how poets across the ages have thought about their relation to their predecessors, and about their own contributions to what Shelley would call ‘that great poem, which all poets...have built up since the beginning of the world’.

Chaos breaks out in quiet Sewickley, PA, when someone starts raising the dead. "Have the demons of the Hollow broken the Treaty or are the humans dabbling in black magic? One thing is for sure. The only person who can bridge the gap between human and demon is the local Gypsy," Trudi MacKenzie.