Through the Lens of Love: A Journey of Healing on the Great Plains. When city-born photojournalist Camilla's lens captures the heart of cowboy Beau on the Great Plains, their worlds intertwine, revealing a path to healing and love. Can they overcome their pasts and focus on a future together? In "Focusing on the Cowboy," Camilla Santos, a dedicated photojournalist, embarks on an assignment to capture the essence of life on the Great Plains. Her plans take an unexpected turn when she meets Beau Rivers, a genuine cowboy with a guarded heart. As Camilla delves into the tranquility of the plains and Beau's complex world, their budding relationship faces the test of unresolved pasts. Set against a backdrop of breathtaking landscapes, their story is a poignant exploration of healing, resilience, and the unexpected ways love can develop. Perfect for fans of "Big Sky Country" by Linda Lael Miller and "Wind River Wrangler" by Lindsay McKenna. Visit Daisy's website to find out about upcoming releases or to join her newsletter at www.daisylandishromance.com.

For anyone who wants better relationships and success at the office and at home.In solution-focused leadership, a leader recognizes, affirms, harnesses, and encourages further development of the strengths of those around him or her, while guiding the team toward a mutually-agreed-upon vision. Like horses, people in the workplace want to be treated fairly and with respect, are willing to take responsibility, and want to productively contribute. They want to participate, be heard, trust and be trusted, and make a difference. Neither horses nor people are motivated by rules and organizational bureaucracies. Instead, getting through the day in peace, doing a good job, building enduring relationships with others, and finding joy in what they do helps them discover meaning and purpose in their lives. Many of our top industry producers fail to become superior contributors until they learn to be other-focused. Through conscious and consistent effort, a producer's relationship competence can be raised to the level of his or her technical competence, resulting in a highly-valued leader, supervisor, and manager. Taking the Reins encourages management techniques focused on relationships, supervision based on realistic expectations, and leadership through recognition of the strengths of others.

This study provides an illuminating and ground-breaking account of the complex interaction of intonational phenomena, semantics and pragmatics. Based on examples from German and English, and centred on an analysis of the fall-rise intonation contour, a semantic interpretation for two different pitch accents - Focus and Topic - is developed. The cross-sentence, as well as the sentence internal semantic effects of these accents, follow from the given treatment. The account is based on Montogovian possible world semantics and Chomskian generative syntax.

Collection of fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction from Colorado's top writers in the GLBT community

This collection convenes diverse analyses of David Lynch's newly conceived, dreamlike neo-noir representations of the American West, a first in studies of regionalism and indigeneity in his films. Twelve essays and three interviews address Lynch's image of the American West and its impact on the genre. Fans and scholars of David Lynch's work will find a study of his interpretations of the West as place and myth, spanning from his first feature film, Eraserhead (1977), through the third season of Twin Peaks in 2017. Symbols of the West in Lynch's work can be as obvious as an Odessa, Texas street sign or as subtle as the visual themes rooted in indigenous artistry. Explorations of cowboy masculinity, violence, modern frontier narratives and representations of indigeneity are all included in this collection.

Y’all would think with a name like Alex Fancy I’d be a butler or something, not the guy who’s soon gonna be the best damn bull rider in the world. Yeah, they say I have a bad attitude, and that I don’t deserve the shot, just because I like my women, beer, and fighting. I never much cared what they thought until the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen, a model named Emily, suggested we pretend to date. She said she needed my “edge” to help her get more clients, and I needed her innocent reputation to prove to people that I’m not some sort of asshole. Well, not a complete one, anyway. Six months dating a model seems like a nice deal, but one small hitch: she don’t want to have sex until she’s married, and she won’t let me sleep with any other women, even though we’re not really dating. This is gonna be a long six months.

Cole Charming is one cowboy who is never going to fall in love—again. The cowboy-turned-actor had a very public breakup that shattered his heart. After going back to his hometown during the holidays, he bumps into Katie, a sweet girl he had a crush on from high school. When sparks fly between them he knows he needs to keep his distance. He wouldn’t want to ruin a good friendship. Katie finds herself in a sticky place. She’s the last in her family to get married and as a wedding event planner, that doesn’t help her brand. Now, at her grandparents’ anniversary, the heat is on. The last thing she wanted to do was to stand out as the only one without a date. In walks her high school crush. The tall, dark and handsome Cole Charming. The pity-looks from everyone at the event were more than she could handle. Will this handsome cowboy step in to save her face?