Meira's father is a shepherd not far from Bethlehem. He and his son often take the sheep to look for fresh grazing places. Meira longs to go along, but her parents feel she is too young. She is surprised and excited one day when her mother tells her she can go with her father and brother. They will take the sheep to the shepherd fields near Bethlehem. She has an even bigger surprise in store, as this is the very night the Christ Child is born. Meira is there when the angel appears to the shepherds. She, along with her father and brother, has the privilege of welcoming the Savior.

How is the politics of Blackness figured in the flamenco dancing body? What does flamenco dance tell us about the construction of race in the Atlantic world? Sonidos Negros traces how, in the span between 1492 and 1933, the vanquished Moor became Black, and how this figure, enacted in terms of a minstrelized Gitano, paradoxically came to represent Spain itself. The imagined Gypsy about which flamenco imagery turns dances on a knife's edge delineating Christian and non-Christian, White and Black worlds. This figure's subversive teetering undermines Spain's symbolic linkage of religion with race, a prime weapon of conquest. Flamenco's Sonidos Negros live in this precarious balance, amid the purposeful confusion and ruckus cloaking embodied resistance, the lament for what has been lost, and the values and aspirations of those rendered imperceptible by enslavement and colonization.

Norse myths are chock full of stories of heroism, gods, giants, and dwarfs, along with strong elements of shamanism, pagan ritual, sorcery, and shape-changing. With commentary by Maria Kvilhaug, this volume two book is a collection of Old Norse medieval texts concerning the gods Thor and Loki. It contains translations of six Edda poems, three Skaldic poems, and all the relevant passages from Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda. Maria's ability to use her skills in philology shines a light on the texts as she extracts hidden meaning from the lore. Discover the myths that uncover a strong root to animistic understandings of the world in which these stories were told, revealing an old world that was filled with elements of shape-shifting, sorcery, and shamanistic style practices to our current, new world.

Chronicles the author's rescue of an abandoned barn owlet, from her efforts to resuscitate and raise the young owl through their nineteen years together, during which the author made key discoveries about owl behavior.

From USA TODAY Bestselling Author Laura Scott Protecting the innocent while saving their country... Can he save the daughter he didn't know he had? Former FBI agent Jordan Rashid has been tasked with infiltrating a terrorist cell located in Washington, DC. But when he receives an email link with a video of a young girl being held captive by kidnappers, his mission becomes very personal—the eleven-year-old Bryn is the daughter he didn’t know he had. Diana Phillips is horrified to discover her daughter has been kidnapped and is frantic to find her. And she doesn’t understand why she is being directed to her former fiancé Jordan Rashid for help. Clearly her witness protection cover has been blown, and worse, her cousin Tariq is likely the mastermind behind Bryn’s kidnapping. In the midst of a serious terrorist threat, Diana and Jordan must find a way to put their rocky past aside and work together to rescue Bryn. Can they save hundreds of innocent lives in time to become a family, once again? -- Read what others are saying about USA Today Bestselling Author Laura Scott: "Thrilling! If you enjoy the works of Irene Hannon or Elizabeth Goddard, you will want to give this a try." L. Couter VINE VOICE “Scott delivers distinctive characters, an appealing small-town setting, and a hint of romance. This cozy is perfect for animal lovers." --Publishers Weekly review of Dogged by Death "An entertaining cast of characters makes for a kickoff sure to please dog lovers." --Kirkus review for Dogged by Death Read the entire Security Specialists, Inc. series in order: Target For Terror Target For Ransom Target For Revenge Target for Treason -- Topics: Christian suspense romance, suspense, thriller, Christian thriller, Christian International Thriller, contemporary suspense romance, clean and wholesome romance, foster family romance, foster kids, family centered romance, Laura Scott books, Laura Scott romantic suspense books, smoky mountain romance, urban romance, Washington, DC, emotional romance, redemption romance, finding faith romance, faith journey, finding faith, USA today Bestselling author, USA Today, rescue romance, learning to trust again, strong women romance, bodyguard, damsel in distress, doctor, hospital, strong men of faith, protector, faith redeemed, adoption, action packed suspense, high stakes danger, terrorist threat, political thriller -- Readers of Laura Scott’s books enjoyed books by: Lynette Eason, Irene Hannon, Susan Sleeman, Susan May Warren, Hallee Bridgeman, Christy Barritt, Diann Mills, Dee Henderson, Elizabeth Goddard, Terri Blackstock, Lisa Harris, Rachel Dylan, Dani Pettrey, Colleen Coble, Edie James, Terri Reed, Shirlee McCoy, Lenora Worth, Heather Woodhaven, Dana Mentink

In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima’s Ground Zero, comics display a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Investigating how hand-drawn comics has come of age as a serious medium for engaging history, Disaster Drawn explores the ways graphic narratives by diverse artists, including Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman, and Joe Sacco, document the disasters of war. Hillary L. Chute traces how comics inherited graphic print traditions and innovations from the seventeenth century and later, pointing out that at every turn new forms of visual-verbal representation have arisen in response to the turmoil of war. Modern nonfiction comics emerged from the shattering experience of World War II, developing in the 1970s with Art Spiegelman’s first “Maus” story about his immigrant family’s survival of Nazi death camps and with Hiroshima survivor Keiji Nakazawa’s inaugural work of “atomic bomb manga,” the comic book Ore Wa Mita (“I Saw It”)—a title that alludes to Goya’s famous Disasters of War etchings. Chute explains how the form of comics—its collection of frames—lends itself to historical narrative. By interlacing multiple temporalities over the space of the page or panel, comics can place pressure on conventional notions of causality. Aggregating and accumulating frames of information, comics calls attention to itself as evidence. Disaster Drawn demonstrates why, even in the era of photography and film, people understand hand-drawn images to be among the most powerful forms of historical witness.