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Burning Bright
by Tracy ChevalierFrom the bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring comes a stirring eighteenth-century coming-of- age tale Tracy Chevalier, author of the international bestseller Girl With a Pearl Earring, returns with another brilliantly rendered historical tale set in the waning days of eighteenth-century London. Poet, artist, and printer William Blake works in obscurity as England is rocked by the shock waves of the French Revolution. Next door, the Kellaway family has just moved in, and country boy Jem Kellaway strikes up a tentative friendship with street?savvy Maggie Butterfield. As their stories intertwine with Blake?s, the two children navigate the confusing and exhilarating path to adolescence, and inspire the poet to create the work that enshrined his genius.
El chico nuevo
by Tracy ChevalierLa nueva novela de la autora de La joven de la perla, inspirada en Otelo. «Absorbente. [...] Chevalier crea un mundo que recuerda a un interior de Vermeer: suspendido en un momento particular, trasciende el tiempo y el espacio.»The New Yorker Corren los años setenta en Washington D.C. cuando Osei Kokote, un chico negro de once años, se presenta por primera vez en su nuevo colegio. Hijo de un diplomático de Ghana, ha vivido siempre de ciudad en ciudad, dejando atrás amigos y hogares. Pero cuando conoce a su nueva clase, se encuentra con niños que han heredado, sin tener conciencia de ello, un cruel recelo hacia la gente de color, una desconfianza irracional contagiada por sus familias y su entorno. En una historia que transcurre a lo largo de un solo día, Tracy Chevalier construye un bello mosaico de personalidades y emociones que habla también de nosotros mismos. Junto a la adorable Dee, el hipócrita Ian, el ingenuo Rod y el resto de niños de la clase, aprenderemos una lección de vida que nos hará replantearnos muchas cosas que habíamos dado por sentadas. Reseñas:«Un ejercicio fascinante [...] que proporciona un deleite perverso.Una obra llena de imaginación.»The Washington Post «Intensa, llena de sorpresas, giros inesperados e intriga.»Daily Express «Este libro consigue retratar el sentimiento de creciente inquietud de la tragedia shakesperiana, y culmina con un desconcertante e inquietante clímax del que tardaremos en reponernos.»Bust «Completamente adictivo. [...] Toda una montaña rusa de emociones, hasta la increíble y asfixiante última línea.»Irish Independent «El talento de Chevalier consiste en trasladarse con total verosimilitud a la vida cotidiana del pasado.»Elle «La electrizante improvisación de Chevalier expone lo maligno y trágico del racismo, del sexismo, de la envidia y del miedo.»Booklist «El chico nuevo no solo captura el espíritu de esa época, con su racismo despreocupado, sino la esencia de la infancia de los setenta. Una magnífica y poderosa adaptación de la obra clásica, llevándola hasta nuevos territorios.»San Francisco Book Review «Una historia fascinante y convincente en sí misma, con personajes en los que creerás y un final trágico digno de "El Bardo".»Pittsburgh Post-Gazette «Un libro refinado, inteligente y emocionalmente intenso.»The Maine Edge
El maestro de la inocencia
by Tracy ChevalierTras la trágica muerte de uno de sus hijos, la familia Kellaway se traslada a Londres para iniciar una nueva vida. Allí, los hermanos Jem y Massie conocen a Maggie, una londinense de pura cepa con quien se embarcan en una aventura de iniciación y aprendizaje. Las bulliciosas calles de Londres, las sucias fábricas, los barrios de trabajadores y la inestabilidad política generada por los ecos de la Revolución Francesa son el telón de fondo de esta intensa novela, en donde los tres jóvenes conocen el amor y a uno de los grandes poetas de nuestro tiempo: William Blake.«Chevalier regala el don de la vida a la novela histórica.»The Independent
El último refugio
by Tracy ChevalierMás allá del horizonte, una tierra repleta de nuevas oportunidades espera. "Siempre puedo volver", va pensando la joven cuáquera Honor Bright. Mientras el barco parte de Bristol hacia tierras americanas, esta idea fija alivia sus dudas y lejos está la sospecha de que nunca verá de nuevo a su querida Inglaterra...Tras una larga y angustiosa travesía en barco, un trágico acontecimiento obliga a Honor a enfrentarse a un mundo extraño y hostil. El Ohio de 1850 es un lugar precario, que no ofrece comodidades ni admite sensiblerías. El sol de verano en los maizales es abrasador, las tormentas de otoño pueden ser devastadoras y en invierno la nieve cae sin misericordia. Las calles están llenas de lodo y escupitajos, y los bosques acogen animales y hombres extraños: por ahí andan mofetas y mapaches, pero también los esclavos fugitivos que cada día pasan por estas tierras en busca de libertad.Honor pronto aprende que valores como la compasión y la igualdad no tienen cabida en este lugar, marcado aun por el lastre de la esclavitud. Solo la dignidad la mantiene viva y le da fuerzas para seguir adelante por un camino donde no hay espacio ni tiempo para tomar el té de las cinco de la tarde.La autora de La joven de la perla regresa con fuerza de la mano de esta nueva heroína, una mujer que huye de su tierra con los ojos cerrados y aprende a mirar de frente en un mundo que aún desconoce la palabra libertad.
Encyclopedia of the Essay
by Tracy ChevalierThis groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies
Falling Angels: A Novel (Wheeler Large Print Book Ser.)
by Tracy ChevalierIn a fashionable London cemetery, two graves stand side by side, one decorated with a classical urn, the other with a marble angel. Two families, visiting their respective graves on the day after Queen Victoria's death in 1901, teeter on the brink of a new era. The Colemans and the Waterhouses are divided by social class as well as taste. They would certainly not have become acquainted had not their two girls, meeting behind the tombstones, become best friends. And, even more unsuitably, become involved with the gravedigger's muddy son. As the girls grow up, as the new king changes social customs, as a new, forward-thinking era takes wing, the lives and fortunes of the two families become more and more closely intertwined -- neighbors in life as well as death. Against a gaslit backdrop of social and political history, Tracy Chevalier explores the prejudices and flaws of a changing time. A novel that is at once elegant, daring, original, and compelling, Falling Angels is a splendid follow-up to Girl With a Pearl Earring, a book The New York Times called "marvelously evocative" and The Wall Street Journal deemed "triumphant. "
Girl With a Pearl Earring: A Novel
by Tracy ChevalierThe New York Times bestselling novel by the author of Remarkable Creatures and The Last Runaway Translated into thirty-nine languages and made into an Oscar-nominated film, starring Scarlett Johanson and Colin FirthTracy Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly-imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius . . . even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil.
L'ultima fugida
by Tracy ChevalierAmb la maestria a què ens té acostumats, Tracy Chevalier fon història i ficció en aquesta novel·la sobre el conflicte etern entre les pròpies conviccions i la injustícia de les lleis humanes, a través de l'aventura d'una dona de caràcter en l'ambient hostil d'Ohio al 1850. L'Honor Bright és una humil quàquera anglesa amb el cor trencat. Emigra a Ohio amb la seva germana, esperançada de construir una nova vida, però aviat descobreix que l’Amèrica del XIX és un lloc dur i precari per viure-hi. Un dia un esclau fugitiu apareix a la granja de la nova família de l’Honor, i ella ha de decidir què fa. Fins i tot els quàquers –famosos per defensar la igualtat entre els homes– poden dubtar de trencar les lleis de la terra. Submergida en les activitats clandestines del Ferrocarril Subterrani, una xarxa de gent que ajuda els fugitius a aconseguir la llibertat, l’Honor coneix dues dones que li demostren el que pot aconseguir plantant cara. Haurà de decidir si ella també pot actuar segons el que creu, sigui quin sigui el risc que li comporti.
La jóven de la perla
by Tracy ChevalierEn la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII, el pintor holandés Johannes Vermeer inmortalizó en una tela a una bella muchacha adornada con un turbante y un pendiente de perla. Sus labios parecen esbozar una sonrisa sensual, pero sus ojos irradian la tristeza más profunda. Conocido como la "Mona Lisa holandesa", detrás de ese enigmático rostro se esconde Griet, una joven de origen humilde que a los dieciséis años entre a trabajar como doncella en casa del artista a cambio de un mísero salario. El pintor , lentamente, se siente atraído por esta joven mujer y la acerca a su mundo, de singular belleza y magia. La joven de la perla es la historia de una fascinación, de un sentimiento que se mueve entre el amor y la dmiración. La luz en los ojos de Griet, la sirvienta convertida en musa, encierra el misterio más profundo en el proceso de creación de una obra de arte. Tracy Chevalier evoca la vida cotidiana en el siglo XVII holandés en esta hermosa novela sobre el despertar a la vida y al arte. Un retrato del esplendor ... Tracy Chevalier resucita al artista real Vermeer y a su musa ficticia en una joya de novela." Time "Una novela absorbente ... Con su excepcional talento narrativo y su conocimiento del siglo XVII en la ciudad holandesa de Delft, Chevalier crea un mundo que recuerda a un interior de Vermeer: suspendido en un preciso instante, trasciende el tiempo y el espacio." The New York Times "Tracy Chevalier ha escrito una brillante y espléndida novela acerca de la nigmática modelo de un cuadro del maestro holandés Johannes Vermeer, La joven de la perla." The Wall Street Journal
New Boy
by Tracy Chevalier"O felt her presence behind him like a fire at his back.” Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat’s son Osei Kokote—“O” for short—knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day, so he is lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one boy, used to holding sway in the world of the schoolyard, can’t stand to witness the budding relationship. When Ian decides to destroy the friendship between the black boy and the golden girl, the school and its key players—teachers and pupils alike—will never be the same again. The tragedy of Othello is vividly transposed to a 1970s suburban Washington school, where kids fall in and out of love with each other before lunchtime, and practice a casual racism picked up from their parents and teachers. The world of preadolescents is as passionate and intense, if not more so, as that of adults. Drawing us into the lives and emotions of four eleven-year-olds—Osei, Dee, Ian and his reluctant girlfriend Mimi—Tracy Chevalier’s powerful drama of friends torn apart by love and jealousy, bullying and betrayal, is as moving as it is enthralling. It is an unforgettable novel.
New Boy
by Tracy ChevalierWilliam Shakespeare's Othello retold as New BoyArriving at his fifth school in as many years, diplomat’s son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day – so he’s lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can’t stand to witness this budding relationship: Ian decides to destroy the friendship between the black boy and the golden girl. By the end of the day, the school and its key players – teachers and pupils alike – will never be the same again. The tragedy of Othello is transposed to a 1970s suburban Washington schoolyard, where kids fall in and out of love with each other before lunchtime, and practice a casual racism picked up from their parents and teachers. Peeking over the shoulders of four 11 year olds – Osei, Dee, Ian, and his reluctant ‘girlfriend’ Mimi – Tracy Chevalier's powerful drama of friends torn apart by jealousy, bullying and betrayal will leave you reeling.
Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre
by Tracy ChevalierThis collection of original stories by today's finest women writers takes inspiration from the famous line in Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, Jane Eyre.A fixture in the literary canon, Charlotte Brontë is revered by readers all over the world. Her books featuring unforgettable, strong heroines still resonate with millions today. And who could forget one of literatures' best-known lines: "Reader, I married him" from her classic novel Jane Eyre?Part of a remarkable family that produced three acclaimed female writers at a time in 19th-century Britain when few women wrote, and fewer were published, Brontë has become a great source of inspiration to writers, especially women, ever since. Now in Reader, I Married Him, twenty of today's most celebrated women authors have spun original stories, using the opening line from Jane Eyre as a springboard for their own flights of imagination.Reader, I Married Him will feature stories by:Tracy ChevalierTessa HadleySarah HallHelen DunmoreKirsty GunnJoanna BriscoeJane GardamEmma DonoghueSusan HillFrancine ProseElif Shafak Evie Wyld Patricia Park Salley VickersNadifa MohamedEsther FreudLinda Grant Lionel ShriverAudrey Niffenegger Namwali SerpellElizabeth McCrackenUnique, inventive, and poignant, the stories in Reader, I Married Him pay homage to the literary genius of Charlotte Brontë, and demonstrate once again that her extraordinary vision continues to inspire readers and writers.
Remarkable Creatures: A Novel
by Tracy ChevalierA voyage of discovery, two remarkable women, and an extraordinary time and place enrich this New York Times bestselling novel by Tracy Chevalier, author of At the Edge of the Orchard and Girl With a Pearl Earring. On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary Anning learns that she has a unique gift: "the eye" to spot fossils no one else can see. When she uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home, she sets the religious community on edge, the townspeople to gossip, and the scientific world alight. After enduring bitter cold, thunderstorms, and landslips, her challenges only grow when she falls in love with an impossible man. Mary soon finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot, a middle-class spinster who shares her passion for scouring the beaches. Their relationship strikes a delicate balance between fierce loyalty, mutual appreciation, and barely suppressed envy, but ultimately turns out to be their greatest asset. Remarkable Creatures is a stunning historical novel that follows the story of two extraordinary 19th century fossil hunters who changed the scientific world forever.
The Glassmaker: A Novel
by Tracy ChevalierNamed a Best Historical Novel of 2024 by The Sunday Times, The Independent, and BookPage A Parade and Christian Science Monitor Best Book of June&“This charming fable is at once a love story that skips through six centuries, and also a love song to the timeless craft of glassmaking. Chevalier probes the fierce rivalries and enduring loyalties of Murano's glass dynasties, capturing the roar of the furnace, the sweat on the skin, and the glittering beauty of Venetian glass.&” – Geraldine Brooks, author of HorseFrom the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glassmakers from the height of Renaissance-era Italy to the present day.It is 1486 and Venice is a wealthy, opulent center for trade. Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers on Murano, the island revered for the craft. As a woman, she is not meant to work with glass—but she has the hands for it, the heart, and a vision. When her father dies, she teaches herself to make glass beads in secret, and her work supports the Rosso family fortunes.Skipping like a stone through the centuries, in a Venice where time moves as slowly as molten glass, we follow Orsola and her family as they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, from a plague devastating Venice to Continental soldiers stripping its palazzos bare, from the domination of Murano and its maestros to the transformation of the city of trade into a city of tourists. In every era, the Rosso women ensure that their work, and their bonds, endure.Chevalier is a master of her own craft, and The Glassmaker is as inventive as it is spellbinding: a mesmerizing portrait of a woman, a family, and a city as everlasting as their glass.
The Lady and the Unicorn
by Tracy ChevalierA tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier's answer to the mystery behind one of the art world's great masterpieces--a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown--until now. Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the house--mother and daughter, servant, and lady-in-waiting--before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven. There, master weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has to finish the tapestries--his finest, most intricate work--on time for his exacting French client. The results change all their lives--lives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look. In The Lady and the Unicorn, Tracy Chevalier weaves fact and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry--an extraordinary story exquisitely told.
The Lady and the Unicorn: A Novel
by Tracy ChevalierA tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier's answer to the mystery behind one of the art world's great masterpieces--a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown--until now.Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the house--mother and daughter, servant, and lady-in-waiting--before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven. There, master weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has to finish the tapestries--his finest, most intricate work--on time for his exacting French client. The results change all their lives--lives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look.In The Lady and the Unicorn, Tracy Chevalier weaves fact and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry--an extraordinary story exquisitely told.
The Last Runaway: A Novel
by Tracy ChevalierNew York Times bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard Tracy Chevalier makes her first fictional foray into the American past in The Last Runaway, bringing to life the Underground Railroad and illuminating the principles, passions and realities that fueled this extraordinary freedom movement. Honor Bright, a modest English Quaker, moves to Ohio in 1850--only to find herself alienated and alone in a strange land. Sick from the moment she leaves England, and fleeing personal disappointment, she is forced by family tragedy to rely on strangers in a harsh, unfamiliar landscape. Nineteenth-century America is practical, precarious, and unsentimental, and scarred by the continuing injustice of slavery. In her new home Honor discovers that principles count for little, even within a religious community meant to be committed to human equality. However, Honor is drawn into the clandestine activities of the Underground Railroad, a network helping runaway slaves escape to freedom, where she befriends two surprising women who embody the remarkable power of defiance. Eventually she must decide if she too can act on what she believes in, whatever the personal costs.From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Virgin Blue: A Novel
by Tracy ChevalierMeet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin--two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her French, qualify to practice as a midwife, and start a family of her own. Village life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, and a peculiar dream of the color blue propels her on a quest to uncover her family's French ancestry. As the novel unfolds--alternating between Ella's story and that of Isabelle du Moulin four hundred years earlier--a common thread emerges that unexpectedly links the two women. Part detective story, part historical fiction, The Virgin Blue is a novel of passion and intrigue that compels readers to the very last page.
Geriatric Psychiatry Study Guide: Mastering The Competencies
by James A. Bourgeois Julie Young Ana Hategan Tracy ChengTrainees in subspecialty of geriatric psychiatry and general psychiatry need to master core competencies in geriatric psychiatry in order to practice. This book is designed to provide short-answer question-based learning centering around the core curriculum topics in geriatric psychiatry and is primarily ideal not only for medical students, residents, and fellows, but also for psychiatrists preparing for re-certification. This book features approximately 300 short-answer questions on geriatric psychiatry topics, each comprising the stem of a brief clinical scenario or concise question with expected number of answers. The book also features detailed teaching notes, graphics, and the respective source references. The format is consistently structured from chapter to chapter, practical and concise, and designed to enhance the reader’s diagnostic and management ability and clinical understanding. Each answer includes a concise discussion, pertinent illustrations, and source references. This text is a valuable reference and teaching tool that provides an opportunity for learning across a rapidly growing field. The material covered matches the existing postgraduate curricula in geriatric psychiatry and helps prepare candidates for their specialty and subspecialty certification examinations. The cases map well to both the American Geriatric Psychiatry Association and Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry as well as other international postgraduate curricula. The book covers main topics within geriatric psychiatry, some such as substance use disorders and sexuality and sexual dysfunction in later life. As the Baby Boomers age, this reference will continue to be a valuable staple in geriatric workforce training. Geriatric Psychiatry Study Guide is the ultimate resource for students, residents, fellows, psychiatrists, psychologists, family practitioners, nurses, social workers, and all clinicians rising to the challenges of the mental health segment of the geriatric workforce.
You CAN Stop Stupid: Stopping Losses from Accidental and Malicious Actions
by Ira Winkler Tracy Celaya BrownStopping Losses from Accidental and Malicious Actions Around the world, users cost organizations billions of dollars due to simple errors and malicious actions. They believe that there is some deficiency in the users. In response, organizations believe that they have to improve their awareness efforts and making more secure users. This is like saying that coalmines should get healthier canaries. The reality is that it takes a multilayered approach that acknowledges that users will inevitably make mistakes or have malicious intent, and the failure is in not planning for that. It takes a holistic approach to assessing risk combined with technical defenses and countermeasures layered with a security culture and continuous improvement. Only with this kind of defense in depth can organizations hope to prevent the worst of the cybersecurity breaches and other user-initiated losses. Using lessons from tested and proven disciplines like military kill-chain analysis, counterterrorism analysis, industrial safety programs, and more, Ira Winkler and Dr. Tracy Celaya's You CAN Stop Stupid provides a methodology to analyze potential losses and determine appropriate countermeasures to implement. Minimize business losses associated with user failings Proactively plan to prevent and mitigate data breaches Optimize your security spending Cost justify your security and loss reduction efforts Improve your organization’s culture Business technology and security professionals will benefit from the information provided by these two well-known and influential cybersecurity speakers and experts.
The Gateway Arch: A Biography (Icons of America)
by Tracy CampbellThis &“fascinating, engaging&” history of St. Louis&’s monument to American expansion reveals a story of greed, discrimination, and community displacement (NextSTL.com). Rising to a triumphant height of 630 feet, the Gateway Arch is one of the world&’s most widely recognized structures and attracts millions of tourists to St. Louis every year. Envisioned in 1947 but not completed until the mid-1960s, its story is one of innovation and greed; civic pride and backroom deals. Weaving together social, political, and cultural perspectives, historian Tracy Campbell uncovers the complicated and troubling history of this iconic symbol. In this revealing account, Campbell shows that the so-called Gateway to the West was the scheme of shrewd city leaders who were willing to steal an election, destroy historic buildings, and drive out communities in order to make downtown St. Louis more profitable. Campbell also tells the human story of the architect Eero Saarinen, whose prize-winning design brought him acclaim but also charges of plagiarism, and who didn&’t live to see the completion of his vision.
The Year of Peril: America in 1942
by Tracy CampbellA fascinating chronicle of how the character of American society revealed itself under the duress of World War II The Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942, however, after a series of defeats in the Pacific and the struggle to establish a beachhead on the European front, America seemed to be on the brink of defeat and was beginning to splinter from within. Exploring this precarious moment, Tracy Campbell paints a portrait of the deep social, economic, and political fault lines that pitted factions of citizens against each other in the post–Pearl Harbor era, even as the nation mobilized, government‑aided industrial infrastructure blossomed, and parents sent their sons off to war. This captivating look at how American society responded to the greatest stress experienced since the Civil War reveals the various ways, both good and bad, that the trauma of 1942 forced Americans to redefine their relationship with democracy in ways that continue to affect us today.
JJ's Journey: A Story of Heroes and Heart
by Tracy CalhounTracy Calhoun, a longtime nurse, shares the heart-melting story of working alongside JJ, the Therapy Dog, the brightest and most intuitive dog Tracy has ever trained in this memoir loaded with over 60 color photos of our canine hero and pals. When not mooching dog treats, JJ is dedicated to helping humans cope with tragedy and loss through love and hugs. Tracy Calhoun, a nurse on staff at Samaritan Evergreen Hospice House in Oregon, paused at the bedside of an elderly patient in a coma. The woman had no family or friends, but the hospice team had learned she liked dogs, so Tracy put her Golden Retriever, JJ, a staff “therapist,” on the woman’s bed. JJ snuggled up, nuzzled a motionless hand, and then settled in, letting her body warmth cuddle and comfort the patient in her final hours. The woman, who had been unresponsive for days, then performed her final, intentional act. She stroked JJ’s head. Tracy recorded the intimate moment on her phone, then uploaded it to Facebook where she was keeping a modest account for friends, family, and community members who knew her and JJ. In August 2015, that video went viral, and was rapidly seen by tens of millions of viewers worldwide. To Tracy, it was a turning point in her mission to explain to a wider audience the joy that therapy dogs provide, and to do it with humor and canine chaos, as only a dog obsessed with bacon, puppies, and swimming can. Along the way, Tracy’s own story has grown and changed through her love of animals, and she’s found, in difficult times, she has needed the same comfort her pups offer to patients—for herself. “These stories of an unforgettable and deeply intuitive Golden Retriever named JJ, as told by her fabulous handler Tracy, are shared with humor and heart. Many wonderful moments happen when working with therapy dogs and reading about JJ’s magic is an extraordinarily moving experience.” — Donna Frindt, Executive Director, Project Canine “An emotionally satisfying and entertaining collection of tales not only between a dog and her human, but between this remarkable soul in a Golden Retriever suit and dozens of people in crisis—from hospice care to school shootings.” —Janet Velanovsky , Owner, Kaizen Pet Training & Behavior “An inspiring memoir, JJ’s Journey illustrates the medical and spiritual benefits of the human-animal bond through JJ’s unwavering patience, love, and support for the hospice patients and their grieving families. JJ’s Journey brings to light that in our greatest time of need, every person can feel they are loved, honored, and mean something in this world thanks to the unconditional love that comes so naturally from a therapy dog’s heart.” —Colby Webb, Founder, Sav-a-Bull Rescue and author of Forty One Pit Bulls
How to Make a Man Fall in Love with You
by Tracy CabotForget about learning how to make love to a man. Firstyou have to learn how to make a man fall in love with you.
Action Research: Using Strategic Inquiry To Improve Teaching And Learning
by S. Michael Putman Tracy C. RockAction Research: Using Strategic Inquiry to Improve Teaching and Learning is a core text for the Action Research course in Education. The proposed text seeks to address the needs of practitioners as it will be primarily written for use within a graduate level action research class. It will be oriented towards proactive planning as part of an organized, efficient process for developing and conducting an action research study. The book will be organized around implementation of the action research process using self-regulatory principles, which is characterized by four phases: task definition, goal setting and planning, enacting, and adapting. These four phases will be addressed as the learner considers what action research encompasses and a topic to be studied, then proceeds to establish a plan and enact it. This overall process is organized as can be seen in the Table of Contents. Michael Putnam and Tracy Rock will highlight methods and processes that incorporate formative data that is readily available to teachers, facilitating associations between classroom instruction and the action research process. The text will also reinforce how action research can improve the teaching and learning process by reinforcing or changing perceptions about the use of informal data, including anecdotal notes or observations, in the research process.