“Harrowing and emotional . . . A tribute to the enduring power of family. The story of the disaster’s widows uplifts and devastates in equal measure.” —Gareth Russell, author of The Ship of Dreams When the Titanic foundered in April 1912, the world’s focus was on the tragedy of the passengers who lost their lives. Ever since, in films, dramatizations, adaptations and books, the focus has mostly continued to be on the ones who died. The Titanic and the City of Widows It Left Behind focuses on another group of people—the widows and children of the crew who perished on board. Author Julie Cook’s great-grandfather was a stoker who died on the Titanic. Her great-grandmother had to raise five children with no breadwinner. This book focuses on Emily and the widows like her who had to fight for survival through great hardship, while still grieving for the men they loved who’d died on the ship. Using original archive sources and with accounts from descendants of crew who also lost their lives, the book asks how these women survived through abject poverty and grief—and why their voices have been silent for so long. “The sinking of the Titanic has produced a wealth of books, articles, films and TV documentaries, all of which have given very little thought to the dependents and friends of those who lost their lives in this ocean tragedy. A moving and involving story that corrects this neglect, told by a descendant of a Titanic widow . . . How most of them survived the grief and grinding hardship is a story worth the telling, as are the stories of those who did not survive the crushing pressures.” —Firetrench

A History of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts: Brownies, Rainbows and WAGGGS charts the evolution of the Girl Guides and Girl Scouts from its early days as a movement started before WW1 right through to the modern day. With real life interviews with Girl Guides and Girl Scouts from their 90s down to young children, this book looks at what being a Girl Guide has meant through the ages up to the present day. With dramatic and often emotional stories of what it was like to be an evacuated Brownie in the Second World War, a disabled Girl Guide and with tales of girls' heroism throughout the two great wars both in the UK and the United States, this book extols the Guiding and Scouting movement as one that has evolved with women and girls' rights and its hopes for the future.

When the Titanic sinks in 1912, all the world seems to care about are the rich and famous on board. But in Southampton, the city where Titanic set sail, the wives of the drowned crew are thrown into poverty and despair. Lucy, recently married and with a one-year-old child, is widowed when her stoker husband Joseph dies. With no breadwinner, she must fight to survive for her baby. Beautiful and feisty Catherine is engaged to Percy, a steward on Titanic, who comes home suffering with shock. Can she cope marrying a man the city now calls a 'coward' for surviving the sinking? Susan, a teacher, is a secret Suffragette and most of her pupils have lost fathers on the Titanic. When she meets a man she finally falls for, can she reconcile her desire for women's rights with her desire to fall in love? The Titanic Girls is a story that follows friendship, hardship and grief at a time of great upheaval for women. Three best friends help each other survive through sorrow and despair. But when an entire city believes men who survived the Titanic are cowards and when one man returns from his watery grave, can life ever go on as before. About the author Julie Cook is an author and journalist for national newspapers and magazines. Her first book The Titanic and the City of Widows it left Behind was published by Pen and Sword in 2020 and her second non-fiction title A History of the Girl Guides was published in 2022. Julie writes for titles including the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Mirror and women’s magazines. Julie lives with her husband and children in Hampshire, England. Her great-grandfather William was a stoker who died on Titanic. This book is based on the real lives of wives who were left behind.

In this spicy sports romance, a legendary Olympic downhill skier trains to compete in the new event of ski mountaineering, desperate to stay ahead of her younger sports rival. But when the undeniable chemistry with her hot coach threatens to disrupt her carefully planned life, will she stick with her schedule or let her life veer off course in the name of love?

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Book & 2 CDs. Meet Dudley Edwards, a smart, somewhat cynical, and very spoiled twenty-pound cat. The book begins a few weeks before Christmas and Dudley has been begging, praying, and yowling for a skateboard. Instead, he becomes the unhappy recipient of a new brother, Beanz. The introduction of a new cat into the household is at the very least, chaotic. Dudley sulks. He doesn't believe that Santa will bring him a skateboard, as he has never been on the "good" list. Instead, Dudley decides to take matters into his own hands. Laughter, food fights, neighbourhood aliens, and sibling rivalry abound. Join the boys' first adventure together as they race, pounce, bite, and deviously warm your hearts.

To be a glimmer is to be a faint, wavering light; to glimmer is to shine dimly. This has been the meaning of the word since the early 15th century, according to the Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), which also states that the word meant "to shine brightly" at the end of the 14th century. Glimmer takes the Old English "gleam"- brightness-as its root. Since the mid-13th century, to gleam has meant "to throw rays of light; appear suddenly and clearly."Winter Glimmerings is a collection of poems about finding hope even in the cold and in the dark and in the unknown. Join us on this journey.Read the work of Petrouchka Alexieva, Padmaja Battani, Sheryll (Sherri) Bedingfield, Sandy Lee Carlson, Sreelekha Chatterjee, Julie Cook, Edward Dzitko, Diane Funston, Roger Funston, Maria Souza Hogan, B. Fulton Jennes, Rachel Larensen, Thomasina Levy, Patricia Martin, Kathy Nativo, Tom Nicotera, Derek Piotr, Susan Marie Powers, Geri Radacsi, Vivian Shipley, Jefferson Singer, Marla Sterling, Maria Tosti, Karen Warinsky, Kaaren Whitney, and Peter A. Witt.

This collection features poems that appeared online each day in February 2024 as a part of the Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal's love and relationships challenge.The poems in this book are about loving fully and openly and in deep respect for human nature. The poets are honest and real and rooted. In their honesty, they invite you into their experiences. This is how poetry builds community. In love, welcome.This edition features the work of Mary Ann Abdo, Petrouchka Alexieva, Lisa Ashley, Padmaja Battani, Cynthia Bernard, Gloria Bromberg, Sandy Lee Carlson, Pamela Hobart Carter, Sreelekha Chatterjee, Norla D. Chee, Julie Cook, Edward Dzitko, Joshua C. Frank, Diane Funston, Roger Funston, Evie Groch, Ken Gosse, Dan Hubb, Margaret Koger, Nancy Lubarsky, K.G. Munro, Joyce Ritchie, Barbara Simmons, Sharon Smith, Sarah Dickenson Snyder, Mike Turner, Karen Warinsky, Lynn White, and Peter A. Witt.Cover art copyright of Jason D. Chee, Navajo artist.