Karen Kelly

Bethlehem

Jon Taffer

The host of Spike TV's Bar Rescue distills the secrets to running a successful hospitality business as based on his Reaction Management strategy for creating desirable reactions in customers.

An Action-Based Method for Maximum Customer Reactions

Raise the Bar

Lillian White's Journey is the debut novel by Karen Kelly. Written for Women's Fiction this is truly a feel-good, humorous read about a group of thirty something girls experiencing life, love and relationships. Join Lillian White on her journey as cabin crew juggling romance, pregnancy and single parenthood but it's not long before her flight path spirals out of control taking her sorry love-life with it! Synopsis: On the morning of her wedding, Lillian White awakes with a hangover from hell, a naked stranger and no recollection of the previous night. As her eyes become focused the panic sets in as the once intimate, romantic Bridal Suite resembles the aftermath of a wild, drunken party. Unread messages flood her inbox from her soon Husband-to-be but with only hours to spare, can she still go through with the wedding?

Lillian White's Journey

"Think outside the box-that's what Annie Dawson must do when she discovers a mysterious birchbark box in the attic of  Grey Gables, the home bequeathed to her by her grandmother"--From publisher's description.

Boxed in

In the 15th book of the cozy mystery series, Annie Dawson and her friends in the Hook and Needle Club investigate cryptic notes in an old Bible that belonged Annie's grandfather's uncle, a judge who may have kept a terrible secret.

A Man of His Word

While looking for a basket in the attic of Grey Gables, the Victorian home she inherited from her grandmother, Annie discovers a Celtic sporran containing several ferrules, the silver fittings of a set of bagpipes. Annie knows her lineage hailed from Scotland, but neither of her grandparents had told her about the sporan or the ferrules. Annie takes her latest mystery to the Hook and Needle Club, the needlework group that has helped her many times in the past. The thread of the mystery leads Annie and several of her friends to the Highland Games, an annual celebration of Scottish heritage. That's when the going gets tough. The close-knit clans the group finds at the games appear friendly at first blush, but then close ranks when Annie and Ian Butler, the mayor of Stony Point, ask too many questions. What is the mysterious link that puts everyone on edge? The answer is as mournful as the drone of bagpipes.

Gunns & Roses

It is a rare occasion when Annie Dawson receives a visitor from her old hometown of Brookfield, Texas, and she is decidedly puzzled when Seneca Marchal shows up unannounced on Main Street of Stony Point, Maine. Seneca is traveling alone, her husband and grown children still back in Texas. It was Seneca, a hard-hitting journalist, who provided the strongest shoulder for Annie following the death of her beloved husband, Wayne. Seneca helped Annie pull out of the shroud of grief and move on to the next phase of her life -- a move that ultimately led her to Stony Point, the town where she enjoyed summers with her grandparents, Charles and Elizabeth Holden. Seneca says she's just looking for a few days of relaxation, but Annie senses something deeper and more troubling in her friend's eyes. Seneca refuses to stay at Grey Gables, the home she inherited when her grandmother died. Is Seneca trying to protect her from something or someone? Annie fears that another mystery is unfolding before her eyes -- a sinister and deadly mystery trying to envelop both Seneca and herself. Annie must pursue this latest mystery without the help of her favorite amateur sleuth, Alice MacFarlane. Alice has been called away to Florida because of her mother's failing health. Still, the members of the Hook and Needle Club circle the wagons to help Seneca, Annie, and Alice through their crises.

Wild Things

Barbara Schroeder

A long-overdue appreciation of the influential sculpture of Liz Larner and its radically adventurous formal and conceptual vocabulary Los Angeles-based sculptor and installation artist Liz Larner (born 1960) was originally a photographer: in some of her earliest projects, she documented the volatility of bacterial cultures in petri dishes. However, she soon realized that she was more compelled by the dishes themselves and how they presented questions about what an art object can entail. Since then, she has continued to pursue her interest in formal unpredictability through a focus on sculpture and architectural space. Composed of a diverse variety of materials, her sculptures frequently function as optical illusions that seem to bend the space around them. Sometimes rigidly technical in their geometry and at other times soft-edged and amorphous, Larner's sculptures are striking both for their fluctuation of form and for their representation of spatial politics. Repositioning her enduring formal and material concerns alongside her relationship to a feminist sculptural position, this monograph offers an opportunity to consider Larner's artistic project within today's expanded discourses of embodiment, gender and posthumanism, and to recalibrate our understanding of it in relation to male-dominated Postminimalism and installation art, which have often underpinned Larner's critical reception. Poet Ariana Reines, cultural critic and theorist Catherine Liu, and curators Connie Butler and Mary Ceruti consider the physical properties and sociopolitical implications of the materials present in Larner's work, which range from ceramic to steel chain to surgical gauze to human hair.

Liz Larner: Don't Put It Back Like It Was

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre DumasÍs classic tale of betrayal and revengeæfollows the life of Edmond Dantes. After young Dantes is falsely imprisoned in the Chateau dÍIf, he is taken under the wing of another prisoner and taught to be a gentleman. By deceiving his jailers, Dantes escapes prison and sets off to take revenge on those who had betrayed him. Follow the powerful story of friendship, betrayal, and revenge in the Calico Illustrated Classics adaptation of DumasÍs The Count of Monte Cristo.

Count of Monte Cristo

Ronn Torossian

It is essential that businesses know how to communicate quickly, often preemptively, and effectively to survive. "For Immediate Release" reveals how public relations can do just that--while also defining brands, helping companies and individuals court the press or avoid it, growing business without alienating loyal customers, resolving crises quickly, and improving first-page results on the most powerful search engine in the world (Google).

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For Immediate Release

Struggling to move on with her life after she loses her husband in World War II, Caroline Hunt brings her two daughters back to her childhood home in Salem, Massachusetts. Caroline's chance meeting with her college sweetheart leads to a complex union that weaves two families together, bringing both great joy and heartrending sorrow. At the center of this compelling drama is the simmering, uncontainable attraction felt by step-siblings Dinah and Tru. A profoundly stirring story of young people on the brink of adulthood and the stark realities of family life-including harrowing grief and the consequences of long-buried secrets-Prospice is rich with psychological detail and unforgettably delineated characters. In elegant prose and pitch-perfect period detail, Karen Kelly draws us deep inside the lives of her characters, offering poignant humor along with page-turning suspense that will captivate readers to the very last, revealing page. Prospice is Latin for "look ahead," an apt designation for this beautifully wrought debut sure to be embraced by all who love The Memory Keeper's Daughter or the novels of Julia Glass and Ann Patchett. Evocatively portraying several generations of vividly drawn women, it is the story of a family that learns, through sorrow and loss, to find happiness and the strength to look ahead.

A Novel

Prospice

With the writing chops of Ian McEwan and the story-craft of Lisa Wingate, Karen Kelly weaves a shattering debut about two intertwined families and the secrets that they buried during the gilded, glory days of Bethlehem, PA. “A haunting debut.” —Georgia Hunter, New York Times bestselling author of We Were the Lucky Ones “Karen Kelly is the real deal.” —Mark Sullivan, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky A young woman arrives at the grand ancestral home of her husband’s family, hoping to fortify her cracking marriage. But what she finds is not what she expected: tragedy haunts the hallways, whispering of heartache and a past she never knew existed. Inspired by the true titans of the steel-boom era, Bethlehem is a story of temptation and regret, a story of secrets and the cost of keeping them, a story of forgiveness. It is the story of two complex women—thrown together in the name of family—who, in coming to understand each other, come finally to understand themselves.

Charles Dickens

In Charles DickensÍs classic tale of the French Revolution,æLucie Manette and her family are living quietly in London when the revolution draws them into the center of the dangerous mob in Paris. The fight for her husbandÍs freedom and the sacrifice of Sydney Carton has been adapted for young readers. æFrom the calm of London to the unrest in Paris, love, loyalty, and friendships are tested in the Calico Illustrated Classics adaptation of DickensÍs A Tale of Two Cities. Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades 3-8.

Tale of Two Cities

The Secret is an international blockbuster, topping the bestseller lists around the world. Now in The Secret of 'The Secret' Karen Kelly delves into this extraordinary phenomenon. What is the secret? Where did it come from and does it really work? She also investigates why this little book has struck such a chord. Why are we drawn to seek answers and change our destiny using the power of the mind and the universe? Scholars and popular culture experts provide perspective on what makes the idea so appealing. Several participants from The Secret share their behind-the-scenes stories and insights. Renowned psychologists, scientists and theologians weigh in on the power and limits of positive thinking and the Law of Attraction (the basis behind The Secret). Uncover the scientific and religious roots that form the building blocks of The Secret as experts evaluate the author's claims about the various connections between these principles and 'the Secret'.

Unlocking the Mysteries of the Runaway Bestseller

The Secret of 'The Secret'

Henriette Huldisch

The work of Rosa Barba (born 1972) encompasses sculpture, installation, text pieces and publications. Her film sculptures examine the physical properties of the projector, celluloid and projected light. Barba's longer projected works are situated between experimental documentary and fictional narrative, and are indeterminately situated in the past or the future. These speculative stories probe into the relationship of historical record, personal anecdote and filmic representation. For this first survey of her work in North America, Barba premiers The Color out of Space (2015), a new film incorporating images of stars and planets collected over the last year at Hirsch Observatory at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The work expands upon Barba's ongoing interrogation of geological time as measured against the span of a human lifetime. The exhibition includes works made over the last ten years including two of Barba's cinematic large projections, which focus on natural landscapes and man-made interventions into the environment, as well as a group of small projector sculptures and wall works.

Rosa Barba: The Color Out of Space

Explores the success of "The Secret," including what it is, where it came from, and what makes the idea so appealing.

The Secret of The Secret

Howard Pyle

Howard PyleÍs classic collection presents the folklore of the English outlaw Robin Hood. After winning a wager and shooting one of the kingÍs deer, Robin becomes an outlaw for killing one of the sheriffÍs archers. The evil Sheriff of Nottingham will stop at nothing to capture him. The skilled archer and swordsman gathers outlaws to fight for justice. Join the adventure in Sherwood Forrest in the Calico Illustrated Classics adaptation of PyleÍs The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood. Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades 3-8.

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Previously uncollected dance writings from the legendary art critic who defined the Pictures Generation, in a handsome clothbound edition Pioneering AIDS activist, art critic, educator and curator Douglas Crimp is known for the fluidity and acuity of his writing on an array of passions. His book AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism (1987) deconstructed the art world's complicated and mostly disheartening responses to the AIDS crisis; On the Museum's Ruins (1993) explored postmodernist art practices in relation to the politics of institutions; and Before Pictures (2016), a brilliant combination of memoir and criticism, chronicled Crimp's first decade in 1970s New York. This new book collects the critic's incisive pieces on dance (a lifelong interest) and dance on film, which, according to Artforum, "galvanized the field and synthesized histories of ballet, modern dance and postmodern performance." Written from 2006 to 2010, these in-depth essays are devoted to choreographers and filmmakers such as Charles Atlas, Trisha Brown, Merce Cunningham, Tacita Dean, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Yvonne Rainer. Before his death in July 2019, Crimp penned a new essay specifically for this book that probes the idea and definition of the "dance film." This beautifully designed clothbound volume, which shows Crimp as an outstanding and ever-evolving writer, includes an introduction by curator Lynne Cooke, who co-curated Crimp's landmark 2010 show at the Museo Reina Sofia, Mixed Use, Manhattan. Douglas Crimp (1944-2019) is famed for his scholarly contributions to the fields of postmodern theory and art, institutional critique, dance, film, queer theory and feminist theory. His writings are marked by his desire to merge the often disjunctive worlds of politics, art and academia. From 1977 to 1990, he was the managing editor of the journal October. Before his death, Crimp was Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History and Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.

Dance Dance Film Essays

Fabian Schöneich

Published on the occasion of of the exhibition Amy Sillman : the ALL-OVER, on view at Portikus, Frankfort, July 2-September 11, 2016, curated by Fabian Schöneich.

The All-over

Amy Sillman

Brothers Grimm

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known as the Brothers Grimm, present a collection of the folklore and fairy tales of Germany. The brothers gathered the tales that bewitched young readers, no matter how scary they were. From the abandonment of children to the magic of a fairy stepmother, the brothers kept the folklore tradition alive. Ten of the most well-known tales preserved by the Brothers Grimm are gathered for young readers in the Calico Illustrated Classics adaptation of GrimmÍs Fairy Tales. Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades 3-8.

Karen Kelly

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