Kate Taylor

Ranging in age and backgrounds, a group of twenty authors describes their individual experiences and battles with anorexia from the perspective of recovery, with candid essays by Jennifer Egan, Francine du Plessix Gray, Joyce Maynard, Francesca Lia Block, and others on the ailment, its role in their lives, and the link between anorexia and the search for direction. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Writers on Desire, Self-denial, and Overcoming Anorexia

Going Hungry

Enjoying a well-ordered life at the height of the Belle Epoque in France, bourgeois lawyer Franðcois Dubon finds his peace shattered when a widow entreats him to rescue an army captain who has been wrongly convicted of spying.

A Novel

A Man in Uniform

Have you ever asked yourself why you can't remember anything from before the age of three, why we experience dej vu, or indeed how a bundle of cells in our heads can produce the remarkable phenomenon that is human consciousness? Drawing on the latest neuroscience research, this visual guide makes the hidden workings of the human brain simple to understand. How the Brain Works begins with an introduction to the brain's anatomy, showing you how to tell your motor cortex from your mirror neurons. From anatomy, it moves on to function, explaining how the brain works constantly and unnoticed to regulate processes such as heartbeat and breathing and how it collects information from the external world to produce the experiences of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. The chapters that follow cover memory and learning, consciousness and personality, and emotions and communication. There's also a guide to the brain's disorders, including physical problems, such as tumours and strokes, and psychological and functional disorders, ranging from autism to schizophrenia. Illustrated with bold graphics and step-by-step artworks, and peppered with bite-sized factoids and question-and-answer features, this is the perfect introduction to the fascinating world of the human brain.

How the Brain Works

A quick, concise, fully-illustrated guide to the native butterflies of the Green Mountain State. Butterflies are a delight to observe, and a charming reminder of childhood summers. They’re also pollinators, crucial to sustaining Vermont’s biodiversity. This neatly organized, easy-to-carry handbook goes beyond simple butterfly identification. It includes full-color photographs, descriptions, and flying times as well as the ecosystems in which each species lives: their habitats, their host plants, and their favored sources of nectar. Explore the butterflies that make Vermont their home. Consult quick-reference photo guides to host plants and butterfly species to make an identification at a glance. Deepen your understanding of these beautiful insects with an overview of butterfly anatomy, biology, and behavior while learning how you can help keep butterflies safe and abundant in Vermont for generations to come.

Butterflies of Vermont

Award-winning author Kate Taylor returns with a scintillating, intricate novel about marriage and infidelity in two lushly distinct eras: Dickens' England and our own present day. When Sharon learns that her husband Al is having an affair with one of his students, her life is sent into turmoil, and the couple decides to split. But when Sharon is diagnosed with cancer, she and Al are brought together once again. Will they find a way to repair their relationship under the most trying and unlikely circumstance? Meanwhile, in an interwoven thread, we meet Nelly, a young, beautiful nineteenth century woman with ties to the theatre. Magnetized toward the incomparable Charles Dickens, Nelly becomes his secret mistress. But soon, she will learn the cost of her captivity and the limits she has placed on her own life. As these dual narratives each work through the mysteries around fidelity and marriage, love and passion, creativity and the secrets at the heart of domestic life, they will also ask deep questions about biography and infamy, and what really makes up the story of a life.

Serial Monogamy

In 1908 Alfio Gatti's mother is forcibly removed from the family's Queensland cane farm, to exile on Peel Island. A year later ten-year-old Alfio is also taken. For the first time he hears the word leper and experiences the loathing and fear his condition creates. Peel Island becomes his harsh sanctuary. Among fellow sufferers, a drunk, a teacher, a playmate he discovers love, friendship and fun, but there is also prejudice and tragedy to endure. As Alfio grows from naive boy to adolescent he learns to cheat the system and escape the lies he must tell to hide his affliction.

A Spoonful of Zucchero

The survivors learn they are not alone when a compelling stranger arrives from the other side of the peaks. The traveler needs the monastery's knowledge to save the last of the living rivers. But, his arrival stirs the longings of those still missing loved ones, the fears of those who were hunted into hiding, and the resistance of those unable to accept they're no longer the only ones left alive.. When the musicians from both sides of the peaks join together, they begin to understand the universal language of music has the power to change the world, and they seek ways to use it work to bring people together.

When The Last River Dies

When Sharon learns that her husband Al is having an affair with one of his students, her life is sent into turmoil, and the couple decides to split. But when Sharon is diagnosed with cancer, she and Al are brought together once again. Meanwhile, in an interwoven thread, we meet Nelly, a young, beautiful 19th century woman with ties to the theatre. Magnetized toward the incomparable Charles Dickens, Nelly becomes his secret mistress. But soon, she will learn the cost of her captivity and the limits she has placed on her own life.

Evelyn Wilson will never forget that frigid February afternoon in 1928 when her world was turned upside down. Fearing that the truth would have dreadful consequences, all those present took an unspoken vow of silence. Now, at the humble age of eighty-two, with her mind plagued by Alzheimer's, the time to face the truth has come. Evelyn, in her deluded state of mind, accidentally reveals to her young gardener Ellie Johnson the horrors of her past. Although Ellie has come to love Evelyn while working for her, she is confronted with the difficult decision of either revealing what she knows or letting a feeble woman live out her last days in peace. In the story of love and forgiveness, two women must confront their pasts and learn what it means to love unconditionally. Kate Taylor has a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in secondary education from Berry College. After obtaining her degree, she began teaching at a local middle school. She has taught English as a second language, reading, and language arts in her career as well as coached basketball and softball. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with friends and family, running, and reading. She currently resides in Cartersville, Georgia. Call Me Crazy is her debut novel and was inspired by her grandmother's battle with Alzheimer's disease.

Call Me Crazy

50 Shortcuts to Sexual Ecstasy

Life's Too Short for Tantric Sex

How the body of a Wakefield murder victim was exhibited for a fee in 1853, the odd story of a Normanton miner attacked by a prosperous Crofton gentleman in 1875, the tragic death of a 21-year old woman on what should have been her wedding day in 1909, and the case of the Sandal dental lecturer who killed his adopted daughter in 1966 are among the many foul deeds recounted in More Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Wakefield. In a companion volume to Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Wakefield (2001) Kate Taylor has assembled more than fifty further accounts of horrific deaths in or near Wakefield. Some killings reflect the tensions and resentment of domestic life but there are mysteries too like the case of a man found dead in 1860 in a shallow beck with no marks of violence on him. In an incident in Horbury involving the death of a baby in 1849 it was the assistant constable pursuing the inquiries who died. The book shows something of the cultural context that can promote murder - the stigma of illegitimacy in the past and the more recent risks of glue sniffing and the appalling bullying of immigrants. Take a journey into the darker and unknown side of your area as you read More Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Wakefield.

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