Rebecca Alexander
Author
Series
Sage Westfield novel volume 1
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist Sage Westfield has been called in to excavate a sixteenth-century well, and expects to find little more than soil and the odd piece of pottery. But the disturbing discovery of the bones of a woman and newborn baby make it clear that she has stumbled onto an historical crime scene, one that is interwoven with an unsettling local legend of witchcraft and unrequited love. Yet there is more to the case than a four-hundred-year-old mystery....
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In modern day England, Professor Felix Guichard is called in to identify occult symbols found on the corpse of a young girl. His investigation brings him in contact with a mysterious woman, Jackdaw Hammond, who guards a monumental secret--She's Dead. Or she would be, were it not for magic which has artificially extended her life. But someone else knows her secret. Someone very old and very powerful, who won't rest until they've taken the magic that...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Venice, 16th Century. Having undertaken a mission of the upmost discretion, occultist and scholar Edward Kelley finds the answers he seeks are more perilous than can be believed, and his ultimate salvation means confronting the darkest deeds of his past. England, 21st Century. Running from her past and hiding from her future, Jackdaw Hammond buys a new home in the middle of nowhere. But her fresh start is threatened by a wild magic similar to her...
Author
Publisher
Gotham
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The inspiring memoir of a young woman who is slowly losing her sight and hearing yet continues to live each day with grace and purpose. Thirty-four-year-old Rebecca Alexander is a psychotherapist, a spin instructor, a volunteer, and an athlete. She is also almost completely blind, with significantly deteriorated hearing. Not Fade Away is a deeply moving exploration of the obstacles we all face-physical, psychological, and philosophical. Like The...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Better together--this book is best read together, grownup and kid"--Preliminary page.
Shares positive ways kids can think about their body, their feelings about it, and how to love it the way it is. Learn to look beyond your own body, and the bodies of those surrounding you, in a world that focuses so heavily on looks. Each of us has a body we live in every day. Every body is a different size, shape, weight, color, and kind. This book takes the...
Author
Series
Sage Westfield volume novel
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist Sage Westfield has her first forensics case: investigating the murder of a teenage girl. Hidden by holly leaves, the girl's body has been discovered on the grounds of a stately home, where another teenage girl went missing twenty years ago--but her body was never found. The police suspect the reclusive owner, Alistair Chorleigh, who was questioned but never charged. But when Sage investigates a nearby burial mound--and uncovers rumors...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Helen Keller, who was deaf and blind since early childhood, was a passionate advocate for change, using her celebrity and wit to champion rights for women, people with disabilities, and people living in poverty. Becoming Helen Keller examines the complex legacy of this author, advocate, lecturer, and human rights pioneer.