Bøger af Susan Bell

"The Writer's Notebook" combines the best craft seminars from the Summer Writers Workshop's history with craft essays by some of Tin House's favorite authors and features a list of contributors that reads like a veritable who's who of contemporary poets and prose writers. Jim Shepard, Aimee Bender, Steve Almond, D. A. Powell, Chris Offutt, and others distill elements of writing and share insights into the joys and pains of their own work. They explore a wide range of topics, everything from writing dialogue to the do's and don'ts of writing about sex. With how-tos, close readings, and personal anecdotes, "The Writer's Notebook" offers aspiring wordsmiths advice and inspiration to hone their own craft.

Picking up from book #1 Billy and Randy have finished there trapping season, returning to Albany to sell their furs to Bill Owlett and start back training horses and forging steel. Pierre has expanded the forging business over the winter, Randy has grown during the winter, and has become a true man of the wilderness. Then Randy finds out that he has been working as a partner in the trapping business. Billy lost Little Deer about a year ago on a trip to the east, on returning to Albany he finds a young lady, they fall in love and get married. The stable is attacked many times by the French trying to steal Billey's horses, now with a signal the horses all charge the stable for a treat when danger is spotted. The French keep trying to attack the stable and the English keep getting to the stable too late to do anything other than haul off the dead French men. General Braddock comes to town before he leads an army into Ohio to attack the French and finds himself dead and George Washington leads what is left of the British Army back to Virginia. Billy started a wagon business to go along with his forge shop and draft horse operation, on a trip to New Haven to purchase two wagons for the fort commander in Albany. Billy and Randy meet Colonel George Washington and start to make plans to send the British back to England.

In the North East of England at the dawn of the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries, two women face tragedy and challenges.Set within the compelling political landscape of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715, and the complications and frustrations of the digital age, this dual romantic narrative shows that upheaval and revolution are no match for the constancies of love.Alternately tense, dramatic and joyful, A Similar Devotion follows two women separated in time, but united in their determination to overcome the obstacles they face throughout the events and relationships that colour their lives.The intertwining stories reveal that despite the contrasting worlds in which they live, love has a power to heal and bring happiness that neither woman expected.Susan Bell encapsulates the romantic past with the same vigour as the vibrant present.

Social work is a profession under strain, and practitioners report finding the role increasingly challenging. What can sustain social work in these times? How can social workers sustain themselves in the role? How can they derive confidence and meaning from what they do? In addressing these questions, Sustaining Social Work is a source of understanding and support for professionals struggling with the tensions of practice. Accessible and engaging , it explores the fallout that results from social workers experiencing these tensions, including feelings of powerlessness, responsibility, optimism and cynicism. Drawing on ideas from social theory and the social sciences, it puts forward a model of sustainable social work that will help practitioners not just cope but flourish - even in the context of ongoing crises. An enlightening, uplifting read in a difficult and uncertain time for the profession, Sustaining Social Work addresses the challenge of finding sustenance and consolation within day-to-day practice, enriching it beyond the short-term.