New Releases by Sue Miller

Improvising Sabor: Cuban Dance Music in New York begins in 1960s New York and examines in rich detail the playing styles and international influence of important figures in US Latin music. Such innovators as José Fajardo, Johnny Pacheco, George Castro, and Eddy Zervigón dazzled the Palladium ballroom and other Latin music venues in those crucible years. Author Sue Miller focuses on the Cuban flute style in light of its transformations in the US after the 1959 revolution and within the vibrant context of 1960s New York. While much about Latin jazz and salsa has been written, this book focuses on the relatively unexplored New York charangas that were performing during the chachachá and pachanga craze of the early sixties. Indeed, many accounts cut straight from the 1950s and the mambo to the bugalú’s development in the late 1960s with little mention of the chachachá and pachanga’s popularity in the mid-twentieth century. Improvising Sabor addresses not only this lost and ignored history, but contends with issues of race, class, and identity while evaluating differences in style between players from prerevolution Cuban charangas and those of 1960s New York. Through comprehensive explorations and transcriptions of numerous musical examples as well as interviews with and commentary from Latin musicians, Improvising Sabor highlights a specific sabor that is rooted in both Cuban dance music forms and the rich performance culture of Latin New York. The distinctive styles generated by these musicians sparked compelling points of departure and influence.

The Simple Way To Lose Weight And Reverse Illness Cookbook Get your copy of the best and most unique recipes from Sue Miller ! Do you want an ideal way to preserve your food?Do you want to lose weight? Are you starting to notice any health problems?Do you want to learn to prep meals like a pro and gain valuable extra time to spend with your family? Do you want to learn new recipes that will leave your family hungry for more? If these questions ring bells with you, keep reading to find out, Healthy Weekly Meal Prep Recipes can be the best answer for you, and how it can help you gain many more health benefits! ✩ Purchase The Print Edition & Receive A Digital Copy FREE Via Kindle Matchbook ✩ In this book: This book walks you through an effective and complete anti-inflammatory diet-no prior knowledge required. Learn how to shop for the right ingredients, plan your meals, batch-prep ahead of time, and even use your leftovers for other recipes. In addition, 2 weeks of meals-a 14-day schedule of meals, including step-by-step recipes and shopping lists for each, with tips on what you can prepare ahead of time to get dinner or meal on the table faster. Let this be an inspiration when preparing food in your kitchen with your love ones for the Holiday. It would be lovely to know your cooking story in the comments sections below. Again remember these recipes are unique so be ready to try some new things. Also remember that the style of cooking used in this cookbook is effortless. I really hope that each book in the series will be always your best friend in your little kitchen. Well, what are you waiting for? Scroll to the top of this page and click the Add to Cart button to get your copy now!

A New York Times Notable Book • NPR Best Book of the Year • People magazine Top Ten Books of the Year • BookPage Best Book of the Year • Good Housekeeping Best Book of the Year “A sensual and perceptive novel. . . . With humor and humanity, Miller resists the simple scorned-wife story and instead crafts a revelatory tale of the complexities—and the absurdities—of love, infidelity, and grief.” —O, the Oprah Magazine A brilliantly insightful novel, engrossing and haunting, about marriage, love, family, happiness and sorrow, from New York Times bestselling author Sue Miller. Graham and Annie have been married for nearly thirty years. Their seemingly effortless devotion has long been the envy of their circle of friends and acquaintances. By all appearances, they are a golden couple. Graham is a bookseller, a big, gregarious man with large appetites—curious, eager to please, a lover of life, and the convivial host of frequent, lively parties at his and Annie’s comfortable house in Cambridge. Annie, more reserved and introspective, is a photographer. She is about to have her first gallery show after a six-year lull and is worried that the best years of her career may be behind her. They have two adult children; Lucas, Graham’s son with his first wife, Frieda, works in New York. Annie and Graham’s daughter, Sarah, lives in San Francisco. Though Frieda is an integral part of this far-flung, loving family, Annie feels confident in the knowledge that she is Graham’s last and greatest love. When Graham suddenly dies—this man whose enormous presence has seemed to dominate their lives together—Annie is lost. What is the point of going on, she wonders, without him? Then, while she is still mourning Graham intensely, she discovers a ruinous secret, one that will spiral her into darkness and force her to question whether she ever truly knew the man who loved her.

How would you like to start your day with love and warmth? Gratitude is the appreciation for moments in life. More than a feeling, it is a choice to be thankful for the blessings we have received. This black writing gratitude notebook encourages taking a moment in your day to be grateful and write something you are thankful for. Each day, write down one to three things that you are grateful for in this journal and turn your ordinary moments into blessings. How you feel throughout your day, week, month or years most likely has less to do with the events that occur than your own attitude and perspective. Cultivating an attitude of gratitude yields many benefits: physical, psychological, social and spiritual. This gratitude journal is designed as a special and personal gift that can only be given from the heart. Do it daily and make it a habit to focus on the blessings you have been given! Give yourself or another, the gift of a path to greater connection with yourself, family and friends, the world at large. Embrace the practice of gratitude-the virtue that will help you to heal from the inside out, and to live your best life. Many people live mediocre lives because they are overwhelmed by life''s unending demands. They live busy lives, but see no fruit from it. I''ve created a simple and effective framework that helps them to take charge of their mornings and own their day, so that they can decide their own destiny and live healthy productive lives. Embrace a little more gratitude into your life. Start now! Many say the practice of gratitude increases happiness, encourages greater joy, love, peace, and optimism into our lives. The use of this gratitude journal will help you improve your health and wellbeing, enhance your relationships, and improve sleeping habits. Grab a copy for a friend and share the journey together!

Who should we save? Our family? Our friends? 2045 and the world is in chaos. Climate change, shortages of food and falling fertility are turning nations and communities into fortresses. Hope Grigori and Jude Goodman are cousins. She wants to save their whole community, he''s prepared to choose the strongest and leave the rest behind. But how do you decide who''s going to live? And who has the right to say one individual matters more than another? What''s fair? Who''s in charge? Determined to find a way through the challenges Hope sets off on a quest to find fairness for the many, not just the few. A book for anyone who''s ever asked if their life was meant to turn out the way it has. Blind Spot is a prequel to 20/20 Vision: They didn''t see it coming

A story about a friendship and deep love with someone who has never spoken to you.

Isn''t parenting wonderful? Okay, maybe on sleepless nights, it doesn''t feel wonderful. But you have to agree that parenting can certainly be full of wonder. Also, it can leave you wondering some things you''ve never wondered before.Parenting Is Wonder-full is for those beginning their parenting journey (or beginning again for the second or third times). It has one simple goal: to let parents know they are not alone. In these pages, new parents will find themselves identifying with other parents who have shared similar moments while also being reminded of the things that will matter the most.This paperback book is a perfect gift for new parents, and a great companion piece to Baby D, the baby dedication resource from Orange.

"Woody biomass could be used to generate renewable bioenergy and bioproducts in the western U.S. and has the potential to offer environmental and societal benefits. The purpose of the Rocky Mountain Research Station-led Biomass Research and Development Initiative (BRDI) project is to research and develop technologies, approaches, and new science that will help to make this possible. Part one of this series (September/October 2014) addressed the economic and environmental challenges of the biomass supply chain, from the site of harvest to the bioenergy facility - from "cradle to gate." This issue of the Bulletin is focused on the supply chain from the conversion facility to end use, covering material processing, conversion, end use, and disposal - from "gate to grave." It features important research on life cycle assessment of products from forest biomass, economic feasibility of conversion operations, and social acceptance of woody biomass energy. It provides details about the marketable uses for biomass co-products, like biochar and activated carbon. These contributions, combined with the material covered in part one, have the potential to facilitate biomass utilization as a feasible renewable energy option to offset fossil fuels, reduce our long-term carbon emissions, and address many significant forest management challenges."

Even if you''re a good volunteer, you still stand a chance of being a little too normal. When it comes to that certain something in volunteers, we''re looking for something a little more extraordinary, something a step above. Something not normal. In Not Normal: Seven Quirks of Incredible Volunteers, Sue Miller and Adam Duckworth talk about ways you can make the most of your volunteering:- Why not normal volunteers are more like owners than renters- Why not normal volunteers are more about "we" than "me"- Why not normal volunteers are always looking for a way out Are you tired of working so hard to be just like everyone else? Find your own volunteering voice, and be not normal in your own unique way. Authors Sue Miller and Adam Duckworth are definitely not normal. Ask anyone who knows them (and a lot of people who don''t). But they''re still willing to give you some ideas about being the best possible volunteer in your church and your community. Not Normal: Seven Quirks of Incredible Volunteers is the companion volume to Leading Not Normal Volunteers, written especially for leaders. See more resources like these at OrangeBooks.com and ThinkOrange.com.

Fleeing the end of an affair, and troubled by the feeling that she belongs nowhere after working in East Africa for fifteen years, Frankie Rowley comes home to the small New Hampshire town of Pomeroy and the farmhouse where her family has always summered. On her first night back, a house up the road burns to the ground. Is it an accident? Over the weeks that follow, as Frankie comes to recognise her father''s slow failing and her mother''s desperation, and she tentatively gets to know the new owner of the local newspaper, another house burns, and then another. These frightening events open the deep social fault lines in the town and raise questions about how and where one ought to live, and what it really means to lead a fulfilling life.

Richard Egües and José Fajardo are universally regarded as the leading exponents of charanga flute playing, an improvisatory style that crystallized in 1950s Cuba with the rise of the mambo and the chachachá. Despite the commercial success of their recordings with Orquesta Aragón and Fajardo y sus Estrellas and their influence not only on Cuban flute players but also on other Latin dance musicians, no in-depth analytical study of their flute solos exists. In Cuban Flute Style: Interpretation and Improvisation, Sue Miller—music historian, charanga flute player, and former student of Richard Egües—examines the early-twentieth-century decorative style of flute playing in the Cuban danzón and its links with the later soloistic style of the 1950s as exemplified by Fajardo and Egües. Transcriptions and analyses of recorded performances demonstrate the characteristic elements of the style as well as the styles of individual players. A combination of musicological analysis and ethnomusicological fieldwork reveals the polyrhythmic and melodic aspects of the Cuban flute style, with commentary from flutists Richard Egües, Joaquín Oliveros, Polo Tamayo, Eddy Zervigón, and other renowned players. Miller also covers techniques for flutists seeking to learn the style—including altissimo fingerings for the Boehm flute and fingerings for the five-key charanga flute—as well as guidance on articulation, phrasing, repertoire, practicing improvisation, and working with recordings. Cuban Flute Style will appeal to those working in the fields of Cuban music, improvisation, music analysis, ethnomusicology, performance and performance practice, popular music, and cultural theory.

Apoyados en 28 años de experiencia en el ministerio infantil de Willow Creek, los autores explican los cuatro fundamentos del ministerio: Misión, Visión, Valores y Estrategia. Incluye respuestas detalladas a las preguntas típicas de todo ministerio infantil: ¿Qué espera Jesús del ministerio infantil?, ¿Cómo evangelizar a los niños no salvos y discipular a los niños salvos al mismo tiempo?, ¿Cómo involucramos a los niños sin aburrirlos?, y ¿Cómo reclutar y dirigir mejor a los voluntarios?, entre otras.

The Paper Moon Girls were looking forward to a relaxing summer and a visit from Claudia, a friend from Maryland, but when they take on a murder investigation, it is anything but relaxing.

Covering all the key themes, different theoretical views and approaches to studying childhood and early childhood, this book guides you through your course, telling you exactly what is expected of you throughout your studies. It will ensure you develop the skills you need to become successful, and key areas covered include: making the transition from personal experience of children, to studying childhood making the most of your lectures writing good assignments learning how to study independently developing your critical thinking drawing on the full range of student resources (people, services, research visits) getting a job in the early years sector. The new edition has been thoroughly updated and now contains: a new chapter on placements and visits detailed advice on how to avoid plagiarism full consideration of multi-agency working, throughout every chapter advice on career opportunities and further study. Designed to support students in their studies and beyond, this book is an essential purchase for anyone studying childhood or early childhood. SAGE Study Skills are essential study guides for students of all levels. From how to write great essays and succeeding at university, to writing your undergraduate dissertation and doing postgraduate research, SAGE Study Skills help you get the best from your time at university. Visit the SAGE Study Skills website for tips, quizzes and videos on study success!

That''s what the play was about, she was thinking abruptly. The wish to imagine what life could be, how it could change, if you were unencumbered. Did everyone who was married do this from time to time, imagine an unencumbered life? Three years after the death of her younger brother Gus, Leslie still carries around with her the thought of what might have been- if Gus hadn''t got on that plane on September 11th, if her husband understood the nature of her grief more, if she had made different choices in her life. As she sits down to watch a play written by Gus''s former girlfriend Billy, she can''t help but wonder if Billy too has been unable to let go of his memory. At the time Billy had seemed so stunned, so utterly at a loss for what to do. But now, watching the stage before her, Leslie soon realizes how disquietingly autobiographical The Lake Shore Limited is - and how little she really knows Billy. Meanwhile, the lead actor, Rafe, is struggling to cope with seeing his once strong, fiery wife succumb to the devastating effects of motor neuron disease. And then there is Sam, Leslie''s divorced friend, who finds in the play inescapable echoes of his troubled life. Four characters, brought together by The Lake Shore Limited, all carry with them the weight of guilt, regret and longing that accumulates as the years go by. The Lake Shore Limited is a deeply felt, deeply human exploration of the intricate workings of relationships- the things we try to hold onto, and the things we desperately want to let go of.

Domestic abuse is the dirty, little secret that is a common thread woven into the fabric of all societies. It does not discriminate against race, religion, culture, socioeconomic status, or gender. Iave written my story in order to empower my readers and show all victims of abuse there is a light at the end of the tunnel, if you choose to seek that light. Iave lived the nightmare of abuse and know how devastating it can be. Iave included some of the most horrible acts of violence my husband used on me. Iave also included all the information you will need to escape from your abuser and once again become a happy, balanced person. You are not alone; there are people and avenues you can use to successfully remove yourself and your children from whatever abuse you are living in. Good luck to you all.

NATIONAL BESTELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of Monogomy brings us a "tasteful, elegant, sensuous" (The Boston Globe) novel about marriage and forgiveness. Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia—wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton—is Meri''s new neighbor in the adjacent New England town house. Tom''s chronic infidelity has been an open secret in Washington circles, but despite the complexity of their relationship, the bond between them remains strong. Soon Delia and Meri find themselves leading strangely parallel lives, as they both reckon with the contours and mysteries of marriage: one refined and abraded by years of complicated intimacy, the other barely begun. With precision and a rich vitality, Sue Miller—beloved and bestselling author of While I Was Gone—brings us a highly charged, superlative novel.

En un instant tout bascule : John, pierre angulaire du monde d''Eva, pilier pour ses deux belles-filles adolescentes et pour son fils Theo, est renversé par une voiture. Sa mort brutale bouleverse tout. Eva, confrontée à sa solitude, se rapproche de Mark, son premier époux, pourtant indigne de confiance. Emily, leur fille aînée, tente d''assumer à la fois ses nouvelles responsabilités et son indépendance. Le petit Theo commence à peine à prendre conscience de la mort de son père. Quant à Daisy, la soeur cadette d''Emily, la disparition de John la plonge dans la confusion. A l''entrée de l''adolescence, à l''âge où la sexualité s''éveille, elle se retrouve perdue, face aux difficultés de la vie, à l''impuissance de l''amour parental, incapable de la protéger et de la réconforter. C''est alors qu''un homme entre en scène, prêt à profiter d''elle...

"When the Paper Moon girls attend a weekend women''s conference, the last thing on their agenda is murder. However, it isn''t long before the Bible Study Buddies are drawn into another investigation"--Back cover.