Bøger af Amanda Harris

This book is a compilation of poems. I hope that each one will connect with or encourage others in some way. Often times its hard to express words and emotions to others. Poems and songs can say everything we have wanted to say and couldn't out loud. I chose the title from one of the first poems I ever wrote. Which was during a tough season in my life. My hope is to encourage others and to help them see beauty and joy life.

The Worths have always been close and conventional, on the surface. No one but Maria knows the secrets she keeps just to hold them all together. Until now. Follow a mother and daughter as they go through a summer of epic change. Maria's lifetime secret unravels, and Madi's ties that hold her home are slowly loosened.Madi is still living at home while working the same job she did as a teen. She loves her life though and does not see why she needs to change a thing. Until her brother's best friend returns to town and starts working on an old sailboat while talking of adventure on the high seas. Will she stop her heart from falling in love? Or will she take a chance and leap with him for the first time in her life?Maria wants her daughter to grow and evolve but also needs to keep her close as she knows the family is about to be uprooted by her secret. Maria allows her secrets to eat at her mind and body from the inside as she weighs how to reveal the truth to her husband and children.As the summer progresses, Madi falls in love and Maria falls apart. Follow Maria, Madie, and the rest of the Worth family as they navigate life and change in a small Maine town.

Cass didn't expect to find herself homeless the same night she left the hospital with her newborn.Sean didn't expect to share his home with a stranger and her baby.Cass found a family she would do anything to protect, even walk away and break her own heart.Find out what can happen when you take a chance with a stranger on a hot June night.

What would you do if your place in your body was not static? What if at any moment you could find yourself in a different life? Miranda Stone has had to deal with slipping in and out of her life every day, and she had the balancing act perfected. Until the day she slipped into Kara and her whole world turned upside down.SLIP is a fast-paced thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Circulating Cultures is an interdisciplinary work with contributions from historians, musicologists, linguists and dance historians. It depicts shifts of cultural materials through time, place and interventions from people, exploring how Indigenous and non-Indigenous performing arts have changed through intercultural influence and collaboration.

Music, Dance and the Archive reimagines records of performance cultures from the archive through collaborative and creative research. In this edited volume, Amanda Harris, Linda Barwick and Jakelin Troy bring together performing artists, cultural leaders and interdisciplinary scholars to highlight the limits of archival records of music and dance. Through artistic methods drawn from Indigenous methodologies, dance studies and song practices, the contributors explore modes of re-embodying archival records, renewing song practices, countering colonial narratives and re-presenting performance traditions. The book's nine chapters are written by song and dance practitioners, curators, music and dance historians, anthropologists, linguists and musicologists, who explore music and dance by Indigenous people from the West, far north and southeast of the Australian continent, and from Aotearoa New Zealand, Taiwan and Turtle Island (North America).Music, Dance and the Archive interrogates historical practices of access to archives by showing how Indigenous performing artists and community members and academic researchers (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) are collaborating to bring life to objects that have been stored in archives. It not only examines colonial archiving practices but also creative and provocative efforts to redefine the role of archives and to bring them into dialogue with contemporary creative work. Through varied contributions the book seeks to destabilise the very definition of "archives" and to imagine the different forms in which cultural knowledge can be held for current and future Indigenous stakeholders. Music, Dance and the Archive highlights the necessity of relationships, Country and creativity in practising song and dance, and in revitalising practices that have gone out of use.As contemporary Australia reckons with its past, this volume is both timely and urgent. We readers are challenged to critically reflect on how history lives on in the present - with implications not only for creativity, heritage, and the arts, but also for prosperous and equitable societies and thriving cultures, now and into the future. This unique and lively collection is a landmark in scholarship on Indigenous performing arts and the archive, with relevance for Australia and beyond.

Warning: Amanda Harris's writing inflicts cuts and bruises. Her stories leave you feeling a little like you've engaged in voyeurism, stolen something, hurt someone, or been hurt, and enjoyed it more than you should have. . .This is edgy, gutsy work. This is the real deal, kids. This hurts so good.--Gary V. Powell, author of Lucky Bastard

At the turn of the nineteenth century-when most food in America was bland and brown and few people appreciated the economic potential of then-exotic foods-David Fairchild convinced the U.S. Department of Agriculture to finance overseas explorations to find and bring back foreign cultivars. Fairchild traveled to remote corners of the globe, searching for fruits, vegetables, and grains that could find a new home in American fields and in the American diet.In Fruits of Eden, Amanda Harris vividly recounts the exploits of Fairchild and his small band of adventurers and botanists as they traversed distant lands-Algeria, Baghdad, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Java, and Zanzibar-to return with new and exciting flavors. Their expeditions led to a renaissance not only at the dinner table but also in horticulture, providing diversity of crops for farmers across the country.Not everyone was supportive, however. The scientific community was concerned with invasive species, and World War I fanned the flames of xenophobia in Washington. Adversaries who believed Fairchild's discoveries would contaminate the purity of native crops eventually shut down his program, but his legacy lives on in today's modern kitchen, where navel oranges, Meyer lemons, honeydew melons, soybeans, and durum wheat are now standard.