Angie Williams Boeken

The story follows Dr. Jaime Martin, an ornithologist striving to break free from her father's expectations while pursuing a rare bird sighting in Alaska. In contrast, park ranger Rowan Fleming seeks solitude to mend her heart after a failed marriage. Their differing personalities clash as they navigate the wilderness together, facing challenges that force them to collaborate. Amidst arguments and unexpected moments, they discover a budding romance, suggesting that love can flourish even in the most unlikely circumstances.

Remy Miller is determined to follow in her family's footsteps as a crab fisher off the Oregon coast, a tradition spanning three generations. Her passion for the sea and fishing is met with disappointment when her father denies her the opportunity to captain her own boat. This struggle highlights themes of familial legacy, gender roles, and personal ambition as Remy fights to earn her place in a male-dominated industry.

Katie Fausch enjoys her single life in San Francisco until her family surprises her with a trip to a singles retreat called Last Resort. Reluctantly, she agrees to attend, but only if her family promises to refrain from nagging her about her love life for a year. The story explores themes of family dynamics, self-discovery, and the humorous challenges of navigating romance in unexpected settings.

The story follows Wanda Baker, whose life is irrevocably altered after she kills her abusive stepfather. Fleeing her past, she adopts a soldier's uniform and assumes the identity of Jack Logan. As she navigates life within a battalion of soldiers, Wanda confronts her new reality, exploring themes of identity, survival, and the consequences of violence.

As a major economic, relational, and identity resource, communication is crucial to the well-being and success of young people. And yet adolescents are typically characterized in the media as inadequate communicators, whose language practices adults bemoan as unintelligible and deleterious. In looking to critique these pervasive stereotypes, the editors of Talking Adolescence have brought together some of the world's leading experts on youth and adolescence, whose interdisciplinary research demonstrates how communication powerfully structures and meaningfully facilitates the lives of young people. Adding to the growing literature on intergenerational and lifespan communication, Talking Adolescence is the first substantive volume devoted to young people.