New Releases by Jessica Palmer

In a world where dreams have the power to transcend boundaries, there lived a little girl named Maya whose imagination knew no limits. Maya also known as "Rocket Girl" is a captivating tale that follows Maya on her extraordinary journey of passion, determination, and the pursuit of becoming and astronaut. With her eyes gleaming like the night sky, Maya''s fascination with rockets and space exploration was evident from a young age. In her small town nestled beneath a canopy of stars, she embarked on a remarkable adventure that would inspire generations to come.

This book was written to help toddlers to understand and prepare for saying goodbye to mama’s milk when it’s time to stop nursing. Saying goodbye to mama’s milk is okay because mama’s love will last forever. Developmentally, Poppy the magical milk fairy helps toddlers and young children to prepare and ready themselves for this developmental milestone. Breastfeeding is a magical experience that bonds mothers and babies across cultures and weaning can be difficult to explain. It is my hope that this book will help mothers around the world to prepare their children for this important developmental step.

This book was written to help toddlers to understand and prepare for saying goodbye to mama's milk when it's time to stop nursing. Saying goodbye to mama's milk is okay because mama's love will last forever. Developmentally, Poppy the magical milk fairy helps toddlers and young children to prepare and ready themselves for this developmental milestone. Breastfeeding is a magical experience that bonds mothers and babies across cultures and weaning can be difficult to explain. It is my hope that this book will help mothers around the world to prepare their children for this important developmental step.

In The Unordering of Days, Jessica Palmer pushes through grief to explore the language of rejection. With explosive honesty, she works to reconcile the heart and the mind, moving from silence to agency as she confronts the consequences of interrupting an undisturbed life. Integrating physics and faith, Appalachia and the cosmos, Palmer''s brief collection of poems embraces a universe that is beautiful in its ambiguity. Terrifying in its loneliness. And wondrous in its bewilderment.

Illustrator and papercutter, Jessica Palmer, has created 80 pages of enchanting hand-drawn pictures for you to colour and lose yourself in. The images all have a magical woodland theme, and each one includes a hidden jewel, intricately worked into the design, which will include rings, brooches, pendants, chains, bracelets and earrings featuring insects, animals and leafy patterns. The book includes designs that fit on a single page as well as those that extend across a double-page spread. Some of the designs fill the entire page and others sit within it. Others have space left for the reader to extend the design themselves.

Jessica Palmer, illustrator and papercutter, has created 75 pages of enchanting hand-drawn pictures for you to colour and lose yourself in. The images all have a magical theme, and each one includes a hidden charm intricately worked into the design for readers to discover and colour in. The book will include designs that fit on a single page as well as those that extend across a double-page spread. Some of the designs fill the entire page and others sit within it. There is also a page on ''how to colour a gem''. High quality paper means that there is no show-through.

"The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence." -- Denis Waitley You want the best for your child, it's true, and you might think "the best" is gifting them with material things that will only bring momentary happiness. For those of you who can't afford to do so, you see yourselves as failing parents. The truth is, what saves our children, what saves a family, are the things that can't be bought, but can only be taught, learned, and practiced. The Positive Child was written with every parent in mind, whether well-off or struggling, new or seasoned, for those who think they've got this parenting thing in the bag, and for those who have no idea what they're doing. Jessica Palmer, mother of four, wants to help you build a healthy, happy, positive home, by starting with you. Your attitude, your ideals, your beliefs. It is not the lifestyle that you can or can't afford for your child that will morph them into phenomenal adults, it's how you live and what you practice in the home. In this eye-opening guide, Jessica shares a bucketload of sagacious tips and tricks on how to cultivate healthy, positive behaviors in kids, using guiding principles such as: Becoming your child's best example Respecting your child's space and life decisions Empowering instead of shaming Encouraging creativity and independent definitions Teaching emotional intelligence Setting high expectations Practicing family rituals Building meaningful relationships After raising four happy, healthy, ambitious kids, Jessica is more than confident in her methods for fostering positive, vibrant children. In The Positive Child, you will find a range of workable, efficient, and adaptable strategies based on values, moralities, and ethics. Do you really want to give your child the best life? The life they truly deserve? The life that will shape them into determinedly successful adults? Then this is where you start.

"The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence." -- Denis Waitley You want the best for your child, it's true, and you might think "the best" is gifting them with material things that will only bring momentary happiness. For those of you who can't afford to do so, you see yourselves as failing parents. The truth is, what saves our children, what saves a family, are the things that can't be bought, but can only be taught, learned, and practiced. The Positive Child was written with every parent in mind, whether well-off or struggling, new or seasoned, for those who think they've got this parenting thing in the bag, and for those who have no idea what they're doing. Jessica Palmer, mother of four, wants to help you build a healthy, happy, positive home, by starting with you. Your attitude, your ideals, your beliefs. It is not the lifestyle that you can or can't afford for your child that will morph them into phenomenal adults, it's how you live and what you practice in the home. In this eye-opening guide, Jessica shares a bucketload of sagacious tips and tricks on how to cultivate healthy, positive behaviors in kids, using guiding principles such as: *Becoming your child's best example *Respecting your child's space and life decisions *Empowering instead of shaming *Encouraging creativity and independent definitions *Teaching emotional intelligence *Setting high expectations *Practicing family rituals *Building meaningful relationships After raising four happy, healthy, ambitious kids, Jessica is more than confident in her methods for fostering positive, vibrant children. In The Positive Child, you will find a range of workable, efficient, and adaptable strategies based on values, moralities, and ethics. Do you really want to give your child the best life? The life they truly deserve? The life that will shape them into determinedly successful adults? Then this is where you start.

Trusts emerge regularly in relationship property disputes and they are generally well understood to take priority whenever there is a competition between the trust and a claim that the trust property otherwise falls within the pool of relationship assets available for division. Nevertheless, there appears to be some confusion over the boundaries of the Property (Relationships) Act 1976 (PRA) as it applies to trust property and this can cost a spouse, partner or beneficiary property that is rightfully theirs. This article explains three important points that ought to be borne in mind by practitioners working in this area, illustrated by an analysis of three recent decisions.

This paper examines the role played by shams in tax avoidance in New Zealand and its relationship with the general anti-avoidance rule (GAAR) encapsulated in statutory provisions. It shows that as long as the orthodox conception of the sham is employed, there is no need for such a mechanism to combat tax avoidance in a jurisdiction that has a GAAR.

This article considers the New Zealand Court of Appeal decision in Clayton v Clayton, which concerned a relationship property dispute involving assets held in trusts. The authors provide a brief discussion of the relationship property claims that Mrs. Clayton made against Mr. Clayton's various trusts. In particular, the authors focus on the Court of Appeal's rulings that one of the trusts was not illusory but that Mr Clayton's power to add and remove beneficiaries was property. The article concludes that this decision was incorrect with relation to relationship property law and trust law.

Jessica Palmer was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her mother became a professional clown when she was in her teens, leaving Palmer irrevocably altered. She received her degree in nursing and worked in hospitals, starting with medical-surgical units. Eventually, she settled into psychiatric nursing where she got along famously with her patients. Her medical background presented opportunities to write. In 1976, she was asked to develop a script for educational television, entitled Journey to Nowhere, about the medical aspects of addiction. Later she became a technical writer for the safety and health department at Schlumberger Well Services with an emphasis on explosives and radiation. The job took her to England where she became a British subject. The fates decreed her combined experiences constituted a hazard to herself and others. Palmer returned to her first love, genre fiction. She wrote her first novel at the age of nine - ninety-nine typewritten pages about her then-hero Max Smart of Get Smart. Altogether, she has had 28 books published in fiction and non-fiction, including university textbooks about Native American history and culture. Palmer has received numerous awards in journalism, spanning a period from 1980 to 2014. Dark Lullaby, published by Pocket Books, was nominated for HWA''s Bram Stoker award in 1991. Now she concentrates on satire. Parallel Universe Publications released her collection of short stories, Other Visions of Heaven and Hell in 2015.

The trust is a mental construct used to explain a type of guardianship of property. There are traditionally two ways to understand the trust - one sees the trust as creating proprietary rights and duties; the other as establishing personal rights and duties as between the trustee and beneficiary. This articles considers the evidence for both and argues that it is important to clarify the conceptual basis of the trust because it can affect the substance of trusts law. This point is illustrated by the various answers that have been given to the particular question of whether beneficiaries have a right to access trust information.

While contractual subrogation is understood as a function of agreement or common intention between the relevant parties to assign rights, justifying non-contractual subrogation has proved more difficult. The dominant view appears to be that subrogation arises as a response to what would otherwise be an unjust enrichment and for which a proprietary remedy is readily available. This article argues that non-contractual subrogation gives rise to a new proprietary right in the claimant which cannot be readily justified on the basis of unjust enrichment nor is it simply the vindication of an existing property right. Instead, consideration of how equity normally recognises property rights shows that the intention or conscience of the defendant owner must be a crucial element of the analysis.

It is trite law that a director is a fiduciary to his or her company and must act in the interests of the company. However, identifying the “interests of the company” is not so straightforward. Different theories of the nature of the company and different stakeholders interested in the company all present varying claims on what constitutes the company and its interests. This paper considered those arguments and suggests that, for the purpose of determining the object and content of the director's fiduciary obligation, the interests of the company should be understood in the light of the company's changing life cycle.

This article considers the doctrines of sham trusts and alter egos currently causing some controversy among trust lawyers. The author analyses recent decisions of the High Court involving allegations of sham trusts and alter egos and relevant authorities from other jurisdictions and assesses the legitimacy of the concepts in the context of established trusts law. While the author accepts the existence of sham trusts, she advocates for a narrower ambit limiting their application only to ab initio shams and rejects both emerging shams and alter egos. Further, the relevant intention with which sham trusts are concerned is only that of the settlor and there should therefore be no requirement of a common sham intention as a prerequisite to finding a sham trust.

An elegant new coloring book inspired by and celebrating the spectacular designs of Tiffany lamps at the New-York Historical Society. A new addition to the wildly successful coloring-book genre, the leaded, kaleidoscopic designs of the beloved 132 Tiffany Studios lamps and three windows in the Neustadt Collection at the New-York Historical Society lend themselves perfectly to the format of a coloring book. The new drawings by renowned British illustrator Jessica Palmer, sixty-five single-page and full-spread illustrations in all, are inspired by the magical natural world of Tiffany, depicting dragonflies dancing among peonies, wisteria vines drooping over ponds, and entwining tulip and poppy blossoms. At least one dragonfly—arguably the best known of all Tiffany motifs—is found in every drawing, sometimes tucked away in a corner, sometimes the centerpiece. These intricate drawings beg to be filled in with a riot of color and are sure to provide a meditative calming of the spirit that coloring-book aficionados seek.

IT waits, and waits, and has waited since the beginning of time...IT has been called the Devil, Belial and other names throughout history, but now IT is the House. A pretty little house sitting on a cul-de-sac in a benign little town... IT waits. Scott, a writer and author, buys the house to write his next great novel in; he remodels it and then moves his family in. Once he had seen the history of death in the house...he felt he had to have it, and the spirits of the dead would talk to him about his book. His pregnant wife, and two sons, after a harrowing start, move in and become a disjointed family, time disappears, and the boys become possessed. The house has other ideas. Allison is in love with the House and the House is in love with Allison. It becomes a fight for Scott to save Allison, her unborn child, and her two sons. Who will win in the end? Scott, the house, the spirits inhabiting the house or the entity that has waited throughout time for the right person to come along...

"An excellent mix of the practical and the inspirational . . . featuring the fantastic, Beardsley-like intricate arabesque designs of the author." — The Papercraft Post Blog Learn how to separate the visual world into positive and negative shapes and design gorgeous images with pattern, texture and impact. A practical section shows step by step how to ''draw with a knife'' safely and effectively. Then Jessica provides artistic insights into an inspiring selection of her paper artworks, including silhouettes, portraits, landscapes, fashion images, illustrations, life drawing and more. "Intermediate and advanced artists in search of a fresh technique will find this guide challenging and absorbing." — Library Journal "Here she explains how to see the world through a paper cutter''s eyes. It''s all about seeing the positive and negative shapes in your subject, so the experience will stand you in good stead if you wish to improve your drawing skills." — The Leisure Painter "Here are dozens of beautiful, inspiring papercuts." — Machine Knitting Monthly

Zelia is a priestess with sky-blue skin and strange tempers. Half-human and half-air elemental, she lives uneasily in the College of Healers. Perceived as an outsider, and declared a renegade, she is nevertheless chosen for strange and dangerous task. Ares is an opportunist and adventurer. Neither elf nor human he is another outsider, welcomed by no one, mortal or otherwise. Misfit and outcast meet, and together they discover the possess unimaginable powers of sorcery which they will need to combat the scourge that threatens the land. For the evil necromanceer Queb, long thought dead, has returned...

Blood-chilling horror from the author of Cradlesong and Dark Lullaby. Like many places, the Maine village of Stockton Springs has seen livelier days. But that changes the day ten-year-old Tiffany finds a human bone in the ancient Indian burial ground . . . and frees the ancient curse and the killings begin.