From Philip Gulley to Chicken Soup books*,* short stories are everywhere! And readers can't get enough.In Homemade Humble Pie Annette Smith offers a collection of 26 heartwarming and wonderfully quirky stories about fictional characters we all seem to know. She dips into her experience as a friend and neighbor to cook up slice-of-life tales about people of all ages and walks of life. Smith's book introduces readers to an array of interesting characters--an elderly...

Annette Smith has been blessed with the ability to observe and find beauty, meaning, and humor in seemingly ordinary situations. Within a sentence or two, readers are captivated by her delightful, descriptive writing style, connected with the characters, and eager to hear more.Watermelon Days and Firefly Nights is Smith's fifth book of original short stories. In this charming collection, adults of all ages enjoy a behind-the-scenes peek at the lives and loves of a few of th...

Life for Tac an aluminum soda can, ha been hard, down right miserable! He sat on the desk of a Psychologist day in and day out. He was tired of listening to everybody else tell their story. He had been popped, drained, smashed, bashed, and trashed. He decided to be the one on the couch this time, to tell his story to Dr. Psych.This book will expand one's emagination and encourage recycling.

My A,B,Cs was inspired by my niece Meg Smith, who is 3 years old. Together we sat down and began to learn the alphabet. At the end of the day we had penned a poem and titled it My A,B,C's. This was published by Forward Press in an anthology titled "Take A Peek".After Meg's Aunty Fay read, "Take A Peek" she illustrated my poem.We both realised, a book like this would be fun to publish and it would also make an excellent learning aid for all children in her age group and up. Children...

When you've reached the bottom, there's only one way to go-up. But how, when all your bridges are burned and there's nothing to hold onto?Annette comes forward in this very real book to reveal her abuse and her sins and the crushing guilt and shame they leave behind. These pages come to life in the sweet and innocent memories of childhood, sprinkled with love and fun, living in a family of four girls and four boys. Then when Annette is only six, she became scared, bashful,...

His whole life has been a story of hurt and rejection. Is one family’s love enough to turn it all around? Josh lost his parents in a drunk-driving accident and lost track of his two brothers after a tragic fire. By age eighteen, he is an angry young man who only wants a job, an apartment, and to be left alone. Instead, he meets Mike and Anna, an unusual son-and-mother team who draw him into their lives. For the first time, Josh receives unconditional love and something every human being cr...

Babies arrive in the world already equipped with many skills, reflexes and instincts that help them adapt to and influence their environment as well as the people who fill it. The mother-and-daughter team of Kyra Karmiloff, a research psychologist, and Dr Annette Karmiloff-Smith, a professorial research fellow at the Developmental Neurocognition Lab at Birkbeck College, University of London, 'translate' the latest scientific findings on infant behaviour, the development of gross and fine m...

This issue focuses on new advances in oncology in treating dogs and cats. Topics include: Use of metronomic chemotherapy in veterinary cancer patients, Evidence-based integrative medicine in clinical veterinary oncology, The role of surgery in multimodality cancer therapy for small animals, Cancer screening tests for small animals, Antibiotic use in veterinary oncology patients, Tyrosine kinase inhibitors in veterinary oncology practice, Stereotactic radiosurgery/Advances in veterinary rad...

Ich schreibe, also bin ich Schriftstellerin: Wenn es so einfach wäre, gäbe es die Geschichten in dieser Sammlung nicht. Ist Dichten das große Glück, ein großer Kraftakt - oder beides? Wie entstehen Ideen, aus welchen Situationen und Begegnungen schöpfen Autorinnen ihre Inspiration? Wie finden sie ihre Form? Und wie ergeht es Schriftstellerinnen im Literaturbetrieb? In den Erzählungen, Essays und Gedichten dieses Bandes lassen sich die Autorinnen beim Schreiben über die Schulter gucken. Sie...

Overcoming the shame of HIV. This book originally published in early 2004 represents a gritty look at the lives of three amazing ladies. Though medical science has come quite a ways in the intervening years, there remains stigma and challenge associated with the HIV disease. In this hard hitting text, we are left to ponder what about us. How would we endure such challenging circumstances. There is teaching here. Take time to read and reflect. Share with your friends and family. Living in t...

This influential festschrift honours the legacy of Annette Karmiloff-Smith, a seminal thinker in the field of child development and a pioneer in developmental cognitive neuroscience. The current volume brings together many of the researchers, collaborators and students who worked with Professor Karmiloff-Smith to show how her ideas have influenced and continue to influence their own research.Over four parts, each covering a different phase or domain of Karmiloff-Smith’s research ca...

Paratuberculosis, also referred to as Johne's disease, affects principally cattle, goats, sheep, buffalo, deer and other ruminants. It is common worldwide and responsible for significant economic losses in the ruminant livestock industries. A timely follow up to the first book on Paratuberculosis, this new edition is still the only comprehensive text providing both historical context and the latest developments in the field. Examining the epidemiology of paratuberculosis, the organism that...