'Second Chance Cafe' is a Christmas collection of four tales of romance and second chances by Susanne Bellamy, Elizabeth Ellen Carter, Noelle Clark and Abbie Jackson. Susanne Bellamy's The Wish List continues the author's track record of rural romance set in Australia as well as contemporary and suspense romances set in exotic global locations. In the south-east Queensland city of Toowoomba, handsome accountant Jack Schulz sweeps into Julie Aster's life. He is the answer to her dilemma and...

The perfect guide for new workers entering residential childcare. Adopting a case study approach, this book contains a collection of stories of good practice told from the point of view of the residential care worker that help to demonstrate how they deal with dilemmas and make effective decisions in the moment.Workers in residential childcare have to quickly understand the complexity of how young people's early neglect, abuse and relational trauma impact their liv...

Dilemmas and Decision Making in Social Work is a collection of stories to help social workers work with dilemmas, weigh up options and make good decisions.Told in the first person from the point of view of a social worker, each case study begins with the service user’s story and then applies relevant theory. It demonstrates where workers have to think outside their own frames of reference and seek other’s expertise, how they work with barriers to c...

In this powerful picture book about a girl experiencing loss, The Good for Nothing Puddle helps children explore the nature of grief and loss and leads them to find hope and redemption from pain.When a girl loses the thing she loves the most, her tears gather into a puddle around her feet that follows her everywhere she goes. At first, she tries her best to make it go away, but it is inescapable. She even cries out to God to take it away. Eventually, a pup...

Dory’s older brother and sister think she’s a baby.They won’t play with her. But that’s okay. Because Dory has other things to do …… and LOTS of other friends …… who think she is FANTASTIC.This hilarious charmer about an irresistible rascal is perfect for the youngest and the oldest—and everyone in between.

Dory got lost.Then she got found!She never wants to be separated from her family again.Good thing Dory knows just what to do to keep them close.Get goofy—and ghostly—with Dory, that irresistible rascal!

Everyone's favorite rascal turns learning to read into a hilarious adventure through the power of imagination Ever since Dory met Rosabelle, a real true friend whose imagination and high spirits match her own, school has been pretty good. But now the class is learning to read, and it's proving to be a challenge for Dory. While Rosabelle can read chapter books in her head, Dory is stuck with baby books about a happy little farm. Dory wishes for a potion to turn her into a reader but things ...

Dory wants to be a pirate.So she can find a treasure. And help her big sister, Violet.But being a pirate is harder than Dory imagined.Sail away with Dory on a mighty ocean adventure.

Dory likes to stay home with her friends.But when school starts, her sister and brother tell her it’s time to make a real friend.They don’t know there is a girl in Dory’s class who lives in a castle and has a dragon.Could she be REAL?Dory the irresistible rascal is headed to school. And she is taking her imagination with her!

A loose tooth leads to hilarious hijinks with the tooth fairy in book four of the wonderfully imaginative Dory Fantasmagory series Dory has her first loose tooth, and, with her usual over-the-top excitement, she cannot stop talking about the tooth fairy. Naturally, this drives her brother and sister crazy. But it also sparks a serious jealous streak in her nemesis, Mr. Gobble Cracker, who wants all of Dory's attention to herself. But Mrs. Gobble Gracker has decided to steal the tooth fairy...