Life with New Zealand's remotest family in a follow-on from the bestselling A Life on Gorge River by Robert Long. In 2010, New Zealand met its remotest family, through the writing of Robert Long - aka Beansprout - and we were intrigued. Now Beansprout's wife, Catherine Stewart, tells her story, and answers many of our questions. Why did she decide to join him on the wild West Coast, two days' walk from the nearest road? Why and how did they raise their family there? Was it terrifying to be...

How would you like to go back in time and visit a relative who has passed away? Sukey gets the opportunity to travel back in time and actually speak with her mom, who passed away several years ago. Who would have thought that a stores fitting room could be a time portal? Along the way, she encounters two menone very shady and one very cute. Also, she is very thankful that her (outspoken) best friend goes with her to save her from being stuck forever in the 1950s.

"We found something." With these words, a Presbyterian minister is thrust into a medical crisis: a tumor is pressing on her brain. Doctors cannot offer a preferred treatment plan: radiation and surgery are equally valid but carry vastly different risks and consequences. She herself must choose. She plunges into a maze of medical research, but the analytical mode of Western culture cannot help her find peace in her decision. Instead, she is unwittingly led along an ancient prayer path calle...

Olivia Taylor thought she was going for a normal walk in the woods near her home—a peaceful escape into nature, nothing more. Her everyday, ordinary life takes a dramatic turn when she discovers a beautiful antique key tucked inside the pocket of an old jacket. With a single motion, she's swept into the mysterious world of Elysian, a breathtaking realm caught between Heaven and Earth. In Elysian, Olivia must navigate a place full of awe-inspiring beauty and celestial beings, some eager to ...

Potluck: A Sleepy Haven Mystery opens the door and invites the reader to enter the homes of thirteen women as they discover how the seven deadly sins stealthily make their way into lives that seem so sedate, so normal, so serene. Annie, one of the thirteen, pulls Renee, her niece, away from her big-city life to help her in a race to seek the truth, protect the innocent, and save the church from crumbling.This novel unwinds a skein of twists, turns, truths, and lies in the course of...

In his early years, Gabe Raphel, a third-generation French perfumer, was young, arrogant, and only cared about making money and having fun. The future was something he rarely thought about because he assumed it was secure. His family was wealthy, but because of arrogance and poor decisions he found himself without a job—and soon without a country to call home. He and his wife, Claudine, sailed to New York in 1956 with $600 to find work and rebuild their lives.Forgive Me Not, a ficti...

From 1936 to 1939, the New Deal’s Federal Writers' Project collected life stories from more than 2,300 former African American slaves. These narratives are now widely used as a source to understand the lived experience of those who made the transition from slavery to freedom. But in this examination of the project and its legacy, Catherine A. Stewart shows it was the product of competing visions of the past, as ex-slaves' memories of bondage, emancipation, and life as freedpeople were used...

Detective Marina Bluestone and her partner, Kevin Carlson, are thrust into a harrowing investigation after a series of heinous murders shatter their community. As they dig deeper, their case becomes entangled with a covert DEA operation targeting a dangerous drug cartel. With lives hanging in the balance, the collision between their efforts threatens to unravel the DEA's years-long mission and expose its undercover agents.For Marina, the pursuit of justice isn't just professional-i...

Detective Marina Bluestone and her partner, Kevin Carlson, are thrust into a harrowing investigation after a series of heinous murders shatter their community. As they dig deeper, their case becomes entangled with a covert DEA operation targeting a dangerous drug cartel. With lives hanging in the balance, the collision between their efforts threatens to unravel the DEA's years-long mission and expose its undercover agents.For Marina, the pursuit of justice isn't just professional-i...

This book will help therapists understand and treat patients suffering from mild to dangerous forms of eating disorders, other compulsions and addictions, such as alcoholism, and even erotic attachments.The chapters help therapists think creatively about these types of patients who are coming to therapy more frequently than ever, and to see the effects of treatment. The problems that arise in therapy are explored in essays about dissociation, self-regulation, self-destructive behav...

She thought she knew her husband. She thought she knew herself. She was mistaken on both counts....When Katherine Fraser's husband vanishes, she discovers that he has hidden his past from her...but when his wealthy family finds her and sweeps her into a world of power and luxury, the fearful, dependent wife is gradually transformed into a vibrant, glamorous woman. From San Francisco to Paris to the Côte d'Azur, Katherine tastes the romance and elegance of a world she never...

England 1995: Dr. Jessica Shepherd's peaceful summer afternoon is shattered by the abrupt arrival of a wounded soldier claiming to be from the seventeenth century.If he is to be believed, Nathaniel Preston has crossed three hundred years bringing with him the turmoil of civil war and a request for help that Jess can’t ignore.Falling in love with this dashing cavalier is destined to end in heartbreak as Jess discovers the price of his love is the knowledge that he will die i...