A Yankee Doctor in Paradise is the lively memoir of Dr. S. M. Lambert, a public-health physician whose career carried him across Fiji, Samoa, New Zealand, Papua, Tonga, and other South Pacific outposts. What begins as a promised tropical adventure quickly becomes a hard-edged campaign against hookworm, malaria, dysentery, yaws, and the many diseases that shadow island life. With dry humor and a sharp eye for detail, Lambert turns medical service into a travel narrative, revealing both the ...

Ever since the death of her brother, eighteen-year-old Savannah Collins made a pact to take down the beast that killed him. Under the name the Huntress, she braves the woods each night in hopes of catching the beast unaware.Nineteen-year-old Callum Woodsworth is a wolf shifter, the son of the alpha of his pack. All his life, he has lived separate, but peacefully, from the humans of the nearby village, until fate delivers him directly into the path of the Huntress.All Savann...

When words are not enough, how can creative expression help you through the grieving process?Art as a Path Through Grief is a gentle and practical way to look at loss through drawing, painting, journaling, and other art forms. It is aware of the individuality of grief and the fact that there is no 'right' way to experience or express it.This book examines the role of creativity in creating a quiet place to:✐ Express...

Sometimes water is thicker than blood.Andre Robinson had never received a normal childhood. Being given a male name at birth and being taken away from her father at age one, she was forced into her mother's overprotective care where she was rarely allowed to leave the house and endured a sugar-coated homeschooling experience. For ten years, she had questions about who her father was and periodically dreamt about him living with her and her mother in a secluded cabin in the woods. Y...

The sacrifices, the drama, the horror within.In the year of 1860, a curse was performed over the suburb of Roseway, Washington, which rests about twenty miles south of Seattle, that killed nearly every living resident. After coming back to Earth as spirits, they form a twisted plan that not only provides them with bodies of their own but also kills off all who venture into Roseway in the future.Thirteen-year-old Rebekah Jensen has lived a fine life in Marywood, Florida with...

A mentor, advisor, or even a friend? Making connections in college makes all the difference.What single factor makes for an excellent college education? As it turns out, it's pretty simple: human relationships. Decades of research demonstrate the transformative potential and the lasting legacies of a relationship-rich college experience. Critics suggest that to build connections with peers, faculty, staff, and other mentors is expensive and only an option at elite ...

A world of light overpowers a world of darkness.Following the loss of Roseway, the infamous immortal warlock Henri Anderson has retreated to his castle in Greenwich, England. On the surface, it appears the mortals have won, but Henri has other ideas. After all, he didn't need Roseway anymore, not when he has Holly's parents held hostage and kidnapped the new mortal prince, Jeffery Speirs.Rebekah Jensen is done. After the incident in Roseway where she almost died, she wants ...

Sometimes secrets are better left undiscovered.Following the murder of her immediate family, Rebekah Jensen flees to Athens, Greece, where there is rumored to be a secret group of Innocents. It is amongst her own kind that she feels she will finally be safe, since it is evident Marywood is no longer safe for her. The infamous immortal warlock, Henri Anderson, is still relentlessly hunting her, and he will stop at nothing until he has her. However, things soon take a turn for the wo...

Constant turmoil and hatred breeds destruction.The aftermath of the ICW massacre has left each side in shambles. As Jason struggles to hold onto his crown in the wake of learning about his own son's enthrallment to Henri Anderson, the mortals have split between those loyal to the crown and those who wish to overthrow it. Likewise, the immortals are facing a similar predicament with the rise of the Rebel Coven—a group led by Melissa Young that seeks to put an end to Henri's rule.

Based on decades of research centered on the earliest known fluted-point producing groups in the North American midcontinent, Early Paleoindians in the Upper Midcontinent of North America: Lithic Procurement, Settlement Mobility, and Social Interaction brings together a broad array of case studies from the United States and Canada that offers fresh perspectives on how early populations utilized the land and its resources, how and when they settled in particular locations, and how ...

Experience learning made easy—and quickly teach yourself how to build database solutions with Access 2007. With Step By Step, you set the pace—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!Build databases from scratch or from templatesExchange data with other databases and Office documentsCreate forms to simplify data entryUse filters and queries to find and analyze informationDesign rich reports that help make yo...

New Author and collections. A deluxe edition of super-charged, original and classic short stories. Dystopia, Post-Apocalypse, time travel, robots and more this brilliant collection brings together the best of today's writers (many stories previously unpublished), with an eclectic range of science fiction masters including H. Rider Haggard, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Philip Frances Nowlan, Edward Page Mitchell and Jack London. An eclectic collection of SF adventure tales.New, contemporary...