Children are more anxious, aggressive, and shut down than ever.Faced with this epidemic of emotional health crises and behavioural problems, teachers are asking themselves what went wrong. Why have we lost our students? More importantly: How can we get them back? Hannah Beach, a celebrated educator and specialist in the field of emotional health, and Tamara Neufeld Strijack, clinicalcounsellor and academic dean of the acclaimed Neufeld Institute, provide a thoughtful guide t...

La danse offre un espace-temps qui permet de regarder, étudier et comprendre l’humanité. Elle dévoile des corps, avec leurs blessures mais aussi leurs forces. La danse permet de penser | panser différemment et, ainsi, d’ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives. Cet ouvrage s’adresse aux acteurs appartenant aux différents milieux d’intervention et de recherche, d’enseignement et de formation, de même qu’aux danseurs, danse-thérapeutes et art-thérapeutes qui sont confrontés dans leur pratique aux pr...

Whidbey Island, a place of secrets and mystery, is home now for Becca King, still in hiding from her criminal stepfather. But Becca and her friends have new worries, as a series of fires are being set, the latest causing a fatality. Is one of the newcomers to blame?Perhaps it’s Isis Martin’s brother, just back from a school for troubled kids, or Parker, a musician fired by his bandmates. Meanwhile, Becca herself continues to slowly explore her own paranormal abilit...

How did women begin wearing pants? Prior to the 1920s it was a rarity to see women in pants in the Western world, but as the silk pajama trouser suit moved from the boudoir to the beach in the early 1920s it cemented the image of the trousered woman.Worn by Jean Harlow and Marlene Dietrich, painted by Raoul Dufy and immortalized in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night, between the two world wars pajamas came to symbolize much more than sleepwear. This book explores ho...

She didn’t come home to find love, but it had been waiting there for her all along...When Jenna returns to Sandover Island after her mother's death, her past and future intersect in ways she couldn’t imagine. Specifically with her high school nemesis, Jackson.As much as she'd like to, Jenna can’t seem to avoid Jackson's smirking and frustratingly attractive face. She doesn’t know why he’s pulling this new, nice-guy act, but she isn’t buying.And if i...

In "On the Beach," Nevil Shute Norway crafts a haunting and poignant narrative set in a post-apocalyptic world following a nuclear catastrophe. The novel employs a stark yet lyrical prose style, encapsulating the bleakness of a dying planet while simultaneously exploring the resilience of the human spirit. Through the interwoven lives of its characters—each navigating the harrowing reality of impending oblivion—Shute deftly examines themes of love, loss, and acceptance in the face of exist...

Marissa didn't intend to get naughty that day, she just wanted to get some relaxation at the beach. But approached by a stranger while she tried to sleep, she lends the stranger a book... to her surprise, when she wakes up again the stranger is playing with herself. Marissa tries to leave but the stranger implores her to join in, and when she does, things get orgasmic!

When she said goodbye, she broke both their hearts. Is it too late to mend them?Since Emily rejected Jimmy, her life has been a string of one disappointment after another. A girls’ beach trip seems like the perfect escape to reflect. The only problem: Sandover Island is the place Jimmy calls home. She just needs to avoid him for a week ...When Jimmy’s fire station gets a call for an emergency rescue, the last person he expects to find in danger is Emily. Se...

**“When two roads diverge...take the one that leads to the beach! Hannah McKinnon delivers a charming gem of a novel in Mystic Summer. I adored this book.” —Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The RumorA chance run-in with a college boyfriend puts a young woman’s picture-perfect life in perspective in this warm-hearted and lyrical novel—from the author of The Lake Season.**Since finishing graduate school, Maggie Grif...

A cranky cop who's sworn off relationships, an event planner who invented a fake boyfriend, and the over-the-top family that thinks it's love.When Ripley fabricates a boyfriend to put off her family's overzealous matchmaking efforts, she never thought it would go so far. But when she gets pulled over for speeding, the police officer gets caught up in her fake boyfriend scheme.Cash has good reasons for swearing off the holidays and relationships. But his plans to spend Chris...

She broke her own rules: you can’t fall in love when you’re on the run...Sandover Island seems like the perfect place for Mercer to escape her past, but she knows it's only a matter of time until it finds her. She isn't safe, not even in Beau’s strong arms, as tempting as they are.The harder Beau pushes at Mercer’s walls, the stronger they seem to be. She gives him an inch, then steps back a mile. He knows she's worth the fight, if only she will give him he...

What could be worse than sharing a kiss with your future step-sibling?When Amber receives devastating news, she goes completely out of character and kisses the kind, handsome stranger in a bar. Except... he's not going to be a stranger for long. He's about to become a very close part of her life--only not in the way she hoped.Nick didn't plan to give any woman a chance after having his heart shattered. Especially not a woman he's just met. But there's somet...