What is life like for aid workers who gather from around the world to serve refugees who have fled their homes due to famine, political unrest, and disasters?Kiwi nurse-midwife, Barbara Walker – who spent 20 years working for international aid agencies – shares her dramatic, heart-rending, and inspiring stories of the situations she faced and the people she sought to help.From the Sakeo One Refugee Camp in Thailand, where she cared for those fleeing Pol Pot...

An exciting memoir of international Christian service in some of the world's most challenging hot spots. 8 hours of brilliant narration with an authentic Kiwi woman's voice.What is life like for aid workers who gather from around the world to serve refugees who have fled their homes due to famine, political unrest, and disasters?Kiwi nurse-midwife, Barbara Walker – who spent 20 years working for international aid agencies – shares her dramatic, heart-rend...

Marigold "Goldie" Robbins is a vivacious and energetic sixty-six-year-old. Recently widowed and plagued with loneliness, she yearns for the companionship and romanticism she experienced as a younger woman. One day, while working out at her fitness center, Goldie meets a handsome, charismatic man who makes her feel young and desirable again. Despite the difference in their ages, Goldie quickly succumbs to his seductive charm and throws caution to the winds. She leaves the fitness center in ...

This is a deliously scary story about a boy who outsmarts an old witch-woman before she can have him and his brothers for dinner.

This volume explores the politics of memory involved in 'coming to terms with the past' of mass dictatorship on a global scale. Considering how a growing sense of global connectivity and global human rights politics changed the memory landscape, the essays explore entangled pasts of dictatorships.

A scholarly study of older women in pre-patriarchal societies, from the author of The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets ."A useful and thought-provoking guide, pointing the way to a more humane future by enhancing our understanding of the past and present." — Los Angeles TimesA probing account of the honored place of older women in ancient matriarchal societies re...

Prominent feminist author Barbara Walker has revamped, retold, and infused with life some of your favorite classic fairy tales. No longer are women submissive, helpless creatures in need of redemption through the princely male! Instead they are vibrantly alive, strong women who take fate into their own hands.

A mother learns evil resides in the house next door in this chilling classic gothic mystery by a New York Times–bestselling author.The house next door to Pat Robbins—eerily identical to the home Pat shares with her college-aged son, Mark—has been empty for years, the darkness within seeming to warn all to stay away. Now new tenants are moving in: affable Josef Friedrichs and his lovely daughter, Kathy, who has stolen Mark's heart on first glance. But someth...

Childhood trauma can result in post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, low self-esteem, drug abuse, depression, lack of confidence, and a range of other mental and physical diseases. Uncovering, admitting, and healing this childhood trauma will assist you in letting go of the pain, liberating you from the guilt, shame, and self-destruction that you have been dragging around with you. This book will provide you with the tools and strategies you need to heal your childhood trauma and fully ...

Erik Keston, erede di un impero immobiliare, sa cosa occorre per avere successo. Nonostante sia ricco, si arrangia da sé. Lavora sodo, ha i piedi per terra, è fascinoso. Ed è segretamente innamorato del suo migliore amico.Monroe Wellman ha perso i genitori tre anni fa e non ha elaborato il lutto, non si è mai ripreso. Aver ereditato l’azienda e le ricchezze di famiglia non vuole dire niente per lui, e la sua spirale di autodistruzione è ampia quanto spettacolare. Etichettato come i...

Zack Walker è un vigile del fuoco che non ha mai voluto impegnarsi con nessuna, ma quando conosce Nora viene colpito da una specie di colpo di fulmine. La ragazza è infermiera al Pronto Soccorso di Norfolk ed è tornata nella cittadina dopo tanti anni… Neanche lei vuole innamorarsi, non se questo vuol dire affidare il proprio cuore a qualcuno e quindi soffrire di nuovo, dopo tutte le delusioni avute da suo padre. Ora poi ha anche il figlioletto a cui pensare. Nonostante il rapporto tra loro...

Facts, figures, and essays on women and poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich, Kirsten Gillibrand, LeBron James, and other high-profile contributors.Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. One in three live in poverty or teeter on the brink—and seventy million are women and the children wh...