Going Where They Belong is a collection of nine stories from late 20th- and early 21st-century America that voice the peculiarities and perceptions of ordinary, sometimes eccentric, people. A woman runs away after killing another woman; a homeless teenager takes care of his younger brother after their father disappears; an aging lesbian faces the disordered personality of her longtime partner.Most of the characters are plagued with inner instability and social marginality;...

Glowing in the Dark is a book of fiction that portrays the inner worlds of several physicians—psychiatrists and an ICU doctor—as they discover healing through encounters with other people. In authentic voices and a range of moods, these three compelling stories follow each healer's personal, unconventional path on an unprescribed journey. The stories are evocative, disturbing, sometimes erotic, sometimes funny, always heartful. Like wounding, like healing, the stories are not what...

The nine stories in this collection are told by and about teenagers, mid-lifers, and elders. They are about settled lives and drastically disordered ones, working people, dying people. They are about people you have never met and others you see every day; sometimes, they are people you know very well, people you work and live with. You may find they are about you. Like all of us, the characters are finding their way forward in the face of loss. They are furious and funny, hurtful and helpf...

“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a feminist classic, a haunting critique of the isolation treatment for female hysteria wrapped up in a superb psychological horror story. Over a century later women are still battling gender bias in the treatment of mental illness. Here are 15 stories of very different women who have in common the fact that they are fighting for control of their worlds and of their minds. Traci Orsi's "Waiting for Jordan" finds Julia hallucinating at ho...

Jude is staying on the Isle of Barra in the Outer Hebrides.On her walk home after a night out at a dance at the north end of Barra, she hears a sound which brings an unexpected change to her life.Who is Ruari Mor? How does he know about her even though they have never met before?Is he really of the Selchie - the Seal People who can take on human lives and suddenly become seals again?Jude is sceptical, but....

Some luck gets you home. Some luck gets you killed.Grace Callahan came back to Briar Glen for one reason, to help save the town’s beloved St. Patrick’s Day parade, and then return to her carefully planned life in Atlanta.But Briar Glen isn’t the quiet hometown she remembers.When missing records, suspicious accidents, and a late-night fire point to something far darker hiding beneath the town’s charm, Grace finds herself pulled into an investigation ...

●《共感人完全自救手冊》作者啟動高度直覺力，三百六十五天一整年陪伴共感人或高敏感族，一天一篇解憂的文字，提供適合當旬的具體作法，更對應人生的起承轉合，富含哲理與洞見。●依時節細心安排的每日建議與冥想練習，打破感官過載的動能，應用防護技巧，學習完整的自我照顧法。一天一篇解憂文字，為高敏感族量身訂做的全年照護寶典《共感人完全自救手冊》作者──茱迪斯‧歐洛芙醫師，教你如何掌控內在的共感世界。◆內容簡介歐洛芙醫師提供大家三百六十五天的自我照顧冥想、反思與日記寫作建議，天天預防壓力與過載。共感人在世上能帶來各種貢獻，他們是治療者、創意人士、朋友、戀人與工作上的創新者。然而，高度敏感的共感人通常會犧牲自己的健康，付出太多，最後吸進別人的壓力。醫學博士歐洛芙寫道：「維持健康快樂的方法，就是準備好每天用有效的方式照顧自己。」這個世界令人精疲力竭，...

An arresting, lyrical memoir about the path the author took—sometimes unwittingly—out of her Mormon upbringing and through a thicket of profound difficulties to become a writer.At twenty-two, Judith Freeman was working in the Mormon church–owned department store in the Utah town where she’d grown up. In the process of divorcing the man she had married at seventeen, she was living in her parents’ house with her four-year-old son, who had already endured two heart surgeries. She had ...

Dr. Judith Orloff offers 365 days of self-care meditations, reflections, and journaling suggestions as daily inoculations against stress and overwhelmEmpaths have so much to offer as healers, creatives, friends, lovers, and innovators at work. Yet highly sensitive and empathic people often give too much at the expense of their own well-being—and end up absorbing the stress of others. “To stay healthy and happy,” writes Judith Orloff, MD, “you must be ready with dai...

What is the secret of Ben Cruachan, the hollow mountain that towers above the small village of Taynuilt in Argyll? Has it anything to do with a cat which disappeared from the riding school or the appearance of a stray pony?As a twelve year-old Jennifer Lindsay comes across the secret that will govern a part of her life well into her adulthood, only then will the mystery of Samantha, the cat, be solved for her broken-hearted owner, Alison, Jennifer’s cousin.And what role doe...

Crocheting has never been easier! Now with photos of each pattern included. Whether you have always wanted to learn the art of crochet or you simply want to learn new crochet skills this book has been designed to be easy to follow and offers 23 complete beginner’s Afghan crochet projects. Crochet is a great way to pass your time and extremely relaxing and you will also have some fabulous work to grace any area of your home or gifts for you or someone special.One Day Crochet, 23 Amaz...

A knight, newly-returned from the Crusades, rides out one day to look over his estates. He doesn’t return and nothing is seen or heard of him or his horse again. His grieving lady dies of a broken heart within a year. This is the legend of Elmswood, a mid-Kent village.The children of the Davington family and their friend, John, go with their sledges to Castle Hill to have fun in the deep snow, but their fun turns into a terrifying adventure when they encounter a knight. Is he the k...