How does it feel when someone you love develops dementia? How do you cope with the shock, the stress and the grief? Can you be sure that you and your family will receive the support you need?In Telling Tales About Dementia, thirty carers from different backgrounds and in different circumstances share their experiences of caring for a parent, partner or friend with dementia. They speak from the heart about love and loss: 'I still find it hard to believe that Alzheimer's has happened...

From Award-winning and Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman!A Mighty FallThis case might just leave Margie feeling nostalgic about the water deaths she has been investigating lately.A woman is found at the bottom of a 70-meter drop. It is pretty clear from the beginning that she was killed in the fall.But you can never be sure until the medical examiner’s report comes back. It would appear that there is a lot more to be investig...

From Award-winning and Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman!Death by Coyote?An accidental death like the one in Nose Hill Park is always tragic, but what can a homicide detective be expected to do about it?Detective Margie “Parks Pat” Patenaude is called to the gruesome scene, and despite what she can see with her own eyes, does not believe that this is an open-and-shut case of the victim being in the wrong place at the wrong time....

Spark Your Creativity with Inventive Challenge Quilts Are you ready to take the challenge? Embark on a creative journey to design the kind of quilts you've always wanted to make! Proving that two minds are better than one, experienced quilters Wendy Hill and Pat Pease take on 7 quilt challenges, including designing a new twist on an old block and quilting with unconventional materials. Sew alongside them—by yourself, with a friend, or in a group—as you nurture your own voice of self-expres...

This handbook is for certified facilitators at an Advanced Equipping session in the Bible-based trauma healing ministry of the Trauma Healing Institute. It pairs with Caring for the Wounded Heart: Bible-Based Trauma Healing Facilitator Guide for Healing Groups. This guide helps prepare facilitators to confidently launch healing group ministries. It also helps trainers to develop a full trauma healing program—from first awareness sessions to training sessions, to Community of Pract...

Caring for the Wounded Heart: Bible-Based Trauma Healing offers a practical approach to engaging the Bible and mental health principles to find God’s healing for wounds of the heart. The approach has been field-tested since 2001 with leaders from Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, and independent churches.This is the core book (Participant Book) of the Bible-based trauma healing ministry of the Trauma Healing Institute. It is to be used by adult participants in a healing grou...

Drawing on the compelling experiences of a wide range of contributors, you'll discover more about what fuels your way of engaging, creating new outcomes and results - for you and for those you touch. Engage a new paradigm for parenting through personal experience rather than dogma. In a world of accelerating change, the one thing we can count on is that parenting is the single most potent force for shaping culture. Like Mom’s good china, parenting is handed down from one generation to the ...

Essential Skills--Made Easy!C#: A Beginner's Guide offers a step-by-step approach to learning object-oriented programming with C# and the .NET Framework while preparing you for data driven-development. More than 150 easy-to-follow examples are included. The book covers Visual Studio for developmentand debugging, collections and advanced C# structures,LINQ and traditional database development, as well as file, XML, and JSON handling. By the end of the book, you'll have th...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A painful, lyrical, addictive read” (People) by the cherished author of The Great Santini that brings his extraordinary career full circlePat Conroy’s great success as a writer has always been intimately linked with the exploration of his family history. As the oldest of seven children who were dragged from military base to military base across the South, Pat bore witness to the often cruel and violent behavio...

Listen as environmental activists Dave Forman, Julia “Butterfly” Hill, and others share their experiences of being on the front lines of the battle to preserve old-growth redwoods and other endangered species, along with solid reasons for their passionate involvement in this struggle.

Each act, big or small, can make a difference – or at least help a friend.What does it mean to be kind? When Tanisha spills grape juice all over her new dress, her classmate contemplates how to make her feel better and what it means to be kind. From asking the new girl to play to standing up for someone being bullied, this moving and thoughtful story explores what a child can do to be kind.With award-winning author Pat Zietlow Miller's gentle text a...

In his second book for adults, the perennial New York Times bestselling author helps readers discover how to put money in its place and use wealth-building as a tool for joy and fulfillment.Hill Harper is uniquely poised to guide readers through tough times and offers bestselling advice for reaping the rewards of a truly happy life. With The Wealth Cure, he does more than that: He presents a revolutionary new definition of wealth; motivating reade...