Do we come back from one life to the next and get to do it all again? Is there a force out there rooting for us to succeed? What if someone could tell you your stories from the past? That is exactly what happens to Officer Sarah Janson when a telepath tells her all about her past lives. Over the course of four hundred years, Sarah has come back every time to find her true love only to die along with her soul mate. Follow her journey into the past surrounded by love, lust, innocence, crimin...

The Bread Box, Life by the Slice, positively interrupts the listener's brain space for encouragement and inspiration. Author Jane Bishop shares personal narratives as slices of inspiration for living a vibrant and purposeful life. Readers and listeners are invited to create their own slice of life with fun activities after each personal story. What readers are experiencing: "Thank you for throwing me this lifeline because the bread in my bread box was getting stale! I read it from cover to...

Hildegard was a noted German writer, mystic, musician and spiritual guide. Her conferences reverenced creation and the power of the natural world to transform human life.

In Emily Jane's rollicking debut, when spaceships arrive and then depart suddenly without a word, the certainty that we are not alone in the universe turns to intense uncertainty as to our place within it. "Weird and sweet … like a 2020s White Noise: loud and colorful Americana with a sprinkle of apocalyptic doom."—Edgar Cantero "Heartfelt, witty, and secretly romantic … a delightful and poignant story about what it is to be human, and what we owe each other." —Christina Lauren Since long ...

Debt, Dating, and a Dead body . . . What's a girl to do?Twenty-five-year-old rookie Repo Agent, Andrea Sloan, doesn't like accepting help from anyone—especially not arrogant musicians who are too charming for their own good. Even though she swore off men years ago, Andi finds herself drawn to handsome rockstar, Cooper Barnett, as he continually pops up in her life when she least expects it.Their budding relationship becomes even more complicated when Cooper...

She never imagined her part-time job would be so dangerous!Life was going well for twenty-five-year-old Repo Agent Andrea Sloan. She hadn't stumbled across any more naked dead guys at work, and her love life was pretty much wonderful. Her biggest problems were keeping warm in a car with a heater that's on the fritz and figuring out what to get her boyfriend for Christmas.When she picked up a part-time job working at the mall for some extra cash as an elf, s...

Two estranged childhood friends find themselves on parallel paths to return to the site of the conversion therapy camp that tore them apart.Delia Barnes and Ernest Wrangham met as teens at Celebration Camp, a church-supported conversion therapy program—a dubious, unscientific Christian practice meant to “change” a person’s sexuality. After witnessing a close friend suffer a devastating tragedy in the hands of the camp “counselors,” they escaped in the night, only to take separate r...

This definitive textbook provides accessible information on best practice for assessing the needs and strengths of vulnerable children and their families. It explores the challenges that practitioners face routinely - with suggestions as to how to address them - as well as the established areas for assessment, of children's developmental needs, parenting ability and motivation, and socio-economic factors.This new edition has been extended substantially to include recent practice, p...

“A rousing adventure yarn full of danger and heart and humor.” —Richard RussoAn instant classic for fans of Jane Smiley and Kitchens of the Great Midwest: when two hardscrabble young boys think they’ve committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying to find and protect them reach them before it’s too late?It’s the summer of 1994 in Claypot, Wisconsin, and the lives of ten-year-old Fischer “Fish...

A remarkable collection, Robots through the Ages includes stories from some of the best writers of science fiction, both old and new.This anthology, with an introduction by Robert Silverberg, offers a sweeping survey of robots as depicted throughout literature. Since the Iliad—in which we are shown golden statues built by Hephaestus “with minds and wisdoms”—humans have been fascinated by the idea of artificial life. From the Argonautica t...

A mysterious pandemic causes a quarter of the world to permanently lose the ability to sleep—without any apparent health implications. The outbreak creates a new class of people who are both feared and ostracized, most of whom optimize their extra hours to earn more money.Journalist Jamie Vega is Sleepless: he can’t sleep, nor does he need to. When his boss dies on the eve of a controversial corporate takeover, Jamie doesn’t buy the too-convenient explanation of suicide, and launch...

*Now a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal*A taut, psychological thriller from Iain Reid, “one of the most talented purveyors of weird, dark narratives in contemporary fiction” (Los Angeles Review of Books).Severe climate change has ravaged the country, leaving behind a charred wasteland. Junior and Henrietta live a comfortable if solitary life on one of the last remaining farms. Their priva...