Temporary roommates, two lively dogs, and a remote country house – awkward moments will arise.Mark Bradley, a hobby pilot with a demanding new job, faces constant travel with little notice. Desperate to provide his dogs with a stable home, he offers sanctuary to Stacey Houseman, an aspiring goddess who's never owned a pet.Stacey, happy not to be both homeless and jobless, agrees to take on dog duties in exchange for a safe place to stay.But training two energetic do...

Reiki masters, crystals and astrologers …oh my!Adam McGiver is a Coast Guard EMT, on injured reserve, and thinks all the above are an interesting waste of time. The stars are for navigation on the seasMelanie Cramer, third generation of psychics and healers, charts her life by the stars but prefers to spend her days with computers. She's ready to embark on a global adventure dedicated to databases.When Adam rescues Melanie from a boat that's dead in the water, they ...

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A lunchroom accident has an unexpected outcome.

This book shows how carefully planned and assessed treatment can help traumatized children. It outlines how to set up a process for measuring a child's progress towards recovery. Uniquely, the book describes a practical outcomes-based approach that can be provided by an integrated multi-disciplinary team.Particular themes addressed include the conflict between the child's chronological and emotional ages, the need to work at the child's pace, the importance of the whole-team approa...

Step back in time and experience World War II through the stories of the people who lived through it. Witness the horror of a prison camp march. Experience the sinking of a U.S. warship. Watch a young French freedom fighter outsmart the Nazis. True Stories of World War II doesn’t just tell you the tales of war. It drops you into the thick of combat.

One of Barack Obama’s longest-serving speechwriters reveals the public speaking lessons that will help you become a more confident and compelling communicator and leader.As a White House speechwriter, Terry Szuplat helped craft hundreds of speeches for President Obama. But when it came to public speaking himself, Szuplat—like many people—was gripped by anxiety and preferred to stay in the shadows. When he was invited to give the first major speech of his life, he f...

Adam Tomaszewski is a Polish airman, flying Hurricanes alongside British pilots as the Battle of Britain rages in the summer skies over Kent and Sussex. Facing death daily and far from his friends and family, Adam finds himself drawn to a maverick Irish soldier called Gerry Cunningham.'You're out of luck, brother,' are the first words Gerry says when they meet in the crush of men competing for the few women at a dance in a seaside hotel, but when Gerry betrays his lover Moira, Adam...

Louisa Lawson, the mother of Australian writer Henry Lawson, was the founder, publisher and editor of an early feminist journal in Sydney named “The Dawn”. From 1888 onwards, it played no small part in the gaining of the vote for Australian women in South Australia (1895), Western Australia (1899), New South Wales (1902), Commonwealth (1902), Tasmania (1903), Queensland (1905), and Victoria (1908). Since the success of the “Digitise The Dawn” project, a number of Louisa Lawson’s lead artic...

A fascinating guide to the secret worlds of the intertidal zoneThe vast and diverse California coast is an awe-inspiring place of exploration and discovery, full of life forms that are shockingly unfamiliar. Intertidal fish that can breathe in air, worms that build entire reefs, and seaweeds that can be mistaken for tar spots—these are as common as the more familiar barnacles that eat with their feet. Unicorn snails lie still on the rocks as they drill into the she...

Readers of Patrick Taylor's books know Mrs. Kinky Kincaid as the unflappable housekeeper who looks after two frequently frazzled doctors in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. She is a trusted fixture in the lives of those around her, and it often seems as though Kinky has always been there.Nothing could be farther from the truth.Some forty-odd years before and many miles to the south, the girl who would someday be Kinky Kincaid was Maureen O'Hanlon, a farmer's da...

Love is patient and kind, but patience was not always Sexys virtue. Yet, Sexy and Dexxx have been together for a long time. Their faith in God has kept them this far. But this time, they go through the storm and the rain because their love is challenged by deceit, lust, and tragedy. Unable to communicate face-to-face, they use email to convey their inner most thoughts and feelings. Constant conflict can damage a relationship, but can love really conquer all? Can their love survive in the m...