You are not broken.You have simply been living through beliefs, patterns, and survival strategies that were formed long before you had the awareness to choose them.Align Your Life is a practical and spiritual roadmap back to yourself.Through personal stories, grounded teachings, and her Field + Form framework, Dawn Elgin reveals how inherited beliefs, emotional wounds, past experiences, and unconscious conditioning shape the lives we create...

Fleeing the crushing, relentless pressure of a high-stress medical career at Medical Memorial Hospital in Wilmington, thirty-seven-year-old Amanda Hare arrives in Batson Ridge to renovate a dilapidated farmhouse. The transition from the sharp cocktail of industrial bleach, monitor alarms, and twenty-hour shifts to the damp earth, pine needles, and sweet autumn blooming vines of the Delaware countryside is jarring yet necessary.As Amanda begins stripping plaster, hauling timber, and...

The hilarious no. 1 bestseller by comedian and author of According to Yes and Oh Dear SylviaEveryone hates the perfect family.So you'll love the Battles.Meet Mo Battle, about to turn 50 and mum to two helpless, hormonal teenagers. There's 17-year-old daughter Dora who blames Mo for, like, EVERYTHING and Peter who believes he's quite simply as darling and marvellous as his hero Oscar Wilde. Somewhere, keeping quiet, is Dad . . . who...

Generation X was promised a retirement that increasingly looks out of reach.Born between the mid-1960s and early 1980s, Generation X came of age during a profound transformation of the American economy. Traditional pensions gave way to individual retirement accounts. Stable career paths became less certain. Housing, education, healthcare, and family caregiving became increasingly expensive. Meanwhile, responsibility for retirement security shifted from employers an...

Aury St. Clair has a gift for seeing patterns where others don't-and not just in fabric.Her friend Ralene is determined to have the historic building housing her quilt shop recognized by Colonial Williamsburg's 250th Anniversary Committee for its role in the American Revolution. But as preparations begin for a long-awaited quilt shop grand opening and festival, someone is determined to keep the past buried.A string of unsettling "accidents" rocks Ralene's new store, each on...

A minister walks into a roller derby practice and skates into a new chapter of her life, and brings you along.In her late 30s and in a new town trying to make friends, Dawn strapped on roller skates and discovered that a track full of women hitting each other had more to teach her about courage, community, and staying upright than most of what she'd learned in seminary. She took the name Liv Fearless. She was not, at first, fearless. That was rather the point.Hard Hits ...

Welcome mama and a new sibling home with this lyrical story set to the background of joyful family life and childhood play.What’s a child to do when they’re missing mama? Get the house ready and eagerly wait for her to come home, of course. But when she finally appears, she comes with a surprise. A new sibling!There are plenty of reasons to miss mom, but missing her while she’s bringing a new life into this world is a unique and special experience. Mama...

If you're determined enough to summon a demon.You can't trap her.You can't bend her to your will.So don't think you can run from her either.

Lauren Ambrite, the National Association of Tourist Attraction Survivors editor of* A Green Glow on the Horizon*, is a serial collector who satisfies her greedy soul by collecting the stories of fellow Tourist Attraction Trauma survivors starved of significance in a world that consigns to the shadows individuals who "feel too deeply." Lauren knows that, unlike tourists on summer road trips laughing off and leaving behind mermaid shows, jackalopes, and wax statues of the biblical Job, touri...

If you have ever wondered whether you were prepared enough, organized enough, patient enough, or capable enough to succeed in the classroom, you are not alone. Nearly every successful educator has asked those same questions during their first year. This book brings to light all of the things that a new teacher should know and address.

To prepare students with disabilities for success in a rapidly changing world, transition planning must start as early as possible. Get teachers ready to conduct intentional, meaningful transition planning in middle through high school with this practical textbook, ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses on special education and transition.To better meet the needs of faculty and students, the sixth edition of Life Beyond the Classroom is now t...

Before there was a modern-day town called Dark Moon Vale, there was an ancient kingdom nestled in the Transylvanian Alps. Before there was a primordial species called the Vampyr, there was a celestial race begotten of gods and men. Before light battled shadow, the sacrifice became mandatory, or the first Blood Moon adorned the celestial sky...There was The Curse.A punishment.An abomination.The ultimate act of vengeance.And it was placed upon a people...