Friends gather every Sunday morning for breakfast and go their own way by lunch. Drake and his wife join in, but leave weeks later when the weekly breakfasts feel more like an obligation. He and his wife, Jennifer, divorce and Drake puts his all into work. Months pass and, while running an errand, he gets into an auto accident, re-uniting with Serena, another member of the breakfast club.

Amanda Cooper, scarred from burns received in a car accident, runs into her high school sweetheart, while vacationing in the Bahamas. She keeps him at arms length, not ready to open herself to any intimacy because of her history of failed relationships and also because of her disfigurement. Eric, however, wants to rekindle what they once had.ten years ago.Can Amanda see herself as healed despite the scars and love again?

After losing both her job and boyfriend, Rebecca heads west to start a new life. Stopping in Avery, Washington, she meets Rose who introduces her to her grandson, Zachary.Meanwhile, Menden Gillespie plots to capture the entire wolf-shifter communities to isolate them for the valuable DNA. Shutting off the communities access to the outside world, his thugs threaten the lives of everyone, including Rebecca. Her blossoming love for Zachary puts her in the cross-hairs as Zachary attemp...

The Fiction Writer's Handbook is not another grammar book, as if we need any more of them. This is the only book addressing overlooked writing problems which are killers when you seek publication and sales. Taking the time to fix these issues will make you a stronger writer. There is no sure formula to becoming successful. There are, however, many editing problems you can address to increase your success. If you're a self-publisher, The Fiction Writer's Handbook: 10 Minute Edits is a must-...

The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education confronts the silent ascendancy of a therapeutic ethos across the educational system and into the workplace. Controversial and compelling, Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes’ classic text uses a wealth of examples across the education system, from primary schools to university and the workplace, to show how therapeutic education is turning children, young people and adults into anxious and self-preoccupied individuals rather than aspiri...

Designed specifically for young players, this manual contains a wide range of progressive practice drills to help players develop. Fun, educational and challenging, all the drills are illustrated and cover the essential technical skills, including warming up, stick and ball work, skills and tactics, team work and decision making under fatigue.As well as easy-to-follow instructions, each drill contains information on the equipment needed,the space required, how to construct a ...

Today should be a Golden Age for free speech – with technology providing more ways of communicating ideas and opinions than ever before. Yet we’re actually witnessing a growing wave of restrictions on freedom of thought and expression. In Having Your Say a variety of authors – academics, philosophers, comedians and more – stress the fundamental importance of free speech, one of the cornerstones of classical liberalism. And they provide informed and incisive insights on this worrying trend,...

The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education confronts the silent ascendancy of a therapeutic ethos across the educational system and into the workplace. Controversial and compelling, Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes’ classic text uses a wealth of examples across the education system, from primary schools to university and the workplace, to show how therapeutic education is turning children, young people and adults into anxious and self-preoccupied individuals rather than aspiring, optim...

Among the several prominent themes in the Bible, the story of Israel is one that has attracted recent attention and study. The biblical story of Israel–in its election, sin, exile and restoration–is a finely articulated drama of the glory and theplight of the universal story of humanity and creation. And the story of Jesus, born from the womb of Israel as its Messiah and true seed of Abraham, provides the redemptive solution to Israel's and the world's plight.This book by C. Marvin...

This major study, first published in 1989, examines Western Europe’s urban problems in unprecedented breadth and depth. It is a synthesis of research which had three main aims: to establish an informed view of the state of urban Europe in the most systematic and consistent way possible; to investigate document and analyse the various causes of urban problems; and to analyse general trends and similarities, as well as discovering what was local and particular. This book should prove invalua...

From New Mexico rides a Federal Marshal, Buck Hayes. in search of the infamous FAST CAT, a man suspected of robbing a post office.Buck rides into a South-East Arizona Valley and falls in love with the country, the community and the schoolteacher.Follow along as he balances law enforcement, battles Apache and gives in to his affections.

The fifth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides the first comprehensive study that covers the major core subjects of chemical oceanography in the Gulf. It synthesizes a tremendous amount of established research, together with the most recent information emerging from studies conducted during and after the Macondo Well oil spill that resulted from the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform. Situated within the bounda...