Healthcare for older people tends to focus on physical limitations and cognitive decline, and the person's own perspective and strengths are often overlooked. Narrative therapy centres a person as the expert in their own story, and is particularly effective when combined with an older person's wealth of life experience. It highlights the way their views have been shaped by their cultural and personal contexts, which allows better understanding and communication, and improves people's lives...

Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy have finally given into their passion and announced their engagement. Lizzy notices a peculiar thrill every time she sees Mr. Darcy, but she has no idea what he is ready to teach her. A simple picnic lunch turns into a feast for her senses.A short, sensual variation on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. This loving and steamy Pride and Prejudice intimate variation novella is best read by those who are 18+.

28 bestselling romance authors dish on how they met and married their real-life spouses!At times whimsical and laugh-out-loud funny (Nikoo and Jim McGoldrick’s "Soul Mates for a Thousand Lifetimes"), at others poignant and bittersweet (Elf Ahearn’s "A Lost Friend, A Movie Star, A Man to Love Forever"), all unfailingly inspiring (Lisa Renée Jones’s "Unexpected Treasures"; Deanna Raybourn’s "Once in a Blue Moon"), each essay celebrates that most powerful and enduring of human bonds. ...

This anthology draws together some of the best new stories of mystery and murder—compiled by the Anthony Award–winning crime fiction editor.This anthology collects the most original stories of murder by some of mystery fiction's most inventive talents from the United States and United Kingdom. With innovative new takes on locked-room mysteries and impossible crimes, these short stories are full of vexing conundrums and reality-defying puzzles. A murder has been comm...

The women of The Homegrown Café Book Club are over 40, single, and loving it. Fate, however, has a different plan with a younger man for every last one of them.Makin’ Bacon ~ At forty-two, divorcée Tate Madison is looking for a sperm donor and nothing more. Her younger brother’s best friend, Big Jim Cochon, is happy to oblige the old-fashioned way for a chance at forever with his lifetime crush. He’ll have to convince her happily-ever-after is worth the risk.Th...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names- What's Bred in the Bone [Grant Allen]- The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius]- Meditations [Marcus Aurelius]- Northanger Abbey [Jane Austen]- Lady Susan par [Jane Austen]- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Lyman Frank Baum]- The Art of Public Speaking [Dale Breckenridge Carnegie]- The Blazing World [Margaret Cavendish]- The Wisdom of Father Brown [Gilber...

This affectionate adaptation of a telenovela offered much-needed representation of Latinx lives on US television.With a devoted fan base and a host of awards—including a Peabody, a Golden Globe, and a People's Choice Award— Jane the Virgin (CW, 2014–19) remains one of the most well-known television shows of the 2010s in the US and abroad. Tracing the arc of the show's plot alongside its social context, scholar Paul Julian Smith unpacks the unique cultural ...

Ulysses S. Grant biography — Civil War general, Reconstruction president, and the untold civil rights story of America's most rehabilitated commander.In the spring of 1861, Grant was thirty-nine and going nowhere — a former Army officer clerking in his father's leather goods store in Galena, Illinois, supervised by younger brothers. Then Fort Sumter happened. Within four years he would win the Civil War. Within eight he would be president. And in his final months, ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.NCLEX-RN Study Guide 2024-2025: 1750 Practice Test Questions with Detailed Answer Explanations Plus 5 Full-Length Practice ExamsAre you preparing for the NCLEX-RN exam in 2024-2025? Look no further! The "NCLEX-RN Study Guide 2024-2025" is your ultimate resource for acing the exam. With 1750 practice test questions and detailed answer explanations, this comprehensive guide provides everything you need to succeed. Plus, it include...

Per quale ragione «L’ho sposato, lettore mio» è una delle frasi più celebri e citate della letteratura inglese? La risposta, tutt’altro che ovvia, risiede nel capolavoro da cui è tratta: Jane Eyre (1847), la storia di un’orfana che, grazie alla sola intelligenza e caparbietà, riesce a convolare a nozze con il nobile signor Rochester. Per affermare il suo successo, e il cambiamento della propria condizione sociale, invece di dichiarare «mi ha sposata, lettore mio» – com’era da aspettarsi ne...

Guest-edited by longtime Lightspeed assistant editor Christie Yant, Women Destroy Science Fiction! contains eleven original science fiction short stories, four short-story reprints, a novella reprint, and for the first time ever, an array of flash fiction stories.This special issue includesOriginal science fiction by Seanan McGuire, N. K. Jemisin, Charlie Jane Anders, Maria Dahvana Headley, Amal El-Mohtar, Kris Millering, Heather Clitheroe, Rhonda Eikamp, ...

Here, between the realms of the Sky Father and Earth Mother, hellhounds race, ghosts drift aimless, and the taniwha stalks. Home fires drive them back, at the same time sparking stories and poems that traverse seconds, eons, and parsecs. Tales of gatekeepers, cloak wearers, and secret keepers. Of pigs with AK-47s or ruby-hued eyes, of love-struck moa, and unruly reflections. Stark truths, and beautiful possibilities…* WINNER * Sir Julius Vogel Award 2019 (SFFANZ) for Best C...