The beautiful, western Upper Peninsula of Michigan, with snow covered hills in the winter; Lake Superior, as well as inland lakes and numerous waterfalls in the summer; and colorful leaves in Autumn, are the setting for three couples who discover new adventures and enjoy the nature that surrounds them. Is healing and love also possible?Bonnie Turner has recently moved to Ironwood, MI, and is enamored by its beauty in the wintertime. While enjoying the beauty, Brad Jorgenson "bumps"...

We all have dreams. Often there are things keeping us from reaching them. Sometimes its a lack of time or money. Then there are dreams derailed by fear.In her book Summer Dreams, author Joan Deppa introduces us to April Phillips, a sixth-grade teacher who loves children. But she feels she should never marry because of her familys history of divorce. So instead of concentrating on relationship dreams, she pursues her dream to learn to kayak and buy an older house she can make into t...

Bonnie Turner has recently moved to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and is enamored by its beauty in the wintertime. While enjoying the beauty, Brad Jorgenson bumps into her and takes it upon himself to show her the sights and how she can enjoy winter in the Upper Peninsula. But will Bonnie be able to show Brad how he can release the anger and bitterness hes carried since childhood and introduce him to the Creator of the beauty he enjoys? Can Gods love and forgiveness really make him white...

First published in 1993, The Media and Disasters looks behind the key scenes in the drama unfolding in the aftermath of the Pan Am 103 explosion: Lockerbie, visited by an estimated 1000 journalists in the month following the disaster; New York’s Kennedy Airport, where families learned in the presence of the media that their loved ones had perished; Syracuse University, plunged into mourning the loss of 35 students from the school’s study abroad programme; and homes on both sides o...

SARS from East to West is the production of international collaboration investigating the first major pandemic in the new millennium, SARS. As the only major outbreak of a deadly infectious disease in modern times, the SARS case is an excellent example of an emerging contagious disease in an interdependent and interconnected world and provided the bases for how subsequent pandemics, like the bird flu and swine flu, are viewed and managed.Eva-Karin Olsson and Lan Xue bring together ...