"The story of a woman in crisis and her quest, fifteen years later, to apologize to her children and fill in the blanks of her mind." — The Globe and MailIt's 1960, and Elizabeth has a good life. A husband who takes care of her, two healthy children, a farm in Nova Scotia. But Elizabeth is slowly coming apart, her reality splintering. She knows she will harm her children, wants to harm her children, wants to be stopped from harming her children. She doesn't...

his father's terminal illness, and his right to choose MAID.It's 2014 and the Ice Bucket Challenge is everywhere. You know, people posting videos of themselves dumping freezing ice water over their heads to raise money for ALS research.It's weird, everyone suddenly talking about ALS, because Sam's family has been dealing with it ever since his dad, Gregory, was diagnosed three years ago. Now everything has changed. His dad, a brilliant lawyer, stopped working, then stopped ...

Witches are hated in Württemberg, in what is now Germany, in the eighteenth century. It's not so long since they were burned, and any woman who knows too much, who's too clever or quick or skilled at healing, is suspect. Young Lilli knows this, and yet she also knows that the wise woman she's learning from, Alisz, isn't evil. She is teaching Lilli which plants cure a fever, which help a cough, which speed a difficult labour. She only wants to help people, and so does Lilli. But Lilli's fat...

Cammie Deveau began life with a few strikes against her. She's visually impaired, abandoned by her mother at birth, her father was a casualty of the Second World War—and if all that isn't enough, she's being raised by her bootlegging aunt. No wonder she dreams of starting a brand new life.When Cammie learns about a school for blind and visually impaired children she becomes convinced a new life is waiting for her in Halifax, but how will she ever convince her aunt to let her go? Wi...

Die Beziehungsgestaltung ist die Basis für die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Adressierten und Fachkräften Sozialer Arbeit. Denn nur eine tragfähige Beziehung erlaubt Sozialarbeitenden, Probleme zu thematisieren und mögliche Lösungen in Kooperation mit den Adressatinnen und Adressaten zu erarbeiten. Das Buch zeigt, wie Beziehungen in einem reflexiven Prozess fachlich begründet eingegangen werden und wie Sozialarbeitende ihre Rolle dabei gezielt ausfüllen können. Zudem wird erklärt, wie sich Kommu...

Lark Harnish, plucky and chatty and full of hope, is starting a new life. It’s 1919 in rural Nova Scotia and at just thirteen years old, she has to leave her mother and siblings to go work at the McMasters house. Her father has died and her family desperately needs the money. She arrives expecting another version of her own family—bruised and saddened by the loss of a parent, but still full of love and laughter and stories. Instead she finds a family in tatters, with devastated adults rais...

Tulia May lives in rural Nova Scotia with her mother, who works in the laundry of the nearby Ideal Maternity Home. It's a place where unwed mothers can discreetly give birth, a place where adoptions by rich Americans can be quickly arranged. Tulia doesn't think about the workings of the home much; mostly she hates being roped in to helping scrub the endless diapers. Her friend Finny Paul has suspicions that the home is holding sinister secrets—the worst being that unadoptable babies are be...

Eleven-year-old Cammie Turple grew up with more obstacles than most. Visually impaired and abandoned by her parents, she was raised by her tenacious, bootlegging aunt in rural Tanner, Nova Scotia. After Cammie and her best friend, Evelyn Merry, destroy the local moonshine still, forcing Evelyn's abusive, alcoholic father to sober up but nearly killing Evelyn in the process, Cammie convinces her aunt to send her to the Halifax School for the Blind.The anticipated follow-up to Fl...

Trennung und Scheidung gehören in der Begegnung mit AdressatInnen zum Alltag vieler SozialarbeiterInnen & in Beratungsstellen, Jugendämtern, Kitas oder Schulen. Um Kinder, Jugendliche und Eltern in dieser belastenden Lebensphase professionell zu begleiten, sind Kenntnisse zu familiären Dynamiken, emotionalen Prozessen und bewährten Handlungskonzepten erforderlich. Der Band vermittelt praxisnahes Grundlagenwissen und ermöglicht eine fachlich reflektierte Unterstützung. Er liefert Studierend...

BEST: Implementing Career Development Activities for Biomedical Research Trainees provides an instructional guide for institutions wanting to create, supplement or improve their career and professional development offerings. Each chapter provides an exclusive perspective from an administrator from the 17 Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) institutions. The book can aid institutions who train graduate students in a variety of careers by teaching faculty and staff how to cr...

A tender and quirky novel about the romantic choices we make from the author of the New York Times Bestsellers and Reese's Book Club Picks, The First Time I Saw Him and The Last Thing He Told MeEmmy Everett is reluctantly heading home to New York for her brother Josh’s wedding. She has spent the last three years in a fishing town in Rhode Island and, having little to show for it, she doesn’t particularly want to answer the questions she i...

Eine Frau, die alles hat.Ein Junge, dem alles fehlt.Eine untrennbare Freundschaft.Laura ist eine erfolgreiche Verkaufsleiterin, die an einem normalen Montag durch die Straßen von New York hetzt. Sie hat keine Zeit, achtet kaum auf ihre Mitmenschen – auch nicht auf den kleinen Jungen, der sie um Kleingeld anbettelt. Sie ist schon an der nächsten Straßenecke, als sie plötzlich stehen bleibt – und umkehrt. Sie kauft dem hungrigen Maurice etwas zu essen u...