Tess is used to untangling messy lives—her own included. A therapist in Toronto caught in the grip of a midlife slump, she’s no stranger to emotional fallout. But when a deeply troubled patient named Hal crosses the line, Tess retreats to her idyllic hometown in cottage country, hoping to find peace among familiar faces and quiet lakes. Instead, she finds ghosts. Haunted by memories of her first love and the unresolved grief of her mother’s tragic death, Tess’s return is anything but restf...

The Mysteries of Knowledge Beyond the Senses: Dialogues with Courageous Scientists reports on the current research and personal characteristics of 22 visionaries from the US and the UK. They reveal information about learning from other dimensions, altered states of consciousness, extrasensory perception, dreams, near-death experiences, remote viewing, parapsychology, etc. Vanguard scientists believe there is more than what we see and are formulating a non-materialist paradigm that expands ...

What need is there for kinship? What good is it anyway? The questions are as old as anthropology itself, but few answers have been enduringly persuasive. Kinship systems can contribute to our enslavement, but more often they permit, channel, and facilitate our relations with others and our further fashioning of ourselves-as kin but also as subjects of other kinds. When they do, they are among the matrices of our lives as ethical beings. Each contributor to this innovative book treats his o...

Christianity's demographics, vitality, and influence have tipped markedly toward the global South and East. Addressing this seismic shift, a noted Christian literary scholar recounts how her focus has shifted from American to African literature.Susan VanZanten began her career working on nineteenth-century American literature. A combination of personal circumstances, curricular demands, world events, and unfolding scholarship have led her to teach, research, and write about African...

3 ROMANZI IN 1Difficile conciliare dovere e piacere? Dipende da chi è il tuo capo!LA DONNA PERFETTA PER IL CAPO di Trish WylieLavorare come assistente personale di Quinn Cassidy non è certo una passeggiata, ma Clare O'Connor adora il proprio ruolo. Niente potrebbe distoglierla dalle sue responsabilità, neppure lo sguardo ipnotico e sensuale del suo splendido capo. Eppure...UN'ASSISTENTE MOLTO PERSONALE di Teresa CarpenterA Savannah Jones non se...

This novel is a work of fiction that likely tells the story of a young woman who is the daughter of a carpenter, navigating the challenges and joys of her life. The narrative may explore themes of family, love, faith, and personal growth as the protagonist interacts with various characters and experiences the ups and downs of her journey.Anna Bartlett Warner and Susan Warner were American writers known for their novels and children's books, often published under the joint pseudonym "Elizab...

The Ever After Collection from Mills and BoonIncluding the titles:Dreaming Ever AfterImagining Ever AfterPassionately Ever AfterEnchanted Ever AfterRoyally Ever AfterHappily Ever After

Marriage Made in Monte CalanettiMaître d’ Daniella Tate is only visiting the picturesque Tuscan village of Calanetti but, meeting passionate chef Rafe Manchini, she finds the excitement she’s always craved. Now, Daniella has a choice: return to her old life… or stay as Rafe’s bride!A Bride for the Italian BossPassionate chef Rafe Mancini is renowned for his food—and his temper! No one meets his exacting standards, until stand-in maî...

Supporting Children and Families gathers together the lessons learned from perhaps the largest scale social experiment ever undertaken in England - Sure Start, the programme designed to improve the emotional development, health and education of children.It boils down the huge amount of knowledge and experience generated by the Sure Start programmes and local evaluation studies, with chapters encompassing child development and healthcare, partnership working with existing local serv...

Life itself as well as the entire human economy depends on goods and services provided by earth's natural systems. The processes of cleansing, recycling, and renewal, along with goods such as seafood, forage, and timber, are worth many trillions of dollars annually, and nothing could live without them. Yet growing human impacts on the environment are profoundly disrupting the functioning of natural systems and imperiling the delivery of these services.Nature's Services brings toget...

The Wedding Belles Collection from Mills and BoonIncluding the titles:Wedding Belles: Summer WeddingsWedding Belles: The Wedding DateWedding Belles: The Wedding PlannerWedding Belles: The Billion Dollar BrideWedding Belles: Falling for Mr WrightWedding Belles: Dreaming of a White Wedding

A passionate proposal…World renowned polo player Diego Acosta has sets his sights on seducing full of life wedding planner Maxie Parish when she invades his beautiful private island. But will Maxie want more than an affair?Callie Labeau has been tasked with creating her most bizarre wedding yet! When Doctor Matt Paulson hired her to help his brother, he never expected to be so drawn to the beautiful planner, and she never saw the sexy doctor coming…Best man Zach Sul...