'An important book' Edwina Dunn, Founder of The Female LeadThe path to parenthood is deeply personal. When that journey twists and stalls, it can feel impossibly lonely. Yet connection, courage and hope can be found, often in the stories of those who have taken the road before us.The Waiting Room exists because too many people experience infertility, loss and longing in silence. Every day in the UK, there are hundreds of miscarriag...

'An important book' Edwina Dunn, Founder of The Female LeadThe path to parenthood is deeply personal. When that journey twists and stalls, it can feel impossibly lonely. Yet connection, courage and hope can be found, often in the stories of those who have taken the road before us.The Waiting Room exists because too many people experience infertility, loss and longing in silence. Every day in the UK, there are hundreds of miscarriag...

75: a number a passage a presentBy: Audrey WardIllustrations by Olivia DucharmeAdventures in aging are not for the faint of heart, as author Audrey Ward discovers in these pages. When the apartment she planned to occupy upon retirement proves to be unreasonable, she stashes her downsized belongings and heads off to Europe, packing little more than the accumulated mettle of her seventy-five years.Ms. Ward spends her rent on buses, trains, and planes from Aust...

From three leading authorities in the field, this re-visit to a classic text demonstrates how groupwork can be used as a flexible tool for service user empowerment and participation across a range of contexts. Walking the reader through each stage in group formation and evolution, it is an essential text for health and social care professionals.

Une petite fille disparaît. Un homme solitaire et différent est suspecté. Quels secrets recèle l'étrange maison de Needless Street ? À travers cette lecture multivoix, explorez les tréfonds de l'âme humaine.Dans l'impasse de Needless Street, à la lisière des ombres de la forêt, se dresse une maison. Isolée, solitaire, à l'image de ses habitants qui vivent à moitié reclus derrière ses murs. Parfois y résonnent les rires d'une petite fille, parfois ce sont les miaule...

Originally published in 1980, women in the United Kingdom exhibited a pattern of work which was notably different from that in other countries of the EEC at the time. Its distinguishing feature was the high proportion of women who returned to work by the time they were forty years of age, having temporarily retired to care for young families. Although this pattern was of fairly recent origin, it was thought likely to be sustained.Women’s current life pattern was typically: school –...

From acclaimed Western author Cotton Smith comes a trailblazing new series about three Texas brothers risking their lives to stake their claim in the great American dream…Deed Corrigan earned his reputation as a gunfighter—the hard way. But now, after forging cattle trails and fighting off the Comanche, he's setting his sights on a brighter future. With the help of his older brother Blue, a Civil War veteran who lost his arm in battle, Deed turns the Rafter C homestead into a succe...

Every night of revival--1945 to 1956--the Evangelist and his family carried the mostly Appalachian folks to whom they ministered on up to a higher place. Worn down bodies in from the heat and dust of a sharecropper's cotton fields or unventilated rooms of the mill barely made it over to the local Pentecostal church house, to the shelter of a raised-up tent or bush arbor. But by the time they sang, shouted, and prayed in response to the Skondeen family's music and preaching, something shift...

Esther Diamond, a struggling actress in New York, seems destined to attract supernatural mayhem.When bizarre magical disappearances disrupt shows around the city, Esther receives a mysterious warning not to go on with her off-Broadway show. Desperate to stay on stage rather than resort to waiting tables, Esther turns to her new BFF, Dr. Maximillian Zadok, a 350-year-old mage whose day job is protecting New York from Evil. Determined to get to the bottom of this mystery without losi...