Have you ever……ached for something you couldn’t name?…imagined a different life and wondered ‘what if’?…dreamed of a place you’ve never been, but knew would be home?…yearned for a truth, a way of being?Fourteen authors from six countries, spanning five continents, take the reader into their experience of hiraeth, the longing for something more, lost, imagined, or just out of reach. Homelands left behind, childhoods relived, journeys not taken, long-l...

When two infants are swapped, worlds collide.Far beyond the mortal world, Máhí—a fierce Nezkwah warrior—has made an unthinkable sacrifice. Charged with protecting her valley, she swaps her newborn changeling sister for a mortal child, believing it's the only way to catalyze a sacred prophecy. But such power demands a cost, and Máhí's choice threatens to unravel everything she holds dear.Now grown up and living a mortal life in the southern United States, Ja...

Making, storing, and serving baby food puree's is so easy with Cherub Baby's Food Pouch Meal Planner. Designed for the first foods stages all the way through to toddler years the Cherub Baby Food Pouch Meal Planner makes it so easy to plan and meal prep purees, specifically designed for pouch feeding.A Q+A interview with guest Nutritionist Karlina Reynolds provides insightful information, tips and tricks on appropriate first foods, allergies, fussy eaters and more.This baby...

Twenty-six-year-old Jacqueline Cooper has been through more than most young women her age. It has been two years since her husband, Ryan, died in Afghanistan, forcing her to move back to her hometown of Bristow, Oklahoma, to begin a new life. But when Jac runs into her husband’s former best friend one day, her world is suddenly turned upside down once again. Although Jared Wilson does not normally go for a woman like Jac, he feels different when she is around. Jac cannot resist Jared’s smo...

Storms is the second prequel novella linked to the McLaren Mystery series. Unlike The Swim, Storms focuses on Melanie Travers, the woman who owns the bed-and-breakfast establishment where she met McLaren. And, while that is an interesting story, there is so much more to their relationship and to the years prior to her meeting him.Melanie has been through a lot: combating school bullies and a bad home environment in her youth, then—as a wife--withstanding an abusiv...

What is Crossed Lines?In a sentence, it is a high-speed, complex, geographically wide-ranging, quite technical, sometimes brutal, sometimes sexy, sometimes funny, often violent, corruption driven, crime soaked, duplicitous, deceptive, confusing, thrilling, passionately human and rather strange love story.In Part One: No Choice, we meet the players. First, Julia Kelso, by day a respected and respectable senior police officer, by night a solo...

Fifteen years after she was snatched from her crib, Rachel Stone has suddenly returned to her family. Or has she?Private investigator Jo Mason is quickly called in by concerned members of the Stone family. Rachel's disappearance caused heartbreak for her parents, but has a miracle really happened? Has she returned as a young woman, ready to take her place in the family? Or is someone trying pull a scam?As she looks into the case, Jo discovers that everyone in the family see...

The Swim is a prequel novella giving a picture of former police detective Michael McLaren's life from teenager to the strong man he is today. He's been through a lot from his ordeal beginning with the "swim", his move from the Force, and his cold cases. He's made enemies, friends, and he has loved and lost. Like many of us.

Based on data from 12 diverse societies, this is the first cross-national comparative study on academic engagement in social policy formulation.The chapters present survey data on the policy involvement of social work academics in different countries and an analysis of this data by country experts. The findings relate to the levels and types of policy engagement of the social work academics, their perceptions regarding this type of activity and the factors associated with this....

In order to address major social policy problems, governments need to break down sectoral barriers and create better working relationships between practitioners, policymakers and researchers. Currently, major blockages exist, and stereotypes abound. Academics are seen as out-of-touch and unresponsive, policymakers are perceived to be justifying policy decisions, and the community sector seeks more funding without demonstrating efficacy. These stereotypes are born out of a lack of understan...

I had my whole world ahead of me. Eager to take the plunge that life offered. Though nothing prepared me for the terrifying moment that changed everything forever. No one can save me now.Not even Superman.After 18-year-old Micki moves in with her father, strange events begin to take place. Something unnatural lurks about in the sleepy southern town of Eastwick, Louisiana.Trusting the wrong friends, Micki encounters a vampire, and he...

This edited volume explores and analyses strategic thinking, military reform and adaptation in an era of Asian growth, European austerity and US rebalancing.A significant shift in policy, strategy and military affairs is underway in both Asia and Europe, with the former gaining increasing prominence in the domain of global security. At the same time, the world’s powers are now faced with an array of diverse challenges. The resurgence of great power politics in both Europe and Asia,...