He didn't have an affair. That was the thing Renee couldn't explain to anyone — that her husband never touched the other woman, and it was somehow worse.Because Renee found out the way no wife should: standing at a swim meet she wasn't supposed to attend, watching a little boy she'd never seen surface from the water and shout "Daddy, did you see?" — and watching her husband's hand go up before he could stop it. A practiced motion. A father's reflex. For a c...

For twenty-two years, Carolyn learned every silence her husband owned. Now she's done waiting for the one word he never learned to say.Vincent Pritchard rules the club table with a stillness grown men lean in to hear. At home, that same silence has starved his marriage down to a locked door and a wife standing outside it, ear pressed to the wood, listening for a sound that never comes. Carolyn has loved him since he proposed in a Sonic parking lot with a speech wri...

Father Marcellinus warns the young monk, saying, 'The air that we breathe, that is the creature that we become' explaining how every influence, both good and evil ultimately shape us into the person that we are. Based on real events, this novel unfolds in a nineteenth century abbey and is about a young man who struggles to face the truth of who he really is, something that all of us must ultimately do in our own lives. The reader is invited into that cloister, so full of passions and confl...

He never raised his voice. That was the genius of it. A man who snaps at you leaves fingerprints — gives you something to point to. Roland left nothing.For twenty-four years, Carolyn ran a surgical schedule of forty operations a day and never once dropped one. So she could not explain, even to herself, how she'd become a woman who stood in her own kitchen and went searching through her own memory for the error her husband had gently suggested was there. He'...

For eleven years, Renee brought the casserole, learned her mother-in-law's preferences like scripture, and folded the towel the way no one ever noticed she liked it. Then her husband's mother told her to "bring nothing" to the family dinner — and Renee understood, too late, that she was the thing being removed.The catered table. The playpen in the guest room. The framed photograph, turned face-down before she arrived: her husband's son, fourteen months old,...

What is Jewish History? In the first place, what does it offer as to quantity and as to quality? What are its range and content, and what distinguishes it in these two respects from the history of other nations? Furthermore, what is the essential meaning, what the spirit, of Jewish History? Or, to put the question in another way, to what general results are we led by the aggregate of its facts, considered, not as a whole, but genetically, as a succession of evolutionary stages in the consc...

A paranormal experience in Theodora Costas' childhood awakened her clairvoyant abilities. Rather than embracing her gifts, Teddy has managed to keep them well hidden over the years, until the infant daughter of her best friend is kidnapped. Now, Teddy can no longer deny her abilities and offers to use her gifts to aid in the investigation. FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Nick Jeffries does not believe in the supernatural world and scoffs at the clairvoyant's abilities. But when Teddy's visions...

An in-depth history of the controversial airplane, from its design, development and service to politics, power struggles, and more.The Boeing 737 is an American short- to medium-range twinjet narrow-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes, a division of the Boeing Company. Originally designed as a shorter, lower-cost twin-engine airliner derived from the 707 and 727, the 737 has grown into a family of passenger models with capacities ...

A definitive look at the plane that revolutionized air travel and its place in aviation history from the author of Comet! The World's First Jet Airliner.The Boeing 707 family—that includes the forerunner Model 367-80, the KC-135 series of military transports and the slightly smaller Model 720—was the pioneer of the sweptback wing, incorporating podded engines borrowed from the B-47 military bomber. It was the aircraft that many regard as the design that re...

"A thoughtful, well-organized overview from the beginning to the twilight days of this iconic airliner" by the highly regarded aviation historian ( Large Scale Planes ).In April 1972, after six grueling years of design and development, the then Lockheed California Company (now Lockheed Martin) delivered the most technologically advanced commercial jet of its era, the L-1011 TriStar, to its first client, Eastern Airlines.To ...

The "As If" Principle (motivational poetry) by Jerald M. Simon features 222 original motivational poems written by Jerald to inspire and motivate men and women, businesses and organizations, leaders/mentors/advisers and teachers and students. The poems were written to teach values, bring out the best in people, and encourage everyone everywhere to be and do their best. The poems were written over a 20 year period (1993 - 2012) and contain motivational advice about never giving up, doing wh...

Learn Inner Nurturing and End Emotional EatingIf you regularly eat when you’re not truly hungry, choose unhealthy comfort foods, or eat beyond fullness, something is out of balance. Recent advances in brain science have uncovered the crucial role that our early social and emotional environment plays in the development of imbalanced eating patterns. When we do not receive consistent and sufficient emotional nurturance during our early years, we are at greater risk o...