"Would you, please… just hold her until she dies?"A two-year vigil. A hand-drawn grid. A refusal to let go.Not one spiral notebook. Several. Opened and closed every two hours until the record of one small life filled more pages than anyone expected to need.Every page holds the same hand-drawn grid — columns ruled across lined paper: diapers, glucose, injections, feedings, time. A foster care diary reconstructed from origina...

Capping CourageBy: Judy Wright BrooksCapping Courage is a unique story that invites the reader to experience the life, joys, and hardships of Kort Olanna, a young Inuit boy who must take on the responsibility of supporting his family after his father’s untimely death. The bitter cold of the region and his sensitive, timid nature are a trying but motivating experience that help to change his fearfulness into a growing, courageous heart. That, along with the solving of a crim...

This book provides an introduction to decision analytic cost-effectiveness modelling, giving the theoretical and practical knowledge required to design and implement analyses that meet the methodological standards of health technology assessment organisations. The book guides you through building a decision tree and Markov model and, importantly, shows how the results of cost-effectiveness analyses are interpreted.Given the complex nature of cost-effectiveness modelling and the oft...

Geronimo's adventurous sister Thea narrates this tale packed with action, mystery, and friendship! In this fabumouse adventure, the Thea Sisters head to Alaska, where they're attending a conference held by an important ecological association. Their host and his family are native Alaskans who show the mouselings their favorite games and activities. But soon there's trouble--the Thea Sisters discover that someone is upsetting the ecosystem by blowing up the ice with explosives! Can the Thea ...

On a sunny day in June at the beach with her mom and brother fifteen-year-old Jane Arrowood went for a swim. And then everything absolutely everything changed. Now shes counting down the days until she returns to school with her fake arm where she knows kids will whisper "Thats her thats Shark Girl" as she passes. In the meantime there are only questions: Why did this happen? Why her? What about her art? What about her life? In this striking first novel Kelly Bingham uses poems letters tel...

Letting go might be harder than they thought...Everything she'd hoped for has come true. Aimee Donovan's mountain man of her dreams came to 2010 to find her and take her home, and now they can live together forever. But a life two hundred years in the past is filled with challenges. Learning to overcome dangers and discover her calling will be more difficult without modern technology and conveniences of the twenty-first century.Daniel Osborne has seen the future, a...

Aimee Osborne has always looked forward to the Christmas holidays in the twenty-first century where she grew up. Now that she lives in the primitive wilderness of nineteenth century Yellowstone, she is determined to hold on to some of her traditions.Daniel Osborne is unfamiliar with many of the customs and beliefs his wife grew up with. Although he doesn't understand her enthusiasm for the holiday, he shares in her joy of the season, and plans to make each Christmas with her memorab...

Hatchet meets Long Way Down in this heartfelt and gripping novel in verse about a young girl's struggle for survival after a climbing trip with her father goes terribly wrong.One year after a random shooting changed their family forever, Nora and her father are exploring a slot canyon deep in the Arizona desert, hoping it will help them find peace. Nora longs for things to go back to normal, like they were when her mother was still alive, while he...

In the old days there were songs...Something is bothering Russel Susskit. He hates waking up to the sound of his father's coughing, the smell of diesel oil, the noise of snow machines starting up.Only Oogruk, the shaman who owns the last team of dogs in the village, understands Russel's longing for the old ways and the songs that celebrated them. But Oogruk cannot give Russel the answers he seeks; the old man can only prepare him for what he must do alone. D...

When one woman goes missing in the Colorado wilderness, another becomes bent on discovering her whereabouts in this unforgettably moving, bestselling literary debut.Driven to spend days alone in the wilderness, Amy Raye Latour, mother of two, is compelled by the quiet and the rush of nature. But this time, her venture into a remote area leaves her on the verge of the precarious edge that she’s flirted with her entire life.When Amy Raye doesn’t return to cam...

This is a 15,000 word short story in the Yellowstone Romance SeriesLiving in the 1800's in the Yellowstone wilderness could never be described as dull. For Aimee, the learning curve has been steep and even more challenging in the past year. Every day she is faced with new things she must learn in order to adapt. Will leaving her old life behind mean she must change who she is?Daniel never would have predicted he would be the provider and protector for his own family. When h...

One girl sets out on a journey across the treacherous Arizona desert to rescue a young pilot stranded after a plane crash in this gripping story of survival, friendship, and rescue from a bestselling and award-winning author.Twelve-year-old Jolene spends every day she can at the library watching her favorite livestream: The Desert Aviator, where twelve-year-old “Addie Earhart” shares her adventures flying an ultralight plane over the desert. While watching...