Marianne is the loneliest child in the world. She died when she was ten; since then she has wandered her vast home, a restless spirit, even after her parents passed away and the house began to crumble around her. But now things are changing. The house has been renewed; it's become a Home, a place for abused and neglected children. The kids are hearing noises, seeing things - Marianne has begun noticing them too. She's started to notice everything, and wants to be a part of it. But Marianne...

The Everi, derisively known as fairies, are a people on the edge: despised or feared by other races, poised precariously between the mundane and the magical, between the People and the Enemy. Born into slavery, orphaned like all her Everi sisters, Sarah is forced on a journey that takes her from one edge to another: from the wild lands to the cities, from the clutches of the Enemy to the safety of the convent, from a life of lowly servitude to the very highest echelons of the world she kno...

The 52-Week Leadership Journey is a year-long, collaborative workbook designed to transform leadership from a title into a daily discipline. Structured as a 52-week roadmap, it equips emerging and experienced leaders with practical tools, reflection prompts, and group activities that drive real behavioral change-not just intellectual insight. Drawing on the wisdom of thinkers such as Carol Dweck, Simon Sinek, Jocko Willink, Patrick Lencioni, John Kotter, and others, this manual integrates ...

Human faces are unique biological structures that convey a complex variety of important social messages. Even strangers can tell things from our faces – our feelings, our locus of attention, something of what we are saying, our age, sex, and ethnic group, whether they find us attractive or approachable.Face Perception, second edition, has been thoroughly updated throughout, providing an up-to-date, integrative summary by two authors who have helped to develop and shape the...

Gathers the best work of flourishing but often-neglected avant-garde southern poetsAnother South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness, represents the direction of a new breed of southern writing that is at onc...

An interdisciplinary handbook about strengths-based clinical practices, this book finds the common factors in specific models from social work, psychology, and counseling. The book ends with a grounded theory informed method that pulls together what each of the chapters report, and posits a theory based on that work. Comprised of 23 chapters and written by leaders in the human services fields, Handbook of Strengths-Based Clinical Practices shows how professionals and students can ...

Natalie had been twelve for seven days when the dreams began...if she is dreaming. Each night she is supposed to open another door, and each door offers a challenge, and a gift.But is she dreaming? Should she be opening the doors? Things in her world- the real world- are getting stranger and stranger, and there are consequences to opening the doors. Her guide insists that she must open all of them, but there are others telling her not to, and willing to fight to stop her.What...

A young family returning from a trip from the Gold Coast finds themselves in a life or death fight against a deranged maniac after stopping at a rest area.With the family of four attempting to out-wit, out-last, and out-smart their attacker will they make it out alive?This is the new age of Australian horror with Stop, Revive, Survive? the first short-story in the three part trilogy as Australia's rest stops become over run with faceless, deranged killers who take no prison...

Tucker and Susan, while traveling the coast of North Carolina, get involved in a local murder case to help the victim's wife. What appears to be a straightforward case turns out to have multiple layers of intrigue as they dig into the events leading up to the murder. Their own involvement turns dangerous as they work the case but this strengthens their resolve to identify the killer and stop the carnage. Their relationship grows stronger as they work together to the conclusion of the case....

Once again the gods of the Norse and Greeks are going to be facing a ultimate challenge. Their demigod children must now unite and work together for the good of their parents but between now and the time of the prophecy they will have to prove themselves worthy. Forget what you know or think you know about mythology, there was time when all the gods of the earth interacted with each other and so did their children. This is the epic tale of the heroes that lived in that time.The pro...

The numbers concerning obesity in America are staggering. More than 66 percent of the people in our nation are either overweight or obese. That means that two thirds of our nation has an issue with excess weight. Taking an even deeper look into this enigmatic issue reveals that more than 35 percent of the adults in the U.S. are obese. That equates to more than 72 million people who have a body mass index of 30 or higher.Even when an individual attempts to get their weight under con...