When Katharine Culhane, a successful writer of fiction and historical works, died leaving behind an unpublished memoir, her literary executor, Elizabeth Fritz, discovered the memoir and undertook to publish it. It tells a story of a young reporter in Prosperity, Indiana, in the post World War II years, and a special friendship between Katharine and a Russian migr, Madam Anna Suvorov. Fifty years later Katharine finds a letter from Madam Anna that suggests her death may have been due to foul play. Returning to Prosperity, reconnecting with old acquaintances, and asking questions about Madam Annas death, Katharine finds the truth and visits her own form of justice on the perpetrators.
Marcia Iverson is newly wed but newly widowed by a terrorist act. Grieving but still aglow with the memories of a deliriously happy honeymoon, she decides to continue the plan she and Michael shared to return to his boyhood home in a semi-rural Louisiana backwater. Having cut her ties to her apartment and brokerage job in New York City for marriage, she has nowhere else to go, nowhere to practice her profession, and no one but herself to depend on. When she finds that Michael's death has made her heir to Magnolia Manor, a rundown, nearly bankrupt motel, she applies her abilities to restoring the motel to a paying proposition, building a new family, and making new friends. Just as her plans for the Manor begin to succeed, murders on the premises complicate them. Adding the clues that she gathers to those that an attractive local lieutenant of police shares with her, she runs the risk of herself becoming a victim.
Hope Frye is fifty-nine, homeless, jobless, and hopeless. She is about to trade a dubious future for a leap from the railing of the 18th Street bridge, when a strong hand grabs her coat collar. The hand belongs to Hank Jordan. Refusing to let Hope carry out her intentions, he offers her a job as his live-in housekeeper. On impulse Hope takes the job and from despair she starts a journey to an unknown destination. On the way she puts hopelessness behind her as her ego and self-esteem take on new life. Then violence and bloody murder erupt in the pleasant neighborhood she now calls home. A serial killer stalks her new friends and acquaintances and tries to frame Hank for his crimes. Uncertainty shakes her hard won self-confidence. Doubts and fears threaten her happiness until a dramatic conclusion ends uncertainty, and Hope learns the destination of her unexpected journey.
Clare Verney watched from the airport's arrival lounge as the plane landed and taxied toward the terminal. Single, 42, a successful businesswoman, she was about to take on fulltime guardianship of a trio of children with a troubled past, children she had never before seen or spoken to. Her sister's children, now aged sixteen, fourteen, and four, had been born, reared, and orphaned at a mission station in Africa, shuffled off for a brief stay with a grandparent in England, and sent to live with Clare in an unremarkable Pennsylvania town. Now, seeing them standing in the open door of the plane, Clare sensed an imperceptible bond welding the trio into a compelling unity. Her mind wrestled with questions: What were they like? How would they adjust to a world they had never known? Would they accept her? What did she know about being a foster parent? How was she to cope? The next few months would test her and the children as the trio adapted to a new life. Together they would know agony when Clare's serious injury puts the fate of the youngest child in the balance.
Laura Lee White-Hawk, 28 and without kin or close relationships, has taken leave from her job with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Now she pursues her dream of becoming a nature writer while living in a dilapidated house on a wooded peninsula of the Lake Erie shore. The property is the bequest of the woman who rescued Laura in her youth from loveless foster care and reared her to be self-sufficient and courageous in the face of challenges. Life in her new home tests her resources and resolve. An unexpected challenge enters Laura's life when David, an eleven-year-old boy fleeing a home life of abuse and neglect, beguiles her into a collaboration that is both offbeat and clandestine. Laura sympathizes with David's fierce opposition to becoming a ward of social services, and perhaps unwisely and definitely illegally harbors the boy. Soon David wins a place in Laura's heart as cook, companion, co-worker, student, and inspiration. She realizes he fills her life with special meaning. The secret comes out when David's past embroils him in a frightening and dangerous situation. Can Laura's new acquaintances and David's native courage and intelligence see them through the tough times?
Zima Crenshaw, a junior curator at the University Museum, is challenged to find a valuable work of art from the Renaissance era. The painting has acquired a name, Giovane (pronounced Joe-Von), and has escaped from its owner's possession under unusual circumstances. When Zima sees a photograph of it, she is captivated by the painted image. Hunting Giovane becomes an obsession. In her search she encounters intriguing personalities, mysterious relationships, violence and murder, and a risk of great personal harm. Besides a hefty finder's fee, hunting Giovane earns her unexpected rewards reconciliation with family and a romance:
Sandy Dustin copes with suddenly losing her artist's job but her beloved grandfather's unexpected death devastates her. When she learns that she's inherited an island estate and fortune, a stunned Sandy sets out to investigate the family that she never really knew. Sandy hires a conservator to help restore the family mansion, and slowly the conservator and island crew turn into a family for the lonely young heiress. After Sandy hires the handsome Palmer Kern as her financial advisor, their relationship begins to warm to something more than friendship. Poised on the brink of love, Sandy enjoys a magical Christmas Eve with her new friends on the island. But Christmas morning brings the discovery of a bizarre killing, and with it questions about hidden identities, past indiscretions, and present motives. Will the island be Sandy's paradise, or her nightmare?
Examine group work's roots and fundamental beliefs to get a glimpse of the future For more than 80 years, social group work has survived difficult times—a testament to the persistence of its practitioners as well as the strength of its methods. Growth and Development Through Group Work chronicles the evolution of this groundbreaking practice through a collection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the 23rd Annual International Symposium on Social Work with Groups. The book examines practice, policy, and education issues in specific settings and populations from both theoretical and historical perspectives. Presented in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, DC, the papers that comprise Growth and Development Through Group Work reflect a heightened awareness of the importance of social action group work—now, and in the future. The book represents the best of social work’s tradition of social reform and concern for oppressed people, never straying far from the concept of the group, with its multiple helping relationships, as the primary source of change. A comprehensive overview of the field in international, intercultural, and cross-gender contexts, Growth and Development Through Group Work is equally effective for coursework or independent reading. Topics addressed in Growth and Development Through Group Work include: contributions of the late Ruby B. Pernell to the development of social group work research in support of group work education and practice group work in Germany-its development from American roots and its current advances social justice as a major objective of group work practice teaching group work mutual aid in support groups for particularly sensitive health problems psychoeducational group work contributions from Hull House as guides for the future of social group work Growth and Development Through Group Work is an invaluable resource for clinicians, neighborhood and community activists, educators and students, researchers, therapists, administrators, and anyone working in policy and/or program development.
Athena Bonham--young, beautiful, talented, and maimed-resolves bravely to face life as a cripple. Through her friendship with an attractive family, she manages to create contentment and a new career. But her fragile grip on happiness and a promise of romance is threatened when the ugly secret in her past surfaces. She doubts whether love can overcome the double stigmas of her own recent disability and disclosure of the murderous history of her mother, a secret she has managed to suppress for many years.
Kate Barry, 80 years old, healthy and vigorous but subject to occasional blackout episodes, has become a resident of Whispering Pines, an assisted living facility. She faces the boring routine of her new life with some trepidation. When the police make little progress investigating the mysterious deaths of two other residents, Kate relishes conferring with her new friend Mac to exercise curiosity, discreet inquiry, and contacts with a reporter and a medical examiner and to assemble an unlikely hodgepodge of in-house gossip, surmise, and facts that points to the identity of a murderer. Kate exchanges boredom for the risk of deadly danger as their findings zero in. Police learn a lesson, namely, that old age and disability do not diminish powers of observation and logic.
Gazelles and their relatives are important game animals in Africa and Asia; they have been successfully introduced into the US and they are also kept in zoos throughout the world. The occurrence of territorial behavior and its importance for the reproduction of gazelles has been recognized for some time; thus specific information on their territorial behavior is desirable both for scientific and for practical reasons. This book provides the first concrete information on territory size and shape, duration of territorial periods, reoccupation of territories, phases of territoriality, the process of becoming territorial and of abandoning the territory, favorable and unfavorable environmental factors for territorial establishment, and territoriality as antagonist of migratory behavior. Also included are many previously unknown details of traditional territorial behavior, such as differences in the aggression of owners of territories toward (male) conspecifics of different age and social class, the structure of a marking system within a territory, etc.
Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories. “Horror Gems, Vol. Five features a fine collection of tales by some of the genre’s best authors: Hoffman Price, Elizabeth R. Lewis, Gregory Luce, Stanton A. Coblentz, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Fritz Leiber Jr., Don Wilcox, David Wright O’Brien and others. Read this grim collection of stories and you may find yourself asking…what lies in store for you in the cold, dark of night…? What say you avid reader? Are you prepared for a date with the macabre?
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