A Peculiar Child is the odyssey of a good mind trying to pick its way out of mental illness. Honest, tough, laced with humor, it illuminates the experience of mental illness and the problems faced by the mentally ill, including psychiatry, psychiatric drugs and the mental health industry.
Domestc violence does not end with the last punch, it remains a part of you, it affects how you live in your physical, emotional and psychological world. This is a true story written to help with the healing process, to find a way of building a future that breaks the cycle of abusive relationships, to give clarification and move on.
This book is a practical introduction to digital history. It offers advice on the scoping of a project, evaluation of existing digital history resources, a detailed introduction to how to work with large text resources, how to manage digital data and how to approach data visualisation. Doing digital history covers the entire life-cycle of a digital project, from conception to digital outputs. It assumes no prior knowledge of digital techniques and shows you how much you can do without writing any code. It will give you the skills to use common formats such as XML. A key message of the book is that data preparation is a central part of most digital history projects, but that work becomes much easier and faster with a few essential tools.
New York Times bestseller An uproarious tale of romance, heartbreak, and tentacled mayhem inspired by the classic Jane Austen novel—from the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities. As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars, her romantic sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the hideous man-monster Colonel Brandon. Can the Dashwood sisters triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rogues to find true love? Or will they fall prey to the tentacles that are forever snapping at their heels? This masterful portrait of Regency England blends Jane Austen’s biting social commentary with ultraviolent depictions of sea monsters biting. It’s survival of the fittest—and only the swiftest swimmers will find true love!
In California, shortly after Confederation, generations of two powerful dynasties loved and died for the land as children were born, grew into adults, intermarried, rebelled and formed new links to the California dynasties.
In Nearon herrscht der Winter schon lange über das Land und lässt den Bewohnern keine Ruhe. Die dunkelste und kälteste Zeit im Jahr bleibt beharrlich präsent, sie will das Land nicht mehr verlassen. Mit jeder Schneeflocke die vom Himmel fällt, verschwindet ein Funke der Hoffnung. Amelia wünscht sich nichts mehr, als der eisigen Kälte des ewigen Winters zu entkommen und endlich wieder die wohlige Wärme des Sommers zu spüren, nach der sie sich so sehr sehnt. Aber wie kann sie dem ewigen Winter entkommen?
Ever been inside a state psychiatric hospital? That's an experience Sarah Goodrow Fenz had hoped never to repeat. Years ago, as a young woman, she'd been a student nurse taking her psychiatric affiliation at the state hospital. Now, matured and affluent enough, with an adult daughter by her side, Sarah is suddenly compelled to pick up a drunken derelict off the streets of San Diego and take him to a motel. Leaving her daughter standing speechless in the street, Sarah hails a cab, shoves the derelict inside and rides away. Compelling, horrifying and too real to ignore, Thirteen West. Can love bloom in the midst of horror?
This omnibus edition contains three novels by Lynne Graham, Jane Porter and Rebecca Winters. The featured works are 'Jewel in his Crown', 'Not Fit for a King?', and 'Her Desert Prince'.
In 1803, the Louisiana Territory was in a turmoil. Spain was ceding this territory back to the France because the United States had offered to let them keep Florida. So the French flag was once again being raised to the joy of the Creoles.
Alitha is aboard her father's ship, heading to the Sandwich Islands where she plans to marry Thomas, a minister. After surviving the wreck of her father's ship, Alitha is cast adrift on a uninhabited island off the Pacific coast. Rescued eventually, first by Indians and then Esteban, a Spanish settler. Believing herself in love with him, she travels with him to Mexico. Meanwhile Jordan's ship is captured by pirates and, since his bride-to-be, Esteban's sister, is aboard, he loses both bride and ship. He's cast adrift in Mexico. Thomas, hearing of the wreck of the Flying Yankee, also winds up in Mexico, searching for Alitha. The pirates are refurbishing their two ships in Mexico--like the other characters, in the Baja peninsula. Will Alitha be captured by the pirates? And, in the end, which man will she choose to marry?
After Billy the Kid and Mark Halloran rescue what’s left of the Nesbitt family from an Apache attack in the New Mexico Territory, the fate of the young daughter and the teen-age boy are sealed. Tessa is attracted to Mark and Ezra suffers a severe case of hero-worship over Billy, wanting to be just like him. Soon all of them are involved in the cruelest range war in the history of the West--the bloody Lincoln County war. How can Tessa protect her brother from trailing after Billy? And how can she be drawn to a man who is on the opposite side of this range war?
Sixteen-year-old Rommel is orphaned when her father dies and she is sent to live with her English uncle. Unfortunately he falls out of favor with the king and is killed. This is where she meets Adrien who saves her from a dire fate by taking her to Holland to live with her mother’s sisters. They sail to Java on the same ship, but Rommel and Adrien are fated to be torn apart again and again. She has only her courage and her beauty to keep her alive—and her impossible love for Adrien. He never gives up searching for her, even after she is abducted by a Chinese pirate and taken to Amoy. He’ll need all his ability as a swordsman to survive long enough to rescue her. This is truly an odyssey for Rommel and Adrien as he keeps losing her and must set off to find her once more. Travel is by Dutch East India ship, by junk and by raft.
100 Roaring Years on Selby Avenue: The St. Paul Curling Club tells the story of a Minnesota legacy. From the first bonspiels on the Mississippi River in January 1893 to the 2012 centennial of the Selby Avenue clubhouse opening, the photographs and lively narrative pay tribute to more than 8,000 curlers who built the St. Paul Curling Club into the community pillar it is today. Enjoy stories from generations of curlers through the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, the war years, the first women curlers in the 1950s, the Olympic curling playdowns in the 1980s, and curling in the new millennium.
MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT COLLECTION Some of M&B’s bestselling authors bring you 18 stories of scorching desert nights and wild passion – these sexy sheikhs will leave you begging for more...
In this thrilling collection, 18 devilishly attractive Italians will do anything to ravish and claim their ladies... ALESSANDRO’S PRIZE by Helen Bianchin
The authors use Shakespeare's Tempest as a metaphor for the relationship between people and chimps, exploring the very human aspects of this remarkable species. Original.
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