It sounds kind of strange, but do you know anyone who is really happy? Someone who is exactly where they want to be, who gets up every morning looking forward to what the day will bring? I have a theory..."Alice Day's theory has led to five strangers meeting in a bar to take part in her experiment. But can this one-time bestselling author, now a mother and housewife, follow through and change their lives for the better (and perhaps her own as well)?The strangers are a working mother stretched to breaking point, a childless woman whose only solace is fashion, a divorced father, a teacher who hates her job but loves a married man and a widow in her 60s hiding a painful secret. It is the little things that make life worth living, or so Alice's theory goes. Her aim is to see if the tasks she emails each group member can slowly turn their lives around. But with any experiment, there are outcomes. The small changes Alice suggests set off much larger ones and a betrayal dramatically affects everyone's lives in ways that, at first glance, are not for the better at all...
This resource presents each letter of the alphabet as a mini-unit designed to give children practice with fundamental language, math, science, social studies, writing, and thinking skills"--Page 3.
Saturday morning coffee sessions are never going to be the same. . . . Sydney marketing exec Sophie presumed "making sacrifices for your children" meant giving up Bloody Marys and champagne for nine months. When she thought about it, that is. . . . But then two blue lines appear on her pregnancy test. How does a baby fit in with a hectic job, a chaotic social life, and the absence of Max, the Y chromosome in the equation, who has moved to San Francisco? Support and dubious advice are provided by an unlikely group that gathers for a weekly coffee get-together at the King Street Cafe. With Debbie the glamorous man-eater, Andrew the fitness junkie, Anna the disaster-prone doctor, and Karen the statistically improbable happily married mother of three, Sophie discovers the ups and downs of motherhood. And when an unexpected business venture and a new man appear on the scene, it appears that just maybe there is life after a baby. Written by two sisters who live on different continents, Kris Webb and Kathy Wilson, From Here to Maternity is a novel that tackles the balancing of motherhood, romance, and a career, while managing to be seriously funny.
To Mom, With Love: A Mother's Anthology is a collection of stories, poems and prose dedicated to the individual author's mother but, also a mother anywhere in the world can share and identify. Let your mother, a mother or a woman know just how much she is appreciated and honored in her role of shaping your life today. BK Royston Publishing LLC is pleased to release the first, of many anthologies to come, dedicated to Mothers. This collection is authored by first time as well as seasoned authors. Enjoy! Kathy Boyd Sylvia Carlton Grace Foree Sharon C. B. Hunter Judith Kinnard Jared R. Koyle Tanya Liverman Estelle Nelson Nycea Patterson Julia A. Royston Tara Tharpe Lucy Monin Webb Maesser Yeniay
Julia finally has her life just the way she wants it: great friends, a new house, a car that goes (mostly), a job she loves and a promotion on the horizon. All she needs now is to find Mr Right, and the equation will be complete. Then the phone rings in the middle of the night. Three days later Julia is in possession of an eighteen-month-old toddler called Jack and a life in tatters. Struggling with her grief at the loss of her best friend, Julia's first faltering days with her new charge seem doomed: he'd rather spend his time with a brown plastic frog called Harold and will eat nothing but fairy bread. But after an embarrassing incident at the gym and a run-in with an ice-cream truck, things start to improve in surprising ways. Julia begins to wonder whether Jack's arrival was not the end of the world as she knew it, but an unexpected and priceless gift...
Sophie presumed 'making sacrifices for your children' meant giving up Bloody Marys and champagne for nine months. When she thought about it, that is. . . But then two blue lines appear on her pregnancy test. How does a baby fit in with a hectic job, a chaotic social life, and the absence of Max, the Y chromosome in the equation, who has moved to San Francisco? Support and dubious advice are provided by an unlikely group that gathers for a weekly coffee session at the King Street Cafe. It is with Debbie the glamorous man-eater, Andrew the fitness junkie, Anna the disaster-prone doctor and Karen the statistically improbable happily married mother of three, that Sophie discovers the ups and downs of motherhood. And when an unexpected business venture and a new man appear on the scene, it appears that just maybe there is life after a baby. Written by two sisters who live on opposite sides of the world, Sacking the Stork is a novel which tackles the balancing of motherhood, romance and a career, while managing to be seriously funny.
Mills & Boon Western Romance — Small towns, cowboys and contemporary romance, the all-American way! " In The Ring With The Maverick - Kathy Douglass Rodeo riders Jack Burris and Audrey Hawkins are both at the top of their game — except when it comes to love. Competing against each other in the Bronco Summer Family Rodeo, they are so determined to win they’ve put blinders on, tamping down their mutual attraction. In this Battle of the Sexes, the real victory may lie in surrender, but who will get off their high horse first? Her Cowboy Wedding Date - Cari Lynn Webb Maid of honour Tess Palmer has two weeks to plan her cousin’s wedding. She will do anything to make the ceremony perfect…even if it means wrangling best man Carter Sloan’s help. The cynical cowboy would rather focus on his business than wedded bliss, and widowed Tess isn’t looking for a second chance at love. But could planning a trip down the aisle bring the two of them together?
On the night of 24 August 1875 Matthew Webb, a 27-year-old British Navy captain, launched himself into the English Channel at Dover. Twenty-one hours and 45 minutes later he became the first man to swim the English Channel. In this acclaimed biography, Kathy Watson shows how Captain Webb was instrumental in bringing the sport of swimming into the modern era. It is also a study of the Victorian drive to push back the boundaries of endurance. In THE CROSSING, Watson uses this great British eccentric's extraordinary life as a springboard to explore themes of obsession and failure and the emerging force of the media, and swimming's place in our psyche.
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