A young woman attending college far away from home, she is a straight A student and an accomplished cellist; she has all of these things, but will she find love? Find out in the novel by Patricia A. Holt Abner
Every day parents are faced with power struggles. As Your child grows, the need for cooperation increases, yet it becomes more difficult to get. Grace Ketterman and Pat Holt offer simple, practical advice to get the results you want.
A best-seller revised...with a value-added bonus! Many moms feel guilty about screaming at their children but don't know how to stop. Ketterman says, "Having grown up with a loving but screaming mother, I know the emotional damage it causes. Being a mother of three, I also know how easy it is to fall into the habit of screaming." From their research and personal and professional experience, Dr. Ketterman and Pat Holt share why mothers fall into the habit of yelling and what factors drive mothers to lose control. Using real stories from real moms, they discuss examples of how screaming and anger affects children, and also the debilitating affects it has on moms. The authors challenge parents to look at their own anger and choose to react differently. Practical steps are given for more effective and positive ways to get children to do what they must do. The second part of the book offers commonsense answers to specific questions relating to all areas of child-rearing, from infancy through teens.
From Simon & Schuster, The Good Detective is a collection of truce case histories from the confidential files of Hal Lipset, America's real-life Sam Spade. For almost 50 years, Hal Lipset has covered some 20, 000 cases, including the recent Polly Klaas California kidnap-murder. Provided here by Patricia Holt, one of Lipset's investigators during the '70s, these cases read like the best crime fiction.
Confidence is one thing that women need most today, and Holt attacks the false ideas that keep a woman from experiencing confidence in God. More than anything, she restores a woman's esteem in God and her trust in His ability to work especially where she is weakest. It will also help her to stop the damage that comes from fear, poor self-image, negative and critical voices--and the myth that she may not be spiritual enough.
Meeting Leila Wahbeh was a life-changing event for the author. Wahbeh's story unfolds with her family's flight from Jerusalem to Egypt in 1947 to avoid the terrors of the war with Israel, and their return four years later to find they had lost everything. During the 1967 war, her husband was deported for rendering aid to war victims, leaving Leila and their four children in Jerusalem as pawns for his good behavior and hers. Despite the probability of her own imprisonment, with circumstances weighed against her, she continues her crusade for the poor.
A reexamination of strange historical trivia disproves those stories of history that have been generally accepted but are simply not so, such as the belief that gunpowder was invented by the Chinese. Reprint.
An ex-colleague of private detective Hal Lipset provides a detailed account of Lipset's career, disclosing the strategies he pioneered and describing the crimes he attempted to solve
“The Art of Dying speaks to modern readers with refreshing frankness and wit. It covers the subject thoroughly, from how to inform relatives of impending death, to coping with pain and fear, to death rituals, to preparing for a possible afterlife or, depending on one’s viewpoint, the end of it all.” —Publishers Weekly “Along with our caring presence, this book may be the finest gift we can give someone facing the last stage of life.” —Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People “Dr. Weenolsen . . . doesn’t duck the tough questions.” —M. Brewster Smith, PhD, former president, American Psychological Association “This book gives the same things a good support group does—compassionate sympathy and practical advice for people sharing pain. It will be a godsend.” —Rebecca Brown, author of Gifts of the Body “Begins with ‘the day you receive the diagnosis’ and the sudden realization that ‘never again will you be as you were. Even if by some miracle you heal, it will be only temporary.’ Weenolsen takes the panic and paralysis out of such news through wise, aggressive, no-holds-barred approaches.” —Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle “A book everyone can benefit from reading.” —Nancy Pearl, author of More Book Lust “Also for family and friends of dying persons, for professionals in the health-care fields, and for those who train them.” —Hannelore Wass, PhD, founding editor, Death Studies
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