He's a widower ready to find love again. She's a widow who's still grieving. But he wants her... Dante Champion is on a mission to make Emily Mitchell his wife by any means necessary - even if it means resorting to trickery to lure her to a grief retreat in Pleasure Island, North Carolina, hoping she'll get the help she needs and play wifey until she falls in love with him. Two years after her husband passed, Emily is still grieving his death. She's buried herself in her work, in making her high-end boutique a success. She has no interest in dating again and she's definitely not about to be swept off her feet by one of those womanizing Champion brothers. Will she find it difficult to resist a sexy, sophisticated Champion man who has his sights set on her, or will her lonely, calloused heart forever belong to her deceased husband?
We will make sure that you and your wife both get ten years in prison. Since your daughter is underage, we will make sure that she gets put in a foster home. But if you accept this plea agreement, it all goes away, and you get to go home with maybe up to only one year of probation time.' Bill and Tina Martin were stunned when their average lives were turned upside-down in an instant. Falsely accused of dealing counterfeit computer parts, Bill thought a short investigation would clear his name and allow his family to resume life as normal. But the nightmare was just beginning. Thrown into a firestorm of hearings, polygraph tests, and interrogations, Bill soon realized that his fate was already decided. When Bill was forced into prison time, Tina and their teenage daughter were left struggling to make ends meet. As they tried to comprehend what purpose their hardships could serve, they resolved to face their circumstances with faith and courage. Their powerful story is proof that We Made It, You Can Too!
There was a scene in a recent movie in which a group of men were sitting around talking about life. One man asked the rest if they remembered when they knew they had become a man. As each of them answered, one particular answer got me thinking. The man simply said, "When my father called the man out in me." The title of that movie was Courageous. Have you ever wondered what it takes to be a real man in today's world? Or maybe you're just looking for advice on some of life's important topics for guys such as college, buying a car, dating, love, marriage and raising a family. This book is full of just such advice from men who want to share their wisdom with you, and a mom who just happens to have a boy of her own.
¿Spend a day with Lauren and me, Giggle a little and have a good time sharing all our fun!¿ ¿Taylor MartinThis story book is written by Tina Martin for her daughter Taylor, who is the illustrator.
To onlookers, Tiphani Water and Reggie Howard's close, platonic friendship is enough to make people believe that a man and woman can be friends and nothing more. But Tiphani realizes she has deep feelings for Reggie when she dreams about him the night before their college graduation. Unfortunately, Reggie already has a girlfriend. So Tiphani goes on a blind date with Derrick Brooks, and the two hit it off. Jealous of Tiphani's new relationship with Derrick, Reggie breaks up with his girlfriend with the sole intent of stealing Tiphani away from Derrick. Another man's treasure is a story about not appreciating the one you have until you see them in the arms of someone-else.
Monica and Sean clash at a parent-teacher conference when Monica accuses Sean of being too occupied with making money and chasing women to take a real interest in his son¿s life. But Sean is no pushover. He knows how to hold his own and deal with Monica, but after the incident at school, he¿s also come to realize that he can use Monica¿s devotion to his advantage. He propositions her to move into his home to babysit five-year old Roman for the three months of summer break, offering her a substantial amount of money, hoping that she¿ll accept. But is babysitting the only reason he¿s so anxious to get her into his mansion? Monica accepts his offer against her better judgment, knowing the rumors of Sean and his womanizing ways. She tells herself that she¿s doing this for Roman ¿ that she can avoid her new, sexy, summer boss ¿ his chiseled chest, pretty green eyes and charm that just won¿t quit. But after only a few weeks, Monica finds it a struggle to keep her eyes off of Sean. Can she handle staying focused on her babysitting gig for three months without being swept off of her feet by Milwaukee¿s finest? Or is Sean¿s game too much for the young, conservative teacher to handle? Having been heartbroken in the past, Monica is reluctant to play this dangerous game with a confirmed heartbreaker. But it¿s what she doesn¿t know about Sean that she should be concerned about. Sean knows her well ¿ too well, and it¿s those secrets that have the potential to make her love him or hate him. Secrets On Lake Drive is an emotional story about a woman looking to correct wrongs in her life that could easily be solved by the secrets Sean quietly carries with him. The question is, will he ever care enough to tell her?
The book describes how to use breathing as a medium for self-regulation and self-reflection and how balanced breathing thus helps to promote mental and physical health and alleviate symptoms resulting from imbalanced breathing. The authors describe applications of psychophysical breathing therapy in many areas of life, developed by both themselves and other professionals trained by them. The approach of the book is based on the interactional aspects between mind and body. A person's breathing style influences their relation both to themselves and to others - and vice versa, and thus mental and also physical health. A comprehensive theoretical description of the psychophysical regulation of breathing and the consequences of imbalanced breathing is complemented by material derived from the authors' extensive clinical experience. Psychological orientations used by the writers include object relations theories, and psychodynamic, cognitive, brief and group therapy theories. As a new aspect the writers introduce how breathing patterns are learnt in early interaction. The writers also acknowledge how physical factors affect and interact with psychological factors in producing imbalanced breathing.
For the author of Letters from Algeria, "The Day Everything Changed" came decades before September 11, 2001. Her memoir shows how her 1966 epiphany affected her response to the war on terrorism as she shares her letters from Algeria in the mid-1970s as well as those of her students after the attacks on September 11 and reflects on what led her to living in a country predominantly Arab and Muslim. Tina Martin, author of the memoir Everything I Should Have Learned I Could Have Learned in Tonga, did learn some of what she should have and could have during her two years in Algeria. Before teaching at City College of San Francisco for thirty-two years, she taught and/or trained teachers on five continents--Oceana, Europe, Africa, North America, and Asia. Her most eventful decade was the 1970s, when she lived in Tonga, Spain, and Algeria, got her MA in TESOL, got married, and had a baby, now forty-two years old. Her pieces "An Algerian Wedding" and "Crash Course in Spanish: How Getting Robbed Can Enhance Language Learning" appear in the anthologies I Should have Stayed Home (2003) and I Should Have Gone Home (2005), and "God, President Kennedy, and Me" in the anthology Even the Smallest Crab Has Teeth (2011). Her hobbies include walking all over San Francisco and reading, including 120+ books for the mother-son Jo-Mama Book Club, founded in 2007.
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