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On the surface, Angelica has the perfect life: a rich and successful husband, three adoring, happy children, an idyllic village home and good friends, but scratch the surface and underneath lurks a web of lies and deceit. From adulterous bliss on her annual spa holiday to the depths of horror and despair, she becomes a helpless victim of betrayal and breakdown as the fabric of her life is stripped away to reveal a chilling truth. Deserted b...

No one knows the devastation and heartache of losing a baby more than a father or mother but rarely is it discussed. The parents are told to move on with their lives and forge ahead but the pain is always there. "Forever Our Angels" is a collection of personal stories told by the men and women who were dealt the blow of miscarriage.

British Native Trees - Their Past and Present Uses Including a guide to burning wood in the home A new book by trained tree surgeon and smallholder Piers Warren This unique book explores the past and present uses of products (wood, bark, fruit, sap etc) of the 35 species of British native trees. With sections: A genus by genus break down of past and present uses of native tree products A guide to Coppicing The history and practice of Charcoal ...

An irreverent travelogue by someone who was occasionally impressed and frequently not concentrating.

Jean Stirling is a low-paid, disillusioned nurse, old before her time, and her only friend is a bottle of vodka. Unexpectedly, her whole life is turned around after the arrival of a new patient on her ward, Jerry, the seriously injured victim of a car crash. Despite being bedridden, Jerry finds a release for his pent-up frustration through some extraordinary powers which allow him to travel outside his body and wreak a bloody vengeance on a...

Meet Tommy Hogan. He is an outstanding University educator who loves what he does and is good at it, until one day a female student falsely accuses him of sexual harassment. He unsuccessfully argues with the University's Administration of his innocence, claiming she solicited him for sex in exchange for a passing grade. He did not accept the quid pro quo exchange, but the University was more interested in limiting its liabilities. The few soci...

At a very special lecture some years ago, the concept of "thin places" was introduced to me. Thin poems describe people, places or experiences where boundaries between the spirit world and the secular or material world are more transparent. This transparency, or "thinness", enables a greater perception of spiritual matters, an encounter with God, a more spiritual approach to life. Thin places is a term that was given to sacred space, originall...

Deaf Kate, in her humdrum old age, is suddenly confronted by a lively skeleton from her family's past. From this, and subsequent encounters, the history emerges about her adventurer father, Samuel's, life and relationships in Ireland and China. We are introduced to Kate's clever but disturbingly odd husband Geoffrey, and the disastrous choices he makes on his own, and her, behalf. Kate faces dramatic changes from being a respectable middle-cla...

This book is about bank profitabilty reports and its influence on bank management's decision-making process. It also covers the risks which threaten bank's earnings and the control tools to minimize the effects of those risks on bank's operation and activities. The book is supplemented by various practical case studies on the subject.

Shawn Dorian Ricks presents a humorous, but painfully realistic series of poems created from night after night of disturbing dreams intermixed with fanciful memories. A veteran of the Vietnam War, he fought to hide from the tormenting memories born from war, and sought instead to transform them into a more positive, healing insight into his life and his experiences. The son of an elementary school teacher, he received a bachelor's degree in el...

Dr. Tenhor's first book, That Rabbi from Nazareth, now has a companion volume, That Messiah from Qumran. Both of the volumes address the related themes of the humanity and divinity of the Jesus of history and the Christ of faith, Tenhor takes a look at how the Church confessed Jesus as divine through enormous struggles in the early centuries of the Church and shows how doctrines developed through complex interpretations by various different pa...

The book is designed to read to, or by children, young adults, or anyone who likes to read. It is a story about a very old and unusual bed that has been all over the world and in many famous hotels and now owned by an elder lady. To her grandchildren and those close to her as, "Grandma." Her grandchildren always wondered how that many stories could have come from such a small book. The book had no title or pictures on the front cover, and gran...

At the age of eighteen, Aaron Joseph Moore Stovall had begun his freshman year at Xavier University of Louisiana. He had attended a few days of classes in college when the natural disaster, hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. A few weeks prior to attending college, Aaron through our church activities participated in a two day retreat entitled, "An Encounter with God." Although hurricane Katrina catapulted Aaron into overwhelming events, we beli...

T. D. JAKES IS GOING TO HELL-JESUS DID!! ( Chapter 27) If you dare to read on, you will find that the author is not being facetous, cynical, or mean-spirited. Nor is his goal to be provacative, in order to stir up controversy. Strike three-You're out!! Game over? I just realized, I didn't even have a bat in my hands. But a "higher power' put me back in the game of life. A brand new bat, one more strike, and a different attitude. Who Cares? "Wh...

Like the first time you saw that some one special, is the same impression this book will have on you. I am so sorry that you had to wait so long to get your hands on this book called LIFE in St-Lucia, but good things come to those who wait. You have read many book just to kill time, but this book will make you appreciate time. First of all, it is written about a lovely tropical island call St. Lucia, where the sand's are yellow and their laws ...

To speak about of the worth and significance of gathering reliable literal and documental materials concerning advantageously to the Soviet-Jewish immigration of 1989-1990 period from the former Soviet Union to the different countries (USA, Israel and other) , obviously unnecessary to prove. The useful of study such materials particularly memories and diaries proceeding from the eye-witnesses and participants of these events realize and openly...

Heaven Within the World" is a collection of poems by Chicago writer Denise Roma. Roma peers through the layers and reports what she sees at the very core. These poems are each a glimpse into love, discovery, and all the other raw material of life. The accompanying illustrations are by young artists from around the country.

In Strays, a woman's hunger for fulfillment leads her into difficulty when she meets a stranger in the course of her volunteer work at an animal shelter. He adopts one of her charges and, against her better judgment, the two become uneasy friends, although he is something of a shady character and the two have nothing in common on the surface. Their love for animals and their need for companionship brings them together, and the relationship gro...

I spent the most of the first half of my life believing in Christianity and regarding belief in God as an essential component of human existence, " George Ricker says. "I've spent the last 30 years trying to understand why I ever thought that way. This book is about how and why that process occurred. It's also about the danger posed to our democratic society by fundamentalist religion." Godless in America is a testimonial about the advantages ...

My Love Affair with the World is a travel journal compiled of more than sixty years of the memories, joys, and mishaps that a family experienced together during their journeys around the world. Author Douglas Powell's love of travel started when he was a teenager in 1944. Alone, he bought a $69 round-trip ticket and took a bus from New Jersey to California to visit family. On the way home, the bus stopped in Washington DC, where the young and ...