Some love stories begin with a spark. This one begins with a memory.Samaria Carlyle begins dreaming of a life that isn't hers—silk gowns, whispered promises, and a man she has never met but somehow mourns. She tells herself it's stress.Until the dreams begin following her into daylight.More than a century earlier, in 1881, Solange Brown is seventeen and trapped inside a future chosen for her. One forbidden night with a man who expects nothing from h...

Saving Lucy follows the story of twenty-year-old Lucy, a young adult struggling with identity and purpose. Lucy finds herself in a difficult and dangerous situation. After suffering from a traumatic event, Lucy retreats into herself and becomes distant from the people she loves.After a particularly stressful summer, Lucy takes a break and moves to Maine to be near her aunt. While living in the small village, Lucy reunites with old friends who challenge her concept of the world and ...

How well do you know your partner?You can't outrun your past.A fact Mackenzie is about to find out.After Lucy, life is the same day after day. Every morning Mackenzie reminds herself how lucky she is. How fortunate she is to have her husband, the life they live, and not to mess it up. After two years, she's beginning to believe it.One night. One encounter blows up her carefully laid plans.She runs into an old flame. The one she could...

Now into its fifth edition, Bradt's Iran continues to provide the most detailed background, history and cultural information available when visiting this 'Jewel of Central Asia'. This new edition has been thoroughly reviewed to provide all the latest information, from updated history and cultural developments to security, language and hotel prices, plus expanded practical information for independent travellers. Food and arts, rugs and handicrafts are all covered, plus new details of skiing...

This edition of the Bradt guide to Tehran by Patricia Baker and Hilary Smith combines their knowledge of the city's major sights with maps, historical and cultural perspectives and recommendations for hotels, restaurants and cafés as well as detailed information on city transport, shopping and attractions in and around the city. The colourful and engaging writing style is aimed at informing as well as entertaining the reader. All information is drawn from the Bradt country guide to Iran, F...

Saving Lucy follows the story of twenty-year-old Lucy, a young adult struggling with identity and purpose. Lucy finds herself in a difficult and dangerous situation. Rage and anger against one lover led her to commit a violent act.Damien is a man torn between love and vengeance, a con artist with a dark past and an even darker temper. When Mackenzie convinces her brother to break his commitment to Lucy, he doesn't realize how perfect they are together. Once he gets a glimpse of the...

How Western nutrition science defined difference as disease in modern China.For more than a century, Western observers have treated Chinese foodways as evidence of deficiency, danger, or backwardness. In Nutritional Imperialism, Hilary A. Smith shows how these assumptions entered the heart of modern nutrition science and reshaped understandings of health, diet, and difference. Nutrition scientists, physicians, and policymakers presented Western dietary pat...

In Wild Awake, Hilary T. Smith's exhilarating and heart-wrenching YA debut novel, seventeen-year-old Kiri Byrd has big plans for her summer without her parents. She intends to devote herself to her music and win Battle of the Bands with her bandmate and best friend, Lukas. Perhaps then, in the excitement of victory, he will finally realize she's the girl of his dreams.But a phone call from a stranger shatters Kiri's plans. He says he has her sister's stuff—her sister, Suke...

Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicine—sudden turmoil became cholera; flowers of heaven became smallpox; and foot qi became beriberi. Historians have tended to present these new identities as revelations, overlooking evidence that challenges Western ideas about these conditions. In Forgotten Disease, Hilary A. Smith argues that, by privileging nineteenth ce...

The Secrets to Self-Help SuccessYou know you have insights worth sharing, and readers who desperately need them. But converting that wisdom into a best-selling self-help book has felt impossible—until now.From veteran self-help editors and ghostwriters Hilary T. Smith and William Solow comes The Self-Help Author's Toolkit, the definitive step-by-step guide to transforming your expertise into a book that resonates, sells, and establishes your career ...

When the behaviour of young children causes concern, practitioners often find it difficult to identify exactly what the child’s needs are or how to focus their support most effectively. This book helps meet this challenge. Its inclusive approach seeks to promote positive behaviour in all children. The book includes:a straightforward assessment process to identify children who need additional supportpractical strategies to encourage positive behav...

This insightful book shows how prioritising loving relationships in the primary school between practitioners and children helps secure children’s emotional well-being, improves behaviour and leads to more successful learning. It identifies the fundamental values that underpin effective learning encounters and provides the practical tools and language to realise deep connections with children.Combining theory with personal experience the authors present relationship-based practice a...