Bringing a baby into the world is one of the most beautiful, natural parts of life, but that certainly doesn’t mean it’s easy!Dr. Heather L. Johnson has been a practicing OB-GYN (obstetrician gynecologist) for 40 years, helping expectant mothers through the pregnancy process and delivering their babies. In “What They Don’t Tell You About Having a Baby: An Obstetrician’s Unofficial Guide to Preconception, Pregnancy, and Postpartum Life,” she shares what she has learned throughout he...

Heather Johnson shares her raw and real-life experience growing up in a severely flawed foster care system.With a mother tormented by demons from her past, and an emotionally absent father, Heather and her three siblings are left to fend for themselves in a dysfunctional world full of chaos. But when the state steps in to help, Heather finds herself thrust into a broken foster care system. As a scrappy nine-year-old, she is forced to grow up fast while being misguided, misunderstoo...

The Neglected Child provides everything educators and caregivers need to know to identify and intervene in neglectful situations, while also creating a safe, nurturing, and protective environment for young children. From defining the different types and levels of severity of neglect to establishing suspicion and reporting neglectful situations, this book is filled with helpful information from expert psychologists and educators in the field today.Each chapter includes a br...

Featuring interviews with everyone from childhood friends to band members, producers and engineers, this is a portrait of the real man, who grew up in Indiana and still lives there today – a passionate musician and a tireless campaigner for the lifestyle and values of the American family farmer.This is the complete story of John Mellencamp, tracking his progress as he matured from youthful rocker with a made-up name to major star with a social conscience.It is a journey typ...

The experience of border crossing for refugees and irregular migrants challenges global border and migration controls in multiple contexts. Using qualitative field research in Tanzania, Spain, Morocco and Australia, Heather L. Johnson asks how a global regime of migration management and control can be perceived through the dynamics of particular border spaces: refugee camps, border zones and detention centres. She explores how irregular migrants are impacted by the increasingly security-or...

"Heather Taylor Johnson has a poet's understanding of the world: her exploration of the way in which our lives intertwine – for better or for worse – is nuanced and poignant." Hannah Kent, bestselling author of Burial Rights and The Good PeopleJean Harley – wife, mother, lover, dancer – is a shining light in the lives of those who know and love her. But when tragedy strikes, what becomes of the people she leaves behind? Her devoted husband, Stan, is now a single f...

In this lecture, Cho-Nyon Kim explores his spiritual journey in the Korean religious environment, in which Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and Christianity have all influenced cultural practices and been integrated into daily life.

Told with the perfect mix of humour and tragedy, this is a tale for all families who have ever questioned how well a relative can really ever know another.It is customary to bring gifts to a wedding. But as daughter Luna prepares to marry her dream husband, the Smith family instead have in tow their own idiosyncratic brands of emotional baggage. Her father, Graham, struggles to write his own own obituary; her mother, Velma, attempts to negotiate her mid-life crisis with a lover seve...

Courageous women facing critical times shall rejoice and surely overcome through Christ ~Annette E. Logan~ The message of this book is especially geared towards all Pastors wives who are sometimes discouraged and overwhelmed. This book is written with the intent to give you an insight of Gods interactive power in my life, as well as, to let you know that all will be well. We must continue to trust the Lord, lean on His Word, continue to love, and continue to pray! He is Lord and He is the ...

While the women in the Book of Mormon are mostly unnamed, there are surprisingly more women included than most people think. In this book you will meet 47 women, or groups of women, who teach valuable lessons about peacemaking, gaining a testimony, perseverance, discipleship, and creating lasting conversion to the gospel of Jesus Christ. With gorgeous photographs and insightful analysis, add depth to your study of the Book of Mormon by discovering how the women of the Book of Mormon add th...

Of all the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale, in which a young schoolboy is murdered by Jews for singing a song in praise of the Virgin Mary, poses a problem to contemporary readers because of the antisemitism of the story it tells. Both the Tale’s antisemitism and its “Chaucerianism”—its fitness or aptness as part of the Chaucerian canon—are significant topics of reflection for modern readers, who worry about the Tale’s ethical implic...

MURDER AT A COASTAL RESORTAria Zimmerman just wants a quiet life. But when the owner of the Oregon coast resort is murdered in front of her, she's the only one who can bring the murderers to justice.ON THE RUNNewly hired foreman David McGuire only wants to forget about the woman whose heart he broke. But when it's clear her life is in danger, he's all in to keep her safe.A DEADLY TSUNAMITrapped on th...