THESE SCARS SPELL ANTHEIA is a profound poetic memoir by Heather Stewart, tracing one individual's emotional journey from institutional disappointment toward hard-won inner peace. Stewart bravely explores the lasting marks-or SCARS-left where wounds have not completely healed, chronicling her navigation of disillusionment and a crisis of place. The narrative examines the complexities of her time serving in the United States Navy, reflectin...

In her debut collection of poems, Heather Stewart relates the exhilaration and the heartache that can be a career with the US Navy, particularly in the period that spans just before 9/11 to the onset of COVID-19. From hospital ships to submarines, these poems follow her unusual career through the perils and successes we all experience.

Paradigms Lost challenges key paradigms currently held about the prevention or reduction of stigma attached to mental illness using evidence and the experience the authors gathered during the many years of their work in this field. Each chapter examines one currently held paradigm and presents reasons why it should be replaced with a new perspective. The book argues for enlightened opportunism (using every opportunity to fight stigma), rather than more time consuming planning, and...

Would you travel the world with a perfect stranger? Fasten your seat belts for an emotional journey filled with humor and adventure.Bachelor and newscaster Pete McCarney buys two plane tickets for a trip around the world with his girlfriend, but they split up shortly before the trip, and he can't get a refund. In a gutsy last-minute move, Pete goes on social media asking for women with his girlfriend's exact name to join him on the trip. Twenty-one women apply, and the ensuing inte...

They thought the portal was their biggest threat. But the curse—real or imagined—might tear their family apart.MILLS: I never imagined raising a baby in 1646. But here we are: surrounded by clan allies and enemies, protective charms, and a brooch that glows when danger's near. Just when I start to believe we've carved out a life here, a dangerous rival threatens the fragile peace we've built.Now we're racing across the Highlands with hounds, swords, and kick-ars boots, tryi...

In this hilarious sequel to Strangely, Incredibly Good, Cat Glamour struggles to help her sister, who's a bit of a texting addict, her twenty-year-old daughter, who has fallen in with the wrong crowd, and her ninety-four-year-old grandmother, who's a feisty ex-reality-television-star with the Twitter handle @BadAssGram. Will Cat be able to help her wacky family out without neglecting her own needs?

What is a child to do? These eight parables, or tales in rhyme, deliver serious social messages in a fun and creative way. We visualize the positive actions to be taken on the following themes: "be a friend to have a friend", "selfishness is silliness", "fear is forgotten", "life can be good", "it is what we can do that matter", "we are all able", "confidence is catchy", and finally, "differences are delightful". Despite positive examples at home and school, children tend to lose sight of the...

In 2012, Paradigms Lost critically examined the key paradigms used in programs aiming to prevent or reduce the stigma attached to mental illness. Today, many programs addressing stigma have been successfully developed or improved using the notions and recommendations presented in that volume. Paradigms Lost, Paradigms Found builds on the lessons of the first edition and adds new approaches to reducing the stigma related to mental illness. It brings together the latest the...

Can a technological glitch bring you more than headaches? What if it brings you lasting love?When an app messes with her travel plans, Hannah discovers a whole new world full of laughter and romance. TV writer Hannah Storm's marriage is over, she's just turned thirty, and she's lost her job. Overwhelmed with how her life has turned out, and suffering from writer's block, she decides to throw caution to the wind and books a month in a rental home on an island off the coast of France...

Cat Glamour is going through a rough spot in her life. When she decides to take control again and try to lose weight, the last thing she expects is a genie to pop out of her Wii machine offering her three wishes! Unfortunately for Cat, her genie is somewhat unreliable in his wish-granting capabilities. In a series of hilarious misadventures, Cat and Gene travel to a castle in France and back in time twenty years in an attempt to realize Cat’s wishes. But is it possible to get a second chan...

A Time-Travel Romance with Heart, Heat, and Highland FirePerfect for fans of Outlander, The Seven-Year Slip, Bridget Jones’s Diary, and About Time.He swears. She schemes. Together, they'll defy centuries.CAL: I cannae believe any of this is happening. The Portal hums beneath my boots at the edge of Loch Ness, prepared to spit me out into the present . . . ...

When Sam meets fellow Terry Fox University student Lauren in an off-campus basement bar, sparks fly, but when he tries her number the next day, he learns she's given him the wrong digits. Instead of feeling slighted, he has faith it's an honest mistake and worries she'll think he's "that guy" if he doesn't call. Without her last name or residence floor, he tries the university's email system and mass-emails all 246 women named Lauren in hopes of finding the right one. The women bond in sam...