How dementia affects those living with the condition, their carers, and their advocacyIn Listening to Dementia, Emily K. Abel demonstrates that recognizing the voices of people with dementia can fundamentally alter our understanding of both their lived experience and the discourse surrounding their care. She focuses on the memoirs of twelve individuals living with the condition who became advocates on their own behalf. The authors challenge reigning unders...

Little boy Yar lives his life in two worlds. Both are real and both fill his life with meaning, energizing him. Yar's adventures in the Night Day end at the most interesting moment, so that a new era of adventures can begin. The two stories of two boys from different generations surface in real life and create a basis for mutual understanding. Close contact with his grandfather and grandmother has a positive effect on Yar's intellectual development.The book also has a separate boar...

Every Porch. Every Christmas Morning. No One Ever Sees a Thing.Every Christmas morning for three years, Nick Heron's family—and everyone else on Parkside Court—wakes up to presents on their porch. Perfect gifts. Exactly what everyone wanted, down to the smallest detail no one remembers saying out loud.Everyone else finds it charming. Nick finds it unsettling.So this Christmas Eve, with a storm bearing down on Lakewood, Colorado, he sets up cameras, ...

Ten women. Ten first times. Ten men who have done this a great many times before.What none of these women share is the experience, because the men are not interchangeable. One is greedy and makes no apology for it. One is so patient it comes close to cruelty. One stays courteous the whole way through. One turns out to be running a method he has used every season for twenty years, and she finds that out before she goes below deck with him anyway.CHECKOUT AT ELEVEN.

The best shakes in Hammond, Ohio, are not vanilla. Greta Pell walks into Felker Freeze after close because she already lets down and Roy Felker pays cash. The house blend is her. When one woman cannot keep the window moving, he hires three more built like her. The recipe stays a lie. Explicit 12k erotic novella. Adults 18+.

Bess takes a live-in job for a rich silver fox who is never home. When he breaks his leg, she has to care for him — and her body answers in a way she never expected. Even after he can stand, he doesn't send her away. Standalone adult short. 18+.

Kindness was never the soft choice. It was always the strongest one.There's a version of "nice" that gets sold to us early, and it's a lie. It's the version that says nice people avoid conflict, go along, and never rock the boat. After over fifteen years inside Human Resources departments across hospitality, retail, warehouse, culinary, and specialty animal care industries, Abel Garcia has watched that lie play out again and again, producing employees who quit quie...

Sky and Dillon became best friends bonded through struggle, heartbreak, and a promise to get away from it all.Together they move to New York to pursue their passions. Dillon is a singer/songwriter looking for his big break while Sky wants nothing more than to become a top fashion designer.Years later, they're still chasing their dreams. Their friendship has endured jealousy, insecurity, disappointments, and even open relationships.But can they survive falling in lov...

Alexander of macedon was only thirty-three years old when he died, leaving behind him a sprawling empire of impressive size, which encompassed dozens of different people groups, religions, cultures, customs, and—of course—problems.Naturally, alexander is well known as a figure, but how well do we really know him? How much of his fascinating story is true, and how much is mere legend? Historians of repute have tried, for centuries, to decode alexander’s life and ans...

He never asks permission. I signed it away on purpose — and it's the best deal I ever made.Two years ago I was Vivian Ashford, and Luca Ferrara was the crime boss I fought for every block of this city. The war ended at a lawyer's table: my empire folded into his, a ring on my finger, and one clause I wrote into the contract myself.Free use. Anywhere. Any time. No warning. For life.Now I wake up every morning with his cock already inside me....

Surviving Myself is a raw, honest, and ultimately hopeful memoir. The author explores how the most formidable obstacle he ever faced was the one living inside of him, and how he found his way through it. This is not simply a story of all the bad things that happened to him; it is a story of how he learned to stand in his own truth, quiet the voices that told him he wasn't enough, and rebuild himself from the inside out.Woven throughout are moments of humor, grief, hard-won...

The New Testament proclaims the arrival of God’s long-promised Deliverer. Across the four Gospels, the book of Acts, the apostolic letters, and the visionary Revelation, we encounter the life, ministry, and mission of Jesus Christ, along with the stories of those who followed Him. While the Old Testament offered shadows, patterns, and prophecies that pointed forward to the Messiah, the New Testament boldly announces that the Light of the world has come.We need to understand the New...