Mary Cook has published almost a dozen books, all of which have become Canadian best sellers! These are books compiled of memories of a more gentle time in our history..an era called the Dirty Thirties. Cook transports us back to that time with humour and sometimes pathos, but always with a warmth unmatched by writings of that genre. She introduces us to characters, who turn out to be real people from her past, and who appear time and again, so that we, the reader, become so familiar with ...

Mary Cook has published almost a dozen books, all of which have become Canadian best sellers! These are books compiled of memories of a more gentle time in our history..an era called the Dirty Thirties. Cook transports us back to that time with humour and sometimes pathos, but always with a warmth unmatched by writings of that genre. She introduces us to characters, who turn out to be real people from her past, and who appear time and again, so that we, the reader, become so familiar with ...

Mary Cook explains how her recovery from grief taught her that grieving is not a battle, but a surrender, in "The Hardest Work You Will Ever Do", her contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series.This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to the unknown, completing the thought that begins with the series title. The pieces that make up the program compel listeners to re-think not only what and how they ...

Detective Ally Rorke has built her reputation on seeing what others miss. Sharp at crime scenes. Relentless in pursuit. But when young women start disappearing across the city, staged and posed with cryptic symbolic objects, even Ally's brilliant instincts can't crack the pattern-until she meets Hayes Blackwell.Darkly handsome, intelligent, and impossibly composed, Hayes enters her life by chance and becomes essential by design. Their connection is electric and consuming. But as Al...

Maxine has always lived a life of privilege and luxury, until now. On the run and labeled a fugitive, she finds herself tasked with saving an entire nation from destruction. Richard loves his wife Maxine, but when he makes a deal with the devil, he's forced to choose between his loyalty to his wife and his own survival. The devil's price? Maxine's life. As the fate of a nation hangs in the balance, a husband and wife find themselves pitted against each other in a deadly game of cat and mou...

Transforming Teen Behavior: Parent-Teen Protocols for Psychosocial Skills Training is a clinician's guide for treating teens exhibiting emotional and behavioral disturbances. Unlike other protocols, the program involves both parents and teens together, is intended for use by varied provider types of differing training and experience, and is modular in nature to allow flexibility of service. This protocol is well-established, standardized, evidence-based, and interdisciplinary. There are 6 ...

Margaret C. Collier is a retired educator living in Orlando, Florida with her husband and Springer Spaniel, Carly. Her youngest son is with the army, now in Germany and her oldest son is with the Air Force, living in Colorado Springs with his wife Lindsey. Her daughter and son-in-law Robert living in PA. She holds a BA degree in Art Education from the Maryland Institute of Art, an MA from in Elementary Education and Special Education from Marshall University and the College of Graduate Stu...

As seen through this collage of favorite pictures, you can see that Costa Rica represents a myriad of colors and shapes. The animals and the plant life present a feast to the eyes with their colorations. As a rainforest area, it is unique in its terrain and topography. As part of the Ring of Fire on its Pacific coastline, it is still subject to active volcanic activity, including earthquakes and lava flows.Many tourists come to visit Arenal and other active volcanoes and to be part...

A Bitter FlowerA Smoky Mountain Cozy Mystery • Book Four of the MahJong Murder Mystery SeriesWhere a single sip turns a celebration into a crime scene-and a quiet mountain town into a tangle of secrets.On the warm May evening Maya Lin opens her handcrafted microbrewery in Franklin, North Carolina, she expects a night of celebration-elderflower saison, honeysuckle air drifting through Main Street, and thirty‑...

When two hearts speak as one, no words are needed. Halle Shifters, Book 4 Chloe Williams has waited four long years for her mate to acknowledge her. Time and again he has turned her away for being too young, even when she was hospitalized, recovering from a beating that left lingering aftereffects. Now that he's been turned into a Wolf, his mating instincts are kicking in big time. Chloe has to decide if it's worth risking her heart yet again. Ten years older than Chloe and dealing with is...

There's only one way to win this game: break the rules. Halle Shifters, Book 5 James “Barney” Barnwell is losing his ever-loving mind. Between the threat to the white shifters and a riddle he's been ordered to solve, he can actually go for ten whole minutes without thinking about Heather, the woman destined to be his mate. As much as he burns to get the redhead under him, the safest place for her is far away from him. If the bad guys catch the barest hint of her scent on his skin, she'll b...

She's everything a big bad wolf could want.Coping with a devastating injury is hard enough for Belinda “Belle” Campbell. Forced separation from her destined mate while she heals is almost more than she can endure. Until she is strong enough to take up her duties as Luna of the Poconos Wolf Pack, however, the safest place for her is Halle. Now, after months of being alone, she is more than ready to be claimed. But is the pack ready for a Puma Luna?Rick Lowell has waited long...