Behind the picket fences and PTA meetings, dinner parties and gossip, lives are being lived and lost. From drawing rooms to dinner tables five women face ridicule and scorn for slips in etiquette while the world as they know it unravels around them. As each woman is forced to confront fears and hurt, senseless killings are sweeping across the neighborhood.

"Just Like Daddy" is a book for young children, who are beginning or learning to read. The text on book are easily read and understood. This is a short and sweet narrative about a little girl who idolizes her Daddy.

Sporadic Thoughts is a new age “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus” writing style content. We’re hoping to bring love back into people’s hearts and show that no matter what Race, Religion, Sex, Gender, Age, or Demographic you fit, we’re all the same (HUMAN BEINGS) and we have more in common than you think we do. Let’s start uniting and stop what we can control with the hatred that’s going on in the world today. Take an adventure into the minds of the common man and woman’s thoughts. S...

This handbook presents the latest theories and findings on parenting, from the evolving roles and tasks of childrearing to insights from neuroscience, prevention science, and genetics. Chapters explore the various processes through which parents influence the lives of their children, as well as the effects of parenting on specific areas of child development, such as language, communication, cognition, emotion, sibling and peer relationships, schooling, and health. Chapters also explore the...

Lila isn’t just like her yellow friends or her blue cousins, so she feels as though she doesn’t fit in anywhere. But when she meets another swirly kid and his swirly mom, she finds out that she does belong somewhere . . . with a very special swirly Someone.

The book brings together papers covering the most recent scientific research from the top endophyte researchers in the world. It presents the state of the art in our knowledge and technical capacity and explores future directions of this work. It is highly relevant and timely because of the need to improve global food security and its sustainability, and also to provide novel bioactive molecules for medicine. There is also a need to protect forestry in a changing and growing world. Endophy...

As Kalila's forces battle the Rotham invasion, Blackmoth is attempting to detonate an isotome weapon in close proximity. After a coup against White Rook, Raidan now controls the Organization. He has taken his remaining warships to Capital World, the planet he loves most in the galaxy, and is threatening to destroy it, unless Caerwyn Martel is surrendered to his custody. Calvin has returned to the Nighthawk and together he and his crew attempt their most dangerous adventure yet, an excursio...

A fearful Empire anticipates King Akira's next move: will he abandon them to the corrupt hands of Caerwyn Martel or doom them to bloody civil war, leaving them defenseless against an imminent alien invasion? Just beyond human space, the crows are circling. Across the DMZ, the Rotham Republic prepares its war fleets with hungry eyes fixed on the weakened Empire. Spurred on to war by the pervasive Rahajiim, a shadowy organization that has struck a dark deal with the nightmarish Enclave. Mean...

We are capable of giving ourselves 100% within a culture of conformity to others. Our attention to who we truly are can help to separate truth from fiction and allow for us to walk together with others in a path toward self-actualization. By extension then, when we recognize that others are walking in their truth, we can come to appreciate their authenticity and diversity. Like a highway, diversity represents the lanes of commute. When we provide smooth pavements for our community, there i...

Bloomsbury presents Secrets of State by Matthew Palmer, read by Fred Sanders.An insightful thriller of global intrigue and behind-the-scenes international politics from the critically acclaimed author of The American Mission.Sam Trainor’s outspokenness left him marginalised in the competitive Washington establishment. Formerly a top South Asia expert in the State Department, Sam has moved to the private sector, now working as an analyst fo...

Senseless butchery on a colossal scale. That’s the hallmark of the Dread Fleet wherever it goes. No force has ever been able to stop it, and now it threatens the Empire, the Queen, and humanity itself. Queen Kalila must organize a defense against it, calling on friends and foes alike. Meanwhile, Calvin and his crew venture urgently into the untold, unknown dangers of Forbidden Space, hoping to get answers from the deadliest and strangest Polarians of all. Answers that could help the humans...

Do we know what it means to question well?We need not fear questions. By the grace of God, we have the safety and security to rush headlong into them and find ourselves better for it on the other side.Faith is not the sort of thing that endures so long as our eyes are closed. The opposite is the case: Faith helps us see, and that means not shrinking from the ambiguities and the difficulties that provoke our most profound questions....