This novel explores the devastating impact of coercive control and narcissistic abuse, particularly how predators exploit grieving families. While the Mitchell family's story is fictional, the tactics used by Valerie—love bombing, isolation, gaslighting, triangulation, and DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender)—are real techniques used by manipulative individuals

"The God Head" plunges into a sprawling, dystopian galaxy where life is cheap and fate is determined in the brutal arenas of Mortis. At its heart is Jaeger, a formidable but amnesiac gladiator known only by his fighting moniker. Scarred and perpetually weary, Jaeger exists in a state of primal survival, his memories erased by an unknown trauma, his only identity forged in the merciless crucible of combat. He is a warrior driven by instinct, haunted by a past he cannot reca...

After a childhood marked by loss and grief, Hölderlin studied theology in the illustrious company of Hegel and Schelling, before concentrating on poetry and writing his most famous work, Hyperion. But, afflicted by the pressures of life and a doomed love affair, he gradually went mad, and spent the final thirty-six years of his life in a solitary tower in Tübingen, cared for by a kindly carpenter. The younger poet Wilhelm Waiblinger (1804–30) was one of the few people to gain Hölderlin's c...

You're hungry to get this win for your business, but you're not sure where to turn next. It can be extremely frustrating to feel that your business could be helping more people— should be helping more people—but you're not reaching as many prospects as you think you should. You know that marketing is the key to unlocking the full potential of your business, but you have yet to find a resource that makes this complex category easy to understand and implement. Or, you hired an agency that pr...

Wilhelm Worringer's landmark study in the interpretation of modern art, first published in 1908, has seldom been out of print. Its profound impact not only on art historians and theorists but also for generations of creative writers and intellectuals is almost unprecedented. Starting from the notion that beauty derives from our sense of being able to identify with an object, Worringer argues that representational art produces satisfaction from our “objectified delight in the self,” reflect...

This is a human, not a scientific document. It was written in the summer of 1946 for the Archives of the Orgone Institute, although there are indications in the Archives that the manuscript evolved between 1943 and 1946. At the time Reich had no intention of publishing it. This work reflects the inner turmoil of a research physician and scientist who had observed the little man for many years and seen, first with astonishment and then with horror, what he does to himself.Reich's appeal to ...

Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding German paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.

Chaos has descended on the Valducci family. Gina Valducci’s grandmother, mentor, and founder of the family’s thriving nursery business, has died. Her death sets off a string of seemingly unrelated events, including two horrific murders. Gina’s colleague, Jeff, stands out as an obvious suspect, with plenty of motivation, opportunity, and means. In her most unusual and complex case yet, Barbara Holloway accepts Jeff as her reluctant client. But, to defend him, she must first discover how a s...

3 Leading Men. 3 Happily Ever Afters. 3 Complete NovelsRole of a Lifetime - One of the most eligible bachelors on the planet just met the woman he’d long ago given up on finding. Unfortunately for him, she’s not interested.Kelly Rockport had spent close to twenty years building the movie star career that all actors dream of. He gets more attention than he can handle from the opposite sex and he was fine with that. Until the day he saw Holly in ...

Sara wasn't looking to meet someone when she booked her family's vacation. She just wanted to give her kids, and herself, a decent Christmas. Away from home. Away from the painful memories of what they had before her husband died.Ty hopped a flight out of LA after another fight with his on again, off again girlfriend. All he wanted was a break, then he was more than happy to go back to his routine of working construction during the week and playing with his band on weekends.T...

Reich's classic work on the development and treatment of human character disorders, first published in 1933. As a young clinician in the 1920s, Wilhelm Reich expanded psychoanalytic resistance into the more inclusive technique of character analysis, in which the sum total of typical character attitudes developed by an individual as a blocking against emotional excitations became the object of treatment. These encrusted attitudes functioned as an "armor," which Reich later found to exist si...

Once I saw her, I had to have her.Sam McIntyre had it all. Brilliant surgical career. Wealth. The begrudging respect of the best in the profession. Everything except someone to share it with.Terri is young, beautiful and a bit naïve. So what if Sam is a little possessive, a little pushy? Sam knows more about the world, about life, than Terri does. Of course Sam is going to make most of the decisions.They look like the kind of couple everybo...