Do you ever wish you were in an 80s movie, where the guy always gets the girl, and the girl always goes through hell but end result is perfect? Yeah well, my life is nothing like that.My name is Abigail GreenwoodI live on the wrong side of the tracks. I don't hang with the cool kids, and I actually have to work for the stuff I want. My cokehead mother won't do shit and my father, well, he works to pay the bills. Today is just one more day before I get out of this shithole t...

Called back to for her father's funeral Daria Hanson finds that from the corner grocery store to the gossiping biddies at the salon little has changed in Steel Ridge, Montana. All she wants is to pay her respects and hop the next plane back to her life in Connecticut before her past catches up to her.Ambushed by the reading of the will she must settle the life she left behind. The man she left behind.Twelve years ago Seth Dixon was head over heels in love with the ...

Hadley:I'm out. Done. Packed and running.After years of abuse, my husband Andrew finally crossed the line and laid hands on my baby girl. I'm terrified, but if we don't go now, we may never.When an accident leaves us in a ditch and I find myself surrounded by people I do not know and have no choice but to trust I find that kindness seems to exist but it comes in the form of a man who I can only hope means what he says and that the road to freedom will not become a c...

Tap, Tap, Tap. Anyone there? Oh, there you are! Last you saw me, my life went down the drain, and it's still much of the same. However, now I have a newsecret I don't want my boys to know. Want to know whatit is? Sorry, I can't tell you that'd ruin the story.Just know we're all a little mad down here.

Hey you, remember me? Yeah, I'm that girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Yes, that one with two lovers. Sheesh is that all I'll ever be known as now? Last you heard from me I was moving in with one of my lovers. Remember how I said my life wasn't like an 80's movie? I was kind of wrong because I did find my knight only mine came in two.My life now is not all pizza and beers for our little triad. As per usual, my jacked-up past has come calling back at me. Yeah, you know the one...

Presidents often assemble ad hoc groups of advisers to help them make decisions during foreign policy crises. These advisers may include the holders of the traditional foreign policy positions--secretaries of state and defense--as well as others from within and without the executive branch. It has never been clear what role these groups play in the development of policy. In this landmark study, Patrick Haney examines how these crisis decision groups were structured and how they performed t...

In a mystical world of hidden caves and magical creatures, two girls meet and their worlds collide. On a normal day in a quiet mountain territory a massive earthquake hits, setting off a chain of events that disrupts the peace. Scout, a Terra girl with a mountain lion for a companion, discovers an injured creature. Mar, an Erta girl, is lost in a strange new world. The girls form an unlikely friendship that results in adventures ranging from surviving the elements to making new discoveries...

U.S. Foreign Policy: Back to the Water’s Edge is based on the old idea that despite domestic differences and party politics, Americans should unite “at the water’s edge” and present a cohesive front to a hostile world. The fifth edition explores this theme through coverage of the Trump administration, its early policies, and how Trump’s initiatives fit into the broader historical patterns of foreign policy in the United States.More compact than most of its competitors, the fifth ed...

Katmandoo is a book about a feral kitten, Little Buddy, surviving life in rural north Texas by befriending and becoming a pet to a fellow loner, only known as the Hairy Armed Man. Always wild and never domesticated completely, Little Buddy faces many perils, life changing events, and other wild animals living in the country just beyond the edges of the porch belonging to his human. Little Buddy tells readers of his life through middle age, including adventures with a wild hog, cousin cats ...

Social Media Ethics and COVID-19: Well-Being, Truth, Misinformation and Authenticity explores ways that some of the best and worst moments of the pandemic resulted from the interconnection of social media and ethics. The ethical challenges social media poses for corporate providers, government officials, and users existed well before the outbreak of COVID-19: What responsibility do corporate providers bear for inaccurate information posted by users? What responsibility do users be...

A 'one-stop' comprehensive guide to women's health, updated with new evidence-based guidelines and timely topicsThe 11th edition of this classic guide for management of common gynecological conditions by advanced practice nurses is updated with cutting-edge topics, new evidence-based guidelines, and current patient teaching materials to enhance excellence in clinical practice. It features a completely updated chapter on the well woman annual exam including...

The concept of environmental security, drawing on the widely understood notion of international strategic interdependence (in facing, for example, threats of nuclear war or economic collapse) is gaining currency as a way of thinking about international environmental management.In 1989, the Institute for World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Marine Policy Center of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution instituted a joint project to exami...