In the darkness of the Great War, can she create a brighter future?Martha Owen has not had an easy start in life. Her abusive father dominates the family and she has lost her only friend after a painful falling-out.Her father's reliance on the bottle, and his increasingly violent temper, brings turmoil for Martha, her mother and her three siblings and with World War One causing more strain on the home front, her prospects look bleak.With no money or...

March 1911: Betty Dean needs a job and somewhere to live, and eventually, a husband according to her mother. Sent into service at Stowford House in Cheshire, where the days are long and the work is gruelling, Betty's dreams of making something of herself seem even further away.But soon she is forced to return to The Potteries, carrying with her a dreadful secret which could leave her reputation in tatters.Could WW1 bring new opportunities or will Betty run ...

This e-book on caregiving for seniors is divided into seven chapters that cover essential topics for anyone caring for an elderly loved one. Overall, the e-book provides a valuable resource for caregivers seeking to provide quality care to their loved ones while balancing caregiving with their other responsibilities. It offers practical advice, helpful tips, and compassionate guidance, making it an excellent resource for anyone new to caregiving, or for those who want to improve their care...

This book is a gripping, brutally honest, true story of the author's journey through five psychotic episodes. At the age of 53, she was diagnosed with depression and psychosis. Over the next four years and five hospitalizations, the diagnosis became a schizo-affective disorder. This mental illness is considered a more severe form of schizophrenia. The author interweaves her psychosis with her life-long spiritual journey and looks for the gifts that this illness has brought to her. She beli...

After the death of her mother, whom she had spent her life caring for, Ruth Latham is lucky to find work as a typist at the Potteries Tramway Company in Stoke. While conscription forces more men to leave for the battlefields, Ruth finds herself growing closer to shy, but kind, mechanic, Stan Bristow. . . even if their courtship makes her enemies in the office. But the Great War causes scars at home and abroad and when trouble comes to The Potteries, tearing families apart and causing heart...

Needing to find a job, Betty Dean is sent into service at Stowford House. The work is gruelling, and her dreams of making something of herself seem further out of reach. When Betty is forced to leave after a scandalous incident, she feels that her life is over – until a new job on the trams throws her a lifeline. Meeting fellow tram girls Connie and Jean brings the joy of friendship, even if Betty struggles with having to keep secrets from her new pals. When soldier Duncan Kennedy enters B...

From the author of Ice Dogs comes a riveting adventure about a musher who sets out to prove her impaired vision won't hold her back from competing in a rigorous sled race through the Canadian wilderness. Perfect for fans of Gary Paulsen.McKenna Barney is trying to hide her worsening eyesight and has been isolating herself for the last year. But at the request of her little sister, she signs up for a commemorative mail run race in the Canadian wilderness—a r...

**A high-stakes adventure series perfect for fans of the I Survived series and *Hatchet.***Twelve-year-old twins Ashley and Ryan are skiing with their parents in Wyoming's Grand Teton Mountains where there is a ground-shaking rumble. Unstable snow rushes downhill and buries them in icy white. It will take all of their knowledge and grit to survive.With seventeen years of hands-on experience and training in remote areas, survival expert Terry Lynn Johnson (Ice Dogs; Sled Dog Scho...

Victoria Secord, a fourteen-year-old Alaskan dogsled racer, loses her way on a routine outing with her dogs. With food gone and temperatures dropping, her survival and that of her dogs and the mysterious boy she meets in the woods is entirely up to her.The author Terry Lynn Johnson is a musher herself, and her crackling writing puts readers at the reins as Victoria and Chris experience setbacks, mistakes, and small triumphs in their wilderness adventure.When a routine trip ...

A high-stakes adventure series perfect for fans of the I Survived series and Hatchet. Eleven-year-old Travis and his family are on a whale watch off the coast of Washington when disaster strikes. The boat capsizes, throwing everyone into the ice-cold chaotic waves. Separated from their families and struggling to stay afloat, Travis and twelve-year-old Marina must use all of their grit and knowledge to survive.With seventeen years of hands-on experience and training...

Mike and Liam were two young officers slipping through the grey areas of the law, their badges tarnished by secrecy and doubt. Already under investigation for the fatal shooting of an unarmed man during what should have been a routine traffic stop, they are forced to confront a distraught woman unwilling to surrender to police authority. That woman, Neem, had seen her once-promising life collapse around her. Recently fired from a respected law firm, unemployed and unjustly arrested, she so...

Dean the Bully is a book about being judged before you get to know someone. When it comes to bullying our fears run deep and the thought of someone not liking us or wanting to hurt us is one of our biggest fears. We judge others’ clothing. We judge others’ actions. We judge others’ words. We all do this to some extent and it relates completely to how we feel about ourselves. If you are happy with yourself and your life you will judge less. Don’t listen to others conversations when they are...