Colder Weather is the story of Adam Sutterland, a young psychologist who, despite living in the city, has deep roots in the mountainous rural areas of Missouri. Eventually Adam brings his young wife and son back from the city to live in his birth home in the country. All is well until tragedy strikes and Adams family is killed. ---- Despite having counseled others on their problems for nearly a decade, Adam finds himself angry, delusional, anguished and unable to cope. Feeling betrayed by ...

Pastor and Psychologist Adam Sutterland had answers, for others. Armed with traditional beliefs and Freudian theory, he had his found his high ground above a past of insecurity and disjointing of the world around him. After a move back home with intentions of making his mark in his small mountain hometown, Adam's wife and child are tragically killed.Finding his own advice and help lacking, and doubting that of others, he becomes consumed with heartbreak, resentment and fear, to be ...

This updated edition gives readers hands-on experience in real-time DSP using a practical, step-by-step framework that also incorporates demonstrations, exercises, and problems, coupled with brief overviews of applicable theory and MATLAB applications. Organized in three sections that cover enduring fundamentals and present practical projects and invaluable appendices, this new edition provides support for the most recent and powerful of the inexpensive DSP development boards currently ava...

This book describes the methodology and applications of solid-state NMR spectroscopy to studies of membrane proteins, membrane-active peptides and model biological membranes. As well as structural studies it contains coverage of membrane interactions and molecular motions. Advances in biological solid-state NMR are very pertinent with high-field developments seeing applications in biological membranes and whole cells. Many of the chapter authors and contributors are world-class experts and...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Acorn GameIf you ask a crow who invented the Acorn Game, he'll tell you it was crows. Ask a raven, and you'll hear a very different story.Young Zeni doesn't care who invented it. He simply loves the game.From his favorite perch on the Bench Branch of the Great Oak, Zeni has spent years watching every dive, every save, every spectacular crash, and every triumphant cry of "HOOOOOOOLE!" He knows...

What better way to flee your doldrums than in a muscle car covering Middle America. Corporate office captive Jared Moore has a plan: meet new people and see new places. If breaking routine was his plan, he would accomplish that, and then some. In this 159 page adventure, Jared mistakenly gives something to a free-spirited hitchhiker named raindrop, only to, miles later, be told by his admired brother Gene, to be sure to keep the little box in safe keeping. His backtracking journey to the g...

"Will 69 million baby boomers suddenly drop out of the workforce when they turn 65? It is difficult to imagine this generation, with its talent, education, and experience, idling away the last thirty years of life."—From the Foreword, by Robert N. Butler, M.D., The Mount Sinai Medical CenterOld age has been historically thought of as a period of frailty and dependence, yet studies show that with the help of advances in health and medicine, current populations will live longer and r...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The world changed by a human-eradicating plague called the Great Silence. Cleopatra, is an Abyssinian cat with royal aspirations and an ancient ankh as "proof." She watches the new animal society rise from the ruins in the Pack of Shadows Saga. The saga begins as an epic struggle for survival in the packs. Abyssinian Queen continues in a quest for legacy, but evolves into a desperate struggle for survival when a malevolent, genetically-...

In the 21st century, it is impossible to avoid seeing atrocities. Pictures of grievous death populate the pages of newspapers and aggregators almost daily. Billboards and banner ads for humanitarian organizations routinely feature scenes of famine and forced displacement. With the spread of social media, our closest friends and relatives have become key sources of visual encounters with intolerable harms. Seeing Atrocities explains what we stand to gain from such encounters, and supplies c...

This is the original and rough first installment of a unique memoir of a woman who suffered unmentionable abuse at the hands of her parents. Recalling memories from her early years and dropping you into the mind of the child, O'Sullivan brings the reader on an intimate life journey through the eyes of this child’s confusion, misunderstanding, will to persevere and desire to seek goodness in the world. It is the true story of careening through her life with her dysfunctional family as she e...

"Hilarious, smart, and utterly addicting. Watch out, Nora Ephron." -Valerie FrankelJenna McCarthy presents an uproarious but insightful peek behind the curtains at the unholy state of matrimony. With ballsy wit and bawdy humor, she explores everything from male domestic idiocy and the frustrating misfires in spousal communication to how to stay true to the peskiest of vows: forsaking all others. Part in-your-face guide, part brutal confession, this book is...

Survival Songs is a collection of poetry by author Meggie C. Royer. The poems and prose in Survival Songs are clear and concise. Grounded through experiences, Royer's evocative poems cast a knowing eye on the wider world, telling us what it’s like to be displaced and replaced, used and abused. Her poems are suffused with a graceful, mysterious pathos and longing. Survival Songs is a remarkable debut.