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Children of a Faraway War tells the story of Wendy and Robbie, two Australian-born sisters, now in their 70s, and their life-changing quest to learn the truth about their father who died in England in World War II while serving in Bomber Command. Because of their mother's reticence and their reluctance to probe her grief, they grow up knowing very little about the man who could have been a father to them. Separated by half a world, Robbie in Australia, Wendy in Canada, they plan a trip to England as a kind of homage to this missing dad.

A domestic strategy and only one language means lost revenue and missed opportunities. Your business could be exploding on a global level. If your business wants international growth across borders into global industries, pursuing buyers without considering their culture or by using a machine translation hurts your efforts. A solid strategy with high-quality, culturally adapted content and translations connects you to prospective buyers online and leads to completed sales.

It’s the perfect home for the perfect family: pretty Nora Howell, her handsome husband, their two teenage daughters, and lovable dog. As California transplants making a fresh start in Brooklyn, they expected to live in a shoebox, but the brownstone has a huge kitchen, lots of light, and a backyard. The catch: its previous residents were victims of a grisly triple homicide that remains unsolved. Soon, peculiar things begin happening. The pug is nosing around like a bloodhound. Nora unearths a long-hidden rusty box in the flowerbed.

The first comprehensive mentoring guide written specifically for 21st-century career building, this entrepreneurial approach to work relationships addresses the key issues of our time. Using simple tools and proven strategies, this essential guide shows you how to leverage the relationships you already have to map out a new developmental network that grows with your career.

Sergeant Frank Hardy and his wife Mette travel to the southernmost point of New Zealand to chase gold thieves and to retrieve a manuscript for Mette to translate. But they have chosen to travel on an ill-fated voyage. Twenty miles from Bluff, on the south coast of the South Island of New Zealand, the SS Tararua hits a reef and sinks, with massive loss of life. This real event was the second-worst maritime disaster in New Zealand's history, in a country heavily reliant on shipping at that time. But the couple has more than a shipwreck to deal with.

A simple question, but one for which I didn’t have a good answer. I was confident in what I believed; I just didn’t know how I’d arrived at that conclusion. Turns out the “how” is what led me off track. I’ve had hundreds of conversations with people just like me who are on a journey to find the truth. Most people have the same fundamental questions that keep them from faith: Why do bad things happen to good people? How accurate is the Bible? What about evolution? This book tackles those questions and poses new ones, starting with the title: What if you’re wrong?

Nikki Bates’s time in picturesque Maple Hills, Vermont, has been far from the postcard scene she first imagined. While her chocolate shop is doing well, her personal life has hit a few snags...and bodies...along the way. Between exposing corrupt officials, unmasking the Mafia, and solving more than a few murders, Nikki has made some friends and earned many enemies.

An abandoned baby is the last thing Detective Madison Harper expects to find as she drives to her first day back at work since the case that ripped her life apart. But as she cradles the shivering child close, all her instincts tell her there’s something more sinister at play. Then she finds a lone sneaker down a muddy trail nearby, the laces spattered with blood....

A collection of 50 poems that artistically try to create relaxing and visually stimulating images and sensations from a perfect spa day bath. Designed to be listened to in the bath.

Day one of her new job, and psychic witch Charlie Payne is already in danger. When she and her team are called in to investigate the disappearance of the Cochran family from their home, it looks like a straightforward demon abduction. Only, there's never anything straightforward about dealing with a demon and Charlie knows it.

Les interactions sociales, le comportement sur le lieu de travail, la façon de manger, de boire, de faire du sport... Toutes ces actions découlent d'une habitude, d'automatismes, de gestes faits inconsciemment : c'est pour cela que la détermination et la volonté ne suffisent jamais à provoquer une transformation positive et durable. La professeure Wendy Wood s'appuie sur trois décennies de recherches inédites en neurosciences pour expliquer ces mécanismes et dévoiler la science fascinante de la formation des habitudes.

No matter whether they first read it in college or later in life, whether they are in their late teens or early forties, these writers all credit The Sexual Politics of Meat in one way or another with the awakening of their identities as feminists, activists, and women. Even if you haven’t read the original work, you’re sure to be moved and inspired by these tales of growing up and, perhaps more important, waking up to the truths around us. This collection of fresh, bold voices provides rousing support for the belief that women have the power to change the world.

What if you could dissolve your guilt about clutter? You can, and this book described as “personable and relatable” will show you how. If you want to cry when you look at your messy house because you feel ashamed and defeated, help is here. Clutter doesn’t have to make you feel miserable or embarrassed. Imagine how it would feel to let people into your house without feeling like a failure.

Callie moved all the way to Chicago to find love, and it's been failure after failure. Almost ready to give up on the notion, she stumbles across a new dating website with an incredible promise: true love with a million-dollar satisfaction guarantee. Determined to make this her last attempt at finding her match, Callie signs up. When the results turn out to be nothing like she expected, she decides to call the whole thing off and abandon romance for a while.

Prince Lorn of Jior is what’s left of an evil empire. King Kullorn was the epitome of evil. Together, they led demon hordes reaping death and destruction. Kullorn is killed, leaving Lorn alone to wallow in the desolation of defeat. Years later, Lorn is accused of following in his father’s footsteps and kidnapping Princess Lililaira. Risking capture, imprisonment, and death Lorn attempts to learn who is using his name to start another war. During a rescue of the Princess, Lorn is badly wounded, and they must fight to remain together as he is healed by her, body, heart and soul.

He was born to be wild. But is that his true calling? Since birth, Rusty has faced danger. His feral mama taught him the lessons of the wild. But a man and his house cats have captured his heart. Can Rusty learn to live in both worlds? How Rusty Found His Home is a prequel to the Cats of the Afterlife series. Take a listen today!

After 13-year-old Keeley Moore disappears during a camping trip with her parents, psychic Charlie Payne is invited to work the case by the local deputy. But the connection Charlie makes with the girl is a gossamer thread. If Charlie didn't know better, she'd say someone is blocking the child's energy from reaching her. Someone with a connection to the supernatural.

Scottish Sleep Stories are designed to help you relax and sleep. Allow these simple tales of travels around Scotland to send you off into a deep, calm slumber night after night.

Detective Sergeant Flynn Moran is on secondment from the Metropolitan Police in his home town of Muddlebay. Not long after Flynn arrives, the Mayor of Muddlebay is found to have overdosed on atropine. But was it accidental, or deliberate? Even though nothing ever happens in Muddlebay, Flynn teams up with his old friend Mabel Heggarty, the local librarian, to investigate the death.

Imagine a place where you are accepted and loved, where there is complete honesty and transparency, where you can be yourself and no longer have to strive to be someone else. Envision a safe haven where you could live in perfect peace and have everything you needed and wanted. That was the dream - the hope - that Trinity Foundation offered and that we naively believed. I Can’t Hear God Anymore is an inspiring and instructive example of how normal people caught in the skillful manipulations of an abusive cult can find their way back to spiritual and psychological health.