Family Work

سيّارة تشقّ طريقها من الشام إلى العنابيّة. في داخلها جثّة، ورجلان وامرأة، يلفّهم صمت متوجّس، وفي الخارج حرب ضارية لم تشبع بعد من الضحايا.

Knisternde Romantik unter nördlichen Sternen. Eigentlich wollte Alma nicht mehr als Hebamme arbeiten. Doch nach ihrem Umzug von Frankfurt in die schwedische Kleinstadt Nora wagt sie einen Neustart in der Praxis ihrer Tante. Ihre Arbeit bereitet ihr endlich wieder Freude, umso mehr, als sie bei einem Hausbesuch den Bruder der werdenden Mutter kennenlernt. Liam Hansen geht ihr so schnell nicht mehr aus dem Kopf. Er scheint ihre Nähe ebenso zu suchen, und die großartige Natur rund um Nora verstärkt die Anziehung. Doch Liam darf auf keinen Fall erfahren, was in Almas Vergangenheit geschehen ist.

Now includes the just-released short story A Backstitch in Spacetime! Derry girls, women, wee boys, hard men, they're all here in the these four stand alone short works from the Derry Women Series. Previously released as a short story (Table For Nine At Kebablicious), a novelette (The Way to A Man's Heart or Strange Things on Plates) and a novella (A Very Fionnuala Christmas) and A Backstitch in Spacetime, they are all together in one anthology. Laugh, wince, fume and cry at the antics of the impoverished Flood family with the mother, Fionnuala, who will stoop to the lowest depths to get ...

Would you like to be an ace communicator who can connect with just about anyone, from potential business associates to friends and strangers alike? How about being a brilliant negotiator, conflict resolver, and a person who can get anyone to say a “yes” all the time? This is a handbook for everyone who is looking to win the communication game in all walks of life.

From minor matters (tidiness, homework, sleep) to big and important ones (relationships, mental ill health, drugs and alcohol), teenagers and their parents often struggle to talk to each other—and talking is key if your young person is facing new challenges as they leave childhood behind. A well-timed conversation, a listening ear, a non-judgmental and receptive attitude—all these can make an enormous and lasting impact on how safely and happily a teenager navigates this crucial stage of their development. Oh, if only it were that easy.

For women, a glass ceiling at work is not the only barrier to success - it's also the emotional labour at home. Women have become accustomed to delegating, advocating and negotiating for themselves at the office, but when it comes to managing households, they still bear the brunt on their own shoulders. A simple solution is staring them in the face: negotiate with the men in their personal lives.

He's a member of a prominent family in Forbidden Lake looking to finish his degree. She's trying to make ends meet and stay out of the spotlight, which is pretty much impossible when someone starts a relationship with one of the Addlers... Jonathan Addler doesn't know why he wants to impress his father, but he does. And that means finally finishing his degree. He signs up for the introductory cooking class, thinking it will be a huge waste of time. Then he meets Cassandra Caldwell, and everything changes. Cassie wants one thing: to keep her twin brothers safe. After her mother's death, she ...

A Manifesto for Hope sets out ten tried-and-tested practical principles for how to develop joined-up, cost-effective, community-empowering work, gleaned from the hard-won experience that has sat at the heart of Steve Chalke's mission over the past four decades. It's time to reimagine. Our social care systems are failing us, struggling for funding, and failing to speak to one another. At the same time, we are side-lining our greatest national asset: its people - mums, dads, families, and other community members.

Friends who ditch her. A pod of killer whales. A limping cruise ship. All reasons Iris finds herself stranded on a deserted island with the handsome Navy SEAL... Iris McLaughlin was having a great time on the cruise until the Navy SEAL grabbed her and towed her into a lifeboat. Okay, so maybe "a great time" is a bit of an overstatement. Iris hadn't enjoyed being late to orientation, being the last one on the boat, or sharing a wall with the obnoxious Navy SEAL who has a staring problem. But hey, at least that off-the-shoulder swimming suit her sister had said would work, actually worked. ...

Clementine sammelt Omas und Opas wie andere Leute Briefmarken. Sie hat schon einen ganzen Sack voll davon. Das kommt daher, dass Mama und Papa sich getrennt und neue Freundinnen und Freunde gehabt hatten. Mine - so wird sie meistens genannt - hat inzwischen viel mehr Omas und Opas als alle anderen Kinder, die sie kennt. Und sie darf sie besuchen, wann immer sie will. Das ist lustig, für Abwechslung ist gesorgt. Mine rollt Knödel mit Opa Knödel. Sie macht Klimmzüge mit Opa Klimmzug.

As a teenager Molly case is admitted to hospital for an operation that will save her life. Nearly a decade later, she finds herself in the operating theatre again, this time as a trainee nurse. In How To Treat People, Molly brings together these extraordinary moments, when the professional and the personal become inseparable. She introduces us to patients with whom we share the pain, the fear but also the life-affirming moments of illness.

He can successfully throw a precision pass, but he's dead in the water in matters of the heart... Quarterback Maine Fitzgerald has struck out with more women than he'd like to admit—and he doesn't even play baseball. Armed with a plan to get out of his comfort zone onboard a singles cruise, he joins the very first event: a mix and mingle. Too bad he's almost completely deaf in one ear and doesn't hear the beautiful blonde tell him her name. Orchid Stone doesn't want to be on the singles cruise. She has an eight-year-old daughter to tend to, and a job to do, and a husband to mourn. But her...

The real secrets to a successful life that school will never teach your kids. It’s time for you, as a parent, to take matters into your own hands and teach your kids these skills. This book will show you how. In What They Don't Teach in School, you’ll discover the secrets to a happy and successful life that the school won’t teach your kids.

This book will provide you with answers by giving you tools to be a change agent for your family. You will gain insights into your character, behavior, and thought patterns so you can identify the ways you contribute to or subtract from honoring your son. By the time you’re done listening to this book, you will have learned about yourself and the initiation and blessing ceremony I did for my sons. Hopefully, my story will spark your interest and generate ideas as you start planning to honor your son into manhood.

Zahara compone un relato a dos voces sobre la conciliación romántica y profesional de una generación en la que está mal visto enamorarse, en la que el trabajo es la prioridad y el desapego familiar la norma. Una sociedad en la que mantener una relación es tan difícil como sostener en pie un castillo de naipes.

Are you a newly married couple whose job descriptions will leave you with no option than to separate for some time? Are you a traveling nurse, doctor, truck driver, or VIP bodyguard? Have you traveled to another town, city, country or another continent for work, or even for holiday? Do your plans for your future together involve a long distance relationship (LDR) for months or years? As you read this book, you will realize that LDR challenges will have solutions which lead to happy, healthy relationship.

No Work Urban Front Yard Vegetable Gardening Simplified by Joyce Zborower is an easy-to-follow guide for building and planting a new organic gardening bed in the ground right over an old chemical bed, a grassy spot that's never been planted before, a rocky area, container gardening in pots, or in a raised garden bed so you won't have to bend over to harvest your goodies. And once the bed is ready and planted, any further work on your part is very minimal.

Navy veteran Mike Schindler, Founder and CEO of Operation Military Family, tells the stories of our returning heroes so that we might gain a true understanding of life for returning vets and their families. While addressing some of the hardships of returning vets, Schindler also reveals another side of America's heroes - the side that celebrates the triumphs and hirable qualities offered by our veterans.

The desire of everyone in our world today is to be successful, wealthy, healthy and become fulfilled in life. Most people would want to arrive at these goals, if possible, in isolation without regard to the closest person to them, not to talk of being fair to others when they go about trying to achieve these mouth-watery goals. However, they forgot one thing – “The Golden rule”, which says: “Do unto others what you want others to do unto you”. Whether you’re down the ladder in life and want to get to the top or you are already on top and love to remain on top, the major ...

Christmas is coming – and so is love. Love is in the air this Christmas, and three couples are finding that working at the holidays comes with an unexpected benefit – a soul mate. This holiday anthology includes three previously published novellas, together for the first time in one collection. Each steamy story features a midlife couple, an alpha male, an independent woman, meddling friends, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Dating Santa: A Hot Workplace Seasoned Romance Forty-year-old Samantha has never had much interest in falling in love. Her troubled childhood taught her that ...