This book is divided into segments describing the emotions which surfaced in the days, weeks and months which passed during the first year after the death of the author's husband. It reflects a transition in her emotions with the passage of time. It begins with the shock and horror that ensues with of an engulfment of grief after the unexpected event. It ends with a greater acceptance of his passage, experienced through an eternal perspective and...

Have you ever wondered how to escape from depression? Or indeed, how to help someone escape from such a prison? This book finally opens up the doors to a mysterious world that an outsider cannot normally experience. Up until now, there existed an almost unbridgeable gap between the 'normal' world and the 'depressed person's' world. Using a personable and honest narrative, the text provides a unique window of experiential understanding, whereby the...

The Outdoor Girls In A Motor Car is a young adult novel by Laura Lee Hope, originally published in 1913. It is the seventh book in the "Outdoor Girls" series. The story follows four teenage girls, Betty, Mollie, Grace, and Amy, who go on a road trip in a motor car with their friend Frank. Along the way, they become embroiled in a mystery surrounding a supposedly haunted mansion in Shadow Valley. The girls work to solve the mystery and help a family...

This poignant, powerful, practical, and sometimes-funny book is written from the unique perspective of a veteran police officer and crisis intervention counselor, whose son, Adam, was shot and killed by another police officer, during an emergency mental health crisis. Adam Joshua Johnson was a gifted & talented musician and grass-roots humanitarian who suffered from mental illness. Yet, in spite of his own psychological and emotional pain, Adam never...

Peter, a college student from Colorado, turned to a long-ago mountain climbing lesson taught to him by his father, Jim Terbush, to never let go of your partner at the end of the rope. He was not anchored and could have easily slipped from his harness and ran for cover as 100 tons of rock rained down upon him and two friends at Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park, but he didn't. He maintained a proper belay to the end, saving the life of his friend...

In the Valley of the Shadow is a short story about a delirious man having hallucinations while being hospitalized.

Struggling to reassert control over their Indochinese colonies after World War II, the French established a huge air-land base in the valley of Dien Bien Phu. But when the opposing Vietnamese People's Army (VPA) began massing its forces against the base in late 1953, French commanders seized the opportunity to draw their elusive enemy into a decisive set-piece battle. Defending a series of fortified positions which were reliant upon a single airstrip-and...

When James L. Kugel, one of the world's leading biblical scholars, was diagnosed with an aggressive, likely fatal form of cancer, he said, "I was, of course, disturbed and worried. But the main change in my state of mind was that the background music suddenly stopped. Now I was just down to myself, one little person, sitting in the late summer sun, with only a few things left to do." He recognized that same feeling of smallness expressed in many early...

"The magical world teeters on the brink of collapse. The Dragon King, Celebrant, has united the dragons into a vengeful army, and only a final artifact stands in the way of them unleashing their fury against humankind. With established allegiances shifting under the strain, Seth and Kendra find themselves in desperate need of new allies. Seth must face his most dangerous quest--the fulfillment of his pledge to the Singing Sisters. With only Calvin...