It's Christmas Eve in the fair town of Amherst, Nova Scotia, and sparkling snowflakes crown the pointed roofs of houses as stately as Victorian ladies. It has been a day of well-loved traditions: visits to the ill and elderly, candlelight services, and a favorite story told by father at the fireside. And, upstairs in the attic, a little girl has just found a long-lost treasure that will make tomorrow a Christmas to remember for years to come. Molly...

86 pages written in easy-to-read large 16-point font for the early reader. Stories can be understood by four-year-olds and up. . At the end of each chapter is "Think & Do" to help the child apply the story to their own life. . This series ~ "A Child's Bible Kids" ~ comprises a simple survey of the Old Testament for children. . Popular among grandparents and excellent for homeschoolers. . Nara was 12 years old and so happy when she...

She was going on a family vacation to Rome, but it turned out to be a race to stay alive! AMAZON LEE and the ANCIENT UNDEAD OF ROME (Amazon Lee Adventures Book 1) 13-year-old Amazon Lee, thought she was going to have a relaxing vacation in Rome this summer with her parents, Scientist Dr. Stephen Lee, his wife, Historian Dr. Sandra Lopez, and her father's eccentric younger sister and inventor Dr. Annabelle Lee. What she didn't expect was that she and...

Aaron Rowe's new job at a funeral parlor may be his salvation from sleepwalking, dreams he can not explain and memories he can not recover, but if he does not discover the truth about his hidden past soon, he may fall asleep one night and never wake up.

Despite advances in understanding and treatment for trauma-related problems, PTSD still goes undetected in most individuals who have it. Parents are being inappropriately blamed for their children's problems because of misinterpretations of the research data. Patients are being told extraordinary stories that trauma has damaged their brains. And treatments that work are being ignored by clinicians. Dr. Scheeringa understands the desperation many parents...

"Robert Hubbard celebrates and elegizes his teenaged son, Auggie, who suffered from clinical depression and died by suicide"-- "A celebration and an elegy, Scenes with My Son sensitively renders the terrible privilege of grief in the wake of suicide. After years of battling clinical depression exacerbated by autism, Auggie Hubbard died by suicide at the age of 19. In this poignant tribute to his son, Robert Hubbard-a theatre scholar and actor-stages...

The hugely popular New York Times "Your Money" columnist and author of the bestselling The Opposite of Spoiled offers a deeply reported and emotionally honest approach to the biggest financial decision families will ever make: what to pay for college.

Sending a teenager to a flagship state university for four years of on-campus living costs more than $100,000 in many parts of the United States. Meanwhile, many families of

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A young boy who wonders if it is possible to visit his grandmother in heaven by bouncing high on a trampoline or taking a flight on an airplane, learns that thanks to God's grace, heaven is a place we can look forward to while living our best life and finding moments of heaven here on earth.

Sixteen-year-old high school senior Emma's life is transformed by Dylan, her new foster brother, but she finds herself torn between romantic and familial feelings in a tale reminiscent of Wuthering Heights.

"In Buddhism, the personal and the systemic are interwoven. If we are to heal from trauma, we need to find and face our deeply held, often hidden pain. Because we have been raised in a society of greed, aggression, and confused values, this is difficult, but something we all must do, regardless of our ethnic or racial background. Ragir lets fall the stereotypical cool, calm Zen teacher's demeanor to reveal her complicated emotional self. She tells...