Will her courage be enough to protect her family? Eleanor Saint spends as much time as she can helping in the community of her small mining town even though her snobbish grandmother disapproves of her visiting the poor When she comes of age Eleanor is married to Frances Tait a missionary & she is delighted to have a husband who shares her passion for helping others It is not long before Eleanor starts a family of her own But when Mr Tait's work takes their family far from home her children face dangers that Eleanor could never have imagined She will need to put her family first before everything else if she wants to protect them A gripping saga from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Coal Miner's Daughter ...

On April 20 1999 Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado Over the course of minutes they would kill twelve students & a teacher & wound twenty-four others before taking their own lives For the last sixteen years Sue Klebold Dylan's mother has lived with the indescribable grief & shame of that day How could her child the promising young man she had loved & raised be responsible for such horror? & how as his mother had she not known something was wrong? Were there subtle signs she had missed? What if anything could she have done differently? These are questions that Klebold has grappled with every day since the Columbine tragedy In A Mother's Reckoning she chronicles with unflinching honesty her journey as a mother trying to come to terms with the incomprehensible In the hope that the insights & understanding she has gained may help other families recognize when a child is in distress she tells her story in full drawing upon her personal journals the videos & writings that Dylan left behind & on countless interviews with mental health experts Filled with hard-won wisdom & compassion A Mother's Reckoning is a powerful & haunting book that sheds light on one of the most pressing issues of our time & with fresh wounds from the recent Newtown & Charleston shootings never has the need for understanding been more urgent All author profits from the book will be donated to research & to charitable organizations focusing on mental health issues ...

Fiercely protective & unconditionally loving Mrs Jumbo cherishes her big-eared baby Dumbo Handcrafted & h&-painted in exquisite detail this resin figurine by Jim Shore makes a beautiful keepsake for Mother&s Day or as a new mum gift Packed in a branded gift box Unique variations should be expected as this product is hand painted Not a toy or children&s product Intended for adults Disney Traditions figurine Designed by Jim Shore Folk art inspired patterns with bold colours Each figurine is h&-painted Branded Gift box ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In order to save their kingdom from evil rodents Samantha (Dallas Lovato) & Sebastian (Drake Bell) are sent on a quest by the King of Rodencia (Jon Lovitz) & the wise Wizard Dalliwog (Tom Arnold) to obtain a legendary magic crystal that has the power to defeat the rodents With the help of two trustworthy knights (Carey Elwes & Jon Heder) they venture deep into the forest & enter a forbidden world of giants in order to accomplish their mission & restore order to the kingdom ...

Published posthumously in 1964 A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979 scholars have examined & debated the changes made to the text before publication Now this new special restored edition presents the original manuscript as the author prepared it to be published Featuring a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway Ernest's sole surviving son & an introduction by the editor & grandson of the author Sean Hemingway this new edition also

Includes:: a number of unfinished never-before-published Paris sketches revealing experiences that Hemingway had with his son Jack & his first wife Hadley Also included are irreverent portraits of other luminaries such as F Scott Fitzgerald & Ford Madox Ford & insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft Sure to excite critics & readers alike the restored edition of A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I & the unbridled creativity & enthusiasm that Hemingway himself experienced In the world of letters it is a unique insight into a great literary generation by one of the best American writers of the twentieth century

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The most violent thunderstorm in living memory occurs above a sleepy village on the West Coast of Scotland A young couple take shelter in the woods never to be seen again DCI Jack Russell is brought in to investigate Nearing retirement he agrees to undertake one last case which he believes can be solved as a matter of routine But what Jack discovers in the forest leads him to the conclusion that he is following in the footsteps of a psychopath who is just getting started Jack is flung headlong into a race against time to prevent the evolution of a serial killer ...

A murder mystery in the finest tradition of English detective novels John le Carre's A Murder of Quality is an ingenious puzzle featuring his best-loved character George Smiley published in Penguin Modern Classics Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School firstly by being the wrong sort with her doilies & china ducks & secondly by being murdered George Smiley who has his own connection with the school is asked by an old Service friend to investigate Smiley knows that Stella feared her husband would murder her but as he probes further beneath Carne's respectable veneer he uncovers far more than a simple crime of passion In his second George Smiley novel le Carre moves outside the world of espionage to reveal the secrets at the heart of another particularly English institution The result is a pitch-perfect murder mystery with Smiley as master detective If you enjoyed A Murder of Quality you might like le Carre's Call for the Dead also available in Penguin Modern Classics' Beautifully intelligent satiric & witty' Daily Telegraph ...

When hordes of people descend on the picturesque village of Nasely for the annual celebration of its most famous resident murder mystery writer Agnes Crabbe events take a dark turn as the festival opens with a shocking death Each year the residents are outnumbered by crowds dressed as Crabbe's best-known character the lady detective Millicent Cutter The weekend is never a mild-mannered affair as fan club rivalries bubble below the surface but tensions reach new heights when a second Crabbe devotee is found murdered Though the police are quick to arrive on the scene the facts are tricky to ascertain as the witnesses suspects & victim are all dressed as Miss Cutter & they all want to solve that crime too ...

Tracklist When You Wish Upon A Star Stop The Cavalry O Holy Night Jingle Bells Forever A Harding Christmas River Dingle Bells Far Away From Home Christmas Eve Stopping by Woods On A Snowy Evening Christmas Past Happy Christmas (The War Is Over) Winter Song Beannacht Jingle Bells Forever The Start Of Christmas ...

Group work is a popular & widely used social work method Focusing particularly on the central role of mutual aid in effective group work this text presents the theoretical base outlines core principles & introduces the skills for translating those theories & principles into practice A Mutual-Aid Model for Social Work with Groups will help readers to catalyze the strengths of group members such that they become better problem solvers in all areas of life from the playroom to the boardroom Increased coverage of evaluation & evidence-based practice speaks to the field's growing concern with monitoring process & assessing progress The book also

Includes:: worker-based obstacles to mutual aid their impact & their antidotes pre-group planning including new discussion on curriculum groups group building by prioritizing certain goals & norms in the new group the significance of time & place on mutual aid & the role of the group worker maintaining mutual aid during so-called individual problem solving an expanded discussion of anti-oppression & anti-oppressive practice unlocking a group's potential to make difference & conflict useful special considerations in working with time-limited open-ended & very large groups Case examples are used throughout to help bridge the gap between theory & practice & exercises for class or field help learners to immediately apply conceptual material to their practice All resources required to carry out the exercises are contained in over 20 appendices at the end of the book Key points at the end of each chapter recap the major concepts presented & a roster of recommended reading for each chapter points the reader to further resources on each topic Designed to support ethical & successful practice this textbook is an essential addition to the library of any social work student or human service practitioner working with groups

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