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In Beneath the Full Moon, psychiatrist Nan Nelson invites you inside the mental hospitals and psych wards where she’s practiced for over 30 years and shares her personal anecdotes and insights from working with the mentally ill. Told with humor and heart, Nan recounts stories and case studies of patients suffering from depression, PTSD, OCD, addictions, and more. Dr. Nelson ends each chapter with valuable and practical tips for how family members can support their loved ones who may be struggling with mental illnesses.

Mimmi kämpar med att gå vidare efter uppbrottet med Klara, men det är lättare sagt än gjort i en by där rykten färdas snabbt. En snöig vinterdag i november springer hon in i Patrik, vars plötsliga hemkomst väcker gamla känslor till liv. Men också många frågor. Varför sålde Patrik allt över en natt och flyttade tillbaka till Qvarnhovda? Och vem är Emma?

Wer die KINGS OF NEW YORK mochte wird die MISTER-Reihe lieben. Stella Londons Leben gleicht einem Scherbenhaufen. Ihr Ex-Freund hat die Verlobung mit ihrer besten Freundin bekannt gegeben - und Stella zur Hochzeit eingeladen! Doch als Immobilienmogul Beck Wilde ihr überraschend anbietet, sie auf die Hochzeit nach Schottland zu begleiten und ihren Verlobten zu spielen, ist Stellas Moment der Rache gekommen. Beck hat seine ganz eigenen Gründe, warum er die Feier auf keinen Fall verpassen darf, erhofft er sich doch, dort den wichtigsten Business-Deal seines Lebens abzuschließen.

Der alleinerziehende Vater, Dr. Mark Herron, ist sprachlos. Am Kneipentisch nebenan feiert eine junge Frau fröhlich ihre Scheidung. Seine eigene Trennungsgeschichte war alles andere als lustig und seitdem versucht Marc verzweifelt seinen Job und den Alltag mit seinem autistischen Sohn Gabe unter einen Hut zu bekommen. Doch die Ausgelassenheit der jungen Frau fasziniert ihn. Als er mitbekommt, dass sie einen Job sucht, weiß er, dass das kein Zufall sein kann... Tori spielt allen perfekt vor, dass sie glücklich ist. In ihr sieht es jedoch ganz anders aus.

Molly is 10 and her life is about to change dramatically. During a tumultuous and unexpected experience at a new school, she learns that she has to find her own strength to carry on. This is a story of how it feels to be bullied and the inner transformation that occurs. It’s about best friends and frenemies. And it’s about being vulnerable and the power of our own minds to build us up and see us through tough times. Molly’s quest for authentic friendship, love, and acceptance will remind us all about the humanity of youth.

Eleventh century, Northern Spain. Isabella has been a nun in the Christian kingdom of Galicia since she was a child, a gifted herbalist leading a quiet and spiritual life, devoted to God. But on a rare journey outside of the convent, she is taken by Viking raiders and sold to Morocco as a slave. Cruelly treated by her first owner, salvation comes from an unlikely source: Yusuf bin Tashfin, leader of a vast Muslim army intent on conquering all of North Africa. Isabella must struggle not only to survive her new life but to hold true to her faith, which is tested by great dangers...

Mary verlässt Florida, um in New York ihren Traum von einer Musikkarriere wahr zu machen. Damit lässt sie nicht nur ihren Heimatort, sondern auch die schmerzhaften Erinnerungen an ihre Jugendliebe Tad hinter sich. Als sie in der Kultbar Jones erste Erfolge feiert, wird sie von einem Gast gehört, der sie für ein privates Konzert bucht. Der anonyme Kunde will sich nicht zu erkennen geben und stellt eine Bedingung: Sie soll mit verbundenen Augen spielen ...

Something bad is happening at Little Strangehaven Primary. What are the peculiar SHIVERS that keep striking the school, bringing Strangeness in their wake—from uncontrollable ballroom dancing to an attack by military chickens? Spy-detective Agatha Topps is determined to find out. She's the only person who doesn't forget the Strangeness as soon as it's over. At least, until new boy Lenny Tuchus turns up and remembers, too. Their spy-detectoring leads them to the Book of Chaos, an ancient text which has been hidden away in the Room of Forbidden and Dangerous Books.

February, 1944. Washington, DC. With the war entering its most dangerous phase, Louise Pearlie is thrilled to be reassigned to the London office of the OSS. But in order to take up her new post, she must make a perilous crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in the SS Amelia Earhart. Accompanying her on the voyage to Liverpool is an eclectic group of passengers, including the aloof Blanche Bryant, whose husband, Eddie, died in mysterious circumstances on the ship’s voyage out to New York, three months before.

On a bitterly cold night in December, 1943, government girl Louise Pearlie and her friend Joe Prager are enjoying a quiet drink in the Baron Steuben Inn, when a bloodstained body is discovered behind the bar. Although the victim had been a regular customer, no one seems to know anything about him. When it turns out there is a link to Louise’s top-secret work at the OSS, she is ordered to find out as much as possible about the murder while keeping the connection secret from those involved, including the investigating police detective.

The 1940s, Washington, DC. Government girl Louise Pearlie is asked to review the file usage of a missing analyst from the Office of Strategic Services - the United States’ wartime intelligence agency - only to learn he’d drowned in the Tidal Basin days before. The OSS confirms it was an accident, and Louise is sent back to her regular job in the file rooms. Her time spent investigating Paul Hughes at least has one positive outcome, though: Louise meets a young woman in the OSS Reading Room, who asks her to join her “salon".

It’s 1942. Louise Pearlie, a young widow, has come to Washington, DC, to work as a clerk for the legendary OSS, the precursor to the CIA. When, while filing, she discovers a document concerning the husband of a college friend, Rachel Bloch—a young French Jewish woman she is desperately worried about—Louise realizes she may be able to help get Rachel out of Vichy France. But then a colleague whose help Louise has enlisted is murdered, and she realizes she is on her own, unable to trust anyone.

The 1940s, Washington, DC. Government girl Louise Pearlie has a new job inside the OSS - the Office of Strategic Services: recruiting German prisoners of war for a secret mission inside Nazi Germany. It’s a big chance for her, and Louise hopes she can finally escape her filing and typing duties. With the job comes two new colleagues: Alice Osborne, a propaganda expert, and Merle Ellison, a forger from Texas who just happens to speak fluent German. But when the three arrive at Fort Meade to interview the first German POWs to arrive there, their mission is beset by complications.

Young widow Louise Pearlie seizes a chance to escape the typewriters and files of the Office of Strategic Services, the United States’ World War II spy agency, when she’s asked to investigate a puzzling postcard referred to the OSS by the US Censor. She heads off to St. Leonard, Maryland, to talk to the postcard’s recipient, one Leroy Martin. But what seemed like a straightforward mission to Louise soon becomes complicated.

Tal Neilson is slowly losing his mind. He’s convinced his dead father Geri has been murdered, but no one believes him. Geri’s voice in his head is screaming for revenge. Is the voice real or a product of Tal’s addiction? Can Tal ignore his widowed mother’s attraction to Geri’s business partner?

Auf die dringende Bitte ihrer Schwester besucht Trauma-Therapeutin Cassandra ihr ehemaliges College in Cambridge, um nach ihrer Nichte zu sehen, die dort studiert. Doch das Mädchen ist spurlos verschwunden - und sie ist nicht die erste Studentin, die in den letzten Wochen vom Campus verschwunden ist und als vermisst gemeldet wurde. Bei ihren Nachforschungen stößt Cassandra auf einen exzentrischen Professor, zu dessen elitärem Kreis von Lieblingsstudenten auch ihre Nichte gehört hat. Hat dieser etwas mit dem Verschwinden der Mädchen zu tun?

The world looks up to the sky with hope as the UN flips the switch on Dr. Milford Pennychuck's atmospheric carbon reduction system, but within minutes following startup, everyone below 5,000 ft elevation is dead...something has gone terribly wrong.

Lady Amelia Brockett - Meels to her family - is having the worst. Christmas. Ever. Dumped by her boyfriend and rejected from graduate school, her parents deem her the failure of the family. But when her older brother tries to cheer her with a trip to the races, a chance meeting with Arthur, the widowed playboy prince of Wales, offers Amelia the opportunity to change her life - and Britain’s fortunes - forever.

Combining detailed, step-by-step instructions with tips for successful process and an overview of completed projects, Common Threads is a different kind of weaving book. This inspirational guide is designed to help artists and activists foster community, build empowerment, and develop a do-it-together attitude while planning and implementing works of collaborative eco-art.

In poetic prose, Forrester navigates leaving a life in one state and picking up in another and repeating the process through various and vast personal, social, and political landscapes. It's a personal story, and it's an investigation of change and how we tend to hide away the most valuable parts of ourselves, especially, paradoxically, the parts that help us survive change, the parts that make us Soft-Hearted, and we need more soft-heartedness in all times and in all places.