Motherhood is hard enough, but add in ADHD, a pandemic, and a truckload of uncertainty, and you're gonna need a serious sense of humor! Grab a coffee and take a break with this uplifting book about stuck-at-home mothering. This humorous autobiography follows a mom from the day the first schools in the U.S. shut down for COVID-19 until the kids finally hopped back on the bus over a year later. You will laugh along with sourdough failures, middle-of-the-night mayhem, and wearing fuzzy slippers to inappropriate places. This book is for you if you're parenting teens who think they're adults or parenting elementary kids who think they're teens. dealing with one of the "D's" like ADHD, ASD, ODD or RAD or dealing with rambunctious or plentiful kids! putting your routines back together after Covid disruptions or putting your house back together after having all the people home, all the time. building your family through adoption or building your family through childbirth. Along for the rollercoaster ride of the Covid-19 Pandemic were Krista's now-working-at-home husband, her teen son, her precocious 3rd grade daughter, and their aging Labradoodle. Friends and family make guest appearances in this witty, at times poignant, account of the slowest emergency in history. You'll delight in this relatable mom's story that reads like an entertaining journal, as if Bridget Jones' baby was in grade school and had an older brother. She knows what it's like to parent kids with big emotions and extra needs, and to get the side-eye at playgrounds. Fans of Kristina Kuzmič and #IMOMSOHARD will love this good-humored, cheeky memoir. Buy this book for yourself, or as a gift for another mom, to laugh your way through the new year.

An insightful guidebook to some of the best examples of modern Southern fiction, as selected by an international group of critics In Still in Print, eighteen southern novels published since 1997 fall under the careful scrutiny of an international cast of accomplished literary critics to identify the very best of recent writings in the genre. These essays highlight the praiseworthy efforts of a pantheon of novelists celebrating and challenging regionality, unearthing manifestations of the past in the present, and looking to the future with wit and healthy skepticism. Organized around shared themes of history, place, humor, and malaise, the novels discussed here interrogate southern culture and explore the region's promise for the future. Four novels reconsider the Civil War and its aftermath as Charles Frazier, Kaye Gibbons, Josephine Humphreys, and Pam Durban revisit the past and add fresh insights to contemporary discussions of race and gender through their excursions into history. The novels by Steve Yarbrough, Larry Brown, Chris Offutt, Barry Hannah, and James Lee Burke demonstrate a keen sense of place, rooted in a South marked by fundamentalism, poverty, violence, and rampant prejudice but still capable of promise for some unseen future. The comic fiction of George Singleton, Clyde Edgerton, James Wilcox, Donald Harington, and Lewis Nordan shows how southern humor still encompasses customs and speech reflected in concrete places. Ron Rash, Richard Ford, and Cormac McCarthy probe the depths of human existence, often with disturbing results, as they write about protagonists cut off from their own humanity and desperate to reconnect with the human race. Diverse in content but unified in genre, these particular novels have been nominated by the contributors to Still in Print for long-term survival as among the best modern representations of the southern novel. Featuring: M. Thomas Inge on Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain Clara Juncker on Josephine Humphreys's Nowhere Else on Earth Kathryn McKee on Kaye Gibbons's On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon Jan Nordby Gretlund on Pam Durban's So Far Back Tara Powell on Percival Everett's Erasure Tom Dasher on Steve Yarbrough's The Oxygen Man Jean Cash on Larry Brown's Fay Carl Wieck on Chris Offutt's The Good Brother Owen W. Gilman Jr. on Barry Hannah's Yonder Stands Your Orphan Hans H. Skei on James Lee Burke's Crusader's Cross Charles Israel on George Singleton's Work Shirts for Madmen John Grammer on Clyde Edgerton's The Bible Salesman Scott Romine on James Wilcox's Heavenly Days Edwin T. Arnold on Donald Harington's Enduring Marcel Arbeit on Lewis Nordan's Lightning Song Thomas Ærvold Bjerre on Ron Rash's One Foot in Eden Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. on Richard Ford's The Lay of the Land Richard Gray on Cormac McCarthy's The Road

In 1996, a groundbreaking television drama debuted on the Fox network. Created by Chris Carter, Millennium tells the story of Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), a legendary forensic profiler gifted with the ability to see into the minds of killers. Through his work as a consultant with the F.B.I. and the mysterious Millennium Group, the series offers a thoughtful exploration of the nature and manifestations of evil in the modern world. Back to Frank Black offers an unprecedented volume of material exploring this landmark series. With forewords from Lance Henriksen and Frank Spotnitz and an introduction by series creator Chris Carter, the collection features interviews with cast and crew as well as in-depth essays analyzing Millennium's characters, themes, and enduring legacy. Inspired by the growing movement to return this iconic hero to the screen, Back to Frank Black finds its focus in an incomparable figure of hope: Frank Black. We need him now more than ever.

A chance meeting, an unforgettable night, and the perfect man. Too good to be true? “If anything ever happens to me—run.” That’s the last thing that he said to me before everything fell apart. “Run, Vivi” I left everything behind: my job, my few friends, my whole life. “He’ll protect you. Trust him.” All I had was an address and a word. Free. I didn’t know what was waiting for me on the other side. Was I escaping my fate Or running straight into my destiny? “Whatever you do, don’t fall for him.” Too late... This is Book 3 Of The Possession Series-- Note: you don't have to read these books in order. This is a parallel timeline-- you can start here and then go backward and read books 1 &2. Buckle up, kids! This one is a doozy! Reading Order 3. Free 1. His To Belong To 2. Hers To Belong To or 1. His To Belong To 2. Hers To Belong To 3. Free

Meet the couples from the first three books of the Possession Series with some additional content and all the angst! 1. His To Belong To 2. Hers To Belong To 3. Free Note: The fourth book, 'Theirs To Fight For' coming in Summer 2024. Further Note: You will learn how everything ties together in the fourth book. SWEAR Lastly, Book 3 may SEEM unrelated, but its NOT!

Eight people still breathing in a Dead Zone - how many can cheat Fate twice? Trapped in the same city isolation area, curiously immune to a terrifyingly swift pandemic that has left corpses and suspicion in its wake, they face the same harrowing ultimatum: believe the media and report to a 'quarantine centre’, or believe their own eyes and attempt escape... Their lives, and possibly all humanity, depend on them getting it right. Fear of Misery is a vivid urban dystopian thriller, set in a London of the near future where resource shortages, overpopulation and climate change have seriously impacted the fabric of society. For Egg, staffing his children's ward; Daze, dossing in her Gothic crypt; and 80-year-old Annie, housebound on the 20th floor of her tower block, death is truly the great leveller. Join this achingly portrayed band of everyday survivors on their dark, nail-biting journeys through vacant streets, disturbing questions, desperate losses and redeeming loves. Would you make the same choices to save yourself or others? If you can handle the fast-pace and compelling suspense then Fidelio's thought-provoking future-tech tale is right up your street. Just beware that Wednesday, 4:00 am feeling…

Harry Olstein, a computer science teacher struggling to understand his own divorce and lifelong social alienation, builds surveillance devices to observe successful people in their daily lives. Blending speculative fiction with philosophy and a hearty dose of personality theory, the story bleeds neurosis from every pore.

It's November, and as the island residents prepare for the coming months of cold and snow, they are surprised by God's unexpected lessons of humility, trust, and hope. Authors Lori Copeland and Angela Hunt revisit the Island of Heavenly Daze in the second book of the highly acclaimed series about a small town where angelic intervention is commonplace and the Thanksgiving feast a community affair.

When she was two years and ten months old, Susan Eastwood scrambled up on to a table to look out of the window. She fell, sustaining two black eyes and a broken nose. It was only months later that her parents realised that the fall had also rendered her completely deaf. Since then Susan has had to learn to survive in a world which often seems unable to understand how to deal with someone who can?t hear. Again and again in her battles with bureaucracy she has encountered ignorance, intransigence and inflexibility. Repeatedly she has been faced with what she calls the ?never seen a deaf person before? look ? even from those who are supposed to be trained to look after people with disabilities. This book is about her battle to overcome her sense of isolation and frustration and lead a full and happy life as a child, a young woman and now a working mother.ÿ

This text is unique in its first-person, discovery learning approach using a 4-step decision-making model throughout. It truly conveys a management perspective, by including coverage of topics such as ABM, the value chain and balanced scorecard evaluation techniques. It is also the first managerial text to incorporate coverage on knowledge management (Ch. 13) highlighting the latest developments for improved managerial decision making.