"Without trust, we have nothing." These are the words which have haunted Melanie Erickson for six years. When she walked out of the house Xavier Ross bought as their forever home, she thought she was closing that door permanently, but fate had other plans. Xavier Ross tried to keep everyone at a distance until Melanie came into his life. The more he tried to fight his feelings for her, the more he fell in love. One rash decision fractured the trust that was essential to their relationship. Six years later, she is the last person he expects to see walk through his front door. Will Xavier and Mel be able to learn to trust one another again so they can fulfill a dying woman's wish?

Focusing on the author's own marriage and on a group of case studies, this book vividly illustrates the obstacles married couples face today and offers help in overcoming them.

They found paradise.…What would they do to keep it? “Lagoon swims and boozy nights turn sinister in [this] atmospheric thriller” (People) about a group of friends whose dream journey around the world on a yacht turns into a chilling nightmare when one of them disappears at sea. Lana and her best friend Kitty leave home looking for freedom—and that’s exactly what they find when they are invited onto The Blue, a fifty-foot yacht making its way from the Philippines to New Zealand. Manned by a young crew of wanderers, The Blue is exactly the escape they are looking for and the two quickly fall under its spell, spending their days exploring remote islands and their rum-filled nights relaxing on deck beneath the stars. Yet paradise found can just as quickly become lost. Lana and Kitty begin to discover that they aren’t the only ones with secrets they’d rather run from than reveal. And when one of their new friends disappears overboard after an argument with the other crewmembers, the dark secrets that brought each of them aboard start to unravel. Haunting and infused with spectacular detail, the latest novel by Lucy Clarke—whose writing has been hailed as “breathtaking” (Kirkus Reviews) and “exciting and mysterious” (Library Journal)—is a page-turning thriller filled with adventure, exotic locales, and high stakes.

This book, first published in 1991, argues that AIDS is a 'disease of society', which is challenging and changing society profoundly.

Amazon.com customer review:(5 Stars)This is a book that I didn't want to finish! It is the real story of what happens in cohousing through the first person account of a deeply involved participant from the earliest planning stages through the building, move in and several years of settling in. This is a detailed look at Cambridge Cohousing, a Massachusetts urban intergenerational community of 41 households. As a member of a `Forming group in Westport, MA., I found my self nodding YES constantly as I moved with the author through the engaging, exhausting and sometime frustrating and more often thrilling process of their complex journey. The book gave me an inside view - it made me feel as if I were there. The book gave me hope, that `we' might do it...and why it takes so much time. I understood more about my intuitive desire NOT to live in `senior's only community and what was so positive about families and people of all ages living in an interdependent community.I have been a student of Cohousing for about 2 years; eager to learn about this remarkable process of building community through books, articles, visits to established communities and meetings. The View from 410 is the first publication that illuminates the intense process of what it really takes to create a Cohousing community. This is a book for someone who already knows a little about cohousing and wants to understand the intricate dynamics and daily experiences of creating the shared living concept that is Cohousing. Other books that I've read were very useful in describing the history and the generic processes of creating cohousing, with brief examples, of the variations in urban and rural cohousing in the US and Denmark. Once you know the basics of cohousing, you'll be ready to dive into the View from 410.

"This popular anthology for the study of Christian ethics, now in its eighth edition, has been a mainstay of undergraduate courses for nearly thirty years. Shannon and Patricia Jung provide an introduction to contemporary moral issues from decidedly, yet diverse, Christian moral perspectives. The anthology intentionally seeks a range of voices to produce a kind of 'point/counterpoint' discussion of an ethical issue. Issues include: the distinctiveness of Christian ethics, sexuality, reproductive rights, prejudice, immigration, the environment, economics, biomedical ethics, death and dying, terrorism, war, and globalization." -- Publisher description.

Unexpurgated version of Dreiser's story of a country girl's rise to riches as the mistress of a wealthy man. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.