Long-ignored computer genius Kate Keenan has designed a computer program that will put Hollywood and Bollywood out of business overnight. Suddenly everyone wants her...and her program. To stay alive, Kate goes into hiding, barely keeping ahead of a lethal hoard of pursuers with only one thing in mind: FINDING KATE and possessing or destroying the program. The widely anticipated prequel to the award-wining novel, QUANTUM DEATH by A. G. Hayes and Raymond Gaynor.

Time doesn’t heal all wounds, but it sometimes delays retribution. After learning she was kidnapped as a child, Kate is eager to move to Texas. Alex—excited about their newly budding relationship—suggests a road trip to Denver to pack up her apartment. When her story hits the 24-hour news cycle, long-kept secrets threaten Kate and Alex’s happily-ever-after and their lives. Kate wants to start over in the house her mother loved. Alex wants time for the relationship to deepen, but when the unthinkable happens, he realizes love rarely shows up alone. In a hunt to find Kate, Alex lands at her laptop, searching. Can he keep her alive? Can he keep her at all?

Not even a generous dowry can tempt any man to court Kathryn, until Sir William rides into town… A “smart and subtle” retelling of The Taming of the Shrew (Katherine Longshore, author of Courted). Kathryn’s strong will and sharp tongue have branded her a shrew in her small town. And even the temptation of her father’s wealth cannot sway the men in her direction. Astride his warhorse, William is the pinnacle of manhood and a burr in Kathryn’s side. His impish “Kate” calls raise her hackles, yet she can’t keep from being lulled by his voice. Though he claims he is the only man for her, she is certain he desires only her rich dowry. When he proposes marriage, she accepts as a way out of her miserable home, but expects nothing. Freed from her cruel family and judgmental town, Kathryn must decide if she will continue her battle of wills with the sometimes charming, often maddening Sir William. Does she remain the shrewish Kathryn—or find a way to be Will’s Kate? This delightful take on the classic romantic comedy—from the shrew’s point of view—is “rich in Shakespearean references and vivid historical details” (Katherine Longshore).

While walking in Central Park, Connor is on the phone with Jake. While getting off the phone with him, he then bumps into a redhead. Her coffee spills all over his suit. After he grabs her hand to introduce himself, Connor feels an immediate spark with Kate. When he asks for her phone number, Connor never imagines the role that fate has just played in determining his future. After Jake convinces him to call Kate, Connor is smitten after just one date. Estranged from his parents for six years, Connor is still reeling from feelings of abandonment and realizes Kate is just the girl he wants to walk beside him on a journey of healing. Kate, who has been heartbroken before, hopes that Connor is not like all the others. As they fall in love and imagine their happily-ever-after, neither has any idea that Connor will soon awaken from the strangest dream and realize the love of his life is just that—a dream. Now only time will tell how far Connor will be willing to go to find her and how much he is willing to risk to learn things he doesn’t want to know. The Fountain is a beautiful tale of passion, love at first sight, and a young couple’s determination to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles in order to be together forever.

Over three generations, starting in 1829, three strong, independent women fought to stamp their mark on the world. They would also raise families as self-reliant as themselves. One of those women, Eliza Brannan, would carry a dark, evil secret for years, breaking her silence only after marrying the man she had first met as a thirteen-year-old girl. The endeavours of the women for recognition as equals in a male dominated world would lead them all into difficult times, straining relationships and threatening lives, their own and their families. However, there was no deterring the women, demanding only the highest standards, not only from themselves but also from everyone around them. For generations the families’ had lived in and around Sheffield but in 1913, Hannah Coppul made a decision that would see them leave Sheffield forever. Whether that decision would be the best one for all the members of her family only time would tell. The stories, characters and incidents in this book are fictional.

Critical Thinking TACTICS for Nurses: Achieving the IOM Competencies is a reader-friendly guide to performing, learning and evaluating critical thinking in all aspects of nursing care. Award winning authors M. Gaie Rubenfeld and Barbara K. Scheffer draw on their research and expertise in teaching and practice to blend critical thinking components with the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) five core competencies: patient-centered care, interdisciplinary team work, evidence-based practice, informatics, and quality improvement. Issues addressed include critical thinking language and awareness enhancement, the impact of critical thinking on quality care, mentoring the critical thinking of staff and students and designing performance criteria for critical thinking. New to this edition: Significant updates and additional current references to all 5 IOM chapters. New Chapter 10 - Assessing Critical Thinking. New Chapter 11 - Thinking Realities of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. New “stories” from practicing nurses and others.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement culture” overtaking our kids' and parents' lives, and a new framework for fighting back In the ever more competitive race to secure the best possible future, today’s students face unprecedented pressure to succeed. They jam-pack their schedules with AP classes, fill every waking hour with resume-padding activities, and even sabotage relationships with friends to “get ahead.” Family incomes and schedules are stretched to the breaking point by tutoring fees and athletic schedules. Yet this drive to optimize performance has only resulted in skyrocketing rates of anxiety, depression, and even self-harm in America’s highest achieving schools. Parents, educators, and community leaders are facing the same quandary: how can we teach our kids to strive towards excellence without crushing them? In Never Enough, award-winning reporter Jennifer Breheny Wallace investigates the deep roots of toxic achievement culture, and finds out what we must do to fight back. Drawing on interviews with families, educators, and an original survey of nearly 6,000 parents, she exposes how the pressure to perform is not a matter of parental choice but baked in to our larger society and spurred by increasing income inequality and dwindling opportunities. As a result, children are increasingly absorbing the message that they have no value outside of their accomplishments, a message that is reinforced by the media and greater culture at large. Through deep research and interviews with today’s leading child psychologists, Wallace shows what kids need from the adults in the room is not more pressure, but to feel like they matter, and have intrinsic self-worth not contingent upon external achievements. Parents and educators who adopt the language and values of mattering help children see themselves as a valuable contributor to a larger community. And in an ironic twist, kids who receive consistent feedback that they matter no matter what are more likely to have the resilience, self-confidence, and psychological security to thrive. Packed with memorable stories and offering a powerful toolkit for positive change, Never Enough offers an urgent, humane view of the crisis plaguing today’s teens and a practical framework for how to help.

The Contextual Rehabilitation model is a change model that facilitates people's movement through success according to the context of their life wherever it is in the societal continuum. The Contextual Rehabilitation Model (CRmodel) is one of the only comprehensive theories and treatment models that emphasize treatment, recovery and change for the long-term client of the mental health (or other) service systems. It is based on the Social Competency model, which is known for its success working with people who suffer from the long-term mental illness. The CRmodel, being a contextual model has significant treatment implications to any other system's consumers regardless of their diagnosis or illness.Dr.Ben-Dror is an internationally known presenter, that trains and consult to agencies and teams to successfully implement the model.

This book is about a young girl on the trial for the murder of her abusive step father, as the trial begins learn the thoughts and feeling of the so called murder and find out weather in fact she has it in her to kill a wonderful dad but awful husband to her mother.