In September of 1939, Hulda Schwarz arrives in Minnesota to recover an ancient runestone. A Nordic high priestess, Schwarz believes the stone will contain a revelation from the goddess Freya, who is guiding and blessing the rise of the Third Reich. Albert Frietag is a Dakota County deputy sheriff with ambitions of becoming an FBI agent. He craves adventure, but nothing prepares him for the bizarre events that unfold when Schwarz turns her eye toward his newborn daughter. Schwarz is convinced that Freya desires to possess the child's heart and soul in fulfillment of the runestone's prophecy. Albert's Christian beliefs, and his love for his family, are sorely tested by mysterious visions, dreams, and the apparently supernatural power of the seductive priestess. Will Albert be able to stop her from escaping to Nazi Germany with his daughter? About the Author Alvin Franzmeier is the author of two other novels in the Spiral Bridge Mystery Series that now includes The Spiral Bridge, The Twins, and Freya's Child. He has also written "The First Words of Jesus," along with numerous theological papers, and is editor of the monthly ezine Reclaiming Our Heritage. With graduate degrees in theology, church history, and counseling, he has pastored Lutheran congregations in Canada, Minnesota, and Texas, and has presented at conferences and retreats across the United States. He currently devotes his time to writing and research. His wife, Sylvia, and he are the parents of three and the grandparents of six. They reside in Texas and have a second home in Colorado.

Terrible events at a Viking village in the north of England spill over into the present day when a murdered man is discovered near the excavation that archaeologist Kathryn Bailey has been driven to undertake. Just why are local people so against any disturbance of the site? When the goddess Freya seeks to reclaim her own, things get serious, and Helen and Robert Gunn find themselves fighting for the survival of their little daughter as well as their troubled marriage.

Freya has an appetite as fine as can be - until one day she declares, "Your dhal and rice are just not nice." She spurns baked beans, sausages, and soon she's very thin indeed. Mum, in despair, phones Grandma Clare. "We'll sort her," says Grandma, "the fussy little beast." So off Freya goes for a fabulous feast - and a lesson she will never forget.

Journey through a magical woodland, with poems to read and things to find My woodland’s full of animals, of every different kind. So shall we stay here for a while and see what we can find? Experience the everyday wonder of nature in this first book of poetry, exploring a magical woodland year. With poems by acclaimed writer Rachel Piercey, join Bear on his journey from spring to winter with lots of friends to meet, places to explore, and things to spot along the way.

The Legend of Freya begins somewhere in Denmark as the sun is melting away behind sloping hills to the west and dusk envelops the land in dark velvet. On the very edge of a grass-covered point, with her face toward the vast blue sea and her silhouette imprinted on the darkening sky, stands a tall, beautiful woman dressed in traditional Viking clothing. Her face reflects deep sorrow. Oblivious to the colourful scene unfolding before her, she seems to be lost in her own thoughts. Thoughts that reach back to a time when she was young and carefree. Discover the truth behind her sorrow while you join the headstrong Freya and her people as they navigate the stormy seas of life a thousand years ago in a story about ordinary Viking people doing their best to survive.

With Aeden vanished and Faolan waging a war in the south of Gaul, Fianna is sent on a mission to the Noregr to find aide in their fight against the Sorginak and their allies. As the war heats up after three years of a near stalemate, Aeden reappears to lead the armies of the Gaels, while Fianna's adventures bring her face to face with challenges unlike anything she had ever faced before.

When most students go backpacking across Europe, it's not because they're on the run from both the magical and genetically enhanced human authorities... Freya and Alex are supposed to be keeping their heads down. They've managed to upset both the Council of Light and the Enhanced, and both are after their heads. But when a Vampyre approaches them in a small French town, looking for someone who can cure a dying Reaper, neither of them can turn away from someone in need. The question is, can they save him before their enemies catch up with them? This collection includes books 7-15 of L.C. Mawson's fast-paced Freya Snow urban fantasy series.

This book analyses the types of and possibilities for care in social work with families in situations where evidence-based programmes, standardised forms of risk-assessment and intervention, performance management and incentives to increase cost-effectiveness take precedence. Offering a new framework for understanding and exploring theories and practices of care in social work with families, it is structured into • A comprehensive introduction to care theory and its relevance for social work. This includes critical reflections on "the missing link" between care theory and social work theory and the need for care theory in research on and social work with families. • A new framework for understanding core elements, dimensions and dilemmas of care in social work. This is based in theory and international research and is illustrated with exemplary "thick" ethnographic cases of statutory social work, homebased social work and family treatment. • Suggestions for enabling social change of the conditions for and practices of care in social work with families. By allowing critical reflection on this topic, this book will be of interest to all scholars, students and academics of social work and other professions dealing with child protection.

In a context of financial crisis that has often produced a feeling of identity crisis for the individual, the theatre has provided a unifying forum, treating spectators as citizens. This book critically deals with representative plays and playwrights who have stood out in the UK and internationally in the post-recession era, delivering theatre that in the process of being truthful to the contemporary experience has also redefined theatrical form and content. Built around a series of case-studies of seminal contemporary plays exploring issues of social and political crisis, the volume is augmented by interviews with UK and international directors, artistic directors and the playwrights whose work is examined. As well as considering UK stage productions, Angelaki analyses European, North American and Australian productions, of post-2000 plays by writers including: Caryl Churchill, Mike Bartlett, Dennis Kelly, Simon Stephens, Martin Crimp, debbie tucker green, Duncan Macmillan, Nick Payne and Lucy Prebble. At the heart of the analysis and of the plays discussed is an appreciation of what interconnects artists and audiences, enabling the kind of mutual recognition that fosters the feeling of collectivity. As the book argues, this is the state whereby the theatre meets its social imperative by eradicating the distance between stage and spectator and creating a genuinely shared space of ideas and dialogue, taking on topics including the economy, materialism, debt culture, the environment, urban protest, social media and mental health. Social and Political Theatre in 21st-Century Britain demonstrates that such contemporary playwriting invests in and engenders moments of performative reciprocity and spirituality so as to present the audience with a cohesive collective experience.