Love Beyond Measure
Love Beyond Measure

Author: Elizabeth Boyce

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-02-27

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1440585091

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Harrison Dyer left England to escape his painful past, but a storm at sea sweeps him into a world he never imagined. In the ancient kingdom of Siam, he meets Lamai, an alluring translator with scars of her own. To earn his way home, Harrison agrees to work for Lamai’s employer, a wealthy Portuguese businessman with dark appetites. Abandoned by her father, the half-English, half-Siamese Lamai isn’t sure she fully belongs anywhere. She’s remained in Siam in hopes that her father will one day return, but her position leaves her in an apprehensive state of limbo. Surprisingly to both Lamai and Harrison, their tentative working relationship is a comfort and soon blossoms into a richer, more complicated connection. But when he makes a shocking discovery of abuse and corruption, Harrison must risk his own freedom and a chance at happiness with Lamai for a greater cause. Only if they put their heads—and hearts—together can they finally find the peace and love they’ve been seeking. Sensuality Level: Sensual

How to Measure a Relationship
How to Measure a Relationship

Author: Barbara Stroud

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Published: 2012-12-24

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9781479343485

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How to Measure a Relationship is the must have workbook for any service provider designing relationship-based goals and interventions for children birth to five years old. This text strategically walks the reader through the decision making steps to build developmentally focused goals and relationship-based interventions. Helpful charts and a useful decision tree lead to a user friendly high quality clinical tool for any level of provider. Dr. Stroud introduces the concept of the "Causal Rubric", which is a set of critical questions that informs clinicians how to navigate through a myriad of issues facing infants, toddlers, and their families, such as relationship dynamics, trauma, and developmental issues specific to the young child. “I have been waiting for a book like this since beginning graduate school! It clearly outlines and describes attachment-based concepts and goals for infants and preschool children. As a mental health clinician working with young children this book has helped me conceptualize and treatment plan quickly and with increased confidence. This book offers an excellent background for healthy development that all birth-to-five treatment providers can benefit from. I highly recommend this book to anyone working with infants and young children.”Mental health services for infants and toddlers in the public sector funded by MediCaid funds is a relatively new phenomenon. Drawing down MediCaid funds for dyadic therapy makes services available to previously underutilized groups of children ages 0-5, particularly children in child welfare. Many publicly operated county mental health systems are seeking to train a strong workforce of mental health clinicians well prepared to provide services for children 0-5; furthermore, the number of children served by public mental health systems has grown by leaps and bounds. Dr. Stroud's book provides practical solutions to the challenges faced by clinicians new to the field of infant and early childhood mental health and working in the public sector .

She Had a Very Inconvenient Heart
She Had a Very Inconvenient Heart

Author: John Mark Green

Publisher:

Published: 2020-07-19

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13:

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"Once upon a time, there lived a woman afflicted by a heart which felt things far too deeply."Thus begins the tale of Cardia; an empath who longs to be free from emotional pain. Her quest for relief leads to a talking raven, a mysterious Collector who seeks unborn dreams, and an unsavory surgeon with a magical knife. Finally, Cardia finds peace. But when she meets Vatis-a traveling troubadour who falls deeply in love with her-is she doomed to forever regret her desperate decision, or will love triumph over every obstacle?Poet John Mark Green has penned a moving story that explores the extremes the human heart can drive us to. A modern fairy tale for all who dare to believe in love and magic.This edition also includes "If the Stars Should Ever Die", "Leaves from Another World," and an author Q&A interview.

Written on the Body
Written on the Body

Author: Jeanette Winterson

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0307763595

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The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. “At once a love story and a philosophical meditation.” —New York Times Book Review.

The Measure
The Measure

Author: Nikki Erlick

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2022-06-28

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 0063204223

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! "A story of love and hope as interweaving characters display: how all moments, big and small, can measure a life. If you want joy, love, romance, and hope—read with us." —Jenna Bush Hager A luminous, spirit-lifting blockbuster that asks: would you choose to find out the length of your life? Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice. It seems like any other day. You wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and head out. But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. The contents of this mysterious box tells you the exact number of years you will live. From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean? Is there truth to what they promise? As society comes together and pulls apart, everyone faces the same shocking choice: Do they wish to know how long they’ll live? And, if so, what will they do with that knowledge? The Measure charts the dawn of this new world through an unforgettable cast of characters whose decisions and fates interweave with one another: best friends whose dreams are forever entwined, pen pals finding refuge in the unknown, a couple who thought they didn’t have to rush, a doctor who cannot save himself, and a politician whose box becomes the powder keg that ultimately changes everything. Enchanting and deeply uplifting, The Measure is an ambitious, invigorating story about family, friendship, hope, and destiny that encourages us to live life to the fullest.

Measure of My Days
Measure of My Days

Author: Florida Scott-Maxwell

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2013-07-31

Total Pages: 93

ISBN-13: 0307828344

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At eighty-two, Florida Scott-Maxwell felt impelled to write about her strong reactions to being old, and to the time in which we live. Until almost the end this document was not intended for anyone to see, but the author finally decided that she wanted her thoughts and feelings to reach others. Mrs. Scott-Maxwell writes: “I was astonished to find how intensely one lives in one’s eighties. The last years seemed a culmination and by concentrating on them one became more truly oneself. Though old, I felt full of potential life. It pulsed in me even as I was conscious of shrinking into a final form which it was my task and stimulus to complete.” The territory of the old is not Scott-Maxwell’s only concern. In taking the measure of the sum of her days as a woman of the twentieth century, she confronts some of the most disturbing conflicts of human nature—the need for differentiation as against equality, the recognition of the evil forces in our nature—and her insights are challenging and illuminating. The vision that emerges from her accumulated experience of life makes this a remarkable document that speaks to all ages.

The 90-Minute Marriage Miracle
The 90-Minute Marriage Miracle

Author: Jeff Forte

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2013-08

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1452580219

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How to turn your marriage from potential divorce to delight in 90 minutes! Learn immediate solutions to any relationship challenge. Once and for all eliminate the stress of not knowing what to do.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Author: Jeanette Winterson

Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Published: 2012-03-06

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 0802194753

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A New York Times bestseller: The “magnificent” memoir by one of the bravest and most original writers of our time—“A tour de force of literature and love” (Vogue). One of the New York Times’ “50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years” Jeanette Winterson’s bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. Her internationally best-selling debut, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents, and has become a staple of required reading in contemporary fiction classes. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a “singular and electric” memoir about a life’s work to find happiness (The New York Times). It is a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a religious zealot disguised as a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the dresser, waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in a north England industrial town now changed beyond recognition; about the universe as a cosmic dustbin. It is the story of how a painful past, rose to haunt the author later in life, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother. It is also a book about the power of literature, showing how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights, or a life raft that supports us when we are sinking. Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded story of the search for belonging—for love, identity, home, and a mother.

Measure of Love
Measure of Love

Author: Melissa Ford

Publisher: Bell Bridge Books

Published: 2013-03-28

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1611943035

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The sequel to the bestseller, Life from Scratch Getting re-married to your ex? Piece of cake. Praise for Life from Scratch " . . . characters I can relate to, who make me laugh out loud and hungry for dinner." -- MARY ALICE, co-star of Food Network's Ace of Cakes Rachel has made a new life from scratch with her ex-husband, but can they survive the wedding plans? It may be her second time getting married, but Rachel Goldman is definitely navigating a sticky relationship with her former--and soon-to-be-again--mother-in-law. Plus she's in a tug of war with the editor of her upcoming book on divorce who is begging her to keep her happy new relationship with her ex, Adam, on the down low. How can Rachel do that when her society-obsessed mother-in-law is eager to get a featured story in the wedding section of the New York Times? Throw in a sister-in-law-to-be who's navigating her own upcoming nuptials as well as a friend who not only doesn't want to get married, but is possibly having an affair. Rachel finds herself with too many pots simmering on a very familiar stove. Melissa Ford is the author of Life from Scratch, the bestselling prequel to Measure of Love. She writes daily at the award-winning blog, Stirrup Queens, and lives outside Washington, D.C. with her husband and twins. Look for her next novel, Apart at the Seams, coming in 2014. Visit her at www.melissafordauthor.com.

How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics)
How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics)

Author: Clayton M. Christensen

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Published: 2017-01-17

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 1633692574

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In the spring of 2010, Harvard Business School’s graduating class asked HBS professor Clay Christensen to address them—but not on how to apply his principles and thinking to their post-HBS careers. The students wanted to know how to apply his wisdom to their personal lives. He shared with them a set of guidelines that have helped him find meaning in his own life, which led to this now-classic article. Although Christensen’s thinking is rooted in his deep religious faith, these are strategies anyone can use. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.