Trails 1: Fault Lines Pair 1, Book 1 A devastating cascade of earthquakes strike New Mexico's forgotten fault lines. Quakes spread across the continent. Fumeroles emerge in unknown hotspots. As the continental plates shift, so do the lives of Amber and Alex as they struggle to find firm ground in the altered landscape. Their search for the source of the quakes leads them to an inaccessible volcanic plain in the one place they don't want to go. Aftershocks spread through the land, changing communities, forcing most to flee for their lives. The world as Amber and Alex knew crumbles around them. Family and friends missing. Communications fail. Society as they knew it, teeters on the brink of collapse.
Trails 4: Mines Pair 2, Book 2 Time: 210 years in the future Klapit mine abandoned to the ghosts. Shelpit mine nearly empty after half a generation. The orphans are now adults, struggling to find a future in Shells. Corandra feels her ancestors have cursed her. Which seems to be proven when she digs up a box in a forbidden location that brings a devastating illness to the villa. Rusty fears her future as the dig leader is at stake because the mine she found as a child is now empty. With no practicable skill, she has no guaranteed place among the villa. Ambrena's foster sister/mother Tanna fears Tanna's daughters will replace her as apprentice healer in the villa. Leaving her alone, adrift, without a purpose. Rusty and Ambrena believe they have been truly banished when they are sent together to find Corandra's mother, to bring their wayward fellow orphan sister home to Shells.
Trails 3: Tales Pair 2, Book 1 Time: 200 years in the future Roamers appear from the unknown lands. Fear spreads, as the dig leader of Webbel adjusts the rules one too many times. When did travel beyond Klapit end? Why did the leader choose to send the members of the other villas away before the dig season began? The community splits as the specter of violence from the tales of their ancestors appears in their midst. Zella and Tanna must both fight an evil so great, it only exists in campfire tales. Trauma everyone thought was long forgotten, and would never return to disturb the peace of their villas has returned. Zella must slip out of hiding to save herself, and the rest of the community leaders. Tanna must reach through the fog of fear to find leadership qualities she didn't know she possessed.
Trails 2: Volcano Pair 1, Book 2 Oceans heave as the Ring of Fire bursts with increased activity. Continental plates shift, rip apart, and bounce against each other. Amber and Alex assist rescue and relocation efforts, while searching for missing friends and family members. Power plants shut down after the electric grid crashed with little hope of repair. With phones down, communication is limited to short wave radio. Remaining fuel is reserved for the military for evacuations north of the volcanic and earthquake activity. Desperate men roam the streets of the towns where most have evacuated. As communities melt apart as societal walls rise. Men, women, and cultures clash as if they had never learned to live together in peace. Together, the survivors must build a future in a tangled environment of fear, hunger, cold, and desolation.
Terra is always outside, looking in. No true connection to anyone, anywhere, except for one city friend. She expects the village life stories from the elders to be simple and routine. Never has she been expected to participate in the village life. Sure. She's rocked a baby, cooked a meal, shared memories. No more, until now. This village of people lost between cultures is different. Their fragmented stream of life sweeps her off her feet, and threatens all she knows of her own past, and future. Some villagers wish the whole village to flounder on the border of the only homeland they know. She must tame the stream back into its banks, and strengthen it for the future. Terra risks her past, future, and one friendship in the world, to try to rescue this village. And the children she has begun to call her own.
Real solutions to a hidden epidemic: family estrangement. Estrangement from a family member is one of the most painful life experiences. It is devastating not only to the individuals directly involved--collateral damage can extend upward, downward, and across generations, More than 65 million Americans suffer such rifts, yet little guidance exists on how to cope with and overcome them. In this book, Karl Pillemer combines the advice of people who have successfully reconciled with powerful insights from social science research. The result is a unique guide to mending fractured families. Fault Lines shares for the first time findings from Dr. Pillemer's ten-year groundbreaking Cornell Reconciliation Project, based on the first national survey on estrangement; rich, in-depth interviews with hundreds of people who have experienced it; and insights from leading family researchers and therapists. He assures people who are estranged, and those who care about them, that they are not alone and that fissures can be bridged. Through the wisdom of people who have "been there," Fault Lines shows how healing is possible through clear steps that people can use right away in their own families. It addresses such questions as: How do rifts begin? What makes estrangement so painful? Why is it so often triggered by a single event? Are you ready to reconcile? How can you overcome past hurts to build a new future with a relative? Tackling a subject that is achingly familiar to almost everyone, especially in an era when powerful outside forces such as technology and mobility are lessening family cohesion, Dr. Pillemer combines dramatic stories, science-based guidance, and practical repair tools to help people find the path to reconciliation.
Anne knows she cannot leave Kyle. Believes he is the first person to never lie to her. Never will leave, once her son is born. Escaping is fraught with danger. No contact orders mean nothing to abusers. Survivors of domestic abuse know they will be tracked. And often murdered. She has been conditioned to believe abuse is normal. Trained to believe fear, hiding, and secrets are routine for everyone. Law prevents mothers with children from escaping, unless she abandons her children to the abuser, to keep another generation under the thumb of abuse. Jo and Lennie won't give up trying to find Anne. To rescue her. To bring her to safety with Ruby's Law, inadequate as it is. In legal limbo land, safe from her abuser, surrounded by other survivors. Few make it out to live beyond the bars. It simply isn't safe. Abusers wait out there. Often barely beyond the fence. 44 Chapters 80,000 Words 6 X 9 - 315 7 X 10 - 373
Self-publishing feels overwhelming. So many places to start. Multiple options to upload various file types. They don't all match. Several distributors and combinations of distributors and social media blast options. It's difficult to know where to begin. Each section of this workbook goes into detail about everything you need before you reach the destination's internet page. Step one covers an indepth look at nine distributors. The cover page for each highlights the major points later broken into individual worksheets. Step two goes into more detail about the pre-launch and post-publishing marketing aspects among several platforms. The Book Listing Newsletter sites picks a few sites to cover. More come and go every day. It gives a general idea of what you need prepared to use them. The last major section covers information about direct sales. This is something some authors look forward to, and others dread. It'll give you a list of points to remember for each one. This group of checklists aims to help you organize your plan. Of course, it can't cover every option out there. They are constantly changing. Use these lists as a guide on your publishing and marketing journey. Worksheets can be printed and updated for each project, or kept in a binder to refer to on all stages of the process: before, during, and after publication.
Do you crave banana pudding? Enjoy fresh, warm brownies? Relish biscuits and gravy? Miss birthday cake? Yearn for homemade cookies? Dream of creamy casseroles? Long for weekend pancakes? Hunger for pizza? They can easily be made gluten and allergy free. As tasty, if not more so, than gluten filled products. While cooking and baking gluten (and allergy) free is often as simple as leaving the grains out, boxed mixes are available for allergy safe treats. Most grain items can be found at your local grocery store. Fresh produce can be easily grown, or bought at a local farmers market. Over 52 successful and affordable gluten (or other allergy) free recipes made with easy to find ingredients from your local store, or garden. Most recipes are grain free, and easy to cook. Enjoy cooking and eating again!
Do you remember your first job? Your first supervisor? Your first car? Do you remember what year you graduated from high school or college, and with what GPA? It's amazing what odd knowledge tidbits we forget that are suddenly needed for credit scores, job applications, or even loans in the future. Trivia that either doesn't seem to matter at the time, or is misplaced in the shuffle of daily life and obligations to reach your goals. Some memories we think were only a year ago, may actually be a decade ago. Journey Through Life Lists workbook will help you track all of this and more! Avoid the stress at crunch time and save those memories, for yourself, your friends, and your family.
