By Eileen Davidson

First in a enjoyable new cleaning soap opera secret series—written by way of an emmy®-nominated cleaning soap star... She’s daring. She’s attractive. And she’s approximately to visit prison for murder... cleaning soap opera actress Alexis Peterson has starred within the nation’s most sensible cleaning soap opera for nearly twenty years. yet her profession takes a nose-dive while Marcy Blanchard is employed because the head author. Little did Alexis discover that Marcy’s been preserving a grudge these kind of years—and is able to take her revenge. So whilst Marcy turns up lifeless, bludgeoned to demise along with her Emmy®, nobody is stunned that Alexis is the major suspect. not anyone other than Alexis, that's, who is aware she has to take concerns into her personal arms if she desires to keep away from being arrested for a criminal offense she didn’t commit—and changing into the true killer’s subsequent victim...

By Mike Dooley

From the afterlife—a new point of view in your life

“I understand this can come as a surprise, and also you be aware of I’m no longer keen on utilizing stale one-liners, but—‘reports of my demise were vastly exaggerated.’ I’m as alive now as i used to be at the day we met, other than, might be, extra so.”

If the useless might converse, don’t you ask yourself what they might say to these folks they’ve left at the back of? What could they let us know to assuage our sorrow for his or her loss, calm our fears of what occurs after we die, and fireplace us as much as stay the very best lives we will be able to correct now?

In pages full of knowledge, humor, and, definite, pleasure, New York Times best-selling writer Mike Dooley explores our such a lot urgent and profound questions about the afterlife—and this life—from the clean standpoint of these who've made the transition to the subsequent part. one of the revelations and insights they share:

• We have been prepared; you're not.
• There’s no such factor as a satan or hell.
• We’re sorry for any ache we could have caused.
• Your pets are only as loopy, terrific, and loving the following as they have been there.
• not anything we are saying can arrange you for the great thing about the instant you arrive.

You’ll research that our household should not misplaced to us; that our time in the world is either a faculty and an experience; that, all appearances on the contrary, lifestyles really is reasonable; and that we have got it in us to reshape our personal fortunes, beginning at the present time.

By Patrick Ness

From two-time Carnegie Medal winner Patrick Ness comes a charming and provocative new novel chronicling the life—or possibly afterlife—of an adolescent trapped in a crumbling, deserted world.

A boy named Seth drowns, determined and on my own in his ultimate moments, wasting his lifestyles because the pounding sea claims him. yet then he wakes. he's bare, thirsty, ravenous. yet alive. How is that attainable? He recollects demise, his bones breaking, his cranium dashed upon the rocks. So how is he the following? And the place is that this position? It appears like the suburban English city the place he lived as a toddler, prior to an unthinkable tragedy occurred and his relations moved to the United States. however the local round his previous home is overgrown, lined in dirt, and fully deserted. What's happening? And why is it that every time he closes his eyes, he falls prey to bright, agonizing stories that appear extra genuine than the realm round him? Seth starts a look for solutions, hoping that he will not be by myself, that this would no longer be the hell he fears it to be, that there can be greater than simply this...

By Karen A. Ritzenhoff, J. Kazecki

Filmic buildings of conflict heroism have a profound influence on public perceptions of conflicts. right here, individuals research the methods motifs of gender and heroism in warfare movies are used to justify ideological positions, form the knowledge of the army conflicts, aid political agendas and associations, and impact collective reminiscence.

By Maxwell Grant (Walter B. Gibson)

By Jo?o Jos? Reis, H. Sabrina Gledhill

By Graham Oliver

Tombstones give you the greatest unmarried classification of epigraphical proof from the traditional global. in spite of the fact that, epigraphy – the examine of inscriptions – continues to be, for lots of scholars of background and archaeology, an abstruse topic. through marrying epigraphy and loss of life, the individuals to this assortment wish to inspire a much broader viewers to contemplate the significance of inscribed tombstones.

By Louis E. LaGrand

"Dr. LaGrand's recommendation and proposals achieve from and to either center and head ... a strong and significant lesson approximately grief – that even in grief, we will be able to nonetheless grow." – Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, senior advisor, Hospice origin of America

Through Your Loss Comes The energy to Grow

Whether the loss of life of a friend is surprising or follows a protracted conflict with ailment, there's no option to arrange for the lack of somebody shut. Grieving is painful, yet you could have a decision in the way you take care of grief and – most significantly – the way you adapt to the serious loss you've experienced.

Grief counseling specialist Dr. Louis LaGrand describes one zero one assistance and prescriptions to assist mourners via their tragic loss. His particular coping options supply sensible suggestion, finally providing you with pathways for reaching lasting internal peace through the use of the single factor you could keep an eye on – your individual reaction to grief.

Heal your internal grief and locate peace by:

• beginning every day with an affirmative action
• constructing a grief or fear time
• making plans prematurely for birthdays, anniversaries, and significant holidays
• studying to get pleasure from new routines
• Letting move of "if onlys" and "what ifs"
• by no means ruling out happiness

By Alan D. Wolfelt PhD

In gentle of the way tricky it is only to outlive the teenage years, the grieving method might be in particular tricky and overwhelming for teens. This diary affirms the grieving teen's trip and gives mild, therapeutic information. which will kind via their complicated emotions and concepts, kids are triggered to discover uncomplicated, open-ended questions. children are inspired to jot down what they omit concerning the one that died, the categorical emotions which were so much tough because the loss of life, or the issues they want that they had acknowledged to the individual sooner than they died.

By Robert Sherman La Forte, Ronald E. Marcello

The Oscar-winning motion picture 'Bridge Over the River Kwai' dramatized to thousands the construction of the notorious jap 'Death Railway' - the provision line for Japan's deliberate invasion of India in the course of international warfare II. however the motion picture informed purely a part of the tale, giving the impact that each one males engaged on the road have been British. in reality, 668 americans - serving at the USS Houston and with the Texas nationwide Guard's moment Battalion - labored along the opposite Allied troops within the jungle camps. In 'Building the dying Railway', their tale is instructed for the 1st time. In 22 interviews with American survivors, we study the main points in their long ordeal. sickness, punishment, camaraderie, paintings stipulations and makes an attempt to flee are defined by way of the boys who have been there. the tale starts off with their seize and ends with their liberation forty two months later. The Burma-Thailand 'Death Railway' used to be the most terrible sentences a prisoner of warfare may undergo. millions died within the jungles of Burma. greater than a hundred thirty americans - one guy in 5 - by no means back domestic, sufferers of overlook, abuse, hunger and affliction. 'Building the demise Railway' provides the yankee standpoint on occasions that stunned the area.