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In the heady gold rush days of the 1860s, men went missing and were never found. Some drowned, some starved, some simply disappeared never to be seen again. Mary Healey finds herself alone in a new country with six children. After trekking across the province searching for her missing husband Jim, she finally gives up looking for him and discovers a new place to call home. She purchases the Welcome Home Hotel, and posing as a respectable widow, runs a successful establishment with the aid of her three daughters, Annie, Meg, and Kitty. But the past refuses to remain buried and surfaces only to rip open barely healed scars. With the help of a young priest, Mary reluctantly embarks on a journey that is harder than traveling from the other side of the world, a journey of learning to forgive and love again. A story of love, loyalty, and betrayal, Riverstones is a passionate story of a family who learn when all else is lost, love remains.
Written by a leading team from the Australian Society for Simulation in Healthcare (ASSH), Simulation Australasia, Healthcare Simulation Education is a new resource for a rapidly expanding professional healthcare simulation community. Designed as a core reference for educators who use simulation as an educational method, it outlines theory, evidence and research relevant to healthcare simulation. Containing examples of innovations from around the world, the book offers opportunities to make clear connections between the underlying rationale for the use of simulation, and what this looks like in practice. Healthcare Simulation Education: Helps readers gain a systematic understanding of theory...
Riley Maddox is searching for two things: freedom and fame. She is relentless when it comes to her dreams, but is it all she ever dreamed it to be? She gets herself into some sticky situations as she seems to make a few questionable decisions and as she struggles with the closest relationships in her life including the one with herself, she begins to unravel the root of the issue. When does love become abuse? How much will she accept until she's had enough? Dive deep into the intimate and raw world of Riley and see where she ends up and whom she ends up with.Warning: this book depicts graphic violence and explicit sex.
"Jim, Mary's husband, has returned, and together they are trying to build a future that will become a legacy. However Mary feels her hold on her children is slipping, and life is becoming as uncontrollable as the river in flood. News of gold being struck on the West Coast sparks a new rush, and Mary fears her precious hotel will be deserted, and Long Gully will become a ghost town. Scattered Stones is a story of one family who face many challenges but whose closeness and strength prove that when all else is lost, love remains"--Back cover.
Summer break is ending and Scarlett Du Pont is soon off to college. She's anticipating an invitation to the enigmatic Black Rose Society, but is it going to be as exciting as she anticipated? Follow along on her journey that takes place throughout all four years of college and the twists and turns they entail. [*Same book, alternate ending.*]
After ten years away, Keeley Carpenter is excited to be back in Belfrey, the traditional English village hometown she fled as a shy teen, with a plan to reopen her father's neglected butcher shop as a yoga café, where she will sell delicious vegetarian food by day and teach yoga classes at night. However the more traditional residents of Belfrey do not take kindly to this idea-or really anything they deem even remotely "New Age-y." Within an hour of her arrival, Keeley comes face to face with Detective Constable Ben Taylor, who tells her that someone has just tried to burn down her shop. When officers arrived to stop the blaze, a body was found upstairs. Horrified by this news, Keeley is al...
A story born within America's twentieth-century Gilded Age. High times for the outrageous superrich. A razzmatazz, anything-goes decade--the Roaring Twenties. Mansion owners drenched with slow-burning madness and murder. Terror abounds, lurking within the abandoned, old Gothic mansion resurrected in early twenty-first century. With its long violent history, evil forces begin to haunt twenty-first-century owners. Its evil past watching, influencing, and connecting a century later.
Thirlmere hides a deadly secret... Drought hits the Lake District, uncovering a skeleton at the bottom of Thirlmere reservoir. The case quickly becomes personal for DI Kelly Porter when she discovers it’s the remains of an old classmate, missing for over twenty years. Then a day later, another body is found in a caravan park, its head broken and bloody. Kelly suspects these two crimes are linked. But if she’s right, that means there’s a ruthless killer somewhere in her community – someone who will do anything to keep the truth buried... A brilliantly clever, ‘finish-in-one-night’ murder mystery starring the hugely popular DI Kelly Porter, set in the stunning mountains and valleys...
Devoted to the Arts and Crafts Movement past and present, this new magazine celebrates the revival of quality and craftsmanship. Each issue is a portfolio of the best work in new construction, restoration, and interpretive design, presented through intelligent writing and beautiful photographs. Offering hundreds of contemporary resources, it showcases the work not only of past masters, but also of those whose livelihoods are made in creating well-crafted homes and furnishings today. The emphasis is on today’s revival in architecture, furniture, and artisanry, informed by international Arts & Crafts and the early-20th-century movement in America: William Morris through the Bungalow era. Includes historic houses, essays and news, design details, how-to articles, gardens and landscape, kitchens and baths. Lots of expert advice and perspective for those building, renovating, or furnishing a home in the Arts & Crafts spirit. From the publisher of Old-House Interiors magazine and the Design Center Sourcebook. artsandcraftshomes.com