The leap from Insurance Executive to COO of a retirement community was a challenge for Sue Edwards. Despite her strong business and relationship building skills, Sue had to prove that she could lead a talented group of professionals who had been at Bainbridge for decades. She knew there would be challenges, but what she didn't expect was a passive aggressive CFO determined to undermine her efforts. Will the Performance Improvement Team (PIT Crew) be able to bridge the gap? Follow one organization's journey through changes in strategies and ways of doing things through relationship building, leadership, and trust. The PIT Crew changed Bainbridge Village. It will change you too.

Professor Leif Hansen, a wealthy Danish botanist, builds a pioneer ecovillage for scientists to begin research into lichen that could one day produce oxygen on Mars for future space missions. NASA agrees to help with the project and finds a suitable location for his research in Namibia, South West Africa, where he and his fellow ecovillagers can research permaculture, eco-living, and getting back in touch with Mother Nature. Unknown to him a cabal founded by surviving Nazis are planning World War Three and some of their members plan to take it by force as a haven. As the nuclear holocaust threatens their existence, the villagers resort to extreme measures to defend their precious oasis in the desert that they have strived for years to build, while battling both local militia and mercenaries. But what if the green revolution isn't what we think it is?

An illustrated handbook of tips for creating a habitat favorable to all stages of a butterfly's life. Includes information on butterfly and caterpillar plants for every region.

SUN IN FLIGHT is tragic-comedy. The Kindlers inhabit a world lurching from Hiroshima to Woodstock to 9/11. Terror of the Bomb becomes fear of Terror. In the family saga, dreamtime magic seeps into daytime reality. The wider focus is on the arms race and the 'special relationship' of two countriesIn Volume III, BUTTERFLIES, the Kindlers move to Tehran. Cal then quits the State Dept. and flees to Scotland with his family. Trying to get away from the Missile Crisis, they find that Edinburgh is not so far from Havana.Cal teaches in Kentucky, where Sammy discovers hash brownies while twin Harry stays forever sober British. Cal then finds work in London. 1968 finds Sammy in Paris. Harry studies in England and meets Kuwaiti Rashid, conduit to the Arab world. Sammy takes a memorable acid trip. Maggie's parents grow odder as her children grow farther away. Patty's dreams turn seriously strange. The book ends with the Apollo moon landing.

Susan is a caseworker for CPS and she is a dreamer and thinks that all things are possible despite what others think. Join her world in the barrios of San Antonio and see kids the way she sees them caterpillars waiting for their wings. It's a story of redemption and the freedom that comes with acceptance.

Now in paperback from "New York Times"-bestselling author Monroe, the story of four very different women who embark on a transformational journey following the migrating monarchs across the United States.

Sheila Larksdon had all the comforts most women wanted. Attractive, married, wealth, a beautiful home in the Atlanta suburbs, and her own business. Except she wasn’t satisfied in her bedroom where she pined for more from her husband, Mark. Asked to assist a female relative of Mark’s, sell her home and buy a new one, Sheila readily agreed. But it required spending long weekends away from home. It was during those weekends that Sheila and the relative began an illicit affair that altered Sheila’s life forever. A senseless act of betrayal brought Sheila to her senses, and she ended the relationship before it ruined her marriage. Years later, after Mark’s death, Sheila left her life in Atlanta behind and moved in with Regina, the woman Sheila had an affair with, and the two reignited their love affair. Content in her life as a lesbian, Sheila made plans to take on new challenges and make new memories. But fate intervened, and Regina was fatally shot and killed during a robbery. Alone again, Sheila longed for human companionship and began engaging in affairs with men and women. One was A New Year’s Eve dinner date that ended tragically for Sheila and almost lost her life. A chance encounter with Charlotte, a woman from her past, led to the women forming a bond. Both shared intimate things from their past, and the bond strengthened into love. Sheila saw a future with Charlotte and began a life with her designed to last forever. But, did anything last forever for Sheila?