Luck seems in short supply for homeless runaway Joanna. Living in a shed with no electricity or running water, she's cold, hungry, dirty, and desperate. She's not desperate enough to go back to the angry fists, boots, or whatever else Carlos might throw at her; and not desperate enough to go back to a mother who never really wanted her and barely acknowledges she exists. It's not the life she hoped for or dreamed of, especially now that she has a baby on the way, but it's her life, of her own choosing. She's going to have a family of her own, even if it is only her and her little one against the world. Sometimes, where luck fails, fate steps in.

[Menage Amour: Erotic Paranormal Menage a Trois Romance, M/F/M, shape-shifters, HEA] Kate Edwards and Bran McGregor have been mated almost two years and things are going great. So Kate is shocked at her body's reaction to Caleb Donovan, one of the newest members of their Pack and father to twin boys Landon and Lucas. When she realizes that he is her second mate she must figure out a way for them to come together as a family. When the hyenas return, this time to kidnap their sons, Kate, Caleb, and Bran find themselves questioning the loyalty of the Pack around them and relying on those outside the Pack to keep their sons safe. Unable to discover how the hyenas are able to enter Arkadia, tragedy strikes and Pack, Pride, and Sloth come together to defend their town against the hyenas, but will it be enough for everyone to make it out alive? ** A Siren Erotic Romance

As the top Alpha male of Boston, it's Drew's job to keep his Pack safe, keep the humans from finding about their existence, try to pretend that he was fine with the way that his life was going and most importantly, not to give into the urge to kill Kara, the thorn in his side for way too long. When fate steps in one night and destroys his world, he strikes back, but his new mate is more than he can handle...

Aa! & I left my own corpse back there! Spine-chilling! That s Intizar Husain for you. One of the finest living writers in Urdu escorts you along the sinuous bylanes of Hindustan and the glitzy Pakistani shops in Anarkali Bazaar, along runaway clouds and forbidden domains. An uncertain but promising journey, a mind-blowing experience

L'Assommoir is analysed as a social and political novel and in the context of its repercussions in the history of the novel.

Aimed at social scientists, this book discusses family policy in general and the New Federalism in particular, and experimental implementation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWOA) in the United States. Here, emphasis in family policy is shifted from a centralized entitlement approach to an exchange of personal responsibility, work, and training for better support services.

While the family and its role continues to be a key topic in social and government policy, much of the literature is concerned with describing the dramatic changes that are taking place. By contrast, Analysing Families directly addresses the social processes responsible for these changes - how social policy interacts with what families actually do. Topics covered include: * the relationship between morality and rationality in the family context * the variety of contemporary family forms * the purposes and assumptions of government interventions in family life * the relationship between different welfare states and different ideas about motherhood * 'Third Way' thinking on families * divorce and post-divorce arrangements * lone parenthood and step-parenting * the decision to have children * the economic approach to understanding family process * the legitimacy of state intervention in family life. With contributions from the UK, and North America, Analysing Families provides the framework within which to understand an increasingly important element in social policy.