As Christmas approaches, a Navy SEAL will stop at nothing to protect his fallen cousin’s widow in this suspenseful holiday romance. Just in time for the holidays, Navy SEAL Zach McCloud returns home from deployment. But there’s little time for celebration before he discovers that someone wants his family dead. When he married his cousin’s struggling widow, he vowed to do anything he could to help her and her seriously ill son. Now he’ll risk everything to protect them . . . even if their arrangement is only temporary. Kristi is certain an unhappy client from her law firm is determined to hunt her down. But when a sniper bullet wildly misses its target, they begin to question who the intended victim is. Working together, Zach and Kristi must keep little Cody safe from the nefarious forces determined to make this Christmas their last.

God has given Julie, Luke and Jason some unexpected direction. They are not sure what it means. They can only follow the clues God has given and hope for the best. The kids don't know it yet but they are about to get mixed up in the rescue of a missing undercover Customs agent. It won't be easy.

The intrepid women of The Hot Flash Club are back for the holidays, soothing jingled nerves and stressed shoppers in their exclusive spa and celebrating the joys of the season. In her witty and delightfully wisecracking prose, Nancy Thayer tells a heartwarming tale packed with fun, secrets, romance–and an ample dose of good cheer. When the Hot Flash friends gather at the spa to trim the Christmas tree, they share steaming mugs of hot chocolate, a few laughs, and a vow to make this holiday one to remember. And it is–but not in the cheerful, ho-ho-ho way they expected. Instead, Christmas brings family conflicts, household accidents, plane delays–and that’s just the beginning. After a hazardous holiday season, the women make resolutions that they intend to keep . . . in a perfect world. But life–and their friends and relatives–cause complications. Shirley lends financial support to her boyfriend’s schemes, which infuriates Alice, whose own son commits an act she’s not sure she can accept. Marilyn travels to Scotland and falls in love, but her octogenarian mother needs her at home. And when Polly and Faye find themselves pitted against each other by a younger woman, an they overcome this clash to make a new, entrepreneurial dream come true? Then real disaster strikes, bringing new challenges and surprising revelations. Just as every month of the year throws new problems at us all, so too does the end of the year give us the chance to reunite and put these problems into their proper perspective. And when the Hot Flash Five get together for the holidays, we should expect nothing less than the unexpected.

The only fully comprehensive guide to "all things feline," from the host of Cat Chat on Martha Stewart Living Radio. Finally, a definitive book that delivers many unknown facts about every aspect of caring for and sharing your life with a cat, ranging from proper nutrition and strange behavior to medical care and multi-cat households, to grooming and geriatrics. The Cat Bible explains the mysteries of feline behavior to owners who are devoted to their cats without being able to fully understand them. It offers straightforward solutions to the problems that cause people to give up their cats, many of which are preventable, including litter box avoidance, furniture scratching, and physical ailments. There are more than 90 million American households that count cats as family members, but they are a vastly underserved population, devoted to their kitties, yet bereft of all the public attention, programming, and print devoted to dogs. Now, bestselling author and investigative journalist Tracie Hotchner offers them The Cat Bible, with straightforward, fact-filled solutions to health and behavior problems, based on years of research into the real reasons behind these issues. In the same warm, straightforward style that attracts devoted listeners to her radio shows, Tracie tackles controversial topics such as the truth about commercial dry pet foods and their dangers, bringing readers the latest facts on every topic that affects a feline?s well-being.

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Abstract: This curriculum resource guide has been prepared by the Consumer Product Safety Commission for teachers of grades three through six to provide them with product safety information appropriate for young children. The guide aims to make young children more aware of the potential hazards associated with selected consumer products and to help them use, maintain, store and dispose of these products safely. Unit topics include 1) basic safety concepts; 2) home fire safety; 3) playground safety; 4) bicycle, roller skate, and skateboard safety; 5) poisoning prevention; 6) toy safety; 7) holiday safety; and 8) electrical safety. Units consist of the following components: introduction, main principle, summary of objectives, suggested discussion questions, activity charts, unit objectives, student competency objectives, student activities, glossary, and teacher resource information. The curriculum is designed to encourage learning in a variety of ways, including direct involvement, problem solving, creative decision making, and hands-on experiences. Recommended activities are designed for the classroom and for the home. (aje).