For golf pro Piper Holthaus, a not-so-secret romance with wealthy socialite Vanessa Devereaux in exchange for a life of privilege and promotion of her art seems like a small price to pay. Brook Myers is determined not to let her girlfriend Meg’s substance abuse ruin her life or her new catering business, but Meg really needs her and leaving the woman she once loved seems unfathomable. When Piper and Brook meet on a secluded fairway, neither can deny the intense connection that just might be love, but the entanglements of their past may destroy any possibility of a future. Content Warning: Substance abuse

Loving, Biblical Answers on Homosexuality In the next year at least one of these things will happen in your life: • A family member will come out of the closet and expect you to be okay with it. • Your elementary-age child's curriculum will discuss LGBT families. • Your company will talk about building a tolerant workplace for LGBT co-workers. • Your college-age child will tell you your view on homosexuality is bigoted. Are you ready? In their role as pastors, Adam Barr and Ron Citlau have seen how this issue can tear apart families, friendships, and even churches. In this book they combine biblical answers with practical, real-world advice on how to think about and discuss this issue with those you care about. They also tell the story of Ron's personal journey from same-sex attraction and sexual brokenness to healing. Truth does not preclude kindness--and a good dose of humility is necessary to love our neighbors. With sensitivity and winsomeness, this book will offer an honest but inviting message to readers: We are all in need of the healing that can only come from the truth of the gospel.

Leah is twenty when she meets Mr. Right. Although he is only the second man she has ever dated, Leah has no reason to believe Shalom is anything other than a good, kind, and generous soul. Even as their relationship is just beginning and distance separates them, Leah has no doubt that he is the man she will marry. However, when Shaloms behavior turns abusive, Leah is filled with self-doubt, confusion, and depression. Leah must now come to terms with the fact that the man she loves and wants to marry is abusive. She is approached with confusion on all sides, especially when her family doesnt want to believe in Shaloms abusive behavior. Leah must look inside of herself to find the strength to overcome the situation. In this novel based on true events, a young Jewish woman who becomes embroiled in an abusive relationship over the course of several years must somehow find the strength to overcome the pain and allow her heart to open up again.

Every time we talk with people we are trying to influence their behavior, and they are trying to influence ours. The words we use, the way we dress and move, are all ways to seek to control one another. Though we may make these attempts unknowingly, they leave us open to dangerous manipulation. People-Reading will teach you how to listen and what to look for in yourself and those around you, so you can identify underlying hidden motives, expectations, and fears. By reading these hidden messages you can avoid their damaging effects.

Loves Story, the final volume of Ajit Sripad Rao Nalkurs trilogy on love, highlights his vision and realisation of true love on Earth. The poems in this volume were written over a period of twenty years while Nalkur was living and working in Australia and the United States and after he returned to his birth country, India. This volume is divided into three parts. The Vision contains poems he began to write in Australia in the early 1990s and takes a narrative form, with much of the work appearing in prose. It offers the poets visionary experience of love Part two, entitled Love on Earth, addresses the realisation and actualisation of that love. The third and final part of the book, Poets Corner, contains verse on the art of poetry. Loves Story explores true love in all its aspects and considers the realisation of a dream of such a love on Earth.

Emotions shape our mental and social lives. Their relation to morality is, however, problematic. Since ancient times, philosophers have disagreed about the place of emotions in morality. One the one hand, some hold that emotions are disorderly and unpredictable animal drives, which undermine our autonomy and interfere with our reasoning. For them, emotions represent a persistent source of obstacles to morality, as in the case of self-love. Some virtues, such as prudence, temperance, and fortitude, require or simply consist in the capacity to counteract the disruptive effect of emotions. On the other hand, venerable traditions of thought place emotions such as respect, love, and compassion at the very heart of morality. Emotions are sources of moral knowledge, modes of moral recognition, discernment, valuing, and understanding. Emotions such as blame, guilt, and shame are the voice of moral conscience, and are central to the functioning of our social lives and normative practices. New scientific findings about the pervasiveness of emotions posit new challenges to ethical theory. Are we responsible for emotions? What is their relation to practical rationality? Are they roots of our identity or threats to our autonomy? This volume is born out of the conviction that philosophy provides a distinctive approach to these problems. Fourteen original articles, by prominent scholars in moral psychology and philosophy of mind, offer new arguments about the relation between emotions and practical rationality, value, autonomy, and moral identity.