Renee Harper is living it up alone in California, hundreds of miles away from the close-knit family she had always depended on. With her new-found independence, she finally feels like her life might be falling into place. New friends and a budding photography career are just the beginning. When a night out shatters everything Renee thought she knew about herself, it takes a face from her past to force her to confront the future she never knew she needed. In this final installment of the Finding Home trilogy, the time has come for Renee to choose the road that will lead her home.

Reaching Home Plate is strictly geared to help baseball players develop their game and unlock their full potential. The book covers a ton of topics & everything that I've learned in my 15 years of playing baseball. I acknowledge that I'm not an expert in any field whatsoever-- so as much as I share my own personal experiences and lessons, this is where a majority of the book is merely contributions from many college coaches/ players, pro coaches/players, as well as S&C coaches & nutritionists. Readers get a good glimpse into many different takes into what makes an elite baseball player. This is a must read for parents, coaches, and players!

Life in Sweden feels like an endless winter to Elin Carlson after the deaths of her parents. When circumstances become unbearable, she determines to find a safe haven for her sisters. So begins their journey to America . . . the land of dreams and second chances. But as hardship becomes their constant companion, Elin, Kirsten, and Sofia question their decision to immigrate to Chicago. Will their hopes for the future ever be realized? ONLY IN CROSSING A SEEMINGLY ENDLESS OCEAN WILL THEY FIND THE TRUE MEANING OF LOVE, FAITH, AND HOME A Christy Award Winner

This book has been replaced by Adolescents at Risk: Home-Based Family Therapy and School-Based Intervention, ISBN 978-1-4625-3653-5.

About the Book Reaching Home at First Light explores the world one man experienced growing up in the “Atomic City” of Oak Ridge, Tennessee as a child with a birth defect. Ron Breazeale, Ph.D. speaks of his experiences growing up and wearing a prosthetic hook most of his life. About the Author Ron Breazeale, PhD. is a clinical psychologist who has worked in the field of psychology for over 30 years. He writes about the things that he knows. He was born with a birth defect, the absence of a left hand, in the “Atomic City” of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He has worn a prosthetic hook most of his life. He has worked briefly with the CIA. He and his wife adopted their one child a daughter in Peru when she was three months old in the middle of a major offensive against the Peruvian government by the Shining Path, a communist supported terrorist group. Most of Dr. Breazeale's wife's family died in the Holocaust. Dr. Breazeale has developed a number of training programs focused on the attitudes and skills of resilience. He lives and works in southern Maine.

Why do parents who can pull off multi-million dollar deals at work then go home and stumble with their kids? Parents spend an awful lot of time negotiating with their kids—over everyday requests, rules and policies, and big decisions, and often end up derailed and frustrated. In Negotiating at Home, Kurtzberg and Kern offer parents a chance to look more closely at what they already do well (and why) and what can be done better. Grounded in decades of research on how to negotiate effectively, parents will learn about how to plan, recognize specific tactics, communicate and work in partnerships with other family members, address fairness, and handle conflict.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Machine Learning, ECML 2006, held, jointly with PKDD 2006. The book presents 46 revised full papers and 36 revised short papers together with abstracts of 5 invited talks, carefully reviewed and selected from 564 papers submitted. The papers present a wealth of new results in the area and address all current issues in machine learning.