Emma Lawrence and her sister Rachel had been taken into the Gilmore household on the death of their parents and have known nothing but unkindness at the hands of Fenton and his wife. Now Rachel is dead, brutally raped and strangled, and Emma must dry her tears and flee if she is to escape the same fate.

The year is 2305, and humans have long since found out that they are no longer the only sapient race in the universe. As humans join forces with other alien races to fight a common enemy known as the carians, two military mights emerge. Council Militia and sentinel fleet take up the fight, driving back the carians and slowing their attacks, but they are unable to completely stop them, thus having to always battle small factions throughout the galaxy. Six children, three humans and three aliens, having grown up with one another and later on as adults serving aboard two of sentinel fleet’s large battlecruisers, once again find themselves thrown together along with a derelict spaceship that they rebuild, and they will find as events start to unfold and secrets are revealed that it will be their strong connection to one another that will either carry them through to the end or destroy them and those they care about.

Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, depicting a court life Shakespearean in its pathos, drama, and grandeur. Presented in its social, cultural, and historical contexts, this first complete English translation opens a door into a world teeming with conflicting passions, political intrigue, and the daily preoccupations of a deeply intelligent and articulate woman. JaHyun Kim Haboush's accurate, fluid translation captures the intimate and expressive voice of this consummate storyteller. Reissued nearly twenty years after its initial publication with a new foreword by Dorothy Ko, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong is a unique exploration of Korean selfhood and an extraordinary example of autobiography in the premodern era.

How does a developmental disability affect an individual throughout the course of life? What impact does the disability have on the individual's family? What strengths do families use to cope with these disabilities? What do they do that works? And, what doesn't work? These are the kinds of questions we have been asking individuals and families in our research over the past 15 years. This book was written to report their stories, and to honor these people who have shared their lives and their cries from the heart with us. It is both a positive book and a realistic book: full of love and grief and tenderness and anger and kindness and sorrow and courage. It is as real as the people who gave us the gift of their lives.