A moving novel of sisterhood and finding yourself tells the story of a newly engaged woman who decides to use her engagement party as a way to reconcile her estranged sisters—much to their chagrin. Courtney, Norah, and Raine Cassel are as different as three sisters can be. Norah, the oldest, is a type A obsessive who hasn't forgiven Raine, the middle sister, for ruining her wedding day six years ago. Raine is Norah's opposite, a wild child/performance artist/follow-your-bliss hippie chick who ran off to California. The only thing the two have in common is their ability to drive Courtney, their youngest sister, crazy. When her longtime boyfriend proposes, Courtney decides it's finally time to call a truce and bring the three sisters together. After all, they're grown-ups now, right? But it turns out that family ghosts aren't easily defeated—and neither are first loves. Soon Courtney finds herself reexamining every choice she has made in the past six years—including the man she's about to marry—and the value of reconnecting with the sisters she knows she needs, in spite of everything.

Courtney's boyfriend has just gone down on one knee and asked her to be his wife. She couldn't be happier. And with her super-organised sister, Norah, to help her plan the wedding, what could possibly go wrong? Nothing, until Courtney decides their other sister, Raine, should be invited. No one has seen or heard from Raine for six years - since she ruined Norah's own wedding and ran off with the love of Courtney's life. Convinced they should all be able to move on after so much time, Courtney gets the sisters back together again only to find that family ghosts aren't easily vanquished - and neither are first loves. Reuniting her family is going to make Courtney reconsider every decision she's made for the last six years - right down to the man she's about to marry. It's going to be one long summer...

How much of your childhood do you remember? When's the last time you even thought about it? This thought-provoking collection of short stories will have you reading, becoming teary-eyed, laughing, and depserately trying to remember your own childhood memories. Be prepared for the unexpected emotional responses that surface as your breeze through each story and grasp at glimpses from your own life's drama. Although these stories are presented in the author's chronological maturation process (from the crib to age 13), they can easily be read on independent of another. Each unique recollection is filled with its own characters and plots. In these action-packed pages, the author delves into spiritual values, the childish pranks of siblings, emotional and physical abuse, a mother's love, and the unconditional love of God. You will finish this novel deeply reflecting on your memories, what is important in your life, and the people and circumstances that influenced you the most.

Sibling Abuse, Second Edition provides insight into this form of abuse and carefully describes the range of abusive behaviors perpetrated among siblings. Along with personal accounts by adult survivors, this completely updated book describes appropriate steps for parents to take in order to evaluate and respond to their children's abusive interactions. A new chapter on current techniques of assessment and treatment also helps therapists or counselors work to end this problem. Very readable yet reinforced by the latest research, Sibling Abuse, Second Edition will make an excellent supplement for advanced students in social work, sociology, psychology, nursing, education, and family studies. Lay readers looking for a resource for understanding this underexposed form of abuse will also want to turn to this book.

If you want a life-changing experience, live a life of faith. Hearing and reading stories about a life of faith can be inspiring and encouraging; but to experience it for yourself is a life changer. The sharing of events in our life is a testimony of what God has done in leading us in different ways of ministering, to encourage and strengthen others that we can do more than we think possible when we place our life in God’s hands. “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not” (Jeremiah 33:3).

A Word for My Sisters, Empowered for Change is my personal journey to a positive self-image, a search for acceptance within a society that gives false images of reality which can keep the best of us down. My life was filled with self-hatred and devastation for many years. I was on a road to total freedom and I am compelled to share my experiences with other women who just might be going through the same things. I have written this book to encourage my Sisters to celebrate who they are, where they are and where they are about to go. Life is a journey filled with mountain highs and valley lows. It is a wonderful thing to experience the mountaimtop, but the valley is where we grow. My prayer is that the Holy spirit will reveal to you truths concerning you and take you to the place predestined for you. My Sisters, God says that you are "Blessed and highly favored". It is left up to you to walk in those blessings. Peace and love to you all. Louise

This is a book where Jennifer Worth’s Call the Midwife meets Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes in Australia, with a nod to AB Facey’s A Fortunate Life, as it presents the early years of one migrant family’s experience after arriving by ship in Australia in the 1950s. Babies, marriages, childhoods, and relationships in general figure prominently not only for those arriving with their large families but also for the Australians who had a similar fertility. All of these have provided material for rollicking good yarns about the real people of the fictional parish, St Kitts, in a fictional country town in Victoria, Australia, going about their daily lives.