They were the first super couple of daytime drama. Millions of viewers watched as actors Susan Seaforth and Bill Hayes, playing Julie and Doug on Days of Our Lives, fell in love on camera and off - igniting the hottest love story on daytime television in the 1970s and early '80s. Now this witty, entertaining autobiography tells their fascinating story.

Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside reflects on the unique topography of sand, sandscapes, and the seaside in British culture and beyond. This book brings together creative and critical writings that explore the ways sand speaks to us of holidays and respite, but also of time and mortality, of plenitude and eternity. Drawing together writers from a range of backgrounds, the volume explores the environmental, social, personal, cultural, and political significance of sand and the seaside towns that have built up around it. The contributions take a variety of forms including fiction and nonfiction and cover topics ranging from sand dunes to sand mining, from seaside stories to shoreline architecture, from sand grains to global sand movements, from narratives of the setting up of bed and breakfasts to stories of seaside decline. Often a symbol of aridity, sand is revealed in this book to be an astonishingly fertile site for cultural meaning.

42 year old Imagineer Gilly Whitesmith has no idea what awaits her when she arrives to work late one day. A run-of-the-mill encounter with a devastatingly handsome gentlemen catches her off guard, but she never thought she would find Conrad Smith—a confident, 49 year old gentleman who knows exactly who he is and what he wants. Past scars and future plans should hinder Gilly, and yet she can't control the overwhelming desire that he stirs in her. She knows that her heart will never survive him and her instinct is telling her to run, but Conrad is not willing to let her go. He wants her and is determined to have her. Come along as we discover if their love triumphs through tragedy...

It can feel soul crushing to have to get out of bed and face the same routine day after day —the same uninspiring thing. Every. Single. Day. You may find yourself burnt out, anxious, restless, and disillusioned by this life for which you once had aspired greatness and excitement. And yet, from the outside, your life may seem ideal. You have a good job, a loving family, and all the basic needs one could want. So, what’s the problem? Disconnection. We are so often detached from our core selves that we are unable to tell why we feel uncomfortable, sick, and dissatisfied with our lives. All we know is that something is off, something is wrong. Walking the Way of the Heart is a tool to help you reconnect with your true self. Underneath all of the conditioning and expectation and comparison-living you’ve been contending with is what your heart truly wants. The lessons and techniques within the pages of this book will help you go inside yourself and see the world through your heart’s perspective. Once you can mindfully walk the heart’s way, you will see the world differently. You may decide to make drastic changes in your life, but you may also realize that the life you have built is so much richer and more beautiful than you ever imagined. Either way, you will have uncovered the most important key in your life: your own amazing self. The book aims to help you: • Understand self-regulation to access intuitive knowing and compassion • Embrace self-love so you can see, feel, and be love for others • Learn ways to connect to the Divine through simple, mindful practices • Access joy in your life by walking the way of the heart • Realize that you have the power within to change your present and future reality • See the connection to all living beings • Hear the call to action to fulfill your soul's mission for the greater good of all The time to be authentically you is now. Doing so is crucial to humanity’s collective survival. In fact, this is how we do more than survive; this is how we thrive.

Illustrated with over 200 colour photos and illustrations, this is the official tie-in to the daytime TV classic now being shown daily on Channel 5. Fully authorised, amazingly comprehensive, it's a must-have companion to one of TV's most popular shows.

"I have learned more about, and become more fascinated with sand from reading this book than I have from studying beaches for thirty-five years! An amazing story."—Reinhard E. Flick, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego "A masterful, entertaining and accessible treatise on the complex world of common sand."—Bruce M. Pavlik, author of The California Deserts "To do justice to this formidable and glorious subject, you need not only to be in love with it, but also to possess tremendous breadth of knowledge, have the eyes of a poet, scientist and geographer, and be intrepid enough to have seen the deserts of the world at first hand. Fortunately, Michael Welland fits the bill. It is hard to see how this paean to the wonders and mysteries of sand could be bettered."—Philip Ball, author of Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another and Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water "A fascinating and colorfully written book filled with insights and wit about the magical material called sand."—Stephen P. Leatherman (aka Dr Beach), author of America's Best Beaches "Sand has given rise to commentary, both poetic and scientific, from the earliest human times. Michael Welland ably winnows this literature, making the subject of sand his base station for a journey around the whole earth system. An impressive achievement."—Andrew Alden, author/editor of About.com's Guide to Geology "Michael Welland offers a popular, imaginative, and scientific evocation of sand as the creator of the world we experience and seek to understand. Sand is a timely meditation on things both large and small that simultaneously opens the door to the oldest geology and our most recent history."—Joseph Amato, author of Dust: A History of the Small and the Invisible