Bøger af Madelaine Lawrence

Lynn Price faces many challenges and risks on the job as nursing director for the Deer Park Hospital emergency department, but she couldn't be more passionate about her career. Things are also going well in her budding relationship with orthopedic surgeon Dr. Pete, even if his ex-wife is proving a little difficult to work around. Lynn has even expanded her mother's tradition of giving twenty-dollar bills to people who seem to use a boost. Her charitable work has her feeling uplifted and hopeful about the future. Everything seems to be going well. Then, a devious email arrives in her inbox. The first of many career-sabotaging events. With her career and relationship on the line, Lynn must unmask her secret saboteur or risk losing everything. As the damaging career events escalate, Lynn must rely on the valuable support of coworkers, friends, and family to discover who is trying to ruin her reputation. For mystery lovers who enjoy a capable woman sleuth, Three Worries delivers a charming and wholesome adventure. Three Worries pulls readers into a twisting, suspenseful mystery that also has an uplifting heart. Delightfully humorous with a dash of romance, Three Worries is for readers looking for an inspiring and insightful thriller.

This warmhearted women's fiction novel is all about making a difference in the lives of others and making good choices in romantic relationships.As Dickens once said, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. That is how North Carolina ED director Lynn Price describes her life at the beginning of the story. It is the men in her life who often provide the worst of times...at least initially. The best of times are created as she becomes involved with five strangers, to whom she gifts $20 at Christmastime. Handing out $20s is a tradition her mother, Dorothy, began but is not able to continue. All of the recipients have precarious incomes, and they need help in other ways as well. Their issues are some of today's societal core problems.Lynn is good friends with a police detective, an orthopedic surgeon, and a cadre of talented doctors, nurses, and social workers, who help her aid the recipients. Among them also lurk a few exciting romantic possibilities. But which one should she choose?Fans of Martha Williamson's Hallmark series Signed, Sealed, Delivered will love this story's skillful combination of drama, comedy, and romance. The theme of giving provides purpose and value, and the humorous moments throughout create balance amidst the sobering truths.

Reports and studies of near-death experiences, death-bed communications, after-death communications and a host of other transpersonal experiences occurring near death are creating a new paradigm challenging our exclusive biological and psychological understanding of death and near-death. Care provided to those near death or dying is an evolving process. Before Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's book, On Death & Dying, was published in 1969, rarely were dying patients or patients with cancer told of their diagnosis. Kubler-Ross's descriptions of patient experiences created a paradigm shift in the care of dying patients and their loved ones that included a better understanding of their psychological needs. A decade later the Uniform Brain Death Act was passed to establish criteria for determining biological death needed because of advances in life support technology. We know now occurrences near death or dying involve more than biology and psychology. There is a transpersonal component needing to be fully integrated into the care of individuals and their family members. In this book, Madelaine Lawrence, PhD, describes the known transpersonal experiences associated with near death and dying and how, in some cases, they challenge our current understanding of psychological needs and biological death. The presentation of known transpersonal experiences in this one book provides a needed holistic view with a more complete understanding than individual descriptions of each type of occurrences. Lawrence calls for an integration of these transpersonal experiences into mainstream science and education of the public, family members and health care providers in order to provide comprehensive care of those near death and dying.

It is the author's point of view that because the phenomena crosses the lines of many disciplines, the answer to understanding and explaining the experiences can be obtained only by using theories and research methods from a variety of related disciplines.