Bøger udgivet af Seraphina Clarke

Melanie Dare is a normal teenage girl. Drugs and abuse by her parents change all that. She is attacked, afterwards, she finds herself lost in a new decade. Melanie discovers a new world, and becomes Melabeth. In this world she searches to find her way. Thrust into events outside of her control, meeting new friends - not all who can be trusted - she finds herself obsessed with revenge against her attackers... but along the way she finds something unlikely in her new world, love. Her battle for revenge has terrible, unintended consequences, and she will question, who, and what she is. Can love survive in a sea of revenge? This is the first part of a three part series about forgiveness.

Terrain Toolbox is the first book in the Advanced Encounter series, which offers advice and tools for DMs to create more memorable encounters. Terrain Toolbox is designed to increase creative use of terrain in your game, making battles more dynamic. The book begins with general advice for designing terrain effect and powers. It discusses why we use terrain, different things terrain can do, and how the terrain might change throughout an encounter. Terrain Toolbox also contains forty-eight sample terrains, including blood mage's circle, solid clouds, and lightning pillars. Each sample terrain includes advice on how to use the terrains, and most include mechanical and cosmetic variations.

Fears about children and/or finances naturally lead to painful negative emotions such as anger, frustration and resentment. When we are overcome by these emotions, we lose our ability to be rational, make good decisions and communicate effectively. In these states, we often inadvertently work against our own best interests and those of our children. An Unexpected Journey stands apart from other co-parenting work in that it focuses on recognizing and working with these intense emotional states. In a respectful and compassionate way, An Unexpected Journey focuses on cultivating skills that empower divorced co-parents to understand and move out of difficult emotional states and into a place of clarity, power and wisdom. From this non-reactive, grounded place we are able to make decisions that benefit ourselves and our children.

Eight children survived the harvest of Russet Creek. Just eight. Russet Creek was a small town. Its population was about five thousand people. Of that five thousand, probably a thousand or so of them were children. Of that thousand or so, eight survived. All of the rest were taken in one night. It was a glorious victory for the boogeymen. Or so they thought. For as long as there have been children, there have been boogeymen to take them. Sometimes they eat the children. Sometimes they carry them away to some horrible, unknown place, and the children are never heard from again. Sometimes-more often that you would like to think-they are hiding in the closet because the child's parents let them in. For as long as there have been boogeymen, there have been those who fought against them; humans, animals, fantastical creatures; armed with toys, and magic, and stories. The war between the Kinderguard and the boogeymen is the oldest struggle in the history of the human race. After the boogeymen invade their town, five eleven year olds, two teenagers, and one infant will find themselves at the center of this great conflict. BUMP IN THE NIGHT is a story for very brave children who are wise enough to know that the thing under the bed is real, and for adults who are not too grown up to understand that stories are what save us from the monsters.

Proposing a modified concept of care management, DIRECTED CARE captures the leadership and management expertise of professional nurses to guide individuals to more effective and efficient utilization of health care resources and to influence their personal health behaviors toward optimal wellness. The discussion sheds the passive patient image as merely a recipient of services. It is replaced with active participation of a health care consumer in collaboration with the health care providers where for and to become with. An upstream, preventive care approach is promoted throughout the book. Registered nurses are presented working in tandem with their nurse practitioner colleagues as clinical team-based members in an ambulatory primary care setting and in a proposed Patient-Centered Medical Home model. -Professional nurses are described as independent providers of DIRECTED CARE activities. -Wellness care is segmented from illness care within the discussion of the DIRECTED CARE concept. -Tailored communication is emphasized as an important part of interactions with health care consumers. -A Summary Health Care Record and Health Monitoring Plan are presented to illustrate the manner in which health data can be organized for individual health care consumers that result in data consolidation and review simplification.

Teddy Gets A Filling describes an appointment at the dental office for a restorative procedure. Dr. Dentin helps Teddy's sick tooth fall asleep, he cleans the cavity away and places a filling. Now Teddy's tooth is healthy again! Teddy has fun with his Dentist!

The Life Your Spirit Craves is a 30 day devotional designed to assist the reader in pursuing God for their God-given purpose. The life questions/application section for each day guides the reader to daily perform a self assessment and to look internally at where he/she is in life. The reader should use the book daily for 30 days, fast, pray and journal his/her progress. At the end of the 30 days, the reader should have gained more clarity as to who he/she is in God and more insight as to who God has called him/her to be.

Money Blessings: Powerful Affirmations for Attracting Prosperity! will help you increase greater abundance by using daily positive declarations to magnetize your mind for riches! The 102-page book, written by Cicely Bland, provides a fun and easy approach to increasing the wealth in your life. The power this book has to transform lives increases when you share the experience of reading Money Blessings with your family, friends or co-workers. Furthermore, readers are also encouraged to form Money Blessings Circles with their families, friends, spiritual centers, civic organizations, co-workers and professional colleagues in order to create conscious collective networks committed to manifesting increased abundance together. As a teacher and student of prosperity and success principles, the author shares the positive practices of using daily affirmations, prayer and meditation to overcome any financial challenges. The book's affirmations will take you on a spiritual journey of understanding how the Law of Attraction works. Each page of Money Blessings offers an affirmation, supporting passage and scripture which connects readers to the powerful prospering energy that resides within each one of us. The essence of what this book teaches is that we control our destiny with the energy our conscious and subconscious minds send out into the Universe. It is a force we direct with our thoughts, beliefs and words. Money Blessings affirmations help turn readers' attention away from lack and limitation by focusing on faith in the prospering spiritual power within. Readers will discover that Money Blessings affirmations positions them to increase wealth, not just for the individual, but for their loved ones and the global community as they repeatedly align their energy with the First Cause of all wealth: God.

Jewell and her dashing boyfriend Daniel are career criminals who have amassed a small fortune. Before the gang disbands, Daniel convinces them to do one last job; a $50 million diamond heist from one of the most secure airports in the country. The gang reluctantly approves his scheme, but they don't realize Daniel is also planning the ultimate betrayal.

Literary Nonfiction. Travel Writing. WEST OF EDEN: A LIFE IN 21ST CENTURY LOS ANGELES is a bitingly funny riff on Hollywood, Malibu, Topanga Canyon, and LA. David St. John calls it "hands-down one of the funniest--and wisest--works about Los Angeles." Rosenthal skewers Scientologists, movie stars, celebrities, and himself. Evelyn McDonnell calls it "dry, absurd, and beautiful." Celeste Fremon: "Dead eye gossipy and wildly funny." Rosenthal's second book of Magic Journalism, like ARE WE NOT THERE YET?, is philosophical and hilarious.

Storm's memory has been viciously purged by a blow from a bandit's cudgel. She has a completely blank slate, a fresh start on life. Yet doubts plague her. Was she a bandit herself? A helpless captive? When her memory returns, if it returns, would she betray those she had come to care for? Falcon, her rescuer, finds his suspicions slowly gentled, his heart entranced by the compassionate woman in his care. Jessica, the haughty contender determined to be by his side, is less forgiving. Jealous of any rival, Jessica is eager to find proof that Storm is intimately linked to the wolves' heads. When the threat of attack looms, the question of Storm's trustworthiness billow and swirl. Storm desperately struggles to prove to Falcon that she is worthy of his unconditional faith - and of his eternal love. All author's proceeds from sales of the Sword of Glastonbury series benefit battered women's shelters. Creating Memories is book six in the Sword of Glastonbury series. Each novel ends in a happily ever after, which then leads into the next book in the series. Each of these full-length romances features its own flavor, atmosphere, and main characters. Each is set in a different part of medieval England and showcases the natural beauty of its region. Creating Memories is set in Norfolk, in southeastern England. Creating Memories is an insightful tale of trust, betrayal, and how we perceive ourselves, in the tradition of The Bourne Identity. It is suitable for teens and older. It does not feature any strong language nor scenes of intimacy.

Catherine's past warmed her with contented pride. Disguised as her alter-ego, Shadow, she had protected the villagers of her land, holding off wolves' heads and bringing justice to the weak. Her life provided everything she could have dreamed of. Her future, in comparison, was bleak and desolate. Her council ordered her to submit to the courtships of Lord Epworth, a coward whose chosen path was to flee the chaos of the land and retreat to Ireland. The lecher seemed fully intent on keeping his stable of mistresses at his side as well. In the depths of her despair, Lord Epworth's foster son, Jack, shone out as a beacon of honor and courage. But with so much at stake, could she go against the loyalties due her family and follow instead the passionate urgings of her heart? All author's proceeds from sales of the Sword of Glastonbury series benefit battered women's shelters. Badge of Honor is book ten in the Sword of Glastonbury series. Each novel ends in a happily ever after, which then leads into the next book in the series. Each of these full-length romances features its own flavor, atmosphere, and main characters. Each is set in a different part of medieval England and showcases the natural beauty of its region. Badge of Honor is set in Worcester, in central England. Badge of Honor is a tale of adventure, romance, and honor, in the style of Lord of the Rings and The Mists of Avalon. Badge of Honor is a clean romance. There is no explicit intimacy. The few swears are period-appropriate such as "God's Teeth" or "God's Blood." There is sword-fighting but no explicit violence. As such, it is suitable for teens and up.

At the age of 26, Luisa Santiago has reached the top of her profession. She is the prima ballerina for a major American ballet company. Her first ballet, The Offering, is a huge success. A native of El Salvador, she was orphaned by the Salvadoran Civil War and raised in the United States by her aunt.Luisa is devastated when her aunt is gunned down in a turf battle involving two rival gangs and becomes obsessed with avenging her murder. Luisa meets a wealthy stranger who offers her the chance to destroy her aunt's killers. There's just one catch--she must become a vampire.

A soldier finds letters on a battlefield in France and falls in love with the woman who wrote them. Trapped in no man's land in the final days of World War I, Private Ransom James MacTavish consoles a dying Lietenant by reading to him the letters of his fiancee, Elizabeth, a high born Charleston Lady. When the officer dies, Ransom is stranded alone between the American and German trenches. His sole comfort is reading the elegant letters from the officer's fiancee. Although he is penniless, Ransom comes home determined to win Elizabeth's heart but soon discovers he must compete with a wealthy suitor while evading a lustful widow and a sheriff with a tendency to shoot people. Ransom's only hope is the bond of a spirited pregnant teenager and the eccentric wisdom of a crusty Civil War veteran.

Through the crack era the "Kingpin" came into rise. His organization was well organized, oversexed and intently violent-entrenched with satellite relationships of varied values. The politics of the day as well the mantra "There's only one way out," served as a deadly promise to defectors as well to snitches. Reaching the heights of opulent power and the doldrums of physical despair, this is a situation only the reader can place value on. Although violent there is a tapestry of love and understanding that connects the crew that Brisco has designed. Right and wrong are redefined based on the values they all openly adhere to. Those values being, money and power are worth living for; Death is living without them. The question of "what happens when they don't get caught" is seldom investigated. To know more, read for yourself!

Fiction. This remarkable debut work brings together two powerful novellas that take a hard look at twenty-first century Southern California life and come up on the wry side of compassion. In a twist on the epistolary form, FROTTAGE collects letters from a patient to her analyst that plainly, sometimes shockingly, hide in writing what should be said out loud, piecing together a narrative of sibling secrets and their troubled aftermath. EVEN AS WE SPEAK takes place a few years after 9/11 and follows six disparate characters whose lives crash at the story's start. From the eco-terrorist whose disaffected wife has threatened to expose him, to the college student whose life is tragically complicated by her parents' love triangle, to the middle-aged accountant escaping an alcoholic lover--all of them are, in one sense or another, on the lam. By sheer circumstance, they all end up in the same roadside gas station on the same afternoon, at which juncture their lives get entangled.

Fiction. Lyrical, provocative, and deeply haunting, THE TIME OF QUARANTINE, takes us into a near-distant future of post-human environmental collapse to chronicle the tale of a boy raised alone in the woods by computers at the end of the world--or is it? As the sole surviving member of an ill-fated Intentional Community designed to escape world's end plagues and convinced he is alone on earth, the boy--now a man--is determined to carry out the final wishes of his father and fulfill his stoic duties of merely being human. But when he discovers, as if by accident, that everything he's always imagined to be true is, instead, a lie, he decides to leave the safety of his little spinning plot of spaceship earth and go back into the world to find out what comes next.

Esther Friesner's fanbase is growing. Readers who love girl-centric teen fantasy/adventure are happily following her from ancient Greece to ancient Egypt and beyond.Overnight, every aspect of Nefertiti's life has changed. She is no longer living at the royal palace as the intended bride of the crown prince. Instead, she is being chased by the prince's soldiers for a crime she did not commit. Traveling with two of her dearest friends, including the crown prince's brother, Nefertiti takes shelter in the wild hills along the Nile's west bank. But she is determined to plead her case and set things right. As she begins to question long-held sacred beliefs-a questioning that could alter the fabric of Egyptian society-her extraordinary journey from commoner to royalty brings adventure, intrigue, and romance.

Art. Latino/Latina Studies. The B-movie THE GIANT CLAW is Gronk's Citizen Kane in this reprise of Mitch MacFee's and Mlle Mathematician's meeting with, what else, a giant claw. Drawing for Gronk is writing, or perhaps writing is drawing, possibly a book of poetry, since its language is images, each page organized with the fragility of poems, laced with elegant verbal and visual puns. 100 illustrations. Foreword by Gail Wronsky translated into Spanish by Alicia Partnoy.

Fiction. Medieval philosopher Master Siger finds himself condemned as a heretic by the Catholic Church, but in a world of late 20th century technology; he makes alliances with sexy philosopher nuns and monk double agents to escape the clutches of the Papal Mafia and the Franciscan Highway Patrol in a labyrinth of drugs, sex, car chases, and back alley plots.