Cultured, attractive, and strong-willed, Shelby Collins is mature for a sixteen-year-old. One night her father, who has come home drunk, tries to molest her. Frightened, she fights him off and flees. But, through her many difficulties, she learns that blessings can come in unexpected ways. This novel addresses several fundamental human longings.
Many people believe they can't homeschool because they are lacking some magical quality or skill successful homeschoolers have. The truth is that homeschooling can be done, and done well, by most ordinary people. This book takes you by the hand and shows you how. It breaks the job down into do able chunks and explains each part.
Even the best marriages have their share of problems. This book shows that a fulfilling marriage takes time and work, but it's within the grasp of every couple, if they're willing to make the right choices.
Takes readers from the days when gold dust was legal tender in the dusty frontier town of Denver to when the Mint is a world-class facility that makes most of our coins. This book provides a look at the Mint-entertaining stories of colourful characters, controversial coins, and the creative artists behind the nation's coinage.
In February of 1997, Walter Schifter was dying of cancer. During the final three weeks of his life, RuthAnn Hogue visited him frequently and reported his thoughts and fears in a series of articles for the Daily News-Sun . Ms Hogue's encounters with Walter touched her so, that she experienced a spiritual awakening. This book tells their story.
Emma Mosley is a dreamer who seems to be wishing on someone else's star. You'd think that meeting the love of your life would make you wonderfully happy. The problem is that he belongs to someone else-her boss! Then Emma is forced into working for a nasty politician, and we wonder if she can keep it together.
With domestic violence, unfaithfulness, dishonesty, and other forms of abuse, it's the emotional effects that are the deepest and the most difficult to overcome. This work gives you the six steps that can lead you through the emotional trauma of abuse, so that you can move forward with a happy and fulfilling life.
Teaches a no-nonsense, tough-love approach to raising teenagers balanced with deep affection and a soft touch that they may respect and follow. Begining with an explanation of the complex nature of teens, this how-to manual can help ensure that your children become responsible, successful adults. It also delves into health issues.
Socialisation may well be the single most important aspect of education today. With high and rising rates of divorce, drug abuse, youth violence, alcoholism, teen promiscuity, and so forth, we cannot afford to let this issue go unexamined.
Shows us how parents can continue to homeschool their children through high school in subjects for which they are not experts. This book demonstrates how these home-taught children are fully prepared for college and are often superior performers.