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When Ghosts Call Us Home
by Katya de BecerraNever, ever look directly into the eyes of a ghost. Because once you see it, once you see her, once you acknowledge her impossible existence, you can never un-see it. And that's how she gets you.When Sophia Galich was twelve, she starred in her older sister Layla’s amateur horror movie Vermillion, which recorded raw footage of her very real reactions to scenes her sister concocted in their old Californian house on the coast – Cashore House.In the years after the film’s release, Sophia’s memories of the now-infamous house fueled her nightmares. Vermillion amassed an army of fanatical fans who speculated about the film’s hidden messages, and it was rumored that Layla made a pact with the devil – her soul in exchange for fame and arcane knowledge. Sophia dismissed this as gossip . . . until Layla disappeared.Now, Sophia must study the trail of clues Layla has left behind, returning to the very place where it all began. As she gets closer and closer to Cashore House’s haunted heart, she must once again confront the ghosts of her childhood. But the house won’t reveal its secrets without a fight.When Ghosts Call Us Home is a spine-tingling chiller from horror writer Katya De Becerra.
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
by Alison BechdelAlison Bechdel's Fun Home was a literary phenomenon: 'an extraordinarily intimate account of family secrets that manages to be shocking, unsettling and life-affirming at the same time', as Sarah Walters wrote in the Guardian. The Times said it was 'incontestibly the graphic book of the year', while the Observer recently chose it as one of the ten best graphic novels ever published. While Fun Home explored Bechdel's relationship with her father, a closeted homsexual, this new memoir is about her mother - a voracious reader, a music lover, a passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood... and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter goodnight, for ever, when she was seven. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf.It's a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott to one explosively illuminating Dr Seuss illustration, to Bechdel's own (serially monogamous) love life. And, finally, back to Mother - to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers.
Traumatic Childbirth
by Cheryl Tatano Beck Jeanne Watson Driscoll Sue WatsonPostpartum depression has become a more recognized mental illness over the past decade as a result of education and increased awareness. Traumatic childbirth, however, is still often overlooked, resulting in a scarcity of information for health professionals. This is in spite of up to 34% of new mothers reporting experiencing a traumatic childbirth and prevalence rates rising for high risk mothers, such as those who experience stillbirth or who had very low birth weight infants. This ground-breaking book brings together an academic, a clinician and a birth trauma activist. Each chapter discusses current research, women’s stories, the common themes in the stories and the implications of these for practice, clinical case studies and a clinician’s insights and recommendations for care. Topics covered include: mothers’ perspectives, fathers’ perspectives, the impact on breastfeeding, the impact on subsequent births, PTSD after childbirth and EMDR treatment for PTSD. This book is a valuable resource for health professionals who come into contact with new mothers, providing the most current and accurate information on traumatic childbirth. It also presents mothers’ experiences in a manner that is accessible to women, their partners, and families.
Traumatic Childbirth
by Cheryl Tatano Beck Jeanne Watson Driscoll Sue WatsonPostpartum depression has become a more recognized mental illness over the past decade as a result of education and increased awareness. Traumatic childbirth, however, is still often overlooked, resulting in a scarcity of information for health professionals. This is in spite of up to 34% of new mothers reporting experiencing a traumatic childbirth and prevalence rates rising for high risk mothers, such as those who experience stillbirth or who had very low birth weight infants. This ground-breaking book brings together an academic, a clinician and a birth trauma activist. Each chapter discusses current research, women’s stories, the common themes in the stories and the implications of these for practice, clinical case studies and a clinician’s insights and recommendations for care. Topics covered include: mothers’ perspectives, fathers’ perspectives, the impact on breastfeeding, the impact on subsequent births, PTSD after childbirth and EMDR treatment for PTSD. This book is a valuable resource for health professionals who come into contact with new mothers, providing the most current and accurate information on traumatic childbirth. It also presents mothers’ experiences in a manner that is accessible to women, their partners, and families.
Distant Love
by Ulrich Beck Elisabeth Beck-GernsheimLove and family life in the global age: grandparents in Salonika and their grandson in London speak together every evening via Skype. A U.S. citizen and her Swiss husband fret over large telephone bills and high travel costs. A European couple can finally have a baby with the help of an Indian surrogate mother. In their new book, Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim investigate all types of long-distance relationships, marriages and families that stretch across countries, continents and cultures. These long-distance relationships comprise so many different forms of what they call ‘world families’, by which they mean love and intimate relationships between individuals living in, or coming from, different countries or continents. In all their various forms these world families share one feature in common: they are the focal point in which different aspects of the globalized world become embodied in the personal lives of individuals. Whether they like it or not, lovers and relatives in these families find themselves confronting the world in the inner space of their own lives. The conflicts between the developed and developing worlds come to the surface in world families- they acquire faces and names, creating confusion, surprise, anger, joy, pleasure and pain at the heart of everyday life. This path-breaking book will appeal to a wide readership interested in the changing character of love in our times.
Distant Love
by Ulrich Beck Elisabeth Beck-GernsheimLove and family life in the global age: grandparents in Salonika and their grandson in London speak together every evening via Skype. A U.S. citizen and her Swiss husband fret over large telephone bills and high travel costs. A European couple can finally have a baby with the help of an Indian surrogate mother. In their new book, Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim investigate all types of long-distance relationships, marriages and families that stretch across countries, continents and cultures. These long-distance relationships comprise so many different forms of what they call ‘world families’, by which they mean love and intimate relationships between individuals living in, or coming from, different countries or continents. In all their various forms these world families share one feature in common: they are the focal point in which different aspects of the globalized world become embodied in the personal lives of individuals. Whether they like it or not, lovers and relatives in these families find themselves confronting the world in the inner space of their own lives. The conflicts between the developed and developing worlds come to the surface in world families- they acquire faces and names, creating confusion, surprise, anger, joy, pleasure and pain at the heart of everyday life. This path-breaking book will appeal to a wide readership interested in the changing character of love in our times.
Fun with Messy Play: Ideas and Activities for Children with Special Needs
by Tracy BeckerlegFunny smells, sticky hands and squishy textures are all part of the way in which children develop sensory awareness. Fun with Messy Play is an exciting activity book that heightens the sensory perception of children with special needs through the imaginative use of everyday `messy' materials like baked beans, condensed milk, jelly or glue. The activities in this book are fun for children and help to improve their co-ordination, communicative and cognitive abilities, as well as their self-esteem and social skills. Each exercise focuses the child on a movement or sensation that they will later be able to apply to everyday life. By allowing children to explore their senses while having fun, messy play provides a relaxing therapy that encourages sensory responsiveness without placing stressful expectations on the child. This is an easy-to-use, practical resource for parents and professionals. It includes ideas and examples from practitioners along with helpful suggestions for different types of equipment that can be used.
Fun with Messy Play: Ideas and Activities for Children with Special Needs (PDF)
by Tracy BeckerlegFunny smells, sticky hands and squishy textures are all part of the way in which children develop sensory awareness. Fun with Messy Play is an exciting activity book that heightens the sensory perception of children with special needs through the imaginative use of everyday `messy' materials like baked beans, condensed milk, jelly or glue. The activities in this book are fun for children and help to improve their co-ordination, communicative and cognitive abilities, as well as their self-esteem and social skills. Each exercise focuses the child on a movement or sensation that they will later be able to apply to everyday life. By allowing children to explore their senses while having fun, messy play provides a relaxing therapy that encourages sensory responsiveness without placing stressful expectations on the child. This is an easy-to-use, practical resource for parents and professionals. It includes ideas and examples from practitioners along with helpful suggestions for different types of equipment that can be used.
If Only I Could Tell You: The hopeful, heartbreaking story of family secrets you need to read in summer 2019
by Hannah BeckermanA TWIST THAT WILL BREAK YOUR HEART . . . AN ENDING THAT WILL PUT IT BACK TOGETHER AGAIN.'I loved it' Jojo Moyes'Compelling and moving . . . it made me cry' Marian Keyes'Had me totally gripped. Highly recommended' BBC Radio 2's Sara Cox*****Audrey's family has fallen apart. Her two grown-up daughters, Jess and Lily, are estranged, and her two teenage granddaughters have never been allowed to meet. A secret that echoes back thirty years has splintered the family in two, but is also the one thing keeping them connected. As tensions reach breaking point, the irrevocable choice that one of them made all those years ago is about to surface. After years of secrets and silence, how can one broken family find their way back to each other?*****Readers are being swept away by If Only I Could Tell You:'A life-affirming tearjerker. If you loved Me Before You, you have a treat in store' Grazia 'Heartbreaking and uplifting' Ruth Jones, author of Never Greener'One of those books that grabs your heart, brain and soul and refuses to let go long past finishing time' Stylist'A tender portrait of family lives, losses and secrets' Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go'A very grown-up novel ... resolutely heartbreaking' Observer'Utterly compelling and completely heart-breaking. I couldn't put it down' Ruth Hogan, author of The Keeper of Lost Things'If Only I Could Tell You breaks your heart, but with an incredible skill and elegance... I loved it to bits' Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble With Goats and Sheep
The Routledge International Handbook of Children's Rights and Disability (Routledge International Handbooks)
by Angharad E. Beckett Anne-Marie CallusThis handbook provides authoritative and cutting-edge analyses of various aspects of the rights and lives of disabled children around the world. Taking the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) as conceptual frameworks, this work appraises the current state of affairs concerning the rights of disabled children across different stages of childhood, different life domains, and different socio-cultural contexts. The book is divided into four sections: Legislation and Policy Children’s Voice The Life Course in Childhood Life Domains in Childhood Comprised of 37 newly commissioned chapters featuring analyses of UN documents and case studies from Australia, Brazil, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Vanuatu, its multidisciplinary approach reflects the complexities of the lives of disabled children and the multifarious nature of the strategies needed to ensure their rights are upheld. It will be of interest to researchers and students working in disability studies, education, allied health, law, philosophy, play studies, social policy, and the sociology of childhood. It will also be a valuable resource for professionals/practitioners, allowing them to consider future directions for ensuring that disabled children’s rights are realised and their well-being and dignity are assured.
The Caravan at the Edge of Doom
by Jim BeckettThe perfect summer read for fans of Terry Pratchett, David Walliams and Roald Dahl!
A Daddy For Her Daughter: A Daddy For Her Daughter / Reunited With His Runaway Bride / Rescued By Dr Rafe / Saved By The Single Dad / Sizzling Nights With Dr Off-limits / Seven Nights With Her Ex (Mills And Boon Medical Ser.)
by Tina BeckettA family to heal them… After losing his little girl five years ago, Dr Kaleb McBride has kept himself to himself. He can’t face losing anyone ever again. Then beautiful Madeleine Grimes enters his world…
The Doctors' Baby Miracle: The Doctors' Baby Miracle Resisting Her Commander Hero Tempted By Her Hot-shot Doc (Mills And Boon Medical Ser. #Vol. 943)
by Tina BeckettLosing a baby tore them apart…
A Family To Heal His Heart: Dr Right For The Single Mum (rescue Docs) / A Family To Heal His Heart (Mills And Boon Medical Ser.)
by Tina BeckettCan this nurse and her daughter… …mend his broken heart?
From Passion To Pregnancy: The Doctor's Forbidden Temptation (hot Brazilian Docs!, Book 3) / From Passion To Pregnancy (hot Brazilian Docs!, Book 4) (Hot Brazilian Docs! #4)
by Tina BeckettAfter just one night… The last thing Dr Sebastian Texeira wants is to settle down, but when one sizzling night with sexy nurse Sara Moreira results in pregnancy he feels he must do the right thing!
Her Playboy's Secret: Just One Night? / Meant-to-be Family / Always The Midwife / Midwife's Baby Bump / Midwife... To Mum! / His Best Friend's Baby / Unlocking Her Surgeon's Heart / Her Playboy's Secret (Midwives On-Call #8)
by Tina BeckettEveryone has a secret…
Miracle Baby For The Midwife: London Hospital Midwives (London Hospital Midwives #2)
by Tina BeckettA night like no other… A miracle she’s dreamed of!
The Nurse's One-Night Baby: The Nurse's One-night Baby (california Nurses) / Nurse With A Billion Dollar Secret (california Nurses) (California Nurses #1)
by Tina BeckettOne night in Mexico...nine months to become a family!
One Night To Change Their Lives: One Night To Change Their Lives / Friend, Fling, Forever? (Mills And Boon Medical Ser.)
by Tina BeckettCan their surprise baby… Heal his broken heart?
Risking It All For The Children's Doc (Mills And Boon Medical Ser.)
by Tina BeckettShe has nothing to lose… And only him to gain!
Starting Over With The Single Dad (Mills & Boon Medical): Starting Over With The Single Dad / Reawakened At The South Pole
by Tina BeckettFinding her way home – to him?
The Surgeon's Surprise Baby (Mills And Boon Medical Ser.)
by Tina BeckettHe doesn’t believe in second chances… Until one knocks on his door!
The Vet, The Pup And The Paramedic: The Vet, The Pup And The Paramedic / Miracle Twins For The Midwife
by Tina BeckettIs home a place… …or a person?
