Farris: 140 books

Concerns about access to behavioral health care for military service members and their dependents living in geographically remote locations prompted research into how many in this population are remote and the effects of this distance on their use of behavioral health care. The authors conducted geospatial...

Whether glamorised or stigmatised, teenage parenthood is all too often used to stand for a host of social problems, and empirical research results ignored. Identifying core controversies surrounding teen pregnancy and parenting, this book resolves misperceptions using findings from large-scale, longitudinal,...

***A færytale with the magic of Stardust, the romance of The Princess Bride, and the wonder of The Chronicles of Narnia. Discover the magic that could change the fate of the world. *** *** Some færytales end with a kiss, but for Elizabeth and Ferryl, the kiss is only the beginning. When...

Two sisters—Noah Blank and her younger sister Cali, both live in Middletown, Maryland with their parents. The story begins just as summer is starting, and the girls are ending school. Noah has a dark secret. Cali, who prefers to view life through the lens of her camera, neat and contained, documents...

Hawaii! The very word evokes visions of Paradise – white, sandy beaches; swaying palm trees; silver waterfalls, hula girls; mai tais; and luaus. But all is not paradise in Paradise in the months leading up to World War II.  Beneath the glitzy exterior lies a seamy underbelly of sex, drugs,...

Every summer morning, Ellie and her Nonna go to the beach. They swim and build sandcastles, and while Nonna reads, Ellie watches the other children play. One day Ellie builds up the courage to approach an older girl playing on her own in a beached rowboat. Piper has a gift, an imagination so great...

This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. Every summer morning, Ellie and her Nonna go to the beach. They swim and build sandcastles, and while Nonna reads, Ellie watches the other children play. One day Ellie builds up the courage to approach an older girl playing on her own in a beached...

Jamie is looking forward to an exciting summer with her best friend Elliott. Little does she know just how exciting it is about to become. Things take an interesting turn when the two friends stumble onto a hidden cave. While exploring it, they discover a world they never knew existed. A world where...

Kasey O'Brien's life has always been about airplanes; what makes them tick, what makes them fly. When her father's plane crashes into a Colorado mountainside, she takes over their failing air charter service and is determined to make it work. On a charter flight with a passenger on board to Oregon's...

After World War II and my service in the Merchant Marines, at twenty-one years old, I went fishing with my cousin. The boat sank, and my cousin drowned. I felt I too was going to die, but when I made it to land, I said, Thank you, God, whoever you are. After this experience, I studied many available...

Two families find themselves on the brink of the unimaginable - removal of their children from their care - as the UN makes them the test case for the recently ratified Rights of the Child.

“Mas. Gill Jamieson, poor innocent lad, has departed for the Unknown, a forlorn ‘Walking Shadow’ in the Great Beyond, where we all go to when the time comes.”Those words, printed in a handwritten letter delivered to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin on the morning of September 20, 1928, told the...

When my monkey dances she makes me smile! My smile gets so big, as big as a mile! When I teach my monkey how to dance I am proud to say, she is my student, I wouldnt have it any other way!!!

Two families find themselves on the brink of the unimaginable - removal of their children from their care - as the UN makes them the test case for the recently ratified Rights of the Child.