Jessica Rose: 10 books

Hospice chaplains have traditionally played a unique part in palliative care, providing human compassion and support to help ease life's final chapter. This book thoughtfully tackles the question at the heart of modern hospice chaplaincy: do chaplains have a distinctive role in an increasingly secular...

The Bluestocking Belles' 2016 Holiday Boxed Set When the Duchess of Haverford sends out invitations to a Yuletide house party and a New Year’s Eve ball at her country estate, Hollystone Hall, those who respond know that Her Grace intends to raise money for her favorite cause and promote whatever...

Eight short plays, commissioned and developed as part of the Women Centre Stage Festival, that together demonstrate the range, depth and richness of women’s writing for the stage. Selected by Sue Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre, these plays offer a wide variety of rewarding roles...

Drawing together motivational theory, research-based evidence and guidance for best practice, this book presents innovative models for goal-setting and goal pursuit in therapy with children. Setting goals not only allows children, and their families, to engage with the overall therapeutic process,...

Our Dear Couple, discovering each other intimately, over and over again... Four authors have come together to offer you this exceptional collection of sensual love stories featuring Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet. Assignation at Rosings Mr. Darcy is burning up with need after Elizabeth's...

Here be dragons ... and selkies and griffins and maybe even a mermaid or two. Twenty fantasy authors band together to bring you a collection of thrilling tales and magical monsters. Do you like to slay dragons? Or befriend them? Do you prefer to meet cephalopods as gigantic kraken or adorable...

Once merely a footnote in Restoration and eighteenth-century studies and rarely taught, Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688), by Aphra Behn, is now essential reading for scholars and a classroom favorite. It appears in general surveys and in courses on early modern British writers, postcolonial literature,...

A companion to Understanding Green Building Guidelines, this primer explains green building products—what they are and how to choose them. From eco-friendly sheetrock to sustainable paint finishes, the green building movement is gaining momentum. But with new products, manufacturers, and...

Relationships often suck... until we find that special someone that fits our lives just right. We clawed, we scratched, and we chomped at the bit for our own slice of the good life. Fights, misspoken words, hardships, battles, and other things made us feel like we weren't going to survive,...

Gender in Film and Video analyzes gender in media focusing on six instances of media in transition. They show the changes in media as brought about by the internet age, such as crowdfunding and DIY filmmaking, while reviewing the top-down production of film and television retrospectively. The breakdown...