Product Description: How do today's parents cope when the dreams we had for our children clash with reality? What can we do for our twenty- and even thirty-somethings who can't seem to grow up? Who can we turn to when the kids aren't all right and we, their parents, are frightened, frustrated, resentful, embarrassed, and especially, disappointed? In this groundbreaking book, a social psychologist who's been chronicling the lives of American families for over two decades confronts our deepest concerns when our grown kids have failed to thrive...read more

Product Description: A superbly original collection of short stories with an esoteric bias. Each story explores in different situations, often humorous, a paradoxical edge of experience, when the inner and outer life is about to transform; at any stage in life...read more

Product Description: What if you got one last chance at both love and success but getting one meant giving up the other? Sugar Kane hasn't created a hit TV series in years but now she's older, wiser, and ready to prove she can still deliver - unless her young, scheming assistant doesn't steal her new show out from under her...read more

Product Description: Book by Jane Adams

Accompanying her boyfriend, Alec, to the funeral of his uncle Rupert, Naomi Blake investigates after rumors begin circulating that Rupert didn't die from a heart attack, but was murdered.

Product Description: To Robert Carr, Anna is a mystery and that's the way he'd like her to stay. Over the past thirteen years his last, parting image of Anna, kissing her goodbye before she turned to leave, has been the inspiration for a number of his paintings...read more

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR BOUNDARY ISSUES""Jane Adams gets at the heart of human relationships by illuminating the boundaries that create and sustain them. Taking on a subject that everyone talks about but few people really understand, she breaks new psychological ground in this accessible, empathetic, and original book that offers concrete assistance and wise counsel to all who struggle with the central dilemma of being human—being both separate and connected, intimate as well as autonomous, without sacrificing the self.""—Edward Hallowell, M.D., coauthor of Delivered from Distraction""Understanding and respecting our own boundaries and others' is at the core of a happy life. Boundary Issues is a terrific journey into our own psychological needs, strengths, and weaknesses. We could all save a lot of therapeutic intervention by reading and following Dr. Adams's observations and suggestions.""—Pepper Schwartz, Ph.D., author of Love Between Equals: How Peer Marriage Really Works""All too rarely someone comes along who is able to turn a single phrase into a changed outlook on life. Dr. Jane Adams does that with Boundary Issues. By following Dr. Jane Adams's guidance and helpful exercises, each of us can find the freedom to love, work, negotiate, play, and live on our own terms.""—Suzanne Braun Levine, author of Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood""I find this book vitally helpful, both personally and in my work as a psychotherapist. Learning to negotiate distance and intimacy is a huge issue for women who think that being joined at the hip is necessary for a relationship to survive.""—Colette Dowling, author of The Cinderella Complex and You Mean I Don't Have to Feel This Way?""With her trademark wit and clarity, Jane Adams pulls at the threads that tie us together and tear us apart. She has translated decades of research into wise and inventive tools. Boundary Issues is the definitive book about finding both intimacy and independence.""—Dr. Barbara Mackoff, author of Leadership as a Habit of Mind and Growing a Girl""Through her prescriptive advice and fascinating and relevant personal stories, Jane Adams helps us understand how to use Boundary Intelligence for happiness and personal growth.""—Carole Hyatt, coauthor of When Smart People Fail: Rebuilding Yourself for Success

Product Description: "Takes the psychological suspense novel into new realms of mystery." VAL McDERMID Colin Grainger's ex-wife Moira left him not because she no longer loved him, but because she was fed up with scraping a living in poky bedsits. Now a high-flying policewoman, happily involved with a fellow officer, she still sees Colin from time to time...read more

Product Description: Twenty three years ago Helen Jones disappeared on her way to school. She was twelve years old. No trace of her was ever found. But now a confession in a sealed envelope has turned up in a dead man's possessions. Naomi Blake was Helen's best friend and the last person to see her alive...read more

Product Description: From the author of the successful The Greenway comes an atmospheric tale of a young woman's search to uncover the demons haunting her grandfather - images of a woman hanging from a tree.

Product Description: In North America industrial agriculture has now virtually displaced diversified family farming. The prevailing system depends heavily on labor supplied by migrants and immigrants, and its reliance on monoculture raises environmental concerns...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A dangerous drug is on the streets and policeman Martin Galloway wants ex-copper Ray Flowers's help in catching the supplier. At first Ray wants little to do with the case, but when he hears Martin is lying in a psychiatric ward, an unknown drug found in his system, he knows that he can't avoid it.

Product Description: With his resignation from the police force now approved, Ray Flowers' plans to set up a security and detection business with his old friend George Mahoney are in full swing.

Product Description: Are you waiting for the right man, the right job, the big break? And meanwhile, have you put all your other dreams and desires on hold? Jane Adams' provocative book asks: How much longer are you willing to wait? And what if Prince Charming never arrives? Will you continue to let life's possibilities pass you by because of outdated, inappropriate messages so deeply embedded in Sleeping Beauty's psyche that you don't even notice them? This book is for you if:You're a single woman who's afraid you'll never get married...read more

Product Description: Is there life with your kids once youve raised them? In this groundbreaking book, a best-selling author and psychologist (and the mother of grown children, too) shows you how to keep your family together for a lifetime. Dr. Spock didnt tell you about Postparenthood, but Jane Adams doesin this wise, warm, witty, commonsense guide to creating a close, loving relationship with your grown children...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: When the steamer Continental sails into Puget Sound in the spring of 1866, it carries a precious cargo: mail-order brides whove pledged their futures to men theyd never met. Among them is Maddy Douglas, a beautiful, headstrong, rebellious fifteen year old determined to leave her painful memories behind and build a family and a fortune in an untamed wilderness...read more

Product Description: The 7th edition of this valuable industry report ensures that you have the most up-to-date information available in the industry as soon as it becomes available - so that you can act quickly to ensure the success of your company, strategy or application...read more

Product Description: 'Gripping, scary, a wonderful read. She could rise to the top of the genre' - YORKSHIRE EVENING POST 'Takes the psychological suspense novel into new realms of mystery' - MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS A serial rapist is stalking the streets of Norwich, targeting young blonde women...read more

Cassie Maltham returns to the English seashore village, where she had seen her cousin Susie vanish forever in the ancient, shaded greenway path, and now that Cassie is back, another little girl has been swallowed up by this insatiable evil. Reprint.

Product Description: From All Anybody Ever Wanted of Me Was to Work... "Starting around 1950, people stopped raising chickens, milking cows, and raising hogs. They just buy it at the store, ready to eat. A lot buy a steer and have it processed in Dongola and put it in their freezer...read more

A warmly written, supportive guide for older parents who want to maintain close relationships with their grown-up children offers them practical ideas for strengthening family bonds and for guiding their children toward personal fulfillment. Reprint.

Product Description: Jane Adams focuses on the transformation of rural life in Union County, Illinois, as she explores the ways in which American farming has been experienced and understood in the twentieth century. Reconstructing the histories of seven farms, she places the details of daily life within the context of political and economic change...read more