Product Description: For readers of Tom Perrotta and Lorrie Moore, these nine unforgettable stories, all set in and around Cape Canaveral, showcase Patrick Ryan’s masterly understanding of regret and hope, relationships and family, and the universal longing for love...read more

Product Description: This story is about what a woman's love for her husband and the boundless measures she will take to revenge his needless death.

Product Description: 'Well, Sergeant, here we go then', I said. 'Getting our chance at last of a good old crack at the Boche, eh ...?' Ex-infantryman and reconnaissance officer, author and humorist Patrick Ryan is perhaps best remembered for this acerbically comic novel - first published in 1963 and quickly adapted into a 1967 feature film by Richard Lester, starring Michael Crawford and John Lennon...read more

This book examines the issues and implications that mental health professionals face when dealing with ageing and older adults. The book focuses on the biological, psychological and cultural influences that impact on the work of mental health practitioners who work with this client group. Based on current empirical research and evidence-based practical issues this book explores topics including: ageing and dementia elder abuse caring for older adults depression and ageing the paradox of ageing how older adults are key to the success of future generations. Throughout the book the contributors emphasise the notion of ‘healthy ageing,' and the importance and significance of this concept as part of the life-cycle process. As such Ageing and Older Adult Mental Health will be key reading not only for mental health professionals, but also for those involved in policy making for older adults.

Product Description: One of the strangest (and funniest) love triangles ever to hit YA fiction, when a pair of twins (one boy, one girl) both fall for the boy who moves in with them…who may or may not be a vampire.Judy and Kyle Renneker are sixteen-year-old fraternal twins in a rambling family of nine...read more

Product Description: Steady on, 21st century parent. Adolescents, teenagers, young people, are still just people. There is no need to fix, cure, treat or throttle them. In fact, now more than ever they need you to understand, listen, observe and guide so that they can continue their journey from childhood...read more

Product Description: Sam Findley and Charlie Perrin. Best friends. At least they used to be. But a year ago Sam cut Charlie out of his life—no explanation, no discussion, nothing. Fast-forward one year, and both Sam's and Charlie's lives are spiraling out of control...read more

Product Description: Explore South Korea and learn about its history, geography, food, special celebrations and pastimes. Includes full-color photographs, table of contents, sidebars, map, native-language word list, glossary, research sources and index. Biography: 32 pages.

Product Description: Book by Ryan, Patrick

Product Description: Readers are introduced to the basic geography, topography, history, people, culture, climate, and industries of the island country of New Zealand.

Product Description: Book by Ryan, Patrick

A brief introduction to the history, culture, geography, and people of China.

A brief introduction to the history, culture, geography, and people of Kenya.

A brief introduction to the history, culture, geography, and people of India.

A brief introduction to the history, culture, geography, and people of Indonesia.

A kaleidoscopic portrait of a family chronicles the individual lives of twice divorced Teresa Kerrigan and her four children, each influenced by their complex family history--Matt, caretaker to the father who had abandoned him; wild Karen, hiding in a marriage to a born-again salesman; Joe, an outsider coping with sibling rivalry; and Frankie, an eccentric sci-fi freak. A first novel. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

A collection of stories that inspired seven of Shakespeare's best-known plays includes tales of adventure, love, destiny, and magic.

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Gathers facts about Greece, including information about the land, people, history, culture, and pastimes.