Chelsea lives thousands of miles away from her family, where she lives blissfully devoid of harsh realities. She's built an idyllic new life in Hawaii, surrounded by art, love, nature, and the many pleasures of island living. This happiness is derailed by the news of her father's battle with cancer. Torn between duty and fear, she takes a leave of absence to be by his side. Leaving her husband, her career, and her detachment from reality behind, Chelsea boards a flight back to her hometown in New York. She doesn't know exactly how she'll navigate this new path, one now defined by uncertainty and the heartbreak of impending, inescapable, and unimaginable loss. She relies on her wit and keen observation of human fragility and strength to explore both the tragic and quirky circumstances surrounding death. Pulled from the comfortable delusions of her island life, she's out of her realm, out of her depth, and definitely out of her comfort zone. Life is chaos.

Vols. 12-13 include the separately paged supplement: Warlock o'Glenwarlock... By George Macdonald.

This book details my twenty-five years of dealing with nuisance wildlife complaints on just about everything, from the almost life threatening to the absolutely hilarious. It also talks about dealing with customers, some of whom have knowledge while some have absolutely no clue what is going on.

Stress in Health and Disease presents the principal pathways mediating the response to a stressor. It discusses the clinical background of cross-resistance and treatment with stress-hormones. It addresses the diseases of adaptation or stress diseases, diagnostic indicators, and functional changes. Some of the topics covered in the book are the concept of heterostasis; stressors and conditioning agents; morphology of frostbite; characteristics manifestations of stress; catecholamines and their derivatives; various hormones and hormone-like substances; FFA, triglycerides and lipoproteins; morphologic changes; and hypothalamo-hypophyseal system . The gastrointestinal diseases of adaptation are covered. The schizophrenia and related psychoses is discussed. The text describes the manic-depressive disease and senile psychosis. A study of the experimental cardiovascular diseases and neuropsychiatric diseases is presented. A chapter is devoted to the diseases of adaptation in animals. Another section focuses on the shift in adenohypophyseal activity and catatoxic hormones. The book can provide useful information to scientists, doctors, students, and researchers.

From the poor duck that was mystified by her own egg-laying abilities to finding snow ghosts, The Squirrel's Goblet is a heart-warming collection of 56 true-life stories of nature's wonders and antics. Highlighted by photos, the tales include funny, often touching, anecdotes about drunken birds, a disappearing rope, fireflies, a delicate loop of snow, thunderstorm sideshows, a frog and his feather and much more. In the tradition of Aesop's Fables, each story is followed by a modern-day moral. A relaxing book for adults and young adults; easy to read to and enjoy with children.

In the ninth book of The Squirrel Chronicles, the life of Harold Finebender, curator of the Otis Tharp Fountain Pen Museum, takes a turn for the worse. To make it through a downturn in the economy The Office Zone, owner of the building the museum is in, leased it to George Granger of the Big G grocery chain. He saw the field and woods behind the museum as a venue for advertising the products in his stores. An invitation for the Community of Abner to host the first Neighborhood Seven Find The Nut Tournament ends with Harold becoming involved with Vinny Bling, a local gangster. A break-in at the Committee of Committees headquarters puts squirrel communities in danger because valuable information was taken. And Ferrel, a longtime community member, leaves the cast of Les The Miser None The Wiser to find fame as FeRoll, a rapper. In other words, it’s been a typical year for Roscoe and the members the Community of Abner.

The chef girls have decided to start a neighborhood cooking service. But they run into many obstacles, like their parents and money. Will they be able to come up with a recipe for success?

Fearing to make a sound that would attract attention and perhaps prevent his escape, Kris sits in the dark on the edge of his perfectly made bed. It is 4:25 AM. His most precious possessions have been secretly stored down the street with friends. Grandpa finally arrived yesterday, driving King Arthur, an eighteen-wheeler truck. What will he tell Grandpa? Will Grandpa believe Kris's own uncle means him harm? Will Kris's secret plan to leave his uncle's home and live with his grandparents, work? These agonizing questions swirl in Kris's head until he hears a soft sound in the hall and then watches the doorknob slowly, silently turn. Who is coming into his room? Is it his grandpa or his uncle? Is it too late?