Sherri Smith illuminates the dark side of the self-care and wellness industry in a thrilling ride of revenge perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty's Nine Perfect Strangers.

Katie Manning was a beloved child star until her mid-teens when her manager attacked and permanently scarred her face, effectively ending her career and sending her on a path of all-too-familiar post-Hollywood self-destruction.

Now twenty-seven, Katie wants a better answer to those clickbait "Where Are They Now?" articles that float around online. An answer she hopes to find when her brother's too-good-to-be-true fiancée invites her to a wellness retreat upstate. Together with Katie's two best friends - one struggling with crippling debt and family obligations, one running away from a failed job and relationship - Katie will try to find the inner peace promised at the tranquil retreat. But finding oneself just might drudge up more memories than Katie is prepared to deal with.

Each woman has come to the retreat for different reasons. Each has her secrets to hide. And at the end of this weekend, only one will be left standing.

Mia never intended to go home again, but has no choice when her twin brother goes missing. Back to the people she left behind, the person she used to be, and the secrets she thought she'd buried.Her brother Lucas, a popular teacher, has disappeared on the same day as the murdered body of one of his students was pulled from the river. Trying to wrap her head around the rumors of Lucas's affair with the teenager, and unable to reconcile the media's vicious portrayal of Lucas with her own memories of him, Mia is desperate to find another suspect.All the while, she wonders, if he's innocent, why did he run?

The winner of the 2002 OAH Rawley Prize for the best book on American race relations,Reimagining Indians investigates an important group of Anglo-American writers whose books about Native Americans helped reshape Americans' understandings and appreciations of Indian peoples at the turn of the twentieth century. As they celebrated their Indian cultures, they cast doubt on their supposed superiority, and encouraged broader acceptance of cultural relativism, pluralism, and tolerance in American thought, as well as making Native American cultural practices more accessible to Anglo-Americans.

Peaceful Water is the third and final book of the Water Trilogy. It is based in Decatur, Illinois. Kathy Sills is dedicated to her job and is self sufficient. She does not need anyone in her life, especially God. Old memories continue to haunt her life and her dreams. She struggles with trials and problems in her everyday life. She finds her life changing after she meets her remarkable neighbor. Wanda Cox becomes her closest friend and confidant. What Kathy doesn't know is, she isn't supposed to be self sufficient See how Kathy is led to her Peaceful Water.

Sunni Preston has a husband missing in Afghanistan and a beautiful five year old daughter. She also has acquired an unwanted admirer...a stalker Join Sunni as she travels through her time of Troubled Water

A little about myself, I'm 54 years old. At an early age, I had my first child, a girl I named Tamika. Three years later, my second daughter, Rochelle and then five years later, I had my son I named Khalif. It was not an easy life, always looking for love and trying to find myself. My children have always been my life and now that they are older, I had to found what to do in life.Well, I have the best thing in my life now. He is always there for me. He loves me even when I make mistakes. Every day, I try to empty myself to fill myself with His word. I no longer look for love in the world or try to find myself in it.I love family outings, Christian plays and I love singing. Life is so much simpler now that I'm not running around trying to figure out what I should be doing. I'm listening to God. I am human and sometimes I make mistakes and He forgives me. The best time in my life was when I found my Savior.

'Bitter Water' gently takes the reader on Mara Conley's journey back to her hometown. She's not the insecure teenager who ran away from her small town on the night of her graduation. Now Mara has God. She has come back to try to find where her genetic eye disease came from. No one in her family has it. She also wants to reconcile with her parents and start a new life with a new awareness of her past, and in preparation for a brighter future. Author Sherri Smith leads the reader through 'Bitter Water, ' with the promise of a brighter tomorrow on the other side.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 includes every application that a cutting-edge Web designer needs to get the job done. Whether you're using a few single applications together, or one of the Adobe Creative Suite collections, this book aims to teach you the essentials and get your workflow ... flowing

In addition to covering all the tools and techniques youll need to know, this book includes tips and advice, highlights common pitfalls youll want to avoid, and even touches on often-missed topics, like copywritingthis book aims to be the Creative Suite Swiss army knife for the modern freelance Web designer/developer. Coverage of all that's new and powerful for the Web designer in CS4 Special attention paid to workflow for freelancers and small-shop practisioners who want to "do it all" when it comes to Web design and development Learn which application and which tools are the right ones to choose to tackle any job with efficiency and maximum creativity What you'll learn The complete flow of Web site design and development from comps to making your site public How to use Dreamweaver and Devic Central to collect all of your site content and then publish it When and how to use Photoshop, Illustrator, or Fireworks to create graphic content A thorough introduction to the Adobe Flash Platform, including Flex Builder How to repurpose Web-bound content for print with InDesign and Acrobat How to incorporate audio and video elements into Web pages and sites Who is this book for?

Targetting a broad spectrum of young college students and graduates, freelancers, designers with a bent for development, and developers with design sensibilities, this book is for all of whom are eager to further themselves and their skills in a way not usually possible in your day jobs. If you're web savvy, creatively driven, technically competent, trend-aware and eager to learn, then this book is for you