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Vince, Merle, Adele, Tobias et al - they could easily be your neighbours, your friends or your relatives. In the sleepy streets of Stockton, Newcastle, NSW, Merle has been housekeeping for Adele up until Adele's fall, which has now put her into a Nursing Home. Tobias, Adele's son, has some financial troubles and with Adele out of the picture, he has free reign on the family home and its valuable contents. What turn of events leads Merle's nephew Vince and his accomplice to break in to Adele's house? Who really betrays Adele's trust? Her housekeeper? Her son? A total stranger?
Meet Taylor Mark: a recent college graduate who has moved to Washington, D.C., to work for John Grayson, the less-than-brilliant congressman from his home district in southern California. Inadequately prepared for life among D.C.'s movers and shakers, Taylor quickly learns that Washington is a city where deals are made behind closed doors. And there's no one better to teach him -- and Grayson -- that lesson than Chase Latham, Taylor's former college roommate and the son of a powerful lobbyist. To Chase, the Beltway's bars, restaurants, town houses, and government offices are one big, debauched playground -- a land of milk and honey where secrets are currency, the sex is bipartisan, and rules and boundaries are obsolete. It's a place where, as the stakes are raised, the line between right and wrong becomes blurred and friends' loyalties are nothing more than fragments of the past. This Is How It Starts is an incisively written debut novel about how far one postcollegiate idealist will go to be an insider in a town that is unyielding in what it will take from a person in exchange for granting him a margin of knowledge and power.
Alfred J. Garrotto offers Victor Hugo's flawed protagonist as a model for anyone in search of practical wisdom for everyday living. One of fiction's most beloved characters, the former convict and life-long fugitive represents humanity in both its brokenness and its potential for selfless-even saintly-living. Reflection topics range from forgiveness and the primacy of conscience to the joys and sorrows of parenthood. Each Reflection explores a universal theme, including the daily call to spiritual and moral conversion and the life-lessons parents impart to their children. Questions at the end of each Reflection invite you to use the book as your personal wisdom journal. Cover art by Douglas M. Lawson
2020 Victorian Community History Award Winner Larundel Psychiatric Hospital was ‘the madhouse on the edge of town’ – until the 1990s, a Melbourne cultural icon shrouded in mystery in the outer suburb of Bundoora. What was it really like inside this madhouse? This story takes us into the heart of Larundel through the voices of former inmates and staff, exposing the best and worst aspects of the mental institutions of the times. It shows the shifts in psychiatric treatments, the social forces at play, and changes driving mental health policy. It explores what de-institutionalisation and ‘care in the community’ actually meant for those suffering mental illness, as well as for those tr...
This book is written in a user-friendly style for those who desire to conduct valid and reliable telephone surveys. Includes chapters on the business of telephone surveys, ethics, sampling, instrument design, data collection procedures, data analysis and chart presentation.
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