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Reviews new federal law which requires child's participation in permanency hearings and how this law is being implemented in NYS. Also gives ideas for making kids feel comfortable and reviews the pros and cons of their participation. Accompanying handouts are available at http://nysccc.org/conference/conference-archives/

Roy and Devra have held over 100 marriage seminars and retreats. This audiobook is a tool for the two of you to use together. It will help you find a way to successfully say what you need to say. The struggle in communication in which you find yourself is probably like well-worn ruts in a road. Your efforts to try and drive out of the ruts or keep from falling back into them will be frustrating. Learning new things always creates some initial discomfort but eventually, with practice, we learn to do it without much effort. Learning a new way of talking to each other is difficult as well, but just as rewarding.

A Precise, Intimate God “O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me.” ~ Psalm 139:1 God knows each of us intimately, and can speak to us through the details of our lives … if we’re willing to listen. Bring your curiosity to seven places in your life, and see how the Lord will speak to you. How I'm LOVING these instructions about developing my vocabulary with the Lord! It's so beautiful to me, how He uses seemingly ordinary things and blows my socks off! This is exactly what my heart has been yearning for in this season of my walk. ~Alyssa O.

This is a book that explains mediation in conversational English. This is not a textbook for a law school, but rather an introduction to mediation for actual litigants. Every attempt has been made to avoid “legalese” so people with little or no legal training can understand it. No one plans or expects to be in court on a personal injury case. Then out of nowhere, life happens. The entire process can be very frightening for the uninitiated. It is my hope to pull back the curtain, so to speak, so people will not be intimidated if they find themselves thrust into, what appears to be, the ...

Henry Marts was 19 years old when he defied his Quaker faith and answered the call from President Lincoln to defend the Union. Fully expecting to be home in a matter of months, Henry left behind his parents, his work as an oysterman, his sea captain brother Will, and his sweetheart Christiana. Henry, and his comrades in the 3rd Regiment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, would experience some of the most compelling moments of the Eastern campaigns.

As a member of the Online generation, you face unique obstacles in today's world. These challenges can leave you feeling trapped, lost, or paralyzed. You need a solid support system to lift you up and move you forward, one that bridges generational gaps and brings valuable allies to your table. TableTalk can make that happen. Co-authors Shari Moss and Meghan Fitzpatrick offer powerful strategies to help millennials create a network of the best, most effective “TableMates” possible.

Hearing Maud: A Journey for a Voice is a work of creative nonfiction that details the author’s experiences of deafness after losing most of her hearing at age four. It charts how, as she grew up, she was estranged from people and turned to reading and writing for solace, eventually establishing a career as a writer.

When the narrator of The Hearing Test, an artist in her late 20s, awakens one morning to a deep drone in her right ear, she is diagnosed with Sudden Deafness, but is offered no explanation for its cause. As the spectre of total deafness looms, she keeps a record of her year – a score of estrangement and enchantment, of luck and loneliness, of the chance occurrences to which she becomes attuned – while living alone in a New York City studio apartment with her dog.

Hearing the Virgin College Girl Scream During Her Rough Gangbang: Impregnated by Cruel Men tells the story of an 18-year-old sexy virgin college girl who finds herself sexually ravaged by a group of college guys that deflower her rather roughly. She finds her body and holes used and abused by this sordid group of college guys and, as she begins to reluctantly accept her situation, she starts to come to terms with the fact that she is going to be caring for one of their babies for a lifetime!

The testimony that the author has gleaned for this audiobook from the 30-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee focuses on HUAC's treatment of artists, intellectuals, and performers. This highly readable and absorbing collection of significant excerpts from the hearings shows with painful clarity how HUAC grew from a panel that investigated possible subversive activities in a "dignified" manner to a huge, unrelenting accusatory finger from which almost no one was safe.

Union vs. Confederate. They were brothers and first cousins. Frank, Sam, Alex, and Marion. Forced to choose sides in a divided Kentucky. Their state would rage. Family ties rupture. Loyalties be questioned. Four young men would become "Cousins at War." Inspired by the service of actual Civil War soldiers.

It’s Valentine’s Day, and Aggie is looking forward to her yearly ritual of curling up on the couch in front of the television while eating ice cream. However, this year, her friends Betty and Roger have talked Aggie into spending an evening out on the town. Then, to her surprise, Officer Tom Wood had also asked her out. Wearing a very uncomfortable, slinky red dress Betty picked out for her and a ruby red pocketbook to match, Aggie stumbles into a dangerous Valentine’s Day she’ll never forget.

Forty wildly different prompts to offer insight into whom the Lord has made you to be. Look at unique specifics of your life, and the fictional or historical characters your love. Enjoy looking again at treasured memories, and at a range of preferences (favorite color, favorite bird, etc.). Take a few personality tests. Come away with a greater awareness that God actually cares about you, specifically. He knows you personally. He created you uniquely. And the details of your life matter to him. Each of these exercises will take about ten minutes to research and think through. It’s not no ...

Kat, the epitome of a Southern housewife, had been struggling with feeling she had lost herself even before her husband’s infidelity with a much younger co-worker comes out. She decides that it is time to make a change and simply drives away from her life to visit with her childhood friend and former business partner, Jen, who left to become a successful caterer in Hollywood while Kat chose to stay behind and get married. Kat is blindsided when she meets the younger, handsome Irish star of a TV show that Jen is working on.

Hope. Magic. Balance. The true, holiest of causes. Eighteen-year-old Gracie Caine wants to live a simple, normal life after leaving Ariel’s Gate Orphanage. All she has is a photographic memory and a twisted club foot, but she feels good about herself until a shocking set of unexpected wings and a deadly war turn her hopeful future into something very different. She has awakened to a secret world of angels and demons, bloody war and terror.

Van Childs’ accidental discovery of an alien cache of advanced technologies thrusts him into the role of reluctant hero. Learning of an extra-terrestrial race, the Host, who visited Earth some 200 years before, Van is forewarned of an impending invasion by the Arkon, an expansionist race. Van’s quest to prepare Earth meets with opposition by a powerful human adversary with conflicting goals.

Megan Daniels was only three years old the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, but flashes of that day begin to trigger other disturbing memories. At first they are merely snippets, but then they begin to appear more frequently. In her attempt to learn more, she sets out to find her biological mother, but keeps hitting brick walls. No adoption papers exist, and all she has to go on is her possible birthday: November 22. In the small town of Meredith, California, Megan’s search takes on a dire, domino effect - one woman has already been murdered as a result of her inquiries.

Damien Pierce wasn't like normal people. Since he was young, he learned that he had the uncanny ability to heal himself almost immediately. At fifteen, he astounded the small town of Big Timber, Montana when an SUV hit him only to find he survived the encounter without suffering any major injuries. After moving away for ten years, losing his mother and slipping into a deep sense of depression, Damien's father moves them back home in an attempt to give Damien a sense of normalcy. Enter Jillian Styles, the immortal, beautiful lycan that has been looking for the soul of her long, lost lover who after many years of being reborn into new bodies, his soul simply vanishes into the tides of time.

Like all of us, Michael Anders has a dream. Ever since he was a kid in junior rodeo, he has dreamed of becoming a world-champion rodeo cowboy - riding bulls and bareback horses, scoring high, winning big buckles, basking in the glory. And now it all seems within his reach. Michael has filled his permit and is now a full member of the Professional Association of Rodeo Cowboys. So he sets out on this rodeo run with his two traveling partners, Kirby Jordan and Jim Ed Sarkos.

The death of her friend and mentor devastated her almost as much as finding out about his past. But when Emma learns his plans for her in his small hometown, she will have to make hard decisions about who she is, what she believes, and the man for whom she is falling.