Family Work

She doesn't like Christmas, but she sure likes Santa... Forty-year-old Samantha Nicholson has never had much interest in falling in love. Her troubled childhood taught her that the only person she can rely on is herself. She's done well for herself, working her way up through the ranks to manage the second largest department store in the Pacific Northwest. She has a good job, friends, and a little dream house with her very own garden. Everything would be perfect if she could just get through the busy Christmas shopping season and find the perfect Santa to work at the store. It turns out the...

He's a single dad in desperate need of a nanny for the summer. She can provide the help he needs so he can manage the family orchards on the edge of the lake. But can she hold onto her heart, or will she lose it to the man set to take over the Addler empire? Liam Addler lost his wife to breast cancer three years ago. Left with a seven-year-old daughter and a nanny who quit unexpectedly, he hires a new service to help him find someone to balance his work life with his home life. He's never felt anything for anyone but his late wife...until Serenity Silvers walks in. She's his new au pair. ...

He hasn't left his cabin in the woods in a long time, and he's not keen to give in to the woman who keeps trying to take his land away...until she shows up one night in danger. Phoenix Addler wants one thing: to live on his little patch of land and be left alone. He hasn't been into the town of Forbidden Lake in years, and that's just the way he likes it. After all, there's grocery delivery even to the woods, and he doesn't need everyone staring at him the way they did when his fiancée left him standing at the altar on their wedding day. If only Allegra Wright would stop filing injunctions...

Having a baby in your house is probably one of the most joyful moments you will ever experience as a parent. But dealing with the pressures of parenting at every age can be tough. This audiobook can help.

Tired of the dating scene, a cowboy billionaire puts up an Internet ad to find a woman to come out to a deserted island with him to see if they can make a love connection... Mason Martin has sold his cattle ranch in Texas for just over a billion dollars and traded it for Long Bar Island, a remote island a few hours away from Getaway Bay. Frustrated with the dating scene in the more populated areas of Hawaii, he puts up an ad, asking for volunteers to come live with him on his deserted island for three months. The goal? See if they can fall in love. Ivy McLaughlin has seen all three of her ...

She's the family lawyer and the baby of the Addler family. Her father didn't approve of her last boyfriend, and Mia broke up with the rockstar who'd helped her sister. But he's back in Forbidden Lake, and Mia has some very grown-up decisions to make... Mia Addler has always conformed to family expectations. So when her father declares rockstar Declan Phelps too old for her, she breaks up with him and tries to find a way to enjoy her summer. But he can't stay away from her, and he stages a "chance meeting" at the beach to see if they can have a second chance. Declan has traveled the world as...

Immer mehr Familien leben das unkonventionelle Gefüge, dass sich "Patchwork" nennt. Doch der bunte Flickenteppich, der nach außen hin so schön lebensfroh und gemütlich erscheint, birgt auch zahlreiche Ängste, Fragen und Schwierigkeiten. Die vielen bunten und so unterschiedlichen Flicken an der passenden Stelle zusammenzufügen, erfordert viel Geduld, Arbeit und Liebe und auch den einen oder anderen Tipp für den Alltag in einer Patchworkfamilie.

Balancing Code and Crayons is not just an audiobook, but a companion for your journey of personal development. It's about finding balance and happiness amidst the lines of code and the crayons strewn across the living room floor. It's about understanding that personal growth is not a luxury, but a necessity—even when you're coding software and raising kids at the same time.

This journal features questions for discerment from the 20+ interviews given at the Called to Communicate conference held online at calledtocommunicate.com.