Russian-American professor Nicholas Krylov encounters a host of unusual characters while doing summer research on the 2018 World Cup Football Games to be, held in multiple Russian cities. A serious stray dog problem threatens to derail the Games in Yekaterinburg (Catherine Town). Head city veterinarian Dr. Ivan Krastov is devising new methods to capture and kill or train and adopt the strays. He is also trying to modernize the city's animal control...

This is the story of Catherine Hilton, a mother struggling with substance addiction and domestic violence at the hands of her boyfriend, Victor Sinclair. When Catherine's home is investigated, Child Protective Services (CPS) intervenes, Victor is sent to prison, and she loses her children to the foster care system. Determined to turn her life around and regain custody, Catherine seeks rehabilitation. For a while, everything seems to be moving in a...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 When I opened my private practice as a psychologist, I was deluded about what I would be doing. I was expecting to cure my patients, but instead I had to learn how to be flexible as new information trickled in weekly. #2 It's difficult to treat a patient who isn't psychologically oriented. Laura just wanted her herpes cured and, in her mind, therapy was a means to...

The visions of Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich are the world's greatest source of detail on the life of St. Mary Magdalen -- great sinner and penitent. Fully referenced to The Life of Jesus Christ (their source), these pages agree completely with Sacred Scripture, but also tell of Mary Magdalen's sinful life from age 9, her extravagant attire, her second repentence after falling back into sin, her exorcism by Our Lord, His defense of her against the...

The Josefina Catherine Cunningham Memorial is about a three-year-old African American little girl named Josefina Cunningham who was murdered on July 7 2023, in Rensselaer, New York, by thirty-three-year-old white man named Robert J. Fisher.

Catherine Edaile was used to being the big curvy woman in the rooml. To being all alone in the world. Or so she thought until her agent and best friend sent her to sign books in the countryside of another State. There she came across not one but several huge surprises. Not only wasn't she alone in theworld but there was someone waiting for her. The books she wrote about Big Bold Women like her kept her level-headed and focused.Now they had brought...

Class has started, but the science teacher Mr. Bluni is nowhere to be found. Instead, he's left a riddle about underground resources on the chalkboard for Mary Catherine and her friends to solve. Can the class figure out which natural resource Mr. Bluni means? This engaging play introduces readers to important facts about water, from exploring the water cycle to discovering underground aquifers. Beautiful illustrations and humorous jokes entertain...

How is a supersized soda like a giant redwood tree? Mary Catherine and her friends are going to get to the root of the matter in this engaging play about how trees transport water. Readers will learn about important concepts, including capillary action, root pressure, and transpiration. The narrative structure of the play helps simplify complex topics into concrete examples. Charming illustrations and plenty of jokes will keep developing readers absorbed....

The call of the sea sets Heman Kenney, a young captain from hunger-starved Ireland, on a journey across the ocean to the new world. Familiar events of the development of the new country of Canada unfold alongside the blossoming love story between Captain Heman Kenney and his beloved Elizabeth. But, the deeper emotions come from Heman as he struggles with the dark choices he made in the past. Will Elizabeth forgive Heman from the sins that haunt him?...

Leaving their father's rectory, two sisters set out for the social season in London only to end up investigating the poisoning of a dowager countess.