One Little spark

by ellie banks

Description

Before the fire, it was the perfect place to raise a family.

An idyllic community where neighbors knew one another…

or so they thought.

Jenna Abbott’s life went up in flames even before the fire started in Tenmile, Oregon. She was still coping with her husband's affair—and the revelation that he got a much younger woman pregnant—when the fire finally died down, and Ryan was among the missing.

Chelsea Goddard still can’t explain how her estranged husband got back to Tenmile from out of the country the day of the fire, and she also can’t shake the nagging feeling that the secrets they’ve kept between them for the last twenty years might just be the tinder that made it all burn.

Morgan White knew getting involved with a married man was wrong, even before she got pregnant. She might be the only one who knows the truth about some of Tenmile's leading citizens…but people would have to stop treating her like a pariah to hear it.

Alex Coleman doesn’t remember anything from that fateful day, why she was found wandering on a rural road or why she has dreams of standing on scorched earth, holding a book of matches.

For four women, when the flames finally burn out, what’s left behind will be even more devastating than the fire itself…

 
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One Little Spark
$18.99
 

About the Author

Ellie Banks is the pseudonym for New York Times bestselling author Maisey Yates, who has written over one hundred novels. Whether she's writing domestic suspense, romantic westerns or multigenerational family sagas, she loves getting lost in fictional worlds. She likes to spend a rainy day knitting and watching true crime documentaries. She lives with her husband and three kids in the Pacific Northwest. You can find more information about Ellie Banks’s stories at elliebanksbooks.com


 
 

 

A Field Guide to Humans: Enriching Relationships Through the Enneagram

by Frank de Luca

Description

Successful relationships of all kinds begin with seeing through the other person's eyes. It's a simple practice but not that easy, especially with those close to us.

A Field Guide to Humans is a practical, imaginative guide for understanding people and improving your relationships with them. Author and therapist Frank De Luca presents the Enneagram, a model of the human psyche as nine interrelated personality types, as a lens through which to see others--their strengths, their foibles, and what makes them tick.

The title, A Field Guide to Humans, is an invitation to regard people with the same wonder and openness that a wildlife biologist brings to studying the natural world. The same objectivity, curiosity, and respect are possible when we look at human beings. Seeing friends, family, coworkers, and others in this way invites curiosity and compassion rather than criticism--a reminder that whomever you are interacting with, they want the same basic things you do even if they go about seeking them differently.

The book's nine chapters present the identifying characteristics of the nine Enneagram types, their limited and evolved expressions, as well as insights and tips for relating to people of each personality type. Delightfully illustrated with Nancy Bardos's original artwork, the chapters include first-person vignettes by people of each type or by those connected to someone of a certain type. The book's approach reflects Dr. De Luca's decades of expertise with the experiential narrative tradition of teaching the Enneagram.

Open the book and open your heart to a compassionate way of living with friends, family, colleagues, and even complete strangers.

 
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A Field Guide to Humans: Enriching Relationships Through the Enneagram
$21.95
 

About the Author

Frank De Luca, PhD, has been a facilitator of personal and professional development since 1976. After leading workshops for a national seminar company (Actualizations) for a decade, in 1986 he became an independent organizational development consultant, facilitating processes such as conflict resolution, team building, and interpersonal communications for companies including Kaiser Permanente, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and First Interstate Bank.

As his interests turned toward helping individuals, Frank pursued a master’s degree in Integral Counseling Psychology and became licensed as a marriage and family therapist with a practice in Carmel and San Francisco for over twenty years. He earned a doctorate in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). His groundbreaking research profiled the mindset and behavior of individuals who integrate their spiritual aspirations with their professional lives.

The Enneagram has been integral to Frank’s work since 1989. With the Enneagram teachings as a tool, Frank has helped therapy clients, business clients, and members of various organizations and businesses discover and develop their hidden strengths, embrace their similarities and differences, and enrich their personal and professional relationships. In 2007 he began offering introductory Enneagram classes as well as Enneagram study groups to clients, therapists, and the staff and faculty of several independent schools on the West Coast.

Frank currently lives in Jacksonville, Oregon, where he is involved in community organizations such as the Southern Oregon Friends of Hospice and the Britt Music and Arts Festival. His creative projects include writing poetry, which he posts alongside photographs by his partner, Ken Gregg, for passersby to see in the front windows of the 1850s former saloon where they reside.