New Releases by Susan Meyers

"Community Practice in Occupational Therapy: A Guide to Serving the Community integrates the history of health care and principles of management, marketing, and economics to provide guidelines for community practice. It examines existing occupational therapy practices that serve specific age groups and encourages professionals to identify innovative ways to aid underserved areas in their community."--BOOK JACKET.

This novel from a national bestseller “dives fearlessly into a tense and emotional story of two sisters anchored to one irreversible act of domestic violence” (The Miami Herald). Lulu and Merry’s childhood was never ideal, but on the day before Lulu’s tenth birthday their father propels them into a nightmare. Lulu had been warned not let her estranged father in their apartment, but when he shows up drunk, he bullies his way past Lulu, who then listens in horror as her parents struggle. She runs for help, but discovers upon her return that he’s murdered her mother, stabbed her five-year-old sister, Merry, and tried, unsuccessfully, to kill himself. Lulu and Merry are effectively orphaned by their mother’s death and father’s imprisonment. The girls’ relatives abandon them to a terrifying group home. They come to learn they’ll never really belong anywhere or to anyone—that all they have to hold onto is each other. For thirty years, the sisters try to make sense of what happened. Their imprisoned father is a specter in both their lives, shadowing every choice they make. One spends her life pretending he’s dead, while the other feels compelled—by fear, by duty—to keep him close. Both dread the day his attempts to win parole may meet with success. Compulsively readable, The Murderer’s Daughters is a testament to the family ties that bind us together and tear us apart. “All too believable and heartbreaking.” —LA Times, ‘Knock-Out Debuts’ “An impressively executed novel, disturbing and convincing.” —Boston Globe “Much like Janet Fitch’s White Oleander or Jacquelyn Mitchard’s The Deep End of the Ocean, [Meyers’s] takes readers on an emotional roller-coaster ride.” —Library Journal

Marta goes to the supermarket with her mom. Can Marta find the things they want to buy? Read and find out.

Illustrations and rhyming text portray kittens as they go from nestling newborns to proud, independent, and ready to have kittens of their own.

Rhyming text follows the life of all sorts of puppies from when they are born "with eyes shut tight," through moving in with a new family and "getting bowls and beds and names," to learning how to do things grown-up dogs do.

While on a picnic, an active baby plays, splashes, and stretches, while imitating various animals.

Every day, everywhere, babies are born. They''re kissed and dressed and rocked and fed--and completely adored by the families who love them. With an irresistible rhyming text and delightfully endearing illustrations, here is an exuberant celebration of playing, sleeping, crawling, and of course, very noisy babies doing all the wonderful things babies do best.

Calra learn how a book shelf is made.

Calra learn how a book shelf is made.

Praise for Dealers, Healers, Brutes & Saviors "These revealing stories capture what it takes today to lead your company through a crisis." -Heath Meriwether; Publisher, Detroit Free Press "I urge all senior managers to read this book.. Most crises are sudden, with intensity building in a couple of days like a tropical storm. Gerry''s wisdom will prepare you before it becomes a category-4 hurricane." -Dr. Ilker Baubars, Senior Deputy Dean, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University "Dealers, Healers, Brutes, and Saviors is must reading for any executive, who too often does not recognize a crisis until it''s too late. Gerald Meyers''s keen insight into crisis management has been invaluable to many corporate CEOs, including me." -John R. Hall, Retired Chairman of the Board and CEO, Ashland, Inc. "There''s a huge range of responses that are feasible when you''re faced with a crisis. Knowing how real people chose, acted, and succeeded in managing their crises is critical to solid decision-making. That''s what this book is all about and why it is worth the investment." -Edward A. Snyder, Dean, The Darden School University of Virginia "Confronted by crisis, the successful leaders profiled in this fast-moving, readable book universally embrace risk, take charge, move quickly, often, save their companies." -James A. Henderson, Chairman and CEO Cummins Engine Company

Winner of the 1998 Persephone Press Book Award. [Meyers''s] particular gift is taking the fine gradations of light and shadow that make up everyday existence, and proving once and for all how important these things are in our lives, how they are, in fact, what constitute our lives. Behind her quiet poetic voice the reader finds a startling complexity that confronts essential issues with an almost mythopoetic force. --S. Paul Rice.

If Brittany is chosen as a model for the new fashion catalog and Meg is left out, will it mean the end of the Always Friends Club?

Ten-year-old Cricket finds a way to raise money for the Always Friends Club by providing a dog washing service.

The secrets in the scrapbook make Meg''s dream of friendship come true and lead to plenty of unlikely surprises.

Meg is so excited--her best friend, Jenny, is coming to Redwood Grove for a visit!

If Amy asks Mark to help with their entry for the Haunted House Contest, will her friends ever stop teasing her?

Describes, in text and photographs, the San Francisco Insect Zoo and the many insects that are kept there.

This volume takes a fresh look at the problems of designing effective and humane service care delivery systems for the seriously mentally ill. The author addresses a number of major themes, including the differing definitions of mental illness and the differing treatment technologies that have logically developed from them, the varying theories regarding the structure and design of the service delivery system, and the policy dilemmas that lead to inconsistent and inequitable treatment. Demonstrating that there are wide areas of agreement among the disputing professionals. Chandler offers guidelines for finding these zones of agreement and achieving a consensus for realistically improving the system of care. The focus throughout is on the development of practical problem-solving strategies for professionals, advocates, patients, and their families. A particularly valuable feature is the inclusion of an in- depth case study that demonstrates the application of effective conflict resolution techniques in the mental health setting. Following an introductory overview of the persistent problems of people with mental illnesses, Chandler analyzes the recurring themes and issues that have surrounded the mental health field since its earliest conception. She goes on to examine such issues as the failure of the deinstitutionalization policies for the seriously and persistently mentally ill and the changing roles and responsibilities of state and local governments, families, mental health providers, and welfare agencies. The remaining chapters explore the nature of advocacy in the mental health field. Chandler describes the framework and belief structures of prominent advocacy organizations, discusses the advocacy wars among the organizations and agencies whose goal it is to help the mentally ill, and delineates a negotiation strategy for meeting the needs of the mentally ill. Topics such as the rise of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, the growth of patient rights groups, and strategies for altering the definitions of mental illness receive extended treatment. In the final chapter, Chandler outlines the knowledge necessary to understand the complex issues surrounding the mentally ill and the skills necessary to work successfully in this field.

P.J. and Stacy investigate a jewelry store heist and a mystery involving a missing doll.

P.J. and Stacy are on the trail of a missing mouse bank that belongs to their archenemy, Butch Bigelow.