Targeted at children aged 5-9, this collection of two workbooks employs Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques to help young readers understand and manage anger and anxiety. Each workbook is designed for individual use or with guidance from a parent or care professional, offering clear explanations and practical tools to navigate challenging emotions.
Once, Orla was a painter and a lover; now she is a mother and wife. When her husband Nick suggests they move from their city apartment, she agrees, partly because she feels it's true and partly due to her exhaustion. Nick finds an antiquated Georgian house on the Dorset cliffs, claiming it’s perfect for children with ample space and beautiful grounds. However, as they settle in—Nick commuting to the city for work—Orla becomes increasingly unsettled. She hears voices when alone, experiences doors opening and closing mysteriously, and her son Sam, who hasn’t spoken in six months, seems to have an imaginary friend with dubious intentions.
Four decades earlier, Lydia arrives as a live-in nanny for a grieving family in the same house. She, too, becomes aware of eerie presences and grows fearful for the children’s safety. Yet, like Orla, she finds no one believes her; her concerns dismissed as fanciful, stemming from the imaginations of women who spend too much time with children. Are both families headed for tragedy? Are Orla and Lydia imagining things? What secrets does the house conceal? This feminist gothic tale weaves an atmospheric mystery with themes of motherhood, madness, and the significance of a woman’s work.
"Abby has come from Indiana to this Lake Michigan town to help her cousin, Jillian, who was emceeing a local fashion show and now stands accused of murdering one of the models. Some of Sequoia's most prominent citizens were there on the catwalk, so there's increasing pressure to have the next event be a perp walk. The clueless Jillian is in jail after ignoring orders not to leave town, and she isn't happy--orange is not her color. Along with her handsome PI partner, Case, Athena starts making inquiries, while tiptoeing around the wives of the town's mayor and police chief. In the meantime, the two detectives are becoming fast friends. After all, in addition to homicide, Abby and Athena share an interest in horticulture--though right now the only thing they're growing is their list of suspects"--Publisher marketing
Athena has invited Case Donnelly, recently relocated from Pittsburgh and awaiting his PI license, to accompany her to a Save Our Dunes fundraiser and art festival. And her date proves helpful when the body of a disgraced photographer turns up during a nature walk. The crime—and the photos taken by the dead man—raise a lot of questions about local politics, environmental battles, and the victim’s womanizing ways. As Athena’s endearing Greek-American family strives to solve a mystery of their own (uncovering the identity of Athena’s anonymous blog), she and Case try to find the tangled roots of this murder and make sure there’s no sanctuary for a killer...
In this delightful new series by the New York Times bestselling author of the Flower Shop Mysteries, Athena Spencer comes back home to work with her crazy big Greek family at their garden center. But she never expected a return to her roots would mean protecting her family from murder . . . After her divorce, Athena has returned to coastal Michigan to work in her family’s garden center and raise her son, while also caring for a mischievous wild raccoon and fending off her family’s annoying talent for nagging. Working alone at the garden center one night, Athena is startled by a handsome stranger who claims to be the rightful owner of a valuable statue her grandfather purchased at a recent estate sale. But she has even bigger problems on her plate. The powerful Talbot family from whom her papous bought the statue is threatening to raze the shops on Greene Street’s “Little Greece” to make way for a condo. The recent death of the family’s patriarch already seemed suspicious, but now it’s clear that a murderer is in their midst. Athena will have to live up to her warrior goddess namesake to protect her family from a killer and save their community from ruin . . .
The New York Times bestselling author of the Flower Shop Mystery series returns with the second installment in her new Goddess of Greene St. Mystery series starring single mom Athena Spencer, who returns to Michigan to work at her family's garden center, raise a pet raccoon, and dig up the dirt on suspects when a wedding rehearsal ends up with the murder of a groom...The entire family has been put to work when a big fat Greek wedding rehearsal is booked at the Parthenon. All hands are needed for rolling grape leaves, layering moussaka, and keeping the bride calm. But then the groom goes M.I.A. and there's far more to worry about than just whether Yiayia's lemon rice soup has gone cold.No matter how tangy the tzatziki, everyone's appetite is ruined when the groom is found dead, a pair of scissors planted in his back. When the bride accuses Athena's sister Selene, a hairstylist, of seducing and stabbing her fiancé, it's all-out war--and it's up to Athena to dig up the dirt on the suspects and nip these suspicions in the bud...