New Releases by Susan Wilson

Seagrasses are extremely productive coastal plant communities that serve as habitat for various types of marine and estuarine fauna and provide numerous ecosystem services. Seagrass meadows around the world have become threatened by environmental and anthropogenic pressures such as altered hydrologic regimes, physical disturbances, and eutrophication. Monitoring programs that provide high-resolution information and document changes in cover, morphometric characteristics, species composition, and tissue nutrient content across large spatial scales are critical in global conservation and management efforts. In an attempt to address the uncertainties regarding the current distribution and condition of seagrasses in the southwest Gulf of Mexico, I conducted annual sampling from 2011-2013 to examine seagrass cover and condition at 558 permanent stations. Sampling occurred in three regions of the Texas coast: the Coastal Bend (CB), Upper Laguna Madre (ULM), and Lower Laguna Madre (LLM), which together comprise over 94% of the seagrasses in Texas. Significant trends in seagrass coverage and tissue elemental composition were highly location- and species-specific. In the CB, I did not observe significant changes in seagrass cover and no spatial patterns in tissue nitrogen (N) or phosphorus (P) were apparent. However, I observed a species shift in the northern ULM, where significant decreases in Syringodium filiforme cover were coupled with significant increases in Halodule wrightii cover. Long-term salinity records at four stations throughout the study area suggest that S. filiforme mortality in the ULM in 2013 was a product of an extended period of high salinity (u003e 55) that began in late 2012. In LLM, there were significant increases in H. wrightii cover in the north and significant decreases in T. testudinum cover in the south, which cannot be explained based on underwater light levels, salinity, or nutrient availability. Both H. wrightii and T. testudinum displayed lower C:N, C:P, and N:P ratios, along with enriched δ15N signatures nearest urban areas, particularly in the LLM. This study illustrates the value of integrating rapid-assessment field sampling and rigorous statistical and spatial analysis into a large-scale seagrass monitoring program to uncover patterns in seagrass community structure. I detected significant trends in seagrass coverage and condition across multiple spatial and temporal scales, including a massive species replacement that coincided with a prolonged period of hypersaline conditions.

This 21-day Reiki Meditation journal is designed to help you turn the principles of Reiki into a daily routine. The framework in this journal provides simple guidance along with a unique system to assist you on your journey. With daily dedication you will be able to calm your mind, focus on the important items in your life, make better decisions and develop a powerful, healthy habit that will create positivity and balance in your life.These attributes can only help you increase positive aspects in your life.Reiki is a stress reduction technique that incorporates prayerful meditation, the placing of hands and breathing techniques to promote healing and a heightened sense of well-being. Whether you are dealing with chronic pain, stressors in life or just working to set yourself up for success on a daily basis, this Reiki journal directs you toward positive aspects of practice and contemplative awareness to help you achieve your goals.As you work through this daily practice, you may find that you learn something new about yourself or experience a new thought of inspiration long forgotten. Follow your inner guidance, paying attention to how your gut feels and listening to what your heart is telling you. The framework provided by this journal will help you with personal growth and wellbeing, by helping you learn to adapt simple process into everyday life.Your personal journey will expand, growing to touch all aspects of your life as your body aligns. Eventually you will notice how taking time for yourself and doing your own work makes you better able to help and deal with others as well.

Like a lot of people, Susan didn''t believe that she had a story worth sharing, a story that would impact lives for Christthat is until that surprising day when God called her to write her testimony. That day, with fingers pressed upon the keys of her laptop, Susan embarked on a journey that forever changed her life as well as the lives of others. Over the course of a few years, as Susan wrote, God began to orchestrate the events of her life to paint a beautiful picture depicting how His people should live in preparation for His return and demonstrating His desire that we begin living lives that testify to Him. In these pages you will find more than simply the words that describe Susans personal journey; you will hear the Saviors voice. You will hear the message that Jesus lovingly laid on her heart, a message that speaks about how He longs for His ultimate wedding day to His Bride, the Church, and about how we should live in preparation for that day. Just as a bridge once connected Jerusalem with the Temple Mount, bringing people closer to the Temple where God resided, these stories will lead you into a deeper relationship with the Lord. They will help you to discover your own storyfor God created you to testify! You are meant to be a bridge that leads others to Christ. God wants to speak through you, so lets get started finding your story!

After three month journey to Mount Sinai God wants to meet with His People. God has Moses prepare His People for the meeting. On that day God reveals His Splendor to His People. His people become afraid and want Moses to be their intermediary. God is hurt. All God wanted was to have a close relationship with each of His People. What would have happen is His People would had faith in their God and bow down before Him? Would God have written His Positive Commandments in their hearts and minds? Take a journey with me and find out the answers to these questions in the new and fresh looking book The Ten Positive Commandments.

Rick Stanton was a promising professional baseball player with dreams of playing in the major leagues and starting a family with his young wife, Francesca, when World War II changed everything. Rick returns from the war with his body broken and his dreams shattered. But it was not just body and spirit he sacrificed for the war. He and Francesca volunteered their beloved dog, Pax, for the Army''s K-9 Corp, not knowing if they''d ever see him again. Keller Nicholson is the soldier who fought the war with Pax by his side, and the two have the kind of profound bond that can only be forged in war. Pax is the closest Keller has to a sense of family, and he can''t bear the thought of returning him to the Stantons. But Rick and Francesca refuse to give him up. Instead, an arrangement is made: Keller will work as Rick''s live-in aide. And thus an unlikely family is formed, with steadfast Pax at the center. As they try to build a new life out of the ashes, Keller and Francesca struggle to ignore their growing attraction to each other, and Rick, believing that he can no longer give Francesca what she needs and wants, quietly plans a way out. All three of them need healing. All three of them are lost. And in Susan Wilson''s A Man of His Own, Pax, with his unconditional love and unwavering loyalty, may be the only one who can guide them home.

The Sentinel and the Wise Woman live in a world trembling on the edge of war, in a time more attuned to the natural world, but not more peaceful, than our time. They are drawn together by shared dreams disturbing their nights, whispering of dragons and great sea creatures. Desire melts them together as they discover that very little of what they''d always believed is the way things actually work. They must find refuge from the men and the powers behind them who seek to possess her, and will kill, mutilate and destroy to have her. Men like those who will take power if the coming war goes badly, a war that will be theirs to wage. First, the Sentinel must teach the Wise Woman the ways of love, and she must reveal to him the world beyond this.

From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "One Good Dog" comes a novel about a woman''s cross-country journey to find her lost dog, and discover herself.

Making sound investments is tough enough without having to worry about unscrupulous financial advisers and outright frauds. But recently strengthened laws aren''t enough to stop the "professionals" intent on profiting from--or just plain stealing--your money. As an Enforcement Branch Chief at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Pat Huddleston witnessed countless people lose their life savings to reckless stockbrokers and fraudulent schemes. Now an SEC-recommended Receiver andCEO of a securities and investment fraud investigation agency, Huddleston has intimate knowledge of how scam artists and bad brokers operate. In The Vigilant Investor, he explains WHY we fall for investment scams, HOW con artists play on our emotions, and WHAT we can do to protect ourselves from predators. With its unique look into the science of financial decision making, the book blows up the popular myths and simplistic "do''s and don''ts" of investing while sharing techniques anyone can use to perform due diligence even better than the "experts." With gripping stories of actual cases, Huddleston sheds light on the dark corners of the investment industry and teaches investors and professionals alike how to spot fraud and guard themselves against financial catastrophe.

"One Good Dog is a wonderful novel: a moving, tender, and brilliantly crafted story about two fighters—one a man, one a dog— hoping to leave the fight behind, who ultimately find their salvation in each other. Susan Wilson''s clear and unflinching style is perfectly suited for her story that strips away the trappings and toys we all hide behind, and exposes our essential need to give and accept love in order to thrive."—Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain Adam March is a self-made "Master of the Universe." He has it all: the beautiful wife, the high-powered job, the glittering circle of friends. But there is a price to be paid for all these trappings, and the pressure is mounting—until the day Adam makes a fatal mistake. His assistant leaves him a message with three words: your sister called. What no one knows is that Adam''s sister has been missing for decades. That she represents the excruciatingly painful past he has left behind. And that her absence has secretly tormented him all these years. When his assistant brushes off his request for an explanation in favor of her more pressing personal call, Adam loses it. And all hell breaks loose. Adam is escorted from the building. He loses his job. He loses his wife. He loses the life he''s worked so hard to achieve. He doesn''t believe it is possible to sink any lower when he is assigned to work in a soup kitchen as a form of community service. But unbeknownst to Adam, this is where his life will intersect with Chance. Chance is a mixed breed Pit Bull. He''s been born and raised to fight and seldom leaves the dirty basement where he is kept between fights. But Chance is not a victim or a monster. It is Chance''s unique spirit that helps him escape and puts him in the path of Adam. What transpires is the story of one man, one dog, and how they save each other—in ways they never could have expected.

Why is it that some people consistently seem to get more done than others? The answer is that they know how to set specific, achievable goals for themselves...and then follow through on them. This revised and updated edition of Goal Setting features worksheets, quizzes, and other practical tools, giving readers powerful techniques they can use to set a goal, make a plan, and acquire the resources and power necessary to achieve their objective. The book shows readers how to:act upon their objectives in a precise, targeted way • recognize obstacles and overcome them • become more assertive • change counterproductive behavior • establish priorities • make the most of their timeAchieving goals takes hard work and discipline. This expanded edition of Goal Setting gives readers the tools and techniques to accomplish anything.

Solovic offers frank advice and hard-won lessons including: taking emotions out of the workplace - make business decisions based on what is best for the company, not on your personal feelings; thinking big and bold - believe that you can be successful and be willing to announce your intentions to the world; managing for growth - hire the right people and discover the best ways to keep them; and, never being afraid to take a chance - boost profits by taking financial risks.

The Legends of King Arthur--what if Mallory got it wrong? What if the ancient script used by Troyes contained translation errors? What if the monks in the middle ages forgot to transpose the nouns and adjectives in the ancient Latin texts and what should have read ''rotunda on the plateau'' instead came out as the nonsensical ''round table.'' The Heirs of Fate unscrambles the puzzle and turns the Arthurian legends into a logical and more credible novel. With unforgettable characters and action-packed drama, Ms. Younkins has woven a novel that will be hard to put down. Set in the 5th and 6th Centuries C.E., the novel starts with Merlin''s rise to fame, travels through Arthur''s stellar achievements, and ends with the collapse of the Romano-Briton Empire.

Whether you''re conducting business, traveling for pleasure, or even relocating abroad, one mistake with customs or etiquette can leave a bad taste in everyone''s mouth. International travelers, now more than ever, are not just individuals from the United States, but ambassadors and impression makers for the country as a whole. Newly updated, redesigned, and resized for maximum shelf appeal for travelers of all ages, Culture Shock! country and city guides make up the most complete reference series for customs and etiquette you can find. These are not just travel guides; they are guides for a way of life.

In celebration of the uniqueness of the individual, Digital Soup Online is a collaboration of authors sharing their stories of the online world. It is a collection of works written by those primarily from the community known as Utopia Skye. Utopia Skye was founded in 2002 to become the meeting place for friends online who played various games and moved about life on their journeys. Today Utopia Skye remains the central hub for these people to share their stories, memories, friendships and love. Digital Soup Online is a celebration of life both on the Internet and offline in the real world. This work of art is dedicated to the memory of Jessie Smith, who for most people of Utopia Skye was an angel of love. It is in her memory that a portion of all proceeds from this book will be donated to the Lymphoma Research Foundation.

Published in association with the Boston History Collaborative, a guide to the great writers, where they worked, lived, and died.

From a fast-rising star, the author of "The Fortune Teller''s Daughter," comes a poignant novel of love lost and found, set in the Massachusetts town of Hawke''s Cove. "Emotionally inspiring . . ."--"Romantic Times."

Whether you''re looking for a history of one of the city''s world-class museums or for a fascinating story about Boston''s popular North End, Susan Wilson covers it all in Boston Sites and Insights. Divided into six sections that reflect the diversity of people, activities, and landmarks within the city, this fascinating book leaves no stone unturned. With practical, up-to-date information in an "Essentials" section at the end of each chapter as well as fresh retellings of popular legends and lore, Wilson provides everything the modern visitor or current resident needs to know to enjoy the multicultural city of Boston, Massachusetts."

A boy''s experiences with local eccentrics on a beach in the Auckland area during a summer holiday marks the end of his childhood and the beginning of adult awareness and compassion.

After years of moving from place to place with her fortune-teller mother, Sabine Heartwood finally has a home in Moose River Junction, a quiet New England town. But her peaceful life has suddenly turned itself upside-down. Sabine has fallen in love with Dan Smith who has returned to his hometown to deal with family affairs -- and plans to leave as soon as his business is concluded. Then Sabine’s mother appears, ready to discuss the family’s mysterious past. The last straw comes when the psychic gift Sabine has so vehemently rejected, revisits her in a vision she has about a painful family secret from which Dan is unable to free himself. Abounding in generosity and insight, The Fortune Teller’s Daughter is a powerful and moving exploration of the complexities of love.

The novels of Susan Wilson are rich with stirring conflict and deeply felt emotion. "An empathetic storyteller" (Publishers Weekly), she delves into the complexities of the human heart to seek the truest meaning of love. Cameo Lake Putting herself first doesn''t come easy to Cleo Grayson McCarthy. A loving wife, doting mother, and dutiful daughter-in-law, she has always done her writing on the side, in hours stolen from her "real" life. Now, desperate for the solitude she needs to finish her latest novel, she convinces her husband that she must spend the summer at her best fiend''s rustic cottage at Cameo Lake in New Hampshire, out of reach of cell phones and the demands of family and friends. Even as she immerses herself in her work, Cleo can''t help but be aware of the man who lives across the lake. A reclusive composer, Ben Turner is struggling to come to terms with his wife''s accident. An outcast, he is regarded with suspicion by the lake community, even accused by some of harming his wife. But at night, Cleo hears his music drifting across the water, and senses she has found a kindred spirit. As they meet time and again -- often on the raft anchored in the middle of Cameo Lake -- Cleo and Ben begin a satifying friendship suprising in its intimacy and depth. And when a painful betrayal leaves Cleo stunned and adrift, she finds unexpected comfort and absolution in Ben''s arms. But love is never simple, and before Cleo can determine whether to fight for her marriage or seek a future with Ben, she must first know her own heart, and admit truths ling left unsaid. Even as Cleo struggles to come to terms with her own truths, Ben must find a way to face his. An unforgettable take of the many faces of love, Cameo Lake is Susan WIilson at her very finest.