Wendy Smith

Juvenile crime doesn't just happen—there is always a story behind it. Before Their Crimes: What We're Misunderstanding about Childhood Trauma, Youth Crime, and the Path to Healing is a ground-breaking book that sheds new light on the relationship of childhood trauma and juvenile crime. Wendy Smith uses the framework of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) to explain how the toxic stress of early childhood trauma can make children vulnerable to committing criminal acts. Smith draws from interviews with twenty men and women from across the racial and social divide who spent years in prison after committing serious crimes as children. Smith not only reveals the pernicious mechanisms that link early trauma to later crime, but also illuminates the potential for healing among even the most egregious offenders.

Flip the Script on FailureBy exploring your subconscious patterns of response to failure, Faceplant brings a fresh new mindset to life's tripping hazards. It's time to edit your story and let the adventure begin. Discover tools to define new patterns for yourself, create fresh opportunities for engaging in life, and support others as they navigate the gravity of their failures.Dr. Melisa Buie is a problem-solver, lean leader and thought-challenger with 30+ years of experience in industry, government and academia. She can often be found hunting opportunities for improvement in manufacturing or playing with data.Keeley Hurley is a squirrel-herding multipotentialite who has spent her career in the laser industry, always striving to leave the role, people, company, and industry better than she found it.Noël Kreidler is an Associate Director of Career Development at the Santa Clara University Career Center and has 30+ years of work experience in talent acquisition, human resources, and career services.

Flip the Script on FailureBy exploring your subconscious patterns of response to failure, Faceplant brings a fresh new mindset to life's tripping hazards. It's time to edit your story and let the adventure begin. Discover tools to define new patterns for yourself, create fresh opportunities for engaging in life, and support others as they navigate the gravity of their failures.Dr. Melisa Buie is a problem-solver, lean leader and thought-challenger with 30+ years of experience in industry, government and academia. She can often be found hunting opportunities for improvement in manufacturing or playing with data.Keeley Hurley is a squirrel-herding multipotentialite who has spent her career in the laser industry, always striving to leave the role, people, company, and industry better than she found it.Noël Kreidler is an Associate Director of Career Development at the Santa Clara University Career Center and has 30+ years of work experience in talent acquisition, human resources, and career services.

When Matt lays eyes on Ella, it's love at first sight-at the very least, lust. But when fate steps in, Matt ends up playing Good Samaritan and losing the girl he wants to his best friend, Sam.When Ella and Sam marry, Matt leaves the country, desperate to get over the deep feelings he has for his friend's wife. When he returns, he finds a couple struggling with infertility; cracks appearing in their relationship. Making things worse, his feelings for Ella have intensified.When you're in love with your best friend's wife, whose side do you take when everything falls apart?Also contains the novella In an Instant.

I've told a lot of lies in my life. Mostly lies of omission.My best friends, Rebecca, Gemma, and Katya think I come from a rich family like they do.I don't.We have a fancy lunch once a month at an expensive restaurant. I cut back on food the rest of the time to pay for it.My car sits in the garage unless I'm spending time with my friends. It's cheaper to catch the bus.Now I have a new secret. The biggest of them all.I'm in love with Rebecca's father.And I think he loves me back

Rebecca Wallace swore off grown-up romances when she caught her boyfriend with another woman on the white leather sofa she'd picked out for his office. One Fanta stained couch later, she's still struggling with the gap he left in her life when she meets Elliot.Elliot stumbles into Rebecca's life and house when she leaves the front door open one drunken night. He introduces her to the joy of bacon sandwiches and offers the promise of a casual relationship.When Elliot spends a lot of time away, it's not only the bacon Rebecca craves. He returns, revealing a secret which will change both their lives forever.***Warning*** This book has been known to cause bacon cravings.

The Campbell family gathers for Christmas, and each brother gets a story leading to a dramatic Christmas Day.It wouldn't be a Campbell story without a little drama.This is an addition to the Copper Creek series and the series must be read before this. Not a stand-alone.