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Jax Sharkin, bi-racial and royal, negotiates the prejudice against his mixed heritage with sarcasm and arrogance. His smart mouth can't save him when his political enemies conspire to send him into slavery with the trolls, but that doesn't shut him up. In a world populated by druids, magicians, a lascivious fairy and a forgetful oracle, Jax's journey is sometimes dark and often lusty. Evil is subtle, good is conflicted, and every answer is a paradox.

Since the dawn of time humans have engaged in conflict and battle. Over the past decades we have witnessed the challenges faced by military members, veterans, and their families. Professional and community organizations are calling for education and training, programs, and effective interventions that focus on the needs of the military community. This book is a response to that call for action. Military life and its trials are fluid and ever changing, so producing a current and relevant manuscript of military social work issues can be challenging as well. The character of Military Social Work Practice: Starting the Conversation is different. It serves as a primer and a catalyst for thought and individual exploration into the military culture and the practice of mental health service delivery to military members, veterans, and their families. The presentation of material is conversational in nature and strives to point the reader toward topics for further research. This book provides the reader with a general introduction to military culture, the challenges of everyday life, consequences of deployment and battle for the service member and family, the most common battle injuries, and various support programs offered through the Department of Defense, the Veterans Administration, and community organizations. It is only through the collaborative efforts of professionals and military, government, and community organizations that we can grow our community capacity to adequately respond to the needs of military members, veterans, and their families and help them thrive and heal mind, body, and spirit. Although the primary audience is the social work student and professional, anyone helping the military community can benefit from these initial conversations.

A child of the 1970s, Terry Sidford didn't realize she was born into an unhappy marriage until the age of five, when drinking tore the family apart. In an attempt to escape her mother's issues with alcohol, Terry and her sister run away from home one night to join their alternative-lifestyle father, in the hope that they might find some adult stability. Thus begins Terry's unconventional "Wonder Years," in which she endures an absentee mom, teenage self-improvement bootcamp, and an educational system that misdiagnoses her sensitivity and intuitiveness as learning disabilities. Join speaker, author and popular life coach Terry Sidford on her journey, in which she shares the secrets of how to use your worst experiences to become the best version of yourself.