One in ten women suffers from an episode of significant depression following the birth of a baby. These depressions can have a profoundly negative effect on the quality of the mother-infant relationship and, in turn, on the course of child development itself. The first book in a decade to deal exclusively with the impact of postpartum depression on child development, this groundbreaking volume brings together rigorous and sophisticated research from leading authorities in the field.

Big, beautiful and rebellious indie film critic Daria MacClellan is most comfortable in a monster movie poster T-shirt and blue jeans. Yet when family drama hijacks her engagement, she's trapped into a formal wedding with her perfectionist, anorexic sister, Sky, planning the whole thing. Dara adores her fiance, but her wedding seems to be spiralilng into a horror film. Will the spectre of a picture perfect wedding turn her into the Bride of the Living Dead?

Meet Josephine Fuller, a sleuth of size who doesn't apologize. Larger Than Death introduces "Jo" Fuller, full-figured and full of attitude with abundant sleuthing skills. In Larger Than Death Joe takes time off from her new job checking out potential charities for an eccentric socialite and walks into a murder scene. Her best friend and early role model, Nina -- a plus-sized clothing designed -- lies slain in her own apartment. Was she the victim of a serial killer who targets voluptuous women? or is the murder personal? As Jo copes with her friend's murder, an unexpected romance and a...

A king-sized case for a queen-sized sleuth. In the third Josephine Fuller mystery, Jo is working undercover at a women's skills center when she spots an old acquaintance. Jo last saw Teddy in Kathmandu when her photographer husband ran off with Teddy's mountain-climbing wife, leaving the spouses to commiserate. Now Teddy has a new problem-his latest girlfriend is missing. Jo agrees to track her down, and the trail leads straight to his estranged wife, murdered with a climbing axe. Jo suddenly finds herself a major suspect in the death of the woman who broke up her marriage. Add to that Jo's...

In the fourth book of the Josephine Fuller mystery series, Jo visits the California wine country after getting a note from filmmaker and winery owner Wolf Lambert. She discovers a dead body in one of Wolf's wine barrels, and her friend Thelma, a super-sized porn star, is the prime suspect. Caught in the midst of a feud between powerful wine families in the valley, Jo also finds herself under fire from a gun-toting would-be charity client and needs to make her boyfriend understand that her involvement with the plus-size porn industry is purely innocent. Will Jo be able to dig herself out of...

A forbidden love. An impossible mission. A planet where death lurks at every turn. Sybil of Planet Valkyrie can't go home until she confronts the rulers of Planet Fury, where assassination is a popular pastime. The Furies demand that Sybil tap the powers of her familiar demons to find an answer that may not exist-or die trying. Praise for the Sybil of Valkyrie - Gravitas Series: "A truly masterful blending of new fantasy with the most ancient of myths." Denise Kelly LeBlanc, author of Inheritance "It was good to laugh so much. I found Sybil wonderfully written, clever, and powerful." S....