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My secret sits at the back of my throat like a balled-up spider. I don't like it there. Who would?Spider secrets are the worst. For a whole year, I've been trying to figure out a way to get this one out, but I'm afraid if I move, that secret might stretch out its legs and crawl down my throat, all the way to my stomach where I'll never be able to reach it.Shy Novalee starts the fourth grade determined to make friends. When her mom finds her gr...

After a divorce and her Mom's death, Michaela thinks she is doing just fine, until an old friend calls for help. Suddenly she is unwillingly making a trip to her childhood home. Little does she realize what the return to an island stuck in a channel in Michigan's Upper Peninsula will cost her.

The once acclaimed British photojournalist Jade Platt is struggling with daily routine. She can't escape nightmares that replay a marketplace bombing in Aleppo. Her past, along with her future, has become lost to her, until she meets the beautiful and eccentric Freya Rykkel, an elusive member of the Norwegian royal family.As the connection between the Jade and Freya deepens, events that were set in motion a millennium ago begin to unfold. Jade...

In the not-so-sacred Groves of Academe, where female colleagues can be less than supportive and male colleagues downright intimidating and even devious, Kathleen Davies felt intense pressure to prove herself as an English professor. But in the beautiful local cemetery, she found a truly sacred landscape that offered not only relief but inspiration. Once she was denied the professional success she had dreamed of, her interest in cemeteries beca...

Iola Boggs escapes a small-minded village and is proud that she becomes a non-combat pilot during World War II. Iola meets Jim Lewis, who never served in the war but contributed in his own way to the war effort. They marry in post-war Philadelphia and raise a family against the backdrop of the paranoid era of Joseph McCarthy. Their differences plus a need for fulfillment propels them away from each other. Illicit liaisons and grief bring them ...

Emily Harris finds out there's a fine line between the present and the past, and there is an equally fine line that separates people in the world. She's recently divorced and over the objections of her estranged mother Elaine, Emily decides to renews her relationship with her exotic grandmother Eleanor. Her elegant and proper grandmother has a passion she wishes to imbue in Emily-but Eleanor dies before the mystery is revealed in full. She lea...

Colorful, charismatic, magnetic, brilliant are just a few of the words used to describe Ivy Bottini, a woman who was at the forefront of the NOW movement and the second wave of feminism. She helped found the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women and in 1969 designed the NOW logo that is still used today. She then moved to Los Angeles and became an activist for many LGBT causes.This is Ivy's story, in her own words. A sto...

Jean and Red, librarians in San Francisco and life partners, have traveled the world but found their paradise in a lovely village in Mexico. Young and influenced by 1960s idealism, they decide to build a dream house there in their old age. When they retire in 1993 and begin building the house, they encounter a new Mexico filled with political corruption, police brutality and violence against women. A serial murderer is loose in the village, in...

Florence is ninety-one. She is dying. Atlantic City is dying too. But both were once vibrantly alive.This is a love story between friends who met in a yoga class. "When our l'affair du coeur started Florence was eighty-seven. I was fifty-one. She lived in the city. I lived in the suburbs. She's a black Hebrew, I'm a WASP. We are completely alike . . . During that first car ride when we started talking about everything-we had hardly scratched t...

Before he becomes dinner for a stray cat, the orphaned chick Shadow gets rescued by the bird people of the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin. When the little crane heals, it's time for him to return to the wild. So Shadow comes to live with the Joneses. Every year Sandhill cranes nest and feed in the marsh out back of their dairy farm. Told in the voice of a young daughter in the Jones family, this true story will appeal to ...

In T.K.'s third installment of poetry and prose, the author takes a philosophical look at life upon growing old. One can picture an old woman sitting on a stump or bale of hay, wearing a wry smile, chuckling over people and the silly things they do as in "You Can't Fix Stupid . . . I've Tried." T.K. is a little more reflective in "All You Can Own" and "Don't Look Back." The short story "Winston" relates the struggles of an orphan to survive on...

At the age of twelve, Eva Salomon becomes disillusioned about all the "isms" raging through her world. Crushed by her father's rigid Jewish orthodoxy and by the cruelties of a burgeoning Nazi regime, she renounces all belief systems, and even belief itself. Five years later, when she and her father leave Germany for Palestine, she's still a skeptic, yet hopeful about a fresh start in an unborn country. But her yearning for unfettered freedom s...

Dawg, there is definitely something weird going on in this library."Elbie is right. But I can't tell if it's the air-conditioning making the little hairs on my arms stand up, or a ghost.It's been a year since Theresa and her English friend, Kerry, won the Ghosters contest. Now her little brother, Joey, has stumbled on a mystery in the school library. Blasts of cold air, lights that flicker, and books flying off the shelves start Joey and his f...

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It was Spring of 1959 and the Chinese occupation of Tibet was in full swing. In the midst of all the turmoil and unease was Sudha Johorey, wife of the political officer in charge of the Indian Mission in Yatung, worried about the state of affairs for her beloved Tibet, the souring relationship between India and China and above all her friend, HH The Dalai Lama who was rumored to have left Lhasa for sanctuary in India. Thus begins the extraordi...

Eliot: Mom, did you know that gender reassignment surgery is covered by Alberta Health & Wellness? Carla: Oh? I don't think I knew that. It is increasingly evident that Eliot is not only autistic, but is also an uncommon girl. Eliot's mother, Carla, recounts their journey down an unfamiliar path riddled with dismissive medical consultations and mental health referrals to clinics with epic waiting lists. Eliot transitions to Ella, with ambition...

Isobel Reinhardt is a hot mess. The daughter of a wire-walker turned federal fugitive and a high-end sex worker who likes to call herself a feminist, Isobel has failed decisively at everything she's tried. So she comes to Mendocino County to grow pot for a woman who knows all her family secrets. When she narrowly escapes arrest while delivering pot, Isobel does a quick risk assessment and decides it's time to get a legitimate job.Without a mar...

Maxine Mannion has a soft spot for all things beautiful and magical.She draws inspiration from the natural allure of mermaids-mysterious and captivating creatures. Each mermaid has a whimsical name and a verse that describes them in this one-of-a-kind, hand-drawn collection.

By the time Patricia Taylor Wells arrived in Paris to study at the Sorbonne during the summer of 1968, the political unrest in May that almost collapsed the French government had been subdued. Or so she thought. On the 50th Anniversary of the May 1968 revolt, Patricia takes us on a tour of Paris during that summer of unrest and recounts how she adjusted to living in a foreign country for the first time, from staying in a dorm run by nuns to ge...

A memoir of three generations of women in the South Texas borderland that aims to expose readers to the experience of an Anglo girl growing up on the Texas Mexican border in that world of baked-in prejudice.Roberta Hambaugh grew up in Mirando City near the Laredo/Nuevo Laredo border and weaves the stories of her grandmother, mother, and herself into a tale exposing that world of bias and how that changed in her lifetime. These women, along wit...