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Faith writing is not a part of my job description. I do it because I believe God opened an amazing door in a major media outlet for stories such as the ones in this book. I write about everyday faith, like dealing with "family mess" such as troubled adult children or an addict in the family. Coping with cancer. Coping with strokes. Loneliness. The death of a loved one. Dealing with life in a nursing home. These are my topics, events that impac...

Introducing a modern adult activity book for the young at heart! This activity book will bring joy while keeping your mind active and sharp. Filled with word searches, sudoku, mazes, and math games Offers a variety of coloring pages including birds, flowers, and patterned designs Writing activities such as poetry, gratitude reflection, and unscrambling words Uplifting quotes found throughout book Perfect for plane travel, car rides, quiet cof...

A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artistsLike Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes, and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson's passion for dialogue and dissent. The range of subjects is wide-from Prince to Carolee Schneemann to M...

A startling, erotic novel about the need to balance care for others with care for one's selfWhen the unnamed narrator of Marie Mutsuki Mockett's stirring second novel returns to Carmel, California, to care for her mother, she finds herself stranded at the outset of the disease. With her husband and children back in Hong Kong, and her Japanese mother steadily declining in an assisted living facility two hours away, she becomes preoccupied with ...

Nestled between the Green Mountains of Vermont and the shores of a dark, sinuous lake, is a town with terrible secrets. A secret that followed a young father home from Vietnam. A secret that haunts a housewife's waking dreams. A secret that killed three children in a forest clearing. A secret lurking in the gray waters of the lake. They all have something to do with eight-year-old Tommy Wilford-quiet, shy, strange little Tommy Wilford. And a m...

Brachial Plexus Injuries, or BPI, are commonly related to birth complications and affect one out every thousand births. This story follows Ellie the Elephant, who was born with a BPI. But she doesn't let that stop her from enjoying her favorite hobbies, like dancing, playing sports, and playing outside! And she never lets others' doubts about her abilities change her positive attitude!

Brachial Plexus Injuries, or BPI, are commonly related to birth complications and affect one out every thousand births. Children with BPI, or any limb differences, need to know that just because they do something differently, it doesn't mean they are doing it wrong. Pip the Penguin has a very funny flipper. He doesn't waddle exactly like the other penguins waddle, and he doesn't swim exactly like the other penguins swim, either. Pip is not v...

together is a book of photography and the poetry it inspired. Antoinette takes photographs every day, often stopping in mid-step and mid-sentence to capture a moment with her phone. At the beginning of 2022, she snapped a photo of a colorful, delightful birdhouse hanging by the side of a public trail. Peter then wrote a poem using that picture as a prompt. Although they hadn't intended it in the moment, together they were beginning a year...

Meet one of the NFL's most reliable offensive linemen ever. From Wisconsin and the Big Ten to 11 seasons with the Cleveland Browns to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Joe Thomas was a fierce competitor on the field and a goofball off it. This in-depth portrait is drawn from interviews with family, friends, coaches, teammates--and Joe himself.

Brachial Plexus Injuries, or BPI, are commonly related to birth complications and affect one out every thousand births. This story follows Ellie the Elephant, who was born with a BPI. But she doesn't let that stop her from enjoying her favorite hobbies, like dancing, playing sports, and playing outside! And she never lets others' doubts about her abilities change her positive attitude!

Taxxis Moss is a young man with a funny name, two horns on his head, and seriously bad luck. Having his dreams invaded by a witch was only the beginning of the strangest seventeenth birthday ever. Kidnapping? Check. Murder? Check. Dangerous magic? Absolutely. The schemes of a demon with gold teeth, a magical guild, and an unthinkable plan put in place by his grandmother long before he was born threaten to destroy Taxx and the world. With h...

In A.R. Alan's The Flight of Snookems, sizzling romance, rollicking humor, and a chilling mystery unfold at break-neck speed. Red-haired, green-eyed Meredith Dixon is gorgeous and men flock to her like ants to a picnic basket. Unfortunately, so do troubles. Very big troubles, like murder. Since her move to Sutton Place where she shares an apartment with Lulu, a diminutive black ex-hooker, she's followed by mysteries and mayhem. First, she'...

Lila, Sheila, and Greta are middle-aged housewives married to sex-challenged older men. Their solution is ingenious and wicked. The delicious home-baked chocolate cupcakes they feed their husbands are laced with sex-enhancing drugs. The women are deliriously happy until the pills run out, and Jerry's doctor refuses to renew the prescription. "I need passion, excitement, adventure, " Sheila tells her friends. "We have to do something, or the ...

After most of a life lived within worlds of mathematics, logic, analysis, and business, Deb Stone found something was missing. She set out on a journey of discovery that included travel, introspection, and (unexpectedly) the discovery of an inner muse, and the poetry began to flow. Join her as she shares her first year on these New Paths. Deb Stone lives in central New Hampshire, where she is happy surrounded by trees.

I See Things is a fast-paced thriller with lots of twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the very last page. Homicide Detectives Catherine Delaney and Cody O'Dell get a call from a woman who says she's had a vision of a dark-haired teenager being abducted outside a Target store, and the girl is now a prisoner in a snake-filled room. Convinced the woman is a kook, the detectives write her off. That is, until Hillary Blackstone is...

The Mad House On Sutton Place is a screwball comedy mixed with a mystery and lots of romance. When Merrie Dixon flees from her abusive husband after filing for divorce, she heads to Manhattan where her brother has rented a room for her in a swanky Sutton Place apartment. Unfortunately, the building isn't upscale and her roommate turns out to be a 4'10" eccentric, black ex-hooker named Lulu, whose decorating business is in the toilet because ...

Matilda "Mat" Anastasia Carvel is a very talented and ambitious portrait-painter, but she's also young and naive. After ditching her dysfunctional Arkansas family and helping herself to a new wardrobe from a Salvation Army dumpster, she runs away to New York City. Mat soon finds herself engulfed in the chaotic pace of Manhattan. Between sharing a roach-infested basement apartment with two ditzy sisters, a rich bag lady, and a cross-dressing ...

The ghostly train appears from nowhere, whisking Steve and his fluffy orange cat Monty away from the train yards in Portland, Oregon to the training airfields of the Tuskegee Airmen in 1943. It's the height of World War II, and Steve is suddenly in the shoes of one of the famed black pilots. In the face of prejudice and segregation, Steve and his fellow airmen must become expert pilots, flying fighter planes in epic air battles that will test ...

Books, beach roses... and bodies. Bookstore owner Max Sayers of Seaside Cottage Books is starting to settle into Snug Harbor, Maine when a local playboy plunges to his death… and Max's best friend Denise is on the hotseat for murder. Denise is an obvious prime suspect-the dead man just nabbed the coffee house she'd been planning to buy for years right out from under her-and Max seems to be the only one in Snug Harbor who believes her friend i...

A fast, fizzing cherry bomb of a debut" (The Observer [UK]) about power, intimacy, and the internetI stalk a woman on the internet who is sleeping with the same man as I am. Sheena Patel's incandescent first novel begins with the unnamed narrator describing her involvement in a seemingly unequal romantic relationship. With a clear and unforgiving eye, she dissects the behavior of all involved, herself included, and makes startling connections ...