A struggling writer is forced to walk down the aisle at her best friend’s wedding with the man who gave her book a very public one-star rating in this fresh romantic comedy from Laura Hankin, screenwriter of the Netflix film Don’t Say Good Luck.Natalie and Rob couldn’t have less in common. Nat’s a messy artist, and Rob’s a rigid academic. The only thing they share is their devotion to their respective best friends—who just got engaged. Still, unexpected ch...

Jack Azevedo captains his charter sailboat in the Caribbean. Life can’t get any better , especially once he discovers a mysterious uncharted island with a sugar-sand cove for his passengers to enjoy and an intriguing , if angry , inhabitant.Superstar Eve La Sirena has an illicit plan to restore creative freedom to musicians worldwide…if she can keep an ocean between her public and her secrets. Jack’s arrival exposes her island retreat and jeopardizes years of work , but his sweet generosit...

2024 Book of the Year for Outstanding Humor/Comedy (Independent Author Network)Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel of 2024 (Critters Readers' Poll)The Grim Reaper, trapped in an IRS Agent's dying body, must regain his powers before he dies and faces judgment for his original sin.Never trust a dying auditor.Allies are few and hijinks are many in this hilarious race against time as the Grim Reaper himself tries to cheat death and avoid an audit by Hell’s Aud...

Convulsed by a civilizational crisis, the great thinkers of the Renaissance set out to reconceive the nature of society. Corrupt and reckless tyrants sowing discord and ruling through fear; elites who prized wealth and status over the common good; military leaders waging endless wars. Their solution was simple and radical. They would rebuild their city, and their civilization, by transforming the moral character of its citizens. Soulcraft, they believed, was a precondition of successful st...

Winner of the Helen and Howard Marraro PrizeA Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year“Perhaps the greatest study ever written of Renaissance political thought.”—Jeffrey Collins, Times Literary Supplement“Magisterial…Hankins shows that the humanists’ obsession with character explains their surprising indifference to particular forms of government. If rulers lacked authentic virtue, they believed, it did not matter what inst...

What happens when the sidekick from a rom-com screenplay stumbles into the real world? From the author of One-Star Romance and screenwriter of the Netflix film Don’t Say Good Luck comes a magical love story about a supporting player ready to step into the spotlight.Lou and Cassidy are characters in a romantic comedy screenplay, living in a glossy New York where grand gestures always work and happy endings are guaranteed. Cassidy is the star, desti...

When actress Margaret Chalmer comes home to bury her father, 14 skeletal bodies are discovered in a lake on her Stonley Farm, including the skeletal remains of her mother. Bruce and Diana Hardin set out to unravel the tangled web of murder and intrigue surrounding the deaths of more than 18 pregnant young women. As their investigation narrows on two suspects, the private investigators learn six others are part of a sex-driven cult bent on punishing women for becoming pregnant by the cult l...

Loss.Tragedy.Devastation.Redemption.Restoration...Testimony.All of this can be found on the pages inside, but testimony is where it all ends. If our stories and the lessons we learn from them along the way are not used to encourage the hearts of others, then it is all a waste. It is sure that one or more elements of my story will be relatable for you personally in one way or the other. That is the whole point in telling it. Telling it was so very har...

She thought she was accepting a scholarship. Genestry Genetics had something else in mind.Adria Damaca needs the opportunity of a lifetime: a paid research position, two years of college, and a chance to secure the future she has worked so hard to build. But the mysterious Genestry Genetics is interested in more than Adria's academic potential.Its researchers are searching bloodlines, harvesting ancestral memories, and pushing human genetics beyond limits Adria never imagin...

DOGOPEDIA is a crucial compendium that educates and entertains with facts about everything from wolf ancestry and dog physiology to canine reindeer herders and magicians. It explains how dogs train their owners, and debunks the many myths about our four-legged friends - such as the belief that they see in black and white - while investigating the mysteries of canine psychology: what does that guilty face really mean and how come dogs seem to know when we're coming home?This wonderf...

Adrians Story is the firstin an unending series of stories aboutordinary peoplewho use pencil and paper tofill in the blanks,finish sentences, andFeel Good Anyway.From Adrian:What a rocket ride! All it took was my mom going to one meeting, making her own decision to feel good anyway, no matter if I got up and went to school or not, leaving me one note, and, of course, making my favorite dinner. Maybe it really was her...

In his first letter to Timothy, the pastor of the church at Ephesus and his protégé in Christian life and ministy, the Apostle Paul exhorted him, “Discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness” (1 Tim. 4-7). Just two chapters later, the Apostle returned to this idea, encouraging Timothy to flee all sin and to “pursue ... godliness” (1 Tim. 6:11).Godliness is a recurring theme in Paul’s epistle, urged especially upon men training to become leaders of the church as pastors and eva...