Sarah Bird’s gutsy, sharp, and touching new novel opens at full speed.Bernadette "Bernie" Root, military brat, speaks. She has never really noticed what a peculiar bunch of nomads her eight-member Air Force family is (with the exception of her Post Princess sister, Kit), until the summer after her first year of college when she joins them at their new assignment: Kadena Air Base, Okinawa.Just as Okinawa turns out to be a sorry version of the Japanese paradise Bernie knew in...

"You'll be swept away by the passion and power of this remarkable, trailblazing woman who risked everything to follow her own heart." – Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author"An epic page-turner." – Christina Baker KlineNamed Best Fiction Writer in the Austin Chronicle's "Austin's Best 2018"Named one of Lone Star Literary Life...

Sarah Bird's acclaimed novels include The Yokota Officers Club. In How Perfect Is That Blythe Young is stumbling down Texas' social ladder after some dubious moral choices. Bankruptcy is only the beginning. Soon, Blythe must face the facts and make amends with the world. But first she'll have to fix her nails. "A fried Twinkie of a book-crunchily witty, creamy-hearted and shockingly delicious."-Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander

Sarah Bird authors brilliant, captivating novels such as The Yokota Officer's Club. Virgin of the Rodeo takes listeners on a riotous journey across the wide open spaces of Texas with a truly unique character named Sonja Getz. Sonja is seen as a curiosity in the minuscule Texas town of Dorfburg. Twenty-nine-years-old, and big-boned, she is purported to be the daughter of a famous Native American trick-roper. Her mother, Tinka, a transplanted German who despises Americans, has never understo...

"A laugh-out-loud 80-page personal history with heart, grit and a galaxy of stars," the perfect gift for a Texas woman or new transplant to the state ( Austin American-Statesman)What is it that distinguishes Texas women—the famous Yellow Rose and her descendants? Is it that combination of graciousness and grit that we revere in first ladies Laura Bush and Lady Bird Johnson? The rapier-sharp wit that Ann Richards and Molly Ivins used to skewer the good ole b...

Sarah Bird's insightful, funny novels about love have won her high praise from critics and a loyal following. Booklist says she writes with "a voice that will resonate like a fine guitar." Rae's life falls apart when her father dies of cancer and her mother joins a religious cult. The only person who understands Rae is local bad girl Didi, who is experiencing a similar loss. Both girls fall in love with handsome flamenco guitarist TomAs Montenegro, whose aunt teaches at the university's fl...

Austin native Sarah Bird is a journalist and screenwriter who has authored several novels showcasing humor and insight into human relationships. She pens a zany look at the lives of three sorority sisters at the University of Texas. Mary Jo's caustic comments about love and life can't conceal her confusion about both, but liberated baptist Fayrene and party girl Collie help Mary Jo cope in a white, patriarchal world. "Sophisticated wit ... Endearingly eccentric characters."-Kirkus Reviews

SUZANNE MORGAN HAS LOST HERSELF. Peter Stewart has lost his way. Though from different worlds, grief has exposed their weaknesses and left them both searching for truth that heals.Suzanne and her ten-year-old daughter, Blair, take a three-month trip to the southern coast of England to recover from the years events. As they settle into village life, they make unexpected friends who will change them forever. Eleanor Cavendish, a wise widow who shows them motherly love. Ian Hamilton, ...

After a coal mine explosion kills her father in 1922, pretty little Mary Margaret “Mame” Blackwell is not willing to accept her mother’s hardscrabble plan for farming burley tobacco in rural West Virginia, but trying to survive in a nearly deserted coal mining town without a father in the early 1900s is anything but easy. Mame yearns for a way out of the sleepy little town of Beckley.When Mame eagerly leaves home on her first trip to Charleston at age 19, she meets tobacco heir Clin...

Living in the foothills of North Carolina, Laura Carter has it all: a nice home, wonderful adoptive parents, two lovely teenage daughters, and a to-die-for handsome husband. As they celebrate freedom on the Fourth of July, shes certain that nothing could ever shatter her perfect American life: Or could it? An unexpected letter from her great-grandmother brings Laura face-to-face with her birth family. At their first, shocking meeting, she receives a stack of diaries that trace a heartbreaki...

The Art of Coaching is a book to shift thinking and open up new possibilities, stimulate fresh insight and adapt to your needs as a coach, leader or manager and to use creatively in practice. The first edition of this unique and bestselling book quickly became a staple in the coaching world; now the revised edition has been updated to include new models and diagrams that have been developed by the authors in response to changing social and political circumstances.Written b...

How to Work with People… and Enjoy It! is an invaluable, accessible, practical handbook for anyone who works with people. It includes pointers for reflection, tools for experimentation, models for analysing relational dynamics, and tables and diagrams to stimulate discovery and development.Leadership and relationship start with us as individuals - the stories we tell ourselves, about the world and our place in it - and this book takes us on a journey from the inside out. J...