RiverThirteen years have passed since the war started, bombs fell, and the central states became a thing of the past.When the war ended, the government erected a wall to divide the surviving states from the destroyed ones. I never expected to leave my town, but unlike those who volunteered to go, I wasn’t given a choice.With a dim knowledge of my strange abilities, the soldiers came for me. They took me beyond the wall,...

**Learn how to achieve the happiness you deserve"A guide to sustaining your newfound contentment." —Psychology Today"Lyubomirsky's central point is clear: a significant portion of what is called happiness . . . is up for grabs. Taking some pages out of the positive psychology playbook, she coaches readers on how to snag it." —The New York Review of Books**You see here a different kind of happiness book. The How of Happiness is a comprehens...

The bestselling author of The How of Happiness reveals how to find opportunity in life’s thorniest momentsFocusing on life’s biggest, messiest moments, Sonja Lyubomirsky provides readers with the clear-eyed vision they need to build the healthiest, most satisfying life. Lyubomirsky argues that we have been given false promises—myths that assure us that lifelong happiness will be attained once we hit the culturally confirmed markers of adult success. This b...

"Gail Simone writes like a storm gathering. Thunder is coming!" ―John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling author**"Fierce and fascinating. This is the story Red Sonja has always deserved. Unmissable." ––Felicia DayRed Sonja, the iconic, fiery, she-devil with a sword, is reinvented for a new generation of readers in this action-packed epic fantasy by legendary comic book writer Gail Simone.**The warrior Red Sonja, the famous fiery She-Devil o...

Four novels of the punk vampire hunter from the Bram Stoker Award–winning author and " most original voice in the world of vampire fiction since Anne Rice" ( Film Threat ).Saved by modern medicine before she could die, Sonja Blue is a living vampire who still possesses a soul and is determined to hunt down creatures that prey on the innocent, while searching for the vampire lord who created her.Sunglasses After...

Winner of the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-FictionFinalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for NonfictionOne woman’s story of her unusual life, from a childhood spent constantly on the move, to becoming enmeshed in a cult-like communist organization at sixteen, unaware of the darkness that awaited her.Sonja Larsen’s is a childhood in which family members come and go and where freedom is both a gift...

Three inspirational stories of women who risked everything for love and traveled thousands of miles to the western frontier.Part 1: The Widow Bride & Her BabyTorn between the outlaw life she's led and the life she aspires to, Anne wonders if she will find a place in Edward Wilmot's heart. Or will her lies be the undoing of her entire family?Part 2**: The Scarred Bride & Her Mail Order Husband**Mary Keats saved her m...

In this compelling and poignant debut novel, a woman skilled at caring for animals must learn to mend the broken relationships in her family.…For veterinarian Geneva Novak, animals can be easier to understand than people. They’re also easier to forgive. But when her mother, Helen, is injured in a vodka-fueled accident, it’s up to Geneva to give her the care she needs.Since her teens, Geneva has kept her self-destructive mother at arm’s length. Now, with two...

You can change your personal capacity for happiness. Research psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky's pioneering concept of the 40% solution shows you how.

This is Sonja Isaac's true and riveting account of how a mysterious visitor came literally to battle the devil for her soul and her life, and to eventually give her victory over a devastating illness called sarcoidosis. Part 'Battlefield of the Mind' and part 'Good Morning Holy Spirit' this is spiritual warfare as you have never seen it before.Imagine trying to live the traditional Christian life, but nothing seems to be going your way. In fact, everything around you seems to be fa...

When thirty-five-year-old Sonja Wasden is involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric hospital by her husband and father, she is sure it is a mistake. A mother of three, living in a beautiful suburb, Sonja’s life appears ideal. How did she get here?In a gripping and breathtaking narrative that makes the reader feel as though they are listening in on a private conversation, Sonja tells the compelling true account of her struggle with depression, mania, an eating disorder, suicide, marriage, and...

A half-human, half-vampire hunts the bloodsucker who bit her in this "compelling" Bram Stoker Award-winning debut ( Publishers Weekly).One spring night in London, heiress Denise Thorne disappears while partying at a nightclub, never to be seen again. That very same night, Sonja Blue, a tough-as-nails punk vampire/vampire-slayer, conceived in terror and blood, is borne from the city's gutters. Saved by modern medicine before she could die, she is a living v...