"Laura Jean Baker has written a beautiful and brave memoir of motherhood and its discontents, which are indistinguishable from its joys. This is a warmly intimate yet intellectually provocative personal document of originality and considerable charm."—Joyce Carol OatesWith the birth of her first child, soon-to-be professor Laura Jean Baker finds herself electrified by oxytocin, the "love hormone"—the first effective antidote to her lifelong depression. Over ...

Harry Askin was 22 when he enlisted at Nottingham in September 1914 and was sent to train with the Royal Marines at Portsmouth.He set sail with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in late February 1915. On 25 April he was towed ashore to Gallipoli. So began a nine month ordeal of constant fighting and shelling on that bare and desperate Peninsula.In this diary he captures the atmosphere of danger and death, blazing heat in summer and rain and cold at other times. The smell of dead bodies...

Fatty liver, if not corrected, is often a set off for various diseases and conditions such as: diabetes, inflammation (steatohepatitis), heart diseases, liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma), liver scarring (cirhosis), obesity and untimely death. Fatty liver is the leading cause of liver failure and 3/4 of American adults are affected by fatty liver disease without knowing it. Your liver's health and wellbeing is very important to several other organs in your body; consequently it become...

WINNER OF THE ANNE B. AND JAMES B. MCMILLAN PRIZEA powerful collection of firsthand stories from the Tuskegee Institute High School Class of 1964—students who came of age in the crucible of the Civil Rights Movement. Their stories uncover the bold choices of their ancestors who chose to stay and help shape the South.Children of the Struggle and the Ancestors Who Stayed, edited by Sonjia Parker Redmond and Beatrice J. Adams...

Bringing together 14 journalism scholars from around the world, this edited collection addresses the deficit of coverage of violence against women in the Global South by examining the role of the legacy press and social media that report on and highlight ways to improve reporting. Authors investigate the ontological limitations which present structural and systemic challenges for journalists who report on the normalization of violence against women in country cases in Argentina; Brazil; Me...

Heather Fox is a psychologist who comes to an Amish town in order to counsel a young girl who witnessed a murder. Heather cannot help but have more than just a professional interest in the little girl who has become withdrawn from the trauma and her single father, the Amish Michael Miller. She has never been a woman of faith but becomes strangely drawn to the Amish customs and beliefs. But when the case takes a dangerous turn, they both find themselves clinging to one another, becoming clo...

A “wonderfully readable” study of the importance of human connection and how we form intimate relationships, from two pioneering psychiatrists (Psychiatric Times)In The Healing Connection, best-selling author Jean Baker Miller, M.D., and Irene Stiver, Ph.D., argue that relationships are the integral source of psychological health. In so doing they offer a new understanding of human development that points a way to change in all of our institutions...

In The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, C.A. Tripp offers a full examination of Lincoln's inner life and relationships that, as Dr. Jean Baker argues in the Introduction, "will define the issue for years to come."The late C. A. Tripp, a highly regarded sex researcher and colleague of Alfred Kinsey, and author of the runaway bestseller The Homosexual Matrix, devoted the last ten years of his life to an exhaustive study of Abraham Lincoln's writin...

Timid, innocent and 25 years old, Crystal has always been repressed by her mother. Until she meets a mal escort who brings out and nourishes her sexual needs.

Carolyn finds her solution to both her troubled marriage and her new-found sexuality. This is the final book in the series The Preacher’s Wife, and both the series, and Carolyn, find a satisfying climax.   This is an erotic romance and is not intended for YA readers. It contains graphic language, explicit sex and other subjects not appropriate for YA readers.

Carolyn continues to explore her growing sexuality with new experience. She finds an avid partner in Rudger, both in the bedroom and out. She finds herself desperate to resolve her horrendous marriage to be with the man she is drawn to. Uncovering secrets about her husband only makers her more desperate.   This is an erotic romance and is not intended for YA readers. It contains graphic language, explicit sex and other subjects not appropriate for YA readers.    

Crystal decides to follow her mother’s example and begin usage of Escort Services. She doesn’t count on becoming emotionally involved, or finding more than one of the escorts of interest.