Innocent mistakes can have dire consequences.Pricilla Middleton only attended the Lemoore house party to keep her friend out of trouble. Now, her only chance to keep from becoming a gossip column headline is to sneak aboard her brother's ship and pretend she'd been visiting him instead of taking part in the debacle. Before she can speak to her brother, the ship sets sail, and the man in charge is not at all who she expects.Captain Tobias Prescott, son of an...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From “one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation” (The New York Times) comes a piercing novel of race, class, love, and war in America.Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the daughter of a gentleman farmer, has come to a university town as a student. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny for a mysterious and glamorous family, she finds herself drawn deeper into their world and forever changed.“An indelible por...

Since the publication of Self-Help, her first collection of stories, Lorrie Moore has been hailed as one of the greatest and most influential voices in American fiction. Her ferociously funny, soulful stories tell of the gulf between men and women, the loneliness of the broken-hearted and the yearned-for, impossible intimacies we crave. Gathered here for the first time in a beautiful hardback edition is the complete stories along with three new and previously unpublished in book form: Pape...

When the person you've built your whole life around is gone, what do you do? It's not the first time Abby Stone has faced the question. At eighteen, she envisioned a future with her childhood sweetheart, Charlie, only to have him go off to school and leave a pregnant Abby behind. But that pales beside a second loss, when her eighteen-year-old son, Luke, falls to his death from his third-floor dorm.Abby throws herself into running her thriving B&B on the coast of Maine. With the hel...

Medieval society has been described as the age of chivalry and romance, filled with images of knights in shining armor and damsels in distress. However, once a lady is put on a pedestal; she is no longer a human being, but an object of perfection. This makes it easier for her to be replaced by a higher ideal – the perfect woman – the Virgin Mary.This is the second book in our short treatise ~ historical nonfiction series.

All My Children actress Jill Larson moved mountains as a single mother to adopt her daughter from China. George Fadok, a former Navy commander, grappled with “changing the rules” eighteen years after placing his daughter in a closed adoption. Angela Paxton, Texas state senator and an adoptee, never thought she would ever meet her birthmom, but when she did, it changed her life.Embarking on an adoption journey can be daunting, but now you are not alone! This collection of t...

Do you love to write?Discover how you can translate your passion into income quickly and easily!Lorrie Nicoles has over 20 years of writing experience, as both a staff writer and independent. By tapping her network, she has collected facts and wisdom from experts across the country and takes you through the world of writers who earn their keep without publishing books. "How to Be a Writer without Writing a Book" describes multiple types of income-generating writing and edit...

The enthralling story of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, an innovative, highly regarded, and successful woman plantation owner during the Revolutionary eraEliza Lucas Pinckney (1722'Äì1793) reshaped the colonial South Carolina economy with her innovations in indigo production and became one of the wealthiest and most respected women in a world dominated by men. Born on the Caribbean island of Antigua, she spent her youth in England before settling in the American South and enriching herself t...

A classic Lorrie Moore story from her beloved collection Like Life, “Vissi d’Arte” is funny, bright, a little sad, biting: a brokenhearted love song to art and New York City.Harry is a playwright who lives in Times Square. His bathroom floods; his surgeon girlfriend has left for the Upper West Side; and trucks have started idling outside his window at nighttime, where the hookers had always been. He is the type of man who lives for art, and someday his majestic, monumental...

A young woman's journey through the effects of severe toxemia of pregnancy which led to two out of body experiences in one day.

Damien Echols and Lorri Davis share a beginner-friendly treasury of their most valuable practices for weaving magick into your everyday life.The promise of magick is both simple and extraordinary: it is that magick can support you in any aspect of life, from helping you succeed in everyday tasks to enabling you to achieve your most cherished dreams. What's more, you don't even have to believe in magick to make it work. The only thing that's required is regular prac...

This is one of the first fantasy stories by Joanna M. Pilatowicz."Lorry" belongs to the series published in Poland by the title of "Stories from the Borderlands". It is a metaphor for addictions presented in a lighter way, where a truck has a habit of speeding up and crashing into the trees. Special agent Lisa is sent to take care of Lorry and other creatures, such as Dutch Wind, who stops to blow in the Netherlands and who is addicted to marijuana, or Salamander, who cannot contro...