Rooted in Each Other is a seventy-five-year memoir spanning a 1950s Louisiana childhood, five decades of marriage, a promise to a dying friend, a faith fortified by fire, and the late-life discovery that rewrote her understanding of family.Written from the desk where she watches her beloved oak trees grow, Nancy reflects on the people who shaped her and the invisible roots that connect us all.Part Southern memoir, part adoption story, part legacy letter to the next generati...

Learn how to create amazing one-block wonder quilts with beautiful kaleidoscope designs.Pick one great fabric to create a stunning blockOne-Block Wonder expert and best-selling author Maxine Rosenthal, along with fellow quilter Nancy Miller, teach quilters the endless ways to turn preprinted fabric panels into fabulous blocks. Learn how to arrange One-Block Wonder hexagons around a panel, how to blend hexagon colors into the panel, and how ...

"The Facebook IPO Primer" is a great new resource that gathers in one place stories and analysis to help readers learn everything they need to know about Facebook's debut in the stock market. How much is it worth? Is Facebook a good investment? Does it have a good business plan? Learn how professionals figure out the answers to those questions, why they come up with different answers, and what it means for you."The Facebook IPO Primer" is easy to navigate. Part I covers the ups and...

Humanity survived the First Trial. They had exactly seventeen minutes to celebrate before they learned that survival had only ever been the entrance exam.The sky tears open across every nation on Earth. A crimson tower the size of a mountain descends from somewhere no human map can reach, its ancient runes pulsing like the heartbeat of something vast and sleeping. There is no impact. No explosion. It simply exists, as though it had always belonged there. And the System's verdict, d...

The sky didn't fall. It cracked open — and on the other side, something ancient was waiting.Ethan Cross spent his career keeping strangers alive in the back of an ambulance, calm in the face of other people's worst days. Nothing prepared him for the day the world itself broke. The clouds split into glowing hexagons. Every phone on the planet lit up with the same impossible message. And then a voice that was not human, not male, not female, spoke directly into the mind of every perso...

A young innocent girl suffers the unexpected death of her father, at the hands of a gunman. Her family and community pull together to get through this horrific experience. They share coping strategies. New life and boundless strength come from this tragedy.

Griefland. It’s a place no one wants to visit—a place without borders where language is inadequate and pain is constant. It’s a place where every morning one awakens to the stark reality that a loved one will never be seen, heard—or embraced—again. This is a place that Armen Bacon and Nancy Miller know all too well, for when they met, both of them had lost a child—a son, Alex, and a daughter, Rachel.Griefland provides an intimate portrait of what tragedy does to the human soul, how...

Danisha is an African Canadian girl in grade 8 whose strict grandmother reveals (through her failing memory) an exotic past life. As her memory drifts,she believes she is a jazz singer in a Detroit lounge in the 1940's, a time when mixed relationships were frowned on and often gangsters ruled the music scene. When Danisha's father tells her he thinks there's a scandal in his mother's past, Danisha sets out to solve the mystery.Parallels between her own life and her grandmother's em...

Griefland. It's a place no one wants to visit—a place without borders where language is inadequate and pain is constant. It's a place where every morning, one awakens to the stark reality that a loved one will never be seen, heard—or embraced—again. This is a place that Armen Bacon and Nancy Miller know all too well, for both of them, when they met, had lost a child to drug addiction. Both of them had also enjoyed a comfortable, middle-class life—until it was rocked by the sudden death of ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The haunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California during the 70s and 80s, and of the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case—which was solved in April 2018.Introduction by Gillian Flynn • Afterword by Patton Oswalt“A brilliant genre-buster.... Propulsive, can’t-stop-now reading.***...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The haunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California during the 70s and 80s, and of the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case—which was solved in April 2018.Introduction by Gillian Flynn • Afterword by Patton Oswalt“A brilliant genre-buster.... Propulsive, can’t-stop-now reading.***...

This invaluable glossary of terms can be used alongside Doug's brilliant new book, How to Start a Creative Business, a must-have for any creative-type wanting to start their own venture. This glossary of terms provides you with the basic tools for starting a sustainable, viable, creative business. It shows you that the 'business terms' that you need to know for your creative business do not have to be scary or confusing, they are all easy to understand and will be invaluable for s...