You started your business because you wanted freedom. Then somehow you became the most overworked employee in the company.Building Freedom is your roadmap to creating a business that doesn't require you to become the most tired and underpaid worker.In this book, a powerhouse group of women business owners shares the lessons, strategies, and real-world experiences that helped them build thriving businesses. These women have lived the late nights, th...

There are moments in history when music stops being background noise and becomes the heartbeat of a generation, and no one understood that transformation better than Benny Goodman. In The Kingdom of Swing, the man they called the King of Swing tells his own extraordinary story, from the gritty tenements of Chicago where a young Jewish kid first pressed a clarinet to his lips, to the electrifying night at Carnegie Hall in 1938 when jazz and swing crashed through the gates of high culture an...

Gemma Adeline Westley has risen from the ashes — now she must learn what it means to become.A new semester brings new rhythms, new faces, and new challenges. But this time, Gemma isn't fighting to be believed. She isn't documenting to survive. She isn't navigating systems designed to silence her.She's stepping into the life she fought for.With Stella and Livy by her side, Gemma begins to rebuild her world with confidence, clarity, and quiet courage. But old patterns...

"So much more than an engaging memoir of New York, this is a heart laid bare . . . [Goodman] turns yearning and remembrance into art." —Susan Vreeland, New York Times –bestselling authorFor thirty-five years, writer Richard Goodman experienced love, loss, work, and friendship against the backdrop of a vibrant, one-of-a-kind setting: New York City. This memoir—made up of fourteen stories—is an emotional chronicle of a life...

Avery came to college to escape the past.But the past followed her.On her first morning in her new dorm, she finds a note taped to her door in thick black ink:You Know What You Did.She tries to convince herself it's a prank — until a second note appears inside her locked room. Then a photo arrives in her mailbox: Avery standing in the middle of a dark road, mascara streaked, terrified, staring at something just outside the frame. Something she can't remember....

The year 1966 saw the start of a decade of social and political upheaval in China. In these eleven stories by poet Wang Xiaoni, the horrors, confusion, and utter disruption of the Cultural Revolution are just beginning. An educated family of six in the city is forced to get rid of their beloved collection of books, a starving abandoned boy obsessed with trains waits for his brother to return from Beijing, and an elderly and mentally unstable man is desperate to hide a pers...

From USA TODAY Bestselling Author Nathan GoodmanThe first casualty of terror is innocenceWhen Jana Baker first landed the internship of a lifetime, she never imagined walking into a pit of terrorists. But when a secretive federal agent approaches her, she learns the truth and has no choice but to infiltrate their plot. As Agent Stone tries to protect her, Jana pushes past the outer edges of peril only to find herself clinging for life....

New York City newspaperwoman Mary Michael Dennehy is abducted during a train robbery, carried off by one of the gang members, Ethan Stone, who claims she's his estranged wife.Ethan, an undercover federal marshal, will do anything to protect Mary's true identity. But when the gang is finally brought to justice and Mary bolts, Ethan can't seem to get the feisty reporter out of his dreams.Overjoyed to be back in New York with the story of a lifetime, Mary comes face-to-face wi...

Was this just a brief skirmish, or the beginning of a thirty-year feud? In the Rubinstein family, it could go either way.When their beloved sister passes away, Sylvia and Helen Rubinstein are unmoored. A misunderstanding about apple cake turns into a decade of stubborn silence. Busy with their own lives – divorces, dating, career setbacks, college applications and ballet recitals – their children do not want to get involved. As for their grandchildren? Impossible.S...

You are already enough! This empowering handbook for teens, full of journal prompts, quizzes, and strategies for pushing back against the unhealthy pressures of hustle culture, will help you live well without losing yourself.In a world that expects perfection, this book redefines success in a healthier way—one that doesn't require endless sacrifices or lead to burnout. It's packed with practical advice and stories of teens just like you and your friends. Through th...

Alma lives in a rural village where she grows a garden, raises animals and cares for her young children while her husband teaches at a nearby university. Celeste lives in the city, where she makes ceramics, travels in style and curates a worldly sensibility while raising her sons. Both women seek a rooted contentment beyond the scope of their own access, a life of creativity, agency and fulfilment. Only one of them is real. The Shame follows Alma as she hurtles down a dark highway...

To save her family's beach house, a struggling novelist must team up with the man who tore her heart to shreds—and is now tearing her town apart too—in this second chance summer romance from the bestselling author of Don't Forget to Write.Teacher and aspiring novelist Rachel Rosen has one last shot to prove she’s not a quitter—and it starts with saving the sun-soaked, memory-filled beach house her family is ready to sell. Armed with determination (and her ...