WARNING: STOP STARVING YOURSELF FAT!Listen up. If you're over 50 and that stubborn gut is sticking out like a beer barrel—even though you've been eating bird food and walking miles—you need to face a brutal truth: Your metabolism isn't slowing down, it's BROKEN.The simple math of 'calories in, calories out' is a lie designed for teenagers. For the mature body, that strategy destroys precious muscle and pumps out stress hormones, making your belly bigger and...

As stay-at-home mom Amanda turns forty, she faces a reckoning. She' s doing her best at parenting eight-year-old Toby, who only wants to eat orange-colored food, and almost-four-year-old Blake, who really should be in pre-school but is home doing YouTube aerobics with her. Amanda' s mother is a successful attorney. Her next-door neighbor makes an enviable living as a visual artist. Her two best friends from college seem to handle careers and motherhood just fine. Yet, Amanda just barely ma...

The Hidden Reason Your Jeans Are Choking You By 2 P.M. (And Why It’s Not Your Fault)Stop me if this sounds familiar: You wake up feeling okay, but by lunch, you’re dragging. By mid-afternoon, your stomach is so distended you’re secretly unbuttoning your pants under your desk. You’ve tried the "clean" eating. You’ve cut out the sugar. You’ve swallowed the expensive probiotics.And yet, you still feel like a bloated, foggy-brained mess. You’re tired of being t...

What If We Were Somewhere Else is the question everyone asks in these linked stories as they try to figure out how to move on from job losses, broken relationships, and fractured families. Following the employees of a nameless corporation and their loved ones, these stories examine the connections they forge and the choices they make as they try to make their lives mean something in the soulless, unforgiving hollowness of corporate life. Looking hard at the families to which we ar...

Melanie Henderson's life is a lie. The scandal of her birth and the identity of her true parents is kept from her family's small, conservative Colorado town. Not even she knows the truth: that her birth mother was just 14 and unmarried to her father, a local boy who drowned when he tried to take a shortcut across an icy river. Thirty-five years later, in Denver, Melanie dabbles in affairs with married men while clinging to a corporate job that gives her life order even as her tenuous relat...

An account of Confederate cavalry general Jeb Stuart's daring 110-mile ride behind Union lines during the American Civil War.Many people are aware that Jeb Stuart was a famous cavalry general who rode for the Confederacy. Yet, how did this twenty-nine-year-old former US Army lieutenant become the 1860s version of a media sensation?At the beginning of June 1862, George McClellan's huge Union Army stood poised to decimate the Confederate capital of Richmond. ...

The first book-length study about the bloody, chaotic Battle of Fort Gregg: "Sweeping . . . insightful . . . military history at its best." — Civil War NewsBy April 2, 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant's men had tightened their noose around the vital town of Petersburg, Virginia. Trapped on three sides with a river at their back, the soldiers from General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had never faced such dire circumstances. To give Lee time to cr...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox.The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike Flaherty in Spin City; and through numerous other movie roles and guest appearances...

A True Witch Book 1 is a modern Australian witch fantasy story spanning fifty years.Now residing in Melbourne, Australia, the Grimm family have hunted and killed witches in Europe for centuries and have selectively bred to maintain their magical abilities and deep hatred of witches. For nearly fifty years they sought to destroy the witches, Agatha and May, resulting in deaths and assaults of family members on both sides. Now Agatha has died and bestowed her magical abilities on her...

Fear of failure is the dragon of our age. We have shouldered this condition for generations, a burden that hassles us and that undermines every decision we make. How do we overcome fear of failure? And what does failure really mean?From the three-headed monster to the fire-breathing dragon, this book focuses on failure and the fear that surrounds it from a different standpoint: It provides reflections and tools that can be used to turn each crisis into an opportunity - not without ...

Viktoria is an epic tale of the survival of a winged prehistoric creature searching for her own kind.A female prehistoric demon-like creature is discovered on a remote island in South America and taken into captivity for research. She has killed an Australian backpacker and skeletal remains suggest she had killed humans before. Escaping from captivity, she journeys across the United States and Africa seeking her homeland and her own kind.Viktoria tells the story of a creatu...

Inexplicably, millions of people world-wide stop what they are doing and walk eastward, with the majority walking into the ocean and drowning. Those unable to withstand a long walk, die enroute. Survivors gather in groups, struggling to understand what has happened and attempting to forge a way forward through the devastation, grief and uncertainty.Fallen Face is an apocalyptic story of survivors in New South Wales, Australia, who encounter religious beliefs, conspiracy theories an...