Most writing craft books, courses, and workshops focus on the tools for being a writer and how to use them: dialog, setting, pacing, plot, openings, exposition, point-of-view. And so on.And on and on and on.Their aim is to add another tool, or maybe even a set of tools, to your writer's toolbox.The problem with that approach is the vast gulf in knowledge between having your toolbox filled with tools and applying those tools to create a story.Those c...

This compassionate guide helps parents examine and transform their approach to raising LGBTQ+ youth through thoughtful explorations of personal values, societal expectations, and the power of loving support.Using the authors’ LOVE framework (Looking at Our Values and Expectations), this engaging workbook helps parents understand their vital role in their LGBTQ+ child’s identity development and well-being. Drawing on extensive clinical work, research, and personal experience, it off...

Two rivals from opposing families fight their forbidden attraction to each other in the brand new romance from New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas.Summertime is off-season in southern Florida. Families leave their homes to escape the heat, the streets are empty, and the nights are quiet. Perfect time for a little mischief while the police aren’t looking.As the middle Jaeger brother, Dallas was often lost in the shuffle growing up. No...

The book was fiction. The pain was real. The consequences are deadly.Professor Karla Dobbs has everything: literary acclaim, a bestselling novel, and a film adaptation on the horizon. Until a former student accuses her of plagiarism.Natalie Silva claims that the novel in question is based on a real tragedy and insists that the film be stopped, or there will be consequences. Certain that she has done nothing wrong, Karla dismisses her. At first.But a...

A behind-the-scenes perspective on Philadelphia Eagles history from sports radio personality and former player Hugh Douglas As a former All-Pro defenseman, Hugh Douglas knows what it means to live and breathe Eagles football. In If These Walls Could Talk: Philadelphia Eagles, Douglas opens up about his life and career in Philadelphia and provides insight into the team's inner sanctum as only he can. Featuring conversations with players and coaches past and present as well as off-the-wall a...

We proudly present this collection of classic self-help works on how to attract success and money in your life. CONTENTS: 1. Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich 2. Benjamin Franklin - The Way to Wealth 3. Charles F. Haanel - The Master Key System 4. Florence Scovel Shinn - The Game of Life and How to Play it 5. Wallace D. Wattles - How to Get What You Want 6. Wallace D. Wattles - The Science of Getting Rich 7. Wallace D. Wattles - The Science of Being Well 8. Wallace D. Wattles - The Scien...

What are the neural circuits that underpin behavior, both in psychiatric illness and in health? Can we understand what is going on in the brain of a person suffering depression, or who has an anxiety disorder, or is addicted to drugs? And what of our fundamental functions and survival drives: what are the connections between neurons that enable us to form, store, and retrieve memories, to feel empathy, to act as parents to our children? In the early years of the twenty-first century, a new...

A young squirrel who has big dreams of helping his family find a new home finds a big acorn instead, in this humorous and clever picture book by Caldecott Honoree Jason Griffin. Perfect for fans of THE LEAF THIEF and MEL FELL.There’s a hole in the ground where the squirrel family tree used to be, and so they set out on a hunt to find a new home.Choko Choko, the smallest squirrel, is determined to help… but he’s told he’s too little to join. “Too LIT...

The Palm Springs Racquet Club celebrates the work of famed photographer Bernard of Hollywood, and features hundreds of exclusive photographs and memorabilia from the iconic Racquet Club during the Golden Age of Hollywood, including stars like Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, and moreDr. Bruno Bernard, also known as Bernard of Hollywood, was the most sought‑after glamour photographer of the 20th century. His portraits of stars like Clark G...

Discover the BRAND NEW atmospheric, twisting mystery from Louise Douglas, author of the NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER The Lost NotebookReaders love Louise Douglas:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I absolutely loved this book. The characters draw you in and the plot is so clever, you won't be able to put it down. Louise Douglas is such a talented writer, I can't wait for her next book.’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A brilliant combination of mystery, psychology, and family drama and you can't he...

Two women. One shop. A legacy of forbidden desire.When Cassandra Jameson and her best friend, Paige Matteson, open Eternal Pleasures in the oldest quarter of town, they expect curiosity and adventure—but not the dark, sensual secrets that come with the name.For Cassandra, passion has always been a private indulgence, until she discovers a weathered book of Victorian erotic tales. Within its pages lurks Garrett Alexander, a man of impossible desires who once owned a...

Matt is an ordinary teenager too young to remember the Great Drowning, the climate catastrophe that transformed England into a superheated archipelago. On a secret island he stumbles across a laboratory full of half-human and half-animal teenagers. When the shadowy Sons of Noah arrive to wipe out these hybrids, Matt is compelled to help three of them make a daring escape. Now they face a desperate journey through crocodile-infested creeks to save their captured friends. But a teenage cybor...