Brad Graber's new release WHAT'S THAT GROWING IN MY SOUR CREAM? is a compilation of humorous essays reflecting on the joys, challenges, and absurdities of modern life in America. Drawn from Graber's blog There, I Said It! Graber introduces readers to his sharp observations on everyday subjects such as Facebook friends, the odd messages stuffed into fortune cookies, awkward man hugs, and mahjong. A bold new voice, Graber's humor, and wit a...

A son who loves his dad in his youth discovers through his adult life, a long lost secret story about his father, his father’s murder and through his probing investigations, he relives his many wonderful childhood memories, enjoys his visiting friends and with their help, he finds the perpetrators and develops an even stronger reason for the powerful love and bond he long held for his dad.

Focusing on the intersection of Christianity and politics in the American penitentiary system, Jennifer Graber explores evangelical Protestants' efforts to make religion central to emerging practices and philosophies of prison discipline from the 1790s through the 1850s.Initially, state and prison officials welcomed Protestant reformers' and ministers' recommendations, particularly their ideas about inmate suffering and redemption. Over time, however, officials proved less receptiv...

This collection chronicles coming of age as a queer millennial in a twenty-first century America defined by the internet, climate crisis, and a growing disconnection that the poems within work to resist. Here, everyone and everything serves as a potential reflection for something larger than the poet can understand: an unknown debit card thief, the cartoon teacher Ms. Frizzle, The Weather Channel, an RV park, a dead poet. These poems seek to make something of the spaces between and reach t...

All In: Poker Night Lessons for Winning Big at Your Career goes beyond any of the other bestselling poker books on the market and at last tells you how to put your poker playing skills to use in the business world. What if the rules and strategies of poker were the same as those More...you use in your real life? What if your real life were an exciting game filled with challenging opponents and chances to win big? What if your job was as much fun as your weekly poker game? Well, it can be -...

An impressive new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle AwardTaking its title from Heraclitus's most famous fragment, The River Twice is an elegiac meditation on impermanence and change. The world presented in these poems is a fluid one in which so much—including space and time, the subterranean realm of dreams, and language itself—seems protean, as the speaker's prev...

At 8:43 a.m., it was unthinkable. Three minutes later, it was reality. September 11, 2001 started as a normal day for the people of Manhattan. Leaving Building Seven of the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m., businesswoman Jodi Graber Pratt heard the roar of massive engines and felt the air pressure increase directly over her head—a split second before the North Tower was ripped open by the first of two planes that would hit the World Trade Center that day, shattering the domestic peace and s...

Vernie Olander, is an author. She wasn't always an author. For over fifteen years, she was the executive director of the Portland, Maine Symphony Orchestra before retiring to pursue a career as a novelist. Her days quickly changed from board meetings, pitching sponsors, and unraveling complicated budgets, to hours of writing, attending creative writing classes, and dreaming up plots for fiction novels. Energy flowed, and after completing her first novel she was ready to forge ahead with a ...

Five women, four forty years old, and one matron of sixty-one take a holiday to France anxious to escape their robotic lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.Wendy, the travel agent, Penny, owner of a needlework shop, Sarah, accomplished artist, Vernie, executive director of the Portland Symphony, and Rose, who is a recent widow all wind their way through Provence with adventures conflicts, and a generous portion of food and wine.Each evening they gather around the large plane tree...

The story centers around the Tane Jewel, a mysterious golden sphere rumored to possess limitless energy.Its origins are shrouded in the mists of galactic history, belonging to the ancient and vanished race of the Tane.The legend takes a terrifying turn when a ruthless dictator, Gort Bro-Doral of the Delban Empire, acquires the Tane Jewel.His scientists unlock its destructive potential, posing a threat to the entire galaxy.

If you’ve been looking for a Bible study on Sexuality, then this is the book for you! Sexuality has been a divisive issue in many churches. Many of us want to be faithful Christians but aren't sure what to do with Biblical law and sexuality. Christians struggle with the issues of sexuality that exist in our churches today. Non-Christians are curious about what the Bible says and does not say on the issue of sexuality. Many struggle with what to do with troubling "rules" in the Bible and wh...

**A must-have guide for helping your child conquer worry, fear, and overwhelmAN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER**Kids today are more susceptible than ever to anxiety and stress. As a parent, you want to shield your child from these overwhelming feelings, but it can be daunting in an unpredictable world. Fortunately, there are ways to help, and Raising Calm Kids in a World of Worry shows how.Psychotherapists and parent coaching team Ashley Graber, ...