The rough notes from which this narrative has been constructed were given to me by the man who tells the story. For obvious reasons I have altered the names of the principals, and I hereby pass on the assurance which I have received, that the originals of such as are left alive can be found if their discovery be thought desirable. This alteration of names, the piecing together of somewhat disconnected and sometimes nearly indecipherable memoranda, and the reduction of the mass to consecuti...

Slick sports agent Griffin Steele is living the highlife in Los Angeles, far from the shadow of the North Carolina mountains where he grew up. But when his hometown falls on hard times and needs his help, Grif reluctantly agrees to commute between coasts. He never expects the lush scenery, in the form of pretty tomboy Carlie Beth Parrish, to be such a temptation.After an impetuous one-night stand with Grif Steele fifteen years ago, hardworking blacksmith Carlie Beth has tried to ma...

A stranger's NSFW text wasn't part of her plan . . .Avery Bloom has her entire life mapped out . . . until a stranger mistakenly texts her a dick GIF that changes everything. When insomnia has her wide awake before starting a new job, his text is a welcome distraction. Soon Avery's dirty texting a stranger, and reveling in the freedom of being someone other than her usually-reserved self—someone who doesn't have a hearing loss and isn't trying to fulfill a dream th...

The 2016 presidential election was unconventional in many ways. The election of President Donald Trump caught many by surprise, with a true outsider — a candidate with no previous governmental experience and mixed support from his own party — won the election by winning in traditionally Democratic states with coattails that extended to Republican Senate candidates and resulted in unified Republican government for the first time since 2008. This result broke with the pre-election convention...

Essentially, this is my best attempt at condensing about 6,000 pages of textbooks into 60 Microsoft Word pages. This is the vital 1% of the information that I want to pass on to anyone who will listen.The title of the book is based off the definition of Pareto’s Principle. The 20% and 80% are arbitrary and simply used to show how in most issues, there is a small group that makes the largest influence in a given situation.

In life, people like to over-complicate things. This is generally because they don't actually understand what's going on. I, like most exercisers, had no idea what was going on when I first started trying to "eat healthy" and exercise.So, here's probably the shortest comprehensive introduction to what's actually going on according to peer-reviewed science. Further resources that fill in details will be available on the Mermaid Aesthetics website.

This book is a journey in the lives of a mother and son. While the content is in a poetic format, the dialogue is real and relative. Every mother, every son, every parent, every child will hear themselves in this dynamic conversation between mother and son.

Anne Tyler’s richest, most deeply searching novel–a story about what it is to be an American, and about Iranian-born Maryam Yazdan, who, after 35 years in this country, must finally come to terms with her “outsiderness.”Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport – the Donaldsons, a very American couple, and the Yazdans, Maryam’s fully assimilated son and his attractive Iranian wife. Each couple is awaiting the arrival of an a...

Continue reading if you want to get to know yourself better, enhance your people skills, and learn how to apply emotional Intelligence to live a happy and full life...Emotional Intelligence allows you to recognize your own and other people's emotions and respond appropriately. It will also educate you on examining circumstances before making a choice.It is critical to harness the power of your brain to become emotionally sophisticated. Most people ...

"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." So Anne Tyler opens this irresistible new novel.The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. Is she an impostor in her own life? she asks herself. Is it indeed her own life? Or is it someone else’s?On the surface, Beck, as she is known to the Davitch clan, is outgoing, joyous, a natural celebrator. Giving parties is, after all, her vocation—something she slip...

A moving and unforgettable tale of love and family secrets set in Georgia in the 1940s from visionary Tyler Perry and acclaimed author Echo Brown, based on Perry’s original screenplay and Netflix film of the same name.1947, Georgia. Bayou, a precocious teen with big dreams of escaping the oppressive South, hopes the music running through his blood can save him from him his daunting circumstances. First, he’ll have to survive the rage of his alcoholic fathe...

Knox Thompson thinks he's working a hustle, but it's a hustle that's working him. Trying to keep his pizza shop and parents afloat, he cleans out a backroom Kentucky poker game only to be roped into dealing marijuana by the proprietor—an arrangement Knox only halfheartedly resists.Knox's shop makes the perfect front for a marijuana operation, but his supplier turns out to be violent and calculating, and Knox ends up under his thumb. It's not long before more than just the pizza sho...