Despite scientific studies and years of research, mental illness still carries a heavy stigma. People dont like to talk about it or acknowledge mental illness as a real disease that requires treatment. Author Susan Cane has suffered from mental illness most of her life. She is no stranger to the judgments of others, but she believes it is time for things to change.In From One Encounter to the Next, she presents a collection of poetry and short stories exploring the day-to-day strug...

The last two decades have witnessed a substantial change in the media environment, growing polarization of the two dominant parties, and increasing inequality of wealth and income. These profound changes necessitate updating our understanding of political accountability. Accountability Reconsidered examines how political accountability functions in the US today given the dramatic changes in voting behavior, media, congressional dynamics, and relations between branches. With particular atte...

Crissy is tired of being a "good girl" always doing everything she is suppose to do. She wants men to think she is sexy and hot. Crissy gets her best friend Pete to help her learn to be naughty. While teaching her to be naughty is fun, something is happening between them that maybe a best friend shouldn't have.Being a virgin and learning sex for the first time is a lot of fun.****Warning: some sexual content****Short story

Inspired by true, long-buried stories of enslaved people who dared to fight back, a searing portrayal of resistance for readers of Colson Whitehead, Jesmyn Ward, and Percival Everett, from Clay Cane, award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Grift**.**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY...

Will leave you smiling long after you’ve closed the last page.”—Lori Wilde, New York Times bestselling author of The First Love Cookie ClubSmall towns, rugged cowboy heroes, and passion are a perfect combination when it comes to contemporary romance—just ask the many fans of Susan Wiggs, Robyn Carr, Lori Wilde, and Linda Lael Miller. Now newcomer Emma Cane joins their ranks, transporting readers to fictional Valentine, Colorado. In the first book in Cane’s ...

Emma Cane welcomes you to Fairfield Orchard, where new love blooms and romance is always in season.For Amy Fairfield, the family orchard is more than a business. With its blossom-scented air and rows of trees framed by the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains, it’s her heritage and her future. But right now, it’s also a headache. Putting a painful breakup behind her, Amy has come home to help revitalize Fairfield Orchard. She doesn’t have time for the handsome—distracting—professor who wa...

Welcome back to Fairfield Orchard, where apples and romance are ripe for the picking...Actor Tyler Fairfield is Spencer Hollows only home-grown celebrity. To Brianna MacDougall, hes a friend who became a lover over the course of one wild night in New York City. They both agreed it was a mistake-so why cant Bri forget? Maybe because Tyler makes her feel like the only person in a crowded room. Or because his kisses melt her like warm caramel over ice cream. Tyler back in ...

Welcome to Valentine Valley, where romance blooms and love captivates even the most guarded of hearts . . .From the moment Secret Service agent Travis Beaumont strides into the town and through the door of Monica Shaw's flower shop, she feels a sizzle of attraction. After years of putting everyone else's needs first, Monica is ready to grab hold of life. If she can just persuade the ultimate protector to let his own walls down for once . . .The President's son is g...

First Footprints tells the extraordinary story of the Aboriginal people of Australia. How they made their way out of Africa 60,000 years ago, and how they survived across this vast continent, from the harsh deserts of the inland to the glaciers of southern Tasmania. With photos from the ABC TV series of the same name.Some 60,000 years ago, a small group of people landed on Australia's northern coast. They were the first oceanic mariners and this great sout...

Return to Valentine Valley, where Christmas lights are twinkling and first love burns brighter the second time around . . .When Tony De Luca's ex, Kate Fenelli, waltzes through the door of his tavern and pulls up a bar stool, she turns his balanced world on end. Once they'd been each other's first love, first everything. But then life happened, and they walked away with broken hearts. Now Kate is back in Valentine, and they can't seem to stay out of each other's way. When Tony begi...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERPart history and part cultural analysis, The Grift chronicles the nuanced history of Black Republicans. Clay Cane lays out how Black Republicanism has been mangled by opportunists who are apologists for racism.After the Civil War, the pillars of Black Republicanism were a balanced critique of both political parties, civil rights for all Americans, reinventing an e...

After Amanda Cramer suffered her share of unwanted notoriety, she’s far too comfortable hiding out in the Bed and Breakfast she owns—until her newest customer arrives, tall, dark, and breathtaking.Ex-rodeo star Mason Lopez knows one last ride could mean saving his family's ranch. When he arrives in Valentine Valley for the Silver Creek Rodeo, Mason checks into the Connections B&B and finds himself drawn to the beautiful, reserved woman who owns it. Can he convince Amanda to open he...