A short story about a man who has many girlfriends and children without marriage and not taking care of them, but in the end, he wants to see all his children before he die.

Tatiana M.F. Cruz is Hazel Dick Leonard Endowed Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Race, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Simmons University.

A bewildered American mother and her two daughters spend an adventurous year in Aix-en-Provence, where an aloof mutt presides at the family’s favorite cafés.An essential treat for lovers of the work of M.F.K. Fisher, The Boss Dog is a fictionalized memoir of the author’s time in the south of France. It follows a young American woman and her two daughters as they embark on a new life in Aix-en-Provence. We encounter the food, moods, landscapes, and people o...

A charming mixed bag of nostrums, elixirs, restoratives, and fortifiers, interspersed with autobiographical anecdotes from M.F.K. Fisher’s life in California, Provence, Mexico, and Switzerland.This compelling miscellany of folk cures, elixirs, and traditional curatives gains in intrigue from the strange and captivating telling of M.F.K. Fisher, for whom directness and lack of ornament never meant the same as simplicity. In this collection of panaceas, superstitions...

What if you accidentally erased your family from history?Ian's sister Cinda opened the door, traveling through the Galactic Antipaterminal Passage into the minds of their ancestors, witnessing the past as it unfolded. Now Lexi, the GAP-crosser from the 31st century, has returned. This time for Ian.1906. As twelve-year-old Ian steps into the mind of his four-times-great- grandfather, George Henry Parker, he feels the joy of courtship and t...

PREAMBLEHumanity has always searched for meaning, truth, and power. Across generations, people have looked to traditions, systems, teachers, and beliefs for guidance. Yet one of the greatest discoveries may begin much closer than expected: within human nature itself.This book explores the idea that every human being functions through three dimensions: Spirit, Soul, and Body. When understood and aligned, these dimensions can lead to clarity, balance, purpose, and self-mastery...

PreambleHumanity has always searched for meaning, truth, and power. Across generations, people have looked to traditions, systems, teachers, and beliefs for guidance. Yet one of the greatest discoveries may begin much closer than expected: within human nature itself.This book explores the idea that every human being functions through three dimensions: Spirit, Soul, and Body. When understood and aligned, these dimensions can lead to clarity, balance, purpose,...

In a small rodeo town in eastern Oregon, seventeen-year-old Maura is used to carrying more than most. Between caring for her younger sister and managing her father's worsening diabetes, she's learned how to hold everything together—even when it feels like it's falling apart.But when her father leaves on a desperate hunting trip in the Blue Mountains—and doesn't come back—Maura's carefully balanced world unravels.Enter Alex: her neighbor's troubled grandson, newly arrived an...

Paige Walker is finally done pouring drinks for bad tips and dodging wandering hands. After years behind the bar at The Carlisle, she's on the verge of everything she's worked for: a promotion to acting manager and a fresh start.There's just one tiny complication.The gorgeous stranger she spent one reckless, unforgettable night with? He walks straight into her morning staff meeting—holding the keys to the manager's office.Now Paige's dream job comes with a nightmare...

Owen Lake never had any interest in space.After watching his astronaut mother die, he preferred the simple life of a boat captain on Lake Superior. But the simple life was never meant to last.His charter business is failing, but an opportunity pops up in the form of Dr. Mariana Keller, who's interested in what lies beneath the waves: a mysterious, unnatural blue glow emanating from the depths.Owen agrees to take her on a clandestine dive to an ancie...

Summer may be over, but she's ready to bring the heat.When her boyfriend shattered her universe last spring, Addy convinced herself that if only she were a little hotter, then she could have kept him. Which is why her senior year goal is to get revenge.Step one: Join the swim team and get seriously fit.Step two: Find some gorgeous new arm candy to take to ex's big Halloween party and make him crazy with jealousy.

All across the country people are heading home for the holidays. Special presents are wrapped beneath the tree, mistletoe is hung, the smell of cookies is in the air, but what if you don't have someone special to share it all with?Will the magic of Christmas reach these characters? Or will they end up being a bunch of lonely grinches?Three up-and-coming young adult authors share their Christmas stories about hope and joy during the holiday season.