Confession is everywhere in our culture. It drives banal social media posts, sensational reality television shows, revolutionary social justice movements, and popular fiction. It has also been central to feminist movements throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But acts of self-disclosure carry significant risks for women and nonbinary writers, who may be disbelieved or retraumatized, dismissed as narcissistic or unliterary, or stereotyped in ways that constrain professional ...

An abandoned Arkansas lake resort holds the secrets of a young woman’s past . . . and her future.Raised by her grandfather, flea market manager Julie Pearl Stiles promised herself she’d postpone the search for her absentee father until the truth could no longer hurt Grandpa. Then one crazy June day ushers in a series of discoveries that will turn Julie’s peaceful, small-town life upside down.Real estate entrepreneur Micah Hobart is haunted by the memory of ...

This book is an attempt to gather, in one place, the life and legacy of the men and women who have shaped the inner life of Asia, from the forest sages of the Upanishads to the Zen masters of Japan, from the wandering Sufis of Delhi to the Thai monks of the forest tradition. It is not an exhaustive account. Any single one of these figures has inspired shelves of scholarship, and several have entire religions built around their teaching. What this book offers instead is a doorway: a short, ...

What happens when the mind fractures to survive - and then finds a way to come back together?This powerful and deeply personal work takes readers on an unflinching journey through trauma, identity, and healing. Written with raw honesty and hard-won insight, it explores the lived experience of dissociation, the body's memory of harm, and the long, complex path toward integration and self-understanding.Blending memoir with therapeutic knowledge, practical tools, and philosoph...

Back by popular demand, the infamous cult classic has returned in its original glory! Complete with bonus scenes, this chart-topping fan favorite is available for purchase for the first time!Sheltered in the lap of luxury, Mila is eighteen when her world dissolves in flames around her.War.A utopia swallowed in a single night.Orphaned and alone, terrified of being captured, Mila flees the conquerors who have come to claim. T...

Finally, a book that is the perfect guide for any woman who wants to take care of her man. It doesn't matter if she's married or single, every woman can find ways to add excitement and romance to their relationship. The RECIPES help you create a path to HIS heart and the FANTASIES help both you and him to imagine the possibilities. And we mustn't forget about what wearing the apron, the perfect stilettos and . . . nothing at all can do to a man!

He left her at the altar without a word. Seven Christmases later, the snow won't let either of them run again.Diana Pemberton has spent seven years perfecting the art of moving on. Seven years of composed smiles, seven years of pretending she doesn't still wonder why the Duke of Coventry vanished on their wedding morning without so much as a goodbye. She's not the girl who waited anymore. She's fine. She's completely fine.Then a snowstorm traps her...

She came for the truth. She stayed for a man she could never have.Governess Honoria Pemberton arrives at Weatherby Hall with three coins in her glove and a secret sewn into her stays. The last governess drowned beneath the ice. Everyone calls it an accident. Honoria knows better — because the dead woman was her own cousin, and the proof that could ruin a powerful family lies hidden somewhere in this cold, grieving house.Adrian Vane, the widowed Earl of Weat...

She accepted a rake's wager to bankrupt him. She never planned on falling for him.London, 1814. Jane Pemberton learned long ago that being seen is dangerous—so she made herself invisible on purpose, a chess player who reads every ballroom like a board she refuses to sit at. Then the notorious Lord Nicholas Vane wagers he can turn the season's most overlooked wallflower into its most dazzling diamond.Jane accepts. Not to be seen by him—to ruin him.

She came back to London to destroy him. She didn't plan on falling for him first.Ten years ago, one whispered rumor emptied the Pemberton house, buried her father in a pauper's grave, and scattered his daughters into the dark. Now she's returned—new name, mysterious fortune, one purpose.Ruin the Viscount who ruined them.If you love Bridgerton's glittering scandal, a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers you'll lose sleep over, and the kind of emotional tw...

Two brothers. One war. A secret that outlived them both.Ireland, 1939. While a neutral nation turns its face from the war, the Kildare brothers cannot. Michael takes the King's uniform and a bomber's cockpit over the Channel. Eamon stays behind, running a silent coastal watch against a German agent working his own family's shore. Between them sits their mother, Nora, who answers two sons on two sides with a single act of faith — a place set at the Sunday table, whe...

She let a duke believe she was rich. He let the whole world believe he couldn't be touched. Neither of them counted on falling in love.Arabella Pemberton has one job: keep her family's ruin a secret. For two seasons she has performed wealth she does not have—one heated room, a made-over gown, her mother's pearls quietly sold—all to keep her father out of debtors' prison. So when a scandal on a moonlit balcony forces a bargain with London's most guarded duke, she do...