Where Love Shines On is a collection of nine romantic short stories and six poems by five authors. These works explore love and romance between queer characters across a variety of genres, from fantasy to contemporary, to science fiction.This anthology hosts Alice Little's debut work, "Stumbling Into Love." This is the compelling story of Mara, who unwittingly finds herself on an unexpected journey of love and self-discovery. Through a series of fateful encounters an...

The myriad of ways that the individuals in this collection of stories discover how we learn what we learn, sometimes occurs during a random hour at a small diner. At other times it's reconnecting with a relative not seen in many years, or a small child's experience during World War II. It can be mourning the passing of a family member. It may be knowing when to decide that family should no longer be enabled with their lifestyles, or the choices and maturity with the swift coming of age. Al...

When the child learns of father's return home on Christmas Eve from overseas, the youngster wants to go with mother to the train station so they can be reunited. Although mother decides it is best for the child to stay home, the child magically embarks on a journey to the train station and home again, on the way, discovering new meanings for Christmas, family and the joy of giving to others.

They say youth is fleeting, but what if you could fake it for a little while longer—even forever? It's possible thanks to the Crown Serum. As the twentieth anniversary for the world's only legitimate wrinkle wonder cure approaches, newspaper reporter Goldie Hays lands an interview with its elusive maker, Sarah Crown.Too bad Goldie's dealing with a broken heart at the same time. And to think, it was only a month ago on her fortieth birthday that she was saying "I love you" for the f...

Read in this informative report how mafia contract CIA agent Chauncey Holt, who was one of the three tramps Dallas Police Department found in the Dealey Plaza Dallas rail yard in a boxcar, was an expert in manufacturing fake secret service credentials. Read how the head of the Coca Cola Company in the Caribbean—Phillip Twombly, who was a spy for the CIA in the Caribbean, ordered Holt to make these fake secret service credentials as part of the Dallas assassination operation against Kennedy...

Self-discipline is a goal that will only be accomplished by following a path that will cause a great deal of pain. Walking this path will require a good deal of hard work and dedication because this path is not an easy one to walk. Sometimes, people fall off. Sometimes, the direction of the path needs to be changed. Sometimes, the path needs to be broken up into smaller trips in order to be able to complete the whole journey.Self-control and self-discipline require hard work and se...

Julia Lee is angry. And she has questions.What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it look like to be an ally or an accomplice? How can we shatter the structures of white supremacy that fuel racial stratification?When Julia was fifteen, her hometown went up in smoke during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The daughter of Korean immigrant store owners in a predominantly Black neighborhood, Julia was taught to be grateful for the privile...

The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival is an artwork, a sculpture, created by Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn in a peripheral borough of Amsterdam's south-east known as the Bijlmer in 2009. This book recounts the event through the eyes of its "Ambassador", art historian Vittoria Martini, who was invited by the artist to be an eyewitness to the existence of this "precarious" work. A term Hirschhorn sees as positive and creative: a means of asserting the importance of the moment and of the pla...

Dark psychology is all around us. Many people are ready to take control and work towards their own goals, without any care about whether it is beneficial to the other person, or even if it harms the victim at all. These people roam around us, but we all want to maintain our freedom, and do what is best for us, regardless of the goals of other people.This guidebook is going to take some time to explore this kind of dark psychology and will look at topics concerning manipulation, NLP...

"This biography will not disappoint those who loved the novel and the feisty, independent, fiercely loyal Scout, in whom Harper Lee put so much of herself." —Garrison Keillor, The New York Times Book ReviewAn extensively revised and updated edition of the New York Times–bestselling biography of Harper Lee, reframed from the perspective of the recent publication of Lee's Go Set a Watchman.To Kill a Mockingbird—the twentieth century's...

James Beard Award–winning journalists expose food industry secrets in "the Kitchen Confidential of the big-ticket catering world" ( New York Times).Hotbox reveals the real-life drama behind cavernous event spaces and soaring white tents, where cooking conditions have more in common with a mobile army hospital than a restaurant. Award-winning food writers the Lee brothers steeped themselves in the catering business for four years, learning ...

What it was like to be as rich as Rockefeller: How a house gave shape and meaning to three generations of an iconic American familyOne hundred years ago America's richest man established a dynastic seat, the granite-clad Kykuit, high above the Hudson River. Though George Vanderbilt's 255-room Biltmore had recently put the American country house on the money map, John D. Rockefeller, who detested ostentation, had something simple in mind—at least until his son John J...