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Cyndi grows up in small town Texas, where love is scarce, but punishment is not. Queer is a threat, silence is obedience, and cruelty is discipline.When her home becomes unlivable, Cyndi is sent to live with relatives that offer no safety and only a different version of control. With her cousin, Bonnie, Cyndi learns about identity, survival, and how to disappear in a cruel world.Six is My Name is a bleak trans coming of age novel.It is not about redemption.I...

Early Reviews -"In the spirit of Sholem Aleichem… These stories of identical twins, confused from birth, will charm with their simplicity and sincerity." – AudioFileLife in The Village is rarely quiet or uneventful, but after The Village Twins are born, everything gets even crazier."…a good story very well told" – The Jewish IndependentRebecca and Jacob Schlemiel are looking forward to their first child, but the delivery of...

Delicious Passovers in The VillageIzzy Abrahmson’s THE VILLAGE FEASTS warms the heartLife in The Village often revolves around food and families. THE VILLAGE FEASTS is the follow-up collection to WINTER BLESSINGS by National Jewish Book Award For Family Literature nominee Izzy Abrahmson.Rich with misadventures and ingenious solutions, the stories dance with a traditional feel around contemporary issues…Mrs. Chaipul refuses to cook....

Max is the first of the Yorktown Christmas Time-Travel Christian Romance Series.Trapped in his conservatory for 250 years by the curse of an enraged woman, Max appears to Olivia just before Christmas. Olivia is a young woman waiting for the right man to recognize her strengths and talents. Can Olivia help Max break the curse without breaking her heart?

"Thoroughly enjoyable novel, both moving and astutely farcical." – Kirkus ReviewsA secret society, magical soup, and a young girl, wise beyond her yearsWhen Rachel Cohen is born, her parents' marriage begins to crack. As she grows, and her village teeters on the brink, it is up to her and The Council of Wise Women to cook up a plan and step in.Family breakdowns, a village on the edge of famine, and the challenges of a beloved community…

Can a brilliant English Professor and a dyslexic auto mechanic find a path to love?Divorced Zoe Gifford hopes her move to Riverbend will heal her shattered heart. She's not looking for love, and never with a younger man. But when she meets the compelling auto mechanic in a yoga class, it's impossible to fight her fascination with him.Zander Greybek spots Zoe unrolling her yoga mat and his immediate attraction is staggering. Blinded to their differences, he's in hot pursuit ...

This box set contains all 6 books in the Mountain Men of Hawk's Ridge series (Granger, Lincoln, Reck, Harley, Cain, and the final Epilogue).From Book 1 (Granger)PaigeI didn't plan a weekend getaway to Hawk's Ridge to earn yet another broken heart. But that seems to be the order of the day when the sexy, silver-haired maintenance man comes knocking on my door to repair my water heater.At first,...

Chicago Attorney Robert Mazzara has just been informed of the suicide death of his childhood friend, Marco Pezza. The two of them grew up together in a small suburb in Chicago during the turbulent sixties and seventies, when the issues of household violence were seldom ever addressed. Along with their best friends, Petey Rodriguez, Billy Kozar and Johnny Orozco, they all experienced the coming-of-age events that all young boys go through during grade school and high school, with one except...

"You'd think the collapse of society and the end of human civilization would be fun, but when you love heroin and the only thing between you and your dealer is a billion mutated corpses, the novelty wears off pretty fucking quick."And with that opening line, we are thrust into Lottie's world of rot and death. After purposely injecting a lethal dose of "juice", she comes back, but not like any of the ravenous creatures that roam the wasteland. Lottie comes back the same. Mostly. Her...

My daddy saw something he shouldn't have seen.But I wasn't doing anything wrong. He completely misinterpreted the whole thing.And I'm not a slut.If anything, I'm the opposite. I've been saving myself for marriage.But Daddy doesn't care.He's sending me away to something like a convent, where I'm supposed to pray for absolution and go to confession every day.But this Convent Camp for Sinners isn't what it seems on the surface.Inside is ...

Chicago Tribune Reporter Larry McKay has his hands full. He has been assigned to investigate the recent assassination of Chicago's Mayor Janice Kollar in a tumultuous summer that has included riots, looting, and a city out of control. With Mayor Kollar's long list of political enemies, McKay doesn't know where to start.But he soon discovers a weekly gambit at St. Simeon's Church Rectory on West 79th Street between two of Chicago's most notable individuals; Former grand chess master ...

Two special men from Jannon's past will show her exactly what she is worth…Toxic*.*That's what my boyfriend is. It describes our entire relationship. In fact, toxic is a good word for everything around me, from my job to my home life.I need to get away. To go where I'm loved and accepted the way I am, not constantly put down, yelled at, and belittled for having so many curves.I only know of one person who has ever given me ...