For all those newly diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver--a unique and comprehensive guide to understanding and managing your conditionMillions of Americans live with cirrhosis of the liver, a degenerative, complex, and often misunderstood condition in which liver cells are damaged and then replaced by scar tissue, impeding liver function. The disease is most commonly caused by excessive alcohol consumption, hepatitis, or complications from prescription drugs....

Welcome to my not-so-fairy-tale life, where kissing Mr. Wrong is my brilliant plan to avoid Mr. Right – or so I thought.It's one thing to be dumped by the guy you thought you were going to marry, but it's quite another to move back to the small town you're both from when he's a huge Hollywood celebrity and you're...not. But I need to be home right now, surrounded by the people I love, working in my new teaching job at Hunter’s Creek Elementary.The problem i...

A man's pilgrimage becomes something from his darkest nightmares when secrets arise and ghosts haunt his path.A woman has vanished on the Camino de Santiago, the ancient five-hundred-mile pilgrimage that crosses northern Spain. Daniel, an Irish expat, walks the lonely trail carrying his wife, Petra’s, ashes, along with the damning secret of how she really died.When he teams up to walk with vibrant California girl Ginny, she seems like the perfect antidote f...

In the late ’90s and early 2000s, the Portland Trail Blazers were one of the hottest teams in the NBA. For almost a decade, they won 60 percent of their games while making it to the Western Conference Finals twice. However, what happened off-court was just as unforgettable as what they did on the court.When someone asked Blazers general manager Bob Whitsitt about his team’s chemistry, he replied that he’d “never studied chemistry in college.” And with that, the “Jail Blazers” were ...

Duster Raines has demons. Some visit him in his dreams, reminding him of the choices he made in combat to survive. Others visit him while he's awake, demanding he pay penance for those sins. But lately, he's started seeing an alternate version of reality where he leads a life of importance, wealth, and power. Visions so vivid they seem more real than the life he lives as a PI, scrounging the gutters of Los Angeles for an easy buck. It's enough to drive anyone insane. Pulled into a missing ...

Deep-cutting spiritual poems addressing the deepest human feelings.

Deep-cutting spiritual poems addressing the deepest human feelings.

For more than fifty years, Bette Midler has been at the center of the entertainment world as a uniquely talented singer, actress, and comedienne. Starting in the unlikely venue of a gay bathhouse in New York City--where she developed her Divine Miss M persona--this book takes a deep dive into her successes, from movies to million-selling records, from sell-out concert tours to her memorable farewell to Johnny Carson as his last guest on The Tonight Show.On Bette Midler...

Imagine the people that mean the most to you suddenly died. Would you dream about them, and could you remember those dreams? Joshua has been capturing dreams of his late mother and brother for the past 22 years. He was born in 1979 and conceived through a sexual assault. His mother, Kathy, raised him as a single parent in the New York City area. Joshua’s brother, Matthew, was 11 years older and primarily resided with his father in New England. Kathy and Matthew were everything and made up ...

More than a decade after returning home from Afghanistan, Jake Freeman is still tormented by the emotional consequences of war. Desperate for a better life, he enlists the help of a VA doctor who prescribes a motorcycle tour of the Western States. Jake hopes an adventure like this can quiet the chaos in his mind, so he leaves his familiar world behind and rides his Harley north toward Bend, Oregon. On his journey, he realizes it may take more than fishing in majestic rivers and dancing at ...

Charlotte had just undergone a mastectomy. Marriage was the last thing on her mind.But to honor her grandfather's dying wish, she agreed to marry the second grandson of New York's most powerful mafia family.It was supposed to be cold. Strategic. Loveless.Until the veil lifted at the altar—and it wasn't her fiancé standing there.It was Cassian Moretti. Her fiancé's older brother. The man she kissed once to escape danger. The man who never for...

For fans of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, the thrilling true story of a would-be terrorist attack against a Kansas farming town’s immigrant community, and the FBI informant who exposed it.In the spring of 2016, as immigration debates rocked the United States, three men in a militia group known as the Crusaders grew aggravated over one Kansas town’s growing Somali community. They decided that complaining about their new neighbors and threatening them directly w...