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...

She's fighting the present. He's fleeing the past. Can love survive across the ages?Pendleton, 2030. Ari never backs down from doing the right thing. And when her defiance almost costs her father's job, her punishment is to host an exchange student from the early Twentieth Century. But the cute farm boy she gets stuck with unexpectedly steals her heart… and unleashes a flood of trouble.James hates life in 1903 and wants to live in the future. Yet instead of...

As this bestseller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes new essays bringing the book up to date—because this is still not normal.Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway bestseller. Alarmed Americans and international onlookers wanted to know: What is wrong with him?That question still plagues us. The Trump administratio...

"Should be required reading for every cook. It defines in a sensual and beautiful way the vital relationship between food and culture."—Alice WatersThis comprehensive volume of essays on culinary and other pleasures of life comes from the legendary and widely traveled writer "whose artful personal essays about food created a genre" ( The New York Times) and who writes "practically, often profoundly, and always beautifully" ( San Francisco Chronicle

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.

An outsider with an image to protect.Harper loves to cause trouble--especially since her dad is the Chief of Police. Which makes dating a leather-jacket-wearing, motorcycle-riding Dallas Winston wannabe so much fun!There's no harm in stirring up a little trouble, right? Wrong. After one little slip-up, Harper's dad assigns her community service with the preppy scum turned police intern--Landon Maxwell.Now, her bad-boy boyfriend has a wicked revenge plan tha...

Salammbô (1862) is an historical novel by Gustave Flaubert, which interweaves historical and fictional characters. The action takes place immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt against Carthage in the third century BC. Flaubert's main source was Book I of Polybius's Histories. It was not a particularly well-studied period of history and required a great deal of work from the author, who enthusiastically left behind the realism of his masterpiece Madame Bovary for this tale of b...

M. F. K. Fisher, whom John Updike has called our "poet of the appetites," here pays tribute to that most enigmatic of ocean creatures, the oyster. As she tells of oysters found in stews, in soups, roasted, baked, fried, prepared à la Rockefeller or au naturel—and of the pearls sometimes found therein—Fisher describes her mother's joy at encountering oyster loaf in a girls' dorm in the 1890s, recalls her own initiation into the "strange cold succulence" of raw oysters as a young woman in Ma...

Finding that special someone to walk life's path with you isn't always the easiest of tasks.For best-friends Malcolm and Kaylee, their biggest challenge is yet to come.This novella contains explicit and adult content and language.As featured in Entwining Fate: A Shenanigans Anthology 2023.

'80s girls in a modern world.Meet Sloane, Harper and Reagan, three girls born in the wrong decade. They know what they want. The charm of Jake Ryan, the attitude behind Dallas Winston and the moves of Johnny Castle, but can they find their '80s leading men in the halls of Grover High? Find out in this fun trio of romantic comedies.Seeking Jake Ryan: 16 Candles meets Ferris Bueller's Day Off in this fun teenage romcom.Dumping...

A dancer who is afraid to take the lead.They say senior year is the time of your life, but Reagan Riley is hoping to just get through it.Used to living in the shadow of her mother's unrealized dance dreams, Reagan's plan has always been to lay low and keep to the chorus line.Too bad the captain of her dance team transferred school a week before classes start. Now Reagan is forced to step out of the shadows and into the spotlight.The dancing ...