Surviving Serena: Light Breaking Through Darkness is a powerful memoir of survival, resilience, and healing in the face of unimaginable childhood trauma.From the loss of her biological mother and life in an orphanage to adoption and years of abuse hidden behind closed doors, Serena Smith shares her deeply personal journey through fear, isolation, anger, and emotional struggle. As she grows older, she begins to uncover the lasting impact of trauma on her identity, r...

HOW A SIMPLE GUIDE CAN HELP YOU AVOID THE MISTAKES THAT EVEN 99% OF THE MOST CARING AND INFORMED MOTHERS MAKE AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR CHILDREN. THE BEST PEDIATRICIANS AND OBSTETRICIANS THAT HAVE GRADUATED FROM CAMBRIDGE WERE PLEASANTLY SURPRISED BY THESE TRICKS... As you know, becoming a mother is the most beautiful experience in the life of women, and every mother wants the best for her children!Doubt, apprehension and anxiety can upset these magical moments, thus ruining the beginning of...

Named Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023, 20024" by Chill SubsCarefully curated stories from After Dinner Conversation magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics of family relationships. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions.Story Summary ListEleven Things I Have Left Now That My Daughter Is Gone: P...

"Short Stories For Long Discussions…"Get ready to dive into the most thought-provoking and intellectually stimulating discussions of the year with "After Dinner Conversation - Best Of 2024." This must-have collection features the most compelling philosophy, ethics and social issues as short story fiction from one of the year's top-rated monthly literary magazines. With a diverse range of genres, from science-fiction to historical fiction, and with ...

Named Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill SubsDelight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contribute fascinating philosophical insights on controversial topics like marriage equality, assisted suicide, the meaning of death, animal rights and defining ...

Latino/a students are in a unique position in today's society; teachers and administrators are in an influential position in educating them. Community, parents, and educators alike are poised to enable these students to gain the education they need for success. Chapters by recognized authors and successful practitioners explain theory with actual applicable examples, demonstrating where and how education is successfully working for Latino students.

In this book, author Risa Nye doesn't tell you how to write your life story--she shows you how she did it, and takes you through the easy-to-manage strategy she cooked up for her year-long blog experiment, Zero to Sixty in One Year. By breaking it all down into manageable sections, with examples from each of her six decades of stories, she takes the anxiety out of starting off with a blank page or screen. With tips on getting started, a variety of ways to refresh your memory, and those pee...

Come And Heal With Me. Let's Speak From Our Hearts. The Past Will Never Break You

Teeny Tiny Witch is a little witch who loves to wear red, and has trouble with spells. She goes to the Academy for Young Witches and her mishaps with spell-casting gets her into trouble with the head mistress, Miss Pillinger who reports everything to the Icy Witch Queen. Everyone on Witch Island is afraid of her.She and her mother are hopeful as she sets off to the academy; she's been given one more chance to do it right. Will she pass her exams? But what will the Icy Witch Queen d...

Once upon a time, Juniper Jones may or may not have turned her ex into a frog. (Okay, she did, but he totally deserved it.) Unfortunately, she had no idea how to turn him back. And now he's arrived in Miracle Bay, and she's got some explaining to do...As if her ex turning up wasn’t enough, JJ stumbles across the body of a mysterious newcomer to town. Unfortunately, one of her closest friends is the prime suspect and if she can’t prove his innocence, he’ll disappear from her life fo...

“What smart, memorable, inventive stories these are—skilled, insightful, full of heart.”—Joan Silber, author of Ideas of HeavenAlethea Black's deeply moving and wholly original debut features a coterie of memorable characters who have reached emotional crossroads in their lives. Brimming with humor, irony, and insights about the unpredictable nature of life, the unbearable beauty of fate, and the power that one moment, or one decision, can have to transfor...

When the lights go out and you pull the covers up to your neck, do you lie there listening to something that sounds like footsteps in the hall? Do you glimpse a mist out of the corner of your eye, but when you turn your head to look, nothing is there? Are those strange noises you hear, the knocks and bangs, just the house settling, or is it something more sinister?Some might say you're crazy, but many of us believe.Within these pages are true ghost stories. Many of the circ...