Almost every couple faces a now what?” moment as their last kid moves out of the house. There’s a big empty nest looming over this new and uncertain stage in their lives.David and Veronica James chose to look at this next phase of life as a beginning instead of an ending. Rather than staying put and facing the constant reminders of empty bedrooms and backseats, a plan began to develop to sell the nest and hit the highway. But could a homebody helicopter mom learn to let go of her ...

I came back to write a song.Not to fall for five country stars who make me forget every promise I’ve made.After a brutal breakup with a powerful music producer who thought he owned everything—including me—I swore I’d never lose myself for a man again.Then my label sent me back to my hometown…To a ranch.To him.Ryder—my childhood crush, my one unforgettable night, my unfinished business.

In the annals of American history, Abraham Lincoln stands as a towering figure, renowned for his leadership during the Civil War and his unwavering commitment to preserving the Union. However, before his rise to the presidency, Lincoln honed his skills as a brilliant lawyer, navigating the complexities of the legal system with wit, determination, and a deep understanding of human nature. In "Lincoln, The Lawyer," Frederick Trevor Hill paints a vivid portrait of Lincoln's legal career, from...

Crooked high-powered lawyer Alton Carver has a plan: stage his own death, take the money he embezzled and light out for Central America, leaving behind wife Nicole and daughter Clara. But when he sticks around town to watch his own funeral, he discovers the life he's leaving behind isn't the life he thought he had.When he sees Nicole in the arms of another man, Alton postpones his run for the border and is forced to reconsider his self-image as a respected and admired pill...

Each evening, nestled in Berlin's Treptower Park, the immigrant circus comes to life."A provocative, heartfelt journey from the first page to the striking conclusion." ~ Alyssa Elmore, from Readers' Favorite Book ReviewsWhen Yusuf fled Syria, he lost everything. Now the circus, with its middle-eastern flair, is the only home he knows. When the lights go on, the refugees dazzle their audience, but off-stage tensions flare.

This "undeniably moving and emotionally true" debut novel offers the emotional complexity and narrative scope of A Visit from the Goon Squad and resonates with the strong mystical nature of Swamplandia (Publishers Weekly, starred review)Most of us have experienced what it’s like to know what someone is going to say right before they say it. Or perhaps you have been shocked by the irrefutable phenomena of coincidence, when your life inters...

A singularly compelling debut novel, about a desert where people go to escape their past, and a truck driver who finds himself at risk when he falls in love with a mysterious woman.Ben Jones lives a quiet, hardscrabble life, working as a trucker on Route 117, a little-travelled road in a remote region of the Utah desert which serves as a haven for fugitives and others looking to hide from the world. For many of the desert’s inhabitants, Ben's visits are their only ...

**Soon to be a major motion picture, from Brad Pitt and Tony KushnerA Washington Post Best Book of 2015A mid-century doctor's raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter's attempt to piece his life back together and make sense of her own.**Texas-born and Harvard-educated, Dr. Perry Baird was a rising medical star in the late 1920s and 1930s. Early in his career, ahead of his time, he grew fascinated with identifying the bioche...

Spokane, Washington, is nearly perfect for most people, but Jack Fitzpatrick is not one of them. At twenty-two, he’s already too bitter to stay. Hours after graduation and armed with his final paycheck from his nemesis, Mrs. Pohlkiss, Jack heads for Southern California to prove that money does buy happiness. Thanks to a lucky run-in with a talent agent a few weeks earlier, Jack has loftier (and more lucrative) dreams than minimum wage in the basement of Nordstrom’s. But once there, he lear...

Adam is a fragile and anxious boy whose relationship with his mother starts to unravel. His mother is seen as ‘wonderful’ and ‘devoted’ to Adam who she works hard for, but all isn’t as it seems.Eleven year old Adam is taken in by Casey, following his mother’s car accident which left her with a broken pelvis. Casey is told that Adam is not in the best of health and he attends regular medical appointments for an unknown ‘sickness', but isn’t fazed. Casey takes Adam in, believing all ...

There is always more than one side to any story. After the original confrontation from daughter to mother and mother's response, the father had something to say. Would he own up to what the daughter accused him of, or would he make excuses? Find out in Daddy's Little Girl, the third installment in the series A Letter to My Mother..

**"Beautifully paced . . . heartbreaking and hilarious."—USA TodayAugusten Burroughs meets Mary Karr: a deeply funny and wickedly entertaining family memoir.**The youngest of four daughters in an old, celebrated St. Louis family-- of prominent journalists and politicians on one side, debutantes and equestrians on the other-- Jeanne Darst grew up hearing stories of past grandeur. And the message she internalized as a young girl was clear: While things might be a bit...