Love and Deceit's ten stories introduce sometimes-quirky characters who grapple with lies big and small.Lost in Atlanta, Hiding from Love's Truth reveals why a woman would mysteriously abandon the young man she deeply loves and contact him 52 years later to ask forgiveness for something he never considered wrong.Uncle Norbert's Naked Ambition describes a man's desire for a crowning lifetime achievement, pursued with inept stealth, of convincing his extremely prudish wife to...

Rita spent her childhood yearning for her dead mother, who left behind no memories or photographs. She constructed elaborate fantasies to compensate for the loss. But when her mother mysteriously reappears as if resurrected, proving her father a liar, Rita demands to know the truth. The answers are far from what she expected. Can Rita ever forgive her family for such actions?Could anyone?

Private detective Derek Sprye slowly gets sucked into a serial murder case without realizing he's at risk of being killed. The blatant clues the assassin leaves could have multiple meanings, though the victims are all men who gamble using baseball cards. While investigators are confused, perhaps the killer is as well. Is he making tragic mistakes while vengefully hunting a man who is already dead?

While trying to avoid dealing with his dramatic weight gain, Keith encounters a series of confrontational characters who use food rhymes to give blunt diet advice. His doctor friend Charlie, a dazzling and dominating blue-eyed blonde counselor, and a threatening enforcer send a tough message that motivates and frightens Keith. Can he achieve and maintain a healthy weight? His life depends on it.

The indelible mental image Sharon holds of her family and happiness is shattered in an instant. But more tragic surprises are on the way, revealing the astonishing truth about her relationships. How could she have been so elaborately deceived while feeling so deeply loved? In this complicated love triangle, harboring three different relationships, one person knew the extent of the duplicity.

It's hard to see anything with a blindfold on the eyes and the brain. Rebounding from heartbreak, Todd accepts an offer for a weekly blindfolded adventure from a mystery woman who claims a mutual attraction. He enjoys the experience, but can't stop trying to determine the identity of his benefactor. Just after he decides he knows, he realizes he doesn't. And he suspects his mistake may be fatal.

Sometimes wishes turn into reality. Sometimes deceit is used to help the Wish Fairy complete the job. When Leslie offers to give a neighbor the chance to turn his teenage fantasy into reality 18 years later, her ultimate goal is well hidden in a preposterous lie. But if romantic happiness is the outcome, does the deception really matter? Only if the truth is discovered. Then it matters a lot.

After the Civil War battles at Chickamauga and Chattanooga in 1863, Weston family members are either dead, in retreat, estranged or trying to cope with widespread devastation. By 1963, the family is still struggling with the war's aftermath, starting to fracture over issues that arose a century before, and destined to experience turmoil from deceit and shocking revelations.Set primarily in Chattanooga and in Atlanta, the novel showcases the region's rich historical sites and links ...

BREATHE: NEW LIFE is a sacred invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and recover your rhythm. Written as a daily meditation guide, this book offers 12 months of reflection rooted in Scripture, ancestral wisdom, and the lived experience of Black faith and healing. From "Speak Over Your Life" in January to "All Things Have Become New" in December, each month provides a spiritual theme and daily entry that encourages restoration, justice, and transformation.This is n...

In March 2010, the Obama administration released A Blueprint for Reform, setting forth its proposed revisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. If enacted, the Blueprint will shape the curriculum, standards, assessments, and accountability systems of schools throughout the nation. It will also determine how and where federal education funds will be targeted, further increase federal control over K-12 education, and increase the private-sector role in the operation of public sc...

Over the past twenty years, educational policy has been characterized by top-down, market-focused policies combined with a push toward privatization and school choice. The new Every Student Succeeds Act continues along this path, though with decision-making authority now shifted toward the states. These market-based reforms have often been touted as the most promising response to the challenges of poverty and educational disenfranchisement. But has this approach been successful? Has learni...

**A collectible hardcover edition of Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner’s masterpiece, with a new introduction by Ayana Mathis, the New York Times bestselling author of The Twelve Tribes of HattieOne of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsA Penguin Vitae Edition**The Sound and the Fury traces the decline of the American South through three generations of the once-powerful Compson family. In Yoknapatawpha Cou...