It always started like this, a pulse inside me, like a warning before the tide surged, roared . . . and froze everything.Twenty-year old Emma just landed in Rome, to find the father who walked out of her life more than a decade ago and was too busy eating pizza to call. Traveling with her is a secret she's carried alone since childhood: sometimes, around her, time stops. People and cars freeze, rain hangs still in the air and there's only her left in the silence.

Once, John Irish was a legend in the porn industry, partying with the likes of John Holmes, Peter North, Nina Hartley, and Seka, but now he's on the far side of fifty, and Ron Jeremy won't even return his phone calls. Desperate for any kind of paying work, he's sunk to the level of bit roles in grade-Z porn and is even considering applying to work at Wal-Mart, when hot-blooded starlet Mindy Copperhead comes into his life. He quickly discovers she's far more than a simple blowjob artist, bu...

The stories of our ancestors call to us all from across time, asking to be remembered. In retelling our ancestors’ experiences of love, tradition, loss, and sorrow, we not only honor their lives, but we come to better understand our own.In this collection of remarkable essays, Ami Lev Weintraub guides us on a journey to meet the ghosts of his Jewish ancestors—a people whose struggles and stories sometimes whisper and sometimes scream to be shared. Ami examines challenging questio...

“The practicality and clarity make this a valuable contribution to collections in academic and public libraries.” - Booklist, Starred ReviewAmy Diehl and Leanne M. Dzubinski wrote a fascinating book on gender bias in the workplace. Glass Walls illuminates the pervasive yet invisible prejudices women face in the workplace. Check it out if you want to understand these hidden biases better! -- Ms. Magazine

In this “haunting psychological thriller” (Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author) one woman searches for answers when another woman goes missing from a desperate, drug-addled mountain town where everyone is implicated in her disappearance.Clare is on the run. From her past, from her husband, and from her own secrets. When she turns up alone in the remote mining town of Blackmore asking questions about Shayna Fowles, a young woman who has gone mi...

In We're Still Here, Amy Jean Nobles delivers a visceral, unflinching collection of lyrical poetry dedicated to the art of survival. Set against a gritty urban backdrop of wet concrete, chipped paint, and humming streetlights, this collection explores the heavy toll of adversity and the quiet aftermath of the battles we fight just to stay alive.Nobles does not shy away from the lingering effects of trauma. Her verses capture the paranoia of ghosts following in shadows, the...

**From the bestselling author of Still Mine and Still Water—PI Clare O’Dey is on the hunt for two missing persons. Little does she know she’s the one being hunted.Malcolm is gone. Disappeared. And no one knows where or why.His colleague and fellow private investigator, Clare, is certain she can find him, as she holds the key to his past. She arrives in the oceanside city where he last lived and starts digging around. Not only is Malcolm gone witho...

Bloomsbury presents Glass Walls by Amy Diehl and Leanne M. Dzubinski, read by Katherine Fenton.“The practicality and clarity make this a valuable contribution to collections in academic and public libraries.” — Booklist, Starred ReviewA new, important, and richly detailed guide to understanding gender bias with practical solutions for leaders, workplace allies, and individual women.

Stop Breathe Listen Be StillIn a world that moves too fast and places little value on quiet times, the practice of contemplative prayer offers rest to your soul and invites God's presence into your life.This thoughtful book, inspired by the best-selling DVD of the same name, invites you into the joy and peace that can be found in the age-old practice of contemplative prayer and features writings from some of today's most highly respected authors and speakers, inclu...

Declining church attendance. A growing feeling of betrayal. For Christians who have begun to feel set adrift and disillusioned by their churches, Where Goodness Still Grows grounds us in a new view of virtue deeply rooted in a return to Jesus Christ’s life and ministry.The evangelical church in America has reached a crossroads. Social media and recent political events have exposed the fault lines that exist within our country and our spiritual communities....

When Amy first stumbled across Valerie Monroe's livestreams during a difficult season of her life, she expected little more than background noise and temporary distraction.What she found instead was the beginning of a quiet transformation.As a wife, mother of five, substitute teacher, and farm-store employee living a life built around responsibility, Amy has spent years carrying everyone else's pain while slowly disappearing beneath the weight of her own. Raised inside comp...

Stillbirth, defined as the death of an infant between 20 weeks' gestation and birth, is a tragedy repeated thirty thousand times every year in the United States. That means more than eighty mothers a day feel their babies slip silently from their bodies, the only sound in the delivery room their own sobs. Eighty stillborn babies a day means heartbroken families mourn the death of children who will never breathe, gurgle, learn to walk, or go to school.In 2006, Janel Atlas became one...