***Finalist for the 2024 George Washington Prize!*For readers of Never Caught and You Never Forget Your First, a revealing true story of celebrity, race and the children George Washington raised.**While it’s widely known that George and Martha Washington never had children of their own, few are aware that they raised children together. In First Family, we see Washington as a father figure and are introduced to the children he helped raise, tracing...

"When Harry Met Sally" is only the most iconic of popular American movies, books, and articles that pose the question of whether friendships between men and women are possible. In Founding Friendships, Cassandra A. Good shows that this question was embedded in and debated as far back as the birth of the American nation. Indeed, many of the nation's founding fathers had female friends but popular rhetoric held that these relationships were fraught with social danger, if not impossi...

Award-winning historian Cassandra A. Good shows how the outspoken stepgrandchildren of George Washington played an overlooked but important role in the development of American society and politics from the Revolution to the Civil War.While it’s widely known in America that George and Martha Washington never had children of their own, few are aware that they raised numerous children together. In First Family, we see Washington as a father f...

As a young man of five and twenty, Fitzwilliam meets a young lady who will change his life. After a whirlwind courtship, the couple marry,But after only a year of marriage, disaster strikes, and Darcy loses his wife in childbirth. Stricken with grief, Darcy is left with a young daughter to raise without hisbeloved wife by his side.Though unwillingly, Darcy is convinced to return to society by his cousin, Colonel Fitzwilliam, and almost three years later he returns to...

CASSANDRA paces for a little while,her tenuous connection with reality wavering.Could she have convinced CLYTEMNESTRA not to kill her,if she'd said the right words?If she did, would that have spared AGAMEMNON?How would she have felt if that was so?Cassandra, a Trojan princess, has been taken captive by the king who destroyed her home to live as his new consort. But the god Apollo ...

Nötchka Uumian, solo-scavenger and pilot, only came to Bandalier for business. But when her first ever heat cycle hits, she has two choices: Get off the planet or find somewhere safe to ride out the heatburns. Determined to never end up mated and trapped in a kitchen, she heads into the Droid district. You can’t mate if the other person isn’t an organic, right?Low on funds and preparing for weeks of sexual stupor, Nötchka finds herself in the Nuts in Bolts, a nearly deserted Cozy H...

Their plans were conceived in a drunken excitement and resulted in more horror than any of them could have imagined. There was the poet able to retreat into beatific reveries of superb fishing in cold, fast streams; the Vietnam vet consumed by uppers, downers, and violence; and the girl who loved only one of them—at first.With their ideals ostensibly in order, they set out from Florida to save the Grand Canyon from a dam they believed was being built. Along with the tape deck for t...

The brilliantly uplifting, page-turning novel from the multi-million bestselling author of Geek Girl and Reese's Book Club Pick Cassandra in Reverse.'Everyone should read it and everyone will love it' Lindsey Kelk‘A true delight from cover to cover' Charlotte Butterfield--------------------------------------------------------If you could see your future, how would you live now?Margot ...

An entertaining and enlightening compendium of facts and rituals for boosting good fortune.For readers wondering how to align the stars to get that dream job they're coveting or an A on that upcoming test—or even for those who want to win the jackpot in the next Mega Millions—Good Luck is here with everything they'll need to know, illustrated winningly in a fun-sized volume.Respected spirituality author Cassandra Eason has studied the rituals and w...

The nationally bestselling author of The Paleontologist and A History of Fear returns with a spine-tingling new thriller about a weight loss treatment with terrifying side effects.Retail worker Emmett Truesdale has never fit the Southern California mold of six-pack, suntanned masculinity. Over three hundred pounds, he carries the weight of his childhood trauma and millennial ennui around his waist and in his soul. After trying every diet under the...

Is everything terrible? Is your life going to shit and your brain’s convinced you that you’re utterly screwed? Have you found yourself in a dark place with no way out? Are you having trouble holding onto reality and getting out of the dumps? All of the above? Sounds like you’re freaking out.Simone has been there, and she made herself a book to remind her, page by page, exactly what to do to get herself out of danger. She has used that template here so that you can create your own g...

The third adventure in this sharp-witted mystery series with a magical twist.Lord Grave is hosting a special ball at Grave Hall, and Lucy Goodly can’t wait to see powerful magicians from all over the world gathered in one place. But alarming events in Grave Village threaten to overshadow the glittering occasion. Who are the strange children attacking Lucy’s friends? What do they want? And why are his lordship, Vonk the butler and even little Violet, the scullery maid, behaving so o...