Insider Tips, Hidden Gems, and Essential Itineraries for an Unforgettable JourneyExperience the Heart of Europe: Where Alpine Grandeur Meets Urban SophisticationSwitzerland is a land of breathtaking contrasts—from the jagged peaks of the Matterhorn to the turquoise waters of Lake Brienz, and from the medieval soul of Bern to the high-tech streets of Zurich. But navigating one of the world’s most expensive and precise countries requires more than just a map; it requ...

Insider Tips, Hidden Gems, and Essential Itineraries for an Unforgettable JourneyExperience the Heart of Europe: Where Alpine Grandeur Meets Urban SophisticationSwitzerland is a land of breathtaking contrasts—from the jagged peaks of the Matterhorn to the turquoise waters of Lake Brienz, and from the medieval soul of Bern to the high-tech streets of Zurich. But navigating one of the world’s most expensive and precise countries requires more than just a map;...

Open the coverand you will discoverPoetry Treasuresfrom the guests onRobbie Cheadle's 2025"Treasuring Poetry"blog serieson Writing to be Read.Join poets Robbie Cheadle, Cindy Georgakas, Freya Pickard, V.M. Sang, Michelle Ayon Navajas, Marsha Ingrao, Nolcha Fox, Joy Neal Kidney, Kevin Morris, Jean-Jacques Fournier, Melissa Lemay, Yvette Prior, and special guest, Colleen Chesebro share their pe...

In the kaerling stronghold, slaves and servants are possessions without any right to privacy and are expected to submit to their kaerling masters without complaint."I hate Spur, even though we only meet him at the end. I love Otta and Lally." K DawberLally despairs of ever escaping her life as Clay Mead's slave girl, whilst Otta fears that her new host, Amon, may have designs upon her.Otta still cannot recall her memories, and Amon and Jas are curious as to...

Fast-paced, suspenseful, and emotionally involving, Twilight is Nancy Pickard at her popular and groundbreaking best; once again she weaves her renowned fictional spell around the mysteries of the human heart.In this mysterious tale the fortunes of Port Frederick, Massachusetts, are riding on the upcoming Autumn Festival, sponsored by the Judy Foundation, founder and director, Jenny Cain. As if running the fair wasn't enough, Jenny's life and her own fortu...

Handwritten over four years from maximum-security federal prison cells, The Rose of Paracelsus: On Secrets and Sacraments, is a unique work of psychedelic literature that explores the potential of human cognition. This book follows the narrator, a Harvard graduate student and researcher, as he uncovers an intricate, global psychedelic network through encounters with “the Six,” clandestine LSD chemists who synthesize planetary-scale batches of the substance, traversing states of consciousne...

Bright and beautiful Jenny Cain, director of the Port Frederick Civic Foundation, was dying of curiosity. A hapless visitor had slipped in the mud at the town’s historic cemetery—and fallen right into an empty grave!When Jenny discovered that all the graves were vacant, it was the beginning of murder. Someone had killed an employee of the Harbor Lights Funeral Home, and played a macabre practical joke with the body. Suddenly, everyone in town is a suspect, from the...

A revolutionary new paradigm for understanding addictionWhy do people with addiction use drugs self-destructively? Why don’t they quit out of self-concern? Why does the rat in the experiment, alone in a cage, press the lever again and again for cocaine—to the point of death? In this pathbreaking book, Hanna Pickard proposes a new paradigm for understanding the puzzle of addiction. For too long, our thinking has been hostage to a false dichotomy: either addiction is...

Award-winning author Nancy Pickard has been receiving high acclaim for her mystery series starring sleuth Jenny Cain. This time Cain finds herself following the trail of a possible paranoid schizophrenic slasher—only to uncover clues that put her squarely in the sights of a cold-blooded murderer! “An outstanding mystery series that just keeps getting better” (ALA Booklist).

Winner of the Agatha Award and finalist for the Edgar Award.Jenny explores her own family’s unsettling, mysterious past, beginning with her mother’s death in the seventh book in the award-winning Jenny Cain mystery series that was called “excellent” by Publishers Weekly.The layered plot of the latest in the excellent Jenny Cain series finds the Port Frederick, Mass., sleuth probing the cause of her recently deceased mother's insani...

"Nancy Pickard pushes at the presumed limits of [crime fiction]" said the Los Angeles Times Book Review, praising the award-winning creator of the Jenny Cain mysteries. Now, Pickard blurs the line between fiction and reality in a novel of gripping intensity, and premieres a superb new heroine: true-crime author Marie Lightfoot. For her next surefire bestseller, Marie is covering the trial of a Florida killer -- a case that penetrates her own life, layer by disturbing layer....

A revolutionary new paradigm for understanding addictionWhy do people with addiction use drugs self-destructively? Why don’t they quit out of self-concern? Why does the rat in the experiment, alone in a cage, press the lever again and again for cocaine—to the point of death? In this pathbreaking book, Hanna Pickard proposes a new paradigm for understanding the puzzle of addiction.Drawing on her expertise as an academic philosopher and her clinical work in a...