Grace was a nice ordinary woman with an apartment, a cat, and a nice ordinary boyfriend who was - well - a little clingy. Then Daniel swept into her life and things got exciting until Grace was the one getting sent to the penitentiary for possession of heroin with intent to sell. Daniel's heroin, that is. Now Grace is a semi-feral self-proclaimed beggar, thief, and loser. She's been living on the street for a couple of years now and here's what happens when she collides, literally, with he...

Twelve short stories that run the gamut from how the universe began to a famous writer's sister problems.

These are short stories that follow different people going in different directions. Some of the stories have found earlier homes in traditional literary reviews and some were homeless. Until now. You are their home. Once you start one of these stories, you are complicit. Read with care. Characters' whole direction could change because you came to the story.

Beyond the merely personal, Covid spurs a questioning of the whole commodity-driven American lifestyle. "How much material stuff can we do without?...What do I value? What do I offer of value?" Originally written as a series of essays-cum-diary entries, "Plague Year" is a vivid, personal chronicle of the first traumatic wave of the Covid pandemic in the nation's largest city. The author is a middle-aged bisexual woman living in a committed non-monogamous relationship with her male partner,...

**“There are wonder and wisdom in these pages.”—Joanna GainesWhere do we find true fulfillment? How did we get lost along the way? These lushly written, emotionally resonant stories light candles along the path as we each search for purpose.**They will tell you that a better version of yourself is waiting to be found.Every day, we hear a version of this message, and so we search and strive. Yet none of the places we’ve been told to look—our careers, relatio...

#1 New York Times Bestseller | Oprah's Book Club Selection**"Riveting…a worthy investment…this book has real wisdom."—New York Times Book Review"Provocative….I adore her honesty, her vulnerability, and her no-nonsense wisdom, and I know you will, too."—Oprah Winfrey**The highly anticipated memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle, Love Warrior tells the story of her journey of self-disco...

In the eighth installment of this New York Times bestselling series a big storm is coming to Treetopolis!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!In the eighth book ...

A beautiful, haunting novel about the family we love and the chances we miss, from the #1 bestselling author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie**.**"Every family is a ghost story ..."For One More Day explores the question: What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one? As a child, Charley "Chick" Benetto was to...

This Is How - Survival Advice for Life's Toughest Challenges from New York Times Bestselling Author Augusten BurroughsIf you're fat and fail every diet, if you're thin but can't get thin enough, if you lose your job, if your child dies, if you are diagnosed with cancer, if you always end up with exactly the wrong kind of person, if you always end up alone, if you can't get over the past, if your parents are insane and ruining your life, if you really and t...

WHAT CAME BEFORE HER NEW #1 BESTSELLER UNTAMED ...'IT'S AS IF SHE REACHED INTO HER HEART, CAPTURED THE RAW EMOTIONS THERE, AND TRANSLATED THEM INTO WORDS THAT ANYONE WHO'S EVER KNOWN PAIN OR SHAME CAN RELATE TO' OPRAH WINFREY, Oprah's Book Club'EPIC' ELIZABETH GILBERT | 'BLEW ME AWAY' BRENÉ BROWN... Just when Glennon Doyle was beginning to feel she had it all figured out - three happy children, a d...

A Golden Kite Honor Book of 2018 * A Kirkus Best Book of 2017“A poetic love letter to the complexities of teenage identity, and the frustrations of growing up in a place where everything fits in a box—except you.”—David Arnold, New York Times bestselling author of Kids of Appetite**"Courtney Stevens firmly reasserts herself as a master storyteller of young adult fiction; crafting stories bursting with humor, heart...

A HEART-BREAKING, HOPEFUL NOVEL FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER WHOSE BOOKS HAVE TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF OVER 40 MILLION READERS'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecilia AhernDon't miss Mitch Albom's new novel, Twice, a beautiful and heartbreaking story about lost loves and second chances__________As a child, Charley Benetto was told by his father, 'You can be a mama's boy or a daddy's boy, bu...