This book investigates the autobiographical writings of Barbara Jordan, Patricia Schroeder, Geraldine Ferraro, Elizabeth Dole, Wilma Mankiller, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and Christine Todd Whitman. These eight women represent the diversity that permeates the cultural backgrounds, life adventures, and ideologies women bring to the political table. From differences in race, class, and geographic location, to variations in personal and family experiences, religious beliefs, ...

A short story collection about love, relationships, friends, family, and finding oneself by New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Marilyn Brant! This contains 12 stories and 1 novelette, including "The Firestarter," "Persistence of Memory," "Sometimes a Fantasy," "Love's Fingerprints," and the award-winning "The Wish Box."

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINESAs the world frets over a rash of clown sightings, Elle Bourdain laughs. After being hired by a movie studio to promote the upcoming horror film, CLOWN, Elle starts an advanced advertising campaign.Her agency hires actors in dozens of metropolitan areas to dress like clowns and frighten people. The campaign goes viral as schools shutdown, children refuse to play outside, and adult paranoia skyrockets. Elle basks in the glory of her ...

~ Who would've thought when I walked into my neighborhood Chicago bookstore that I'd meet my fantasy boyfriend? Or was he…?! ~When a twenty-something magazine writer visits her favorite indie bookstore, she doesn't expect to run into the hunky man of her dreams. But even though their real-world encounter is brief, something about him sparks her imagination...Soon, she finds she's built up a relationship with him that is part reality, part fantasy, and part literary...

In this series of eighteen short stories we have, “The Soldier”, where the protagonist is attempting to understand what he has discovered. And there are such holiday gems as, “It Came to Pass”, where the protagonist is trying to survive a very cold winter during the Christmas season. And, of course, those Halloween stories where the world suddenly turns quite strange. Here, in this novel, the worlds turn from contemporary to science fiction, and everything in-between, giving you the reader...

In this series of eighteen short stories we have, “The Soldier”, where the protagonist is attempting to understand what he has discovered. And there are such holiday gems as, “It Came to Pass”, where the protagonist is trying to survive a very cold winter during the Christmas season. And, of course, those Halloween stories where the world suddenly turns quite strange. Here, in this novel, the worlds turn from contemporary to science fiction, and everything in-between, giving you the reader...