Nominated for the 2016 Forest of Reading Evergreen AwardNominated for the 2014 Victoria Book PrizeAn Englishwoman’s mysterious death in 19th-century West Africa haunts those left behind.Letitia Landon, "Letty" to her friends, is an intelligent, witty, successful writer, much sought after for dinner parties and soirées in the London of the 1830s. But, still single at thirty-six, she fears ending up as a wizened crone in a dilapidated...

Who knows what it takes to make a successful marriage?  Someone who has spent fifty years living in a happy one!  This is not the story of our marriage, it is the story of the elements that we believe helped to make it work so well. Based on lifelong learning and experience, each chapter is filled with suggestions that are practical and apparently simple but so important that they can dare to be called Rules.  It would be difficult to imagine a successful marriage th...

We live in a time of ‘hurry sickness’. ‘Busy’ has become a competitive sport — and it’s a sport with no winners. But somewhere, underneath all of this hard slog, there are the things we really want to do. The things that bring us joy and give our lives meaning. More often than not, the only thing standing between us and getting on with those things is ourselves. Our lives don’t have to be as complicated as we make them. Through stories, theories and practical exercises, I Don’t Have Ti...

Emerging from the darkness of the slave era and Reconstruction, black activist women Lucy Craft Laney, Mary McLeod Bethune, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, and Nannie Helen Burroughs founded schools aimed at liberating African-American youth from disadvantaged futures in the segregated and decidedly unequal South. From the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, these individuals fought discrimination as members of a larger movement of black women who uplifted future generations through ...

This book was written in three parts, which is symbolic of the tripartite spirit. I did this because I wanted to make certain that I accomplish the mission of empowering you in your ability to forgive yourself by choosing not to dwell in, on, or around shame. Yes, I wrote this book to discourage shame. I believe unwaveringly that shame is not of God. Shame, is however, the source of all of the pain, frustration and anxiety we experience. Shame is the source of suicide. Shame is the culprit...

epilogue Audrey A. Thomas, Esq., has created a masterpiece. This powerful story about personal transformation, intellectual development, and maintaining a positive outlook on life is absolutely riveting. It is obvious that the author's role as an attorney and counselor at law mandated her position as radio host, mother of nine, and a motivational speaker. After reading this book, I can say without equivocation that the author has successfully proven that we must not judge a person on appea...

Account of how faith trumps fear. This book is an interesting look at how belief and understanding are always mutually exclusive. This book reinforces the Biblical premise that the word alone is not enough for human beings to prosper. Instead, the word must be partnered with thoughts and deeds to create a proverbial tripartite being in the reader.Basically, the Author stresses, through her teachings, the importance of recognizing that before the body can act, the mind must conceive...

Caricatured by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit as the cantankerous maid of Mr. and Mrs. Meagles, “Tattycoram” tells her own life story in this utterly compelling metafiction by the celebrated author of Isobel Gunn. Throughout her career, Audrey Thomas has repeatedly challenged her readers to follow her into new territory. In Tattycoram, she does it again, taking readers into the distant fictional world of Charles Dickens’s England, where, in an unusual twist, Dickens interacts with his ow...

In the tradition of The Cookbook Collector comes a funny, romantic novel about a young woman finding her calling while saving a used bookstore.Maggie Duprv®s, recently "involuntarily separated from payroll" at a Silicon Valley startup, is whiling away her days in The Dragonfly's Used Books, a Mountain View institution, waiting for the Next Big Thing to come along.When the opportunity arises for her to network at a Bay Area book club, she jumps at the...

When the father she never knew dies and leaves her a gold mine, recently divorced Maggie Stevens heads for the remote community of Eureka, Colorado to claim her inheritance and to solve the mystery of the man who abandoned the family when Maggie was only three days old.But the answers Maggie hopes to find aren't buried in her father's past or deep inside the mine. The real treasures in Eureka are the people she meets – from the colorful town mayor, Lucille and her prodigal daughter Olivia,...

Lily Piper and her family live in an ephemeral world, due to collapse any moment when the Lord comes to pluck His faithful from the drought-ravaged Prairie. Lily tries to be ready, but she is restless, not the daughter she feels her mother wants. As she tries to invent herself, she conjures, too, an imagined past for her beloved father in an effort to understand him and the demons he battles. In her teens, Lily is sent to England to care for her Grandmother and further explores the delicio...

A Canadian ex-pat and a Korean former "comfort woman," each scarred by their pasts, seek redemption.Two separate lives become connected in South Korea: traumatized former Korean "comfort woman" Eun-young, who struggles with her past of rape and violence; and Michael, a troubled young Canadian arriving in Korea to teach ESL, whose principles and humanity are tested by Seoul’s seedy expatriate underbelly. A world away and two generations apart, their lives collide through the fiery J...