A daring novel that shocked the Jazz Age—and still burns with truth today. In Bad Girl, Viña Delmar rips the glittering mask off 1920s romance and exposes the real heartbeat of a generation caught between desire, convention, and survival. In roaring-era New York City, a young woman refuses to play by society’s rules. She wants love—but she also wants freedom, respect, and a life that belongs to her alone. When Dorothy, a working-class shop girl with a wild streak, falls for Eddie, a man as...

A fresh and fascinating picture book biography about the iconic magician Harry Houdini, an avid book collector who lived and breathed the idea that books are magic, from the author of Caldecott Honor book The Noisy Paint Box.Houdini is the world's most beloved magician, and he became famous for all of the amazing tricks he accomplished. Houdini knew just how to captivate his audience, whether it was leaping from a bridge or freeing himself from a straitjac...

Baseball, beaches, going barefoot at school...For Alan Cook, it's great to be a kid in early 1970s Hawaii. Recent transplants from Tennessee, Alan and his family find themselves thrust into a new world that straddles military and island civilian; traditional armed forces and anti-military counterculture. Baseball. It is young Alan Cook's Hawaii obsession. So manic is Alan about the game, that he sees his Little League outings as a springboard for a career in the Major Leagues. But ...

"Serenade" is an achingly beautiful memoir which follows the true lives of Franz Jung and Franziska Perger, as told by their daughter, Carol Jean Delmar. The year is 1927. The place is Vienna, Austria. Franziska captivates Franz with her adolescent beauty. They have separate ambitions, but they dream about them together. And just when these dreams are finally being realized, Adolf Hitler changes their course forever. The author has written a revolutionary memoir of her parents that is mult...

Dear Journal...To Whom It May Concern...To the little kid wondering if it's all your fault...it isn't. Trust me.To the one in the room who's always alone in a crowd...you're never alone. Trust me.To the guy trying to figure out if your life is worth anything...you are. Trust me.To the girl trying to find herself before the water overflows...choose to live. Trust me.Life is worth living. We just have to be brave enough to keep doing it."She wa...

A dark psychological thriller packed with small-town secrets, buried trauma, and shocking twists. She escaped her past—and the man she never forgot. Now both are pulling her back into a deadly game she may not survive.Jillian Thorne built her career making the unreal feel real. On Hollywood soundstages, she stages murder, kidnapping, and violent crime with chilling authenticity—turning fiction into gripping entertainment. But nothing she's created compares to the t...

Kept Woman by Viña Delmar is a compelling work of classic literary fiction that explores the complexities of love, ambition, and social convention. With emotional depth and keen psychological insight, the novel examines the difficult choices individuals make in pursuit of security, affection, and personal fulfillment within a society governed by appearances and expectation. At the center of the story is a woman whose life is shaped by complicated relationships and the desire for independen...

The Coffee Queen is an exciting and eventful great read filled with valuable information that all U.S. citizens need to consider before casting their Electorally Ballot Vote for the best presidential candidate they trust to be their next Commander-in -Chief of The United States of America. The fictionalized book based on actual true events has valuable information to consider and to think through as American citizens before they decide on the president, they determine they can trust to lea...

Just sit back and immerse yourself in an astonishing mentally illustrated first person journey through a collective of ICETON’S Erie literary recollection full of suspense and intrigue. Through a fictional (or is it?) town.As you experience each spine gripping lore, in real time with Aaron Wasowicz... “What is the truth?” with a tingling haunting desire to know until the very last word… Only leaving you with intriguing questions full of suspense…

Staying is a quiet story about what happens after the running stops.Evan never meant to stay in the small town where he took a temporary job with the fire station. He told himself it was a pause, a way to heal, a place to disappear until he figured out what came next. He was good at leaving. He had built his life around exits—relationships he could step away from, places that never asked him to belong.Then there was Ben.Ben doesn't ask Evan to expla...

"Transfers at the Limit. A Quantum View of Art" breaks with the cliché of artificially sealed-off spaces and proposes a hybridization of verbal, pictorial, and volumetric language, through which Raúl Cerutti creates a counterpoint between word and image. This is not a matter of glossing or explaining the works, but of accompanying them so that this counterpoint becomes more fertile. A work of art does not require explanation, for it is sufficient unto itself and speaks on its own—and so do...