The author is a girl who was born in Korea and grew up in America. She visits Korea with her mother and her little brother during her summer break. She writes about her fears in visiting new places and her joys in encountering new things. Her family comforts her and shares her joy.

In My Next Husband Will Be Normal – A St. John Adventure, Lee and her husband ditch their sailboat and fly to the U.S. Virgin Islands with a down payment for a mom and pop business on St. John. The plan: when they aren’t sewing canvas bags at their little shop, The Canvas Factory, they’ll be beach potatoes. But there are risks to living in paradise one cannot anticipate, especially on an island where residents bask in the mantra: You can do anything you want, as long as the re...

I Only Cuss When I'm Sailing is a memoir about a couple's move from landlocked Montana to a sailboat on the West Coast. They will fix up the old boat, learn to sail, and set off for the Caribbean. The idea started while they were renovating an old mining town brothel. Rae Ellen Lee and her husband, Tom, dreamed up a novel to co-author and set the story on St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. After a book research trip to the island, they sell their house and buy a boat. But things...

Echo needs a miracle. She's turning fifty, living with her gun-toting mom, and her lover's been killed in a logging truck accident. She made front-page news as a Salvation Army bell ringer, but that job ended and she's digging for change to pay off a gambling debt. Then she hits pay dirt. The local sawmill hires her to do cleanup and odd jobs, like cheating the hog. And now, with high pay and benefits in sight, Echo expects to be farting in silk. But on the first day at the mill, she reali...

The place: Montana. The time: the present. After a nearly fatal encounter with a moose and a terrifyingly close brush with middle age, Molly reassesses her life. The Result: she ends her stale marriage and moves to a small mining town where she purchases The Bluebird House, an old bordello. She hires Ben, a handsome carpenter—and poet, gourmet cook, and mountain man—to help her renovate the old building. Molly can’t help but be attracted to the younger man—until she discovers that he was o...

It just goes to show that when you least expect it, wonderful things can happen. Any day! Blue is my very best friend. He has never been alone, cold, or hungry again. Neither have I. Blue Boy saved my life. I like to think I saved his too.

Cling to your seat while being drawn into a fascinating book of many rollovers and curves. A daring thriller that will chill your spine and wake up your soul. When walking on the street, do you ever wonder who or what is watching? Don t blink your eyes for a second or think too long, or it may be too late.

Lonesome - Sad or dejected as a result of a lack of companionship.Merriam Webster DictionaryLooking up the word, lonesome, Ben knew it was lonesomeness that had been his living companion for nearly half his life. His dreams of Theresa began at age 15. The dream turned sexual the following year. Theresa became his fantasy girl, the one who supplied all the masturbatory imagery needed. Sam supplanted Theresa in his dreams following their chance meeting at the hospital bedside ...

The Full Value of Parks is the first comprehensive look at the values associated with parks and other kinds of protected areas. Much has been written about the importance of parks to the tourism industry, yet the reasons why people care deeply about them usually have little or nothing to do with money. Instead, people value parks as sacred sanctuaries and places of spiritual self-discovery, as settings of breathtaking beauty, as venues of scientific inquiry, as destinations for much-needed...

Rae reluctantly moves from Montana to a sailboat north of Seattle with her new husband. They will sail to the Caribbean – that is, after they fix up the boat and learn to sail. Rae soon learns all about knockdowns and wet Triscuits, and the 1960s music that inspired her bonehead decision.

If you love pie, have another slice. You might end up traveling the world with a wealthy Mr. Right and sampling all the best desserts.

NOW A MAJOR FILM, LEAVE NO TRACE. Inspired by a true story, a riveting and unsettling novel about a girl and her father who live off the grid, in the shadows at the edge of civilization.Thirteen-year-old Caroline and her father live in Forest Park, an enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon. They inhabit an elaborate cave shelter, wash in a nearby creek, store perishables at the water's edge, use a makeshift septic system, tend a garden, even keep a li...