Proud Flesh is the story of four generations of women whose life messes define their relationships. When tightly-wound secular-progressive sex therapist Carroll Murphy boards a plane from D.C. for California in 1988 she has no idea how her life is about to change through her reluctant friendship with her seatmates, Tennessee cousins Trixie and Peggy. Inwardly shielding her personal back-story, Carroll outwardly avoids acknowledgment of her own family baggage, allowing her to be blind-sided...

When Ginger Manley boarded a train from Innsbruck to Zurich in the summer of 1967, she had no idea of the adventure she was about to embark upon. Beside the railroad track in Feldkirch, Austria, Ginger, a registered nurse on the lam from a year of intensive trauma nursing, met John, an ex-Air Force pilot and service-related arm amputee--and immediately disliked him. Two months later they married in what seemed a fairy-tale story but no happily-ever-after occurred for many years hence. Now ...

Most of us who came of age in the 1960's and 1970's never thought we'd reach the point in our life where our lovemaking would need assistance, but guess what, we are here. Assisted Loving: The Journey through Sexuality and Aging begins with hope and ends with humor. In between it is forty-nine question and answer columns responding to almost every possible issue having to do with aging and sexuality, including the obvious erectile disorders and desire discrepancies, but also those less fre...

**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNamed a Best Book of 2023 by The Washington Post, People, USA Today, NPR, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, The Boston Globe, CrimeReads and more“A twisty, immersive whodunit perfect for fans of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.” —People"Spellbinding." —The New York Times Book Review"[An] irresistible literary page-t...

Have you ever wondered what it feels like:to be stuck in a tornado?“[It] is exactly the feel of a freight train approaching—that low, ever-louder howl and the shuddering ground.”to participate in an orgy?“And all the while, the thought that keeps going through your mind (and through the cab ride home, and into breakfast the next day): ‘I’m at an orgy! I’m at an orgy!’”to have a severe stutter?

In the midst of a cook-off at a posh spa, southern PI Sarah Booth Delaney gets embroiled in a juicy murder in the latest mystery from Carolyn HainesFor many years Jitty, Dahlia House's resident ghost, has dreamed that Sarah Booth Delaney would have a child to inherit the family's ancestral home. Sarah Booth has always had reservations about being a parent. There was her work as an actress and PI, taking care of the house, not to mention finding the right man. But when Jitty's dream...

This eBook contains the "extras", bonus material, and deleted scenes from David W. Powell's original memoir My Tour in Hell: A Marine's Battle with Combat Trauma. In this new posthumous edition, we get an intimate look at David's life in previously undocumented stages:Growing up in Pasadena, CaliforniaDraft NoticeBoot campFrom Camp Pendleton to Da NangHighlights of his life from 2007 to 2011Join us with a final salute to David W. Pow...

A collection of urban myths that have stood the test of time.A fascinating, creepy, frightening, disgusting, and hilarious collection of some of the world's most popular and enduring tall tales. With themes that run the gamut from funny to sick, risqué to informative, and frightening to disgusting, Urban Legends features fantastic yarns that are remarkable for their uncanny ability to travel the world by word of mouth. We've all heard the one about the all...

About the BookThe Downwind Walk lets you experience the tragic events following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001 through the eyes of an Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) paramedic who went into harms way to rescue the victims, which rapidly included many of his brothers and sisters of the New York Fire Department (NYFD) and Emergency Medical Services (EMS).The author was a member of the EMS FDNY in the Bronx who was deployed wit...

Schizophrenia "One Mans Struggle" is an autobigraphical book of the life of Ray Edgell. A man who had the world under his feet. The disease took everything from him. This book will detail his demise and the actions that led him to coping with his disease and getting much more in return from having suffered from it.

“An intense look at the high-stakes world of a NYC paramedic in the months before and after COVID-19 altered our landscape.”—Damon Tweedy, MD, author of Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and MedicineThe education of a New York City paramedic, whose tales of tragedy and transcendence over a single year culminate in the greatest challenge the city’s emergency medical system has ever faced: the COVID-19 pandemi...

"In the Arms of a Stranger" is Dale J Bingham's touching and moving account of his career as a paramedic. From his early years as a medic in Southern California, to his work as a Tulsa, Oklahoma paramedic, he gives an inside look at the rewards, the trials, and the heartaches that emergency workers face everyday. In between, he writes of his own struggles with a difficult career and of tragically losing his own mother to the very part of life he worked so hard to conquer. "In ...