In a remarkable memoir that reads like a novel, Jill Root's mind shattered without warning one morning, and a strange child's voice crashed like a stone through the surface of her apparently normal life. Beneath that surface lay an abyss of confusion and denial that ripped Jill's consciousness into unrecognizable pieces that would take years of work with three very different therapists to reassemble.The mystery of her symptoms unfolds layer by layer, along with her struggle to acce...

From the acclaimed author of A Good Dog, Dog Days, and Going Home comes this eBook original—a poignant memoir that celebrates Jon Katz’s beloved border collie, Rose, and their transformative years together on Bedlam Farm.“I like to say you get the dog you need,” Jon Katz writes, “and I don’t think any human ever needed a dog more than I needed Rose in the fall of 2003.” That year, Katz embarked on a quixotic quest, moving from the suburbs of New J...

After 50 years in the funeral business 80-year-old grandmother-undertaker June Knights Nadle has seen it all at least all of what goes on before during and after lifes ultimate challenge. In Mortician Diaries she combines equal doses of charm humanity humor and reality to tell it like it is on this taboo subject. A kind of Prairie Home Companion set in a mortuary the book features memorable stories of regret I wish I had kissed him on the morning he had the accident and renewal as the less...

#3 in the Women of Strength DiariesAfter the death of her father, Dana Morrison noticed that her mother’s house was becoming cluttered. First she saved grocery bags, then newspapers, and empty boxes. In no time flat, her house was filled with junk, junk, and more junk! Dana made the mistake of cleaning house, but that just made matters worse when her mother decided that her trash was more valuable to her than her daughter.Tonya Thomas writes gripping storie...

Randi Davenport’s story is a testament to human fortitude, to hope, and to a mother’s uncompromising love for her children.She had always worked hard to provide her family with a sense of stability and strength, despite the challenges of having a son with autism and a husband whose erratic behavior sometimes puzzled and confused her.But eventually, Randi’s husband slipped into his own world and permanently out of her family’s. And at fifteen, her son Chase entered an unremi...

Six years ago Crown Prince Thaddeus abandoned his new bride and went into hiding. His motive was to protect his country and his family from a ruthless tyrant. But when his estranged wife tracks him down, Thaddeus knows it's time to make a stand. Restore the royal line. And reclaim the crown. Yet just as he learns about the family's new addition-his and Monica's son-little Peter becomes a target. In a deadly game of power, Thaddeus must choose between the country and heritage he's been rais...

What happens when plastic surgery goes terribly wrong?Kim Westfall spent the first 23 years of her life feeling inadequate. Her lifelong desire was to be a curvaceous woman, but after breast implant surgery she felt anything but glamorous as her dream of being a foxy chick turned into a living nightmare.Tonya Thomas writes gripping stories about issues that affect women today. She lives in Newark, NY with her husband and two cats, Sasha and Simka.For more informatio...

The Last Time I'll Write About You is popular Filipino YA and romance writer Dawn Lanuza's debut collection of poetry. Featuring beautiful, relatable poems about first love, this book is the perfect companion for anyone who has loved, lost, and emerged anew.

The damage is deep and the crime unpardonable in this edgy tale of dark courage, murder, and redemption told from a most unusual perspective.

On the heels of her acclaimed book In an Instant, the #1 New York Times bestseller she wrote with her husband, ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, and with the same candor and charm, Lee Woodruff now chronicles her life as wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend. Woodruff’s deeply personal and, at times, uproariously funny stories highlight such universal topics as family, marriage, friends, and how life never seems to go as planned. From raising teenagers (“Now with a boy and girl o...

An astonishing book by the prize-winning, bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses thatreveals her parallel lives as an observer of the wildlife in her garden and as a telephone crisis counselor."(Ackerman) brings a luminous and illuminating combination of sensuality, science, and speculation to whatever she considers." —San Francisco Examiner

Cousin to schizophrenia, Borderline Personality Disorder(BPD*)* affects about 2% of the population.Our father ricocheted through childhood as one of 3 siblings dropped at a Sasakatchewan, Canada orphanage in the mid-1920s. As a child,-Edgar went to farm foster homes, was adopted once, and sent back. Their father surfaced briefly, from Michigan, dying of TB which he gave me - ...