An honest account of depression from poet and psychologist Joan Cusack Handler.Lights in Cold Rooms shares Joan Cusack Handler’s personal experiences with depression as a licensed psychologist with forty years of experience treating patients. For many, including Handler, quarantine precluded the preferred treatment of psychotherapy. Handler turned to her own pathology to teach herself and others how to navigate both isolation and depression. Feelings of an...

Darby Kane, author of #1 international bestseller Pretty Little Wife, delivers an unputdownable domestic thriller novella in which a man has laid the foundation for the perfect murder... or so he thinks.Reid Cavanagh is done with his marriage. He wants out. He wants the kids. He wants his wife to shut up. He wants the legal fees to stop. He wants peace.His wife has to die.Reid is a smart guy. He has a plan to make it happen. He’s studied. H...

Essential advice from the author of the bestselling Get Out Of My LifeToday's children--from toddlers to preteens--challenge their parents in ways that would have been unthinkable a generation ago, notes Anthony E. Wolf, and parents are often uncertain about how to cope.In his new book, Wolf presents a fresh perspective on this less pleasant behavior and a surprisingly simple method for dealing with it. He argues that punishments and rewards don't work and may even b...

After a mother's death, a daughter embarks on a personal journey of grief and healing. Hope Edelman shared her journey in Motherless Daughters; afterward, she received letters from motherless women all over the world who felt compelled to share their own stories of mother loss. Comforted by the shared experiences that appeared in the book, they wanted to hear more from women like them. Letters from Motherless Daughters was created to fulfill that request, and now, in this...

By now, tens of thousands of readers have enjoyed our book The Indigo Children. The book not only stirred the interest of many people throughout the world with respect to the profound change in consciousness being manifest in these special kids, but it also taught parents, teachers, and caregivers how to interact with these very special Indigo children. So, what do you do with thousands of letters and comments from parents and others about their Indigo experiences? Well . . . you ...

A Vintage Shorts Nonfiction OriginalOne of the most valuable spaces for an artist is the inner life—the sacred place where, outside of the constraints of time and space, meaning is extracted from raw experience and fashioned into art. In this timely new essay, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo discusses the work writers do as they sift through experience and work to cultivate rich interior lives. For authors, this often involves performing triage, a constant assessment of...

Writers On The Edge offers a range of essays, memoirs and poetry written by major contemporary authors who bring fresh insight into the dark world of addiction, from drugs and alcohol, to sex, gambling and food. Editors Diana Raab and James Brown have assembled an array of talented and courageous writers who share their stories with heartbreaking honesty as they share their obsessions as well as the awe-inspiring power of hope and redemption."Open to any piece in this coll...

Grief/Consolation Written in short, to the point suggestions, Handbook of Hope provides practical, meaningful, and immediate aid for family and friends of loved ones who die by suicide. Sometimes classified as disenfranchised grief because societys attitudes do not permit normal mourning, suicide is one of the most difficult kinds of loss to cope with. Handbook of Hope is designed to help with the period immediately following the suicide as well as many months later. It points the way, ste...

After 35 in the Program of Alcoholics Anonymous, I am still in awe of the miracles I see. People who are so messed up when they first come into this program and totally change into a rational, even thinking human beings. This happens not by just going to meetings, that won't do it. It is only by fully immersing yourself into the 12 Steps that an incredible metamorphosis happens.Trembling despairing people turn into people you would be pleased to know. Even to call them a friend, wh...

I HAVE BEEN AWARE OF A DIFFERENT KIND OF WOMAN IN A.A. YEARS AGO,INFORMATION ABOUT AN ALCOHOLIC WOMAN, WERE VERY DISMAL.WORDS SUCH AS: "DEVIANT BEHAVIOR". THOSE ARE HARDLY WORDS THATWOULD MAKE A WOMAN WANT TO GET SOBER. LABELS LIKE THAT AREFRIGHTENING AND ARE FILLED WITH SHAME. I HAVE THOUGHT FOR TOOLONG WE NEED A BETTER AND TRUER IMAGE OF WHAT WE PERCEIVE AS AWOMAN ALCOHOLIC. THAT IS WHEN I THOUGHT OF THIS BOOK. IT IS A WAYTO GET AN INSIDE ...

Sometimes, life plays little jokes. For Jeannette McDonald, growing up in a small town in West Virginia in the 1950s, life had three particular jokes in mind: naming her after a famous movie star, giving her a birthday just after Valentines Day, and letting her grow up on a street named Gladdena place as far from glad as Jeannette was from being a movie star.Growing up is supposed to be a time of wonder and joy. For the girl on Gladden Street, the wonder was in discovering that whe...

This is a story of a life long battle of depression and anxiety. It is an illness that did not get diagnosed until later in life. It explains the path and the journey that this adventure has been. When the illness is affecting other people it was time for help. The goal is, in reading my story, you will know that there is hope. I believe with faith we can get through anything, if we just hold on.