A struggling young African American Woman by the name of Tina finds and uses the strength she has in order to survive in a life that she seemed to think was cursed, never being able to overcome the hurt for some answers to why life was so hard. Why were the women in her life appearing to be demons? Most importantly, why did they taunt her? She wondered if maybe her struggle could become her success, so she poured her heart and soul into this book, gaining the strength to reveal her horrid ...

In a near-future dystopia where the boundaries of humanity are rewritten by the relentless march of artificial intelligence and genetic manipulation, the price of progress is a truth humanity cannot face. The line between flesh and machine, soul and simulation, has been obliterated, and in its place, a horrifying new reality emerges—one where human ambition threatens to destroy the natural order.The Trinities tells a story of unraveling control, where engineered minds and b...

Cache's Chickees to Casinos is a raw, unfiltered memoir of survival, sovereignty, addiction, and spiritual awakening, told through the lived experience of a Seminole woman born barefoot in the swamps of Big Cypress and raised during the rise of tribal gaming in America.Sacred Lady Caché traces her life from childhood in traditional chickees, without electricity, plumbing, or certainty, through the transformation of her community as bingo halls became casino...

LAUGHTER IS THE BLESSED MEDICINEChicago-born author/comedian BABY CHRISTIAN is only interested in excelling at one thing (which is the reason he didnt graduate kindergarten until he was 37): using humor to spread the Good-news Gospel! With several Christian-humor books already under his belt, many people have come to the conclusion that its time for him to buy a bigger belt. WAIST no time in getting to know this nutcase extraordinaire better at

It's 2 AM. She leaves work and begins the long drive home, exhausted after another twelve-hour shift. Suddenly a tire explodes on a desolate stretch of highway, leaving her stranded at the side of the road. With no jack and no cell phone reception, her only option is to wait in the car…and depend on the kindness of strangers.

Jeff Resnick's curiosity is piqued when he sees a sign advertising psychic readings. At first he's sure the medium is a fake, but then his funny feelings lead him to suspect that a murder has taken place in the dilapidated house where Madam Zahara holds her readings. Just who died and how? And why is Jeff compelled to look for bodies buried in the medium’s yard?(This story takes place between the Jeff Resnick Novels Dead In Red and Cheated By Death.)* * *...

This follow-up to the popular e-book 365 Prompts to Kickstart Your Writing features writing prompts geared for writers. Interspaced between prompts that are appropriate for anyone, every third prompt deals with some aspect about writing.Writing prompts can help you get into a writing groove. Instead of staring at a blank page, prompts give you the kick in the butt you need to get writing. Follow them in numerical order or jump around to a question that sparks your creativity. Use t...

For fans of Helen MacDonald’s H is for Hawk and Mary Roach, Erica Berry’s WOLFISH blends science, history, and cultural criticism in a years-long journey to understand our myths about wolves, and track one legendary wolf, OR-7, from the Wallowa Mountains of OregonOREGON BOOK AWARD WINNER * Shortlisted for the 2024 Pacific Northwest Book Award * A Most Anticipated Book of 2023: TIME, Los Angeles Times, Vulture,...

A remarkably poignant writer for our troubled times, Patti Davis writes about love, loss, and the power of redemption in this poetic letter to her long-gone parents.Written with dignity and grace in the form of a letter to her parents, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Dear Mom and Dad is that surprisingly poignant work that succeeds not only as a memoir but as a moving account that will inspire readers to recall their own childhoods in a totally new light....

When the self-help books just aren't helping, it's time to call in the experts: real people . . .San Francisco Chronicle columnist Adair Lara polled her readers for life lessons learned through experience, receiving thousands of heartfelt and irreverent responses. The best are compiled here in more than two hundred bits of priceless counsel, accompanied by witty, whimsical illustrations by award-winning artist Roxanna Bikadoroff.This handy little vol...

"Now more than ever, we need a teacher and a book such as this."--Anne Lamott, from the forewordStories tether us to what matters most: our families, our friends, our hearts, our planet, the wondrous mystery of life itself. Yet the stories we've been telling ourselves as a civilization are killing us: Fear is wisdom. Vanity is virtuous. Violence is peace. In the pages of Between the Listening and the Telling, storyteller, author, and activist Mark Yaconell...

An inspirational work of wisdom, warmth, and generosity from a three-term US poet laureate.“To know ourselves is the most profound and difficult endeavor. Though we are all made of the same questions, we have individual routes to the answers, or to reframing the questions. Why is there evil in the world? Why do people suffer, and some more than others? Why are we here? What are we doing here? What happens after death? Does anything mean anything at all? Who am I an...