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A fifteen year old girl runs away from home when her mother sleeps with a high school student on prom night.

Lynnie Godfrey shares lessons she learned while pursuing a career in show business. Lynnie is an award winning actress both in the theater and television, a popular chanteuse and now a sought-after producer and director. Her "lessons learned" will encourage and guide anyone who is "seeking the spotlight."

Boston divorce lawyer Swanson Herbinko should know better than to fall in love again after her first two loves ended tragically, but when the sun is hot and the water is turquoise blue and there's irresistible magic in the air-in other words if she's at a sea splashed yoga retreat in Tulum, Mexico-she can't help it if she finds herself with not one love interest but two: nice guy Mark Stevens, a fellow yoga practitioner, and the charismatic yoga entrepreneur Hunter Hanna. Swanson falls under Hunter's sway at his hot yoga studio, Savas Hanna, in Boston where she also meets Christine who claims to be first among Hunter's lovers and enlists Swanson to help Hunter get a divorce from his business partner spouse Layla so he can marry her. Swanson and her PI associate Dick are 2 of 9 new arrivals at the Savas Hanna Tulum retreat. While visiting the famous Mayan ruins there one of the group falls off a cliff to the sea below. And then there are 8. Dick discovers that one of Hunter's inner circle is a notorious Mayan drug lord, and the retreat far from being karmically pure is a money laundering front. Jealousy swirls around Swanson as Hunter showers her with attention, and as the spell she's been under finally shatters Swanson finds herself dangerously close to finding out firsthand what happened on that Mayan cliff. Then suddenly the unthinkable occurs. Devil Dog, her trusty dachshund guardian, is dog-napped.

This world doesn't exist anymore. It was a time when jobs were plentiful and workers were scarce. The Vietnam War divided the country. The sexual revolution was embraced with open arms. The selective service collected reluctant soldiers. Women sought equality. Music was changing into protest songs to help stop a war. It was a time when, with only a high school diploma, you could follow your father into a high-paying but very dangerous industry. This is a story of a young man's quest, raised on traditional morals and values, finding his way through this tumultuous era.It is also a story of survival in the very dangerous occupation of "hanging iron". Mr. Neff, the son of a steelworker, joined the ranks of Bethlehem Steel employees in 1972, and became a rigger in 1975. The rigger crews in the Steel Company did the jobs that were deemed too high, too hard, or too dangerous for other departments to handle. They also had an earned reputation for being the bad boys of Bethlehem Steel.Rigger is both riotously funny and chilling. It is a look into a world that few have known and that will never exist again."This is literally heavy metal literature-a pounding story of the suspense, the danger, and the sublime sense of accomplishment that was the everyday fare of the adventurous, rule-breaking riggers. With this vivid account, Larry Neff and Blue Heron Book Works have made a more important memorial of American industrial history than any museum could hope to achieve."Mary Lawlor, author of Fighter Pilot's Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War. "Neff's book is a gift to his union "brothers and sisters," and to all of us who've stared at those long-quiet stacks and wondered what it must have been like to work, day to day, in the midst of them." Joyce Hinnefeld, author of Stranger Here Below"...people wouldn't believe some of the stories we could tell."Charlie "Snapper" Walp, Rigger/Welder

2016 was a bummer. Lots of famous people died, including David Bowie, my musical hero. Trump was elected president, which is baffling. The year was grim on the sociopolitical front, but also for me personally. My dog died right after Christmas 2015 and I spent most of the next year mourning him. I had to change apartments. My job started to seem unstable. The media churned out a constant supply of anger and bullshit. Facebook, where I spend far too much time, was confirmed to be the dumb echo chamber we all know it to be, though the steady dopamine drip of "likes" continued to blind us to how out of touch we are with anyone outside our cultivated spheres. Culture seemed on the skids. I read with envy and annoyance the positive reviews heaped on books by edgy poets writing poems about f*g. Scores of academics got fat grants to write studies of Star Wars. My students informed me that making them write a five-page essay was cruel, especially when I only gave them a week to write it. Few of my students bought the books I assigned. Our discussions were limited to talking about the scant info they gleaned from Amazon reviews. I can't blame them. I didn't want to read the books either. In fact, if there's one thing that 2016 seemed to represent to me it was the futility of books. So many were published and yet no one seemed to be reading them. In 2016 I read five separate think pieces on the decline of literacy. Some of these were written by academics arguing against long, deep reading in favor of "educated aliteracy." I'm still not sure what that means. Something to do with being smart enough to get the gist of a book without having to actually read it. In the golden age of television, where Netflix instantly streams first-rate content, who has the inclination to bother with books?

In the summer of love, 1968, two sisters leave their blue collar home in PA to make their way in NYC. The beautiful sister, Alex, quickly finds her stride, but the homely sister fights to keep her place in Alex's charmed orbit. They both struggle to adapt to changing social mores--the pill, the draft, abortion--and the decisions they make reverberate through the next generations. HIghly recommended.

Paul R. Misencik was born to fly. Since he was four and tagging along with his father to air shows in rural Ohio, through his career as an airline captain with American, Middle Eastern and African airlines, Misencik spent his life doing what he loved: flying airplanes. Born to Fly chronicles both the inside scoop on a pilot's career as well as the exotic locations his airplanes took him, sometimes being joined by the love of his life, Sally. Highly entertaining and enormously informative.

Fanny Barry's trilogy, "I Wish I Knew...Notes from a Breast Cancer Survivor" is now in one full-color volume. Fanny gives wise and witty advice on coping with treatment, how to help friends who are undergoing treatment, and how to make sense of who you've become after undergoing cancer treatments.

The year is 1626. A senseless war rips through parts of Germany. Ongoing animosity between the Catholics and the Protestants has turned into an excuse to destroy much of the landscape situated between France, Italy and Denmark. But religion only plays a minor role in this lucrative business of war. The young Dutchman, Pieter van Diemen, returns to Amsterdam in chains after a period of imprisonment in the Spice Islands. He manages to escape but must leave Amsterdam in a hurry. Soldiers are in demand in Germany and he decides to travel with a regiment until he can desert. His hope of survival is to reach Sichardtshof, the farm in Franconia, Germany; the farm he left ten years ago. His desire to seek refuge with them lies in his fond memories of the maid Katarina and her master, the humanist patrician Herr Tucher. But ten years is a long time and the farm has changed. Franconia is not only torn by war but falling victim to a church-driven witch hunt. The Jesuit priest, Ralf, has his sights set on Sichardtshof as well. Ralf believes that ridding the area of evil will be his saving grace. Can Pieter, Katarina and Herr Tucher unite to fight against a senseless war out of control?