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The Island Adventures of Paul Stedman is a rare glimpse into a childhood spent at a lighthouse during the Great Depression. Young Stedman lived with his lighthouse keeper grandfather on Rose Island in Narragansett Bay within view of Newport Rhode Island. The book is based on diaries and first-hand accounts from Stedman that he shared later in life. The book is unique in that it features historical fiction interspersed with history of the era, brought to life through rare archival photos, news accounts, and beautiful original paintings and illustrations. This is the second book of The Rose Island Lighthouse series and was lovingly created by Rhode Island author Lynne Heinzmann in concert with the Rose Island Lighthouse Foundation. The book includes information about the rigors of daily life on an island, and historic information about the lighthouse and its spectacular Fresnel lens.

"Combines full-speed-ahead action with captivating characters and authentic dialogue...complete with gangs, drive-by shootings, a large hurricane, an almost ex-husband, and even some homestyle southern cooking." -- Lynne Heinzmann, author of Frozen Voices and The Rose Island Lighthouse Series Clara Montague is having dreams again, the kind that always lead her to trouble. She survives a drive-by shooting that takes the life of a cop, but complicates her new romantic relationship with police chief Kyle. Her conservative town isn't thrilled to have an African American chief, or have him dating one of their own. The hidden motives behind the shooting eventually lead Kyle and Clara to New Orleans. Will Clara's visions be enough to keep them safe from Kyle's past?

"I laughed and cried all the way through as Julie fought everyday issues during terrible circumstances. Thoroughly enjoyed this read." - Nancy Weatherford An inspiring true story of resilience, tenacity and a promise that fueled one woman's fight for life. Four days after her fiftieth birthday celebrations, Julie Randall suffered a very sudden and severe seizure at work. Diagnosed with Stage 4 Metastatic Advanced Melanoma, she was told to get her affairs in order because she didn't have long to live. After getting over the initial shock, Julie fought off the fear and started searching for hope. She found an American experimental drug trial, but was told there was only room for 70 patients and the numbers were full. Julie had promised her teenage daughters that she would find a way to 'fix it' so she refused to take no for an answer. She became PATIENT 71. She discovered that when you push the boundaries, refuse to give up and never lose sight of your goal... extraordinary things can happen.

Imagine a world in which the Salem witch trials never ended...It's the early 1800s and Jack Ellard is a reluctant lawman of the growing river town of New Madrid, Missouri. Expelled from the army for his role in a brutal Native American massacre, Jack has carved out a solitary life as sheriff and rebuffed several offers to become marshal. Despite his desire to avoid controversy and conflict, trouble follows him out west. When a young girl named Abigail Duncan goes missing, everything changes. Jack is forced to delve into the town's secrets and confront his feelings for the girl's mother, Sarah. But when a firebrand preacher named Elijah Prescott, and a city-raised Native American named Chata, arrive and offer to help find the young girl, Jack is unsure of their motives. Neither is who they claim to be. Even Sarah seems to be hiding things from him, and Jack begins to fear the preacher's criticism of her bold and uncompromising demeanor.

"A breakneck dissection of truth, lies, and all the troubles in between." - Stephanie Hayes, author of Obitchuary After you're gone, what will they say about you? Alton Carver is about to find out. Alton is under federal investigation for embezzling and securities fraud. Instead of spending years behind bars, he's got a plan: stage his own death, take the money he stole and light out for Central America, leaving behind his wife and daughter. But when he sticks around town long enough to watch his own funeral, he makes the unpleasant discovery that the life he's leaving behind isn't the life he thought he had. When he overhears the way his former colleagues talk about him now that he's "gone," Alton is forced to reconsider his self-image as a respected pillar of the legal community. The shock of seeing his wife in the arms of another man leads Alton to postpone his plan to run for the border. What comes next is a slow-burn train wreck, a tale of self-deception, revenge and bad decisions.

"Karen Hugg is the rare author who can blend wonder and suspense." --Emily Carpenter, Author of Until the Day I Die, Every Single Secret, and Burying the Honeysuckle Girls Botanist Andre Damazy lands on the opportunity of a lifetime when he discovers a rare medicinal apple in Kazakhstan and brings back tree cuttings to his hidden greenhouse in Paris. Growing the cuttings into trees is personal for Andre since the apples can heal people with serious illnesses, like his mother who's suffered a stroke. But a mysterious stranger constantly thwarts Andre's work, sending harassing calls and menacing effigies, stalking Andre, and vandalizing his trees. Andre doesn't understand why anyone would do this, but he wonders if it's related to a project from his past that went wrong and resulted in a deadly mistake. So with the help of his new friend Renia (The Forgetting Flower) and her street smarts, he works to outmaneuver his enemy while uncovering a larger, more dangerous plot that threatens the foundation of all that Andre holds dear, including the woman he secretly loves. Harvesting the Sky is the second book in the Botanique Noire series which combines vivid literary prose and a thriller plot, while enticing readers with the wonder and magic of plants.

James Jackson falls in love with the determined and energetic Trudy Baker in kindergarten. Her sheer determination to be the first girl to swing over the top bar sets a fire in his heart that never dies. When he makes a declaration of love at the tender age of five, he lets his best friend Denny take the credit, setting a course of action that will forever seal their fate. James did everything right. He took Trudy in after her divorce, welcomed her child as his own, rejoiced when they had a son. He gave up his career, resettled in their small home town, and lived every day to make Trudy happy. But when she left him for Denny, James could never recover. When Trudy winds up brutally murdered, the entire town points to James. He has, after all, fallen from grace. Living on the streets, slave to the bottle, forever under the shadow of Denny, now the town sheriff. The judge and jury declared James must die for his crime, and James agreed. He couldn't imagine living a single day without Trudy, even if she was no longer his. On that fated day, he spends those seven minutes reliving every moment that led him to the cold metal gurney.

"Alena Dillon is one of my favorite writers and to read her journey through pregnancy is a great joy and heartbreak." - Amy Schumer My Body Is A Big Fat Temple, a memoir of pregnancy and early motherhood, follows a writer as she debates having children, miscarries, faces morning sickness, uncertainty, physical impairments, labor, breastfeeding, the "baby blues," the heartache of not loving her son as she thinks she should, parenting through a plague, until finally (basically, mostly) blossoming into her new identity. The undertaking of creating life is airbrushed to preserve the ideal of motherhood, and exacerbated by a culture that dictates what women can do and how they should feel. We don't get the full story, so mothers with unromantic experiences feel like aberrations, and worse, alone. This is why the voices of women matter. The voices of mothers matter. Here's one to remind you of the important things.

"Moscodelphia is extraordinary. Terrifyingly spare in its language and pace, this debut novel by one of our best poets unfolds into a tale that holds dystopic caution and the hunger of love in two steady hands. Readers of Rafferty's poetry will know he is a master of the dramatic monologue and the prose poem, and here he has brought those talents to bear on a narrative that depicts a nightmarish future with irony-laced realism. J.C. Ballard would be proud, and a little scared." -Andrew Krivak, author of The Sojourn and The Bear "Moscodelphia is a weird and wonderful book, a vivid tightrope walk between surprise and inevitability. While immersed in its pages I felt like I was reading a nineteenth century Russian novel, set in a dystopian future yet written in sparkling contemporary prose. How can that all be true? Reader, do yourself a favor and find out." -Tom Hazuka, editor of Flash Fiction Funny, co-editor of Flash Nonfiction Funny and Flash Nonfiction Food Magda Puzanov knows three things about her world: the taste of angel meat, the perils of loving an albino, and the smudge of pollution on her horizon, which is all she can see of Moscodelphia -- the city that can end her poverty. Magda is a farm girl who falls in love with Anton Petrovich, an albino reputed to have magical powers. When the crops begin failing across the countryside, Anton's neighbors grow hungry and fall back on their old superstitions. It is Magda's own brother who cuts off one of Anton's fingers for a charm, and Magda realizes that Anton must flee to Moscodelphia, alone. Magda bides her time on the family farm until she is captured by a team of "collectors." These men are in charge of extracting the countryside's wealth and shipping it back to Moscodelphia. This includes marriageable girls. Ever the optimist, Magda sees her kidnapping as a chance to reunite with Anton. But Magda is bid upon and purchased by Josef Rabinovich, a bureaucrat rising through the ranks of the Ministry of Opulence. At first, Magda is astonished at the luxury Josef provides, but she leads an increasingly brutalized life until she finds Anton again, years later, in an open-air market. They conduct a love affair and plot their escape from a city full of poison and an ongoing plague of falling toads.

"Told with attention to historical fact and channeling actual personalities of the era, Swan Song should interest both music lovers and lovers of a fast-paced historical novel." --Addie R. Appelbaum, St. Petersburg Opera Guild, Vice-President of Programming Ursula Becker's operatic star is on the rise in Nazi Berlin...until she discovers that she is one-quarter Jewish. Although Hitler is aware of her lineage, her popularity and exquisite voice protect her and her family from persecution. When William Patrick Hitler arrives in Germany and is offered employment by his Uncle Adolf, a chance encounter with Ursula leads to a romantic relationship that further shields the young diva from mistreatment. But for how long? Ursula is ordered to sing at Hitler's Berghof estate where she throws down a gauntlet that unleashes the wrath of the megalomaniacal leader. Fearing for her life, Ursula and Willy decide to emigrate to England. But as the ship is about to sail, Ursula disappears. Willy crosses the globe in an effort to find her, even as his uncle taunts him, relishing in the horror of the murderous cat-and-mouse game.

"Anne Poirier's The Body Joyful is a game changer. It is an anti-diet book, a rejector of societies "thin ideal," and a new perspective in a Covid world. It provides insights and strategies and is a roadmap to help you shift the way you think, act, and live. Inspiring and empowering, this relatable story offers the reader permission to find self-worth, hope, healing, and transformation, regardless of weight, size or shape."--

Fenster and the Amazing Hot Dog Tree is an inspirational children's story about a little yellow dog who buries hot dogs in hopes of growing his own secret hot dog tree. This book is written to inspire children to follow their everyday dreams and work to make those dreams come true. It also shows that following those dreams may have consequences that affect someone else.

Can Alisha find balance between self-sacrifice and individuation, or will she watch herself slowly fade away in the process?Eight months into graduate school in a new city, Alisha's mom suffered a heart attack on her dad's 60th birthday, rerouting her entire life and demanding that she catapult into full adulthood. Four Eyes: A Memoir of a Millennial Caregiver chronicles the story of Alisha's struggle to find meaning in the seemingly pointless repeated defeats of her parents' chronic illnesses that orphaned her in her early 30s. Assuming a caregiving role for her parents in addition to pursuing her own developing life path, Alisha struggles through old maps of thinking where guilt and shame reigned until others were pleased, and she was utterly exhausted.Her witty journey to make sense of it all takes her straight into battle with the crippling grief and powerful darkness that threaten to take over entirely. And to win, she must let go of all she once knew, and follow the unknown into the world of organ donation, deep resiliency, and answerless faith. Sometimes the answer is "I don't know."

"A superbly-written memoir. This award-worthy book clearly sets out to help people struggling with self-confidence and self-forgiveness, and it does so with poise and heartfelt musings. Highly recommended!" --TopShelf Reviews Let My Legacy Be Love is an intimate exploration of one woman's experiences as she digs in to understand the events that shaped her. By identifying and turning around feelings of inadequacy that were deeply-and unconsciously--rooted in her past, she gained insights that changed her life. Digging into a long-loved memory of bending over a cluster of yellow flowers allowed her to pinpoint the exact moment of deciding to see only the good in other people. Revisiting her first communion brought clarity on her life-long distrust of organized religion. Each discovery shared is insightful, uplifting, and offered as a preparation for you to begin unraveling the source of your own inner critic. Beauchemin's honestly and authentically told stories range from laugh-out-loud funny to heartbreakingly sad. The included "worthbook" offers a roadmap to life-changing self-love.

"Paper Bags is a well-told tale of intertwining journeys of self-discovery, metamorphosis, and finding compatibility. I enjoyed the versatility of storytelling from different perspectives while the narrative held constant."-Candace Gingrich, author of The Accidental Activist Tonight, she's a stalker. In the dark woods, with the rain lashing the windshield and the ground fern crushed beneath the wheels of her car, she hides and waits and contemplates her options: The Boy? Me? Love? Sanity? How far will she have to go to find love and feel safe? As she slouches down behind the steering wheel, the back seat filled with her paper bags and her yellow Labrador Retriever, she questions this decision to chase after him. Little does she know that this deviant behavior will set off a stunning revelation rocking her to the core. Will she run away as fast as she can, or will her curiosity entice her to embark on a journey of self-discovery and sexual awakening?

"A heartbreaking memoir that is also highly relatable and often darkly funny." - Michael Sadowski, Author of Men I've Never Been: A Memoir, one of Book Authority's 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Books of All Time In Four Funerals, No Marriage: A Memoir, author Mike Keren gives his readers an inside look at his unexpected foray into caregiving to his sick and dying parents and in-laws. Often funny and always poignant, the story begins when his loving but difficult parents announce they are moving back to New Jersey from their retirement home in North Carolina because they "never really liked it there." Within days of arriving on a house-hunting trip, his father is hospitalized with a stroke and his mother with another in a series of heart attacks. At the same time, his partner's mother is recuperating from a hysterectomy and struggling with chemotherapy after a diagnosis of uterine cancer. Additionally, he must deal with the unhappy marriage between his parents, sibling relationships that have often been his undoing, a homophobic world, and his own lifetime of affective dysregulation.

How does a mother say goodbye to her baby before she can even say a proper hello? In the memoir Love You Still, after years of infertility, when Maria Price learned she was carrying her second child, Julia, a healthy baby girl, she felt like she had moved past the pain into her miraculous happily ever after. . . until one day, without warning, at the end of a textbook pregnancy, Maria and her husband, Joe, sat staring at an ultrasound screen that was now, heartbreakingly, still. After birthing and then burying their daughter, Maria and Joe needed to navigate their separate grief journeys without losing each other. Despite Joe's seemingly unconditional love and endless patience, Maria still had to find a way to live in a world without her daughter through the depression, crisis of faith, and unplanned pregnancy that followed Julia's death. Had God failed Maria? Had she failed Him? Had she failed as a mother? Could she still parent her son, while grieving her daughter? Was there enough room in her heart for another baby? Could she survive another loss? Could she learn to live with the constant pain of Julia's absence? Was she willing to try? This is a path of inexplicable heartbreak, unexpected healing, and, through it all, unfailing love.

"Matthew Fitzpatrick's Demon Tide is a bite-your-nails-down-to-the-cuticles crime drama that's gritty, witty, and chock full of surprises. Fitzpatrick is quickly elevating himself as the rightful heir to the Boston gangster throne once held by George V. Higgins and Dennis Lehane." --Casey Sherman, New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of James Patterson's Last Days of John Lennon and Hunting Whitey * * * This is a community that has lost its innocence. A quaint New England town that meets the growing opioid epidemic head-on. The town's casualties build up as local law enforcement, as well as out-of-towners in the form of Justin McGee and his "family," realize that it's a crime that stems within the community's own. A town whose roots are the source of pride are shattered knowing they have been infiltrated by the New England Nova Scotia drug trade.

Get ready to discover a new kind of unicorn in the children's picture book Unicorn Horn Mountain (the third book of The Dreamscape Series). Leave behind the overdone, glittery rainbow unicorn and meet the unicorn born of mural street art and poetry who reclaims the true power of the animal. Uniqueness!! Enter into an inclusive world--the dreamscape--where differences of race, gender, or culture are celebrated, and where children learn to welcome new points of view while feeling safe to explore, discover, and become their true, inner unicorn selves.

"A resounding defense of women's reproductive autonomy. An elegantly written and damning narrative." - Kirkus Reviews In 1956 the worst thing a teenage girl could do was to become pregnant. Joanna, Prissy, Jessie, and Mary become lifelong friends when they are incarcerated in the Frances Weston Home for Unwedmothers in Knoxville, Tennessee. Together they endure the culture of shame and soul crushing tactics dispensed by the Catholic Nuns who coerce the teenagers into relinquishing their illegitimate babies. The four young womens' vow of friendship bonds them as they rebuild their lives in the Deep South during the turbulent 1960's, while the roles of women and single mothers evolve in the decades that follow. When tragedy strikes, they must decide whether to keep their past secrets or discover the fates of the children they were forced to give away.

"Ten years ago on an August night, Steve Ranley crashed his ride into a tree, taking a big part of Oliver Canfield's soul with him ... In the decade since, Oliver and Bradley MacIntyre have built a successful life together, but their relationship has always been haunted by Steve's death. During that lost summer, Oliver and Steve shared love in secret, and as the dark anniversary looms, Oliver unravels. Seeing ghosts, he is drawn to the malevolent oak that still bears the scars from Steve's impact. On August 30, at the exact instant Steve died, Oliver is thrust back counterclockwise in time to that other summer, before Steve's accident"--Amazon.com.

"In her engaging SF novel, Grace Agnew offers a dual mother-son perspective that allows for thoughtfully complex explorations. Agnew is a skilled worldbuilder who pays attention to details, enriching the story. This is a tough-minded, compelling tale of how post-apocalyptic humans might find renewal." --Kirkus Review There is no armageddon. The end is simpler than that, and sadder, because mankind was warned. People just kept piling on, polluting, depleting the water supply, over populating, until the earth simply gave up. Miranda and her son Alex are among the lucky ones, living in a controlled city that recreates everything they lost. It's not enough for Alex, who escapes to join his father and a chance for real life in an outside city. Miranda has no choice but to follow. City of the South is dirty and dangerous, more trash heap than fortress. Desperate people will do or trade anything for water and a mouthful of food. Neither city has the answers, but the planet may have answers of her own. Can Miranda, Alex, and the human race follow Earth's own answer for survival, or is it just too late?

Divorced with four children by the age of twenty-two, Emory imagined a new life for herself, a life that went beyond the traumatic mental and physical abuse she endured as a child under the neglectful watch of an addict mother. Emory was born after only six months in the womb, a survivor of a failed abortion. Raised by her three-year-old brother and nestled in the dresser drawer in which she slept, her earliest moments were those of pain and rejection. Yet despite all the odds stacked against her, she found true love with her partner Marsha. From psychiatric wards to poverty to sexual abuse, Emory survived. Mother, Can You Hear Me Now? is her story.

"Seven Drafts divides writing and revision into distinct stages, with a new focus in each draft. Allison's frank, funny voice encourages writers to tackle even big editing tasks with a sense of humor and a feeling that someone who understands is on their side. After sections on story, elements of writing craft and structure, seeking and using feedback, and the publication process, Seven Drafts goes beyond the technical and into the mindset of a writer. How can envy be employed to fuel your own work? Where do you find a writing community? How will literary citizenship influence personal process?"--

"Monsters exist and Korin Perrin knew this as truth because his grandmother told him so. Korin, raised in the shadow of his older brother Davis, is an imaginative child who believes his brother is a monster. After the death of their grandmother, seven-year-old Korin, blaming Davis for her demise, tries to kill him. Sixteen years following the attempt on Davis' life, racked with guilt, Korin comes to terms with the fact that Davis may not be the one who is the monster after all. Past wrongs needing to be righted, Korin agrees to a hunting trip with his brother and father. But they, along with two friends, never make it to their destination. An accident along the way separates the hunters in the dark forests of Minnesota during the threat of an oncoming blizzard. As the stranded hunters search for each other and safety, an ancient evil wakes."--Page [4] of cover.

"Bold, dramatic, and loaded with suspense, the author knows how to tell a story that will keep you turning pages long into the night - with all the lights on, of course!" - Adriana Trigiani, Bestselling Author of Big Stone Gap and Tony's Wife Margaret Moore's daughter killed herself. Margaret is still grieving when two detectives knock on her door, investigating a mysterious tip. Detectives Ryan Kirkpatrick and Kate Hutchinson use words like "homicide" and "suspect," and Margaret doesn't understand why. When an autopsy reveals the death was indeed a homicide, Margaret defends her innocence as all the clues point to her. Margaret quarrels with her husband, as Ryan becomes embroiled with the family. When Ryan's fiancé; ends up dead, Ryan is suspected, but he accuses Margaret. Kate sets out to prove Margaret's guilt and Ryan's innocence. As her investigation connects clues and whispers, each new discovery is more shocking than the last.