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Break and Hold: Inspired by a True Event

by Vivien Kalvaria

Published: 2007-07-27

Paperback: 300 pages

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Inspired by a True Event Against a seething backdrop of tennis academies, star athletes and ubiquitous parents, three individuals emerge harboring a dark secret. Pulling no punches, Vivien Kalvaria faithfully delivers the raw truths of life in this microcosmic world where elite players tra...

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Lincoln's Generals' Wives: Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War--for Better and for Worse (Civil War in the North)

by Candice Shy Hooper

Published: 2016-05-31

Hardcover: 432 pages

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The story of the American Civil War is not complete without examining the extraordinary and influential lives of Jessie Frémont, Nelly McClellan, Ellen Sherman, and Julia Grant, the wives of Abraham Lincoln’s top generals. They were their husbands’ closest confidantes and had a profou...

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Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

by Cassie Chambers

Published: 2020-01-07

Hardcover: 304 pages

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After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the strong “hill women” who raised and inspired her, and whose values have the potential to rejuvenate a struggling region—an uplifting and eye-opening memoir for readers of Hillbilly Eleg...

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You Were There Too

by Colleen Oakley

Published: 2020-01-07

Paperback: 352 pages

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Acclaimed author Colleen Oakley delivers a heart-wrenching and unforgettable love story about a woman who must choose between the man she loves and the man fate has chosen for her, in a novel that reminds us that the best life is one led by the heart. Mia Graydon's life looks picket-fence ...

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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

by Candacy Taylor

Published: 2020-01-07

Hardcover: 360 pages

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The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists  Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the “black travel guide to America.” At that time, it was very dangerous and difficult for African-America...

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Shamanic Yoga & Psycho-Emotional Healing

by A J Wice

Published: 2019-12-18

Paperback: 206 pages

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The ancient healing arts of Shamanism and Yoga are based in the belief that all of nature is one energy system and that there is inherent wisdom and comfort in this unity and inter-relatedness. This unity has a vast range, spanning from cells to planets, seeds to great trees, grass leaves ...

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Sweet Bean Paste

by Durian Sukegawa

Published: 2017-11-14

Paperback: 224 pages

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'I'm in story heaven with this book.' Cecelia Ahern, author of P.S. I Love YouSentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dream of becoming a writer is just a distant memory. With only the blossoming of the cherry trees to mark the passing of time, he spends his...

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High Heel (Object Lessons)

by Summer Brennan

Published: 2019-03-21

Paperback: 192 pages

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A PopMatters Best Nonfiction Book of The Year, 2019A Refinery29 Best Book of March 2019A Paste Magazine Best Book of March 2019Fetishized, demonized, celebrated, and outlawed, the high heel is central to the iconography of modern womanhood. But are high heels good? Are they feminist? What ...

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Latino America: How America’s Most Dynamic Population is Poised to Transform the Politics of the Nation

by Matt Barreto, Gary M. Segura

Published: 2014-09-30

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Sometime in April 2014, somewhere in a hospital in California, a Latino child tipped the demographic scales as Latinos displaced non-Hispanic whites as the largest racial/ethnic group in the state. So, one-hundred-sixty-six years after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo brought the Mexican pr...

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Mr. Mercedes: A Novel (1) (The Bill Hodges Trilogy)

by Stephen King

Published: 2015-01-06

Paperback: 448 pages

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Now an AT&T Audience Original Series WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL #1 New York Times bestseller! In a high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. “Mr. Mercedes is a rich,...