Jasmine woke up. After sleepwalking year after year through poor relationships with men, Jasmine came to the realization she was the constant in each of these relationships. This is an incredible story of one woman's journey back from insanity brought on by heartache and pain. From the long climb back to sanity Jasmine finds her true essence.
How to Publish Your Novel is like having a friend in the business. It provides the knowledge and strategies needed to get a work of fiction into print. You’ll learn how to locate a literary agent, develop an effective proposal package, and understand contracts. You’ll also discover how to perfect your craft and promote your latest work. An extensive resource section guides you to valuable source books, writers’ groups, websites, and more.
Sassy, self-deprecating 28-year-old Annie hazardously, yet humorously, freefalls from an all-time low to rock bottom-- She's lost her job, feels legitimately trapped inside a bad relationship with arguably the most charming jerk on the planet and is stifled by her past. Then she meets Billy, and love is redefined.
This book is a reminder of the resilience of the human spirit regardless of the trials and tribulations life can throw at us. Attitude is the key to being celebratory and enjoy the beauty of life. It is the story of a mother and divorcee, Marilyn Kaufman Barnes, of Jewish heritage and Orlon Andre Miller, an exotic dancer. Although from two different worlds, they meet as she is experiencing life and sexual escapades after her divorce. But, it is with this younger man that she discovers unconditional love, as they transcend the religious and racial barriers. This story will titillate your senses as fantasies are fulfilled in their romantic love affair.
The Ignorance of Bliss tells the true story of ten-year-old Sandy, who moves with her American military family to Saigon, Vietnam where her father, the Colonel, serves as a military advisor to the South Vietnamese Army. In 1960s Saigon, Sandy finds a world of crushing poverty and extraordinary beauty; a world of streets, villas, and brothels, where politics and intrigue reside between plot and counterplot. Blissfully living a life of French decadence, Sandy maneuvers between coups, spies, bombings, corruption, and scandal as she and her thirteen-year-old brother, Tom, run an illicit baby powder and Hershey bar business on the black market and live a life of school, scouts, dance parties, and movies at the underground theater. When the Colonel’s counterpart, Colonel Le Van Sam, delivers an expose on the current ruling Diem regime, Sandy finds that her constant spying on her father’s activities has brought her face to face with the reality of Vietnam and the anti-American sentiment that pervades it. This coming-of age story takes place in a turbulent country striving for nationalism, giving the reader a stunning look into the life of military dependents living abroad and the underlying ignorance that surrounded a little understood time in history.
This anthology is a collection of poems and short philosophical views. It has a little bit of everything in it and is a reflection of many minds in the United States today.
When two college roommates reconnect after twenty years and find themselves both pregnant with baby girls, nothing could seem more blissful. That is, until they actually have the babies. Cue Momlandia: a strange universe that looks nothing like moms of Instagram. Braless, sleepless, and covered with milk, these friends fight for their pre-baby sanity the best way modern moms know how—one text message at a time. Together, they wade through the strange vortex of momlife, navigating GMO-sized body parts, tangled breast pumps, and sudden-onset husband hatred. Where is the glitter-filled Momtopia they were marketed? Strapping on their belly bands and pulling up their postpartum panties, these BFFs guzzle coffee and kale in search of organic motherhood. Hand-churning flax muffins while fighting their own muffintops, surely they can become the selfless, maternal saints they’d envisioned themselves to be. Or can they? To all those “natural” moms in search of perfection, we hail you, one momguilt, mombod, momfail at a time.
