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Best known for her short story The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, an almost exact contemporary of Edith Wharton, is celebrated as one of America’s foremost feminist writers. This collection includes 28 of her short stories. In addition to The Yellow Wallpaper are The Unexpected (her first published work), The Great Wistaria, An Extinct Angel, The Unnatural Mother and Deserted. These stories range from the subversive to the humorous, and are often imbued with satire and social commentary.

Majoring in Love: Two very different worlds collide in 1975 at an urban university in the south. Linda and Sandy are opposites in every way, with one thing in common: an intense attraction. Majoring in Love is a coming-of-age interracial love story and is a prequel to Be One with Me. Be One with Me: At age forty, city girl Sally never imagined she’d be all alone in the world. Following a violent attack and a deathbed confession from her mother, she runs from the only life she knows, heading south in search of security and family.

West Haven has its secrets of legendary proportions. When Jack Taylor goes missing, a tight-knit group of high schoolers decide to take matters into their own hands. None of them believe the media stories after seeing the crime scene. Something super natural might be happening in their quiet Chicago suburb and they intend to uncover the truth.

When you return from a work trip to find your husband dead in the pond, it’s best not to call him a liar and a cheat in front of the cops. Especially when you’ve spent the last few years telling anyone who’ll listen that you sometimes fantasize about killing him. It makes you look kind of, well, guilty.

Montana, winter. A small ranch with Gemma McWyntr, owner. Family owned it in the early 1900s. Each McWyntr family had one child, not for the lack of trying. Today, Gemma is the last, and the family name will end.

Whatever the reasons given or proffered the reality and known facts are that if you want a really good ghost story to bring that edge of chill, that foreboding of dread, that feeling that in an empty house we are not quite alone and that sometimes the sharp, sheer shock of what just happened is upon us then look no further than ‘The Victorian Ghost Story’ for your listening pleasure.

Whiskee carries the weight of witnessing her mother's tragic murder. With her father now gone, her only family is her older brother. Little does she know, her brother has a secret agenda that will reshape her destiny. Beethoven struggles with the revelation that his father is not the honorable man he believed him to be. Faced with the news of an arranged marriage, Beethoven decides to break free from his father's suffocating control. As Whiskee's life becomes entwined with Beethoven's, a web of deceit, desire, and dangerous secrets unravel.

Thatcher Reed is unhinged. I’ve known that since he held me captive in a cabin at twelve years old. We were both left with the scars from that summer but pardon me for not having sympathy for my kidnapper. It took years and countless therapy sessions to finally move on from Thatcher, only for me to find myself within his reach again.

For a man like Merc, his reputation has always preceded him. Known for his allegiance to the criminal underworld as a protector, the gangster only shows love to his family… and his son and the woman who birthed him are at the top of that list. When Merc decides to take one last job before retiring, he doesn’t think it will include protecting a woman he’s been trying to avoid but can’t seem to get rid of. A woman who softens him and brings out the lover he’s kept hidden over the years.

Featuring 50 practical tools to ease anxiety, overwhelm, and stress by recognizing the enduring sense of love and well-being that’s with us regardless of our circumstances. Enlightenment isn’t a lofty and unattainable goal. Real-world enlightenment is always here, and you can find it any time in life’s highs, its lows, and everything in-between.

Financial Times Best Business Book of 2025 • Winner of SABEW Best in Business Book Award Two leading gender experts and Harvard researchers reveal a new paradigm for fairness at work and offer professionals at every level, in any kind of organization, immediate, proven, and evidence-based ways...

Honesty Samuels was left to deal with the consequences of her actions. Newly single, heartbroken, and wading through rapid water, she puts her heart on lock and focuses on her new life as a mother with a budding career. Sincere Allen was dealt a terrible hand in the game of life. With no father and a mother battling an addiction, he had to get it out the mud. Summoned to his home, Honesty is catapulted into a life she didn’t expect to be a part of. What could have been a tragic ending turns into a harmonious beginning neither were prepared for.

Looking for a children’s book about sports for girls? In this book written by debut author, Ashleigh Abney, girls will be encouraged to pursue any and every sport available!

Looking for a children’s book about mindfulness for children? Explore mindful concepts with Luis, Zoey, JJ and Alexa! In this children's book written by author, Ashleigh Abney, children will learn how to return to calm and use their own set of tools that can help them identify and regulate big emotions. This engaging book will help parents reinforce and teach children that mindful strategies are powerful. Children will learn that they can incorporate these techniques and strategies while doing their kid activities and so much more!

Phlebotomist Alexis Cavill has wanted to jump her best friend since he died. Well… Not died died, just became undead. When you nearly lose the person closest to you, it puts some things into perspective. At least it did for her. Buying the perfect dress was only the beginning of her grand plan to take a chance.

Rescued from a poverty-stricken mountain life, Charity Royall lives as ward to Lawyer Royall in the small New England town of North Dormer. However, Charity is bored by her job at the local library and feels thwarted by the order that governs her society–until a young man named Lucius Harney plucks her from the drabness of North Dormer life.

In the American Civil War that began in 1861 the War was seemingly fought to end Slavery. A War for Good. The result a win for the good guys but a society that still bears fractures from this seminal period. The stories in this volume show the true scars that are endured as a riven Nations authors try to explain and reconcile.

Scarlett and Briana are tested by a new relationship. Allison and Connor stumble upon a gruesome murder that hits close to home and tears them apart. With changes to the prophecy, Vistrus must find out what the future holds for The Nation by uncovering the secrets of his wife’s past. But corruption runs deep in the Chicago suburb of West Haven and the repercussions of the prom linger. The Legends must take matters into their own hands without losing themselves.

He's a brooding soul, torn between love and betrayal. She's a hopeful librarian, new to the town he abandoned. Together, they'll defy fate to rescue not only a town but also each other. In the enchanting town of Fated, Missouri, Tory, a quiet and introspective woman, has found her true home. The warm embrace of the community has given her a sense of stability and belonging she desperately needed. But when a looming threat puts the town in jeopardy, Tory faces an arduous task—to convince Jay, the man who mysteriously vanished a year ago, to return and save Fated from impending disaster.

Miles, Deacon, and Cassidy are Franklin’s best friends, brothers in every sense of the word. When Franklin asks his brothers to do something unorthodox as his dying wish, the trio has some reservations. When they tell his widow about the oath that they were bound in brotherhood to uphold, will she run or embrace a new phase of her life that includes the three of them?