Randall Grange has been tricked into admitting herself into a treatment center and she doesn't know why. She's not a party hound like the others in her therapy group-but then again, she knows she can't live without pills or booze. Raised by an abusive father, a detached mother, and a loving aunt and uncle, Randall both loves and hates her life. She's awkward and a misfit. Her parents introduced her to alcohol and tranquilizers at a young age, ensuring...

An equestrian ranch in Georgia, a beautiful mountain view and a nearly irresistible cowboy. It sounds like the perfect place for Katalina Pierce to get some peace and quiet and escape her rapidly crumbling life. It would be if it wasn't for Matthew Cavanaugh, owner of Cavanaugh Ranch, and the most annoying man that Katalina has ever met. Can Kataline pick up the pieces of her shattered life or will her ex-fiance, a man with killer intentions, get...

Fleeing with her daughter from her abusive boyfriend Evelyn Danielson takes the first bus out of dodge. Landing in California she must create a new life for them, but that is easier said than done. Between her daily battle with epilepsy, an invisible illness that proceeds to get worse, struggling to raise her spirited pre-teen daughter and trying to keep her head afloat, Evelyn is on the verge of breaking, her hope of survival diminishing with each...

Athena to Barbie explores the vexed nature of being a woman. It maps the four corners of impossible choice a female faces because of the female body-her body as spiritual space (Mary), as political space (Athena), as erotic space (Venus), and as materialist space (Barbie). The book tracks the difficulty women face in understanding themselves as someone who has, but is not only, a body. The question of identity is particularly fraught and complicated...

Guide to Surviving Divorce: A Step-by-Step Guide to Navigating the Emotional and Practical Challenges of Divorce Divorce can be one of the most challenging and emotionally draining experiences in life. The end of a marriage can bring about feelings of loss, grief, anger, and confusion, and the practical challenges of separation can seem overwhelming. But with the right guidance and support, it's possible to navigate these challenges and come out...

Much of the contemporary discussion of the Jesus tradition has focused on aspects of oral performance, storytelling, and social memory, on the premise that the practice of communal reading of written texts was a phenomenon documented no earlier than the second century CE. Brian J. Wright overturns that premise by examining evidence that demonstrates communal reading events in the first century. Wright disproves the simplistic notion that only a small...

There's a secret worth killing for at Island Naturals. A cryptic text brings animal crimes investigator Kieran Yeats to a midnight rendezvous with a client mysteriously named Shrew. Shrew's late, and when she does arrive, there's no time for talk. She hastily throws two packages into a nearby garage dumpster, telling Kieran, "Get the things I've left for you, and for God's sake, don't leave the others behind." Then her VW screeches out of the parking...

Once known as Northington, a northern parish of Farmington, Avon was incorporated in 1830 after the construction of the Farmington Canal. Located at the juncture of the Albany Turnpike, the Farmington Canal, and later the Farmington Canal Railroad, Avon became a transportation and commercial center of considerable importance through the 19th century.

When animal crimes investigator Kieran Yeats take on the case of Captain Isobel "Izzy" Tremblay, a decorated Canadian Air Force pilot shot down over Iraq, she enters a frightening world of international terrorism. Jihadists, or Daesh as they call themselves, have followed Izzy from Iraq to her home n Victoria, Canada, kidnapped her PTSD dog Beatrice, and sent a note demanding money for her safe return. In five days, the jihadists say, they want $10,000...