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A Year of Living Kindly Donna Cameron Being kind is something most of us do when it’s easy and when it suits us. Being kind when we don’t feel like it, or when all of our buttons are being pushed, is hard. But that’s also when it’s most needed; that’s when it can defuse anger and even violence, when it can restore civility in our personal and... |
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Digesting Foods and Fads Judi Nath It is time to tease sense out of the nonsense when it comes to eating smartly. This book offers advice on how to eat nutritiously every day without all the guilt, money, and discomfort wasted on the latest, greatest fad. Using the best scientific nutrition research available, this book will show how to navigate the... |
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Botticelli's Muse Dorah Blume A provocative historical fiction about Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, his conflicts with the Medici family of Florence, and the woman at the heart of his paintings. In 1477, Botticelli is suddenly fired by his prestigious patron and friend Lorenzo de' Medici. In the villa of his irritating new patron, the artist’s creative well runs dry... |
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Law of Zero Chad Michael Hardy In this inspirational cross between self-help and memoir, Chad Michael Hardy chronicles his journey from a strict Mormon upbringing to self-acceptance and true authenticity. Facing discrimination and a crisis of faith due to living inauthentically, Hardy embraced the transformative law of Zero to get unstuck, find balance, and unlock... |
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Red Till Your Dead Scott Bukow This book is about an international healthcare executive who had everything and lost it all from building stress to a horrific accident that fractured his skull. With 5.3 million traumatic brain injuries and unknown to many in the medical community, lead to an autoimmune attack on the brain. This... |
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The Mermaid Mahjong Circle: A Fairy Tale for Women Claudia Grossman A fairy tale for women, The Mermaid Mahjong Circle follows two lifelong friends and artists, Evie and Hannah, as they embark on an adventure that takes them from the present to the past and back again, thanks to a tale about a mysterious mahjong tile crafted a... |
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Breathe for Me Donna B. Comeaux Robert Aaron Jaeger no longer has the emotional fight to outlast his grief. Less than a month ago, his wife and four-year-old daughter were in a terrible accident on the downtown streets of Seattle. The four-year-old came away with scratches. His wife, Christina, succumbed to her injuries. Under the disguise of rafting through the Glenwood... |
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This Ain't That Michelle Dartis Forty-four-years-old, unmarried and childless, Cleo Stinson works professionally in the field of social services along with her best friend Shelby James. Initially, she desires to find a husband and start a family. She’s even gone as far as choosing a name for her future baby. However, as Cleo navigates the dating scene in Indianapolis... |
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Scary Spring: Our Polio Fright of 1955 C.A. Hartnell "Fire it up" for friendship, fun, adventure, mystery, and courage that fill the pages of Scary Spring: Our Polio Fright of 1955. Like the Indian-head hood ornament on Aunt Jean's Pontiac Chieftain car that leads the way down dark and scary streets, Pete leads his... |
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Strengthening Your Identity Mwati Mwila We all know life has its ups and downs, but when Mwati Mwila was diagnosed with bipolar disorder while a college student, she thought her life would mostly be down from that point on. Not understanding why she had been chosen to suffer, she found herself on an incredible... |
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Forgotten Ellis Island Lorie Conway "How rare it is to find an absolutely fascinating story that has never been told," wrote noted historian Doris Kearns Goodwin about Forgotten Ellis Island. The book tells the lost story of the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital that saved tens of thousands of lives as immigrants flooded onto Ellis... |
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When Bible Meets History Stephen Lee Crane When Bible Meets History invites you to accompany the author on an adventurous detective trip to see what’s verified in those first five books of the Bible; how actual history is cloaked in that ancient form of writing called Biblical Hebrew; and what it all means to a modern, critically thinking mind. The... |
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The Spa at Lavender Lane Phyllis Melhado From her elegant atelier office, Nadia Demidova discreetly monitors the arrival of her latest guests. Legendary doyenne of the fabled Palm Springs getaway, she can always tell from the moment the women arrive, which ones will be problems. This group will not disappoint: a burned-out Fifth Avenue retail executive, a... |
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Mrs. Alworth Tim Castano Mrs. Alworth envelops the reader, like a blanket. Tim Castano does an amazing job of pulling the reader inside the characters' heads, and navigating their layers, from their appearances to their inner, vulnerable selves, to how they receive and perceive one another, and ultimately, to how they love. The central relationship is so pure... |
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Inside Our Days Michele Merens Liked by Westchester Book Club! A happily married woman abruptly flees home and family after receiving a dire health diagnosis. As Bree Durning rejects all offers of help and instead becomes preoccupied with her own blindsiding memories, even her psychologist-trained husband is tested to his limits as he struggles... |
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Involved with a Cad for 7 Years in the Twilight Zone Darlene Nolin A true story of an ill-fated relationship marked by indifference, adversity, deceit, betrayal, and endurance. The author takes you into her marriage with her ex-foreign national spouse, who goes from charming, alarming to harming. During this insidious union with nefarious intent, the... |
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