Sasha is a single mother and youngest of three sisters. Drama follows her everywhere and her sisters, Stacey and Randi are fed up with her temper and untamed tongue. She faces many trials and reacts harshly, failing to consider the consequences of her actions. Using her beauty to get herself in and out of trouble. Until she has a life-changing moment.Sasha is a single mother and youngest of three sisters. Drama follows her everywhere and her sisters, Stacey and Randi are fed up with her temper and untamed tongue. Their relationship with Sasha seems toxic due to her unbearable irresponsible lifestyle. She faces many trials and reacts harshly, failing to consider the consequences of her actions. Using her beauty to get herself out of trouble was typical, until finally she had a wake up call after killing two people.

It's a book about show business, where fame is the stock in trade. Each year there are hundreds of stagestruck kids arrive in New York determined to crash the theatre, firmly convinced they're destined to be famous Broadway stars or playwrights.

From the inimitable Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons comes a rich and compelling novel--a New York Times bestseller--about a mismatched marriage, and its consequences spanning three generations.

This Christmas is the first time Josh and his husband Garrison are sharing the holiday with their children, Henry and Gabriella. Of course, this being the Dabbs-Williams household, there are crazy dogs, visits from the in-laws, and the uncertain waters of parenthood. But Josh and Garrison have each other, and their family and friends, and a house full of love, so the holidays will be perfect.This Christmas is going to be a special one for Officer Josh Dabbs and his husband Garrison Williams: For the first time, they're sharing the holiday with their children, Henry and Gabriella. Of course, this being the Dabbs-Williams household, there are crazy dogs, visits from the in-laws to prepare for, and the uncertain waters of parenthood as Gabriella tests her boundaries. But Josh and Garrison have each other, and their family and friends, and a house full of love, so the holidays can't be more perfect.

As a first time publisher I thought, why not write poems about something I know best- myself. Each of the poems in my book 'Poems From My Life' are in some form about myself and about my life. Whether it's about an self-harm problem or about the future, this book is sure to capture your attention and teach a little something about a struggle. The following 11 poems will get your heart racing.As a publisher, and a teen of the age 17, why not write poems about something I know best- myself. Each of the poems in my book 'Poems From My Life' are in some form about myself and about my life. Whether it's about an self-harm problem, or about the future, this book is sure to capture your attention and teach a little something about a struggle. The following 11 poems are guaranteed to get your heart racing and to turn your emotions on.

A beggar is pleading for assistance in a world designed around money and sex. Everybody is out to get rich, from anything; whether destroying moral values or not. The dream is to sin in self-confidence, but God is in the way. This is a book written with real life in mind. It comes with all the greed, disrespect, and the disregard for moral and family values. Then, the beggar gets his 2nd chancePeter Johnson had only one wish; he wished to be a teacher again. There was one problem though, he was a beggar, and nobody was going to employ him again. On the other side of town, the wealthy Atkinson family had problems of their own; problems no money could solve.Both Peter and the Atkinson family saw their redemption in a miracle event that was coming to town. Their paths crossed when a heavy thunderstorm interrupted people’s efforts to get tickets for this event. When the beggar offered to queue for them in exchange for a ticket, Kathy Atkinson eagerly accepted his offer. As fate would have it, the Pastor who was to preside over the event was seriously injured in a car accident on his way there. When thousands of people started to leave in disappointment, the beggar became saddened at the commitment of their faith. Still dressed in his pitiable cloths, he took to the stage and challenged their devotion to God. “You are so concerned in your own personal healing that you would not care if this whole world rots around you.” he shouted at them. Being the professional teacher he once was, he delivered a most powerful speech from the podium. Kathy Atkinson instinctively knew that there was a reason why her path had to cross with that of the beggar. She was not going to stop until she had found the reason for that.Bruce Ashton, a highly acclaimed television producer who was to cover the event, became enthralled by the intellect of the beggar. Just like Kathy Atkinson, he wanted to discover the man behind the beggar. Sadly, his bosses were not interested with his plans and was told; ‘God does not sell, violence and sex is what’s bringing in the money.However, Bruce Ashton could see a miracle unfolding in front of his own eyes - a dream coming true for the beggar. Risking his future as a producer while counting only on the wisdom of the beggar, he persuaded him to take part in a TV program. Peter, a victim of a corrupt society, knew this could be his last and only chance to a normal life again, and cautiously accepted the offer. Together they started what was to become a very controversial crusade. The hobo’s life was never going to be the same again; nor the lives of those who would get involved with his. This book is fast-paced, controversal, and very, very inspirational

The best "Can You Imagine?" columns written to inspire and motivate you, lifting your spirits and giving insight as to why we do the things we do. Plus Bobbi G writes about living a ‘garbage free’ life and freeing ourselves from carrying our past into our NOW. Do you have a kindness reflex? Where is your Utopia? Read "Can You Imagine...? Volume V” today!A collection of some of the best "Can You Imagine...?" columns written to inspire and motivate us to live happier, more fulfilled lives. This collection will make you take a closer look at your life and maybe discover something you should be doing that could make your life happier. Do you have a kindness reflex? Are you still living in the past? Are you stuck in your erroneous zones? Where is your Utopia? How changing your thinking creates positive changes in your life, and how much you’ll gain by losing it are all in this edition. Have you allowed the ‘good seeds’ or ‘bad seeds’ to take root and grow? Find out when you read Volume V. Have you ever thought of what you’d say if you only had a thousand words left? Bobbi G did. You’ll be inspired when you read “Note to self.” And if you have ever lost someone special you must read “I thought of you today.” Download “Motivational Moments, Can You Imagine...? Volume V," today and rediscover how wonderful life truly is when you read Bobbi G’s insightful collection. Get yours today. Then tell your friends so they can get theirs too!

Short fiction for short moments!The inevitable nature of humanity emerges in this speculative short story about alien discovery. What happens when we learn the truth about our place in the universe? Ten Years explores a snapshot into the life a young girl adapting to the harsh reality of a world changed forever.The inevitable nature of humanity emerges in this speculative short story about alien discovery. What happens when we learn the truth about our place in the universe? Ten Years explores a snapshot into the life a young girl adapting to the harsh reality of a world changed forever.

Before Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his 1957 classic, On the Road, he spent years figuring out how he wanted to live and, above all, learning how to write. Atop an Underwood brings together more than sixty previously unpublished works that Kerouac wrote before he was twenty-two, ranging from stories and poems to plays and parts of novels, including an excerpt from his 1943 merchant marine novel, The Sea Is My Brother. These writings reveal what Kerouac was thinking, doing, and dreaming during his formative years, and reflect his primary literary influences. Readers will also find in these works the source of Kerouac's spontaneous prose style. Uncovering a fascinating missing link in Kerouac's development as a writer, Atop an Underwood is essential reading for Kerouac fans, scholars, and critics.

“Stunning” short stories by the National Book Award–winning author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).  In this bestselling volume of stories, National Book Award winner Sherman Alexie challenges readers to see Native American Indians as the complex, modern, real people they are. The tender and tenacious tales of The Toughest Indian in the World introduce us to the one-hundred-eighteen-year-old Etta Joseph, former co-star and lover of John Wayne, and to the unnamed narrator of the title story, a young Indian journalist searching for togetherness one hitchhiker at a time. Countless other brilliant creations leap from Alexie’s mind in these nine stories. Upwardly mobile Indians yearn for a more authentic life, married Indian couples push apart while still cleaving together, and ordinary, everyday Indians hunt for meaning in their lives. The Toughest Indian in the World combines anger, humor, and beauty into radiant fictions, fiercely imagined, from one of America’s greatest writers. This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

The seventh novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga, soon to return to television as a Netflix original series once again starring Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis. Nearly two decades after ending his groundbreaking Tales of the City saga of San Francisco life, Armistead Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero Michael Tolliver—the fifty-five-year-old sweet-spirited gardener and survivor of the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers—for a single day at once mundane and extraordinary... and filled with the everyday miracles of living.

I Am No One You Know contains nineteen startling stories that bear witness to the remarkably varied lives of Americans of our time. In "Fire," a troubled young wife discovers a rare, radiant happiness in an adulterous relationship. In "Curly Red," a girl makes a decision to reveal a family secret, and changes her life irrevocably. In "The Girl with the Blackened Eye," selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2001, a girl pushed to an even greater extreme of courage and desperation manages to survive her abduction by a serial killer. And in "Three Girls," two adventuresome NYU undergraduates seal their secret love by following, and protecting, Marilyn Monroe in disguise at Strand Used Books on a snowy evening in 1956. These vividly rendered portraits of women, men, and children testify to Oates's compassion for the mysterious and luminous resources of the human spirit.

Booker Prize-winning author John Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry endows language with the assurance of prayer, and the tensions between the forward movement of sexuality and the steady backward tug of time. He recreates the mysterious forces at work in a Rembrandt painting, transcribes the sensorial experience of viewing lilacs at dusk, and explores the meaning of home to early man and to the hundreds of thousands of displaced people in our cities today. And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos is a seamless fusion of the political and personal.

An alternate cover edition can be found here. The bestselling feminist novel that awakened both women and men, The Women's Room follows the transformation of Mira Ward and her circle as the women's movement begins to have an impact on their lives. A biting social commentary on an emotional world gone silently haywire, The Women's Room is a modern classic that offers piercing insight into the social norms accepted so blindly and revered so completely. Marilyn French questions those accepted norms and poignantly portrays the hopeful believers looking for new truths.