“A Limited Run is an incredibly gripping story, with a delicious edge of creepiness. I couldn’t stop reading it—” – Author Freida McFaddenTwo million dollars each. It seems too good to be true.Meri Wetzel’s acting role on the TV show A Little Slice of Haven is an experience she’d like to forget and she’s not the only cast member to feel that way. She’s spent the last two decades avoiding her TV husband, Jeff, while the actors who played their children each harbor grudges of their own.But when billionaire Felix Worthington invites the five cast members to recreate their roles twenty-five years later, she’s intrigued but skeptical. It’s an unusual request, even for a self-professed superfan like Felix.Living in a recreated version of the 1940s town in a warehouse in Montana has its appeal, even knowing they’ll be filmed with hidden cameras as they improvise with other actors playing the townspeople. And the clincher? The promised two million dollars, on the condition they stay ten days and remain in character the entire time.One by one, they set aside their hesitations and agree to the terms. Eventually, Meri decides to join them. After all, with that much money a person would be set for life, and really, what could go wrong?“I devoured this book!” – Goodreads Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"Different from anything you've ever read, with a fantastic twist that you're not going to get until it happens...” - Amazon Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Read more

David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes.   But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he’s stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. He vacuums his apartment twice a day, fails to hoard anything, and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be getting by during quarantine.   As the world gradually settles into a new reality, Sedaris too finds himself changed. His offer to fix a stranger’s teeth rebuffed, he straightens his own, and ventures into the world with new confidence. Newly orphaned, he considers what it means, in his seventh decade, no longer to be someone’s son. And back on the road, he discovers a battle-scarred America: people weary, storefronts empty or festooned with Help Wanted signs, walls painted with graffiti reflecting the contradictory messages of our time: Eat the Rich. Trump 2024. Black Lives Matter.   In Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all. If we must live in interesting times, there is no one better to chronicle them than the incomparable David Sedaris. Read more

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David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book.If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except for one tiny, vexing realization: it's impossible to take a vacation from yourself.With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation toward middle age and mortality. Make no mistake: these stories are very, very funny--it's a book that can make you laugh 'til you snort, the way only family can. Sedaris's powers of observation have never been sharper, and his ability to shock readers into laughter unparalleled. But much of the comedy here is born out of that vertiginous moment when your own body betrays you and you realize that the story of your life is made up of more past than future.This is beach reading for people who detest beaches, required reading for those who loathe small talk and love a good tumor joke. Calypso is simultaneously Sedaris's darkest and warmest book yet--and it just might be his very best. Read more

The Book of Uno by A.A. Lewis is a sizzling, drama-filled romance that explores love, loyalty, and the tangled ties of family.Brothers Uno and Dos have always been inseparable—sharing everything from childhood toys to the devastating loss of their parents. Raised by their Nana, their bond should have grown stronger, but fierce competition drove a wedge between them. The rivalry intensified when Ivy Thompson, the once-awkward girl next door, blossomed into a woman neither brother could resist.What started as innocent childhood crushes turned into a love triangle filled with passion, betrayal, and heartbreak. Ivy’s sudden departure forced everyone to move on, but now she’s back—with one bold proposition. This time, she refuses to choose between them. She wants both Uno and Dos, openly and honestly.As the brothers navigate this unconventional relationship, old wounds resurface, jealousy flares, and their lifelong bond is put to the ultimate test. Can they redefine love on their own terms, or will this tangled romance tear them apart?A.A. Lewis delivers a fun, sexy, and delightfully messy polyamorous romance that challenges traditional notions of love. The Book of Uno dares to ask: Why choose… when you don’t have to? Read more

The Book of Dos by A.A. Lewis takes readers deeper into the messy, passionate, and addictive love triangle that refuses to stay in the past.Dos has always lived in his brother Uno’s shadow, constantly feeling like the little brother who comes in second place. But when it came to Ivy Thompson, he believed he had the edge. He knew Ivy loved Uno—but in his heart, he was convinced that she could love him more.When the dynamics of their polyamorous relationship, Dos thought he had finally won. Ivy was his now, and the added bonus? His girl had a girlfriend. For the first time, Dos felt like he had outshined his older brother.But the victory is short-lived when he suspects Ivy’s heart is still split in two. Is she really done with Uno, or has she been keeping secrets? Fueled by jealousy and years of sibling rivalry, Dos spirals into obsession, questioning everything he thought he had won.Will Dos and Uno finally let go of the past, or will their lifelong competition destroy them? And with both brothers still fighting for her love, will Ivy set the record straight once and for all?Bodies tangle, tempers flare, and emotions run high in this electrifying sequel. The Book of Dos pushes the limits of passion, loyalty, and the true meaning of love. Read more

Ethan Fitzell has been avoiding his stepsister since their parents got married, but when she shows up at his apartment uninvited, he realizes her absence has only made his heart grow fonder.JennyHe’s the last guy on earth I want to ask for a favor.But I only need his couch for a few days. It’s hardly the big imposition he pretends it is.Yet five minutes in his frosty company is all it takes to make the memories come flooding back...The way I used to crave his attention.The way I used to ache for his touch.How anxious I felt the night that game of spin the bottle spun out of control...I still remember how the color drained from my face when everyone turned to look at me. I wasn't even playing, wasn't even invited to the party.“Looks like you’ve gotta kiss Jen,” some jock said to Ethan.Panic pummeled my heart as I realized my feelings for him were going to be found out.But Ethan just laughed it off. “Yeah, that’s not happening. She’s my sister.”“Not really, though,” his buddy insisted.The popular kids around him laughed and jeered like jungle predators while my cheeks burst into flames.“Don’t be stupid,” Ethan said, tilting a can of beer over his mouth.When his friend spun the bottle again, Ethan glanced over at me one last time and wiped the back of his hand across his lips.I’ve been wondering what it would be like to kiss him ever since... **This is a full-length, standalone romance with no cliffhanger and no cheating. It is intended for a mature audience and has an ending that will leave you smiling so hard it hurts. Read more

The #1 New York Times best-selling guide to reducing hostility and generating goodwill between siblings.Already best-selling authors with How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish turned their minds to the battle of the siblings. Parents themselves, they were determined to figure out how to help their children get along. The result was Siblings Without Rivalry. This wise, groundbreaking book gives parents the practical tools they need to cope with conflict, encourage cooperation, reduce competition, and make it possible for children to experience the joys of their special relationship. With humor and understanding—much gained from raising their own children—Faber and Mazlish explain how and when to intervene in fights, provide suggestions on how to help children channel their hostility into creative outlets, and demonstrate how to treat children unequally and still be fair. Updated to incorporate fresh thoughts after years of conducting workshops for parents and professionals, this edition also includes a new afterword. Read more

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"Heartfelt and poignant, with an unexpected and mysterious twist, this story will keep you guessing until the very end." - Amazon Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The Vanderhaven family of Manhattan has it all: wealth, prestige, good looks, and a thriving business empire. But their seemingly perfect world is ripped apart when their younger daughter, eight-year-old Brenna, runs off after overhearing her parents’ arguing. Out on the streets, she quickly realizes she’s lost. Even more frightening, Brenna soon realizes that a man is following her.Meanwhile, in a townhouse in Brooklyn, Callie Griffin is throwing a birthday party for her one-year-old son, Oliver. The joy of the day is ruined by her sister Lauren’s too short, drive-by appearance. Once close, the two sisters haven’t been able to move past a falling out which took place three years before.When Brenna notices the strange man getting closer, she panics and takes refuge in the Griffin home, befriending their four-year-old daughter, Summer, who is waiting out the party upstairs.As family and friends search for Brenna, her absence helps her father realize the importance of family, even as her presence in the Griffin home unwittingly sets in motion healing for a mother’s heart. Read more

“One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.” ~Henry MillThe conclusion of the Samantha Mallon series.As a teenager growing up in the backwoods of Pennsylvania, Vicky is barely surviving each day, only making it through by manipulation and avoidance. Her home life is scarier than the nightmares of most of her acquaintances; but there’s no escape. With an alcoholic father, and a mother whose health is deteriorating, Vicky is forced into running the household, and caring for her younger sister, Janice, whose only goal is to make her sister’s life miserable. Adding in a new foster brother, Arthur, haunting more than just her dreams at night, she’s positive she’ll end up beating both her parents to the grave.After a sudden death of the patriarch before she’s old enough to move out, Vicky and Janice are sent to live with a relative which might just be the biggest blessing of her life. When things are finally looking up, and all ties to her family are broken, she stumbles across her future husband and decides to leave the only life she knows in the past for the promise of something greater. But her past has different ideas, and soon enough a familiar face returns with a vengeance to remind her of where she came from.After losing another person she loves, and getting help battling her past demons, she’s finally on the path to happiness and ready to start a family. However, sometimes dreams aren’t meant to be a reality, and Vicky isn’t sure if being a mother was part of her destiny. Her mental health is wavering, and the love of her children may not be enough to pull her out of the dark hole she’s falling into.Will Vicky be able to survive the past and give her children the loving home she never had? Or will she create a life that mirrors her own childhood growing up, unable to break the cycle of abuse?Recommended for adult audiences. This book contains abusive situations.Book 1- Charlie's Secret: Inspired by a true storyBook 2- Sam's Truth: The sequel to Charlie's Secret: Inspired by a true storyBook 3: Vicky's Redemption: The conclusion to the Samantha Mallon series Read more

Dr. Leman's ever popular book on birth order is ready for a new generation of readers.With insight and wit, Dr. Leman offers readers a fascinating and often funny look at how birth order affects personality, marriage and relationships, parenting style, career, and children. Whether at home or on the job, birth order powerfully influences the way people interact with others.This is a great book for anyone who wants to learn more about how they react to their world. Dr. Leman even shows readers how to overcome ingrained tendencies they never thought they'd be rid of, all by focusing on their birth order. Read more

We used to call ourselves The Three Musketeers. I know it's cliché, but we were only kids. They usually took turns being in charge, which was fine with me. I was just happy to go along with them. After all, I thought I was the luckiest little girl in the whole world. Most of my classmates only had one best friend, but I had two: my best friend Izzy and her twin brother. Back then, I hoped things would never change, but that's the problem with more. Once I saw a glimpse of it, it was impossible to stop wanting it. Especially when it came to Shane.**This standalone best friend romance has no cheating, no cliffhangers, and is intended for a mature audience. Read more

In this delightful memoir by the authors of Cheaper by the Dozen, the twelve Gilbreth children cope with the loss of their father as they grow up together. With twelve kids, life at the Gilbreth house has always been a big project. But after their father passes away, there are more challenges than ever. And yet, with the irrepressible blend of humor and good cheer characteristic of one of the most beloved families in America, the Gilbreths happily rise to every occasion and find a way to keep it all together.   With the clan struggling to make ends meet, everyone has to pitch in. As their resourceful mother works to keep the family business running without Dad, the kids tackle the adventures of raising themselves and running a household. Their attempts to pinch pennies frequently result in chaos. From tragedy and the trials of the first year as a single-parent household to the daily crises of a family with a double-digit headcount, the episodes in Belles on Their Toes are poignant, inspiring, and hilarious.   “From start to finish, it is a reading joy,” raved the Chicago Sunday Tribune. “There is a sincere and heartwarming atmosphere in this second volume,” wrote Library Journal, “that makes it almost better reading, if possible, than the first.”  This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the authors’ estates.  Read more

“Haunting and heartfelt...Thomson’s memoir is meticulously recounted with powerful suspense and hard-earned wisdom.” —Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road A propulsive and moving memoir about a brother’s decades-long investigation into the circumstances surrounding his sister’s tragic death—and his own journey to forgiveness and closure.On a summer evening in 1974, Jim Thomson arrived home from a baseball game to the news that his younger sister, Eileen, had taken her own life. To Jim, his parents, and his brother, Keith, the loss was unexpected and devastating. Only twenty-seven years old, Eileen had been living in California with her high school sweetheart, Vic, a cop, surrounded by a circle of close friends and working at a job she loved. It seemed unfathomable that she would kill herself, but as the family gathered in Pittsburgh to say goodbye, more details emerged that seemed to explain the tragedy: Eileen had confided in her parents that she had been suffering from depression, and her storybook marriage had been plagued by bitter fights, infidelity, and guilt. When Jim eventually sat down with his brother-in-law to talk about the final hours of Eileen’s life, Vic looked him in the eye and explained that he had stormed out of the room in the midst of a volatile argument. Moments later, a gunshot went off. Sensing no lies or evasion, Jim believed him. He recounted the story to the rest of the family, and they got on with their lives as best they could. Twenty-seven years later, with all of his family passed away, Eileen’s death began to nag at Jim. Now a writer, he wanted to fill in the blanks of her story and answer the questions that were plaguing him. What had the final months of Eileen’s life been like? Why had she not told him about her troubles? How had the infidelity in her marriage brought her and Vic to that fateful day, and who else had been a part of it? What other demons had she been battling? Determined to uncover the truth, Jim hired a private investigator to help him. Together, they tracked down Eileen’s old friends and clandestinely obtained copies of police reports, which revealed that Vic and Eileen’s relationship—and the sheriff’s investigation that followed her death—was much darker and more complicated than they had imagined. Torn by doubt, Jim began a two-decade journey that took him from the streets of Pittsburgh to the hills of San Bernardino, leading him into a tangled web of secrecy, deception, and shifting stories that forced him to reconsider everything he thought he knew about Vic, Eileen, and himself—and to confront the chilling question of whether his sister had really taken her own life. Told with the precision and pace of a whodunit and the searing emotion of a family saga, A Better Ending is an unforgettable tale about the love between siblings, the murkiness of truth and memory, and the path to acceptance. Read more

You have heard horror stories and even seen movies of people falling in love with the fake facade of another individual. But, now you have seemed to have become a victim of a narcissist’s tragic game, and you do not know where to turn. Thankfully, you have come to the right place in order to keep your sanity. Within the pages of this books you will learn • What Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is • Warning signs and causes of a narcissist • How to deal with narcissism in romantic relationships • How to deal with narcissistic men as women • Ways to cope and mend from living and/or loving a narcissist • How narcissists can help themselves and relieve themselves from this disease • Personal stories from those that have dealt with the worst of narcissists firsthand • And more! We have all came across narcissists in our lives, whether it be a family member, friend, or a loving relationship, narcissists think they have the game that they lured you into already won. With the tips in this book, let’s make the chances of letting them get their way a bit slimmer. No one deserves to live day in and day out with this type of negative energy. With the power of knowledge, you can stop beating yourself up, and start building yourself up! Learn the signs before you get swept underneath the narcissistic rug. And for those that have already fallen for one of these individuals’ sly ways, learn to pick up the pieces and find your way out, or, for the not faint of heart, stick around and attempt to make these people better human beings. It is important to remember you are not alone; there are many hundreds of thousands of others that are in deep with these types of people. It is vital, even from miles apart, to keep a united front in the ways of exterminating these individuals out of your life and out of the lives of those you care about. Learn to love yourself once again! This book equips you for the best, worst and the down right ugly. I wish you luck. Don't hesitate to get the love and happiness back again in to your life. Read more

In the vein of Adult Children of Alcoholics comes the first book geared specifically to the siblings of alcoholics. Patricia Olsen, sister of two alcoholic brothers, shares her personal experiences along with interviews with other sober siblings, while Petros Levounis, M.D., the director of The Addiction Institute of New York and chief of addiction psychology at St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals in New York City, offers expert advice. Whether the alcoholic is in recovery or relapsed, in AA or therapy, Sober Siblings helps brothers and sisters gain greater awareness of their own situation, offering practical wisdom and suggestions on: feelings of shame, frustration, hopelessness, and anger; the difference between helping and enabling; setting boundaries; the nature of alcoholism; coaddictions; and how to help your sibling while not losing yourself. Read more

Your parents are growing older and are getting forgetful, starting to slow down, or worse. Suddenly you find yourself at the cusp of one of the most important transitions in your life—and the life of your family. Your parents need you and your siblings to step up and take care of them, a little or a lot. To make the right things happen, you will all need to work together. And yet your siblings may have very different ideas from yours of what’s best for Mom and Dad. They may be completely uninterested in helping, leaving you with all the responsibility. Or they may take charge and not allow you to help, or criticize whatever help you do give. Will you and your siblings be able to reach an understanding and work together, or will the challenges you face tear you apart?     Most of us enter this period of our lives unprepared for the difficult decisions and delicate negotiations that lie ahead. This is the first book that provides guidance on the transition from the “old” family to the “new” one, especially for adult siblings. Here you’ll find practical advice on a wide range of topics including • Who will make major medical decisions, manage finances, and enforce end-of-life choices if your parents cannot? And how will this be decided and carried out?• How will you negotiate caregiving issues and deal with unequal contributions or power struggles?  • How can inheritance and the division of property, assets, and personal effects be handled to minimize hurt feelings and resentment?• How will you cope with the natural reemergence of unresolved childhood rivalries, hurts, and needs?• How can caring for your parents be an enriching experience rather than a thankless chore?• Most important, how can you ensure the best care for your parents while lessening conflict, guilt, anger, and angst?      Written by a veteran journalist who chronicles life and how baby boomers live it, They’re Your Parents, Too! offers all the information, insight, and advice you’ll need to make productive choices as you and your siblings begin to assume your parents’ place as the decision-making generation of your family.    Filled with expert guidance from gerontologists, family therapists, elder-care attorneys, financial planners, and health workers; resonant real-life stories; and helpful family negotiation techniques, this is an indispensable book for anyone whose parents are aging. Read more