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Your loved one’s Dementia impairs her ability to think, reason, and remember. Patients no longer recognize reality and often engage in difficult, irrational, and sometimes dangerous behavior.

What We See in the Smoke twists the genres of realism and science fiction to tell the future history of Toronto, a story that stretches from this millennium to the next. The novel leaps across the boundaries of time and space, as present and future Torontonians search for meaning, connection, and love in a city that grows more beautiful and frightening as its familiar characteristics fade away.

After Harley Harper is stood up on her wedding day in Manhattan, she points her car west in search of a silver lining. Landing in Stoneybrook, Oregon, she buys the Redneck Ranch, where she finds comfort among her menagerie of misfit animals. Harley tries to settle into her new normal. But a dead body in her dilapidated barn, a fire threatening her ranch, and the arrival of her ex-betrothed, keep her life in upheaval. And Stone County’s handsome sheriff has her feeling anything but normal.

Evelyn Amdur, a hospice social worker, began to write these stories midway through her career, collaborating with her daughter, Shelley. Many traditional cultures have a custom of "death songs", which rest on the idea that at one's last moment, one somehow sums up the essence of one's life in a phrase or a song. Woven into these stories are instructions on how to die well, not only in what spirit we face death itself, but also through instructions on what is necessary to prepare our families, to ready our estates, and to manage all the players who may be involved in our deaths.

Can this family survive the truth? Closure should have come swiftly with the funeral and nailing of the casket, but instead of finding peace, the old man’s death reopened old wounds left to fester for decades. Sahar Abdulaziz’s haunting women’s contemporary fiction novel, As One Door Closes, is a stark and dramatic testament to the devastation that comes with hiding sexual abuse, and protecting the "secret" rather than the victim. Will five very different women finally heal the damage, bring closure, and bury the secrets they have been forced to carry and protect?

Seventeen years ago, Terri Ann Stone began serving a life sentence, charged with the double homicide of her mother and stepfather. Up to now, Terri’s anger, hate, and relentless commitment to hiding the truth have kept her alive behind bars. However, the bitterness that once fueled Terri's center begins to wane. Her pledge to secrecy dissolves. With no prospect of ever being set free, she reveals the entire ugly truth, to the single person left in the world who still matters to her.

It is with great pleasure that we are able to retell the stories, first published as Forty Delicious Years, of 40 varied travelers who have Murni and Murni's Warung in common. We initially compiled these recollections in 2014 on the 40th anniversary of Murni's opening of Murni's Warung in Ubud, Bali, the first international-style restaurant in Ubud. We have renamed this volume So Many Delicious Years and Murni has added a number of recipes. We are pleased to mention that Forty Delicious Years won the prestigious Gourmand Award in 2019.

Emma Bartyle is a shy, sheltered teenager. At a bonfire with her first real boyfriend, which goes horribly awry from almost the beginning, she is yanked from her ordinary life into horrific events. If she wants to stay alive, she must trust herself, her instincts, and a complete stranger. Something is out hunting, something with a voracious appetite and a rage that can’t be quelled. Set in the autumn of 1973, The Mongrel is a lean, dark adventure, not only of things that go bump in the night, but of things with sharp teeth and sharper claws.

When a nuclear missile is launched from somewhere in the east - North Korea or China - communications from other parts of the earth ceased. Thirty years later, civilization still struggles to become redefined. A new society has formed with new rules. Those that follow the rules can hope for a few years of comfort. Those on the inside of the safety dome have it tough. Those on the outside don’t last long. As far as the eye can see, the earth outside is radioactive, primitive. These are the stories of the survivors, men and women that struggle to eke out a living in a world gone awry.

This rendition of my encounters is a simple, pared-down telling of every paranormal encounter I have ever had - all 40+ years' worth. Since I'm extremely private, putting myself out there is not easy for me. As far as proper grammar goes, please bear with me. I’m a simple Southern girl from the USA, and the way I speak and write might not be proper, but it is me. I did work with an editor to make it more intelligible, but I was reticent about having my Southerners' style removed entirely. My prose may not sound correct at times, but that’s just who I am.

N65 was designed to give the US and its allies the upper hand by decimating its enemies' young and intelligent citizens, leaving only those with fewer neurons—the elderly, the limited, the psychotic—behind. They didn't count on the gas affecting the entire planet. Or that the Earth itself would revolt. Will those that remain be able to survive the New World? Or will civilization come to an end?

In PERIL IN PARADISE, Clara Garza is faced with this dilemma while trying to stay one step ahead of her deranged ex-husband, Damian Garza. As she embarks on her voyage for justice, Clara meets Jackson Brady, a man seeking his own revenge, and a man trying to capture her heart. The two find themselves resolving one issue only to face another sinister challenge.

Rivka Ganuke, barely surviving her birth, was thrust into a conflicted world at the onset of the 20th century, a world of want, poverty and danger, a misogynistic world which had forever deprived women of equality. She rebelled at the obligation to fulfill age-old roles steeped in superstition and was denied the right to continue her education despite her brilliant mind.

The Sisters of the Abbey of the Sacred Heart receive a generous but strange bequest. Named specifically, six nuns must spend two weeks at a rustic, off-the-grid lodge in the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon. Should any one of them at any time during the two weeks leave the property they will forfeit the 200-acre gift.

A generation after a nerve agent decimated the planet, legendary Barbara Hanson's children, Summer and Amon, attempt to discover the dark secrets of the past. Tall tales and gossip have destroyed their mother's credibility and it's up to them to make it right. But, will they be banished for their curiosity? A quote from the Old Testament may hold the key.

For “One,” an illegal clone who generates distance-bending wormholes, time is good for measuring how much longer she can survive in her home, Sector 215, an impoverished remnant of North America ruined by multiple nuclear blasts.

I tried to make each prayer, poem, or inspirational story stand on its own merit. However, you may find that some are interconnected. How appropriate, since we are all interconnected with each other through God.

This is an autobiography of my last years of high school. It is about young innocent love, fun times, breakups, and betrayal. It does have some throwbacks to younger me....

After losing her grandmother, Tori distances herself from everyone she knows and falls into a deep depression while losing control of her life. With the gift of being able to visit heaven and the guidance of her nanny, she is able to get back on track with her life and even find love.

Ember has spent the last 20 years of her life in a dance with the devil. Derek is a broken and narcissistic man, but Ember wants nothing more than to make things work with him.