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Featured historian in the Ken Burns documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust on PBS WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD In this remarkable work of historical reclamation, Holocaust historian Rebecca Erbelding pieces together years of research and newly uncovered archival materials to...

How can we prepare for an event that is literally beyond anything humanity has ever faced? Making Contact presents multiple perspectives on what no longer can be denied: UFOs and their occupants are visiting our world. The book answers questions which remain in the wake of the recent...

Help your teenage girl prepare to face the world. So many girls are facing challenges every day, with the next generation seeing more skyrocketing diagnoses of depression and anxiety than ever before. While we might not be able to stop every trial that comes their way, we can still help our daughters persevere with strong self-confidence in themselves.

When single mom Jo Dykstra was at her lowest—jobless and penniless—her childhood friend Dana McFarlane helped her out big-time by securing her a teaching job and thus an opportunity for a new life in the affluent Pacific Northwest town of Glebes Bay. So, when Jo gets a frantic late-night call from Dana, sobbing and desperate for help, it feels like a chance to help her friend in return.

It’s June 2012. The magical and slightly cultish River Run swim club is alive with the spirit of fun competition when a perfect storm brews between team moms and best friends Gillian Cloud and Kristy Weinstein. The ghost of family addiction has turned up, looming over their carefully planned pasta parties, tie-dye nights, and pep rallies, forcing them to face their unresolved childhood trauma. Gillian responds by trying to control everyone around her while Kristy relapses into her dangerous addiction to love.

Sophie Winston is busy handling the first ever convention of the Association of Ghost Kitchens—restaurants that do delivery only—but she's taking a little time out for a lunch meeting organized by A Healthy Meal. The group is dedicated to providing meals for children in need, and as a bonus, it'll give Sophie the perfect opportunity to ogle the lavish Old Town home of socialite Geraldine Stansfield. Gerrie's dining room is impeccably furnished, the table laden with gleaming crystal and prized china. If it weren't for the dead man lying on the floor, everything would be perfect.

See You At San Diego is the comprehensive chronicle of Comic-Con International and modern geekdom itself as told through countless stories by nearly fifty of the most integral members of the Comic-Con and fandom scene. This full-fledged oral history—bursting with intimate reflections, hilarious observations, and at times, heartbreaking stories—is about how the geek at last inherited the earth and the story of the transformation of mainstream American pop culture into comic book culture over the past century.

Psychologist Jodie Eckleberry-Hunt, author of Move on Motherf*cker, provides the tools to survive and thrive after a breakup in this empowering, BS-free guide. This seriously motivational guide mixes salty straight talk, humor, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and positivity to lead you to growth and recovery. Overcome self-defeat, smash the sh*t out of heartbreak, and get ready to move on, motherf*cker! 

Hey guys! Just wanted to let you know that I’ll be in Athens for four days next week.

Karla Jay's memoir of an age whose tumultuous social and political movements fundamentally reshaped American culture takes listeners from her early days in the 1968 Columbia University student riots to her post-college involvement in New York radical women's groups and the New York Gay Liberation Front to Southern California in the early '70s, where she continued in the battle for gay civil rights. We see her helping to organize the takeover of The Ladies Home Journal and “ogle-ins” - where women staked out Wall Street and whistled at the men.

Fools Die in The Zoo. They Die Fast and Horribly. From the fertile imagination of bestselling author Michael Anderle.... JB has left the bar to die in the zoo, but will his friends allow that? If JB's friends try to save him, will they screw up his chance at living one more time? Holly and the team need a serious cash infusion. Where is she going to get the money? Will she succumb to working for the contacts that sent her to the zoo in the first place? Hickok is younger now.

Hickok is out to help a friend, but she needs to kill him first. Will her plan work, or will her friend be another black mark on her conscience for eternity? Holly is entering the ZOO with her team. Will Holly and her team be able to handle the effort, or will the ZOO take Holly out this time? Holly is close, but can she figure out how to test her serum without killing JB if she gets the first batch wrong? It is coming down to the wire, and Holly is betting her life she is right.

Fools die in the zoo. They die fast and horribly. From the fertile imagination of bestselling author Michael Anderle...Join Holly Smith as she learns about the ZOO, how to stay alive, and the opportunities that being a part of the ZOO have brought humanity. The future is looking interesting and humorous, except for the dying part.

Hickok has to get back into her real job or risk being found out. Can she juggle the jobs for her black ops group and help Holly at the same time? JB has been provided a serum to help his ZOO problem. Will it be enough to give Holly time to figure out a real solution? Holly has a plan, but she has to go into the ZOO to learn more. Can she train well enough to not only go in but come back out safely?

Holly is very close to a cure, but she needs an unfathomable amount of goop to concoct a solution. However, is she going to get enough of the goop to try? Hickok doing another job for the company, but she is starting to see the jobs for what they are. Will she be able to ignore the questions in her mind? Holly is close, but can she figure out how to test her serum without killing JB if she gets the first batch wrong? Amanda takes Holly to the one person she needs to talk with, but they will ask her a life question that must be answered before she does anything for JB.

Fools die in the Zoo. They die fast and horribly. From the fertile imagination of best-selling author Michael Anderle: Holly has been asking questions, but now they are getting a bit more pointed...and you never know who might be in the audience. There are ghosts everywhere, but now we are talking about ghosts in the Zoo.... Can Holly learn enough about the Zoo to become comfortable with the idea that she can make it inside and back out again safely? The more she learns, the more her concern intensifies. Are you ready to enter the Zoo...again?

Holly is beginning to understand what her gut has been telling her, and it isn't a pretty sight. Will she listen to what she is learning, or is she feeling the pressure from New York? JB is telling her stories, but does he have an ulterior motive? And if he does, is it better for Holly to know it…or not? Will each of them find the solution they need? Holly is back, learning about another story ripped out of the ZOO. But this one seems too impossible to be true. HOW MUCH can one person drink and not shoot themselves?

Do you remember your first love? Have you ever wondered what would happen if you had a second chance to follow your heart? In this collection of novellas written by award-winning and best-selling authors, come home to Echo Ridge as summer winds down and hearts once broken and lost are given one more chance, a second chance to love. This collection includes novellas by Lucy McConnell, Janette Rallison, Cami Checketts, Heather Tullis, and Rachelle J. Christensen.

After living through an emotionally turbulent journey of infertility and the birth of one son, Fabiana was thrilled to discover that she was pregnant again, this time with twins. She did not expect to encounter a tumultuous road until she was told that one of her twins had no chance of survival. Then, only weeks later, she gave birth prematurely. Her surviving twin spent months in a neonatal intensive care unit and later became a child with special needs. From Surviving to Thriving is about finding the joy; making the choice to see hope where others only see despair, pain, loss, and sorrow.

Hedda Hopper came into this world screaming, and she liked to say that she never stopped. Decades after, she could still out-shout any producer in Hollywood, and she wasn't afraid to do whatever it took to get her way. One of the most glamorous stars of the silent era, Hopper became one of the most notorious gossip columnists in the country, whose acid wit and razor-sharp pen fearlessly attacked the biggest names in Hollywood. In From Under My Hat, she tells her story as only she can.