“[Erma Bombeck] is marvelously funny, direct as a hypodermic, a virtuoso in the field of suburban living.”—Vogue It’s the exposé to end all exposés—the truth about the suburbs: where they planted trees and crabgrass came up, where they planted the schools and taxes came up, where they died of old age trying to merge onto the freeway and where they finally got sex out of the schools and back into the gutters.

Throughout the ages, the shared lesson taught by every wise sage, philosopher and saint is that the quality of our world experience is based on the way we see it. Author and spiritual teacher David Ault's latest work The Grass Is Greener Right Here is a tour de force of storytelling, memoir and instruction that continues offering this ancient life lesson with fresh literary vibrancy. While showcasing humanity's finest display of compassion and connection, each chapter reveals the collective struggles and triumphs we face in partnering with self-love, honoring the emotions of loss, celebrating diversity, keeping curiosity alive and championing our personal reinvention. By committing our lives to spiritual inquiry, we uncover the revelation that all we will ever need is already in existence. Our solutions, dreams-the answers to our prayers-abide in form and willingly await our recognition of them. The Grass Is Greener Right Here is written affirmation that what we long for is found right where we stand.

Do you think the grass really is always greener on the other side? Let us take a look and see. Join us for this heart-warming story of friendship, perception and self-esteem, as we discover together if... THE GRASS REALLY IS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE.

"A family counselor speaks frankly about extramarital affairs and offers both preventive and healing measures"--Jacket subtitle.

From the author of The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots and The Maxwell Sisters comes a captivating novel about best friends, family and fighting for what you want, against all odds. The grass always seems greener on the other side . . . until you get there. For generations Bronwyn Eddings's family has thrived in the legal profession and a position at their prestigious firm is hers by right. Only problem is: she does not want it. Her best friend Claudia has always dreamed of being a lawyer, but tragedy struck and she took up the reins of her father’s vineyard instead. It was supposed to be temporary . . . now there’s no end in sight. Bronwyn wants Claudia’s life so badly. Claudia can’t imagine anything better than Bronwyn’s job. So the friends hatch a crazy plan to swap places. Both are determined to be the person they always thought they could never be. But achieving your dreams isn’t easy – and falling in love with the men who oppose them is not a good idea . . .

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • From the bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and When Life Gives You Lululemons comes a highly entertaining, sharply observed novel about sisters, their perfect lives . . . and their perfect lies. “Goes down like an ice-cold guilty pleasure on a hot beach-reading day.”—USA Today A seat at the anchor desk of the most-watched morning show. Recognized by millions across the country, thanks in part to her flawless blond highlights and Botox-smoothed skin. An adoring husband and a Princeton-bound daughter. Peyton is that woman. She has it all. Until . . . Skye, her sister, is a stay-at-home mom living in a glitzy suburb of New York. She has degrees from all the right schools and can helicopter-parent with the best of them. But Skye is different from the rest. She’s looking for something real and dreams of a life beyond the PTA and pickup. Until . . . Max, Peyton’s bright and quirky seventeen-year-old daughter, is poised to kiss her fancy private school goodbye and head off to pursue her dreams in film. She’s waited her entire life for this opportunity. Until . . . One little lie. That’s all it takes. For the illusions to crack. For resentments to surface. Suddenly the grass doesn’t look so green. And they’re left wondering: will they have what it takes to survive the truth?

*Previously published in hardback as Where the Grass is Green* The escapist new novel from the global bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada _________________________________________________________________ LAST SUMMER'S SECRET It was one harmless little lie, that was all. You were only looking out for your daughter, like any mother would. IS THIS SUMMER'S HOTTEST SCANDAL . . . But secrets always surface. Now yours is suddenly the talk of the town. And everything you tried to protect - your family, your career, your picture-perfect life - is about to come crashing down . . . And when it all explodes, when the truth finally catches up - who can you really trust? Go behind closed doors in this deliciously gripping novel of perfect marriages, perfect families - and perfect lies . . . (Previously published in hardback as Where the Grass is Green)

In a compelling story of corporate loss, self-analysis, and comeback over a 25-year period, Melrose, head of the Toro Company of lawn and turf care products, recounts parallel journeys: his quest to create a corporate environment that facilitates the growth and development of the employees as well as the organization, and Toro's peaks-and-valleys procession through the '70s and '80s.

Primarily focused on idioms and other figurative phraseology, Colouring Meaning describes how the meanings of established phrases are enhanced, refocused and modified in everyday language use. Unlike many studies of creativity in language, this book-length survey addresses the matter at several levels, from the purely linguistic level of collocation, through its abstractions in colligation and semantic preference, to semantic prosody and connotation. This journey through both linguistic and cognitive levels involves the examination of habitual language and its exploitations, both mundane and colourful, explaining the phenomena observed in terms of current psycholinguistic research as well as corpus linguistics theory and analysis. The relationships between meaning in text and meaning in the mind are discussed at length and extensively illustrated with worked case studies to offer the reader a comprehensive overview of metaphorical and other secondary meanings as they emerge in real-world communicative situations.