After World War II, the United States underwent a massive cultural transformation that was vividly realized in the development and widespread use of new medical technologies. Plastic surgery, wonder drugs, artificial organs, and prosthetics inspired Americans to believe in a new age of modern medical miracles. The nationalistic pride that flourished in postwar society, meanwhile, encouraged many Americans to put tremendous faith in the power of medicine to rehabilitate and otherwise transform the lives and bodies of the disabled and those considered abnormal. Replaceable You revisits this heady era in American history to consider how these medical technologies and procedures were used to advance the politics of conformity during the 1950s.

“Sometimes in life, we feel that we have it all with the one we love, but we often forget that everyone can be replaced.” Chanel and Jamal are high school sweethearts, who seem to have it all together, but we all know that everything that glitters isn’t gold. Jamel has put Chanel through so much, yet she continues to hold onto the love that they share, until he pushes her too far. But has he pushed her far enough to finally walk away? Will someone come into her life and show her that Jamel’s seemingly irreplaceable love is replaceable after all? Da’sha is a mother of a handsome three-year-old son, whom she loves to death. She wants nothing more than to live a happy life and have a real family with her son’s father, Benz, but we all know we often meet people who change us. Can Benz get his family together before it’s too late or will someone sweep Da’Sha off of her feet and help her move on? Angie feels that her man is all that she needs and no one can take his place. That is until she catches the eye of another man, who just may prove her wrong and show her that her man is indeed replaceable. Can love keep them together or will Angie find that the grass really is greener on the other side? Join Chanel, Da’Sha, and Angie on their journey through life and love as they prove to the men in their lives that no matter how much history you may have, everyone is replaceable.

Chanel finally found happiness. Real has come into her life and swept her off her feet. He proposed, and of course she said yes. Her career is taking off, and she is on cloud nine. When she finally starts her counseling to the community for men and women who dealt with abuse, depression, drugs and women who needed to just talk to someone, she never thought the person sitting across from her would make her feel as if she were replaceable in her own man’s life. Will she and Real make it down the aisle? Da’Sha finally told Benz what happened the night of her bachelorette party. She thought that telling him would clear her conscience and that they would move forward in their marriage. However, Benz doesn’t deal with the news well. He’s out for blood. Will he forgive her and move forward with their relationship, or will he end their marriage way before it even gets started? Angie thought telling RJ she was pregnant would be hard because he just started his job, but what was hard was for her to hear him asking if the baby was his, although the outcome isn’t enough to break them up. Though these couples seem to always bounce back and maintain their relationships, something aiming right at them will come and turn their whole world upside down.

Chanel and Real are trying to building a relationship, only problem is her ex seems to be the topic of their arguments. Real took it amongst himself to see if Nel was out doing what he had thought all along. Will the pictures he have, reveal the truth about Nel and Jamel’s relationship status? Real’s mother keep pressing him to reach out to his father that he never met. Will he finally decide to meet the man who was never there for him? Or will he forget that he even have a father? Angie has a secret she must confess to RJ, but when she does, will RJ forgive her or will he replace the love they had by moving on with some else? Da’Sha and Benz seems to keep butting heads; can it be that she is still in love with Benz? Can she leave El alone, and make it work with Benz or will she finally make Benz realize he has been replaced? Mel’s relationship with Ronda ended before it even started. He now has his eyes on someone and plans to keep her around. Could it be the woman of his dreams? Sometimes your past can expose more dirt and pain to your future, that you wish you could replace the truth with lies. Follow these couples as they try to make their relationships work, but betrayal, lies and guilt are keeping them all from a happily ever after.

After World War II, the United States underwent a massive cultural transformation that was vividly realized in the development and widespread use of new medical technologies. Plastic surgery, wonder drugs, artificial organs, and prosthetics inspired Americans to believe in a new age of modern medical miracles. The nationalistic pride that flourished in postwar society, meanwhile, encouraged many Americans to put tremendous faith in the power of medicine to rehabilitate and otherwise transform the lives and bodies of the disabled and those considered abnormal. Replaceable You revisits this heady era in American history to consider how these medical technologies and procedures were used to advance the politics of conformity during the 1950s.

Are you an entrepreneur mystified as to how to scale your business? Do you realize the solution is to make yourself replaceable? Does that question bring up any resistance? Well, then you are ready to dive into my latest book. "The Replaceable Founder" explores the dynamics of entrepreneurship world and explains how founders can capitalize on emerging trends to optimize, automate, outsource, and create truly sustainable businesses.You'll be relieved to discover how simple and easy it is to relinquish control and cultivate a more productive mindset with this book. I'll give you the tools to confidently optimize, securely automate, and effortlessly outsource the majority of your daily tasks for the greater good of your business. Author Ari Meisel wrote with exceptional articulation and clarity in the book, sharing practical, actionable methods on how entrepreneurs can build next level businesses through his proprietary OA Methodology. This book is a blueprint that will help you eliminate that "I got this" mentality so you can create your own path to professional and financial success, no matter the size of your business. Quite simply, It is filled with "right here, right now" tactics and processes that will show you how to build a better company. This is not a book that tells you a story about how to start a business, it is one of those rare practical guides that has the power to change any entrepreneur's life. All Ari asks is that founders get out of their own way.

“With wry humor and profound sensitivity, Walsh takes what is mundane and transforms it into something otherworldly with sentences that can make your heart stop. A feat of language.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Joanna Walsh's haunting and unforgettable stories enact a literal vertigo—the feeling that if I fall I will fall not toward the earth but into space—by probing the spaces between things. Waiting for news in a children's hospital, pondering her husband's multiple online flirtations or observing the tourists and locals at a third-world archeological site, her narrator approaches the suppressed state of panic coursing beneath things that are normally tamed by our blunted perceptions of ordinary life. Vertigo is an original and breathtaking book.” (Chris Kraus)

In the small sweet town of Holly Oak, the holidays are brimming with hope this year. Sadie Lynn is faced with her first Christmas after losing her Grandma Rose. Forty-years-old and single, she is charged with carrying on all the Fairchild family traditions on Clayton Avenue. She knows she can't let anyone down, not this year of all years. With her adorable dachshund by her side, can she balance it all? When her hunky high school crush and brother’s best friend unexpectedly walks back into her life after twenty years, her quiet little routine gets turned upside down. Not that she’s complaining. But there are more questions than answers about why he’s back and what he is doing on Clayton Avenue. As she navigates this first holiday by herself, she has to admit that it’s wonderful to have a familiar face helping her along the way. This Christmas, Sadie finds more than she ever imagined: a holiday filled with friendship, love and, above all, hope. The Hope of Christmas is the first book in the new clean and wholesome Clayton Avenue Christmas series.

On Georgia’s picturesque Peach Cove Island, a killer is serving up a two-for-one special . . . After their mama's passing, Marygene Brown returned to Peach Cove Island to help her sister Jena Lynn run the family diner, renowned for its homemade peach desserts. But Mama is never too far away—her sassy spirit haunts the island, and more specifically Marygene. Lately Mama has been warning her that the dead will seek her out to solve their murders, an idea Marygene is far from peachy keen on. But that prophecy appears to be coming true when she goes skinny-dipping off the island and swims right into a woman's charred corpse floating in the waves. And when Marygene and her brother Sam come upon a second burned body in a wine cellar at an event they're catering, it appears they have a double homicide on their hands. It soon turns out the victims have more in common than their charred remains, and Marygene will need to double down to find a killer who has no aversion to playing with fire. Good thing Mama has her back . . . Includes Seven Recipes from Marygene’s Kitchen! Visit us at www.kensingtonbooks.com

Kuczynski's goal in writing this book is not to create a 'reality show in a book, ' but to use the stories of turmoil and struggle that have unfolded before him as a teaching opportunity. It is to engage teenagers mentally and emotionally so that they develop better choice-making skills and cultivate their ability to succeed despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles and challenges.