"The award-winning author shares her journey as a writer, offering valuable insights that will motivate young writers. Includes writing exercises, story starters and a glossary" Cf. Our choice, 2001

Dr. Michael Petrillo met the challenge of difficult economic times with education, determination, and personal goal-setting. He achieved his objectives by becoming a pastor, a psychotherapist, a mentor, coach, hypnotherapist, and muse. Now, he offers his most powerful tools to help you achieve your own success. In While I Was Musing, the Fires Burned, Dr. Petrillo examines the healing power of meditation, musing, and wholeness to make his case for our inner healing power. By learning how to channel energy through positive beliefs and practices, soul-searching, and meditation, Dr. Petrillo shows you how to inspire your minds inner biological system to heal, repair, and regenerate. He explores the impact that food has on your physical and mental health. By improving your diet and using many of the noninvasive techniques outlined in the book, you can maximize your health and engage the internal healing system in your body, mind, and soul. Michael teaches how to change attitudes by tapping into our center for profound change in the body, the mind, and the spirit. Throughout his own personal journey to holistic health, he has traveled to many parts of the world to learn healing techniquesand he shares the best of his experiences with you here, in While I Was Musing, the Fires Burned.

In Oxford, Mississippi, three outcast teenagers seek sanctuary in William Faulkners attic as they wreak vengeance on the town that has shunned them.

Waves, white lies and weddings. What could possibly go wrong? Breanna Mitchell is on her way to a relaxing vacation at the ocean. Maybe she'll even have a beachside fling to help her get over a recent breakup. But when a tropical storm makes her hotel uninhabitable, a chance encounter at continental breakfast delivers a fabulous option – with a catch. She and her friends can stay at a private oceanfront home – if she pretends to be the girlfriend of the owner’s heartbreaker grandson, Ethan. He won’t even be there, so how hard could it be? Everything is going swimmingly until Bree drinks too much wine and regales the family with romantic tales about her relationship with Ethan. His adorable brother gets suspicious. His marriage-minded grandma gets engagement fever. The beautiful woman next door gets teary-eyed. And then, Ethan unexpectedly arrives. Suddenly Bree is about to get everything she's ever wished for – but is it what she really wants? FRESH BREWED is the second book in THE CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST CLUB series – feel-good, laugh out loud romantic comedies about friendship and love by award-winning author Pamela Ford. ***** Don’t miss any of the Continental Breakfast Club books! Though these books are a series, each is a stand-alone story. Over Easy (#1) Fresh Brewed (#2) Honey Glazed (#3) PRAISE FOR FRESH BREWED: “I absolutely adored Fresh Brewed...loved the setting, characters, cover, everything...perfect chick-lit..." –Bookaholic Banter “I loved the plot...had me laughing and smiling. I couldn’t get enough of Bree and Ethan, and his family. I highly recommend picking up this series.” –Bookishly Devoted “A wonderful read...I had a smile on my face the whole time...the story was done perfectly." –XOXO Book Blog "Exceptionally charming...I have completely fallen in love with the characters. The friendships and relationships feel real and heartwarming." –A Splendid Messy Life "An absolute pleasure to read." –Room with Books "The book has the perfect script for movies...the writing is endearingly perfect." – Readers' Muse "A wonderful standalone romantic comedy...pure sweet chick lit fun for any women's book club." –Laura's Interests "I have fallen in love with these characters." –A Holland Reads “Warm relationships, great family ties, and interesting characters...I found it hard to put down.” –Corrine Rodrigues Blogger Fun, fast reading...chick lit at its best with lots of humor." –Bound 4 Escape

In The Beginning, Jessica's marriage to handsome hotelier Julian Bothwell reads like a romance novel. However, Jessica's marital bliss soon begins to unravel as she realizes she has married not only into money, but mayhem, madness, and perhaps murder as well. Desperate to save her marriage and the life she has built for her young son, Jessica becomes the keeper of things she dare not say out loud, not even to her closest confidante and friend or her therapist. As she frantically careens from one stopgap measure to another, Jessica finds herself turning to a coping mechanism that, to her dismay, proves not only futile but also perilous. A combination of romance, intense suspense, and an examination of the darker side of human nature, Tap Dancing on Quicksand is not a book for the fainthearted. It examines issues that women have faced for centuries - loving too much, spousal and child abuse, alcoholism and drug addiction, family secrets, and dysfunction. It is a book about a woman for whom being in love becomes synonymous with being in terror. Tap Dancing on Quicksand will keep you guessing until the last page....

I SPENT MY ENTIRE LIFE PLAYING NERDS. . .—Barry Livingston A true Hollywood survivor, Barry Livingston is one of the few child stars who turned early success into a lifelong career. As "Ernie" on the 1960s sit-com My Three Sons—which also featured his real-life brother Stanley as "Chip"—Barry become instantly recognizable for his horn-rimmed glasses and goofy charm. Five decades later, after working on TV shows like Mad Men and Desperate Housewives, and in feature films like Zodiac and The Social Network, Barry Livingston is one actor who knows The Importance of Being Ernie. . . In this fascinating and funny memoir, Barry reveals his most unforgettable anecdotes: Working on set with Fred McMurray, Ozzie and Harriet, Lucille Ball and Dick Van Dyke. Riding a limousine with Elvis Presley. Trying to upstage Ron "Opie" Howard. Even shooting a Superbowl beer commercial with Brad Pitt. At first, Barry's lazy eye and horn-rimmed glasses nearly derailed his career, getting him kicked off his first major film starring Paul Newman. Eventually, his "nerdy" look became his biggest asset, landing Barry a recurring role on Ozzie & Harriet and a regular part on My Three Sons. Fifty years later, Barry is still going strong—from the stage and small screen to to featured film roles opposite Adam Sandler and Robert Downey, Jr.. Like most Hollywood actors, Barry experienced some incredible highs and lows along the way, but he never gave up. "I've been around half a century," he affirms. "And I'm not going away." This is how one child star beat the odds and survived the dark side of the Hollywood dream factory—with charm, wit, determination. . .and big horn-rimmed glasses. This is The Importance of Being Ernie. Barry Livingston has been a professional actor on stage and screen for more than fifty years. Best known for his role as "Ernie" on the long-running TV program, My Three Sons, Livingston continues to appear regularly in feature films and television shows. He is married with two children, and lives in Los Angeles. Praise For The Importance Of Being Ernie "This wryly told saga of a child star who miraculously avoided the crash-and-burn fate of so many of the once-famous. . . an engaging tale of the unusual life of a humorous, modest, and observant man. Barry Livingston delivers a frank and funny tale of TV, movies, and family life." —Brent Maddock, co-author of Tremors and Short Circuit "For a child star, he's almost normal. This poor kid had to sit on William Frawley's lap; we're lucky he's not on a roof with a rifle. . .. Barry is one of those rare child stars who grew up to become an accomplished adult actor. Having logged fifty years in show business, working with everyone from Lucille Ball and Jack Benny to Brad Pitt and Robert Downey, Jr., he's got a great story to tell." —Paul Jackson, Producer Charmed and Sliders. "I have known Barry Livingston since he was nine years old. He always made me laugh. Now he's kept me awake reading his wonderful autobiography. There's a lot of talent in those size eight shoes." —Gene Reynolds, director of TV's M.A.S.H.and Promised Land

This volume contains detailed information about every musical that opened on Broadway from 2010 through the end of 2019. This book discusses the decade’s major successes, notorious failures, and musicals that closed during their pre-Broadway tryouts. In addition to including every hit and flop that debuted during the decade, this book highlights revivals and personal-appearance revues.

Tracing the development of tap dancing from ancient India to the Broadway stage in 1903, when the word "Tap" was first used in publicity to describe this new American style of dance, this text separates the cultural, societal and historical events that influenced the development of Tap dancing. Section One covers primary influences such as Irish step dancing, English clog dancing and African dancing. Section Two covers theatrical influences (early theatrical developments, "Daddy" Rice, the Virginia Minstrels) and Section Three covers various other influences (Native American, German and Shaker). Also included are accounts of the people present at tap's inception and how various styles of dance were mixed to create a new art form.