Dirty Pictures is an introduction novel with an overplaying plot that extends to the story And They Played Loneliness. Its about an Italian woman, Regina, thirty-two, a massage technician for the Hot Tub Place, who gets so involved into bisexualism that she realizes almost too late that there is a new kind of girl out there and those girls are scaring her. She meets Tess, a woman who rejects her and teases her with other women. Regina is so upset by her actions and causal encounters with other women that one gets her into trouble with mind control and another attacks her. All the while, her roommate, the beautiful, charming young Italian, Gloria, is trying to get her to quit having affairs with women altogether and bails her out of trouble when she falls victim into a mystery of a sex scam. Regina is brought up the hard way in life and does her early years as a table dancer. She has very little problems making friends, and she carries with her good ideas for others to use to better their life. She loves people in general, but these trying situations force her to look at herself. If youre searching for something different to read, Dirty Pictures may fill that void.

As twelve-year-old Koywan navigates the school day, he endures a lot of stress. Hes the butt of everyones jokes, has only a few friends, and being chosen last on teams is a weekly event. But having to ride the bus and deal with the jokers and pranksters is the worst. He anticipates the sassy words of his worst enemy, Suzie Johnson. As if enduring his classmates jokes during the school hours isnt bad enough, Suzies sharp words put the bitter icing on what has already been a bad day. He keeps his cool while Suzie throws insult after insult at him until she moves to the next person; few are exempt from her nastiness. Unfortunately for Koywan, his insults last longer, and he seems to be Suzies prime target. Koywan is frustrated by the bus drivers lack of concern. The best part of his day is getting home and spending time with Grandma Lillian who always knows the right things to say. Although her words are old-fashioned and out of date for a twelve-year-old kid, they still mean a lot. But when Koywan needs advice from someone his age, his best friend, John, is there to help him brainstorm. And thats what they do: concoct a plan to help Koywan get Suzie off his back, to fit in at school, and to have a chance to be normal.

In a garden of a thousand other volumes, my little yellow book with its earnest plea and hopeful flowers on the cover sits waiting for you to pick it up. It's got a heart it wants to give away. These haikus, poems, and prose pieces are about the miracle of being wanted back by someone we want, the desperation of hoping they'll fight harder when they waver, the rawness of seeking reassurance that we are loved as we are, and the tenderness we feel when we're sending love out to others—all those moments when we are making our need to be accepted plain and praying, please pick me. This new, compact Philippine edition features the same four chapters of poetry as the original, with a little sneak peek into my in-progress collection of pandemic poems, some things don't survive. I hope you open it. I hope it invites you to be open too.

A newspaper columnist for Cleveland's "Plain Dealer" offers essays and stories to inspire everyone to make positive changes, make a difference in the world around them, and even witness a miracle.

Doctor, Ive been on the pill for years and youre telling me Im pregnant? A few weeks later, her doctor recommends Lola to have an abortion because of fetus distress. She says, No way! Lola sees the life of her now-grown daughter, young, healthy, brilliant, and successful, slowly being dissolved by drugs. Her daughters living death and the horrors that come along for a free ride to hell are all but consuming Lola, her husband, and their other daughter and her family as well. One morning, Lola reads an article about a scientific project experimenting with time travel. Secretly, Lola volunteers to travel back in time thirty years, to the day she turned down the abortion. This time she takes the doctors advice. Returning, she finds the undoing of her daughter is causing unimaginable consequences and horrors, touching her family and many others. Lola believes the only way out is to go back and undo what she has done. However, it seems that may not be possible. She calls on God to please open the way for her to undo the hell she herself has brought to pass by undoing what God had created. She cries out, I must go back for tomorrow. Lola finds that Gods grace and mercies are more than enough to deal with her daughters trialsall the way to victory!

It doesn’t matter how many years go by, love will always find a way…. On the surface, Brecee Carmen has nothing in common with Adrian Cole. She is a pediatrician certified in trauma care; he is a transportation problem-solver for a luxury car dealership (a.k.a., a car salesman). Despite their slow but steady attraction to each other, neither one of them is sure that they're compatible. To complicate matters, Brecee is the sole unattached Carmen daughter when it seems as though everyone else around her—family and friends—is finding love. Through a series of discoveries, Adrian and Brecee learn that things don't always happen by coincidence. Generational forces are at work, keeping promises, protecting family members, and perhaps even drawing Adrian back to the church he had strayed from. Is it possible that God has been playing matchmaker all along?

In this award winning continuation of the Goddess of the Stars and the Sea trilogy, humankind is once again on the threshold of a spiritual evolution. In fourth century England, six year old Rhianna is kidnapped and raised in a Christian Abbey but has never forgotten grandmothers prophecy Your destiny lies with the Goddess of the Stars and the Sea. She alone must mid-wife the next stage of spiritual evolution, as dark times approach for humanity. Powerful forces within both the Abbey and the priestess community conspire to keep Rhianna from her rightful destiny and her true love. The price of her heroic quest is far higher than she expects.

Offers a collection of classic plays by such women writers as Lillian Hellman, Gertrude Stein, Alice Childress, and Clare Boothe.

From fast-paced hospital days… To slow, sultry nights! Dr. Regina Montgomery’s temporary job in Miami is a chance to refocus on her goal of becoming chief of medicine. But she’s unprepared for her former resident, Dr. Mateo Herrera, to be working in the same hospital. When Mateo makes it clear he wants her…the term night shift takes on a whole new meaning! But Mateo’s family needs him, and Regina has fought long and hard for her career back in California… From Harlequin Medical: Life and love in the world of modern medicine.