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With twenty-plus repressed years as an administrative assistant, an operation that cut down her childbearing years, and numerous disastrous love affairs, Sara Lovett launched herself backward into a pilgrimage across her past. She began traveling alone on her birthday, finishing exactly a year later with a room full of friends, altogether, for a celebration of life that she never thought was possible.Sara visits a hundred and fifty-six people face-to-face throughout the United States, Great Britain, and Cyprus in an attempt to connect with each one of them, and to herself, outside the machine she feels swallowed into.Along the way, in this Facebook-on-foot universe she has created, there is the marked presence of a child whispering to her from the passenger seat. By allowing the voice she thought she buried years before back into her life, she finds her own voice and discovers the truth of what it takes to be a friend.

Are you an abuse survivor looking for guidance on healing from trauma? Would you like to empower yourself with simple, practical, and effective ways to handle the emotional pain, negativities, and impact that the abuse has had on your life? If you've been looking for a book that will teach you how to become resilient and develop self-love and self-compassion, then look no further, you've found the perfect book! The road to recovery after any form of abuse can be challenging and overwhelming but that doesn't make it impossible. With a solid support system, constructive methods, and patience, you can find the power to move on and thrive As a survivor of domestic violence, D. Torres is passionate about helping other survivors reclaim their sense of self-worth through self-discovery and healing. Using her personal experience, unique insights, and compassion, she now brings you this comprehensive guide that will take you on a transformative journey of healing, empowerment, and cultivating positive changes. Are you ready to learn how? Inside Finding My Light, you'll discover: A detailed look at abuse including the different types, cycles, and the effects it has on a victim's life and future relationshipsStrategies to ensure safety when you finally decide to leaveHow to allow yourself to heal, make use of your support system, and embrace your emotionsEffective tools you can start incorporating into your life to cultivate self-care and self-compassion, no matter how difficult this has been for you beforeHow to regain control over your life, find yourself again, and reach out for helpYou're about to step into a powerful phase in your life, where you'll get the recovery, you've always yearned for. Every chapter is filled with compelling tools that are designed to empower you to rediscover yourself, confront the darkness of your past, and start living a fulfilling life. This book will give you all the practical and empathetic support you need!

Thirty-five-year-old Wendy Shaw has just been, as she puts it, "unleashed" from a three-month stay in a psychiatric institution in New York. Now, seeking emotional respite in her older sister's West Michigan home, Wendy makes the conscious decision to give up her cosmopolitan life as a trendy nightclub promoter to take time to heal from the death of her three ex-lovers: one by suicide, one by bludgeoning in Greenwich Village, and the third from "natural causes" in his Upper West Side condo. When Wendy's sister sets her up on a blind date with a local home contractor, she wonders if she can ever allow herself to love again. Is Wendy's love life forever tainted and cursed? This traumatic shift reveals the dangers of being a fatally passionate woman like Wendy. Ivan Jenson's The Tigress is a tour de force of psychological suspense that will take the reader deep within the inner workings of Wendy's fragile mind, as she finally discovers that for her, love and death might be irrevocably intertwined.

Writer Timothy Upshaw thought the case of the "Haney House Murders" was closed when Donald Haney confessed to killing his family and Upshaw's sister. However, when his sister, Sara is reportedly spotted in "The Haney House of Horrors" ten years later, Upshaw swiftly returns to the hometown he fled from. In the process, he learns that what happened in the Haney House was just the beginning-there's a much greater evil out there.

Deep in the forests of Oregon rests a little town named Riverton. During summer vacation, Robert and his family soon learn that there's more to the town than just its long history. Ghosts and spirits are around every corner, and a sinister force is at play. All of which are connected through a portal that leads to another realm called "The Void."After some research and near-death experiences, Robert, his sister, and two cousins discover the truth about the small town. To keep everyone they love safe, they will need to close the portal. However, their heroic acts won't be successful unless they defeat the evil spirits protecting it.

Go deep into the unsettling heights of the human mind, with stories representing the darkest and strangest that humanity has to offer, as well as ones that break the traditional mold of reality and take you on a journey of different times, realities, and the fascinating world of dreams. Open up your mind and experience the limits of the unconventional, but don't go too deep-you might just find yourself in one of these stories!

East of Ivan is Amazon's #1 best-selling poet and author Ivan Jenson's sweeping, raw, comic memoir of his personal and artistic journey as an iconic pop artist. It's a bumpy, thrilling ride from Los Angeles to Costa Rica, Bloomington, New Rochelle, and finally, the gritty streets of New York City, where he achieves unexpected, unprecedented success as a painter in the historic East Village art scene of the '80s. Ivan is an endearingly egocentric, East Coast Don Quixote; and this emotionally charged chronicle of his early life contains plenty of manic, misguided, yet always engaging rodomontade. East of Ivan is a laugh-out-loud hilarious and histrionic on-the-road-style howl of a confessional memoir; a rags-to-riches cautionary tale about the soul-shattering addiction of artistic ambition in downtown New York City. Yet, it leads Ivan into unforgettable misadventures of heartache and triumph.

Johnny Jenkins was the child star of a controversial exorcism film, The Damned. After enduring the pain caused by a hovering stage mother, he escaped and enlisted in the Army. After being honorably discharged, Little Johnny Jenkins began to suffer from debilitating PTSD, and the only way he can keep his demons at bay is by writing. As the cloistered, highly successful writer of feel-good novels about loving mother-son relationships, he has created a comfort zone for himself. But he is soon brought back to the epicenter of his nightmares, his role in the movie; and along the way discovers the horrifying backstory of The Damned. Pulpy and darkly smart, Ron Capshaw is a compulsively readable genre unto himself. I devoured The Stage Mother's Club in a single sitting. Take two-measures of William Peter Blatty and add a dash of vintage James Ellroy. Season with the breakneck pace of 1980s-style adventure paperbacks and savor the wild banquet! -Craig McDonald, Edgar Award Finalist

Where does evil come from? For the last ten years, Angela Thompson has been living a nightmare. While motherhood was never her goal, she has tried everything to connect with her son, Max. It was supposed to be two of them against the world until Max's behavior grew increasingly disturbing. The missing items, lost pets, and strange drawings she could handle but now, the murder of little Tommy Marshall has the entire town of Oregon, Ohio on edge. Beaten with a large rock and left to die in the woods, the police search frantically for a sadistic child killer. Unfortunately, all of the evidence points to Angela as she begins to doubt everything and everyone around her. She swears that she would never hurt a child, but has her troubled son and loneliness pushed her too far? Her gut tells her that Max is involved but authorities find it hard to believe that a ten-year-old boy could pull off the perfect murder and put his mother on death row. In fact, nobody believes her! But they don't know Max like she does. They don't know how sick and depraved her angelic little boy can be.Unfortunately, everyone is about to find out the hard way.

Something is wrong with the city of Toledo, Ohio-it brings out the worst in people and keeps them trapped. So, how does anyone survive?Emerson Waverly and Detective Jennifer Milner are complete strangers but have much more in common than either of them know. They are both single and stuck in Toledo, living unfulfilling lives. Emerson has worked tooth and nail to get where she is and make the most of surviving on her own. But she never thought she would end up thirty and single, ready to do anything to get her boyfriend, Xavior, back. After suffering from her fourth miscarriage in four years, Xavior had left her to deal with the heartbreak of losing another child on her own. Four months later, however, Emerson discovers that Xavior has been living a secret life on the other side of town, and all she can think about is making him pay.Meanwhile, Detective Milner is a single mom trying to break the cycle of neglect with her teenage daughter. Every day is a challenge but now she must navigate a new reality when her daughter's father shows up after ten years and demands to be a part of her life. On the force, Jennifer has her own secrets to deal with which threaten her reputation. The pressure is on as she juggles her family and career and it becomes even harder to keep her head in the game when one gruesome murder after another shakes the town.But when the killer makes a crucial mistake, will Jennifer Milner be able to solve the case through an objective lens, or is she doomed to be a broken cog in a failing system?