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The darkest time of James A. W. Schmidt's life came when he lost his wife of thirty-six years to cancer and his whole world fell apart. His grief leads him to a grief support group, where he learns he is not alone in experiencing his overwhelming emotions. The people in the group teach him many things, and he slowly realizes that he feels better when he keeps himself busy and has a specific goal to fulfill. He has always wanted to travel and explore new places, so after pondering the possibilities, he decides he'd like to hike the famous hundred-mile Mickelson Trail in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He is still in pretty good shape, and the route doesn't seem too arduous. The trip will take weeks of careful planning, and the actual four-day hike will be an amazing experience. But he knows it wouldn't be smart to hike that kind of distance alone. So he talks his son, Brian, into hiking with him. That's when things get real. In a series of emotional and thought-provoking incidents before, during, and after the hike, James learns the lessons he needs in order to move on and have a happy life with good memories of the past instead of the overwhelming grief

In 1959, eighteen-year-old Troy Tyler arrives at Jubilee, a conservative Christian church camp, to work through the summer. Tutored by his charismatic roommate Monte, Troy-disillusioned by overexposure to the parental faith-undertakes a transforming journey into expanded consciousness of secular affairs and sexual possibility. A mixed-breed coming-of-age / coming-out story, Siege of Troy is a sly, wry, subversive take on the traditional angst-ridden coming-out narrative. It critiques the fundamentalist religious tradition, targeting the guilt-drenched culture that uses church camps to recruit susceptible youth. The satire is rarely harsh but usually pointed, and often funny. The romance is light and tender, the sex obliquely suggestive. This sometimes brooding, introspective, but always entertaining adventure will appeal to all audiences, particularly teens and young adults, educators, counsellors, parents, psychologists, pastors, social workers, and LGBTQ communities.

Cinderellas live happily ever after. Unless they have a powerful courtiers out to get them. Not that it's hard to frame Casio Westfall, the Emperor's consort, for an attempted assassination. In fact, it's fun. She's a perfect mark. Who's going to complain? She's of a humble and scandalous background and has no friends outside of the Imperial bedroom. But, then again, maybe she doesn't need any.

This is a true story. It is a story that needs to be told about 37 Elizabethan sailors who were marooned on the east coast of Mexico in 1568. They were captured and put on trial by the Spanish Inquisition. Their lives were never the same. What were the sailors doing in the New World more than 50 years before the sailing of the Mayflower? How were they marooned? Why did the Inquisition capture them? It is usually hard to identify specific sailors of the Elizabethan period, but in this book you will see the identities of each of the 37 men. Who were these men? What was the voyage like and what were they doing on the Atlantic? This book shows us something of the 16th century Atlantic world through the eyes of Elizabethan sailors.

In 1985, a ten-year-old girl and her mother vanished in the night without a trace. The mystery of their disappearance was never solved, and the case went cold. Twenty-five years later, a Sullivan's Island resident takes interest in the disappearance, and their story finally starts to unfold...all while the perfectly-carved lives of three friends-Beth, Sarah, and Mary Ellen-become hopelessly enmeshed in secrets, lies, and regrets.When you live in a small island town, you learn to keep secrets because your past never leaves you. But just because it's a small town, doesn't mean its secrets are small.Beth decides to Google her boyfriend, only to find out he has a dark, sad secret. Sarah witnesses her daughter cause a fatal car accident and now she's faced with an impossible decision. Should she report the mistake that could ruin her child's life forever, or take matters into her own hands? Mary Ellen discovers that the passenger in a fatal accident is connected to an unsolved missing person's case. But before she can tell anyone, she is rendered unconscious. The three friends are suddenly entangled in a frightening web of danger, mystery, and deceit. Then one night, it all ends in murder...If You Don't Tell is a page-turning suspense novel full of twists, turns, and dark secrets, intricately spun in a compelling plot until the very last page.