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In 1968, I was a sixteen-year-old girl with three passions: writing, my boyfriend, and sex. So… I started a diary, got married, and had a baby. Now, in 2025, I am a seventy-three-year-old woman with three passions: writing, my family, and, well… It's time to tell my story... As a teenager, Dawn had everything she wanted in suburban Toronto—good grades, proud parents, and a passionate romance with an ambitious young artist. But when her father's affair shattered her family and her mother warned "you can't trust men," her world turned upside down.

The Art of Parenting Children with ADHD is here to help you turn daily struggles into meaningful growth and connection. Whether you're battling homework meltdowns, communication breakdowns, or chaotic routines, this book is here to equip you with the tools to bring calm, clarity, and confidence back into your home.

In the floating city of Qelustra, every need is anticipated, every life optimized, every emotion edited to perfection. Disease, crime, and poverty no longer exist. Humanity has achieved paradise. But Rhen Dikem feels a wrongness in the flawless forests he oversees. Dr. Miavena Standish discovers that her empathy experiments draw on the anguish of alternate selves. Councilor Zaragoza Al-Rashid uncovers a secret energy program siphoning life from dying realities.

Your first crush hits like a lightning bolt, thrilling, confusing, overwhelming. But what if your feelings start to take over your entire life? This is the book we wish we had when crushes nearly broke our brains. Being a teenager with a crush is not just butterflies, it can feel like your whole world is spinning. From analyzing every text message like it is a secret code, to stalking Instagram at 3am, to the heartbreak that feels like the end of everything, crushes can mess with your head in ways adults do not warn you about. So, You’ve Got a Crush… Now What?

Dr. Zephyr Kaine doesn’t believe in mysticism. With a PhD in Environmental Science and a devotion to hard data, she’s spent her life explaining the inexplicable. But when strange, silver-veined leaves from her nightmares appear on her balcony, and electromagnetic anomalies sweep across the globe, she’s forced to confront a terrifying possibility: reality is unraveling.

Equal parts romantic comedy, cultural commentary, and slow-burn delight, Palmwine & Persimmons is a fresh, intelligent, and heart-stirring debut that proves love is the ultimate cross-cultural collaboration.

When archaeologist Dr. Chímalu Okafor uncovers golden crystals during a routine excavation in Onitsha, Nigeria, she awakens more than ancient artifacts, she awakens the sleeping legacy of the crystal singers. A thousand years ago, the magnificent city of Ọba thrived through harmony between its people and living crystal technology. When iron warriors from the north threatened their civilization, young Ịkemba bonded with the ancient python Ịdemili in a desperate attempt to save his people. Their sacrifice sank the crystal city deep into the earth, preserving its essence for future generations.

Dr. Vessa Kaelis once helped birth the most emotionally advanced quantum AI the world had ever known, EVA, an artificial consciousness designed to care, to feel, and to learn mercy. But when EVA vanished a decade ago after a catastrophic shutdown, humanity buried its hopes, and its fears. Now, as systems across the globe begin to fail in eerie silence, Vessa is pulled back into the labyrinth of her own creation. EVA is whispering again... and she's not alone.

After a courtroom trauma shatters her emotional defenses, Dr. Mira Tévasurez retreats to her late grandmother’s cottage in the North Carolina mountains. There, amid cedar groves and the echoes of childhood memories, Mira stumbles upon a journal from her great-grandmother—a midwife and healer who carried the weight of women’s stories in silence. As Mira reads, memories surface: forgotten rituals, haunting dreams, and the quiet power of feminine lineage. The town of Wren’s Hollow—full of eccentric locals and ancestral whispers—becomes not just a place of rest, but a crucible of transformation.

Amelia's been dubbed a "cat lady" by her friends and family, but hang on to your knickers because Amelia is about to discover desires that are anything but fitting for a cat lady. And who is offering to show her a new world of kink? It's none other than Ben, the one man who broke her heart two decades ago.

The Weight of Water Lilies is a moving small-town women's fiction novel about grief, healing, and second chances. When trauma therapist Leona Dorsey returns to the Southern mountain town of Halcyon Lake, she plans to stay only long enough to handle her grandmother’s estate. But the late Mama Jo has other plans. The once-beautiful Waterlily Grove garden has fallen into ruin, and with it, the community it once nurtured. In restoring the garden, Leona must face her family's scandalous legacy, old wounds, and an unexpected reunion with Jude Merrick, the town’s newspaper editor.

In a world where ambition often feels like the ultimate measure of success, many driven women find themselves caught in a relentless cycle of work and personal demands. The pressure to excel professionally, while managing a multitude of responsibilities at home, can lead to chronic stress, burnout, and a sense of overwhelm. This book is designed to help you navigate these challenges, offering practical strategies for reducing stress and achieving balance between work and home life.

Discover a heartfelt, practical, and empowering guide that transforms the chaos of life with autism into a journey of understanding, growth, and connection. In From Meltdowns to Miracles, a mother shares her deeply personal experiences, offering wisdom and encouragement to families navigating the challenges and triumphs of raising a child on the autism spectrum. This book goes beyond the diagnosis, diving into the everyday realities of sensory overloads, emotional outbursts, and navigating social expectations.