Transformation in Canada's deep south: The creation of sustainable, regional culture through environmental, social, and personal restoration

Buchan, Jane

Blue Crow Books

Sometimes a little trouble—and a lot of Louisiana heat—can help you find your way…this standalone novella from Amazon best-selling author Lauren Faulkenberry is part romance, part comedy, and all small-town fun.Kate McDonnell wants to escape her hectic city life. A week-long getaway to her friend’s quiet small-town home should be just what she needs to recharge—but when sexy sheriff Andre Dufresne stops by, her vacation takes a turn she didn’t expect.Kate’s not looking for love—she just broke her engagement with her scoundrel fiance, and Bayou Sabine is just a temporary refuge. But when Andre turns on the charm, she wonders: would a light-hearted fling really be so bad?Andre is smitten, and will do anything to win Kate over. He’s never met a woman quite like her, and he’s not about to let her slip away. But the clock is ticking for Kate, and as she gets closer to Andre, she makes a mistake that could ruin everything. Can she slow down long enough to listen to her heart, or will her fear of being hurt again ruin any chance they have at love?Fans of Alice Clayton and Jennifer Crusie will delight in this lighthearted romantic romp.“Beautifully descriptive and engaging. A delightful story about learning to let go of who you think you need to be and take a risk on happiness.” -Orly Konig, author of The Distance Home and founding president of the Women’s Fiction Writers Association

Just the Trouble I Needed: A Bayou Sabine Novella (The Bayou Sabine Series)

Romance

Faulkenberry, Lauren

Contemporary

Read the #1 Amazon bestseller by "one of the foremost writers of disability and higher education we have today."
Academia isn’t an easy place to be if your brain isn’t quite right.
Colleagues carelessly call each other “schizo” and “bipolar.” Another colleague is fired—easy enough to do these days, when most college teachers no longer have tenure—for “instability.” In these ways and many more, psychiatrically disabled people working in higher education are reminded every day that their privilege, their very livelihoods, can be stripped away by the groundless suspicions of others. Their lives can be, in an instant, interrupted.
The essays in this book cover topics such as disclosure of disabilities, accommodations and accessibility, how to be a good abled friend to a disabled person, the trigger warnings debate, and more. Written for a popular audience, for those with disabilities and for those who want to learn more about living a disabled life, Life of the Mind Interrupted aims to make higher education, and the rest of our society, more humane.
Part of the Blue Crow Books Critical Higher Education Series.
"Pryal is one of the foremost writers of disability and higher education we have today." -Catherine J. Prendergast, author of Buying into English: Language and Investment in the New Capitalist World
“Pryal’s wit and humor shine through even as she tackles harrowing subjects, like living with depression and suicide. She shows us how important it is to make academia, and our world, more accessible for everyone. … This is not a book to miss.” -Kelly J. Baker, award-winning author of Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Higher Education

Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education (Real Talk on Mental Health and Neurodiversity)

Biographies & Memoirs

Pryal, Katie Rose Guest

Community & Culture

Entanglement: A Hollywood Lights Novel (Hollywood Lights Series)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Love and Entropy: A Hollywood Lights Novella (Hollywood Lights Series)

From the #1 Amazon bestselling author of Entanglement.
Underneath the glitter of Hollywood, nothing is truly as it seems.
Daphne Saito is a talented screenwriter with a seemingly perfect life—a life so fragile it might crumble at any moment.
For Daphne, love always brings disaster. She’s worked hard to bury her troubled past, but now that her best friend is getting married, her world is upended as her past mistakes catch up with her—and threaten the people she loves most.
While planning her friend’s wedding, she meets Marlon—he’s surly on the the outside, and maybe just as damaged as Daphne. But he makes her feel something she hasn’t felt in years—hope. She dares to get close to him, but a tragic turn leaves her with an impossible choice.
The night of the wedding brings a perfect storm of chaos: A dangerous ex-boyfriend is bent on revenge. A woman from Daphne’s past blows into town with a vendetta of her own. Someone Daphne loves gets caught in the middle, a friend she’ll do anything to protect—even if it means committing a horrible act that she can never take back.
“As glamorous and mercurial as Hollywood itself, Chasing Chaos is a novel that glitters.” -New York Times bestselling author Eileen Goudge
“Pryal deftly portrays relationships that are under the magnifying glass, obsessive and dysfunctional, while still capturing the complexity and love.” -New York Times bestselling author Kate Moretti

Chasing Chaos: A Hollywood Lights Novel (Hollywood Lights Series)

<ul> <li>"Faulkenberry is a gifted storyteller with the ability to capture the most human side of relationships." -Tina Ann Forkner, award-winning author of The Real Thing and Waking Up Joy</li> <li>"Faulkenberry creates a world of magic, suspense, and desire." --Julie C. Gardner, author of Letters for Scarlet</li> </ul> In a town full of secrets, can she find the answers she needs to put the past to rest? Bayou Sabine is a town full of secrets. After her mother's disappearance and her grandmother's death, Enza Parker returns to the town where she spent her childhood summers in the hopes of closing the door on her troubling past. While there, she meets a handsome stranger who only adds to the mystery and makes her question why she made herself stay away from the little town that gave her the sense of freedom she longs for as an adult. A spark of attraction makes her wonder: was this the place she was meant to be? With her best friend Kate in tow, Enza searches for answers that the town isn't ready to reveal. She must decide if she can dig deep enough to unearth the truth about her family, or if everything she longs to find will remain one of the bayou's darkest secrets.

Back to Bayou Sabine: A Bayou Sabine Novella (The Bayou Sabine Series)

Literary

From the Amazon bestselling author of Entanglement.If you like Kerry Lonsdale and Catherine McKenzie, you'll love Fallout Girl by Katie Rose Guest Pryal."Fallout Girl is a love story wrapped inside a heart-rending struggle for personal freedom." -Sonja Yoerg, author of All the Best People
Fractured family, deadly secrets, and a woman on the run in L.A.
The day she buries her mother, Miranda George jumps on a plane from North Carolina, telling no one where she's heading. She wants to disappear and start over. She arrives on the Los Angeles doorstep of college friend Daphne Saito, and even though Miranda hasn't seen Daphne in years, Daphne welcomes Miranda into her home and her makeshift L.A. family.
The problem is, Miranda is on the run from family. All family. Family, in Miranda's experience, can get you killed.
Miranda takes off again, but this time her plan is much more sinister. She certainly doesn't expect her friends to track her down. When they bring her back from the edge, the question remains: will Miranda be able to save herself and her newfound friendships? Or will she remain strangled by the past?
"A dangerous, sexy, motorcycle ride of a story, which pulls off the feat of being both humorous and heartbreaking at the same time." -Sandra Block, author of the Zoe Goldman series

Fallout Girl: A Hollywood Lights Novel (Hollywood Lights Series)

Higher education has changed—and we have to change with it. The Freelance Academic will show you how.
Part of the Blue Crow Books Critical Higher Education Series.
When Katie Pryal started her career in higher education, she did everything right—she thought. With a law degree, a doctorate, and a federal clerkship, how could her career go off track? But this is higher ed in the new millennium. “Off track” is the new normal. So, slowly, she made her own career, one she dubbed “the freelance academic” in a long-running column in The Chronicle of Higher Education of the same name.
Five years after leaving academia, Pryal has created a living for herself. In The Freelance Academic, she tells her story and provides accurate (and sometimes blistering) critique of how higher ed has pushed its workforce to the margins. Best of all, she gives plain, practical advice for how to make the career you want, one that uses your strengths, and your creativity, to thrive.
“With candor and vulnerability, Pryal shares her own experiences and hard-fought wisdom to make a compelling case for a rewarding professional life beyond the walls of traditional academia.” -Amy Impellizzeri, award-winning novelist and author of Lawyer Interrupted: Successfully Transitioning from the Practice of Law—and Back Again

The Freelance Academic: Transform Your Creative Life and Career (Real Talk on Mental Health and Neurodiversity)

Louisiana gets a whole lot hotter in this spellbinding story of secrets, betrayal, and seduction. When Enza Parker inherits her estranged grandmother's house, it dredges up a haunting mystery--and puts her in the path of the most alluring man she's ever met. For Enza, Bayou Sabine means pain and heartache: a mother who left her and a father whose lies have caught up with him. Her only fondness for the bayou comes from the summers she spent there with her grandmother, Vergie. Now that Vergie's gone, Enza wants to flip the house and put her past to rest--but this small town is full of big secrets--and it has one more surprise for her. When Enza finds her grandmother's house occupied by sexy firefighter Jack Mayronne, she wants to kick him out. But Jack turns on the charm and convinces her to let him stay in exchange for helping her flip the house. Sparks fly as they share the same roof, and as their fling intensifies, Enza learns that Jack has dangerous secrets of his own. When the truth about her mother's disappearance begins to surface, Enza must decide: how much is she willing to sacrifice to start over--and can she trust Jack with her heart? Note: This book was previously published with the title Bayou My Love. "Faulkenberry creates a world of magic, suspense, and desire. An engrossing romance with just the right amount of heat " -Julie C. Gardner, author of Letters for Scarlet

Trouble in Bayou Sabine: A Bayou Sabine Novel (The Bayou Sabine Series)

United States

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