True love is nurtured in the conviction that you both value your partner's happiness as much as your own, but achieving such confidence in any relationship is a challenge, even for the most committed. No matter what lifestyle you pursue together, it's through honest communication that you will learn to protect yourselves and each other, to shed the encumbrances of clutter and noise as you propel your own unique Spiral of Love to exhilarating new heights. From finding your soulmate through growing old together, Maximizing Mutual Happiness Through Intimate Communication lays out a complete system with everyday examples, simply explaining relationship dynamics like persistent problems, the transformation of hurts, concepts of time, components of anger, addictions, turning work into play, protecting vulnerability, reinforcing trust, sexual communication, and the neverending stages of love's spiral. Don't be discouraged by media-packaged gimmicks and the one-size-fits-all advice from self-help gurus. Become the experts of your own relationship, and discover the best of growing yourselves that ultimate, most meaningful love.

Maximizing Happiness Through Intimate Communication 3rd Edition

Self-Help

Shearer, Marshall L.

Shearer, Marguerite R.

Relationships

Fresh Ink Group

While all Mississippi bakes in the scorching summer of 1925, a sudden orphanhood casts its icy shadow across Emily Ann Teegarten, a pretty young teen.  Taken in by an aunt bent on ridding herself of this unexpected burden, "Baby" Teegarten plots her escape using the only means at her disposal: a voice that makes church ladies cry and angels take notice. "I'm gonna sing jazz up to New York City," she brags to anybody who'll listen. 'Cept that Big Apple-well, it's an awful long way from that dry patch of earth she used to call home.  So when the smoky stages of New Orleans speakeasies give a whistle, offering all kinda shortcuts, Emily soon learns it's the whorehouses and drug joints promising to tickle more than just a young girl's fancy that can dim a spotlight . . .  and knowing the wrong people can snuff it out.  Jazz Baby just wants to sing-not fight to stay alive.

Jazz Baby

Literature & Fiction

Weeks, Beem

Genre Fiction

What would you do if you saw your best friend for 60 years slipping over the edge into mental oblivion? You would do anything to help him, right? Frank and Clay have been friends since the first day of first grade. Now both in their mid-sixties and retired, Frank is looking forward to spending a lot of quality time hanging out with his lifelong friend. But all that is threatened when Frank sees Clay going around the bend. Clay denies he has a problem and rejects Frank's initial suggestions for help. But when Frank stumbles upon a drug that might help, he renews his efforts to help his buddy and he talks Clay into taking the drug. That works great, for a while. But Frank couldn't quite bring himself to tell Clay the entire truth about the drug, and that deception has tragic consequences, not only for Clay but also for Frank.

Two Friends, Too Old

SCOTT, ROBERT

Contemporary

In the second novel of The Lady Trilogy, auburn-haired beauty Leigh West continues her adventures in Alaska's majestic and mysterious Tongass National Forest in search of self-discovery and harmony with nature.  In her journal, she chronicles becoming the Spiritual wife of Chi Mukwa (Big Bear) and guardian of two Tlingit teens. It is through Native American spirituality that she sparks new passion within herself, a new appreciation for others, and a life filled with love.

Intrepid Lady: Novel #2

North, Mark Allen

Romance

Fresh Ink Group showcases 42 compelling prize-winners from its literary and genre short-story contests. Eclectic, daring, subtle, provocative, diverse--this wide-ranging collection by authors from across the USA and around the world transcends the limits of single-theme anthologies to explore the best of many styles and bold new ideas.Travel through time and space, yearn to escape the Dust Bowl, ache with a wounded soldier's lover, cringe with a boy who fears the mirror's face, flee a southern farm's deadly snake, live the obsession of suicidal love lost, laugh at those foibles of politicians run amok, plot to escape a serial killer's lair, revel in the seduction of sorcerous charms, warn neighbors away from a malevolent house, face inevitable death on the moon, walk with a dead man seeking the one who did him wrong, find light in a Holocaust child's heart, lament for desire in a life never lived . . .Discerning story-lovers are invited to listen for the voices of these newly favorite authors in Fresh Ink Group Short Story Showcase #1. Keep turning the pages to discover what unexpected delights beckon next.

Fresh Ink Group Short Story Showcase #1

From the very beginning of the Universe, to primitive man's invention of Time, through the distant future when countless souls populate vast swaths of empty space, Valhalla shows us what really becomes of mankind when we let the politicians run the show.        In an age where farce is the Universe's only unifying principle,  where the only requirement for faster-than-light travel is proper footwear, where a cheap catchphrase and an orange brochure constitute what passes for religion,  Stan has the audacity to resurrect his failing church business by turning the place into a bar and giving his customers what they really want.  Stan's is the only church with the recipe for Salvation.  They sell it on tap.        Meanwhile, crotchety curmudgeon Gumballs finds himself trying to navigate the mind-numbing bureaucracy of the afterlife, his sin-surance policy wholly inadequate, the specter of eternal Hell looming every bit as wretched as an afternoon on C-SPAN.        The Gates of Valhalla offers a hilarious yet biting satire on the foibles and fallibilities of everyday people, what they believe, and how they somehow manage to govern their daily lives.  It dares to tackle such trivialities as life and death, heaven and hell, sin and redemption, Earth's corned beef claim to galactic fame, and the very survival of mankind.  Jasper Grawl's side-splitting novel leads you straight to the gates and dares you to step through.

The Gates of Valhalla

Grawl, Jasper

Humor & Satire

I hope you're not like so many people who go through life wanting more and more. People get caught up in living life, never giving a thought to eternity. Everyone will eventually die and find out the truth about what happens after death.  God created the soul, which is who we are. Our life is inside our body. The body is only our carrying case for us on this earth. Our soul never dies. Read this book before it's too late for you.    WARNING! NO ONE IS SCARED OF HELL UNTIL THEY GET THERE.   It's a real place and you need to know the truth before you die.

Warning! No One Is Scared of Hell Until They Get There: I Have Been There

Religion & Spirituality

Richmond, Lannie

Christian Books & Bibles

Four very different people find their very different lives intertwined as they put down roots in the city by the Bay. Catherine is the withering transplant who learns to compromise her very soul for a budding career. Amanda reaches for the light with one man while another shadows her with darkness. Matheus grows the reputation of Immaculate University, but his secrets poison the very well sustaining too many people's worlds. Brad thrives on success in business and casual sex until love dares try to root in his heart. The vernal promise of springtime blazes in glorious color even as hope and faith die in the inevitable autumns all must strive to survive. Greed, exploitation, hatred, and somehow love shape the everyday. But might possibility and hope somehow endure amid new beginnings?

The Autumn Tree

Ehsan, Aysha

Women's Fiction

The High Road: Memories from a Long Trip

What drives a man to spend 26 years performing night after night? To persevere through a stifling tour bus, bad food, strange women, flared tempers, a plane nearly blown from the sky? Just how did that troubled military brat with a dream claw his way from dirt-floor dive-bar shows to the world's biggest stages? Aviator, author, and Country Music Hall of Fame drummer Mark Herndon lived that dream with one of the most popular and celebrated bands of all time. He learned some hard lessons about people and life, the music industry, the accolades and awards, how easy it is to lose it all . . . and how hard it is to survive, to embrace sobriety, to live even one more day. Herndon's poignant memoir offers a tale at once cautionary and inspirational, delightful and heartbreaking, funny yet deeply personal. From innocence to rebellion to acceptance, can a man still flourish when the spotlight dims? Are true forgiveness, redemption, and serenity even possible when the powerful say everything you achieved somehow doesn't even count? That you're not who you and everyone who matters thought you were? Mark Herndon refuses to slow down. So look back, look ahead, and join him on the trip. He's taking The High Road.

Herndon, Mark

Humor & Entertainment

Who Said That? The Stories Behind Familiar Expressions: For Readers, Writers, Word Lovers, and Trivia Buffs, Fresh Ink Group Explains Whence Come Those Phrases That Color Everyday Speech

Who Said That? provides an entertaining and authoritative reference for the origins and meanings of our common figures of speech.  ·        Who said 100+ famous expressions? ·        Who really said them? ·        What did they actually say? ·        What did they actually mean? ·        Why did they say them that way? ·        Who repeated what was said?  Surprisingly true, sometimes strange, always fascinating, the stories about whence came these expressions will entertain, educate, and even amaze you.

Reference

Ajlouny, J

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

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