Short stories in this collection have won: PEN Fiction Prize, a Virginia Fiction Fellowship, the Lip Service Prose Prize, a Pushcart Prize nomination, Negative Capability Award, William Faulkner Short Story Finalist and other awards. These short stories about families in turmoil and children in peril, from a homeless mother forced to put her son in foster care to a suburban mother afraid of passing her water phobia to her son. Braxton, North Carolina is the where in these stories, an imaginary coastal town adjacent to Camp Corregidor, a stopover for recruits on their way to Vietnam and later to Iraq. Braxton is the home front, where citizens battle alcoholism, marital breakups, and scandal. In Braxton, when a sister or father does wrong, the whole family shares the blame. Even Braxton's babysitters are dangerous, snooping, stealing secrets - and husbands. But love abounds. Sisters driven apart by scandal reunite when their father remarries. The babysitter who ran off with the mayor is welcomed back into her family when she returns to Braxton pregnant. A woman on the verge of being committed to an asylum for alcoholism is pulled back from the brink by a devoted friend. "The World As I Know It" won a PEN Syndicate Fiction Prize; "The Yellow Sneakers" won a Dexter Review Short Story Prize; "Jazzland" won the Lip Service Prose Prize; and an earlier version of "Falling Women" won a Virginia Fiction Fellowship for Ms. Herbert.

Falling Women and Other Stories

Herbert, Ellen

Literature & Fiction

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WOULD YOU MURDER TO PROTECT A CHILD?  You can admit it because this is the world of psychological thrillers, the world of fiction.  Loring Jeremias has it all: stunning looks, a career as a San Francisco stockbroker, and her loving husband David, a lawyer who defends the justice system—even when it fails. But she can’t forget her father’s child abuse and her angry memories threaten to destroy her marriage.   During a girl's night out and way too much wine, Loring and her two best friends, outraged at society’s failure to protect our children, play at being vigilantes—they devise ten rules for committing the perfect murder. Their targets…  Predatory pedophiles.   Just a game? Not for long, because when Loring stalks a pedophile to test the rules of the conspiracy and her resolve, she doesn't know her target is a serial killer and tortures his victims to death. She doesn't know he spotted her following him, but when he threatens her life and David's, the hunter becomes the hunted, and it's far too late for regret.   For the fans of "Dexter" and "Law and Order:SVU", and for the many parents who worry about their children's safety, ANGRY ENOUGH TO KILL fulfills their fantasies of vigilante justice. Wonderful satire. Packed with suspense and action, yet much more than mere revenge fantasy. (Book club Discussion Guide included.)

Angry Enough to Kill (The Desperate Series)

Dunn, S. J.

"Jaw-droppingly hilarious!" --Carol Romaine-Penn, Award Winning Author 
Multicultural Nonfiction Finalist, 2017 National Indie Excellence Awards An Erma Bombeck “Hot Tamale” 2017 BookLife Award, Memoir/Autobiography: "This book is well crafted and features a strong narrative engine....The plot hits the ground running, contains unexpected twists and turns, and is thoroughly immersive....The writing boasts a wonderful electricity and an engaging voice....An unfortunately common situation...quickly develops into a wonderfully uncommon and heartfelt adventure." “Spot-on for expats, highly entertaining, and absolutely hilarious!” - Lynne Willard, Editor An everyday suburban housewife liberates herself from her peanut-butter-and-jelly cage and flees to Mexico. While battling the cultural quirks that send less adventurous souls hightailing it back to the U.S., she struggles to learn Spanish, raise her kids, and run a school. She supplements her meager salary by smuggling, using her wily wit and gift for gab to outfox the customs officials. But not all of her border crossings go as planned. - A Kindle Top 10 Bestseller in both humor and biography/memoir. Contains discussion questions for book clubs and multicultural studies courses. EMBEDDED MULTICULTURAL ISSUES - The women’s movement - The 1960s cultural revolution - Culture shock - Immigrant adjustment &amp; adaptation - Immigrant parenting - Identity development in children of immigrants - Intergenerational value clashes in immigrant families - Diverse customs &amp; mores - Racism - Sexism - Prejudice - Classism - Ageism - Cultural evolution - Expatriate re-integration - Individualist/Independent (e.g., North American) vs. Interdependent/Collectivist (e.g., Hispanic) orientation to: ° Time (past/present/future) ° Activity (being/becoming/doing) ° Social relations (hierarchical/collateral/egalitarian) ° Self-efficacy (fate/destiny vs. personal control)

Tortillas & Peanut Butter: True Confessions of an American Mom Turned Mexican Smuggler (Print Book)

Biographies & Memoirs

Sonna, Dr. Linda

Sonna Mark, Lois

Community & Culture

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