JP, one of seven living children, contemplates his mother's influence on the family and his life, as he struggles with her disappointment in him and suspects she may have sabotaged a budding relationship.

Pink Shoes is based on the real-life experiences of the authors mother and grandmom tells of the ardent love of the Korean woman Junju and the Japanese man Douru. Set against the turmoil of the days from the Japanese colonial era until the immediate aftermath of World War II. At nineteen, Junju, the granddaughter of a millionaire from Chosun, goes to Tokyo to study to become an obstetrician. Aboard the ferry that will take her across the Korea Strait,...

"An award-winning journalist discovers that her grandfather, the legendary and heroic Lithiuanian "General Storm" who survived a Nazi concentration camp only to later be executed by the Russians, may also have been a Jew-killing antisemite. A fascinating story of bravery, betrayal, and the transformative power of seeking and finding the truth at whatever the cost. Hero-or Nazi? Silvia Foti was raised on reverent stories about her hero grandfather,...

This volume marks the twentieth anniversary of the first publication of this groundbreaking book. It reflects the pioneering research of its contributors to the development of modern Welsh women's history. The eight chapters range widely across time (1830-1939) and place, from exploring working class women's community sanctions and the perils facing collier's wife to the very different lifestyles of ironmasters' wives. They also tackle the idealised...

An inventive story collection explores themes of love, identity, coming of age, and parenthood as they are shaped by mythology and universal experiences in different world regions.

Marie, a young single mother, lands a job at an upscale Dallas steakhouse. She is preternaturally attuned to the appetites of her patrons, but quickly learns to hide her private struggle behind an easy smile and a crisp white apron. In a world of long hours and late nights, where everything runs on a currency of favors, cash and cachet, Marie gives in to brutally self-destructive impulses. She loses herself in a tangle of bodies and the kind of coke...

In a mother's land of milk and honey, the milk is often split and the honey is usually smeared all over the face of the baby in his high chair. Linda Vujnov has been there and knows exactly what it feels like. As she recounts the continuing adventures of parenting her four children, Maddy, Zack, Ty, and Carson, she offers a quirky, down-to-earth perspective on life for mothers who need to be reminded that God's grace is always there, even when things...

Candice Dow has won over audiences everywhere with steamy fiction that zips along with an irresistible impulse. In Off the Chain, London Reed settles for a job as a dog walker after she can't get into veterinary school. To give her a shot in the arm, her mother lands her a position working under investment banker William Thorne-who soon has her tasting all of life's pleasures as a high-priced call girl.

In Book 1 of this sinister trilogy, we meet Sathi, an eighteen year old Indian girl who has lived in the UK for all of her life. Already an adolescent of the atypical variety, her life takes a nose-dive off the cliff of normality on the day of her eighteenth birthday - the fateful day she finds out the truth about her mother's death. Wolves Within follows Sathi as she undertakes a perilous journey to her foreign mother-land in order to avenge her...

Two households. One ancient grudge. Can two starcrossed lovers bridge the gap between them?Once upon a time… Two households, both alike in dignity,In the flooded lowlands, where we lay our scene,From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,Where fresh blood makes peaceful waters unclean.From forth the fatal loins of these two foesA pair of star-cross'd lovers risk their life;To save a world beset with ocean's salt overflowsBut can their love bury their...