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"The New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and After Her returns with a poignant story about the true meaning--and the true price--of friendship. Drinking cost Helen her marriage and custody of her seven-year-old son, Ollie. Once an aspiring art photographer, she now makes ends meet taking portraits of school children and working for a caterer. Recovering from her addiction, she spends lonely evenings checking out profiles on an online dating...
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Under the Influence is a riveting book that speaks directly to the adverse effects of the insatiable quest of enticing entities for the power to control the behavior of other human beings. It promises to take you on a journey through unchartered domains, where rulers function within unseen worlds. It will also reveal what the perpetual battle between good and evil is all about, and the ultimate prize is your very soul! Under the Influence will lead...
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Beverly is a teenager trying to fit in with her peers. DJ her new friend has the same problems. DJ is duplicitous, her secret aim is to get Beverly into her lifestyle. Beverly with her need for friendship and acceptance is worldly naive. She fell heavily into DJ's way of life. An evening of drinking and dancing, they are in a fatal traffic accident. In hospital, Beverly becomes aware that her family situation has changed. Her therapist gains Beverly's...
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In 1944, I was born to Kelse and Margaret Tennyson of Lonoke, Arkansas. In 1956, I was born again into the family of God, having been saved and baptized at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church at Carlisle, Arkansas. After graduation from Lonoke High School, I married. Five years later, my son, Donald Ray Howard Jr., was born. The Bible instructs us to help everyone, especially those in need. As a member of New Testament Baptist Church of Lonoke, Arkansas,...
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Dalton, I loved you once. A love I thought irrevocable. A love I mistakenly believed could transcend both time and circumstance. Under the influence of my dimwitted, naive, traitorous heart, I became intoxicated with what I now know was simply a figment of my self-indulgent imagination. So drunk on the feeling, I couldn't see what was right in front of my face. So foolishly enamored, I blindly followed my heart into the depths of an emotion that would...
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"The Devil Wears Prada meets The Assistants in this compulsively readable workplace novel following a young woman who takes a job working for an enigmatic influencer and who quickly discovers that having it all and being it all comes with a price"--Provided by publisher.
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"From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, a revelatory look at the power and potential of social context. As psychologists have long understood, social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes for the better, but often for the worse. Less widely noted is that social influence is a two-way street: Our environments are in large part themselves a product of the choices we make. Society embraces regulations...