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How many times have you looked around to see if there was a way out. The ongoing cycle of the mundane, fitting in when clearly you like everyone else are unique. Heartbeat the beginning of moments in life and the journeys taken to overcome. By choosing poetry allowing it through the pen to paper to pave the way to overturning what indoctrination had unseemly occurred. This happens to us all and so through writing the release of pent-up emotion that could not find the sound nor the voice.

My name is Alyce Thomason; I used to be a normal kid. That is, if being “normal” means burying your mom on your sixteenth birthday – cuz that’s what I got to do. Now, I live with my aunt who hates me. I miss my mom so much. She used to tell me I was special… that I was meant for greatness. Too bad she won’t ever see that. When I turn eighteen, I’ll be out of my aunt’s house and on my own, except that doesn’t happen. My dumbass twin cousins stumble down a rabbit hole into alternate universe – and take me with them. That’s not the weird part, though.

After being diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, Melissa Haugen felt alone. In an effort to make others feel seen, she vulnerably shares her personal story of living with muscular dystrophy.

Mediating Prenups details how to begin the process by choosing mediation as the best first step in creating a marriage-friendly prenuptial agreement. In the book, the author describes the potential problems that develop when beginning with the usual attorney-led negotiations, both by initiating a damaging power imbalance as well as engaging in inflexibility that can harm the viability of a marriage. Those standard methods result in creating terms embedded in the resulting the prenup that can diminish marital contentment and resilience.

When Beatrix Brighton—a New Hampshire professor with expertise in demonology—receives a desperate call from her father about a fungal plague consuming his home, she expects to find another easily explained phenomenon. Instead, she discovers a city in the grip of something inexplicable: toxic spores blanket every surface, buildings sprout through with yellow growths, and the residents are slowly changing, their minds colonized by something that lurks in the bayou's depths.

Courtney Cain’s life is turned upside down when she loses her job at a prestigious ad agency and she’s ready for a change. When she finds an opening at the Curly Bay Pet Hotel and Rescue, it seems like the perfect fit. Her pet-loving antics soon uncover all sorts of cozy mysteries, however, and Courtney and the animals she loves become small-town sleuths!

Despite feeling content with how life has changed since moving to Curly Bay, Courtney's days still seem peppered with problems. Not only have mice overrun Curly Bay Pet Hotel and Rescue, her clients are cancelling left, right, and center because they want to enroll the services of a famous pet-stylist setting up shop in the town.

For the past five decades Ms. has been the nation’s most influential source of feminist ideas, and it remains at the forefront of feminism today, affecting thought and culture with a younger-than-ever readership (ages 16-20!). Here are essays, profiles, conversations with and features by: Alice Walker, Cynthia Enloe, Pauli Murray, Nancy Pelosi, bell hooks, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Brittney Cooper, and Joy Harjo, as well as fiction and poetry by Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Adrienne Rich, Rita Dove, and Sharon Olds, and many others.

Courtney is up to the challenge when one of the most prominent clients of the Curly Bay Pet Hotel and Rescue wants her to throw a birthday party for her dog. Electrical problems both at the shelter and at home stall some of the party-making plans, and so does Patrick Murray, the only electrician in town.

The Curly Bay locals swear that winter’s going to be a cold one, but Courtney is warmed by the thought of a Books and Barks charity event at the local library. That is, until the donation money takes a walk, and the prime suspect ends up dead!

It’s almost Christmas, and Courtney is trying to come up with great ways to promote the shelter. Through a lucky connection, she gets the chance to bring the adoptable pets to the local news station to be on TV!

Courtney is caught up again, this time with a scaly trail of clues to follow. Despite a soggy challenge at the animal rescue center, and the imminent arrival of her parents for Thanksgiving celebrations, our amateur sleuth cannot escape her unquestionable gift of uncovering foul play in Curly Bay!

Fall is in full swing, and Courtney Cain is getting ready for the Apple Jubilee with the rest of Curly Bay. Until an unexplained robbery puts the festivities in jeopardy! The Jubilee festival will be a great opportunity to get publicity for the animal shelter, and she’s looking forward to participating. When the iconic Admiral Apple costume goes missing, the entire Jubilee is compromised.

Join Alena, famed Bull Vaulter from Keft, as she sails to the Peloponnesus for a stellar performance with her fellow vaulters from their island culture; meets (under the most horrid circumstances) the Kurgan warrior Jahal; studies with the famed healer Aesclevius and his herbalist wife, Myra; and discovers the special talents bestowed upon her by the goddess. Alena's is an exhilarating journey that vividly describes the contrasting cultures of that Bronze Age period as it follows Crete's famous bull vaulter on her path to fulfill her fated destiny.

Courtney Cain’s life is turned upside down when she loses her job at a prestigious ad agency, and finds out her own fiancé was the one who let her go. She’s ready for a change, and when she finds an opening at the Curly Bay Pet Hotel and Rescue, it seems like the perfect fit, until a prize winning Pom disappears on the very first day and Courtney is in the firing line! Join Courtney Cain in her Curly Bay Animal Rescue Cozy Mysteries and meet a host of quirky, lovable characters, both furry and otherwise!

Courtney Cain is ready to settle into a home of her own now that she knows for sure she’ll be staying in Curly Bay. She loves her job at the Curly Bay Pet Hotel and Rescue, and a home will mean she can participate in the foster program she helped start at the shelter.

Helen has worked hard for her success. Now, after the prim-and-proper real estate agent’s husband ditches her for a younger model, she finds herself back in her small New England home town. Smarting over her husband’s betrayal, a messy night out brings further humiliation when Helen face-plants on the sidewalk…only to be rescued by her old nemesis, Alice.

With a sudden influx of animals into the shelter, Courtney Cain knows it’s time to start up a foster program at the Curly Bay Pet Hotel and Rescue. It’s a lot of work, and her life becomes even more complicated when her ex-fiancé arrives in Curly Bay!

A severe thunderstorm has hit Curly Bay, causing major damage to the Curly Bay Pet Hotel and Rescue. Fortunately, a wealthy patron is interested in hosting a fundraiser to help offset the costs. As Courtney and Mrs. Throgmorton organize the event, Courtney starts to feel she’s being sabotaged at every turn.

Courtney Cain can’t believe that a former police dog has just been dropped off at the Curly Bay Pet Hotel and Rescue. Grieving Gunnar isn’t interested in working with anyone else following Officer Walter Cheatham's demise, and now it’s Courtney’s job to find him a new home.