"Avita was born to be a star. Her tent sells out nightly, and every performance incites bloodcurdling screams. She's the most lucrative circus act from Texas to Tacoma, the crown jewel of the Family Fortuna, and Avita feeds on the shrieks, the gasps, thefear. But when a handsome young artist arrives to create posters of the performers, she's appalled by his rendering of Bird Girl. Is that all he sees? A hideous monster--all sharp beak and razor teeth,...

After being left alone to raise her young daughter for seven years, Jill's ex-husband Seth re-enters her life, asking for forgiveness.

Regretting her limits as a stay-at-home mom when she enters midlife, Holly immerses herself in extramarital sex, while single mom Andrea considers pursuing Holly's cast-off husband and Marissa witnesses the unraveling of her family.

Chronicles the author's spiritual journey through low self-esteem and drug abuse to counsel readers on how to overcome personal fears and achieve greater fulfillment, providing a range of positive affirmations, physical activities, and meditations.

Three women--Holly, Nicola, and Lexi--learn the path to true contentment and save each other in this humorous story about old rivalries, deep secrets, and the three things all women wish they were.

"If you feel like success is for others, that only certain people get to have their dreams fulfilled, Eric Thomas's You Owe You is your wake-up call. His urgent message to stop waiting for inspiration to strike and take control of your life is one he wishes someone had given him when he was a teenager--lost, homeless, failing in school, and dealing with the challenges of being a young Black man in America. Once he was able to break free from thinking...

Kondo encourages you to visualize your ideal life, from the moment you wake up until the end of each day. This mental picture becomes a touchpoint for helping you make conscious, mindful choices: from how you use every corner of your living space to how you take advantage of every moment. This will help you focus not on what to get rid of, but what to keep. This will empower you to embrace what you love about your life. -- adapted from inside front...

The singer and actress presents a 365-day collection of hopeful insights and affirmations that offer comfort, inspiration, and daily goals to foster strength and self-acceptance.

Bittersweetness is a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy when beholding beauty. It recognizes that light and dark, birth and death-bitter and sweet-are forever paired. A song in a minor key, an elegiac poem, or even a touching television commercial all can bring us to this sublime, even holy, state of mind-and, ultimately, to greater kinship with our fellow humans....

"Sabine is the most mercurial woman Peter Thorpe has ever known. Such is his desire for her that he overturns his whole life--his disillusioned merchant-banker's life--and leaves everything behind, not caring that his lover is of no fixed address, nor that his search for her will take him to the beating heart of New Ageism in northern California. Each of his fellow seekers is in hot pursuit of that elusive something (happiness?), and in their eccentric...